Tory chief whip and chair should both resign after breaking ‘pairing’ arrangement to win crunch vote
This is a betrayal of democracy. Pairing is a longstanding convention in the House of Commons, where the whips of …
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Report warns of health and earnings risk to unpaid family carers
It’s about time the spotlight swung round to illuminate the plight of unpaid family carers. I’m one, and I can …
Petition seeks funding to provide safe havens for people who feel suicidal
In a country where vulnerable people such as the sick and disabled are being driven to suicide by a government …
UK government spending watchdog confirms what we already knew: There really is NO BREXIT DIVIDEND
This is not news. We’ve been saying this ever since the stupid ‘Brexit bus’, with its lie that £350 million …
Vote Leave fined for cheating in the EU referendum. Will prosecutions follow?
This is confirmation of what we knew already – see This Site’s previous article. It will be interesting to see …
Brexit trade debate turns into farce because May doesn’t understand her own plan
Let’s get this straight: Theresa May proved she did not understand her own ‘Chequers plan’ for a future relationship between …
Israeli prime minister demands support for racist apartheid law
Are we all agreed, now, that Benjamin Netanyahu is a racist? He has been trying to push through his Apartheid …
Tory Brexit trade bill will rob disabled people of the few rights left to them
If you think the Conservative Party – and in particular a minister who is a doctor by training – would …
Treacherous ‘Labour’ campaign chiefs may have robbed the party of the 2017 election
Yes, ‘Labour’ – you have to put the word in quotation marks when describing these people because they do not …
Tory resignations: Another member of the government quits over ‘watered-down Brexit’
It seems Andrew Griffiths’ resignation over a sex scandal was a brief return to watered-down form and the Brexit resignations …