Here is Labour’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate Angeliki Stogia at a recent hustings refusing to back the Supreme Court’s ruling last year that ‘sex’ as defined within the Equality Act means biological sex. The ‘what is a woman’ question has always been difficult for Labour…
Only 3.8% of taxpayers required to sign up to HMRC’s new digital tax collection system which will require self-employed people to file taxes four times a year have done so. ‘Making Tax Digital’ is a cumbersome operation designed to expand HMRC’s reach…
HMRC slipped out a note to the Public Accounts Committee late last month that confirmed an extraordinary low take-up of 18,000. The taxman is briefing that the figure has since risen to 30,000. Only 750,000 short for this year…
Uptake will become mandatory from April under the new regime. The system requires all self-employed taxpayers to sign up now who earn £50,000 a year or more. From 2027 that threshold drops to £30,000, then £20,000 the year after. It’s coming for everyone…
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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar took a swipe at Starmer over appointing Matthew Doyle as a peer despite his links to a sex offender. Two days ago Sarwar was pressured into suspending Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP from Scottish Labour over her links to the same sex offender…
Speaking at a press conference in Edinburgh, Sarwar said:
“The difference is there is now an independent investigation with new information that came to light and in light of that independent investigation we chose to remove the whip from Pam Duncan-Glancy. But there’s clearly a different approach. When I found out I didn’t appoint Pam Duncan-Glancy, I sacked Pam Duncan-Glancy. When I asked questions of Pam Duncan-Glancy and she was not able to give me appropriate answers, I withdrew her as a candidate. And the moment an independent investigation was sparked, she had the whip withdrawn.”
Sarwar added he spoke to Starmer yesterday, in which he “stood by” his calls for the PM to resign, though he is “looking forward” to the upcoming Holyrood elections. Happy families…
The Department for Work and Pensions is burning through £1,121,565 in annual salary costs for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion staff. Maybe some of those “10,000 job cuts” in the blob Starmer promised could start here…
The DWP diversity team is made up of:
That’s 14.16 full-time equivalent staff solely focused on DEI. Pensions minister Andrew Western claims:
“Dedicated EDI staff help DWP comply with equality legislation, making sure that vulnerable customers are supported. Proactive EDI initiatives can help prevent issues related to discrimination or exclusion, reducing grievances and costly disputes.”
Meanwhile, Starmer has ruled out reforming Britain’s ballooning benefits bill for at least a year, terrified of another backbench rebellion. Go woke, go broke…
Speaking on the Labour chaos over the last few weeks, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told The Guardian:
“You call it a sh*tshow, I say it’s unforgivable…It does look to people outside that we’re more interested in ourselves and less interested in preventing chaos. […] We’ve not done enough, and this has got to be the moment of reckoning where we say not just what are we here for, but who are we here for?”