Corey Cheape

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Andy Burnham is probably going to raise tax by at least £4.7bn, and maybe much more.

Here's my list of 37 ways he might do it: every potential tax rise, how much it would raise, and what the downside would be. There's always a downside.

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[Brian Leishman @BrianLeishmanMP]

If you support independence, instead of being angry at other party’s MP’s that will vote down this performative Bill that couldn’t ever be passed into law, why not direct your fury at the SNP who are so lazy that they can’t come up with a real strategy of delivering independence?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The UK borrowed another £24.3 billion in April, above the £20.9 billion forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility. 
The ONS said the debt interest bill rose to £10.3 billion last month – the highest on record for April, which marks the start of the new financial year. The government is paying more than £100 billion a year to service its debts. Yet a cacophony of Labour and Green pols think we should borrow even more.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is economic ignorance of a high degree, even for my old mate Diane. If you don’t want to be ‘dominated’ by the bond markets then don’t borrow £3 trillion from them. Be honest with the people and explain how your idea of socialism will entail EVERYBODY paying a shed load more in tax. If you can’t do that then you will be in hock to the bond markets. It’s as simple as that.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

Welcome to "free" university places.

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

Scottish Unionists, or at least those lacking any political nous, underestimate Stephen Flynn. They will learn their lesson the hard way.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

You’re the energy secretary. Yet you don’t seem to know that BP’s ‘excess profits’ come from its global oil trading division, which is not subject to UK ‘excess profits’ windfall tax, not from its North Sea activities, which are. Remarkable.

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

🥀 ‘As one cabinet source says: “It’s all f***ed in fast forward,”’ writes @patrickkmaguire 👇👇

🎪Alas it will soon be a circus again under the next Labour PM, for reasons I gave when I lost: they won’t cut spending but they must

🤦🏻‍♂️It’s obvious Labour will continue imploding

[David Gauke @DavidGauke]

Questioning the triple lock is “far left propaganda”? And, by the way, rather revealing about Reform’s expectations that GB News presenters should toe the party line.

[Luke Robert Black 🌳 @lukerobertblack]

“Paid in”. What do you mean “pay in”?

You don’t “pay in”. It’s not a personal pot.

NICS fund government spending. State pensions are a benefit paid for by general taxation. This is boomer slop

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

The liberal center is “consistently wrong about everything”.
But the Brexit right have demonstrated their political judgement since 2016 by
• taking the UK of out the EU
• championing Boris Johnson
• remaining silent on Trump or Nethanyahu’s domestic policies and foreign wars
• amplifying Trump and Musk’s insults to Britain and Europe -
Ten years. More to come.
And we can see the world their judgement and predictions are willing into being.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Looks really useful, to be honest.

[Robert Largan @robertlargan]

The left now seems to be advocating the principle that if you aren’t a net tax contributor, you don’t deserve support from the state. Which is an…interesting position for them to take.

[George @george_w18]

‘alright, Keir, I’ll do it. But you need to give Rory a peerage’

[Huddersfield Preservation Society @HuddsPrsrvtnSoc]

This just doesn’t work anymore since Blair’s drive to get more people to attend university.

Least educated = self employed plumber who takes four holidays a year

Most educated = unemployed PIP claimant with an MA who wakes up at noon and smokes weed all day in between crying

[The Black Horse @TheBlackHorse65]

This is just embaressing.

In 1863 the Confederate Army peaked in strength at ~450k, most of whom had almost no training. In 1870 Prussia fielded 949,337 men in the Franco-Prussian war, 730,274 of whom were trained regulars.

The Prussian Krupp C64 steel breech-loading guns also wildly outclassed Confederate artilery. Prussian officers were veterans of repeated campeigns in Europe, and trained in the first modern staff schools, the finest of their era by far.

These two forces don't belong in the same discussion.

[Cllr Elliot Keck @ElliotKeck]

The quality of our MPs should be a national scandal, and improving it should be one of the top priorities for anyone working in politics

[Ghost Maggie Serota @maggieserota]

we used to live in a different world

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

It’s probably best to simply say I wish my former Conservative colleagues good luck working with this man👇

It’s clearly in the national interest to ensure he gets nowhere near power.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Smart move @KemiBadenoch - I think the Tories and the public (the minority who know who @RobertJenrick is) decided some time ago there there is something deeply untrustworthy and opportunistic about him. Once a Cameroon he has decided his best route to high office is now via Reform. Trouble is with every defection of every Tory architect of the mess 🇬🇧 is in @Nigel_Farage chances of power dim rather than grow. We could well be passed peak Reform already. This is the time for both Labour and the Tories to step up the fight