state pension uk £7376.20 a year, energy charge £5086 Leaving £44 a week to live on. Pension Germany, £26364, energy £2200, leaving £464 a week to live on. Glad we got our sovereignty back
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Nick Robinson blames BBC Radio 4 Today programme’s ratings slump on ‘news avoiders’ . maybe if they stopped reading out Tory gov planted stories in the press and did their own stories listeners would return
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Odd France still has high streets with fish mongers, green grocers, butchers, same all over Eu. uk charity shops and take away chicken. What happened?
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Brexit freedom bill, remove right to paid holiday, maternity leave and sick pay. That wasn’t on the side of the bus, having less worker rights than in the EU.
Gove seperates from wife, Brois johnson allows him to stay in grace and favour home. Two yrs later still there. Does he pay any rent/bills or is tax payer picking up the tab, a new type of levelling up
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Zero-hours contracts are NOT permitted in: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain. Good job we left the Eu otherwise we may of ended up like them.
John O’Farrell on Angela Rayner: “
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, I have to say, for you as a broadcaster, for the BBC, to keep spending time on this & for Yvette Cooper to come here & talk about violence against women & girls, & for that to take second place to this bit of gossip. It’s not a story”
So we have potentially removal of sick pay, maternity leave pay, holiday pay, and now to be sacked if you strike. What’s not to like about these Brexit benefits?
FOM meant if you didn’t like work conditions in one country you could move to another. Remove FOM from the UK citizens means salaries can be lowered, workers rights removed, no escape, so employers can do what they like.
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Rishi Sunak is spinning a line when he says 5,000 Albanians have been returned, after arriving in small boats, when the actual figure is 762
Dan Hobbs(Home Office); The PM is talking about all Albanian removals
Marco Longhi(Tory MP): So the PM is mixing information?
Bad weather has destroyed the tomatoe crop in Spain hence shortage in uk, say the super markets. But they are grown in plastic green houses. Was there a hole in the roof?
Germany new cases 21742, 7 day average 36228. UK new cases , 91734, 7 day average 82808. Germany introduces restrictions on gatherings, UK gov will have a think about it after Christmas.
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Now that 48 hospitals are built, 40k nurses recruited, a nuclear power station per year are been built, many Tory MPs have decided not to stand at the next election.
i have changed my phone twice in 4 yrs, I recalled a message from 4 yrs ago which I needed for proof of purchase. Located it no problems. Are Tory gov issued with special phones where Messages are stored in a special place, unicorn land?
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No shortage in EU. Reports of EU drivers not wanting to wait 70 hrs plus at customs. New trade links made in Eu, no longer need uk market, why queue. New checks at border in 2023 situation become worst? Spanish growers say weather is only a minor issue to supply to UK.
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Cost of membership of Eu, £350 million a week, cost of leaving Eu £523 million a week, net loss £173 million. We could consider joining and spend £173 million on public services instead
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PM getting on with the job, creating highest inflation, lowest growth, loss in trade, increased hospital waiting times, increased number of food banks. Sort of opposite what you would expect a PM to do.
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£100 million given to NHS to help it over winter crisis, contrast with £400 Million given to Rwanda and £500 million to France to stop boat crossing, both of which are publicity stunts for uk gov
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I’m a Paramedic.
Today, I’ve fed, watered and toileted patients in the back of a van.
I’m in the 14th hour of a 12 hour shift and 9th in the queue at a hospital it takes an hour to drive back from.
A job I used to enjoy, I’ve begun to regularly hate.
Cleverly does know that the weather has been bad over Christmas so no small boats could cross the channel, but he thought he would try it on anyhow, cause he thinks we are stupid?
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There were no small boat arrivals over Christmas for the first time since they started in 2018.
Last night, our Border Force officers and their French partners worked together to stop a boat launching on the beaches.
They've played a crucial role in cutting crossings by 35%.
PM says it makes no sense to import gas from half way round world because of the carbon footprint in travel. But he signed us up to the CPTPP and other trade deals to import cheap food without any regard to the carbon footprint?
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Germany nationalises one of its gas companies Uniper, which owns seven power plants in uk. Uk Consumer pays for that power, profits go to German Government? Uk gov happy to use our tax to help pay for power but not cap profits. Madness
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£3850 energy bill in January. Uk gov response? War on woke, belittling Scotland, restrict pay rises to 2% and telling anyone who objects they are lefties
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Water bills to hit £800 a year by 2030, just so overseas investors can have a nice profit, whilst we drink contaminated water and swim in poo.
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Boris Johnson fails to hand over mobile with Covid WhatsApps before inquiry deadline. Mr Johnson’s office said his team was still working with government security officials on how best to switch on the old phone. switch is on left handside?
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Hey R4 my understanding of a tracheostomy is only considered when someone is on long term ventilation, was the ex PM on a ventilator, and the press kept it from us? Or have I completely misunderstood
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Brexit, they know it hasn’t worked, we know it hasn’t worked, the herd of elephants in the room know it hasn’t worked. Who else needs to know, before solutions are put forward?
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Spanish growers, current UK shortages, he suggested, may have more to do with bureaucracy and logistics than the weather. That wont make the BBC news
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