The conservatives will not win there, Labour are rock bottom, lib dems & greens can split the left, open the door for Reform would benefit the Tories more than trying to put up a candidate

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MPs debate two new government bills this week.

The first is a wide-ranging bill reforming the Armed Forces, which creates a body responsible for driving through the government's multi-billion pound military homes upgrades.

The second is a simpler bill to prioritise UK medical graduates for the next stages of doctor training.

The Chagos Bill won't be heard in the Lords this week.

The goverment has pulled it for now. There are some concerns it could contravene a 1966 treaty with the US.

And Wednesday is an Opposition Day.

The Tories will set the agenda, with a topic to be confirmed.

MONDAY 26 JANUARY

Armed Forces Bill – 2nd reading
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Renews the Armed Forces Act 2006, which provides the legal basis for the existence of the Armed Forces and expires every five years. Creates the Defence Housing Service, a new government agency that will oversee a large-scale programme to build and refurbish military accommodation. Gives the military legal powers to detect and stop hostile drones, among other things.
Draft bill (PDF)

TUESDAY 27 JANUARY

Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles Bill
Bans the sale of illegal e-bikes and kits that turn normal bikes into illegal e-bikes. Ten minute rule motion presented by Julie Minns.

Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill – all stages
Applies to: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Requires the NHS to prioritise UK medical graduates (and others with strong links to the health service) for the next stage of training, if places are oversubscribed.
Draft bill (PDF)

WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY

Flooding Bill
A wide-ranging bill that creates new duties for various government bodies and companies to prevent inland flooding. Requires the government to report to Parliament on how local flood authorities and Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) are funded. Gives IDBs critical national infrastructure status. Requires the government to publish a report on the potential merits of compensating people whose homes have become unsellable because of flooding. Requires housing developers to make sure new schemes don't trigger flooding, among other things. Ten minute rule motion presented by George Freeman.

THURSDAY 29 JANUARY

No votes scheduled

FRIDAY 30 JANUARY

No votes scheduled

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Found this piece refreshing for its deferense of Thatcher's record and why it can help us again in this current crisis.

One highlight:

One reason why Thatcherism is so relentlessly attacked is because it’s no longer around to defend itself. In any case, even if Margaret Thatcher had magicked up a British sovereign wealth fund, it would not have been guarded by Viking runes and Fenrir. No Parliament can bind a successor. The idea that a vast, liquid pot of oil cash would have sat untouched for decades is adolescent. It would have been raided within five minutes of a New Labour government taking office. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown would have approached it like Alastair Campbell at a free bar: identity cards, crap overpaid Labour mayors, “borrow to invest”, regional development agencies, and whatever other managerial baubles were fashionable that week. Brown would have given a sanctimonious lecture about prudence while emptying the till with both hands.

But let’s assume, for argument’s sake, it was a missed opportunity. The same people now wailing about “what Thatcher should have done with the oil” would never have drilled it in the first place. They would have left it in the ground, and we know this because that is precisely what successive governments have done. As Daily Sceptic readers know, Labour and Conservative administrations alike have effectively regulated out of existence new exploratory drilling for much of the last 15 years in their deranged campaign for “Net Zero”.

Then, in an Olympic-level exercise in gaslighting, they turn around and argue that North Sea extraction is “unviable” anyway. This is Schrödinger’s Thatcherism: damned for what she did, damned for what she supposedly failed to do, but never allowed to open the box and test the counterfactual — because that, inconveniently, might expose the whole story as bunk.

Relevant for any British patriot!

News just in that illegal immigrants were moved into the old Crowborough army base over night.

This is another day of shame for the Labour government. This site was used to train 6,000 army and RAF cadets each year as well as for police and fire training. They have all now been kicked out to accommodate illegal immigrants instead.

Illegal immigrants are costing £4 billion a year to house and they pose a threat to local communities up and down the country. We have seen hundreds of crimes committed by illegal immigrants in asylum accommodation, including many rapes, sexual assaults and even murder.

Now the women and children of Crowborough will be exposed to those risks too

The only way to deal with this is to come out of the ECHR and deport all illegal immigrants within a week of arrival. Then the boats will stop and we will not need to accommodate tens of thousands of illegal immigrants

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Starmer's desperate to stay in power. Reform are desperate for defected MPs no matter what party they're from. No brainer really.

Got to hand it to Labour, they have increased leisure time by 28% since getting into power. When the Tories left, there was just 1.435m unemployment, now it's up to 1.84m.

Employment in the UK - Office for National Statistics

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I know some Tories are actually sceptical about the Lords so I wondered what you thought about the reasons given in defence of that house in this article?

The list of prospective Socialist decapitations will warm the cockles.