Fire Brigades Union’s Matt Wrack praised for ‘superb’ media appearances defending strikes for better pay
‘Why should firefighters and other public sector workers and workers anywhere indeed be told to take a pay cut?’
Basit Mahmood
Mick Lynch savages GB News and Nigel Farage
“They’re not my favourites. They’re a bunch of right-wing bigots, as far as I can see.”
Nigel Farage’s claim about London and Manchester being ‘minority white cities’ is proven to be false
In London, while 37% of people identified as “White English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British”, 53.8% of people identified as white in total.
Tory chair Nadhim Zahawi slammed for ludicrous claim that striking nurses are playing into hands of Vladimir Putin
“Personally I think Tory Ministers accepting donations from Oligarchs plays into Putin’s hands more.”
Keir Starmer confirms Labour will abolish the House of Lords and replace it with an elected chamber
“The House of Lords is indefensible, anybody who looks at the House of Lords would struggle to say that it should be kept”
Tory MP admits it’s ‘almost impossible for the Conservatives to win the next election’, warning more MPs will quit
“Many of my colleagues will be thinking ‘Do I want to do much more of this? Do I want to go down to Electoral defeat?”
Jacob Rees-Mogg mocked after comments resurface promising ‘savings on cheese and fish fingers’ as food prices soar
“Is that the best you can do, cheese and fish fingers?”
Tories thrashed in Chester by-election, suffering their worst result since 1832
The 13.8% swing from Tory to Labour, is the sixth biggest between the parties since 1945, and more than the 12.7% in Wakefield in June.
Brexit has added nearly £6bn to UK food bills in two years, new research reveals
The average household bill has seen a rise in its food bills of £210 in those years, with poorer households disproportionately affected.
RMT’s Eddie Dempsey takes apart idea that giving people pay rises causes further inflation
“There was a study done by the Bank of International Settlements recently about the risk of wage induced inflation across Western economies and they said wages right now represent either no risk or actually negative figures”