Pat Regan's Blog, page 28
October 25, 2022
SILVER VOICES UPDATE: UNPAID OLDER CARERS UNDER THE COSH, BUT WHO CARES?
Carers UK has published some important research revealing how unpaid carers are struggling in the cost-of-living crisis. A survey of more than 12,400 unpaid carers found that:
27% are already struggling with their bills
16% are in debt as a result of their caring role
16% are using bank overdrafts to cope
8% are using food banks
Carers UK calls on the Government to make radical improvements to the Carer’s Allowance (currently £69.70 per week) to meet this situation, and their full report can be acc...
October 15, 2022
TOTAL TORY MELTDOWN – ECONOMY SAFE IN HUNT'S HANDS... OR?
Jeremy Hunt has been made the UK’s fourth chancellor in as many months, subsequent to the firing of Kwasi Kwarteng in the wake of his disastrous mini budget.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the government's chief financial minister who is responsible for raising revenue through taxation or borrowing and for controlling public spending.
Hunt served as Secretary of State for Health, later He...
October 13, 2022
30 Tremors at Blackpool but Rees Mogg thinks it's all jolly comical
Tory In Fighting Time...
The Tory in-fighting continues as Northern Tories tell the posh lot down South where they can stick their hated fracking plans.
Rees Mogg says he’d welcome fracking in his garden. So, maybe this stuck-up little sticky beak thinks that earth tremors are comical?
Maybe he thinks that gambling with public and envir...
October 10, 2022
Confucius Institutes in universities ‘part of Party’s propaganda system’ think tank finds.
Confucius Institutes in universities ‘part of Party’s propaganda system’ think tank finds.
The Henry Jackson Society report discovered that only four of the 30 institutes in the UK were solely providing cultural and language education. They observed that the majority are involved in more activities, from political lobbying to expanding China’s reach into advanced manufacturing.
The Confucius Institute within Oxford Brookes University was established in 2016 with Foreign Language Teaching and Res...
Confucius Institutes in universities ‘part of Party’s pro...
Confucius Institutes in universities ‘part of Party’s propaganda system’ think tank finds.
The Henry Jackson Society report discovered that only four of the 30 institutes in the UK were solely providing cultural and language education. They observed that the majority are involved in more activities, from political lobbying to expanding China’s reach into advanced manufacturing.
The Confucius Institute within Oxford Brookes University was established in 2016 with Foreign Language Teaching and Res...
October 7, 2022
Putin the Christian Crusader – told you so – back in February!
Bible – bashing Russian president Vladimir Putin recently invoked Jesus, Satan, and transsexual bogeymen in a Kremlin ceremony for carving up Ukraine.
Putin paraphrased the Bible at a rally: "There is no greater love than giving up one’s soul for one’s friends.”
This was clearly a reference to John 15:13 “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
"They [the West] are moving toward open satanism," said Putin in a speech broadcast to millions online.
Putin d...
October 5, 2022
The Swashbuckling U-turning Adventures of Liz Truss
‘Any objections to the new tax, from our Saxon friends?’ All sounds good to me!
It's all beginning to look like some bizarre old swashbuckling movie, wherein the evil prince is happily robbing the poor to feed the super rich.
She’ll be gone by Easter some say - well, let's see.
Blood - sucking leaches have a habit of holding on tight. We saw that with the last Tory clown who would not go willingly.
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October 1, 2022
SILVER VOICES LATEST NEWS RELEASE: New Age Of Austerity Beckons
The irresponsible mini-Budget of last week will inevitably lead to a new age of austerity with savage public expenditure cuts across the board. This may be exactly what some of the extreme ideologues behind the Truss Government want: a ‘small state’, widespread privatisation and taking on the public sector trade unions.
Even before the mini-Budget chaos in the markets, we were facing major public service cutbacks. In August, the Independent Institute of Fiscal Studies pointed to a £44 billion ga...
September 26, 2022
SILVER VOICES: BUDGET IGNORES 12.5 MILLION STATE PENSIONERS
Press Statement: Budget ‘Forgets’ 12.5 Million Older People:
While billions of pounds are being borrowed to fill the pockets of bankers, corporations, businesses and the wealthiest working age people in society, the income of older people was not considered by the Chancellor at all. The majority of state pensioners pay little or no tax and national insurance
There was no confirmation that the Triple Lock would be restored to the state pension and Silver Voices had hoped that the increase due next...
September 24, 2022
King Charles 'cash-for-honours' probe – where’s Oliver Cromwell when you need him?
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed they interviewed two men in connection to the cash for honours investigation into King Charles' aides and his charitable foundation.
Former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker previously insisted police should investigate. In February, a full investigation was launched into potential offences committed under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 – raising the possibility of Charles being interviewed by the police.
Mr Baker has said he found it 'difficult ...
