University and College Union general secretary Jo Grady popped up on Newsnight to back her fellow socialist, Rachel Reeves. When asked about the exodus of millionaires fleeing the UK—the equivalent to over half a million taxpayers—she gave a classic ‘eat the rich’ response:
“If the millionaires aren’t paying sufficient taxes, I don’t see what the problem is with them leaving.”
Never mind that their departure leaves a gap in the Treasury to invest in higher education without hiking tuition fees—something she’s spent the last two months wailing about. Meanwhile on the Southport attacks, she bizarrely suggested an “epidemic of misogyny” was partly to blame for the killings. Not the most convincing lecture…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”