Politics

As he left Downing Street, in a hurry after completely failing to persuade the nation to vote to Remain in the EU, David Cameron had already handed his key members of staff obscene pay rises. Cameron was well known for having a large cabal of special advisors or Spads around him, and paid them huge salaries. However, as he left his role of PM he ensured they got pay rises, up to as much as £18k a year, to award...

Corbyn expected to win the upcoming labour leadership contest with an increased majority and even bigger mandate than he managed to secure during the last vote for the top job. YouGov, for the Times, carried out a survey of party supporters and they discovered that Corbyn should beat his challenger Owen Smith by a 62 per cent to 38 per cent margin. This would see an increase from 59 per cent Corbyn managed to attain in the leadership battle in...

Nicolas Sarkozy is aiming to be re-elected as the French president next year and has been appealing to French populism, in a country reeling from a number of sickening terrorist attacks. Last week, as he launched his election campaign, he said he would make the burkini ban nationwide, even if the French high courts rejected the law. Sarkozy said he would change the constitution to ensure it was enshrined in law. Now Mr Sarkozy has pledged to shift the UK...

Owen Smith made a rousing speech last night, but the biggest cheer during it was for Jeremy Corbyn's name. Smith was going head-to-head with his leadership rival in Glasgow when he went in for his big key speech. Mr Smith strode into the centre of the stage hoping to win over the voters in the crowd. He asked for party unity and said that without it, they could never beat the Conservative Party. He said: 'We can stick with Jeremy Corbyn ..."...

The NHS has been thrown into even more turmoil, after plans have been revealed to conduct huge cuts across England’s NHS. According to the BBC, who have been able to access a draft planning document, the NHS will see ward closures, cuts in bed numbers and alterations to GP and A&E care across the country. Many will see these cuts as the end of free health care as we know it, as services are cut and shortfalls may well be picked...

A key ally for Jeremy Corbyn, Ronnie Draper, has been cast out of the Labour Party, supposedly for comments made on social media, which have not been reported at this present time. Draper, from the Bakers, Food and allied Workers Union, which has around twenty thousand members took to social media to vent his frustration at being suspended from the Party he has been a member of all his life. Just been suspended from the Labour Party, a member most...

The NHS has relied on foreign workers to run the NHS for a number of years and one thinktank believes that without EU staff the health service would struggle to survive. The (IPPR) Institute of Public Policy Research believes the NHS would collapse without its 57,000 members of staff who are EU nationals. The influential thinktank has said that any EU citizens who have lived in the UK for over six years should be granted automatic citizenship, reports the Guardian....

The controversial Burkini ban has been a major talking point over the past few weeks. Images of a women being forced to removed headwear by four armed police on Nice’s beach yesterday have been shared widely across social media. The incident happened close to the scene of the horrific lorry terror attack, which was only a mater of weeks ago. Nicolas Sarkosy has said that the burkini causes “provocation,” and insists that anyone wearing one on the beach will be...

80s moustache aside, Nigel Farage has been off the radar, but he popped up at a Trump rally in Jackson Mississiippi yesterday. Farage complained that Obama had come to the UK during the EU Referendum, and told the UK pubic who to vote for. The crowd booed and Farage said "there is no way I would tell you who to vote for," then went on to say he wouldn't vote for Hilary Clinton if he was paid to do it,...