General Election - 4th July

I don’t normally listen to James O’Brien but couldn’t resist today as the first hour was brexit , and after what happened last week in eu elections I thought this could be fun , normally he’s we must rejoin , today
We left the eu 8 yrs ago , we’re not going back , people need to get used to this 😂😂😂😂
Looks like he’s not so keen on the eu when it’s moving to the right , though he described it as hard right
We then moved onto why the eu was going right , uk left ( uk isn’t going left it’s just a large % of population think labour will be milk & honey , give it 5 yrs & we will be back to the tories , he asked for people from eu countries to say why there country is going right , apparently callers from Germany were saying its migration , but specifically Arabs , there causing big trouble , they want them gone .
Onto France & a few reason , but mainly immigration & one women said she asked her 20 yr old son why he’d voted for m/ l/ p party , he said because Arabs are ruining there country , they had a 2 nd generation immigrant who said the new immigrants were taking his jobs & many of his friends , so even though he said he was a immigrant , coloured he want immigration stopping .
We then moved onto the tories manifesto , I thought it was ok apart from everything he was doing was basically clearing up the mess the tories had made , we then moved onto questions from reporters / tv & within mins O’Brien wanted to know why the first question was from gb news 😂😂😂

Brilliant attention to detail from the resident left wing bigot.

Latest u- gov poll
Labour 38 ( -3)
Tories 18 ( -1 )
Reform 17 ( + 1 )
Lib Dem’s 15 ( + 4 )
Green 8
It looks like ld are taking votes from labour , speculation about saying theyl rejoin c/ u ( or was it s/m ) , looks like the promise is working , But
They had Lib Dem whip on radio & she said this is a long way away , they have to look at it as the eu has changed so much from when we were in it , when asked how far in future , would they completely rejoin , wouldn’t answer when guestioned about 10 times
My gut feeling listening to her is there promising something to get votes , theyl never deliver ( obvious as they won’t win the election )

I thought Farage was rattling on about it on Monday?

Thanks bt , more impressed every time I hear or read anything from nige , he can count on my vote 👍👍

Labours net zero plans will make anyone who owns a diesel / petrol car worse off 🙄🙄, more milk & honey , not

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The Green Party is due to launch its general election manifesto for England and Wales this morning

It promises "game-changing" transformations in areas like housing, the NHS, transport and the green economy

The Greens would increase taxes, including a 1% levy on assets worth over £10 million, and 8% National Insurance on wages over £50,270

Pressed on allegations of antisemitism in the party, co-leader Adrian Ramsay says "there are 574 candidates... there are now four no longer going forward"

On Tuesday, the Conservatives pledged £17bn in tax cuts when launching their own manifesto for the 4 July election

Meanwhile Labour, who announce their manifesto on Thursday, has pledged to fund a million pothole repairs in England a year

The main argument between the parties seems to be "we won't put up taxes as much as you!".
There is only one party that has said they would not put up any taxes - The Reform Party.

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The Green Party is launching its manifesto with plans to boost health and social care spending by £50bn a year

The party would raise National Insurance to 8% on people earning over £50,270

They would also introduce a 1% wealth tax on assets over £10m, and 2% on over £1bn


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Sian Berry takes to the stage first, as the Green Party officially launches its manifesto at the Sussex Cricket ground in Hove.
She starts off by discussing the struggles tenants face with renting and what the party plans to do to change that.
She then introduces the party's co-leaders Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer. Stay with us as we bring you the latest from their speeches.


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Green Party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay take the stage, to huge applause.
Denyer is first to speak. She says the party's manifesto is about "investing to mend broken Britain", and offering "real hope, and real change".

Carla Denyer now talks about housing, calling it an "unaddressed crisis".
She goes through their pledges of more social homes, saying that they will "provide affordable housing through our right homes, right place, right price charter."
Denyer reminds their pledges on decreasing energy bills by improving insulating homes in five years.
She claims "a warm, secure, affordable home is something that millions of people in this country don't have", but that it is "so important a basic building block for a happy and successful life."

Denyer says Greens want to transform the economy to make it "fairer and greener".
Their plans include a new wealth tax charged at 1% on all assets worth more than £10m, declared in a self-assessment tax return, increasing to 2% on all assets above £1bn.
She says this affects the top 1% of people who'll be paying more into the pot.
Denyer says on the doorstep, people say they want more to be done on public services, and Greens are the only ones to have the "courage" to say the tax system needs to be changed to make this possible.
"Billions" would go into the nation's collective pocket to pay for the future of our public services.

Carla Denyer now talks about housing, calling it an "unaddressed crisis".
She goes through their pledges of more social homes, saying that they will "provide affordable housing through our right homes, right place, right price charter."
Denyer then discusses the party's pledges on decreasing energy bills by improving insulating homes in five years.
She says a "warm, secure, affordable home is something that millions of people in this country don't have", but that it is "so important a basic building block for a happy and successful life."

Denyer is now outlining some of the Green Party's other pledges.
She says it includes plans to bring the water companies into public ownership, scrap tuition fees, increase the budget for schools, and introduce a new Clean Air Act, which will help "safeguard our children's health".
"Now is the moment to be ambitious, not unrealistic, but ambitious. To be clear about the kind of country we want to live in," she says.


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Then, we hear from Ramsay, who says the Greens want to build a "brighter future".
He says this manifesto "isn't more of the same", but "a look at what things could be like, and soon.
If we're willing to invest at the rate necessary and to be bold and ambitious".
He says the Greens reject the "pessimism of the other parties".

Ramsay is now speaking on the NHS, and says health service staff have praised their plans.
He says the Greens would invest an extra £50bn a year in health and social care - "more than any other party" - to "restore" the NHS.
Ramsay says his party would ensure people can access GPs quickly, guarantee an NHS dentist, make social care free at the point of use, improve mental health services and say "no to privitisation".

Ramsay picks up to talk about the environment - saying other parties are "running away" from solutions to the "climate crisis".
"Protecting our climate and nature lies at the heart of our policies," Ramsay says - adding the Greens will "strive every single day" to take the action needed.
Ramsay says the Greens will stop fossil fuel projects in the UK and be "more ambitious" in renewable energy.
"A secure energy supply and action in climate crisis go hand in hand," Ramsay says - adding the Greens want to achieve net zero "years ahead" of the current timetable.

Ramsay says the Greens aren't expecting to form the next government - but says their MPs will be in Parliament to "speak up for you on the issues you care about".
He says these issues are the "revitalisation" of the NHS, bold action on climate and a fair economy.
Ramsay says he believes Labour will be in power and he will push them to "stop backtracking on their promises" and will drive them to "be more ambitious".
"This is our offer to voters - a manifesto that lays out exactly what real hope and real change looks like," he says.