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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How Pat McFadden says the Labour Government is poised to react or not react to the ever changing declarations of Donald Trump. A masterclass is saying nothing and taking ages to say it and making no sense.

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Richard Tice clearly has no policies but he has policies but he is working on policies but here are teh policies Reform UK have but you can't see them because they are still developing and Nigel Farage is okay, 

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The disintegration of the Reform Party with the public spat between Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe has damaged membership, the party and Nigel Farage's popularity. Could Reform be on the way out?

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GMB forced to apologise after Kwasi Kwarteng makes libellous statement on GMB. Silence from Kwarteng.

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