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EXCLUSIVE Jeremy Corbyn Interview: Why We Launched Your Party

 

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Gary Neville hits out at Labour over taxes despite earlier support

The former footballer said the £25 billion tax increase made it harder for firms to hire staff and came at the wrong time for a struggling economy

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/gary-neville-labour-national-insurance-rise-cb8dd3xsk

Gary Neville has criticised Labour’s national insurance rise in a sign of discontent from one of Sir Keir Starmer’s most high-profile supporters.

The former Manchester United and England footballer, who interviewed Starmer for Labour’s election broadcast last year, said the government had been wrong to make it harder for businesses to employ staff.

Neville said the economy was “not settling” and added that Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, should have held off on the contentious £25 billion increase in employer national insurance.

Gary Neville has business interests in property, hotels and football

GEORGE POWELL/PA

The former right-back was one of Labour’s most vocal supporters and before the election was a big backer of Starmer personally, having previously appeared at the party’s conference to urge people to “get behind” their leader, whom he described as a “serious politician”.

He has a range of business interests in property, hotels and football and has joined other senior executives and entrepreneurs in their criticism of Reeves’ decision to raise the cost of employment.

“I honestly don’t believe that companies and small businesses should be deterred from employing people. So, I think the national insurance rise was one that I feel probably could have been held back, particularly in terms of the way in which the economy was,” he told Sky News.

Neville criticised Rachel Reeves’ increase in employer national insurance contributions

KIRSTY O’CONNOR/TREASURY

“It’s been a tough economy now for a good few years, and I did think that once there was a change of government, and once there was some stability, that we would get something settling,” he said. “But it’s not settling locally in our country, but it is not settling actually, to be fair, in many places in the world either.”

Neville was more supportive of an increase in the minimum wage, which rose 6.7 per cent in April to £12.21 an hour, saying: “I don’t think we can ever criticise the government for increasing the minimum wage. I honestly believe that people should be paid more so I don’t think that’s something that you can be critical of. I do think that the national insurance rise, though, was a challenge.”

Neville revealed in 2022 that he had joined Labour, saying at the time that the party “has to come towards the centre”.

Neville with SIr Keir Starmer before the Spain v England Euro 2024 men’s final

TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER BRADLEY ORMESHER

At last year’s election, Starmer filmed a half-hour interview with Neville walking in the Lake District, which became a key element of the party’s campaign. Starmer said he would be “ready to deliver from the get-go” and acknowledged: “Tax levels now are the highest for 70 years, so we can’t just go and pull the tax lever.”

Neville warned him that “the country are just desperately disappointed, just generally, in politicians”.

Speaking on Wednesday, Neville said conditions were “really tough” for UK businesses that were finding their margins squeezed by rising costs.

“It’s tough. It’s really, really tough because cost of products has gone up, cost of everything, utilities, rents, everything, has gone up,” Neville said. “It is challenging at this moment in time — there are certain sectors where it’s tough to operate, just purely because of rising costs and people finding it tough to be able to find the money to go and support those local businesses.”

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FUCK Trevor Philips of Sky

zio shill on steroids

complete complicit twat

Bob Geldof: Israel Is LYING

 

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"People enjoy knowing that they are suffering"

This should put to bed the idea Israelis just don't know about Palestinian suffering. They know and many celebrate it. The dehumanization of Palestinians is so deep.

One of Israel’s most popular podcasts:
 

 

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Was it true about the government banning VPN's? 

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32 minutes ago, guddy6969 said:

Was it true about the government banning VPN's? 

 

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/banning_vpns_to_protect_kids/

https://www.pcgamesn.com/vpn/ban

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Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London station

Video posted online showed the far-right activist near a man lying on the ground at St Pancras station

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/04/tommy-robinson-arrested-alleged-assault-london-station

 

The far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson has been arrested by British police on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a man was allegedly assaulted at a London railway station.

Robinson was arrested on Monday evening at Luton airport as he stepped off a flight from Faro, Portugal.

 

British Transport Police said in a statement: “Officers from BTP have tonight (4 August) arrested a 42-year-old man from Bedfordshire in connection to an assault at St Pancras station on 28 July.

“The arrest took place at Luton airport shortly after 6.30pm, following a notification that the man had boarded an incoming flight from Faro.

“The man had been wanted for questioning after leaving the country to Tenerife in the early hours of 29 July following the incident at St Pancras.

“He was arrested on suspicion of GBH (grievous bodily harm) and will now be taken to custody for questioning.”

Hours after the incident at St Pancras, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, took a flight out of Britain, landing first in Tenerife, Spain.

Once abroad, Robinson went from Tenerife to Faro in Portugal, flying back to the UK on Monday where police were waiting for him.

He is now in custody, with detectives due to question him.

Video from the scene of the alleged assault, which showed a 64-year-old man on the ground, also recorded Robinson appearing to claim he had acted in self-defence.

The injured man was released from hospital on Thursday. Police are understood to be treating him as a victim, not a suspect, at this stage. Police have said he was admitted to hospital “with serious injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening”.

CCTV from the busy central London station has been recovered and studied by detectives. Robinson had been leafleting at the station earlier, and on the video can be heard saying “he come at me”.

Robinson is a former leader of the extreme-right English Defence League. The far-right monitoring group Hope Not Hate describes him as the “best-known far-right extremist in Britain”.

Police believe he left Britain shortly after a video was put online showing him near the injured man.

The video does not show how the injured man came to be lying motionless on the floor.

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12 hours ago, Vesper said:

Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London station

Video posted online showed the far-right activist near a man lying on the ground at St Pancras station

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/04/tommy-robinson-arrested-alleged-assault-london-station

 

The far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson has been arrested by British police on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a man was allegedly assaulted at a London railway station.

Robinson was arrested on Monday evening at Luton airport as he stepped off a flight from Faro, Portugal.

 

British Transport Police said in a statement: “Officers from BTP have tonight (4 August) arrested a 42-year-old man from Bedfordshire in connection to an assault at St Pancras station on 28 July.

“The arrest took place at Luton airport shortly after 6.30pm, following a notification that the man had boarded an incoming flight from Faro.

“The man had been wanted for questioning after leaving the country to Tenerife in the early hours of 29 July following the incident at St Pancras.

“He was arrested on suspicion of GBH (grievous bodily harm) and will now be taken to custody for questioning.”

Hours after the incident at St Pancras, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, took a flight out of Britain, landing first in Tenerife, Spain.

Once abroad, Robinson went from Tenerife to Faro in Portugal, flying back to the UK on Monday where police were waiting for him.

He is now in custody, with detectives due to question him.

Video from the scene of the alleged assault, which showed a 64-year-old man on the ground, also recorded Robinson appearing to claim he had acted in self-defence.

The injured man was released from hospital on Thursday. Police are understood to be treating him as a victim, not a suspect, at this stage. Police have said he was admitted to hospital “with serious injuries which are not thought to be life-threatening”.

CCTV from the busy central London station has been recovered and studied by detectives. Robinson had been leafleting at the station earlier, and on the video can be heard saying “he come at me”.

Robinson is a former leader of the extreme-right English Defence League. The far-right monitoring group Hope Not Hate describes him as the “best-known far-right extremist in Britain”.

Police believe he left Britain shortly after a video was put online showing him near the injured man.

The video does not show how the injured man came to be lying motionless on the floor.

Companies House showed the English Defence League was set up by the same people who set up Israel Defence League -then there was Yaxley Lennons secretary that revealed he spent 100k on gambling and that he is paid 8k a month by Israel.