UK XI: Please Sir... May I Have Some More?

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Not a good day for the government, I really hope Vallance publishes his diary.

Next we have Chris Whitty, wonder if he'll have a Powerpoint for us then he can give us the line 'next slide please'.

JVT will be my favourite, can't wait for his evidence.

On another note PM says we are to have a reduction in tax.

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Patrick Vallance contradicts Rishi Sunak’s evidence to Covid inquiry | Covid inquiry | The Guardian
Sunak would have knowingly pushed Eat Out to Help Out in knowledge of the deaths it would result in


Welsh schools could have shorter summer holidays in proposed shakeup | Schools | The Guardian
Plans woudl be to reduce the 6 Week holiday to 5 weeks, then eventually 4 with the removed weeks deferred to other times of the year

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Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister | Benefits | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/21/chris-whitty-lockdown-covid-inquiry-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-david-cameron-andrew-bailey-uk-politics-latest?page=with:block-655c85fc8f082513150db28a#block-655c85fc8f082513150db28a

Whitty says he was wary of introducing COVID restrictions early as he felt the poorest people would be the ones who would suffer the most

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/21/chris-whitty-lockdown-covid-inquiry-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-david-cameron-andrew-bailey-uk-politics-latest?page=with:block-655c88bd8f08efee4ead72e2#block-655c88bd8f08efee4ead72e2

But refutes that he warned against overreacting to the pandemic

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Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister | Benefits | The Guardian

The old fall back of Torys blaming lazy spongers for bleeding the state dry. it always wins them a few votes, so what if it pushes the most vulnerable into poverty.

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The old fall back of Torys blaming lazy spongers for bleeding the state dry. it always wins them a few votes, so what if it pushes the most vulnerable into poverty.

And it still wont get the actual sponges back into work as those lazy b*******s will just find another angle to game the system.

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Nice moment today with Whitty, the lawyer was about to ask him something then backtracked, Whitty said he could give a long technical answer, lawyer said yep, that's why we are not going there - everyone in the room had a chuckle.

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A breakdown of the fake tax cuts Hunt will promise today, the lies about opposition he's relying on and how he's damaging the economy to play party politics with Labour ahead of the GE

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Hunt says he'll help fix the housing issue by making it easier for houses to be split into two flats

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/22/jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement-conservatives-labour-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-pmqs-uk-economy-politics-latest-updates?page=with:block-655df9ff8f080998c76117f5#block-655df9ff8f080998c76117f5

He says they're going to mess with A-Levels because the Tories have reformed schools

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/22/jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement-conservatives-labour-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-pmqs-uk-economy-politics-latest-updates?page=with:block-655df9758f084b3cead4870e#block-655df9758f084b3cead4870e

He says they'll raise £5bn extra through making sure everyone is paying the taxes they should be

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/22/jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement-conservatives-labour-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-pmqs-uk-economy-politics-latest-updates?page=with:block-655df5ae8f080998c7611796#block-655df5ae8f080998c7611796

And he trumpets the economy being back on track

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/22/jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement-conservatives-labour-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-pmqs-uk-economy-politics-latest-updates?page=with:block-655dfc0c8f080998c7611829#block-655dfc0c8f080998c7611829

As the OBR downgrades the UK's growth forecasts for 2024, 2025 and 2026

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Hunt confirms that benefits may be cut for those on sick/disability who, after claiming for 18 months, don't carry out mandatory work experience.

He then lambasts Labour saying their solution would be to allow higher levels of immigration.

Yes. At least we're currently not having record levels, eh Hunt?

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/22/jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement-conservatives-labour-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-pmqs-uk-economy-politics-latest-updates?page=with:block-655e00dc8f080998c761184f#block-655e00dc8f080998c761184f

Emergency legislation will be brought in to lower national insurance by 2% from January instead of 12 weeks later in April which he claims will bring in an extra 94,000 workers


Yeah-Yeah-Yeaaaah! Rollin' like a baller with that extra £8 a week in your pockets!

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Rachel Reeves scoffs at the NI tax reduction saying a 2% drop means nothing when the Tories have increased it previously by the equivalent of 10%

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/22/jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement-conservatives-labour-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-pmqs-uk-economy-politics-latest-updates?page=with:block-655e02a58f080998c7611878#block-655e02a58f080998c7611878

The OBR says Hunts offerings have blown all the spare cash

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Housing market set to fall by 4.7% in the coming 12 months

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics...084b3cead48775
Hunt confirms that benefits may be cut for those on sick/disability who, after claiming for 18 months, don't carry out mandatory work experience.

He then lambasts Labour saying their solution would be to allow higher levels of immigration.

Yes. At least we're currently not having record levels, eh Hunt?

The work experience they have set up is pretty crazy, the goverment has been working closely with James Dyson to develop a new type of Ai enhanced electric wheelchair, it features a non removable set of universal attachments for completing various cleaning tasks. This means that in 2023 all current council cleaning contracts will be disbanded and replaced by a fleet of Dysons D1000 chairs.

Those unable to pilot the chairs manually due to severe disability will have their movements control by enhanced AI Algorithms making them essentially ballast to keep the chairs upright, a surprise secondary benefit is in tests they found that putting a human in the chair made it less likely that the Dysons D1000s would get vandalized or stolen. Hunt went on record to say that it also has the added benefit of monetizing a former drain on the UK resources.

Test have been running in a limited number of councils across the uk and have been extremely positive with only 2 deaths due to user error (one traffic and one due to falling from height down a stairwell). So if you see a small wheelchair heading up the hard shoulder of the M1 don't worry its someone doing their bit for the UK by keeping the roads clean, likewise if you see a wheelchair spinning on the spot in a NHS hallway don't panic its not a malfunction their just polishing the floors.

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