Labour is buying more Jaguars. Does one of them have John Prescott memorial livery?
A new contract completed today and uncovered by the TaxPayers’ Alliance shows that the Government Car Service is purchasing £237,864.06 worth of Jaguars for delivery no later than 31st October 2026. Just in time for Burnham…
Rhys Hurley, investigative lead at the TPA, said:
“With the country’s debt mounting, this gold-plated contract must be torn up. Ministers need to stop using the money of hard-working Brits in this way and start spending a bit more time on their own two feet.”
If you drone on about buses and travel in a Jag that makes you a cheetah. Here all week…
Tomorrow is the 9th of July. That will be three years out from the last possible date for the dissolution of the current Parliament under Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. The present Parliament first met on 9 July 2024…
Unless dissolved earlier, it automatically dissolves at the beginning of 9 July 2029, five years after its first meeting. A general election then follows under the statutory 25-working-day election timetable, producing a latest polling date of Thursday 16 August 2029. Countdown to freedom…
Team Burnham is mulling major changes to governance and taxation, including:
He will struggle to implement even the beginning of the so-called ‘biggest council house building programme since the post-war period.’ A huge number of councils are in no place to manage the construction of properties compared even to the 1980s. There is a lack of expertise across the whole sector. Labour is currently falling massively behind on its own 2024 manifesto housebuilding targets – a manifesto Burnham is signed up to…
Burnham does not have enough time to get even a small number of these changes across the line – he also has no mandate. The prospect of dissolving parliament earlier than 9 July 2029 looms…
In an interview with GB News Nigel Farage has crystallised Reform’s message in the by-election and said there could be more reporting on his finances. Asked if if there is more still to come out, he said:
“Oh, maybe. I mean, it would seem that every single private detail of my life has been accessed illegally and is being put into the public domain. I think it’s unfair. My even my family are being harassed. My daughter’s being harassed by people. I think the whole thing is monstrous. If if and I say if because it’s up to people if we get a resounding big vote and victory here, it sticks two fingers up to the establishment.”
Polling from More in Common has found that voters who backed Reform in 2024 have not shifted their view of the £5 million gift since May…
Badenoch said this morning:
“Let’s see what kind of campaign Count Binface runs, and who the establishment really is – if it’s the people versus the establishment, I think Nigel Farage might be looking like the establishment, and Count Binface may be the people. So the whole thing is a farce.”
Asked if she would vote for him, Badenoch said she would be on a beach. Asked for whom the people of Clacton should vote, she declined to again endorse Binface: “The people of Clacton, and the Conservatives in particular, are very sensible – they will do what they know to be right. It’s not for me to be getting involved in that.” It‘s yet to be seen if Tory staffers will go to Clacton to campaign for the bin…
CCHQ has also launched a Farage vs. Binface live poll website to do some data harvesting. Including some AI visuals…
As of lunchtime Farage had written to Reeves and received no reply. Now she says:
“I will accept Nigel Farage’s request to be appointed Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead. It is a farce and a desperate distraction, and the people of Clacton deserve better. But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him.”
Boycott lines coming thick and fast…
UPDATE: A Reform UK spokesman said:
“Reform UK will move the writ tomorrow morning, and we are proposing a by-election on 6 August.”
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”