Worth noting that Sterling is up against the US Dollar and Euro. So, markets are scared by this #UKBudget
(Unlike the Truss budget that tanked the UK bond market. A reminder to #NeverTrustATory )
#nevertrustatory
I just got advice from my power company prices are increasing...
Between May 2013 and April 2014 #NZPol National Party under John Key privatises 49% of NZ's state owned electricity gentailers despite majority of public opposing the sale.
#NeverTrustATory #NationaliseElectricity
SHOT - CHASER
@rogerparkinson reminds me of Key when presented with the facts
"Here's my alternative set of facts" or something #NeverTrustATory
This is what 15 years of deregulation, "light touch regulation" and understaffing regulators gets you.
A system easily overwhelmed or tampered with.
BBC News - Crime fixer caught by BBC offering to erase £60k fines on migrant workers - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3kevkl3pdo
Hold the self-congratulation. It now transpires that this was a cherry picked improvement involving only three children. There were 115 reported cases of harm in these OT managed facilities last year, down from 118 the year before - and since only 503 children were in managed facilities in the period in question, that 115 figure still amounted to a disturbing 22.8% of the total population of the children living in such residences. Keep in mind that there had been only 22 cases of reported harm in these facilities in 2021.
For Karen Chhour to try (initially) to selectively paint this situation as a good news story is obscene.
Late by 20 seconds
Why would you not want to progress this bill?
#nzpol #nevertrustatory #dirtypolitics #onetermgovt #worstgovtever
No other sanctions were planned at this stage, Upston added.
Pullya Benefit v2
Tories just can't stop propping up an overpriced housing market.
Who cares if it destroys government finances and ends public services - there are landlord's whose house value is at risk. 🤣
BBC News - Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch announces - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20zv94ldpko
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/575279/is-this-new-zealand-s-highest-marginal-tax-rate Another ill thought through ridiculous cruel policy from the #nevertrustatory party. #nzpol #benefits #tax
Let me get this straight
The country shaped by Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings and Normans are damaged by high levels of immigration?
FFS, these hatemongers. Immigration is a good thing - and shame on #KemiBadenoch (and Jenrick)
BBC News - High immigration levels damage communities, Badenoch warns
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ye7njqp2eo
The man who said: "It's not about the colour of your skin" defends his statement that an area he spent 30 minutes at wasn't integrated because he didn't see a single white face. 🙄
But yes, let's talk about "parallel communities" and the housing prices, lack of multi-family properties, job opportuniies, transport and xenophobic flag displays that cause them
BBC News - Jenrick defends calling Handsworth 'worst-integrated' - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy85zlpwne6o
#Labour better cover the airwaves calling this #Austerity3Point0
I cannot believe Tories think cutting more public services are the way back to power.
#ToriesPlunder
#NeverTrustATory
BBC News - Conservatives to set out plan for £47bn of cuts to public spending
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzv9j78dyo
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/575047/health-nz-cutting-alcohol-harm-reduction-staff-and-campaigns-union-claims "These are nonsensical changes about how health promotion and alcohol harm reduction is done," she said.
"It seems like the alcohol lobby is being listened to over public health experts who work at Health New Zealand." #nzpol #alcohol #lobbying #donors #nevertrustatory
I had to laugh at how quick Nicky No Boats was to blame Donald Trump for NZ’s economic downturn rather than her own and this government’s incompetence.
I’m old enough to remember prior to the last election just about every NZ economist warning that National’s tax policies were unaffordable and would lead to an economic recession.
JFC, Boris Johnson was constantly breaking the Covid lockdown rules.
Turns out #Partygate was just the start.
Holy sh!t
The level of corruption by Boris Johnson was even worse than we knew
@ArrestJK @foxylustygrover.bsky.social
TBF, this is a compromise on National’s part. They actually campaigned on allowing foreigners to buy NZ real estate valued $2m or higher.
The problem for National and Act was Winston Peters and NZF actually campaigned on keeping NZ houses for NZers and maintaining the foreign owners ban but Winston Peters is obviously as corruptible as the rest of them. #NZPol
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