The UK Labour Party

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/b0f90ec3-8094-447e-9cf1-96019978c5f6?syn-25a6b1a6=1
 Many foreign observers are bewildered by the image of a country that appears ungovernable, forced into endless changes of prime minister.

[Baile Brigín 2]

As opposed to the Corporate Tax haven money in ROI going where?

A wealth fund for a rainy day/Irish reunification

[Rossfan]

Ah stop confusing lads with facts

[seafoid]

The average tenure of the UK Prime Minister in this decade is 500 days. Compated to that Ireland is much more stable.

[seafoid]

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/naomi-long-warns-of-catastrophic-%C2%A3450m-funding-gap-facing-northern-ireland-justice-system/a/151626967.html

Naomi Long warns of 'catastrophic' £450m funding gap facing Northern Ireland justice system
£450m shortfall projected
Justice Minister Naomi Long
Justice Minister Naomi Long  © PA Radar
Andrew Madden
City Reporter
14 May 2026 8:27 PM
Naomi Long has sounded a dire warning over funding, with the Department of Justice facing "stabilisation pressures" of more than £450m over the next three years.

The Justice Minister said a projected £215m shortfall in 2028/29 alone "represents the entire budget for Prison Service, Probation Board, Youth Justice and Forensic Science".

It comes at a time when all Stormont departments are dealing with significant financial pressures, a situation that has been exacerbated as no budget has been formally agreed.

Read more
Justice Minister warns Stormont 'cannot continue to absorb' Legacy costs

A proposed three-year draft budget was published in January, but the Executive failed to sign it off.

Now Naomi Long has detailed just how precarious the funding situation for her department is.

Under the draft budget, Ms Long said it is "extremely disappointing" that it would leave her department with stabilisation pressures — essentially shortfalls in what is required to keep things running — of £101m in 2026/27, £141m in 2027/28, and £215m in 2028/29.


"The £215m pressure in 2028/29 represents the entire budget for Prison Service, Probation Board, Youth Justice and Forensic Science," the Justice Minister noted.

This is before "exceptional pressures" for PSNI holiday pay, the McCloud remedy and legacy costs are taken into account.

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Executive parties 'obliged' to do all they can to agree budget, O'Neill says

In 2023, the PSNI lost an appeal in a long-running case on holiday pay for PSNI officers and civilian staff, which could cost around £40m.

Considering the magnitude of the pressures remaining it is difficult to see how my department will manage to live within budget
The McCloud remedy, which involves public sector pensions, could also cost the DoJ millions, while the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee previously heard legacy costs could be in the region of £1bn over the next decade.

"This is catastrophic for the justice system in Northern Ireland. Considering the magnitude of the pressures remaining it is difficult to see how my department will manage to live within budget," Ms Long said.


"The limited funding provided to my department will mean that it is almost inevitable that it will overspend its resource budget in each of the next three years. 

"I will continue to engage with ministerial colleagues to advocate for additional funding to ensure we have a justice sector that is funded appropriately now and in future years, which is currently not the case."

When it comes to the DoJ's capital position — funding for fixed assets like infrastructure — Ms Long said things are "equally stark", with an average shortfall of £150m over the next four years.

"The limited funding in the proposed draft budget will severely restrict my capital plans to transform and modernise the justice estate," she said.

"This will inevitably result in major capital projects being delayed including, potentially, the building of emergency accommodation in the Prison Service estate — such a delay is simply unfathomable given the growing prison population.

[johnnycool]

Out of curiosity, do some posters on here have a full time "Jew radar" on the go, or how do you seem to be able to identify politicians in all countries as being in Israel's palm, with such conviction?

Maybe yis are just more well read than I am.

Follow the money.

Labour Friends of Israel is a good start.

https://www.declassifieduk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/All-Party-Israel-Lobby-Full-List-Edited.pdf

ANTI-SEMITE!!

you have to be persecuting Semites before you can be called an anti-semite.

Ashkenazi's aren't semites but you knew that anyway.

I was being tongue-in-cheek. I refer you to post #593.

I was indeed being pedantic with my comment about Ashkenazi's not being semites and Gallsman comment about it being "widely understood" is accepted at being anti jew, if being incorrect is probably the accepted understanding, yet the IHRA description of anti-semitism bundles any criticism of Israel as also being anti-semitic.

Those who felt the need to bundle the state of Israel as being an entirely Jewish entity and hence criticism is anti-semitic have done more harm to the Jewish people than they envisaged.

There are plenty of Jewish groups who support and attend the Pro Palestine marches in both London and NYC, so where do they stand on the anti-semitic scale?

[seafoid]

Streeting and Burnham both proposed rejoining the EU.

[Genocide Organ]

Streeting and Burnham both proposed rejoining the EU.

What votes are they chasing? Greens? Not the Red Wall's, anyway.

Besides, not going to happen, even if they do win an election.

[seafoid]

https://x.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/1998158040533799095

The Brexit majority hasn't just slipped it's vanished. Completely. This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows: • 5 million 2016 voters have died • New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1 • 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin • Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m  An 8 MILLION majority for Rejoin. Britain is now a pro-EU country. The only people keeping Brexit alive are politicians who benefit from the damage

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/15/most-northern-ireland-residents-who-voted-for-brexit-believe-it-has-failed-poll-finds/

The majority of voters in Northern Ireland, including among those who voted to leave the EU, agree Brexit has been more of a failure than a success, according to new research from Queen's University Belfast.
Ten years on from the referendum, the university found 72 per cent of Northern voters agreed with the statement, and 60 per cent among those who voted to leave.

The study, published on Friday, also found two-thirds of voters – 66 per cent – believed Brexit had made the break-up of the UK more likely.
It showed a "strong" preference for closer ties with the EU; 59 per cent of voters opposed further loosening of UK-EU ties and 57 per cent supported the UK rejoining.
She said the dominant theme in comments from those surveyed was "Brexit is a failure" and this was for two distinct reasons.
"Remainers say it's a failure because it was an act of national self-harm and they didn't want it anyway, and for leavers it's a failure because Northern Ireland never got Brexit," she explained.