THIS IS REFORM

Just like Trump £$£$£$£$£

A Reform UK councillor with the power to influence the fate of Lancashire’s care homes is simultaneously a director of a private care company that could profit from their closure. Now, explosive emails reveal that Councillor Graham Dalton has resorted to issuing legal threats in an attempt to silence an opposition councillor who dared to question this glaring conflict of interest.

The controversy centres on plans to shut down ten council-run residential homes and day centres. As the cabinet member for adult social care, Dalton holds a key role in this controversial review. Yet, he is also the co-owner of First for Care GB Limited, a private provider that offers services directly overlapping with those under threat.

When Labour’s Councillor Kim Snape suggested Dalton could financially benefit from the closures, the response was not transparency, but a threat of legal action, delivered through council staff. This move has been condemned as a direct assault on essential public debate and accountability.

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Andrea is at it

Reform UK’s Andrea Jenkyns is claiming travel expenses for her job as Mayor of Lincolnshire, why? Because she lives in Yorkshire (despite saying she lives in Lincolnshire on her nomination forms).

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Inhuman

“…who have broken into our country…”

I wonder if it occurs to people like this revolting old man, who was thrown out of Reform earlier this year, that Brits broke into other people’s countries around the world, took them over, made the people learn English and stole , plundered and raped. In doing so, who knows how many millions of people were killed.

I’d like to live in a country where people can go about their business without the fear of being stabbed by anyone.

Alright?

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Hmmmm… I’m wondering if she knows any numbers at all…

I wonder if she’d have a fit if we suggested then, that a little closer to home we could use ROMAN numerals…

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Our deepest apologies, your imperial orangeness

Hardly a day goes by without the BBC, at least in their Scottish branch office, misrepresenting the Scottish Government or the SNP or the Greens. Indeed, they have just apologised for using a Tory Press Release almost exactly word for word.

And then there was this:

But someone misrepresented his special senile Uncle Bone Spurs in America and my goodness, does Nigel look cross or what?

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REEVES AND A WORD SALAD OF NONSENSE

Thanks to Drew for alerting us to this. He posted it on Tuesday’s post but I reckoned that too few people would see it there so I’m repeating it here because it is important.

Brian Leishman, Labour MP for Grangemouth, asked Rachel Reeves a question about closing the refinery there. It’s in the form of a video from Twitter and it won’t let me upload it here, so I give you the link.

Drew said: I don’t know why she got to her feet. I heard words, but they meant heehaw.

I’m sure you will agree.

What they are doing is diabolical and it was a totally valid question from her own back bench.

Perhaps the reason that she couldn’t give a proper answer was that Anas (read my lips) Sarwar, in the run up to the election last year, complained that the SNP was doing nothing about the closure of the plant (they were)… but that if people voted Labour, they would save Grangemouth and all the jobs.

Let’s remind ourselves that the company is closing a factory in the UK with the loss of thousands of Scottish jobs and making available £600,000,000 (black hole, anyone?) to the same company to help them open a factory in Belgium… creating thousands of jobs for the Belgians.

As for her excuse that the was the party opposite what done it… well, we know that it was the Tories that came up with that plan… (Why? Backhanders?)

But there is no reason why the Labour government cannot refuse to carry it forward. In fact quite the opposite.

After all, the Tories had promised winter fuel payments to millions of pensioners and Labour came in and happily took these payments away. Maybe they just see pensioners as less important and worth less than big business.

So what is the reason, Reeves, Sarwar and Starmer? Is it because, for some reason, you don’t want Scotland to have a refinery?

(Excuse any typos. My spell checker hasn’t transferred to my new computer.)