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It makes you nostalgic for the days when it was just Fox News and of course its UK copycats – GB News and the Daily Mail – which tuned their violins for the annual “Easter cancelled” and “War on Christmas” symphony, where the absence of a nativity scene becomes a constitutional crisis.
Trussell is calling for an “essentials guarantee” to be embedded within Universal Credit to ensure recipients can afford basic needs such as food and heating.
“Good idea—the pigeons need something new to shit on.”
The Greens gained 44 seats
In faithfully amplifying Lord Ashcroft’s latest attempt to cause political embarrassment, through the ever-reliable culture war wedge, the Mail doesn’t just play dirty, it plays painfully predictable.
Rather than courting the right, Carney gained votes by uniting the left, aided in part by Donald Trump’s unwelcome interference. Labour, by contrast, risks alienating its progressive support by chasing the right-wing vote. In doing so, it offers little that inspires, let alone galvanises.
“I see they have reverted to their hysterical hyperbole again. Silly. There are much more important issues than number plates at the moment.”
The Tories’ held Staffordshire County Council since 2009
‘The results here tonight demonstrate that they need to be listening to the man, woman and businesses on the street’
They won by just 6 votes after a recount
