Politics
VIDEO – Cameron “toast” if “Brexit”, says Tory MP
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The civil war in the Conservative Party has continued as Tory MP Nadine Dorries told Robert Peston that David Cameron will "be toast within days," depending on the result of the EU referendum, a win may still see him lose his job, she believes. Dorries, a Leave campaigner, said her "letter is already in", along with another 50 MPs, demanding the Prime Minster stands aside. She said: "David Cameron might just survive if there's a 60/40 majority...
Scale Of Tory Election Fraud Uncovered
The widespread scale of election fraud by the Conservatives has been unearthed after it was revealed 17 police constabularies are now probing Tory politicians. Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan and former MP Duncan Hames are the latest to be named after Wiltshire Police said they would be investigating their election expenses. They follow similar investigations in Nottingham, London, Cumbria and tens of other constabularies. 17 Police now probing Tories Notts Met Cumbria WYork Derbs Gtr Man Devon Glouc N'ants Staffs Cheshire Kent Warks...
British people ‘will never forgive’ Blair, says poll
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There have already been rumours that the Chilcot inquiry will come down hard on Tony Blair, and a lot of the British people blame him for entering a war that was unnecessary and possibly illiegal. Recently Blair himself admitted that he “profoundly” underestimated the complexity of Middle Eastern politics. Now a survey by pollsters YouGov in the Independent ahead of the report by Chilcot, which will be released in July, found only eight per cent...
Net migration rose to 3,000 off record level
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the EU referendum comes ever closer the news that annual net migration nearly hit record levels, will leave the “Brexiteers,” rubbing their hands with glee. The statistics, released by the Office for National Statistics, show that annual net migration in Britain rose to 330,000 in 2015 only 3,000 below its record ever amount. The report says the UK’s role as the “jobs factory of Europe,” draws in long-term migrants, who want high wages and...
Mis-sold Student Loans? Read this open letter that’s gone viral…
Former student Simon Crowther has written an open letter to his local MP regarding being mis-sold his student loan at a young age, of which the terms have now been changed by the Government. The letter has since gone viral on Facebook and other social media sites and will strike a chord with millions of students and former students. STUDENT LOAN DEBACLE. I'm sure a lot of you are in the same situation as me. Please read and see if you...
Conservative Party receive over half of all political donations
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Political donations are always a controversial topic and don’t sit well with most voters. Who is giving these gifts and why, are the questions most people wonder, when parties end up with huge sums of money. Well of all the political parties the Conservative Party receives more in donations than the rest of the parties put together this year, it has just been revealed. Over £6.7 million of the nearly £12 million in donations that...
PMQs 25th May – The cries, moans and fears of the Brexiteers
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was stand in day, so our esteemed chancellor and Angela Eagle stepped in to take the reins, but both became whipping boys for the same issues that effect Cameron and Corbyn at every PMQs, who I’ve labelled “Camcor’, and I hate myself for it. Eagle argued that the Conservative are split down the middle over the EU, Osborne quite rightly pointed out that the Labour Party is hardly a picture of unity. Osborne referred...
Richest pay less income tax than the worst off in Britain
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Shockingly the worst ten per cent of households actually paid back 47 per cent of their earnings back in taxes in 2014/15 compared to only 34 per cent for the richest ten per cent, reports the Mirror. The news will come as no shock to the households who struggle to feed themselves and regularly use food banks even though one or both members of the family will have paid employment. In the UK having a...
£40bn wiped from UK public purse & years of austerity from Brexit, IFS claims
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Another day another claim about Brexit, and what could happen to the UK economy if we decided to leave. Today was the turn of the IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies) who have said that leaving the EU would mean the Treasury would have to slash billions of pounds from British welfare and public services. The IFS believe that in the case of a “Brexit” there would be years of austerity and tax rises, which would...