And the latest installment of 'always someone elses fault with brexiters'. Trade sec says the govt should have prepared for something that those who wanted it couldnt define - Norway, Switzerland, Korea, canada, cake and eat it etc etc

Great account from Jennifer Williams and colleagues about how the plethora of small funding pots has failed to move the dial on 'leveling up'- on.ft.com/3wk5zT3

Next government surely must do better

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And here he is making a political point using veterans - Labour don’t have a minister for veterans - because errrr they aren’t in government

What sort of flawed selection process leads to people like this becoming ministers ?

So, Nigel Farage - one of the founders & owners of Reform UK - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @ofcom. The leader of the party Richard Tice 🇬🇧 & its only MP Lee Anderson MP can…

GB News can continue to use politicians as presenters, says Ofcom 😳 Nothing says anti-elite like the state regulator endorsing a billionaire's propaganda channel staffed by the ruling party during an Election Year . How far we have fallen😧 #Gaslighting
theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

From my son:

“Did you know that for the 1.8million per Rwanda deportation we could send 5 people to space on virgin galactic? Honestly the fact they’ve found a way that is more expensive then literally flying them off in a rocket is quite incredible”

#Rwanda #Torywaste

OFCOM say it’s OK for Nigel Farage - who literally owns the REFORM Party (it’s a company with him as sole owner) - to broadcast his own show on GBNews throughout the General Election.

REFORM will be standing candidates.

How is that remotely fair or balanced OFCOM?

Stands up, says “number 1 mr speaker” and sits down….

Its like goldy and bronzy only its made of iron

Leaving aside the fact that typical civil servants don’t earn just over a million a year, they are going to do this while hiring lots of people to process asylum seekers to Rwanda and a whole load of people to do sick note applications. Well I’m convinced .

Baked for a German ?

Isn’t the appropriate daily mail response to say “shouldn’t they be at work” ?

No work could start until it became law but a lot of work has been going on .....

You have to wonder, how low an opinion does he have of the people he’s seeking to connect with

Except it hasn’t

EXCL: Met Police chief Mark Rowley praises “professional” conduct of officer who stopped antisemitism campaigner at pro-Palestinian march as he vigorously defends force's handling of six months of protests - vikram dodd
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

Conservative MP Bob Seely accuses Labour peer Baroness Chapman and her party of not wanting the government's Rwanda bill to work
He’s a vile arrogant man, at best

🚨Question: What do all these people have in common?

Answer: They have all funded the PM Rishi Sunak with private helicopter travel in the past year. 🧵⤵️