Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall's welfare changes and cuts, up to £6bn, will be a rerun of the punitive and cruel measures put in place by George Osborne. Labour is letting down working people and the sick by a vindictive easy target, instead of garnering the tens of billions in unpaid, avoided and wealth taxes.

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Nigel Farage is rumoured to try a lot of dirty tricks to get his way. But he is Nigel Farage. That's his whole 'thing' as a caller to Talk Radio commented.

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Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans. 

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The plan to bring iPhone manufacture back to the States is a precursor to completey automating many systems, and with social security being slashed and burned, what happens to the workers?

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A transaction tax with a sliding scale on stock trades of say, a top level of 5% would clear the deficit, the black hole and provide money for public services without taxing the wealthy (who would complain) or corporations (who would complain) or penalising the poor. Labour could do this for two months and the country would get back on its' feet

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I talk about the plusses and minuses of the Government plan

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Pat McFadden on the welfare reform Labour intend to introduce, which targets specifically disabled and the sick, and Laura Kunesburg's absolute misrepresentation of the extra money disabled people are entitled to

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Donald Trump has sunk the stock market 1,500_ since coming into office, Musk is gutting vital support lines to America's poorest and business is tanking. Inflation is rising, prices are going up and there's bird flu H1N1 in some States. Could America be heading intoa recession? Looks like.

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Richard Tice MP appeared on GBNews to talk about the Lowe/Farage controversy and managed, somehow, to make it worse. Camilla Tominey gave him a hard time, and rightly so. 

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Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves are determined for Labour to carry on the Tory austerity measures by picking on disabled and sick people to make up the shortfall they find in their own calculations. But cutting welfare never works in good of bad times. Could this be just another gimmick to get knuckle draggers to do a mass nodding session, or is something more ideological an sinister behind it all?

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