Older people did get a means-tested higher personal tax allowance from 1975/76 (Denis Healey) until it was frozen in 2013/14 (George Osborne) and finally disappeared from April 2016 (also GO). So latest plans reintroduce a Labour policy scrapped by a Conservative Chancellor.

turns out that the National Citizen Service (David Cameron’s pet project) had its funding slashed by two-thirds in a 2022 review of government youth funding - when Rishi Sunak was chancellor

Here’s a 🎶mashup of “Raindrops Keep Fallin’” & “I’m Still Standing” about the #GeneralElection & spate of #Conservative MPs quitting (Michael Gove).

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Unbelievable!!!! 😂😂😂

#Labour is not perfect.
Quite . The. Opposite.

But I vote for a Party that can form a government close to what I can live with.
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I don't go to the ballot box as a form of self-expression; protest; rancour or dreams.

Because when I do that-the other side gets in.

#Change

Raheem Sterling is funding 14 students from under-represented backgrounds to go through university. Closing date for applications for 2nd year of programme is this week. He told me in 2020 he wanted to do something direct and meaningful and here it is.

thetimes.co.uk/article/649ed4…

EXCL: Greg Hands triggers backlash after spamming Whatsapp group of parents of boys at elite St Paul's School - alma mater of George Osborne, etc. - about Labour's private school plans.

Trade minister told 'stop assuming everyone's a Tory' and that some feel it is 'hard to

This was the Government's view of National Service on Thursday.

😂
National Service and the Tories ⏬️

Dave, you *did* create a more dangerous and uncertain world. Your decisions. Your incompetence. Your corruption.

This was from earlier this year, when the head of the army was publicly slapped down because Number 10 thought suggesting the need for #nationalservice was alarmist 🤷‍♂️

Amazing that Newsnight ended tonight with no acknowledgment that, after 44 years, tonight's edition was the last in its traditional format of studio discussions and interviews, and lots of reporter films. From Tuesday onwards it will simply be a studio-based programme with

I thought when it was introduced in Scotland in the 2014 referendum it might be a mistake … and then we talked with and interviewed and filmed groups of 16 and 17 year olds. They were more informed, more open minded and
more interested than many people X2 or X3 their age

As one of the lawyers who represented Savile’s victims, I can confirm that attacks on Keir Starmer over this are totally unjustified. Starmer did more than any other DPP to advance rights of victims. No DPP can control every decision but CPS was much better under his leadership

What exactly is his plan? And what bold action? No one on a door step ever said 'I want bold action and a clear plan' because they are not AI bots so this is a lie.

The Conservative Party appears to be undergoing what SpaceX call a RUD - Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

Every single time the Conservatives come to power they increase the size of NHS waiting lists.

Please don't let them blame it on Covid or anything else; they were doing exactly the same thing in the 90s.

Please RT if you think everyone should be clear on this.

Don't listen to anybody who tells you not to vote. No matter what they present as, it's likely they'll be a right-wing bot.

Voter suppression is the right's biggest hope. In USA it's what they spend most money on. Do not fall for it.

Register to vote.
Get voter ID.
And #vote

Ooops…….

Police have banned Steve GET TORIES DONE - GENERAL ELECTION NOW! from around Downing Street

That's Tory Britain for you

Don't like you
You're banned
Protest for something they don't want
They'll ban you

Democratic?
They're demagogues and charlatans

#GeneralElection