Author: Miles Donavan

“If you can own our most famous football club – you can pay tax. Obviously.” A new billboard poster on a building in Manchester reads: “If you can buy Manchester United you can pay more tax.” The advert was produced by the campaign group Everyone Hates Elon. It features Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and has been installed on the side of a city-centre building ahead of the government’s Autumn Budget. It forms part of a wider series targeting billionaires and calling for higher taxes on extreme wealth. Everyone Hates Elon formed this year in protest of Musk’s statements…

“He needs to be very clear about what his interests are” Reform has been accused of “walking a fine line” after the leader of Warwickshire County Council posted a video promoting JCB equipment, following a recent £200,000 donation from the company’s chair, Lord Anthony Bamford. In the past, several Conservative politicians have promoted the Pothole Pro, with the party having received more than £10 million in donations from JCB. Earlier this week, Nigel Farage announced that Lord Bamford had donated £200,000 to Reform. In a video George Finch, the Reform leader of Warwickshire County Council (WCC), shared on his X…

Labour must also take urgent action to deal with the social emergency facing millions right here and now. Britain remains in the grip of a cost-of-living emergency. Though it no longer dominates the headlines as it did a couple of years ago, millions of people are still being forced to make impossible choices between heating their homes and putting food on the table. Poll after poll shows this is the single biggest issue in British politics — however much Nigel Farage tries to shift the focus by scapegoating asylum seekers, Muslims, or whoever else falls foul of the never-ending attempt…

The Reform councillor was criticised over social media posts he made about the police and Black women. A Reform council leader has shown how lacking in principles he is, after jumping to the defence of one of his councillors who was criticised over social media posts he made about the police and Black women. In yet another scandal involving a Reform politician, Staffordshire County Council councillor Peter Mason called the police “a bunch of politically indoctrinated British hating scum” on X and also wrote rote: “What a surprise a statue of a fat arsed black woman”, in what are now…

The MP said that under a Reform government there will be no more gingerbread people, police people or chair people Reform MP Lee Anderson’s ‘outrage’ over Christmas biscuits being sold as ‘gingerbread people’ in the House of Commons has been widely mocked. The right-wing media, including the Sun and Daily Mail have reported that the sale of “woke” biscuits in the Commons has outraged MPs, with some saying the decision to call them gingerbread people instead of gingerbread men is “bonkers”. Anderson, the Reform MP for Ashfield, claimed that under a Reform government, “there will be no more gingerbread people, no…

‘The super rich in this country are laughing all the way to the bank’ Zarah Sultana MP, co-founder of Your Party, has perfectly summed up why the UK’s economic system is not working for the vast majority of the population.  On yesterday night’s episode of BBC Question Time, Sultana said people are dissatisfied with what the status quo and “establishment politicians” are offering. She said people are fed up with “establishment politicians” and a status quo where “their lives are harder, their wages are stagnated, their bills are increasing, and at the same time the super rich in this country…

‘We’re calling time on no-fault evictions and rogue landlords’ The Labour government is giving millions of families across the country the security they deserve in their own homes, by banning no-fault evictions from May. The Renters’ Rights Act – described as the biggest shake-up to renting in England for more than 30 years – was formally approved at the end of October, with the government now implementing a raft of measures to protect renters, which also includes landlords being prevented from increasing rent more than once a year, while bidding wars between prospective tenants will also be outlawed from May…

Far from unleashing a new era of growth and investment, yet more evidence shows how damaging Brexit has been. So much for the land of milk and honey promised by Brexiteers. A new report has found that UK business investment is 12 to 18 per cent lower than it would have been if Britain had stayed in the EU. As the disastrous economic impacts of leaving the EU become ever clearer, new data released by the economists at Stanford University, the Bank of England, and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research has found that business investment loss by…

“The government should be focusing on delivering policy, not fighting among themselves.” Following the briefings suggesting that health secretary Wes Streeting is preparing to launch a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer, Mainstream has warned that Labour must “stop the infighting”. Streeting has vehemently denied the briefings and said they were indicative of a toxic culture inside No 10. Some reports are suggesting that Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, could be behind the briefings. However, Starmer has denied these claims and backed McSweeney.  Multiple Labour MPs have said they are not aware of who is behind the briefings, and note…

Maybe Brexit had something to do with the country’s dire state… A millionaire businessman who donated £1m to Brexit campaigns, says he’s considering moving permanently to Australia after saying he’s not happy with the state of the UK. The Independent reports that: “Robert Edmiston was ranked 187th on the Sunday Times Rich List this year with an estimated wealth of £855m, after making his fortune through his IM Group empire, which started by importing cars and later expanded into property and finance”, and who was made a Tory peer is unhappy at the state of the NHS and economy. Edmiston…