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The Rough Sleeping Crisis Is A Moral Emergency - Made By The Tories

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While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to seize control of the news agenda, and Tory Prime Minister Johnson and Diet Tory Leader Starmer thrash it out over who can be the most Brexity - which is rather bizarre for a pair of closet Remainers - the domestic agenda hasn’t just been overlooked, it has been completely and utterly abandoned.  The most obvious example of this neglect from the political class can be found sleeping in shop doorways, multi-story car parks, allotment sheds, and just about anywhere that might provide some short term shelter from the elements.  The UK has seen a fair amount of snowfall over the last few days, and the forecast ahead suggests temperatures will be hovering around freezing for a while yet.  Be in no doubt, the rough sleeping crisis was out of control before the arrival of Covid-19. In fact, consecutive Conservative governments have more than DOUBLED the number of people sleeping rough.  Since the global turn to austerity in 2010, every country that int

Keir Starmer: Awfully Predictable And Utterly Irrelevant

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Let’s crack on. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day and a peaceful Boxing Day. If you’re still hungover, two days after the event, your body is trying to tell you something, apparently.  Boris Johnson wanted you to sit down after your Christmas dinner and read his Brexit trade deal. I wonder how many people actually bothered? Keir Starmer certainly didn’t. And do you know why?  Because what Keir Starmer thinks is utterly irrelevant, much like the man himself.  Boris Johnson has an eighty seat majority. Starmer can order his cult to tango their way through the voting lobbies, dressed in their Sunday best, and it will not make the blindest bit of a difference.  Johnson’s Brexit deal will pass through the House. Starmer could whip his cult to within an inch of their precious careers, and it still won’t change anything.  Starmer has made clear that he accepts absolutely no responsibility for the deal that he is voting for. Yes, a lawmaker, trying to wash his hands of any accountabili