I predict President of USA will be Trump & the polls are wrong again - feels like GE 2015 & Brexit again,Bookies never want favourite to win
The budget was a nothing burger.
Growth Commission verdict š
Growth Commissioner @DMcWilliams_UK highlights some of the opportunities that @JohnHealey_MP missed in today's Budgetš
growth-commission.com/2026/1ā¦
Does @faisalislam know how much trouble the government is in?
Replying to @EdConwaySky
Chancellor's speech also reveals debt* will be higher each of the next five years than previously planned.
*as measured by their preferred measure, public sector non financial liabilities which isn't really what most economists would call "debt" but that's another matter
Old Ed has just spotted the financial crisis about to come probably in January when the tax receipts donāt meet the OBR optimist expectations @mattlynnwriter
This budget borrows another £15 billion while interest rates rise just to pay the interest on the existing £3 Trillion debt
The markets are demanding spending cuts and Healey borrows and spends more
Trump will be running the UK within months - probably January when the tax fails to come in as OBR forecasts
Burnham wonāt be PM for long @DPJHodges
Kemi absolutely tore them to bits today - weāll deserved
Mayor of West Yorks retweeted
And now he wants to bring EU people in to bring wages down himself. Grade A Tosser.
Mayor of West Yorks retweeted
Has your life improved in the last 100 days? In any way?
Have your bills gone down? Do you feel richer? Safer? Has your local community improved at all?
For the average person, the answer is a resounding NO.
Burnham is making tweaks as broken Britain slides further into terminal decline.
Heās a talker, not a doer. He hasnāt changed the country one bit so far, and isnāt going to.
We need fundamental change - and that's what I will bring.
In our first 100 days, we will:
Put the Royal Navy in the Channel and stop the boats forever.
Begin the mass exit of over 1 million people who illegally entered Britain.
We will make it impossible to live here illegally, so many will leave voluntarily. But, make no mistake, the deportation of those who donāt will be enforced.
We will increase your tax-free personal allowance from £12,570 to £15,000 to keep money in your pocket.
Weāll reduce your annual energy bills by Ā£250.
Weāll charge NO interest on loans for nursing students, lift the cap on medical school places and cut student loan issuance by 20%.
If my ministers fail to deliver, I'll sack them. Simple as.
The stakes have never been higher. It's time we have a government that acts like it.
Mayor of West Yorks retweeted
Letās tell them again
Brexit 2 wonāt even be close
The Rejoiners and their useful idiots in power are lying to you
Ā£2 bus fares like they were under the Tories -
Thatās why heās talking about the EU as he knows heās done nothing @DPJHodges
Burnhamās first 100 days: can his gut instinct fix Britain? thetimes.com/uk/politics/artā¦
Andy Burnham reminding us that āfree movementā really means ālower British wagesā
Ofcourse he was a Corbynista Brexiteer in 2016
@DPJHodges
Or competing with cheap foreign workers for lower wages as itās actually known
UK and EU officials to discuss freedom of movement bbc.in/4jE5uQw
Let me correct that headline
UK holding talks with the EU about a return to British workers competing for lower wages with cheap foreign workers living 10 to the HMO and only allowing workplaces that only speak Polish
Thatās fixed it @jon_trickett @DPJHodges
UK holding talks with EU about return to free movement thetimes.com/uk/politics/artā¦
Letās call āfreedom of movementā what it is
Itās British workers competing for lower wages with cheap foreign workers living 10 to the HMO
Thatās exactly why 422 British working class constituencies voted to leave the EU
āFreedom of movementā = modern slavery @DPJHodges
Why does Andy Burnham love freedom of movement between the EU and UK? New Talking Politics youtu.be/s7Cm1MHYpvo?si=jzrE⦠via @YouTube
Just lies
Re-upping this Makerfield focus group from last week in light of headlines around PM re-opening convo on EU. I thought heād get a Brexit backlash. But my big surprise in group was that nearly all these leave voters had regret & open to PMās look again
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JdmZQā¦
Dan - I think your mate Burnham has a big problem
It appears voters are tactically voting against this foul Labour government @DPJHodges
P.s. Hitler was jailed by Germany in the 1920s for his socialist views
Mayor of West Yorks retweeted
Brexit didn't cause the structural hollowing out of our economy; the 2008 crash did. The EU isn't a progressive haven, rejoining won't fix our problems. It's a distraction from the real task: a rupture with neoliberal orthodoxy. My piece for @politicshome buff.ly/eW4uUl3
āWith tactical votingā - the problem is the ātacticā in this poll is to vote against Reform when in reality all ātactical votingā under FPTP is against the incumbent government (thatās what happened to the Sunak government in 2024 and in the Makerfield by-election to bring down the Starmer government)
In my opinion āwith tactical votingā this poll would show a Reform clear lead
@DPJHodges
šØNEW: Westminster Electoral Calculus MRP, with tactical voting:
š¹ LAB: 27%
ā”ļø REF: 22%
š³ CON: 19%
š¶ LDM: 9%
š GRN: 8%
š¦ RES: 8%
Polling via @FindoutnowUK
Le Pen has already said āno dealā without cross party support
The fullest plan yet for Britain to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Ministerās call for a closer relationship with the bloc. Today the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), an influential centre-left think tank, publishes two substantial reports laying out the most serious approach yet to rejoining the EU, as Andy Burnhamās pro-European tilt begins to take on a life of its own.
Read @EthanCroft98's report: newstatesman.com/politics/20ā¦
No replies - only an idiot is going to reopen the debate about Scottish independence - Scots have no interest in devolution - all this does is force another independence referendum which they will probably win as the average age of a Scots voter is over 60 - and they all support independence






















