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News round up

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Knives out for Rayner

So the right wing media’s latest obsession is that Angela Rayner once owned a council flat! And that she might have profited from its sale and possibly maybe didn’t pay about £1-2k of capital gains taxes (but who needs evidence … Continue reading

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Grumpy old men

A couple of weeks back Daily show host Jon Steward got himself into hot water by asking questions about whether Joe Biden might be too old to be president (Biden will be 82 on election day and 86 when he … Continue reading

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Pre-Christmas news

No shame Tories…. So we’ve seen the return of sir “call me Dave” of pigtoon. This is the fellow who, to quote Jeremy Paxman “gambled the country’s fortunes for the sake of the Tory party and after he mucked it … Continue reading

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Fixing the pension time bomb

It was always the Tory plan to run the country into the ground, then blame labour for the mess. However, I think its suddenly dawning on them that they may have laid it on a bit thick (maybe they should … Continue reading

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