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William Browder paints an astonishing and chilling first-hand picture of the man. This Ted talk is well worth a quarter of an hour of your time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT254smRufA...
Scottish council elections 2022: SNP finishes as biggest party The SNP has again finished as the biggest party in the Scottish council elections - with Labour finishing second after the Conservatives...
in the 1999 mid term elections Labour lost 1239 seats and 32 councils https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_United_Kingdom_local_elections 2022 Toryies have lost around 500 seats and 11 councils. which...
Richi Sunak is to launch a taxpayers Fraud Squad to crack down on criminals who rip the tax payer off .He has set £25 million to one side for this Think he had better start with Boris's Crony Club....
In a massive hammer Blow The Cons lost out Yesterday. Westminster, always Tory ..Now Labour. Barnet , Always Tory ...Now Labour........And Wandsworth , which has always been known as The Jewel in the...
Not musical though;
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1606325/russian-ship-sunk-ukraine-neptune-missile-odessa-black-sea-Admiral-Makarov-vladimir-putin...
OK , Thats the local elections over . Now can we have the Sue Gray report and The Met police report on Johnsons behavior during Covid Lockdown made Public. You know ... those reports that were held...
It appears that the Home Office has redeployed their brightest and best to northern parts where, assisted by fearless Police Scotland operatives, a ragbag crowd of women and sundry unemployables...
Lets hope the ex-chief of the CPS gets justice!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/06/keir-starmer-faces-police-investigation-over-lockdown-breach-claims-beer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other...
Against what is supposed to be the worst Government in history, mid term, post crises, Labour's gains outside London are described as, "Modest". OK they won a bauble but that won't get you through the...
https://news.sky.com/story/from-the-red-wall-to-brexit-the-story-of-the-election-so-far-in-charts-12606258 Page down and see the graph, surely if Labour cannot even get the North on side! Oh Dear I...
Hopefully the drubbing they received yesterday spurs them into action. Net zero, hundreds crossing the Channel daily, rising inflation, highest taxes for yonks rising interest rates and unaffordable...
For the Tory party today, as the local elections are taking place. The pound tumbles to it's lowest rate since june 2020. Also it looks very very likely that the Boris is driving his little red bus...