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Cha, Cons only have themselves to blame for part of that group going to Lib Dems & Labour.

The true salt of the earth proper British working class (TM) surely loves losing the universal credit top up loss & higher NI taxes & nothing being done about the cost of living crisis cos of The Remainers / the woke.

Sure, as if there are no well off middle class Waitrose shoppers buying into the culture wars 🙄 Honestly...I don't buy this but it's just one quote if I e Tory peers, let see what the data says.

Love to see it

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/07/social-justice-activists-disrupt-priti-patel-speech-to-protest-rwanda-refugee-plan

Aha. So the new evidence available to Durham police is a seemingly unrelated invitation to a zoom quiz (that Starmer says he didn't attend and was hosted in another building) and an agenda that included what appears to be a working dinner with the local MP at that night.

Mail/Sun/MoS readers going potty at this being a smoking gun.

I'm confused because if anything, doesn't it strengthen his case that it was a working dinner?

There is no rationalising this stuff. It's delegitimising through constant undermining, negative headlines and quiet retractions. The undercurrent of "they're all as bad as each other" is getting stronger based on my litmus test (my dad). It's fucking trash.

The MoS article that is running with the beergate "smoking gun" even goes as far as to explain that the kitchen in Starmer's hotel closed an hour before the takeaway was delivered.

Mail seem obsessed with trying to ruin Starmer with this story and just seems a massive waste of journalistic time

Mail just seems a massive waste of journalistic time

Fixed

The fact that he was DPP when the phone hacking saga was ongoing and being investigated / prosecuted may have something to do with it. I can't imagine that a committed red top scumbag journos would forget that.

There is very little journalism going on, might want to revisit that amendment

The donkey sanctuary story didn’t gain traction, the lefty woke lawyer stuff was failing so this is just the latest desperate attempt to discredit.

If only the above were the worst we could find on the cabinet, let alone the PM

If you don't know which box to tick for a candidate, just choose the one you really DON'T want and put a big cross next to them.

Ncuti Gatwa best known for staring in Sex Education to be the new Doctor in Doctor Who.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61371123

Doctor Who actors are known for having a good stare.

I've not watch Dr Who in a while but he's awesome.

It should have been LAWRENCE FOX but this country is a PC NIGHTMARE where it's a CRIME to be a straight white man nowadays!!! I for one won't be watching WOKE BBC.

On the other hand, Eric is a superb character in Sex Education and Gatwa is clearly a great actor.

Went to high school in my town that lad, the rival school. That is all.

No one likes dumfuck high.

Fact.

Media manipulation in LA:

https://mobile.twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1523495524845899776

More than 2m adults in UK cannot afford to eat every day, survey finds. One in seven adults estimated to be food-insecure, up 57% from January, owing to rising cost of living
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/09/more-than-2m-adults-in-uk-cannot-afford-to-eat-every-day-survey-finds

I live opposite a food bank, the queues are growing again. They got bigger and bigger during the lockdowns but shrinked quite quickly when they ended, I assume because places opened and people could work again. But one week to the next suddenly they're huge again, happened at the same time as the energy price rises.

food prices have skyrocketed too in same window as the energy increases. Our typical weekly shop is now £130 for the same stuff I was spending about £80-90 last year.

individual items from our shop are going up by whole pounds instead of pence pretty much every single week. some stuff is 40-50% more expensive now than 3 months ago.

we're all being subjected to death by a thousand cuts in pretty much every single facet of life now as everything has turned to shit at the same time so prices are going up across the board but now it feels like all the companies would rather pull out a machete to extract as much blood as possible in one fell swoop and bleed us dry rather than try to keep us ticking over and lightly bleeding indefinitely. feels like they're all grabbing as much money as they can before the whole thing unravels.

Inflation fuels inflation

Maybe a smidgen of it is Brexity, mostly this is the cost of multiple national lockdowns around the world, govt. printing shit loads of money and Russia vs. Ukraine.

It’s mostly Brexit for any foods coming from the EU.

It sounds like Starmer is going to pledge to resign if he's fined. I think this is a good move, it's a pity he didn't do it sooner. Its a win win for Labour. They can turn the story back on the Tories and Johnson whatever the outcome.

Given Starmers history he must know if he's in trouble or not.