Politics
First full Junior Doctors’ walkout in history of NHS will happen
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The BMA (British Medical Association) said that strike action next month will be an “all out strike” for the first time in the history of the National Health Service. This escalation in industrial action will mean junior doctors will not be providing any form of emergency care, for two days in a row. The move will anger the Conservative Party and worry patient safety groups. It is also a huge gamble for the junior doctors,...
PMQs Sketch 23rd March – Labour Party upgraded to “Mostly Hostile”
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The old saying is keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I guess it is easier just to make everyone your enemy, then you don’t have to worry where anybody is; takes the pressure off, I suppose. It wasn’t supposed to be this way for Labour today; the Conservative party is crawling from disaster to disaster. The Tories are almost literally taking wheelchairs away from disabled people. Then coming back the next day to...
Labour MP John Woodcock’s X-rated tweet against own party
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It should have been David Cameron's worst PMQs since he became PM, but it wasn't to be. A spreadsheet of Labour MPs and their level of hostility to their own Leader emerged, and was used by Cameron throughout the session. Labour MP John Woodcock was labelled on the list as "hostile" to Corbyn, and from this tweet (he has since deleted) you can see why. Parental advisory explicit lyrics. Here's the deleted tweet for those...
Farage criticised for using Brussels attack to argue for Brexit
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor UKIP leader Nigel Farage has come under fire and been called “disgusting” for “cheap political point scoring,” after he used the carnage in Brussels to back his Brexit campaign. The controversial figure has been branded as “disgusting” for using the deadly Brussels attacks as a reason to quit the European Union. He was called “shameless Brexit scum” after he retweeted a message on Twitter whilst explosions were killing scores of people in the Belgian capital. Allison...
VIDEO – Labour attack “absolute chaos” of Budget fall-out
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Yesterday Osborne sent his deputy David Gauke to take the hits from the House of his Budget statement. Cowardly George didn’t fancy facing any dissent. Gauke failed to give an answer to how the black hole left by the scrapping of disability benefit cuts would be filled, under sustained attack from opposition MPs. There is now a £4.4bn black hole to fill. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell was on fine form as he laid into the...
VIDEO – Dennis Skinner lays into Osborne
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Dennis Skinner demolished the Chancellor in the Commons with one of his classic one-liners. The 84-year-old MP let nobody down with his latest attack on the Tories. He ended with the classic line: "It’s 8 budgets for Osborne already, only cats have 9 lives." Even the PM chortled. Thanks to Cameron, Skinner is still going strong in parliament. When asked why he hasn’t thrown in the towel, Skinner said: "Mainly because Cameron told me to retire." Watch...
Osborne to snub urgent Commons questions over Budget
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The Chancellor is going to dodge questions in the Commons over his Budget, which has increasingly turned into a farce. Some Labour members have branded Osborne a “chicken” and even compared him to the cowardly lion, that features in The Wizard of Oz. John McDonnell the Shadow Chancellor plans to lay into the Chancellor for telling Tory MPs to back I his statement, even though it has a £4.4bn black hole. However, Osborne will not...
New DWP Sec Stephen Crabb criticised for links to ‘gay cure’ group
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Stephen Crabb the newly appointed Work and Pensions Secretary, following Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation, has been crticised for links to a gay cure group. Back in 2012 it was reported by Pink News that he employed interns via a religious fundamentalist group, who held these controversial views. Crabb was also himself reportedly an intern in the scheme in the 1990s. David Cameron recently announced that Mr Crabb; he is Welsh and working class, which breathes...
Brexit “cost £100bn & 1m jobs” – Choice between “Great or Little Britain”
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A recent report for PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) for the CBI claims that the economy faces serious damage if the UK opts for Brexit. If the UK moved out of the EU it would shock the UK economy, which could see up to 950,000 job losses and make the average household £3,700 worse of by 2020, the report warns. The analysis by PWC also said Leaving the EU could cost the UK economy £100bn (equivalent of 5%...