"Boris Johnson’s government has hiked spending on Union flags to more than £163,000 in two years as part of its drive to boost pride in the national symbol."
'tis but a piece of cloth!
Each LIE from #LiarJohnson & cabal in UK Government diminishes UK - a blot on the landscape!
"The latest figures show spending has increased in virtually every Whitehall department since Mr Johnson became prime minister two years ago."
UK taxpayers' money to BURN! 🔥🔥🔥
"The £163,000 spent in 2020 and 2021 amounts to 85 per cent of flag purchases over the past four years. One leading historian said the increase amounted to a “pushback against devolution and threats to the Union”."
Scotland wants its' Bonnie Blue Saltire back! 🏴
It is now 'CRYSTAL CLEAR' why #May appeared to overuse this phrase when speaking - it was to check NOT the IQ but the EQ of the audience!
One assumes all parties present are adults since this is a pre-requisite to be a politician!
"Angry… but it’s a strange situation where the First Minister is effectively arguing that reporters and politicians are stupid for taking what she says at face value, and even more stupid if they ask for clarification later."
Seems 'crystal clear' to me!!
All would be 'crystal clear' if audience really listened and asked pertinent questions on content of conferences when given chance to do so, instead of playing infantile party politics or chasing tomorrow's headlines!
LIFE is deadly serious NOT a continuous political campaign!
"It is not so much a plan as a pretence, where the (UK) government is abdicating responsibility for protecting its high-risk citizens by “advising” them to remove themselves from everyday life."
State discrimination against "high-risk citizens"?!?
"Levelling up"!!! 🤣🤣🤣
"The impact is already clear enough: research by the charity Scope ahead of the rule changes found only 2% of disabled people said they felt safe."
"Ministers have essentially invented unofficial shielding, asking millions of people to isolate themselves, but to do so this time without even minimal support from the state. There are now no concrete or consistent protections at work for clinically vulnerable employees."
"Johnson’s rank unfitness for office is evident in his lack of a domestic policy agenda: his “levelling up” speech last week was devoid of substance on how his government might seek to reverse the impact of a decade of spending cuts on the least affluent parts of the country,..."
"...together with the unequal impact Brexit is forecast to have in the coming years. It is evident in the way Brexit has played out so far: the ideological drive for a hard Brexit with no consideration of the consequences for the stability of Northern Ireland ..."
"...or the damage done by threatening close allies with breaking international law. It is evident in the way the government tries to stoke divisive culture wars over whether footballers should take a stand against racism in order to distract from its own incompetence."
WHEN did it become legally acceptable for a Government to put political ideology before the lives of the population that expect it to act in their interests?
"Article 2 of the Human Rights Act protects your right to life."
"This means that nobody, including the Government, can try to end your life."
"It also means the Government should take appropriate measures to safeguard life by making laws to protect you and, in some circumstances, by taking steps to protect you if your life is at risk."
"The Conservative Party may have changed their arguments over the course of history, but their anti-worker, pro-greed ideology remains precisely the same as it has always been."
"Whilst the Labour Party was founded in 1900 by ordinary people to support the interests of ordinary people, the Tories have always been the party of the super-rich, and they’re not likely to change their ways any time soon."
"Whilst almost every British citizen will have some disagreements with policies of each major party, the fact remains that if you decide to hand vote to Tories – and you’re not one of the privileged super-rich few – you’ve been brainwashed into voting against your own interests."