Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy confirmed on Sky News that all disposable vapes will be banned from 1st June 2025. Thank Sunak for that idea…
Nandy said that the ban was being pursued to prevent the take-up of vaping in children. It’s already illegal for kids to buy vapes, the same goes for cigarettes…
She then went on about how they weren’t “pleasant“:
“Single use vapes in particular are causing a lot of problems for the environment. You know I walk through my local park and the council is very good job of dealing with it but you see them discarded all over the place and, um, it’s not pleasant at all for people to have to deal with. So for those reasons we’ve taken the decision to ban single use vapes from next year.”
Guido didn’t realise pleasantness was the metric by which the government decides if something should be outlawed or not. Even the British public isn’t behind Starmer on some of his extreme nannying policies…
Rumours about the future of Sky News are swirling, and they aren’t pretty. With viewership dwindling and financial woes mounting, the channel has slashed its freelance budget, along with Sky announcing plans to lay off 1,000 staff members in January. Staff have complained of a steep drop in available shifts, and discontent among employees is bubbling over as they prepare to unionise, fed up with meagre pay and poor working conditions…
The numbers tell a grim story. August saw Mark Austin’s The News Hour limp to a mere 76,000 viewers—less than half the 165,000 who tuned in to BBC News channel at 6pm. Meanwhile, Ofcom’s latest figures reveal a troubling trend: the percentage of people who say they watch Sky News has dropped from 21% last year to just 19% in 2024…
Comcast, which acquired Sky News in 2018, has only committed to keep the channel afloat until 2028. With an annual budget exceeding £100 million, though racks up losses in the tens of millions, Sky News is far from a money maker. Notably, the contract has yet to be renewed, leaving the future of the channel in question. News of trouble brewing at Sky Towers will be music to the ears of its rivals…
Kay Burley and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy have been arguing on Sky News this morning over the ridiculousness of the government lobbying the police to give Taylor Swift a presidential-style motorcade to a gig. Tickets for which were being handed out by her record label to the PM and his ministers…
Nandy eventually caved under pressure and launched on an offensive:
“You know, we’re now in a situation where I mean you know most of Sky News was at these events in these same boxes as well to be completely fair.”
Burley hit back: “Who was there? I paid for my tickets. Don’t do that, no.” Nandy claimed Keir Starmer had paid for his too. A few weeks late, mind…
Nandy couldn’t name any other Sky personnel who went along for free when asked and ended with: “People can judge for themselves.“ A cruel summer for cronies…
Sky News aired a revealing report today, featuring an interview with a 24-year-old migrant who had been staying at a Hull hotel that was targeted during the summer riots. The man, who arrived in the UK from Yemen a few months before via a small boat across the Channel, praised the Labour government for granting him the right to “remain to live” in the UK, securing his residency status. He said he was “happy” that Labour is in power:
“The previous government, they wanted to deport us but now they are making the procedure easier for us.”
Meanwhile, latest ONS figures show that the UK’s population has increased by 1% – the largest increase on record since 1971 – as 662,400 more people are now living in Britain thanks to net migration. Labour’s pledge to cut migration and crack down on Channel crossings was always an empty promise…
Boris has done a long interview with Wilfred Frost on Sky News. Apart from pointing out that the public ‘craved’ lockdown rules, Boris had a few words about his old chum Sue Gray:
“I appointed Sue Gray, who then turned out to be the Chief of Staff leader of the Labour Party – RIP… “
Boris issued his analysis of the current Downing Street implosion:
“At the time that I asked her to do that particular job, she had presented to me as a model of political impartiality and propriety, and I’m not certain about either of those things…. I thought it was always looking a bit dodgy – her position was probably going to be untenable ever since it emerged that her son had taken money from Waheed Alli, and that she’d then given Waheed Alli a pass to No 10. I thought that was probably going to end in the way that it has.”
Cronies gonna crony…
75 days have now passed since Starmer appointed his army of ministers and reporters are still prompting Emily Thornberry whether she’s upset that she wasn’t put in Cabinet. Or any government job for that matter…
Most of the country will probably have heard the shtick by now as Kay Burley this morning asks Thornberry how she felt:
“Oh I was very disappointed, yeah. I was very disappointed. I’d continually been a member of the Shadow Cabinet for eight and a half years so I think I was the longest serving Shadow Cabinet member. So I had expected to be in the Cabinet and I’d spent a long time in Parliament sort of talking and now you’re in government you get a chance to actually do something, and my political heroes are people who actually achieve things, so I was really hoping to have the opportunity of doing that – but it wasn’t to be.“
Hopefully Emily will be too busy with her new job as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee to keep the moanathon going for too much longer. She today offers incisive analysis on the US election by claiming that if Trump became president he would “just say to Putin: ‘Well, okay, you’ve won.’ We can’t allow that to happen, we can’t allow Putin to move into Kyiv.” Heavy-hitting stuff…
