Jamie Wilson

Curse these metal hands

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election

🔴 LAB: 24,937 (+6,725) - 54.8%
➡️ REF: 15,696 (+2,893) - 34.5%
🟣 RES: 3,111 (NEW) - 6.8%
🔵 CON: 997 (-3,382) - 2.2%
🟢 GRN: 308 (-1,468) - 0.7%
🔶 LD: 163 (-2,572) - 0.4%

Changes w/ 2024
58.75% turnout

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

Huzzah!

[Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher]

NEW: Burnham *rules out* awarding financial compensation to Waspi women demanding billions of pounds, following an angry backlash within Labour

Greater Manchester mayor has instead floated the idea of offering early access to cheaper travel schemes as recompense

https://t.co/J2IMe6jLW2

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

@DanNeidle If I’ve supported someone who gives the WASPI women money I will have to go live in a cave somewhere

[Labourball @labourball]

What happened?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has pledged to scrap business rates for shops, cafes and hairdressers - and reduce them by 20% for pubs

It would be funded by increasing taxes on online tech giants and their British warehouses

[@Telegraph]

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

@ZackPolanski “The bond markets need to know that there is a plan”, and that plan is taking them on/refusing to pay debt interest? Can’t imagine it’ll be easy to borrow more money/maintain the economy in those circumstances….

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Former defence secretary Gavin Williamson announces death of pet tarantula https://t.co/DxJU6icumE

[big john the boshfather @Johnfis08605918]

My wife is the soul of our family. She is one in a hundred million. So proud that she is my wife and I love her very much. Bosh.

[Jordan Tyldesley @PippyBing]

A bit of Andy Burnham lore that shows exactly why I rate him so highly.

I was chatting to a homeless guy who’d fallen on hard times one late evening recently. As a long shot, I messaged Burnham. Within minutes he replied and helped.

He’s genuinely one of life’s good guys.

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

@Zokko18 Which he’s doing because the soft left have decided he’s their best chance. He’s one of the only politicians in the country with a positive approval rating and he’s a better communicator and politician than Starmer. Given the likely outcome of 2029 otherwise I don’t care

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

@sales_belinda As has much of the party and the nation? He just doesn’t…

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

@AdamPugh @Ritchie14035531 I agree with this sentiment, but a 10:1 pay cap is still a really silly idea

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

Contract signed 🤝 between Rolls-Royce SMR and @GBNgovuk to start building our first small modular reactors.

SMRs will deliver clean, secure, homegrown energy for millions of homes and support thousands of jobs.

A major step forward in our golden age of new nuclear power.

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

@BritishPsycho__ @meadwaj He said that we don’t need to spend the money on debt interest and ‘it was created as an idea’. He raised a lot of the talking points.

After 14 years of austerity and a boring technocratic Labour govt, I’d love to know what unnecessary spending there is to cut. Seems unlikely.

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

@BritishPsycho__ @meadwaj RE borrowing- we’re already spending £106 billion a year on debt interest and debt is 97% of GDP. Can we go further?

It’s not what Polanski said in his interview on the Rest is Politics about MMT, but that’s good

I agree with strengthening ties with Europe, but trident…

[Jamie Wilson @Jam_Quoi]

@ToryWipeout I’m still (somehow) a Labour voter but your odd blend of calling Polanski an austerity backer and a Libdem is really annoying. He’s obviously not and this government is as limp as me after 11 beers. No need for this.