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..and for many people, petrol is paid for out of their taxable income, so the money they spend on petrol has already been taxed through PAYE. That's triple taxation.

I still find it difficult to get my head round how a major UK political party could come up with the idea of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, claiming it is a safe country. And then trying to bulldoze their way through any court decision that gets in their way. The stultifying arrogance of...

A man of the people. You beat me to it, by a split second.

I'm surprised you haven't commented on Robert Jenrick yet. You could pick any of his lovely quotes in Farrukh's tweet, but the first one is just so.......Brexit. "We traded freedom of movement with the EU, for free movement with the rest of the world" - leave voter R. Jenrick.

I agree with you. In that 1987 photo, she looks lovely, and strangely like my mum used to look. But she didn't look like that after her brief relationship with Corbyn. The warmth and the smile had gone.

Don't talk to me about Corbyn. You can forgive all the hard left nonsense, but having an affair with Diane Abbott? Ye Gods.

Hundreds of missed appointments (in one surgery) each month is unacceptable and if allocated to people who actually need them, would go some way to alleviating the perceived and real problem of 'can't get an appointment with my GP' wrongly blamed on immigrants by Patel, Braverman and their ilk...

I remember reading an article (probably around Brexit time) that attempted to address the problem of 'why can't you get an appointment with your GP'. The answer was quite illuminating, not due to 'illegals' or a lack of doctors, and was due to something I hadn't expected at all. It was down to...

"Junior Doctors or Doctors in training as I prefer to call them" - Victoria Atkins, Health Secretary in training. That's just a ham-fisted attempt to downgrade the role of junior doctors, to control their wage costs. Six weeks in, and she's already made her first cock-up. She's got potential.

Labour haven't been in power for thirteen years. To say they will do the same thing when they return to power, is a little unfair. Let's give them a chance first. Back to Sunak, and another thing that troubles me, is his trumpeting of the number of boats being down by a third. Surely that...

There needs to be a full, independent enquiry once the Tories are out of power. Phase 1 ring-fence and then quantify who benefited from favourable PPE contracts during the pandemic. Phase 2 repatriate public money that was wrongly allocated. Phase 3 - prosecution.

Yellow card for time-wasting.

I'd forgotten about that. It's almost as if she felt the need to be as extreme and vindictive as possible to prove her credentials. Didn't she also try to stop the RNLI (or maybe the coastguard) from rescuing boats?

I believe the initial idea came from Priti Patel, either when she was Home Secretary, or before she was appointed. Her previous idea was to create a wave machine in the channel to act as a deterrent to asylum seekers. The fact that it would put them in greater danger of capsizing was evidently...

'More home secretaries have been sent to Rwanda than asylum seekers - "it's about £100 million per trip" - Yvette Cooper, in the Commons an hour ago.

https://www.asylumseekermemorial.co.uk/ Please take a few minutes to scroll through and reflect. The lucky ones are those who have a name. Most of them don't.

Absolutely. If I could be so inclined, I would keep a real time list of costs, including the time wasted by MPs, researchers, analysts, Parliamentary time, departmental time etc. And then I would ask The Taxpayers' Alliance, why there isn't anything on their blog about this obscene waste of...

A couple of articles, the first from the BBC, that may help with the legal arguments: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67643900 'An astounding level of hypocrisy' 'The Rwanda Bill and its constitutional implications'...

The best thing that Labour can do about it, is get the popcorn out. There's no need to do anything else. Act like Louis Theroux, and let your victims incriminate themselves.

'UK paid Rwanda an extra £100m for asylum deal' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67656220 About halfway down the article, I blinked when I read this: 'The payment was made when Suella Braverman was home secretary, though allies of hers say it was signed off by the prime minister.' So...