Our glorious chancellor, Rachel Thieves, seems to have been caught out exaggerating her CV about the roles she performed in previous jobs. She was more admin than making important financial decisions. No wonder she’s making a mess of things. Chancer.
This weekend, a few weeks before her 100th birthday, a former wartime intelligence officer will set off on a new mission: to meet with the UK pensions minister and persuade her to end an “injustice”. Anne Puckridge is travelling 4,400 miles from her home in Canada to ask the UK government to change rules that campaigners say penalise almost half a million pensioners living overseas and leave many struggling financially. She served as an intelligence officer during the second world war, and worked on codes across the army, RAF and navy. Puckridge then returned to the UK and brought up her family, working in administrative jobs and, later, as a lecturer in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Despite the fact she lived and worked in the UK for most of her life, making national insurance contributions throughout her career, her UK basic state pension is frozen at the 2001 level of £72.50. Puckridge is due to arrive in the UK on Sunday and had formally requested a meeting with Keir Starmer. Her call was backed by the actor Joanna Lumley and more than 30 UK parliamentarians, including the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. However, it emerged on Thursday that Starmer had declined to see her, but had offered her a meeting with the pensions minister, Emma Reynolds. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/nov/30/war-veteran-frozen-pensions-no-10
Boris Johnson, Brexit, Covid, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and just when you think it’s impossible for life to get any worse, up pops the Labour Government
There was always going to be pain after those crooks were in charge for 14 years... in fact, you are part of the problem (if you voted boris in ).
All Labour needed to do after the shower of ****e of the last decade was show the bare ****ing minimum in terms of competence, honesty, and intention. Too much to ask, it seems.
Yet the alternative was ****ing terrifying. The commie, anti-semite, Comrade ****ing Corbyn. I wonder how many on here voted for that ****er.
It hasnt taken them long to send the economy into reverse has it. More duff numbers this week. One article I read said some economists have us on recession watch. Mad as it sounds in the last months of the tories we were the fastest growing economy in the g7. Labours constant negativity since day 1 and then the tax dominant budget has put us backwards. Not many in my small circle calling anything positive about this govt so far. On the bright side, it is not like we have Trump to make life difficult any time soon...
The UK is now cutting jobs at the fastest rate since 2009. Who was in charge then again? The first budget from Reeves has certainly left its mark. Wonder if it will be her last. The impacts seem to be playing out very quickly.
We have four and a half years left of these useless buggers, but I don’t think anybody better is going to take over.
Starmer is a fraud., the two party system is a joke, no more to say other than the voting system needs to be changed.
He paused for a moment then laughed and said that he remembered you well from schooldays, he came over as a really nice bloke and a very good bass player to boot. No idea how you two are mates..
We went to school together and knocked around together until I buggered off up the Lakes to find a job ( still 14 ) we used to leave school, walk down to the shops sit on the window sill, have a *** and listen to one of those little transistors, bloody great days. It never entered our heads that me going to the lakes would mean we would never see each other again. I never came back again
