Baxter Parp

Leave-voting Cornwall sees funding slashed post-Brexit https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/cornwall-brexit-funding-eu-government-300631/ Despite promises from chancellor Rishi Sunak to match the money it received from the European Union, Cornwall will receive just £1 million compared to the £100 million it used to get. "But I didn't think the leopards would eat my face!"

Hundred people die challenging terminally ill benefits awards https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59067101 Around 100 people denied fast-tracked disability benefits for terminal illness died challenging the decision.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/08/uk-business-output-falls-for-sixth-month-in-a-row-amid-supply-chain-crisis?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1636329798 UK business output falls for sixth month in a row amid supply chain crisis Rising energy prices and worker shortages also take toll, says accountancy firm BDO We gotta get outta this place.

Pretty sure you're deliberately underestimating two women.

Over £5.5bn of Covid support funds lost to fraud or error HMRC says nearly 9% of furlough scheme was fraudulently claimed or otherwise wrongly paid out last year https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/over-55bn-of-covid-support-funds-lost-to-or-error?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1636059555 Surprise, surprise.

REVEALED: Minister’s partner’s firm awarded lucrative Covid contracts An investigation by Good Law Project can reveal that the partner of Michelle Donelan, the Minister of State for Universities, heads up the commercial unit at a PPE company that has been awarded numerous PPE contracts. Stronghold Global have landed deals to supply NHS hospitals, Government Covid testing sites and universities. https://goodlawproject.org/news/michelle-donelan-partner-contracts/

Got it in one.

Depends on whether the BBC do their fucking job or not.

Members can be absent carrying out constituency or ministerial business, or be unable to attend for other reasons. Indeed. How many were at COP26?

I'm not against private schooling, I'm against them being considered charities. At my last permanent post, one of the perks was a free BUPA plan, which I would have used had I needed to. I'm not a fucking idiot. I'm not against private medicine so long as the NHS is unaffected. Which would be awkward for any surgeon spending more time on private practice rather than public.

Cold War Steve

Facebook.

https://www.ft.com/content/9da25b00-0509-44e1-a785-866d92d897e5 UK producers send meat to EU for processing amid butcher shortage Pig cull tops 10,000 as backlog from labour crisis continues with farmers ‘stuck in limbo’

They're obliged to follow Scottish legislature if that's what you mean.