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Scale Of Tory Election Fraud Uncovered

The widespread scale of election fraud by the Conservatives has been unearthed after it was revealed 17 police constabularies are now probing Tory politicians. Chippenham MP Michelle Donelan and former MP Duncan Hames are the latest to be named after Wiltshire Police said they would be investigating their election expenses. They follow similar investigations in Nottingham, London, Cumbria and tens of other constabularies. 17 Police now probing Tories Notts Met Cumbria WYork Derbs Gtr Man Devon Glouc N'ants Staffs Cheshire Kent Warks...

British people ‘will never forgive’ Blair, says poll

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There have already been rumours that the Chilcot inquiry will come down hard on Tony Blair, and a lot of the British people blame him for entering a war that was unnecessary and possibly illiegal. Recently Blair himself admitted that he “profoundly” underestimated the complexity of Middle Eastern politics. Now a survey by pollsters YouGov in the Independent ahead of the report by Chilcot, which will be released in July, found only eight per cent...

Net migration rose to 3,000 off record level

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the EU referendum comes ever closer the news that annual net migration nearly hit record levels, will leave the “Brexiteers,” rubbing their hands with glee. The statistics, released by the Office for National Statistics, show that annual net migration in Britain rose to 330,000 in 2015 only 3,000 below its record ever amount. The report says the UK’s role as the “jobs factory of Europe,” draws in long-term migrants, who want high wages and...

Take-home pay biggest in London…By far

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The streets of the capital are paved with gold, well not quite, but people who live in the capital have the most disposable income in the country, even when taking in sky-rocketing rents and the cost of buying a home spiralling out of control. The ONS (Office of National Statistics) report revealed this information. Londoners had an average of £23,607 to spend after tax deductions in 2014, almost a third more than the UK average....

Conservative Party receive over half of all political donations

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Political donations are always a controversial topic and don’t sit well with most voters. Who is giving these gifts and why, are the questions most people wonder, when parties end up with huge sums of money. Well of all the political parties the Conservative Party receives more in donations than the rest of the parties put together this year, it has just been revealed. Over £6.7 million of the nearly £12 million in donations that...

PMQs 25th May – The cries, moans and fears of the Brexiteers

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was stand in day, so our esteemed chancellor and Angela Eagle stepped in to take the reins, but both became whipping boys for the same issues that effect Cameron and Corbyn at every PMQs, who I’ve labelled “Camcor’, and I hate myself for it. Eagle argued that the Conservative are split down the middle over the EU, Osborne quite rightly pointed out that the Labour Party is hardly a picture of unity. Osborne referred...

London’s Newest Tech Hub ‘TMRW’ Opens Its Doors In Croydon

A £2 million tech hub has opened its doors in South London as part of the government’s significant £7 billion investment into the regeneration of Croydon. ‘TMRW’ opened today with financial backing from Croydon Council and the Greater London Authority. The new hub will provide state of the art facilities and a rich ecosystem for the capital’s most progressive technology businesses looking to scale up and grow fast. This is part of the government’s (and industry’s) significant £7 billion investment into the regeneration...

Move over Tinder, new website helps men find two or more wives

Muslim Polygamy website is now attracting British men An on-line service to help Muslim men find second wives is attracting a substantial number of sign-ups. The site boasts of being the first site of its kind and aims to help men find more wives, whether their current partners know about this, we don’t know. The site SecondWife.com has reached its 25,000 new member. The site is actually the most popular polygamy website in the UK and then the US in terms...

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