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Student loan repayment rates an 'unsustainable burden', chancellor told Student loans in the uk are a massive tax on aspiration It will stunt the uk Uk falling further abs further behind!! Student loans must be scrapped

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate Another massive Bad Enoch mistakes She has no idea of how to be a leader Tory party needs a new leader asap And a big clear out of MPs Incompetence levels are huge and widespread

This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?

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Badenoch won’t last as Tory leader She’s a loose canon and has no sense of moral or ethical values Truly terrible times for the Tory party

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So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".

He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."

Chaos for Reform in the last 24 hours: Nigel Farage’s military Channel plan faces legal backlash Tice is under investigation Farage’s comeback story keeps shifting. Unity talks with Restore are collapsing into public infighting. Yet some people think they are the answer to Britain’s problems?

Jeremy Clarkson thinks ppl who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped. This is coming from the arse who said he bought farmland partly to avoid paying tax? Grade A prick

Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

Burnham pledges to be "relentless" in curbing small boat crossings

Very obliging of #r4today to lead with Reform’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats using the Royal Navy, pretending it’ll be some great WWII-style escapade, rather than a hateful, costly, diplomatically incontinent mess. A total waste of everyone’s time as they’ll never be in power and it’s unworkable anyway.

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d ago

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

Nick Ferrari reminding us in 2016 that Nigel Farage is a career politician: "He's been the leader of UKIP since 2010" (forgets to mention he co-founded UKIP in 1993) "He's also been an MEP since 1999" "Before politics he worked as a commodity broker (1981–1993)"