Politics
UK concedes on “regulatory divergence” – Uniting Ireland and putting hard border on mainland
The UK will concede that there will be no "regulatory divergence" on the island of Ireland, according to a draft text seen by RTE News. Late last week Ireland’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister said he had been in talks with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party on the subject, saying a Brexit deal on the Irish border question is “doable”. The government repeated its demand for an assurance from the UK that there would not be any regulatory divergence between Northern...
Brexit UK faces sluggish growth as global economy is “firing on all cylinders”
There has been a stark warning from Britain’s largest business group about the future of the UK economy. The CBI has said that the UK will face a sluggish period of growth at the same time the global economy will enter a strong and positive economic outlook. The Eurozone will also benefit from a good period of growth. The UK’s GDP is likely to rise 1.5 per cent in 2017 and 2018 and then slowing to 1.3 per cent in...
700,000 more kids and OAPs plunged into poverty in 4 years
Hundreds of thousands more children and pensioners have been plunged into poverty over the last four years. A devastating report has today revealed some 400,000 more youngsters and 300,000 more elderly people are now living in poverty compared to 2012/13. The results track the period in which the Conservative's austerity cuts were implemented, highlighting the ruinous impact they have had on British society. Joseph Rowntree Foundation chief executive Campbell Robb said: “These worrying figures suggest that we are at a turning...
Poll puts Labour way ahead of Tories
Survation the most accurate pollster of the General Election in 2017 has indicated that Labour’s lead over the Tories is growing. This will strike fear into the Conservative Party, who are struggling to get to grips with Brexit and have been mired in a number of recent scandals. The poll reads as followed Labour 45 % (+1) Conservatives 37 % (-1) LibDem 6% (-1) UKIP 4 % (-) Green 1% (-) With pressure increasing on Theresa May on a daily...
Donald Trump just edged closer than ever to impeachment with one tweet
In an astonishingly stupid tweet - even for Donald Trump - the US president tweeted today that he "had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937007006526959618 It wasn't long before people started pointing out that Trump's tweet technically meant that the President just confessed to obstruction of justice. Soon after firing his national security adviser Michael Flynn, the President had told James Comey, then the head of the FBI to back off...
Entire Social Mobility Commission board resigns as ‘little hope of a fairer Britain’
Breaking News: All four members of the board of the government's Social Mobility Commission have stood down in protest at the lack of progress towards a "fairer Britain". All four board members of the government’s Social Mobility Commission have resigned Chair Alan Milburn said Theresa May’s government had betrayed Brexit voters. The Ex Labour Minister said there is “little hope” that the “necessary” progress would be made. The government are paying no attention to social mobility as Brexit their only...
Jeremy Corbyn to Morgan Stanley bank: “You’re right, we are a threat – to a damaging and failed system that’s rigged for the few.”
With the dust yet to settle on the 2017 General Election the banks are already running scared at the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the next Prime Minister. Following comments from a Goldman Sachs banker that Britain would be like "Cuba without the sunshine" under the Labour leader a strategist at Morgan Stanley has claimed Corbyn is a "bigger risk than Brexit" to Britain's slowing economy. The comments were made in the bank's annual outlook for the European stock markets, which...
Watch: Hilarious video shows Conservative MP rip off Harry Potter during Question Time
A hilarious video is making the rounds on social media showing Conservative MP Sam Gyimah ripping off a line from Harry Potter in support of the PM. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons, Probation, Rehabilitation and Sentencing made an emphatic statement about Theresa May's castigation of Donald Trump's recent Islamophobic tweets on BBC Question Time last night. He said: "It takes great bravery to stand up to your enemies, it takes even more bravery to stand up to your friends." The line...
Foreign Office denies they told Irish government to ignore whatever Boris Johnson has to say
Sky News claimed Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, was undermined by his officials, during a recent trip to Ireland. Johnson met with Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney on 17 November, but it as been claimed his own officials told Dublin to “ignore the public utterances” of Johnson. Sky News reported that Foreign Office staff informed Ireland’s Government “not to listen to whatever he has to say,” However, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs “absolutely refutes” the story. Brexit has raised the...