'She had the upper hand': PMQs Analysed | LBC

[@johnrussell3961]

The waspi report was over an issue created by the Tories. And the ability to compensate requires a strong tax paying economy . Something the Brexit she wanted destroyed.,

[@PLl-jr8xi]

We pay more than enough tax mate. These presenters who report on cookie cutter news should actually start being real journalists and find out where all the money's being stolen and squandered. Instead they just act like another arm for the government and just trying to convince us to pay more.. No thanks.

[@petepete9768]

And labour said they'd fix it. They lied

[@chatham43]

@john And the trillions spent on Lockdown no doubt contributed to Labour's stance on this. As it does to the withholding of the pensioners £300. It's a price that has to be paid for the sake of the economy. Absolutely agree!

[@chatham43]

@Johnny And the trillions spent on Lockdown has been a contributing factor on Sir Keirs broken promises sure you would agree!

[@clivet3252]

Everything is an over issue with Labour but having a cake was the greatest scandal ever.

[@willrobertsmith]

People complaining about starmer not answering questions clearly never watched pmqs under sunak or Boris. Also her questions are often utter nonsense so kind of hard to answer.

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

Or they complained then as well?

[@ianh3365]

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Little wonder that the top two choices in politics and on the wane

[@Refflog]

But Starmer is by far the worst pm in british history. Even worse than Truss which really takes some doing. He’s an absolute disgrace.

[@chatham43]

@will Trying to defend the defenceless is often difficult. As is trying to survive the Winter sure you would agree!

[@darlik1]

​@@Refflog 😂😂😂 Get back into your 20 year hibernation😂

[@TheBigears1]

Natasha is starting to sound a bit like Kay Burley. James she was poor, and does not have the skill to carry out this function. Badenough is just appalling and a gift to Labour, the tories need to keep her.

[@HaydenCyclist]

They have to pretend kemi isn't a complete clown. Exposing her fully exposes how vacuous oxford uni elites who control the Conservatives are.

[@PLl-jr8xi]

They're all useless. Both parties and the MPs in them are a gift for reform .

[@chatham43]

Another of your cut and paste efforts for a few cheap likes. But it fills the empty days.😊

[@RichardGallagherthesecond]

​@@chatham43Is that what you said to yourself when posting your comment? Oh wait, it is 🤭😂😂😂

[@chatham43]

@Richard. Richie boy! Still working from home I note?😊

[@theolddog5129]

WASPI - labour promised justice, not £ "compensation" for no reason meaning free money. I would say that an Ombudsman outcome which states 90% of women did know about the change means that the government's (and the previous government's) decision not to give out free money is delivering that justice. With any change there will most likely always be around 10% of impacted individuals who will nto become aware of the change. Tax payers cannot keep compensating people for their lack of awareness.

[@graemebuchan8142]

Why do you think it's free money?

[@pipins3616]

@@graemebuchan8142look around and see who is getting free money

[@theolddog5129]

@@graemebuchan8142 Because they have not done anything to earn it. Of the total population of impacted women, 90% have suffered no loss because they were fully aware of the change. The other 10% claim not to have been aware. In this latter case if they have suffered some loss it is because of their lack of awareness and not because someone else has taken something from them. Why would anyone expect handouts in such a situation that the working population will have to pay for?

[@clivet3252]

So what's justice?

[@clivet3252]

Oh so this is the justice they promised is it?

[@billedmunds2665]

Badenoch believes in Trickle Down Economics, a Flat Rate Tax and Brexit Freedoms!! But can never apologise for Austerity, Brexit, Partygate , Truss and Sunak!!

[@davidpeacock40]

Trickle down starts with Trick.

[@chatham43]

@billed And the lockdown too. What did that cost? A trillion. The black hole?

[@davidpeacock40]

@@chatham43 even the badly managed lockdown saved lives, the clown locked down too late meaning lockdowns had to be longer. Worst gov in living memory, worst pm ever at the worst possible time.

[@LesHentschel-hk2hd]

Trickle down economics doesn't really exist.

[@chatham43]

@david So under Labour just less than a trillion...and no black hole?😂

[@bernardcollier1226]

You are in a bubble- Kemi was atrocious

[@Refflog]

I really don’t know how you’ve come to that conclusion. I take it you think Starmer is doing well and is not the most hated man in Britain.

[@chatham43]

@bernard She should have focused on just one Labour lie. Totally agree. She was too scattergun!

[@jdizzle1779]

Doesn't matter what she focuses on. Kier will avoid it all

[@coppershark1973]

She had the upper hand? Really? Really?

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

Hardly difficult is it, against Starmer.

[@kelvingreen3736]

That makes it worse not better.

[@Refflog]

I’d say yes she did.

[@chatham43]

er@copper She was too scattergun. She should have focused On just one of the Labour lies . Absolutely agree!

[@clarencegreen6341]

Can't a petition be created

[@SeanTube2099]

It’s hilarious that Badenoch complains about labour policies hurting people when her parties brexit hurt the whole country.

[@Refflog]

It was the British public not the conservatives.

[@SeanTube2099]

@ strange, I can remember the tories trying to push ahead with a “no deal” brexit, which is not what the British people voted for.

[@ChristoperDavies]

Foodbanks tories greatest achievement

[@JozefEtienne]

If you’ve been watching PMQ’s over the past 14 years of Tory reign you’d have seen they didnt answer questions either particularly Boris and Sunak. Why is it annoying now to some people? It’s always been annoying

[@chatham43]

Because we expect better from Labour?😂😂😂

[@GGeJJ1]

When you run on a campaign of change and deliver more of the same, it's no wonder the government are deeply unpopular already.

[@TalesOfWar]

He does answer questions, when he's asked with respect... and actually asked a question rather than have a statement thrown at him that changes subject half way through.

[@Gordon.Pinkerton]

Perhaps the people you see complaining now also complained when Tories did it, and have always found it annoying, just like you.

[@peterscott6818]

Badenoch was not quite as awful as usual. (Except for the Waspi Women and the Brexit Benefits comments) And that’s being treated as a win?🤣 Keep it coming 👍

[@brianferguson7840]

How can the WASPI women claim they didn't know about the rise in retirement age? I am a middle adged MAN and I've known about it since it was widely publicised and discussed in all the media decades ago. Men's retirement age has also been raised but we have just accepted it as unavoidable.

[@pipins3616]

If you only had a very short time before you were going to retire as it did with some left them in the mire

[@ArtsnCrafts-i3v]

@@pipins3616how did it leave them in the mire? I was impacted by the increase in pension age, just means I have to continue working for longer than I would like to. Why should I get compensation?

[@nathijomac]

@@pipins3616 They had 15 years...

[@mikez2779]

Ain't that a convenient excuse one would go for if there is some free money at the end of it?

[@angussoutter7824]

It wasn’t, that’s the issue and they admitted it as for you as a man you had a better wage and pension, women were working in poorly paid jobs who didn’t have a private pension and it wasn’t till 2012 that compulsory enrolment was enacted for all employees 🙄typical i’m alright jack guess you live down south

[@brianferguson7840]

Natasha Clark is becoming more and more Tory friendly by the week. Like Tom Swarbrick, she can never forget her loyalty from when she worked for the Tories.

[@pipins3616]

Yes as she can see the mess Labour are in.

[@ArtsnCrafts-i3v]

Agree 100%. It is like listening to a Tory party broadcast. I have decided not to listen to this weekly analysis anymore, too biased. It is becoming as bad as Kuenssberg’s biased journalism.

[@Ukandy19]

⁠@@ArtsnCrafts-i3v no doubt you’re ok with the rest of the bias spat out by O’Brien the rest of the time?

[@brianferguson7840]

​@@Ukandy19 YES ! ABSOLUTELY !😉😉

[@Ukandy19]

@@brianferguson7840 😂😂

[@judithdavidson2356]

She is incredibly arrogant and unpleasant

[@chatham43]

@Judith That's Dianne Abbott for you. But where have you been?

[@RichardGallagherthesecond]

🤡🤭😂😂😂​@@chatham43

[@brianferguson7840]

On her best day !

[@skunclep1938]

“Her strongest performance so far… “ which says so much about Badenoch’s previous performances.

[@HaydenCyclist]

They have to pretend Kemi doesn't fail a Turing test every time she speaks. We can't fully expose elites and those in power, only the working class can be exposed and humiliated fully.

[@chatham43]

@skunk And this is your strongest performance?😊

[@skunclep1938]

@ what a pathetic thing to ask. Am I the leader of the opposition? Am I the person tasked to ask questions of the Prime Minister? I understood your puerile attempt at humour, but it won’t deflect from the fact that Badenoch is terrible at her job.

[@stuarturquhart9363]

Agree - but she is miles off the pace 👍🏻

[@chatham43]

@skunk So her job is just asking questions at question time? Labour deserve your vote!😂😂

[@davidrose213]

The Reeves budget might not be great but the critics didn’t say much about Liz Truss’s worse budget. At least the Bank of England hasn’t had to step in to save our Economy and Pension funds.

[@clivet3252]

You mean the one she was hounded out over?

[@davidrose213]

Well, possibly. Perhaps it was a bit unfair that she took all the flak when others like Chris Philp and Lucy Fraser helped to plan it but got swiftly moved from the Treasury to other positions that seemed a bit like a promotion. I wonder if calling the mini budget a ‘fiscal event’ to avoid scrutiny may not have helped. It may also have led to the reduced trust from voters in the Tory Party that led to their demise. Where do we go now - we’ve tried Tax Cuts and now Tax increases and neither seem to work. Best wishes and thanks for your thoughts.

[@tombo1984]

You must have been asleep then.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@tombo1984 Some of the financial papers and more left leaning press mentioned it, but the majority of the right wing media (which is the majority of the media in this country) were shouting from the roof tops how amazing it was.

[@creativedwarves]

So her job is to pick holes in Labour's policies. Hells bells. How about just working to produce ideas to help the country move forward. Confrontational polits is just destructive.

[@GGeJJ1]

That's the government's job mate. The oppositions job is to hold the government to account, highlighting their mistakes, issues etc. Which she did, this highlights it to voters and creates pressure on them to react. Welcome to politics. I note you didn't criticise Starmer for failing to answer questions and just hurl insults at the historic performance of previous government's.

[@creativedwarves]

​@@GGeJJ1 No Pal I disagree. Their job is to make the lives of people in this country better. Just picking holes as you say is simple conflict politics that constructs nothing.

[@wiseget-f7e]

Her job is to hold this useless London Labour ‘government’ to account!

[@GGeJJ1]

@@creativedwarves holding the government of the day to account is virtually one of the only ways they can impact lives for every day people. Especially with our shambolic electoral system, that's given one of the biggest majorities to one of the most unpopular government's since WW2. It's the Government's job to govern. Why are you not holding Kier Starmer responsible for his partisan responses, going off on tangents and not answering the questions, just to score political points.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

Does she take all of her taliking points from the Daily Mail or do they write it for her.

[@HaydenCyclist]

The Spectator, her former employer.

[@theolddog5129]

@@HaydenCyclist I suspect teh Spectator is too left-wing for KB! 😁

[@HaydenCyclist]

@@theolddog5129 michael Gove is now the senior editor at The Spectator, with William hague now vice chancellor of Oxford uni.

[@theolddog5129]

@@HaydenCyclist Yes but they are old lefties as far as our Kemi is concerned!

[@TalesOfWar]

Her talking points seem to be designed specifically for generating headlines rather than trying to some kind of answer out of Starmer. That's why she has such a scattershot approach by asking so many different things and changing subject half way through. She's trying to get Starmer in a gotcha moment. She's just REALLY BAD at it.

[@sohalvr]

I would recommend the recent short documentary on the i newspaper channel about Neil Kinnock's speech in the 80s to Labour Conference. It is a world away from today in terms of passion and principle. Most of today's politicians could learn a thing or two from the 20th century

[@theolddog5129]

The voting public no longer vote for the principled with passion e.g. Kinnock, Corbin ...

[@Refflog]

Farage would be voted in tomorrow if the was a GE because of the above

[@EZZI00]

James may not have, but absolutely laughed at "do-do"

[@OldMiley]

Me too, and that withering look from Natasha was brilliant haha!

[@johnkelly2031]

There is a fantastic tory interview form earlier today, 'Tories say they're entitled to accuse Labour of betraying Waspi women - even though they may have refused compensation too' . They start the problem- Major, they accelerate the problem-Osbourne, then they receive the report and sit on it-Sunak, and now feel entitled to the moral highground. They would have said no to compensation also, that's what they did be delaying the decision. They knew they would lose and this would be an issue they could attempt to gaslight over.

[@chatham43]

@john And Labour had every right to go back on their promise of compensation. They have the foreign budget to consider and they had to pay those train drivers !😊

[@ArtsnCrafts-i3v]

@@chatham43train drivers are working for the money they are given providing a service and paying tax on their earnings. Waspi women’s payout would be for what?

[@kathrynlenz8368]

Is this one of the items the Tories claimed to have ring fenced funds for, as well as Horizon and infected blood.

[@TalesOfWar]

The last 2 years of the Tory government were devoted almost entirely to salting the earth for Labour, because they knew they weren't going to get another term in office.

[@danxzon]

Why are politicians allowed to get away with trashing the economy

[@geeksworkshop]

If you are talking about Brexit, because people voted for it.

[@HaydenCyclist]

They are paid by the WEF to hand over our economy to asset strippers - these days known as 'private equity'.

[@PLl-jr8xi]

They voted for it in a lie.. why was the option even given if they feel that strongly about how it would make things worse. Plus looking in hindsight, Europe is pretty much done so in or out. Same thing. Probably actually better to be out now. England just need to get it's act together.

[@MrCallumDennis]

cos they are making money for the people that pay them; corparations and billionaires

[@bernardcollier1226]

When will she be bad enough to go?

[@GGeJJ1]

Starmers approval rating is through the floor in a matter of months. I don't think she'll ever be PM, but I suspect she'll outlast Kier.

[@jdizzle1779]

Likely after Kier. He's been so bad he's trying to avoid local elections

[@ollaum]

Take your blinkers off Bernard 😂

[@ollaum]

@@GGeJJ1I suspect that you’re right 👍🏻

[@petermizon4344]

THE WASPI WOMEN GETTING 10 BILLION WILL NOT GET ECONOMY GOIN , MOST WILL GO INTO BANKS ETC THATS WHY LABOUR VANT DO IT, BETTER TO PUT THAT 10 BILLION INTO INVESTMENT WORK TO EMPLOY PEOPLE

[@Bandungbill]

Natasha I'm sure works for Tufton St As for Kemi she hasn't got a chance of beating Kier in a one to one...the Tories are finished

[@Refflog]

Agreed but so are Labour

[@ollaum]

Labour are toast. Their rapid downfall is quite outstanding!

[@Stroopwaffe1]

Only putting on the heating NOW ???? Its been cold up here since october tbth, then there is another 200 miles to go north as far as you can overland.

[@petermizon4344]

BREXIT BROKE BUISNESS A DAM SITE MORE THAN THE LAST BUDGET

[@pipins3616]

Example

[@pathanlon3028]

Red tape increased 200%

[@petermizon4344]

@pipins3616 BREXIT STOPPED US TRADING, TARRIFS ON MOST THINGS THAT WERE NOT THERE BEFORE ECONOMY DOWN 4 PERCENT WHICH IS ABOUT 100 BILLION, IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTED TO ECONOMY MORE THAN BRITS, ITS A FACT. PER PERSON, THEY ALSO HAVE PAY 3000 POUNDS EACH TO USE THE NHS, , PLUS FSRMERS GOT THE WORST DEAL IN HISTORY WITH AUSSIE NZ DEAL, IN FACT THEY WERE LAUGHING AT OIR FARMERS NOW CHECK IT PUT OR IS THAT TOO MUCH TROUBLE?

[@jdizzle1779]

Depends on the business.

[@petermizon4344]

@jdizzle1779 YES MOST SMALL BUISNESSES AND BIG BUISNESS LOADED WITH BILLIONS OF OUR CASH THEY HAVE OVER CHARGED US WITH

[@coco1252]

Still after soundbites guys? You miss Borris

[@markknight1011]

Comical Ali is alive and working for LBC

[@michaelsimpson4400]

One for JoB, the changes in pension age were largely driven by Council Directive 79/7/EEC. So technically having left the EU the UK government has it in its gift to change the age equalisation of pensions. You could call it a Brexit Freedom.

[@mikehiggins4079]

The EU Withdrawl Agreement is being REVIEWED by both sides NOT re-negotiated

[@GarethMachin-rb2sg]

Her best performance to date. But that is against a backdrop of very poor performances. She is too certain and too convinced she is a truth teller. This will be her undoing.

[@jdizzle1779]

I think she did ok and he came across far worse. It has been a labour government of lies with few positives. Kier is doing too much for foreign affairs while the UK falls apart

[@stephenglancy8551]

Pure pantomime. That speaker sums up pmq's perfectly. A total joke. I would cancel it and tell tbose hundreds of shysters to get on with their work instead of ya booing and nodding like fools to everything their gaffer says. Utter nonsense. Our country is in this state because our politics and politicians are a farce. Get on with the job. Make the country make some money and stop asset stripping for your pals.

[@belindamay8063]

@stephenglancy. You’re dead right about PMQS. The MPs see it as a bit of a jolly. How could anyone deal with questions in that hysterical atmosphere ? Members jeering and howling at every minor slip-up. It’s no ornament for democracy. But it’s a welcome treat for the media. They can pick out the bits that they like.

[@TalesOfWar]

Most of the actual work of Parliament is done between PMQ's and in meeting rooms around Westminster. This is just the weekly bread and circus for the masses and media.

[@AndyAndy-o2m]

Starmer is hopeless

[@TalesOfWar]

What does that make Badenoch?

[@paulharrisharris5761]

What are these Brexit freedoms Badenough is going on about ?

[@billybatts8283]

A pantomime. Brexit was sabotaged from day one by a class of people who never wanted it. The result was not meant to happen.

[@TalesOfWar]

Charging VAT on private school fees is one. But they don't like that one lol. Under EU law its illegal to charge VAT on school fees.

[@CarlosWillis]

The waspi thing; Just create a special tax code for them and exempt them from paying tax for "X" amount of time to the value of the compensation. SIMPLE

[@andrewmac3117]

Has the £22 billion black hole been independently verified? The OBR said £8.9 billion. Funny how Rachel from accounts came up with figure so quickly.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Re trickle down. I dont want the crumbs from the table. I want a seat at the table. Im retired now but used to be one of the millions who put the food and drink on that table. Trickle down is an insult apart from the fact the rich are rich because they hang on to every drop.

[@paulnorton9714]

I would like Starmer to stop going on about the 22 billion black hole, I wish he would tell us how much of the black hole is fixed

[@pipins3616]

He has made it bigger

[@jdizzle1779]

@@paulnorton9714 9 billion of which was due to labours pay rises

[@TalesOfWar]

@@jdizzle1779 Do you not thing the people who get us to and from work and save our lives and keep us healthy every day deserve to be paid fairly? Or are you just jealous you don't have a strong union working for you and your rights and working conditions? The raises were so large because they hadn't had one for close to a decade under the last government.

[@jdizzle1779]

@@TalesOfWar inaccurate or misinformed. I work from home and have a fantastic union. Rail drivers having pay rises when pensions have income removed is nonsensical. The people that save lives ere police and nurses who happen to be some of the lower paid public servants but aren't allowed to strike. The pay rises were well over the suggestions from the independent pay review. These rises were agreed before labour got in and that is a dangerous precedent

[@lestrem11]

The government Ombudsman said they must be compensated. If they aren’t compensated why have a government Ombudsmen, just pointless.

[@hermanhawtrey8578]

@@lestrem11 sssh now, only type when you have something of value to say.

[@lestrem11]

@@hermanhawtrey8578 I have ….you haven’t….keep up, child.✌

[@user-xd1io5nf2y]

Interesting double standards as ever. How quickly it seems forgotten that Sunak never answered any questions and just repeated his slogans and now it is a major issue that Starmer is doing something similar

[@Paragon62]

Communists never win

[@TalesOfWar]

Starmer at least asked him a question. Badenoch changed what she's on about half way through and most end up as statements rather than a question. Which bit do you answer?

[@ant7936]

So pensions are increasing by £470? That's handy - my full rent will be increased by £200 and I don't get _any credits_ because I was responsible enough to keep some savings, which disqualify me.

[@ericawildgoose5736]

Are you serious James, Kemi is really really awful When will all those lazy pensioners get round to claiming Pension Credit? I'm a Disabled NHS Pensioner and Labour Party Disability Officer and I'm happy with My Labour Party and what Keir is doing 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@graemebuchan8142]

😂 awesome 👍

[@pipins3616]

Are you feeling ok

[@ArtsnCrafts-i3v]

Me too. Stopping £300.00 payouts to wealthy people who do not need it gets my vote and I am one of the people who lost the payout 👍👍

[@pipins3616]

@@ArtsnCrafts-i3vas with everything it could have been means tested

[@BarryCampbell6822]

As a disabled person, after recent political attacks your sphincter has to be twitching like a telefoto camera lens, because you must know that we are next, right? I'm a disabled pensioner, still working full time as a Community Volunteer, and this year alone, my work load has tripled. This is Pastor Niermoller 101, and your rows of red roses will be queues of wheelchairs by this time next year - believing otherwise after seeing what we see with our own eyes every day is unicorn belief.

[@AlanBateman-k9f]

How many of the 700k pensioners are in care homes, my father and law got the money every year even though he lived i a care home, total joke.

[@ibexdnb2879]

Let me guess.... 22 billion black hole and 14 years of Tory austerity... 😂

[@chatham43]

@bex It went up to 25 billion after paying off the train drivers.😊

[@liamstanley2325]

She certainly did this time, there's no denying this travesty of a PMQ's

[@angussoutter7824]

Can i say if the gave the pensioner’s compensation i guarantee that these pensioners will spend it back into the economy unlike the rich who keep getting handouts

[@AlfieFilms123]

Why Kemi didn't go on WASPI women for all 6 questions is beyond me.

[@nichemphill8321]

Because she does not really care about them, she is interested in soundbites, not the real world

[@mbeale100]

@AlfieFilms123 Weren’t they in government??

[@gray41]

​@@mbeale100yes but they didnt campaigne promosing to pay the waspi women like Starmer did so he lied thats the point

[@theolddog5129]

Yes - but that was over 4 weeks ago. Now everything they did they consider objectionalble.

[@mbeale100]

@gray41 No “ Labour leader Keir Starmer indicated two years ago that he backed WASPI women, so does his manifesto commit to compensating them? It appears not. Released on 13 June, the 2024 Labour manifesto contains no reference at all to WASPI compensation or the recent ombudsman report. According to the Daily Record, during a press conference before Labour released its manifesto Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: "There are lots of things that a Labour government might like to do, but the state of the public finances and the dire need of our public services means that we won't be able to do everything that we might like to do." She went on to say: "We won't put forward anything that is not fully costed and fully funded, and I haven't set out any money for this [compensation for WASPI women]."

[@lestrem11]

Inflation taking off, growth going down. Tragic.

[@qeitkas594]

Nice for Kemi but the country is preparing for a Reform Labour standoff while the Tories are becoming a complete side show.

[@theolddog5129]

The name Reform is now old hat. It should be called Refomusk.

[@Refflog]

Call it what you like but that doesn’t change the facts that if there was a GE tomorrow you’d be calling Farage Prime minister

[@kevinsmarts9953]

@@Refflog If there was an election due in the next year or less that would mean something.

[@theolddog5129]

@@Refflog There was a vote not that long prior to tomorrow and guess what, he isn't.

[@Refflog]

@@qeitkas594 I take it you are pleased with Starmer so far?

[@geeksworkshop]

The freedom to keep all the French boat people!

[@graemebuchan8142]

Would you want to live in France?

[@sbarnes7240]

Reeves and Starmer running the country????? We'd be better off with Reeves and Mortimer 😆

[@BlackConservativeUK]

Haven't yet watched the PMQ's or even seen this video but i bet you LBC Wokies will say Kemi was terrible. Even before having seen anything, you guys are too predictable!

[@mattgreen5720]

Wrong! Watch the vid.

[@paddyandhisguitar2831]

So cynical.😂

[@dianamincher6479]

Badenoch is protected by her African heritage in failing to appreciate the huge extent of the damage to the fiscal purse perpetrated by the 100Billion pound Conservative loss with the scrapping of HS2 and the 700 million pound loss on the illegal Rwanda deportation scheme! The UK treasury cannot sustain these massive haemorrhaging Conservative losses and hope to pay out compensation to the Conservative Waspi scheme for pensioners which was never properly honoured by the Conservatives anyway?

[@davidatkinson5858]

Why does " African heritage" protect somebody ?

[@absduck2179]

She does not believe this. I see her try it every week.

[@terrencehook2031]

Why does he look clean on a Wednesday

[@floatingpeaks4584]

If the govt knows the people who can claim it, then why make them go through the laborious paperwork, just pay the street urchins

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

No sympathy for those people.

[@kevingunning7569]

The way that Natasha Clarke's eyes were shining at a better showing from Badenoch, has shown her in her True Blue colours me thinks.

[@colincampbell4261]

Whatever - she is still lovely.

[@chatham43]

@kevin We don't want any thinking here. Rhetoric will suffice. Surely you must be aware of that by now.😊

[@jdizzle1779]

Does that really matter. Anyone completely Tory or labour is an idiot imo

[@AlanBateman-k9f]

Don’t think we should be compensating people who don’t know there retirement dates, it’s going to cost all of us 280 quid a year don’t think so.

[@martynpring3607]

Bandenoch has managed to land so little blows across numerous weeks, she was stronger today, but still so exceptionally poor.

[@jdizzle1779]

What made her poor today? She seemed alot better. Was looking forward to hearing Kiers answers but they weren't forthcoming

[@ollaum]

Take your blinkers off Martyn

[@Daisy-yq1gi]

Making Badenoch look credible shows how awful Staris. He is so weak. He's following Reform on anti migrant rhetoric and failing to talk about going back into tye AU show how useless he really is.......

[@chatham43]

Tories make tough decisions...It's austerity...Labour make tough decisions......It's for the benefit of the country ....if you're under 66.😊

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

All Starmer had was 22 billion black hole...22 billion black hole....22 billion black hole...🤣

[@grahamwade5932]

Yeah, is that not a big deal?

[@tdtm82]

Does he need anything else? This is how bad it is now.

[@PLl-jr8xi]

The funny thing is 22 billion is about 1.3 % of the budget. How come businesses need to make the 1.5 NI increase work, when they can't make a little 1.3% work.

[@tdtm82]

@PLl-jr8xi There is a lot of stuff we don't know about with PPE and what we can get back yet. I think the mistake made was not taxing based on income. Small businesss need relief.

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

@@grahamwade5932 Not when compared to the debt the last labour government left.

[@gray41]

Obrien slowly realising his hero Starmer is a disaster

[@1peetee]

give an example

[@Refflog]

@@1peetee If you need to be told you have not been paying attention

[@1peetee]

@@Refflog so you don't have any, ok got it

[@Refflog]

@@1peeteeputting oap women in prison for hurry words whilst releasing actual criminals is the worst thing ever done by a pm in history. I have many more but I’d like to hear you justify that one. Absolutely disgusting

[@1peetee]

@@Refflog its not true name one oap he put in prison for "hurry words" whatever that means

[@vincehammond1282]

Erm , as she picks holes in this government the torai are staring out of them !

[@tazpiramine2699]

If keir is answering same, is bado asking same? (Not seen)

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

Farage just needs sit tight and he'll be PM.

[@CrystalController]

🤢 🤮

[@thepepper191]

Delusional

[@ericawildgoose5736]

Who is this woman talking to you???

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

Can starmer go on another foreign jolly? Lets say for four years. The spectators at Donny racecourse had his number months ago.

[@mauricebellion8330]

Stammer only answer is the 22billion black hole so why doesnt he publish the so called black hole or is it that hes so spineless and afraid of being found out

[@filltheglass2618]

Starmer just repeats the same lines. Kemi at least asks him over and over again., and he dodges the question. Waste of 20 minutes for the public. It shows no regards to the public. 5 back to back PMQs without PMAs.

[@andrewmark2783]

They aren't genuine questions. Badenoch is just looking to create sound bites. She either doesn't care about the things being discussed or secretly agrees with the government's policies (as with winter fuel payments, which she stated in 2022 should be means tested).

[@filltheglass2618]

@ KB:“will you commit to funding hospices” KS: “We put a record amount into the NHS” Granted she frames the questions in a negative way. “X policy will hurt X people, Did you not realise X and what will you do to support X.” But he just avoids answering any straight questions to mentioned The tories record and some BS billion pound black hole. Awful.

[@jdizzle1779]

@@filltheglass2618 but they are questions and Starmer should answer then as such. It's pmqs and he promised to be better, but is seeming very similar to sunak and Boris before him

[@lesleylamy]

Baddenoch was dread fall as usual.

[@jcjimc43]

Anpther Wednesday passes and the PM continous to refuse to answer questions in the house. Cant the Speaker remind the PM why he attends on a Wednesday?

[@lestrem11]

Both Rayner and Starmer loudly announced before the GE that they would compensate Waspi’s. Keep up, kiddies.

[@TalesOfWar]

Then they saw the books and realised they can't afford it. Books they didn't have access to when they made those claims because the Tories hid the numbers.

[@lestrem11]

@@TalesOfWar The IFS and the TREASURY told the Labour Party months before the GE that their ‘fully costed’ policies’ were unaffordable. Keep up, child.

[@RealSourLemonade]

Starmer could easily have answered the question on the impact of cutting winter fuel allowance if his government had done an impact assessment which they did NOT, surprised the analysis didn't pick that up.

[@paulbird3235]

I don't know how he had the neck to even get out of bed this morning. What an embarrassment.

[@ericawildgoose5736]

Kemi is very very very odd herself 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@ollaum]

And Keir Starmer isn’t? 😂

[@voodoochile333]

Uh oh! The economy is starting to tank! Whoever saw that coming!?

[@chatham43]

The price of lockdown. An inevitable consequence but the truth often hurts!

[@kevinsmarts9953]

Growth was -0.1% which is the minimum value it can show in negative, a long way from tanking.

[@voodoochile333]

@kevinsmarts9953 I am sure the 40bn of tax rises will shock it into growth! Lol

[@willrobertsmith]

the uk economy has been scraping along the bottom for literally years, ..oh and austerity and brexit did absolutely nothing to help despite all the bs promises from osborne, farage, mogg et al

[@ollaum]

@voodoochile333: everyone!

[@lestrem11]

6 months into government and Labour are toast. Every day a different disaster.

[@TalesOfWar]

If any of these things happened under the Tories... it wouldn't be reported, and nobody would care. The right wing media will use anything and everything they can throw at them to try and see if it sticks, they NEVER took the Tories to task like this. Ever. Starmer gets a £400 pair of glasses gifted to him and it's a disgrace, but Boris has £800 rolls of wallpaper donated to him and... nothing, it had to be leaked and then largely ignored by the right wing press. Let's not forget the £800,000 line of credit he got. Again, leaked and largely ignored. PPE contracts for mates, test and trace app contracts for mates, none of whom had the facility or expertise to provide such things but still got hundreds of millions and indeed billions in the case of the test and trace. It's worth mentoring we had a working, world leading test and trace system in place before 2011 that was set up after SARS in 2003. The Tories got rid of it during austerity.

[@wiseget-f7e]

Starmer went very quickly to stammer-mode then verbal diarrhoea

[@raystephen3852]

Did you listen to the PM question time. Ex Sky/ Sun brain.not very balanced. tory. She needs to remember 2 ears 1 mouth, but first engage brain

[@douttadodge]

you can take the girl out of The Sun but you can't take the The Sun out of the girl ..

[@AdamSmith-xw1ez]

What a joke of a government we have!

[@davidpeacock40]

Catch up, we got rid of the joke gov on 4th July

[@AdamSmith-xw1ez]

@ Labour! The saviour to our problems! You’re off your rocker!

[@ollaum]

@@davidpeacock40you catch up David: the current government is beyond a joke

[@davidpeacock40]

@@ollaum The current government is getting on with the job of fixing the monumental mess left behind by the tories, no they won't get everything right but the time to judge is at the next GE in four and a half years. There are attempts to undermine our democratically elected government which started with the farridge riots, a lot of rich people and vested interests don't like being made to pay their fairly due taxation.

[@TheGeneReyva]

WASPI? Sounds more like WASPE.

[@JohnRadley-dk5bk]

Badenough complained about ending the WFA and then complained that Labour have kept the triple lock. She's all over the place.

[@jordangodfrey5198]

Reform

[@4adiarmuid]

kemi the christmas gift which keeps on giving - another no show - you cant think she will ever get better - woeful......embarassing

[@TheGinglymus]

She hasn't got any arguments. All the problems we now have are still leftovers from her government

[@jdizzle1779]

@@TheGinglymus not true. Pension winter fuel is not leftover, ni costs to employers isn't leftover l, farmers inheritance isn't leftover. These are all labour choices

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

Once again we are failed

[@Joe1991-e9j]

He’s such a slime ball.. look at his cronies behind him.. head down, tired, defeated.. just resign on all fairness torie leaders resigned for less!

[@jimmymcdonald426]

JB 😂😂

[@shantz123]

Ha. Doo doo

[@ByJimineeItsBREXIT-z2k]

Starmer shaking with nerves and clearly rattled as Kemi tore him to shreds.

[@chrisbrookes7422]

😂😂😂😂 You deluded soul she got rinsed today keep coping.

[@tarquinmerryweather4929]

Badenock was one of those who voted to break Britain. That's an economic fact! The waspi was started on 1995 under John Major. And it began in 2010. In Tory governments! T pay waspi compensation - when 90% should have known it (my wife did!) - you need to have debt falling! And that isn't! So sadly not a lot could be done. And why didn't 14 years of Tory do a fix?

[@Skidddersss]

Just sit back and let Sir Keir ties himself in his untruths, flip flopping and lies. £22bn black hole. Just start recouping money from your daft overseas aid and sustainability missions

[@TalesOfWar]

Overseas aid helps make things better abroad to reduce the likelihood of those people wanting to come over here instead, which a lot of people seem to also have a huge issue with.

[@Skidddersss]

@@TalesOfWar I think your take on this is very noble but the UK population's eyes are more open than ever and their pockets are more empty... we've been pouring billions of pounds of aid down the drain with Africa for years. It's time a government - not this one, because Labour hates Britain - looked after its own for a change

[@TalesOfWar]

@@Skidddersss When a government does look after its own by raising taxes on the two wealthiest demographics in the country and closing tax loopholes like non-dom or collecting VAT on private school fees, or even things like giving workers a raise in minimum wage and full rights from day one on the job rather than after two years... most of the press whines about it. Did you know they've put a bunch of money aside to house all homeless veterans? It didn't get much coverage in the usual places like the Mail.

[@colincampbell4261]

We need some EU builders and tradespeople to build Labour council houses. Do some visa quotas with EU in negociations.

[@belindamay8063]

Who is training our craftsmen ? How did we become unskilled as a nation ?

[@andrewrose7800]

Her best so far. Starmer as usual offered nothing close to an answer.

[@theoz3613]

Did we watch the same thing? These Labour mouthpieces are truly disgusting.

[@alan2007-x8x]

Let me tell you about Farage, the Tories, and Trump - if you want to know about 'truly disgusting'. Keep supporting the billionaires who finance these creatures - the billionaires just want the best for you.

[@skunclep1938]

How so?

[@mbeale100]

Why?

[@iainrae6159]

Kemi who refreshingly refuses to play ' poor me, a black woman' is a bright girl.

[@nichemphill8321]

Bright is not a word associated with her. You clearly have not been paying attention to her then, with the feeble attempts to connect with the "working class" and failing

[@alan2007-x8x]

As a Labour Party member, I hope she stays on as leader.

[@mattking5936]

She ain't

[@PLl-jr8xi]

It doesn't really matter anymore. There's only one party.. Reform

[@PaulSkeet-pm4uz]

Starting to like James!

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

Yes, he's starting to realise how bad Labour are now.

[@Refflog]

He’s tried hard not too but it’s so in your face now he can’t help but notice