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guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-30 01:19 pm
The focus is on Downing Street personnel instead of ministers ahead of a reshuffle penned in for Monday, Guido is told. SpAds are braced for a Morgan McSweeney autumn clean out…
Multiple sources say Political Director Claire Reynolds is up for the chop.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-30 06:30 amThis week 703,293 visitors visited 772,408 times viewing 849,624 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were:
You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 04:22 pmReeves’ former colleagues still in banking will not be thanking her today. Bank shares fell overnight after an IPPR report calling for a fresh tax on the interest banks get from the Bank of England coincided with an FT story on the sector expecting to be targeted by the Chancellor.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 03:21 pmThe ONS has been under fire recently over management failings, inaccurate data and what one review called two months ago, “deep-seated” problems. Staff don’t appear too concerned, however…
An FOI from the TaxPayers’ Alliance, seen by Guido, shows that in 2024/25 ONS staff spent £10,475.01 on meals, £2,154.05 on hotels and £10,948.29 on travel.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 02:10 pmThe PM’s new economic head honcho led a landmark project calling for a series of massive tax rises. You’ll never guess who she was working with…
Starmer has brought former BoE Deputy Governor Baroness Minouche Shafik in as his new personal senior economic adviser in Number 10.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 01:52 pmToday three judges ruled in favour of the Home Office and overturned the temporary injunction blocking asylum seekers from being housed in an Epping hotel. One of the judges, Lord Justice David Bean, has a history of Labour links…
Bean was a former Treasurer for the Society of Labour Lawyers.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 01:23 pmThe temporary injunction preventing migrants from being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping has been overturned in the Court of Appeal. Asylum seekers will be allowed to remain in the hotel…
Lord Justice Bean said:
[…] Read the rest“Ad hoc interim injunction applications seeking closure of particular sites may each have some individual merits but the judge’s approach ignores the obvious consequence.”
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 12:50 pmDowning Street has been spending a hefty amount on furniture prior to its personnel reshuffle. Minouche Shafik – former deputy BoE governor under Mark Carney – will be Starmer’s new personal economics adviser…
Guido’s FoI unit has established that since mid-April No10 has spent £1,919 on chairs, £305 on desks, and £174 on lighting.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 12:26 pmDonald Trump has revoked former vice president Kamala Harris’ extended secret service detail. According to CNN, Harris’ protection will now end on 1st September, having been quietly extended by Joe Biden in the last days of his presidency. Under federal law, former vice presidents are entitled to six months of secret service protection upon leaving office.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 11:30 am
Entries in the comments…[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 10:47 amThink tank Policy Exchange’s offices were attacked by the pro-Palestine faction of a group called ‘Shut the System’ last night. The vandals sprayed the building with red paint and smashed windows…
David Spencer, Head of Crime and Justice for Policy Exchange said:
[…] Read the rest“We have seen that Shut the System are prepared to use violence to undermine parliamentary democracy with outrageous attacks such as this.
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 10:29 amTorsten Bell personally raved about the revenue benefits of dragging millions of taxpayers into ever-higher rates. This is the man writing the budget…
Bell mused in a long essay some years ago in 2017 about the possibility of the Tories freezing income tax thresholds – something they eventually did:
[…] Read the rest“Raising money by ending the recent big increases in the Personal Tax Allowance is the right thing to do… indeed freezing thresholds for more than one year could raise very significant sums – a further 2023 freeze would save £5.5 billion a year.”
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 09:33 amStarmer’s close friend Philippe Sands has said that calls the quit the ECHR takes us back to the 1930s. Debating with former Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind – who said he’d changed his mind on and argues to ‘suspend recognition’ of the ECHR – Sands said on the Today Programme:
[…] Read the rest“I think it’s pretty clear what’s happening, Nick.
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 09:20 amNigel Farage had some fun with Guido’s story about Essex County Council on GB News last night. Labour’s Lord Glasman called it “the lanyard class in action“. Guido’s inclined to agree. Who’d have thought offering council staff a therapy session for spotting a few flags would cause so much trouble?[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 08:47 amDowning Street’s recently-departed special economics adviser says that Labour will have to find a way to raise taxes now. So says every Downing Street official who has since left…
Ravinder Athwal, who left government in July and also wrote Labour’s manifesto, said it has been “steady progress” so far in government but the party has faced “a lot of challenges to grasp, the objective has been to sort of stabilise.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-29 07:32 amThe welfare bill is set to cost every taxpayer £3,000 a year each by 2030, according to a report by Tory think tank Onward. Starmer’s cave-in to the rebels on reform has left the taps running…
That’s a fifth higher than today’s £2,650.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-28 04:02 pmCivil servants at the Ministry of Defence have been ramping up their use of free aerobics classes into the summer. Nice for some…
At the MoD’s Main Building headquarters on Whitehall staff are given access to a “Gymnasium,” “Fitness Studio where aerobics classes take place,” and “Stretching space.[…] Read the rest
guidofawkes_feed) wrote2025-08-28 03:20 pmEssex County Council is offering support to its staff and encouraging them to “reach out” if the St George’s or Union Jack flags that have been put up in recent days upset them. Alternatively they could resign and hide indoors with the blinds shut…
The council’s “Children & Families Senior Leadership Team” sent an email to staff yesterday saying it was “aware of the increasing visibility of St George’s and Union Jack flags displayed on road signs, bridges, and trees in parts of Essex.”[…] Read the rest
