Westminster Politics 2024-2029

I’m so glad the Tories aren’t in government anymore. This version of Labour is so much better in every way.
 
It’s not bribery but simply listening to the concerns raised by the non-dom community!



Rachel Reeves says she'll amend the finance bill to soften planned changes to the non dom tax regime after intense lobbying from wealthy UK residents The govt will increase the "temporary repatriation facility" which allows non-doms to bring money instantly to UK without paying significant taxes.“We have been listening to the concerns that have been raised by the non-dom community,” she says.
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Big jobs cuts at Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury’s to cut 3,000 jobs as it shuts hot food counters and cafes​

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/23/sainsburys-cut-jobs-hot-food-counters-cafes

The job losses came after Britain’s largest retailers warned they could be forced to cut thousands of roles and raise prices this year as a result of measures in Labour’s budget to increase employer national insurance contributions by a projected £25bn and raise the national minimum wage by 6.7%.
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Most big supermarkets reported good trading over the festive period. Sainsbury’s, which also owns Argos and Habitat, said earlier this month it had had its “biggest ever Christmas”, with sales up by 3.8% in the six weeks to 4 January.
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Sweet Square said:
It’s not bribery but simply listening to the concerns raised by the non-dom community!




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Nothing to do with the £4 billion they've realised they've already lost off the tax take.


There's not a single thing that's happened so far that they weren't warned about.
 
A landmark bill that would make the UK’s climate and environment targets legally binding seems doomed after government whips ordered Labour MPs to oppose it following a breakdown in negotiations.

Supporters of the climate and nature bill, introduced by the Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage, say Labour insisted on the removal of clauses that would require the UK to meet the targets it agreed to at Cop and other international summits.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...to-sink-landmark-climate-and-environment-bill
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Sweet Square said:
Big jobs cuts at Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury’s to cut 3,000 jobs as it shuts hot food counters and cafes​

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/23/sainsburys-cut-jobs-hot-food-counters-cafes





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The devil is in the detail sadly, Sainsbury's are on a massive drive to reduce costs by £1bn within their business - this is news isn't a surprise. 1,500 jobs went around this time last year, more will go this year and next year as it's a three year plan that they're looking to tie up so they can reinvest in core areas of their business. Correlation more than causation.
 
F-Red said:
The devil is in the detail sadly, Sainsbury's are on a massive drive to reduce costs by £1bn within their business - this is news isn't a surprise. 1,500 jobs went around this time last year, more will go this year and next year as it's a three year plan that they're looking to tie up so they can reinvest in core areas of their business. Correlation more than causation.
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Aldi and Lidl steadily increasing market share. They're no-frill, so one way to stay in there is to go no-frills as well.
 


Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide.

The research, commissioned in 2018, examined the “health, social and economic profile” of disabled people who receive employment and support allowance (ESA).

It was viewed as “a unique opportunity to gain valuable insights into the mental health and life circumstances of this group of people, and compare their experiences to those in the rest of the working age population”.

This was because it used data from the national Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS), England’s highest quality survey of the population’s mental health, whose results had been published in September 2016.

Disability News Service reported in November 2017how the “shocking” APMS figures showed that more than two-fifths (43.2 per cent) of ESA claimants said they had attempted suicide at some point in their lives, while two-thirds (66 per cent) had had suicidal thoughts.

The following year, DWP commissioned social research agency NatCen to examine the “particular challenges and barriers faced” by ESA claimants to “inform thinking on how best to develop a health and disability benefit system that supports people into work, where possible, and to live independent lives”.

But it told NatCen not to include any discussion of the figures showing how many ESA claimants had tried to take their own lives, or how many of them had had thoughts of suicide.

And when NatCen passed its completed report to DWP, there was no mention of those figures.

Instead, the report showed that ESA claimants were “a population reporting high levels of stress”, while “many faced serious debt arrears” and were “more likely to live by themselves, have a small network, and feel isolated and lonely”.

There was no mention of attempted suicide, self-harm or suicidal ideation.
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Some of the picks are insane and very funny.
 
thisisnottaken1 said:
This country really, really, REALLY hates us disabled people.
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cnuts like Reeves and Starmer will stand on a podium and cheer shite like this, and nobody will bat an eye.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
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I think this could be classed as hate speech these days.
 
M16Red said:
I would argue that it's only a drop in the ocean, if they went after the money launders it would be much higher amounts of money - going after people with 16 grand, calming out of work benefits is very sad.
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No, its just they are the 'low-hanging fruit', easy to identify.... money laundering is much hard to spot and takes longer to recover.

The coffers are empty ...."carpe diem".
 
F-Red said:
The devil is in the detail sadly, Sainsbury's are on a massive drive to reduce costs by £1bn within their business - this is news isn't a surprise. 1,500 jobs went around this time last year, more will go this year and next year as it's a three year plan that they're looking to tie up so they can reinvest in core areas of their business. Correlation more than causation.
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It’s crucial that Sainsburys cut costs to amortise their pure profit for PSR.
 
World is fecked. The choice is just neoliberal centrists or outright fascists for nearly every country at the moment. Will we ever see leaders like Clement Attlee and FDR again? Hell I'd settle for pre-Iraq war Blair.
 
Blood Mage said:
World is fecked. The choice is just neoliberal centrists or outright fascists for nearly every country at the moment. Will we ever see leaders like Clement Attlee and FDR again? Hell I'd settle for pre-Iraq war Blair.
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So long as its run by malevolent moguls and oligarchs like Musk and Murdoch, then no. They essentially set the narrative.
 
Maticmaker said:
No, its just they are the 'low-hanging fruit', easy to identify.... money laundering is much hard to spot and takes longer to recover.

The coffers are empty ...."carpe diem".
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No. Its that poor people have no power, rich people can stop funding them if they turn the eyes of the law on that group.

This is why reeves announced, from davos no less, that she won't actually be changing non dom tax arrangements.

Powerful against the powerless, weak as piss against the powerful. Thats starmer's labour.
 
decorativeed said:
I'd love to know the rest of the story here, but I'm done with clicking on tweets and Daily Mail links.
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The rest of the story is Starmer and Reeves have low approval ratings. That's the core reason for the article by Starmer, everything else is just noise.
 
Maticmaker said:
No, its just they are the 'low-hanging fruit', easy to identify.... money laundering is much hard to spot and takes longer to recover.

The coffers are empty ...."carpe diem".
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Really...
M16Red said:
Interestingly I was out for a meal with a manager of banking region in the UK, apparently a LOT of cash is filtered through fronts on the hight street you know the ones - mini markets are the new ones and it's not just people on these boats. we're talking 9.98k in cash each month, filtering into gov schemes like ISA and help to buy via children.

Just to let you know the amount of money we're talking here.

Ps they reported it to the police... nothing happened.

The last word from them was "Who pays in cash, these days"
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Steven Seagull said:


Some things never change. Jobs for the boys and we have to pay £785 to turn the light on.
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To be fair, I support this. All the alternatives are worse. Once a solar farm has reached the end of it's lifespan, that land is still there and can be returned to it's original state quickly. And while it may be classed as agricultural land, if it were being used to grow crops, it would be. As it is, most of these sites are fallow, unused land with only potential to be used for food.

This MP has rightly questioned how we need to involve foreign investment and support from the likes of China in order to build nuclear power plants here. People also don't want to live near those, and they leave a 1000 year legacy of contamination alongside the other environmental and security risks, so maybe he should get on board with supporting the alternatives.
 
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dumbo said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rachel-reeves-trump-uk-chancellor-b2686094.html

We've just promised to turn Britain into the world's leading AI slop mill, why aren't you more excited? Put some more pep in your step and eat up this slop you disgusting fecking pipigs.
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Business confidence: -47

Sentiment in the UK manufacturing sector dropped sharply to -47 in January 2025, marking its steepest decline in over two years, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)

Next update is end of financial year, this fecker is destroying our economy.
 
decorativeed said:
To be fair, I support this. All the alternatives are worse. Once a solar farm has reached the end of it's lifespan, that land is still there and can be returned to it's original state quickly. And while it may be classed as agricultural land, if it were being used to grow crops, it would be. As it is, most of these sites are fallow, unused land with only potential to be used for food.

This MP has rightly questioned how we need to involve foreign investment and support from the likes of China in order to build nuclear power plants here. People also don't want to live near those, and they leave a 1000 year legacy of contamination alongside the other environmental and security risks, so maybe he should get on board with supporting the alternatives.
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Personally I don't think solar is the best for our climate in the UK, it makes up 2.4% of our current generation of green energy and it takes up lots of land mass.
 
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