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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Guido has been keeping an eye on whether Whitehall’s mandarins have taken any notice of the government’s vaunted ‘crackdown on waste’ after Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden ordered an “immediate freeze” on government procurement cards back in . It hasn’t been going well…In February – before the so-called ‘freeze’ – civil servants in the Home Office and its agencies racked up a tidy £30,062 on taxpayer-funded credit cards.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Since Labour’s tax raid on private schools came into effect in January, at least 18 independent schools have publicly announced they are closing this year due to the VAT measures, while eight schools have launched consultations to close after the summer. Meaning around 3,385 pupils will be displaced.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
More than half of British business owners (53%) say they have already or are planning to slash jobs due to Reeves’ national insurance hikes, according to a fresh S&W’s Business Owners Sentiment Survey. The firm surveyed 500 business owners and also found:51% have already or will freeze pay. 59% are planning to cut hours. 59% are looking to automation to replace staff.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
LIVE: Kemi Delivers Press Conference on Rape Gangs mdi-fullscreen Kemi Badenoch is in London to deliver a speech after Starmer U-turned on a rape gang inquiry. Expect more attacks on Starmer’s “failure of leadership”… VIDEOKemi is joined by rape gang survivors and shadow home secretary Chris Philp. All slamming Starmer…
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
The UK is a less attractive place to do business thanks to Reeves, now 29th in the IMD World Competitiveness Rankings – dropping one place since last year. Economist at the IMD Jose Caballero pointed the finger squarely at Reeves’ tax hikes:“The problem is tax policies – higher taxes and public finances. For business efficiency, productivity is an issue, wages are an issue and also the efficiency of the labour force.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Last night, Starmer and Trump finally signed the much-vaunted US-UK trade deal. Despite all the earlier fanfare, the 25% tariffs on British steel remain firmly in place…Co-conspirators will recall when Downing Street briefings hailed a “major breakthrough,” with lobby hacks eagerly reporting zero tariffs on UK steel. On 8 May, the government declared:“The UK steel industry – which was on the brink of collapse just weeks ago – will no longer face tariffs thanks to today’s deal.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Kemi Badenoch launched a scathing attacking on Starmer in the Commons this afternoon after Yvette Cooper announced a statutory national inquiry into the rape gangs. She didn’t hold back:“After months of pressure the Prime Minister has finally accepted our calls for a full statutory national inquiry into the grooming gangs. The Prime Minister’s handling of this scandal is an extraordinary failure of leadership.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
Iain Duncan Smith has said China’s offer to lift sanctions on him and other parliamentarians is a move to grease the wheels for the country’s London mega-embassy bid. Nine other predominately Tory parliamentarians were sanctioned in 2021 for speaking out against the genocide in Xinjiang…A Chinese embassy spokesman said yesterday in response to reports that some or all of those sanctions are set to be lifted that“China has always attached importance to developing relations with the UK.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
– Victims as young as 10, often those in care, or children with learning or physical disabilities were singled out for grooming. – Perpetrators still walking free because no one joined the dots or because the law ended up protecting them instead of the victims they had exploited. – Failures to act upon risk or share critical information between social services, health services and police forces.
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1 week ago | 
order-order.com | Eleanor Wheatley
The Today Programme moralised this morning by handing the mic to Reverend David Walker, Bishop of Manchester, for “Thought for the Day” on the upcoming Casey Review into the rape gangs scandal. Walker began with a sermon familiar to BBC listeners:“This is not a pattern of offending confined to any particular ethnic cultural or religious group.
