What about it is horrible? All the data is well presented?

The same design or format is already used for energy ratings on all white goods

The only way for Labour to govern under first past the post is to appeal to the center.

Unfortunately our country is disgustingly conservative and the right wing have always been far better organised, it probably helps they have the media on side.

Starmer is actually doing a surprisingly ok job. The austerity he’s pushing is tedious as fuck but if he weren’t keeping an eye on economics we’d be drowning in hysteria about “magic money trees” and labour dragging the country in to debt.

The employment rights bill will be an incredible improvement for working people. I wish it went a lot further but it’s a solid start.

Unless labour support electoral reform we are doomed to an eternity of right wing government. Labour only got into power last year because reform split the vote, and very soon the reform and conservatives will merge together again.

It’s also worth noting that it wouldn’t just be china profiting financially. It would create a dependence on china for an essential material.

Given how rocky International relationships are at present we need to consider how we would manufacture weapons and vehicles should we find ourselves in a major conflict.

If Europe is at war with russia it’s unlikely china would willingly provide the steel we need.

What I read elsewhere that made a lot more sense is the Chinese owners, Jingye, intended to turn off the furnaces in a way that it would effectively never be possible to use them again without incurring a lot of time and extraordinary cost.

In doing so Britain would have no choice but to purchase steel from China.

Therefore even if it’s going to be expensive for the government to maintain in the long term it will be a better deal for Britain than letting china monopolise an essential material.

After 13 years of conservative government it’s ridiculous to believe there’s any more welfare that could be cut without inflicting unnecessary pain.

£5 billion is a tiny proportion of government spending, and this is money that would immediately be re-spent by recipients so it directly contributes to our economy.

The only reason to push ahead with this is to get some headlines and appeal to some of Reform voters who inevitably moan about benefit scroungers.

War was the one thing the US was good at, now they have nothing of value left for the rest of the world.

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.

US is good at pumping infinite money into the military. But they definitely aren’t “good” at war.

There’s a lot more detail in this BBC story but it still seems likely there’s an injunction against publishing any specifics of the lies MI5 told.

My interpretation is that “Beth” was assaulted on multi occasions by a right wing MI5 informant. She reported this to the police and the suspect was arrested. However while in custody the suspect insisted he was an MI5 operative and MI5 was contacted, MI5 then intervened and had the informant was released.

Most likely MI5 then lied about intervening (the false evidence) but the BBC have clear evidence that MI5 took charge of evidence. Thus MI5’s lies were exposed.

The police did not take a full statement from Beth or obtain the video of her being attacked. The CPS quickly discontinued the prosecution.

The police force concerned and the CPS insist the case was discontinued due to lack of evidence.

Police said they did not seize any items as part of their own investigation, and were “unable to advise when or why these were taken”.

This was untrue, as the police force concerned was responsible for calling in counter terror officers.

The police claim that property had been returned to X was also untrue - the material had been given to MI5.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61508520