We'll let you in, but we won't stop China putting a bounty on your heads.
#StandWithHongKong #UKPoltics #HumanRights
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/03/hong-kong-issues-arrest-warrants-for-eight-overseas-democracy-activists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/05/uk-hong-kong-scheme-funding-charity-links-chinese-communist-party

Another one. Is anyone keeping a list?
#UKPoltics #ToryGrifters #CapitalistBastards
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/bob-stewart-tory-mp-standards-investigation-register-interests/

Where's my days since the Tories we at it again meme? #UKPoltics #Partygate

'The long-awaited report by the privileges committee said the former prime minister would have faced a 90-day suspension from the Commons'

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/15/johnson-deliberately-misled-parliament-over-partygate-damning-report-finds

#Johnson #UKPoltics

Johnson being referred to the Police because he - a multi-millionaire was too tight to pay for his own defence team for the COVID inquiry is just delicious.

I can't get enough of Johnson reaping what he has sown.

#UKPoltics

Nothing to do with the blatant right-wing bias, platforming climate deniers and extremists, or failing to uphold their fabled "balance" during the paper review, then.

"“The quality of content is world class and Radio 4 remains the home for trusted and impartial news ... "

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/18/radio-4-flagship-today-loses-800000-listeners-in-a-year-to-podcasts-and-rivals
#BBCBias #UKPoltics #Today

It’s “definitely possible that one of the most visited websites in the world [Wikipedia] - and a vital source of freely accessible knowledge and information for millions of people - won't be accessible to UK readers (let alone UK-based contributors)” - Lucy Crompton-Reid, Chief Executive of Wikimedia UK.

The Online Safety Bill will make the UK an isolated island State on the Internet as well as on the map.

#OnlineSafetyBill #ukpoltics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65388255

This has the potential to bring #Sunak down too. If it turns out he knew more than he made out. Which I’d say he almost certainly did. Or, he was a absolutely shite chancellor.

#Zahawi #ukpoltics #toriesout

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/29/nadhim-zahawi-sacked-tory-party-chair-tax-affairs-rishi-sunak?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Isn’t it grotesque to see the British Prime Minister, one of the richest men in the country, lecturing us all about how working people should be satisfied with unfair wages?

#UKpoltics #UKGovernment #ToriesOut

Abolish, yes. Replace with an elected second chamber? Maybe...

This article is light on details so we'll have to wait till Labour publish proposals in a manifesto.

Bring on electoral reform. Let's have PR for HoC and elected list for a much slimmed down HoL.

#UkPoltics #ElectoralReform

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/19/keir-starmer-i-will-abolish-house-of-lords-to-restore-trust-in-politics

Asking companies and shopping streets to limit Xmas lights decorations during an energy crisis : too nanny state.

Borrowing 60B£ to subsidize energy bills: not nanny state.

Go figure.

#UkPoltics #nannystate #energycrisis

According to Which? only 136k out of 4.2 million eligible have signed up for the UK's social broadband tariffs.

If you receive benefits then it is worth checking out to see if you can save money. #ukpoltics #moneysavingtip

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/broadband/article/all-you-need-to-know-about-broadband-social-tariffs-awnIU5c9XS7G