Politics

Britain now has a higher tax burden than Spain after the share of GDP taken in tax rocketed. The Tories have long claimed to be the party of low taxes but that claim is unlikely to stand up for much longer. With a month to go until the budget a graph leaked by Guido Fawkes shows the tax burden is now higher than it was under Gordon Brown in 2009. If the Office for Budget Responsibility figures are correct it also shows tax...

Donald Trump has threatened to revoke NBC's license after they published a story claiming the President wanted to increase the country's nuclear arsenal by TEN TIMES. The exclusive feature was unveiled today by the major broadcaster after three of the nation’s highest ranking national security leaders blew the whistle on his plans. Trump’s comments, the officials said, came in response to a briefing slide he was shown that charted the steady reduction of US nuclear weapons since the late 1960s, NBC...

A police sergeant has admitted that there has been NO officer available in Devon and Cornwall to attend to incidents. This news will terrifying the people who live in these two counties and the millions of tourists who flock to this part of the world every year. Mark Cooper, the police sergeant in question, said that budget cuts meant that the force in the West Country was really struggling to cope. Years of austerity has meant that these counties have...

A report has discovered that the Grime4Corbyn campaign led to an unexpected surge in the youth vote for the Labour party. Over half of grime music fans voted for Labour, after Theresa May called the snap election. One in four voted labour simply due to the grassroots music campaign. Stormzy was very vocal, and still is, in favour of the Labour leader. The MCs huge following obviously trust his political opinion and also backed Corbyn. This was the first ever...

Like any man of a certain age, from the North, I hold Liam Gallagher in high esteem. He was the man we all wanted to be, but our mum's wouldn't let us. But I never thought Liam would make the most sense over Brexit than pretty much anyone about at the moment. He was speaking to in NME's free magazine last week when he made the comment. Lucky for his fans that his new album, As You Were, is earning...

Theresa May's first major live appearance since a shambolic Conservative Party Conference speech in which she was served a P45 by a comedian was a chance to make the comeback the beleaguered Prime Minister urgently needed. Instead it was a shocking balls up. Three times when pressed by LBC presenter Iain Dale, the PM refused to say how she would vote tomorrow if there was another referendum on leaving the EU. Yet three times when asked,  May refused  guarantee that 3.2...

In a live interview on LBC radio streamed across social media, Prime Minister Theresa May just refused THREE times to say if she would vote for a Brexit if there was another EU Referendum. The Prime Minister was originally a supporter of the Remain Campaign, all be it a rather shy one who kept out of the public eye during the EU Referendum campaign. (Though she did deliver this very persuasive speech to business leaders outlining why she was convinced...

Scottish Labour reacted to Mhairi Black's attacks on Jeremy Corbyn at the SNP Conference with a scathing attack on her record in office and that of her party. "I am so disappointed with Jeremy Corbyn, so disappointed," the SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire had told the SNP Conference, warning the Labour Leader: "don’t dare spread fear and utter drivel about an independent Scotland meaning we would suffer turbo austerity." "I’m sick to the back teeth of British nationalists perpetuating the...

GMB, the union for NHS staff, has slammed Jeremy Hunt’s pay cap announcement today as nothing more than a ‘con trick.' Without new funding 'productivity improvements' just looks like code for cuts to jobs and services The health secretary told MPs the NHS pay cap has been scrapped, but was unable to rule out cutting health services to fund rises above 1%. He added the “latitude” provided to him by Chancellor Philip Hammond was partly linked to “productivity improvements” which...