The Tory government has bungled Brexit, crashed the pound, and given wads of cash to their chums. Never Again!
The petition which was stalling out at the mid-six-hundred thousands is not well on its way to eight thousand signatures.
Update: By Saturday 22nd the petition had gone from 788,757 to 836,330 signatures.
Update: By Sunday 23rd it had 855,706 signatures
Update: By Sunday 30th it had 892,784 signatures
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Tory failure to address the cost of living crisis has caused more price jumps in food prices.
The most recent has been the Tesco meal deal price increase as food gets too expensive to support existing prices. Read the BBC report here.
LONDON — The question was all over British social media. Who would survive longer: the United Kingdom’s prime minister, Liz Truss, or a wilting head of lettuce with a shelf life of just 10 days?
By Thursday, at lunch time, Britain had its answer. It was the lettuce.
In the end, Liz Truss did not outlast a wilting lettuce, Washington Post
Just 44 days after becoming prime minister, Liz Truss has announced she is to step down.
Until now the shortest-serving PM was George Canning who died in August 1827. He had spent only 119 days in office.
Who is Liz Truss? Political journey of UK’s shortest-serving prime minister, BBC News
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Hunt is best known for the six years he spent as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, a role he took up in 2012. The NHS in 2022, after a dozen years of Tory austerity and mismanagement, is a threadbare institution in a protracted state of crisis, brought about directly by Hunt on the orders of David Cameron and George Osborne.
In 2012, Jeremy faced calls to resign over his role in the BSkyB takeover. However, he survived the scandal and went on to become health secretary.
In 2017 Jeremy Hunt was accused of presiding over an “absolute scandal” after it emerged thousands of NHS patients may have been put at risk by an administrative blunder.