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captain red dog wrote:The drugs issue is an interesting subject. I don't think it is as simple as legalising and regulating all of it. In terms of Gove, the talk is about cocaine and I don't really see a decent case to legalise that.

Moggy wrote:Since the coalition I haven’t voted for them once. I wasn’t voting Lib Dem to get bloody Tories in charge.

Michael Gove hosted a cocaine-fuelled party in his London flat just hours after writing an article condemning the evils of the Class A drug, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The would-be Prime Minister was last night branded a hypocrite after claims that guests at his Mayfair home were openly taking cocaine, even as the presses rolled on his column urging tougher action against those who abuse the drug.

Writing in The Times, Mr Gove slated ‘middle-class professionals’ who took drugs and wanted them legalised. But a witness who attended the party told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Some of the other people were openly taking cocaine.

‘Those of us who were aware of what he had written were staggered at the hypocrisy of it.’

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Lagamorph wrote:Jeremy Hunt in being a banana split shocker

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Boris Johnson has pledged to cut income tax bills for people earning more than £50,000 a year if he wins the race to succeed Theresa May as prime minister.

The former foreign secretary told the Telegraph he would use money currently set aside for a no-deal Brexit to raise the 40% tax rate threshold to £80,000.

Rex Kramer wrote:Nice to see Boris has found some more money from the magic money tree so he can hand out freebies to his mates.

Parksey wrote:

Rex Kramer wrote:Nice to see Boris has found some more money from the magic money tree so he can hand out freebies to his mates.

I noticed this as well on the BBC News app. Good job he's campaigning on the burning issues or country faces.

He's also throwing out the big talk about refusing to pay the "Brexit divorce bill" if the EU don't offer better terms.

Now, I'm out of the country (in one of those terrible, shitty countries, you know, one which isn't the UK and is full of foreigners or, as they call them here, the Japanese), but when has the issue with our deal been the cost of it?

When deals were going up in front of parliament and subsequently being thrown out of parliament, when was the issue ever the amount of money it cost? When has that ever been a factor of what deal we get and how we leave?

It's just empty rhetoric, to show that Boris is the man to stand up for plucky Britain in front of the evil EU overlords.

Every issue that we have had from the deal has been out own bloody politicians disagreeing with it and voting it down.

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Dual wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Jeremy Hunt in being a banana split shocker

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But why

Garth wrote:

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BBC News wrote:Up to 3.7 million pensioners who previously received a free TV licence will now have to pay for it.

The BBC will scrap blanket free licences for over-75s, but housesholds with one person who receives Pension Credit will still be eligible.

The BBC said "fairness" was at the heart of the ruling, which comes into force in June 2020.

It follows a consultation with 190,000 people, of which 52% were in favour of reforming or abolishing free licences.

According to the BBC, around 900,00 households are claiming Pension Credit, which is is a non-taxable weekly top up for pensioners based on a person's income.

The number of households which could be eligible to apply for Pension Credit could number 1.5 million by 2020.

The BBC Board said it was the "fairest option to help the poorest pensioners".

BBC chairman David Clementi said it had been a "very difficult decision".

"We think it's fair to those over 75 but also to all our audiences for whom there was no appetite for the level of cuts that would have been necessary if the concession had been extended," he added.

"There are people for whom this will be unwelcome news, who have not paid until now but will do so.

"We know we have a loyal audience over the age of 75 and we think many of them will understand the difficult position we are in."

n 2015, the government announced the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement.

The cost was expected to total £745 million - a fifth of the BBC's current budget by 2021/22.

The new scheme will cost the BBC around £250 million by 2021/22 depending on the take-up.