@Rachael_Swindon

You may have noticed, the Tories aren't having a great week. The honeymoon can't last forever. From Hammond's humiliating National Insurance u-turn to the disgraceful figures released showing an increase of 400,000 children living in relative poverty under the Tories, these things can't just be ignored. And to their credit, some sections of the mainstream media are starting to report some of it. And so they should do. The good news on jobless figures, which at 5.3% is the lowest for years, shouldn't be allowed to paint over the FIVE-FOLD INCREASE  since 2011. This isn't just a small increase, its an explosion. 1 in 3 of these people working on zero hour contracts wants more hours. A sensible wage from the likes of Sports Direct would lead to a huge decrease in benefit dependency, surely this is obvious? Newly-released  government data  has shown that the number of children living in relative poverty has increased by 400,000 under the Tories. 40

Figures released today by the governments own  Care Quality Commission  reveal the extent of the mess caused by 6 years of drastic cuts, shortages of staff, the rapid decline in hospital bed numbers, A&E's in complete meltdown, and privatisation not just quietly sneaking in through the back door but more steamrolling its way through the front door, with billions and billions of pounds of contracts making their way to the private sector.  For example:   Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Care won a £700m contract to deliver 200 types of   NHS   and social care services to more than 200,000 people in Bath and north-east Somerset,  sparking renewed fears about private health firms expanding their role in the provision of publicly funded health services. Yes, New Labour simply got the ball rolling for the Tories. I wont ever argue that point. They got it massively wrong.  But this is privatisation with a turbo attached. The scale and pace of private companies’ involvement

 Jacob Rees-Mogg. If you say the name out loud, (but preferably not in public), what does the mind conjure up? Keep it clean... Mega-rich Jacob is the Tory MP for North East Somerset, not a million miles from 'sunny' Swindon. With a Walter from The Beano-like appearance, his poshness wouldn't be out of place in the Royal Family. That's the ones who aren't subject to the Tories household benefit cap that wave from a balcony every now and then, not the rather funny sitcom. Who in their right mind would suggest £250,000 is "chicken feed"?  Jacob Rees-Mogg  - Do you think the 124,000 homeless children  and their families would find a quarter of a million as a bit of spare change you might lose down the back of the sofa? What a crass out-of-touch fool. Jacob is a landlord of rental properties. A nice little side-earner if you can afford the initial investment, and to be clear, I'm not implying Jacob is doing anything that's against the rules

The Brexit smokescreen has given Theresa May a licence to get away with political murder. Look beyond the Brexit headlines and take a look at the state Britain is currently in.  I voted to remain in the EU. We lost. We must confront the challenges of now.  There's a  housing crisis  so severe it cost the government £3.5bn of a period of 5 years, just to provide temporary accommodation for homeless families. The number of homeless families living in B&B's had risen by   300%  over the last 5 years. They have nowhere to go. Some idiot decided 'affordable' is a 1 bedroom flat in Hackney for £450,000. These families barely have £4.50, they go days without meals to make sure their children can eat. They can't put the heating on, they pay nearly double what you pay for gas and electric because they have a key meter fitted to the property, they don't have the latest iPhone, or SKY (like I'm going to give Rupert Murdoch a single penny). So, if anyone th

Today the BBC Trust found Kuenssberg guilty of inaccurately reporting Jeremy  Corbyn’s views about shoot-to-kill policies in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris. Yes, the BBC found one of their own guilty. It goes without saying. the Beeb aren't very happy. The trust itself said:  “According to this high standard, the report had not been duly accurate in how it framed the extract it used from Mr Corbyn’s interview." So she totally misrepresents the Leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.  But the Trust then go out of their way to say "T hat there was no evidence of bias or of intent on the part of the senior BBC journalist". Then enter  James Harding, the director of BBC news. He rejected the Trust’s ruling and called Kuenssberg “an outstanding journalist and political editor with the utmost integrity and professionalism”. He would say that, wouldn't he? A former chairman of the BBC trust, Sir Michael Lyons has also been vocally c

“Thug, bully, an adventurer, disloyal, congenitally treacherous and winner of the Whips’ Office shit of the year award“ just some of the terms used to describe  him - by his own colleagues.  Of course, these names could cover a majority of the Tory Party. Add in nasty, hypocritical, heartless - I think you get the idea. On this particular occasion, the person being described so accurately is Conservative MP David Davis. Not David Davies - Davis. Davies is a narcissistic splodge of poison himself, but Davis? He really is something else. Somehow, career political failure David has a very important job. The type of job that requires competence at the very minimum. Already, you can tell Davis is not suitable for the position. The title is Secretary of State for exiting The European Union, in short, the minister for Brexit. David works very closely with Boris Johnson and fellow Brexiteer, Dr Liam Fox. British media have lovingly named them 'The Three Brexiteers'. But t

And off we go again. 2016 was an incredible year in politics. Shocking things happened. Brexit, Cameron quit, Theresa May parked her broomstick inside Number 10, Trump won with over a million less votes than the quite awful Hillary Clinton, the 'charming' Jamie Reed decided to pusue a career at Sellafield (you won't be able to leak anything there Jamie), Tory Ed Vaizey kindly called me "a troll" - and became 1 of 80 of his colleagues that decided to block me on Twitter for having the cheek to want some accountability for their actions. OK, not all of that is particularly shocking, and its not just Tory MPs that don't like communicating with the electorate. Ask Ian Austin, Tom Watson and Tristram Hunt. Members of parliament should not be blocking anyone that has a genuine question . If that question is regarding their votes in the house,or the public funds they use for various purposes then what's the problem? If an MP is subject to abuse on social me