1st 50 Days Labour 2024
100 Days Labour
Announced Rwanda cancelled (will we get money back as promised?) Alleged phone call to Israeli PM calling for ceasefire. Yvette Cooper rules out digital ID cards suggested by Blair - Lie. See day 18. Kings speech. Sir Keir names cabinet. No minister for Disabled, no minister for veterans as promised during election. Chancellor commits to private sector to build 1.5 million homes within 5 years. Wes Streeting meets with Jr Dr union. Starmer NATO summit defence spending pledge cast iron IF financial restraints allow (bit of a Non commitment then!) Will Allow Ukraine to use British munitions inside Russia £1bn for hypersonic missiles £87bn for defence Prisoners to be released after 40% time served 2 days after saying yes, U turns on allowing British munitions use in Russia. Weapons hockey cokey see 15th August day 41. Streeting confirms BETA blocker (hormone inhibitor used for teenagers) ban. BMA urges them to be allowed. Lammy goes to israel, calls for ceasefire, release hostages and aid. Netanyahu has said Israel will continue its war until all the hostages have been released and Hamas has been destroyed. Launch defence review finish Sept 2024 Will publish in first 1/2 of 2025 Kings speech. No "scrap the cap" bill. Nothing for disability Border force vessel turns back boat to France. Microsoft IT outtage Riots Leeds. DAVIES asks 1st question in the house. About recovering money from covid fraud - oh the irony! ICJ rules against Israel. Starmer again refuses permission for Ukraine to use UK weapons inside Russia. Weapons hockey cokey Lab unfreeze funds to UNRWA Launch Skills England. Confirm favourable to New runway LHR contrary to advice. Lisa Nandy says no 2nd part to Leveson Inquiry after deal done with starmer and murdoch Shaun Davies votes against ammendment to stop 2 child cap. Davies asked 2nd question in commons -for a meeting about Telford hospital minister responded and avoided answering Digital ID cards included in kings speech contrary to what yvette cooper said on day 2. Stamamer suspends 7 MP's for rebellion over 2 child cap. Davies maiden speach. Kendall - focuses strongly on the need to push more people with long-term health conditions into work Wes Streeting says CQC not fit for purpose Will delay unfunded capitol projects. Cut winter fuel to 10 million pensioners, 1.5 million still qualify, VAT on Private Schools (apart from.30+ promised excemption pre-election! Scrap Stonehenge Tunnel, cut Rwanda scheme, reducing £21.9b to £16.4b. scrapping the Tory plan for 40 new hospitals, care sector cut to save £1bn. first Budget due on 30 October. Spending on military support to Ukraine did not have sufficient money set aside - but Labour will continue to honour the promises made Labour's health minister Karin Smyth said her department was committed to delivering Future Fit Project. (Not even a review that was promised). 370,000 homes promised per year. Passenger Railways services bill 2nd reading. Davies voted yes. (partial nationalisation - only the unprofitable bits - profitable bits to stay in private hands Summer recess starts day 27 Five environmental activists who aimed to "create mass disruption" have been jailed for their role in protests that caused widespread traffic disruption on the M25. Starmer refuses to criticise Farage after Southport conspiracy theory accusations Anti-immigration protesters broke hotel windows and set bins on fire in northern England on Sunday in the latest wave of unrest that has presented a major test to new Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government. The Prime Minister saw his net approval score fall to 3 per cent in a survey published by Opinium Sunday Riots. Starmer proclaims right wing thugs. 5th Aug COBRA meeting riots. The government has announced it will repeal the Strikes Act 2023 to get public services back on track and strengthen the rights of working people. The prime minister chaired a meeting of the government’s emergency COBRA committee on Tuesday evening, the second in two days, to coordinate the response to the ongoing unrest. Rachel Reeves refuses to commit to the House of Commons Committee’s April 2024 report that recommends the National Audit Office investigate England’s deregulated Freeports and SEZs contrary to what she said before the election. Lab cllr arrested allegedly telling protest fascists need to have throats cut. chancellor, Rachel Reeves, met the bosses of Canada’s big retirement schemes in Toronto on Wednesday, prompting speculation that Labour is planning to bring the country’s public pension model to the UK. Ed balls interviews his own wife labour minister yvette cooper and faces thousands of complaints to OFCOM Labour boycott Japan and 79th Nagasaki memorial because Japan did not invite israel over its being accussed of international war crimes and crimes against humanity! No 10 disarray as power struggle erupts between Sue Gray and Starmer’s top adviser Prime Minister’s chief of staff accused of ‘thinking she runs the country’ as reports of infighting surface Starmer issues statement with France and Germany urging peace and cessation of hostilities Gaza. 12th Aug. Angela Rayner meets business and unions over proposed bill to improve workers rights. Unite leader Sharon Graham expressed concern Labour's plan had too many caveats, with "more holes in it than Swiss cheese". UK government signals Ukraine fine to use British weapons inside Russia - the weapons hockey cokey 15th August day 41 - Chancellor Rachel Reeves is facing questions about the appointment of a Labour Party donor to a senior Treasury role. former banker Ian Corfield was brought in.Over the past decade Mr Corfield has donated a total of £20,000 to Labour MPs, including £5,000 to Rachel Reeves in July 2023.
Angela Rayner b low to union bosses as Deputy PM admits ‘not everything’ will make it into Employment Bill 16th August - 18th August - British weapons can NOT be used inside Russia! Jo Biden tells Starmer - you're NATO country you need 2 other NATO countries to agree!
- 19th August story breaks in mainstream media 3 days after it happened -Mark Smith a highly experienced employee of 20 years.experience in Foreign and Commonwealth Office resigns over.Labour's not curtailing exports of.l weapons to israel and states he believes UK are now.complicite in war crimes.
- 20th Aug more than 30% increase in annual capacity, going from 6.5m passengers to nine million for London City Airport.It'll also be able to fly three extra flights in the morning during the week. Deputy PM Angela Rayner and Transport Secretary Louise Haigh signed off on the expansion. Zack Polanski, deputy leader of the Green Party, said the move "flies in the face of action to cut emissions". Greenpeace said it would "undermine the UK's climate leadership" and only benefit "wealthy frequent flyers", with the environment costs dumped upon "some of London's poorest neighbourhoods". The Green Alliance described it as a "disappointing decision" that set a "worrying precedent" for planning applications at Luton and Gatwick, which also want to expand, while climate charity Possible said it went against the advice of the government's own scientific advisers.
21st August David Lammy ‘breaks promise’ by failing to accuse China of genocide Foreign Secretary said last year he would use the word to denounce the actions of Xi Jinping’s regime in Xinjiang.23rd Aug The United Nations has urged t he UK to take action to curb racist hate speech, including by politicians, in a report published on Friday. It noted the persistence of hate speech published in mainstream media, online, and spread by politicians and public figures. UN said it was "particularly concerned" about racist acts and violence by "far-right and white supremacist" groups, such as during recent riots across England and Northern Ireland fuelled by misinformation and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Stay tuned for the 2nd part of 100 Days with Labour!
Comments
Post a Comment