So Covid wasn't real???
I must have imagined not having it or when family and friends had it???
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So Covid wasn't real???
I must have imagined not having it or when family and friends had it???
Toffee_Loaf
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Going soft on big business already ... go on tell us they'd have a windfall tax too.
Labour has quietly ditched a £3billion tax raid on tech giants in what the Tories say is the Opposition's fifth flip-flop in a month.
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves had previously pledged to hike the 'digital services tax' on the revenues of US firms such as Amazon and Facebook, to 10 per cent.
The cash raised from the levy – far higher than the current 2 per cent rate – was earmarked to reduce business rates for small businesses and high street shops under a future Labour government.
But it emerged yesterday that the policy has been shelved over fears it could trigger a trade war with the US, leading to UK exporters being hit with punitive tariffs.
A source told The Times: 'The Americans see these taxes as unfairly targeted at US firms.
The Conservatives responded with an attack advert online depicting Ms Reeves and party leader Sir Keir Starmer together with a pair of flip-flops. It stated: 'Labour's fifth flip-flop this month.'
Labour ditches its £3 billion tech giant tax in what Tories claim is the opposition's 'fifth flip-flop in a month'
- The policy has been shelved over fears it could trigger a trade war with the US.
Labour has quietly ditched a £3billion tax raid on tech giants in what the Tories say is the Opposition's fifth flip-flop in a month.
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves had previously pledged to hike the 'digital services tax' on the revenues of US firms such as Amazon and Facebook, to 10 per cent.
The cash raised from the levy – far higher than the current 2 per cent rate – was earmarked to reduce business rates for small businesses and high street shops under a future Labour government.
But it emerged yesterday that the policy has been shelved over fears it could trigger a trade war with the US, leading to UK exporters being hit with punitive tariffs.
A source told The Times: 'The Americans see these taxes as unfairly targeted at US firms.
The Conservatives responded with an attack advert online depicting Ms Reeves and party leader Sir Keir Starmer together with a pair of flip-flops. It stated: 'Labour's fifth flip-flop this month.'
I'll have to tell my granddad that he didn't really die then.
You are a proper dopey prick.
Consistently
Going soft on big business already ... go on tell us they'd have a windfall tax too.
Labour ditches its £3 billion tech giant tax in what Tories claim is the opposition's 'fifth flip-flop in a month'
- The policy has been shelved over fears it could trigger a trade war with the US.
Labour has quietly ditched a £3billion tax raid on tech giants in what the Tories say is the Opposition's fifth flip-flop in a month.
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves had previously pledged to hike the 'digital services tax' on the revenues of US firms such as Amazon and Facebook, to 10 per cent.
The cash raised from the levy – far higher than the current 2 per cent rate – was earmarked to reduce business rates for small businesses and high street shops under a future Labour government.
But it emerged yesterday that the policy has been shelved over fears it could trigger a trade war with the US, leading to UK exporters being hit with punitive tariffs.
A source told The Times: 'The Americans see these taxes as unfairly targeted at US firms.
The Conservatives responded with an attack advert online depicting Ms Reeves and party leader Sir Keir Starmer together with a pair of flip-flops. It stated: 'Labour's fifth flip-flop this month.'
You seem to think we love the labour party on here?
Toffee_Loaf
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I'm sorry your granddad died, but they were recording Covid as the cause of death for people that had recovered from Covid 4 weeks earlier and then got hit by a car and died... Do you not remember that?
Of course they were ,,,, now go and close the sty door before your pigs fly away
peteblue
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Tbf, it’s a thread about the Labour Party and all he’s done is post and comment on a Labour Party apparent U turn…….
mightymoyes
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his first sentence implies he expects people to defend them though
Toffee_Loaf
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For a party almost guaranteed to be the next government, some of them don't take their responsibilities very seriously.
DAVID LAMMY MAKES TIME FOR LBC SHOW, MISSES RUSSIA INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
As news broke of a fast-moving coup attempt in Russia over the weekend, as is customary, the Shadow Foreign Secretary was offered an intelligence briefing with the latest updates on Privy Council terms as a courtesy from the government. David Lammy even thanked James Cleverly at the despatch box yesterday for offering “His Majesty’s Official Opposition” this intelligence. Guido couldn’t help noticing the ambiguity of that language. He didn’t say “thanks for providing me with that intelligence”…
There’s good reason for that: Lammy didn’t attend the briefing at all. Despite thanking Cleverly for briefing potentially the next government on crucial foreign policy matters, the Shadow Foreign Secretary himself wasn’t even there. He was, however, on his Sunday radio show for LBC, putting in the hard graft for the second job which has netted him over £60,000 since March 2022. David was on-air for three whole hours. At one point he even claims “there is nothing you can put between myself and James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, in relation to how we want to support Ukraine”. Nothing, apart from a cushty radio phone-in show…
Guido approached Labour for comment. They refused to be drawn on who attended the briefing, and pointed towards his ambiguous Commons statement. Guido hears Lammy wasn’t even in London at the time and had to speak to Cleverly over the phone – which would mean that any briefing would be in general terms only for obvious security reasons. It’s not clear which country Lammy was in, or what he was doing there. His radio show was done remotely…
The Leader of the Opposition will have noted the absence of his would-be Foreign Secretary from the briefing, because he went to it. Something for Keir to reflect on as he considers his forthcoming reshuffle…
As it happens, Guido notes that when the government hosted the Ukraine Recovery Conference last week, His Majesty’s Opposition’s most senior foreign policy voice was also missing in action. Despite receiving an invite, Lammy was busy in Glasgow, prioritising collecting an honorary degree.
DAVID LAMMY MAKES TIME FOR LBC SHOW, MISSES RUSSIA INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
As news broke of a fast-moving coup attempt in Russia over the weekend, as is customary, the Shadow Foreign Secretary was offered an intelligence briefing with the latest updates on Privy Council terms as a courtesy from the government. David Lammy even thanked James Cleverly at the despatch box yesterday for offering “His Majesty’s Official Opposition” this intelligence. Guido couldn’t help noticing the ambiguity of that language. He didn’t say “thanks for providing me with that intelligence”…
There’s good reason for that: Lammy didn’t attend the briefing at all. Despite thanking Cleverly for briefing potentially the next government on crucial foreign policy matters, the Shadow Foreign Secretary himself wasn’t even there. He was, however, on his Sunday radio show for LBC, putting in the hard graft for the second job which has netted him over £60,000 since March 2022. David was on-air for three whole hours. At one point he even claims “there is nothing you can put between myself and James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, in relation to how we want to support Ukraine”. Nothing, apart from a cushty radio phone-in show…
Guido approached Labour for comment. They refused to be drawn on who attended the briefing, and pointed towards his ambiguous Commons statement. Guido hears Lammy wasn’t even in London at the time and had to speak to Cleverly over the phone – which would mean that any briefing would be in general terms only for obvious security reasons. It’s not clear which country Lammy was in, or what he was doing there. His radio show was done remotely…
The Leader of the Opposition will have noted the absence of his would-be Foreign Secretary from the briefing, because he went to it. Something for Keir to reflect on as he considers his forthcoming reshuffle…
As it happens, Guido notes that when the government hosted the Ukraine Recovery Conference last week, His Majesty’s Opposition’s most senior foreign policy voice was also missing in action. Despite receiving an invite, Lammy was busy in Glasgow, prioritising collecting an honorary degree.
tsubaki
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Even by the standards of that cesspit, that is a remarkably misleading article.
Labour "refused to be drawn on who attended the meeting" and "pointed towards his ambiguous Commons statement", even though the same article says who went, says Lammy dialled in to some of it and was not physically in London anyway.
NilSatisOptimum
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Tory troll... 10 a penny now Boris has gone its some kind weird cult tribute.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
tsubaki
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Gonna be mad when these lot come in, do absolutely nothing, and then wonder why they are absolutely hated to the core. Clowns.
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