Some people who are about to become homeless in the UK get put in emergency hotel rooms where they can only use a kettle and get given food that is often not culturally or nutritionally appropriate. Is it good enough? What do you think? https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/23/no-hob-no-microwave-homeless-parents-hotels-kettles-cook-20648956/ submitted by /u/saffron-rice-amazing [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I'm looking for a little more perspective on this topic. My daughter currently attends a nursery which is attached to a private school. The costs right now are within budget, and moving forward my partner and I will happily forgo the typical mid life luxuries a lot of our friends are involved with (new cars, multiple holidays etc). I just want to state, I understand the position we are in is not representative of a lot of people and this isn't taken for granted. Specifically my concern is with Labour's plan to increase the costs of childcare. I'm a lifelong Labour supporter, but disagree with ..read more

I had a quick glance at the rules, and realised there's nothing stopping a PM bringing members of either house, from any party, into cabinet or minister roles. With this in mind, can anyone envision scenarios where this would be useful? I can think of two examples, outside of a formal coalition: 1. Bring in a specialist on an area that already has broad cross party support. 2. To get more votes. E.g. if Green party is getting lots of votes because of a specific issue, making a Green MP part of the cabinet for just that issue could make voters more favourable to your party if they align with y ..read more

Here me out, the roads or in an awful state, councils can't afford to do anything about it. It just seems odd to me that we have a road tax system that allows certain cars, in essence, to use the road for free based on emissions. Now, I believe that a better system would be to have a flat rate that ALL vehicles pay to use the roads. Which is ring fenced and paid to the council in which the owner pays council tax to pay for road maintenance. Then on top of that there should be additional charges based on emmisons and then weight as heavier cars are known to do more damage to the road surface ..read more

What do people mean when they say "we need to get our country back, vote reform?". From what I can see, reform is full of ex Tories. Voting for reform would be voting for the same people you voted for when you voted conservative, but you don't want to vote conservative, so you'll vote reform, which is made up of ex conservatives. Someone please make it make sense? What does "get out country back" mean? No one can give me a straight a swear. Please help ? submitted by /u/Flashy_Jacket_8427 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hello, I remember coming across a website where you would register your e-mail address to recieve infomration about the new proposed bills in parliament, presented in a clear and concise way but I cannot remember it or find it. Would be glad if someone could tell me. Thank you. submitted by /u/MFS2020HYPE [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hi I have no political knowledge and want to learn without bias or having my ideas skewed by one sided articles. I don’t want to read at length each party’s manifesto but a brief summary of what they want to do should be a nice starting point. Could anyone help me please? submitted by /u/ElephantMain863 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/20/mi6-chief-resigns-garrick-membership-after-criticism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Utterly unbelievable that his latest wheeze is to claim he was trying to ‘change the Garrick from within’. This follows hot on the heels of his kowtowing to Johnson and Sunak’s every request - which is not his job. Incredulous the guy still has a job. submitted by /u/Imaginary_Ferret_364 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Frank Hester has made unacceptable racist comments about Diane Abbott which should never be said about anyone no matter their race,gender,sexuality or beliefs and all these people saying it’s “not racist” are wrong, because saying Diane made him “hate all black women” and that “she should be shot”. in my personal opinion if these comments were said about someone of any other race or religion the repercussions would have been much worse. For example if he had said that a gay,jewish or islamic person should be shot and that he hates all of those groups of people things would have turned out dif ..read more

Here's the crux of my predicament guys. I'm a socialist. I wouldn't classify myself as a Corbynite because I wasn't, but I'm definitely on the soft to hard left of the Labour Party. In 2020 I voted for Starmer because he broadly retained the 2017 manifesto commitments. He has since reneged on every single one of those pledges. I am now in a position where I know the leader of my party promised me, as a lefty of the party, to enact certain policies I wanted so as to get my vote, only to backstab me and people like me once he's in power. Starmer has now shifted heavily to the right, ostensibly ..read more