It worked: here is Felicity at the head of the table giving Mr Hunt such an earful that he looks quite stunned.
Felicity...did you not bring up that business killer, Anti Business Rates?
"It was good to join several London Conservative MPs at a meeting with the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt MP, ahead of this year's Autumn Statement.
Some of the issues discussed included Inheritance Tax and Stamp Duty, as well as tax-free shopping and regenerating St Mary's Hospital.
I will be monitoring these issues closely, as well as the Statement itself, and will update residents in due course."
Ian Duncan Smith does not look happy at Flicka taking the the top seat
ReplyDeleteHe’s unhappy because he’s know he’s never going to get answers he wants over David Cameron’s links to China
DeleteFelicity is far too important to take notice of the Dame
ReplyDeleteFive days to go to the most important work … Felicity has invited pupils of Falkner House (private school for boys between the ages of 4 and 11) to take part in her Kensington Christmas Card Competition. Last year’s entry was featured in a photo with the Prime Minister! Children have to submit their designs via email to felicity.buchan.mp@parliament.uk before Monday 20th November 2023.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime her Government has done its sums wrong and left our state schools short of cash. Merry Christmas everyone!
DeleteOn state schools, Rishi says: “I got my sums right so therefore everything is rosy.” The prime minister is then on rinse and repeat.
DeleteOn the boats, Rishi say: “I say Rwanda is safe therefore it is safe.” The prime minister is then on rinse and repeat.
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I love that expression, "rinse and repeat."
DeleteI also loved it when the word "shafted" cropped up on this blog and everyone started using the term.. Here's to rinse, repeat and get shafted.
21.32 James Cleverly (Home Sec) has called Rwanda deportation policy 'batshit' – it won’t fly!
DeleteYes, Felicity will have prioritised hobnobbing with David and Samantha Cameron. Back in the Royal Borough! Back to £17 million Holland Park townhouse!
ReplyDeleteChinese state media hails David Cameron’s appointment as foreign secretary
DeleteWhat ru smoking...£17m townhouse?
DeleteDavid Cameron's Holland Park home | Daily Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3689803/Revealed-17million-seven-bedroom-Holland-Park-townhouse-David-Cameron-family-live-owned-ex-PM-s-PR-mogul-friend.html
DeleteBest joke at PMQs today came from Kevin Brennan with the question to Rishi: “What was David Cameron’s greatest foreign policy achievement?”
DeleteRishi was lost for words finally postulating ‘the most successful G8’ an answer so poor the Commons was filled with laughter
20:21 Dodgy Dave's Sino not Ru links!
DeleteDavid Cameron in Ukraine today - haven’t they suffered enough!?
DeleteOh I bet inheritance tax and stamp duty get discussed at North Kensington's many foodbanks all the time
ReplyDeleteand why not? No one starves here. They just waste money on shit like smoking, drinking, cars, holidays, expensive TV channels and find they have no dough left for food.In other word they are f*****g feckless
DeleteThe ignorant right winger at 20.20 must be smoking sonething? (Rolled up in a copy of the Daily Mail)
Delete20: 20 try living on £80 a week. for rent, bills, food, clothes, transport, everything.
DeleteThere are loads of jobs paying more than that. Get one and shut up
DeleteJeremy Hunt needs to focus Autumn Statement tax cuts on businesses to boost growth
DeleteJust a cheesy ' photo Op' which will achieve nowt
ReplyDeleteThis represents the UK government. No wonder we have become a global embarrassment. These politicians are only interested in winning personal battles for their personal own gain and couldn't care less about serving the people of this country. Why don't the Conservatives just call an election and finish all this? They're not actually governing us, they're just warring with each other, right versus centre, Brexiteers against Remainers. It's shameful. Just be gone, sort yourselves out, and come back in a decade when you actually know who you are and what you stand for.
DeleteH&F Council (Wednesday 1 November 2023) resolved: Special Motion 7 - The Government's broken promise to refurbish and rebuild Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s hospitals by 2030. This Council:
ReplyDelete• Regrets the statement by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Stephen Barclay, in the House of Commons on 25 May 2023 that Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals are no longer on the list of 40 hospitals to be refurbished or rebuilt by 2030 but instead “may now fully complete construction after 2030”.
• Notes that this breaks the pledge given by the Conservative government in 2019 to refurbish and rebuild Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals by 2030 as part of the New Hospitals Programme.
• Notes that the well-respected Professor Tim Orchard, chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s, said the Health Secretary’s statement was “clearly disappointing” and “hugely damaging for the health and healthcare of hundreds of thousands of people”.
• Notes that Professor Orchard also said the statement “does not reflect our understanding of next steps on the urgently needed redevelopment of our hospitals”; and notes that Mr Barclay subsequently apologised for making the incorrect claim in the House of Commons that work had already started at Charing Cross Hospital.
• Views as meaningless the government’s claim to be committed to refurbishing Charing Cross, given that they have delayed any building work, given no deadline by which any refurbishment will be completed and not guaranteed any funding for the building work.
• Regrets the inaccurate and disingenuous statements by Greg Hands, MP for Chelsea and Fulham, who in leaflets and on his website has wrongly claimed that funding has been secured for the full refurbishment whereas funding has not been secured and the previous 2030 deadline for completion of works has been scrapped.
• Urges the Conservative government to honour its promise to provide the funding for the refurbishment and rebuilding of Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s hospitals and to reinstate the 2030 deadline for completion of the works.
The closure of the Gordon Hospital has led to St Mary’s Hospital hosting mental health patients for extended periods in beds that are needed for patients who are physically ill.
DeleteFelicity Buchan only has an 150 seat majority while the British Nationals (Overseas) status voter population may be over 600. Targeting the British Nationals (Overseas) could make the difference for the Tories and Labour (Labour is the second largest party in Kensington).
ReplyDeleteFelicity Buchan MP for Kensington, one of the richest boroughs in Britain, a posho and yet in charge of solving the homelessness crisis. That’s not working well is it?
ReplyDeleteTo be fair to Felicity she is far from being posh. She went to a North East Scottish secondary school to Oxford. Criticise her for other things but she is far from what you claim. As far as homelessness in this Borough is concerned it's what happens when you let the world and his many wives storm the Channel. Grow up!
DeletePulled from this website:
Delete* Felicity said: “In September 2022, we published a bold, new strategy: Ending Rough Sleeping For Good.”
* A year later, rough sleeping is far worse! The highest quarterly number of rough sleepers has been counted in London since records began. Between July and September, 4,068 people were found to be sleeping on the streets by outreach teams. It is 12% up on the same period in 2022 with more than half - 2,086 people - sleeping rough for the first time.
* Felicity is far worse than useless.
Felicity Christiana Buchan. Daughter of Charles and Georgina Buchan. Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford, studying law. Worked in investment banking for JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. MP for Kensington. Political party Conservative.
Delete20.15 In this deep ‘cost of living crisis’ only someone with a marked dislike of foreigners would state: ‘As far as homelessness in this Borough is concerned it's what happens when you let the world and his many wives storm the Channel. Grow up!’
Delete20.50 so anyone going from a lower middle class home and secondary school and getting into Christ Church is a posho? Talk about stopping social mobility.
Delete21.34 Surely if FB went from ‘lower middle class’ to ‘posho’ that would be an indicator of social mobility. The idea that you can’t go from ‘lower middle class’ to ‘posho’ would be the indicator of ‘stopping social mobility’.
DeleteEmma Dent Coad is much posher than Flicka. Emma, the self proclaimed aristocrat, who says she is descended from Christopher Columbus and the Borgias - now that's what I call posh. She is a very posh Marxist who sent her kids to Public School.
DeleteEDC is very posh. It would never do for the cut above Emma to send her kids to Kensington's shit schools. Those schools are for the lowest orders.
DeleteEmma's kids were never on Free School Dinners.
DeleteOh, I don't know. I wouldn't like to say that Emma's children weren't on free school dinners at some point in time. If they were, she'll be glad to tell us because all these upper class marxists like to say that they have been in penury so as to keep faith with their identity politics- and the underdog, of course.
DeleteRestoring tax-free shopping would boost the public finances and the wider economy. We need to build economic growth so a U-turn on this policy would be sensible. Shouldn’t have removed it in the first place really.
ReplyDeleteModernizing and increasing capacity at our hospitals such as St Marys must be the priority
ReplyDeleteWe are not going to modernise & increase the capacity of our hospitals until we have a Labour government & given the current omnishambles this too will take time. So do not be old , sick or poor
ReplyDeleteFrom what we understand Sunak plans to chip !0% off the 40% IHT rate. Felicity, if this is the best that Treasury can do your discreet lobbying has been an abject failure.
ReplyDeleteThe children of the richest in the country will be pleased with the extra money.
DeleteUnnecessary and unfair regressive handout to those lucky few receiving an unearned inheritance handout. What a time to do this!
DeleteIf you think the children of someone with assets of £500k is rich you live in another world. The children of the richest in the country are immune from the consequences of IHT by clever advisers and sophisticated trusts. Just because you may have nothing to hand over to your kids doesn't mean she should lower ourselves to your level.
DeletePoverty is not a ‘lifestyle choice’. Someone with half a million pounds clearly has more than someone with nothing. When the person with 500k dies, their kids [who have done nothing for the money] inherit, the government and you want them to have even more. And write that I ‘live in another world’!
DeleteSo, we all have to live in some left wing 'paradise' so the hardworking have to support the indolent. You can f off
DeleteWell Emma, IHT is the politics of envy. Tax someone who inherits on the basis that they haven't worked for it, and give it someone else who hasn't worked for it who is drawing the social; many of whom are feckless, indolent and on drink or drugs. Nice. The politics of envy.
DeleteFunny that those without money, see the existence of wealth as creating inequalities. The very same people who advocate taxing people's hard earned wealth, after they have died, because they personally have nothing to tax, and therefore nothing to pay, somehow manage to send their children to Public School perpetuating even greater inequalities.
DeleteCorrect!
Delete21:52 I will give what I want to my hardworking children not the state who will waste it on fattening the state sector more. If you don't like living in. capitalist society move to North Korea
DeleteThat ‘Marxist’ Andy Street - Mayor of the West Midlands - told the BBC it would not be his "personal choice" to slash inheritance tax at this moment in time.
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