BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
17 May 2024
by Sallust
The Conservatives' core vote is leaking away in the run-up to the election with just a quarter of pensioners planning to back the party, a new poll suggests.
Labour has slashed its original £28bn green borrowing plan by 80%, blaming Liz Truss (no, really), and unveiled a new tax raid on oil and gas giants to bankroll the Net Zero drive.
Labour's support among Muslim voters has dropped by around a third, from 86% to 60%, amid anger at Keir Starmer's Israel stance, according to a poll.
Dead transgender individuals should be legally remembered by the gender they lived as, according to Labour MP Charlotte Nichols, who is advocating for an amendment to the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the Tories facing electoral oblivion, Trump's victory in Iowa and Gary Lineker's claim not to realise he was tweeting anti-Israel propaganda.
Many on the 'new Right' propose that we should be 'Left on the economy and Right on culture'. This is not really possible, argues Dr David McGrogan: a state addicted to intervening in the economy will intervene everywhere.
As Labour plans to hike private school fees by slapping 20% VAT on them, will overstretched state schools even be able to squeeze in the tens of thousands of pupils predicted to be pushed out of the independent sector?
Labour Party political elites in the UK are flocking to support a new green campaigning group, Labour Climate and Environment Forum, to drive forward the Net Zero agenda, and once again it's funded by green billionaires.
Keir Starmer has claimed Labour's policy of slapping 20% VAT on private schooling will raise £1.7bn in tax revenue. But no evidence supports that claim because it fails to allow for pupils leaving for the state sector.
On school choice, the rest of the world is moving in the right direction, while Labour proposes the opposite. But the UK even funds private schools for poor children in Africa. So why not here?
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