Jane Wilson

Dorset

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

Dozens of protestors here at Lincoln’s Inn Fields covering their faces with masks and no arrests from the police…

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

My Benefits Bill.

You can find out yours by sticking your postcode in this new gizmo from the Taxpayers' Alliance https://t.co/DO4LAklF1K

[DOGE Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💰 @SeneddWaste]

🚨SENEDD BANS THE TERM "BLANKET 20MPH"🚨

The Senedd's ban on using the word "blanket" to describe 20mph speed limits descended into farce earlier, as several members were reprimanded for using the term. You really need to watch this one in full.

[Jane Wilson @JaneFWilson1]

@LucyTrims For my son's Cardiff graduation we had to endure Carol Cadwalladr followed by BBC bore Laura Trevelyan whipping herself for a distant family link to slavery . Utterly awful.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Can we just have a General Election please our democracy is not a game of pass the parcel.

[Jane Wilson @JaneFWilson1]

@picosaurus @AllisonPearson @BBCr4today An asylum caseworker whistleblower that @AllisonPearson interviewed November 25.

[Jane Wilson @JaneFWilson1]

@rorysutherland Utterly incomprehensible

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

The challenge for political broadcasting is enormous, and rather satisfying to watch. After years of personality-driven and chaotic, shallow politics coverage across much of the media, which was largely about instability, gossip and leadership crises we now have a govt with massive majority, widespread internal agreement and no likelihood of massive instability anytime soon. A great environment for a programme like #c4news full of policy nerds and people who prefer to argue about what ideas work than who should be the front person.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Honesty and integrity matter.

Today’s humiliating climb-down showed that the Conservatives know they can no longer defend the indefensible.

It has never been more clear that Boris Johnson's authority is shot and he is unable to lead.

Britain deserves better.

[Denby Pottery @denbypottery]

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[Jane Wilson @JaneFWilson1]

@OldRoberts953 Unlikely, they don't like to make waves.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Labour Together hired private investigators to spy on journalist exposing Morgan McSweeney. Report was passed to Labour Minister Josh Simons.

Pippa Crerar at The Guardian was going to run story based on lies linking same journalist to Russia.

Sums up New Labour & The Guardian:

[Jane Wilson @JaneFWilson1]

@MisAlchemy @JuliaHB1 Also a real woman would wear trousers .

[Jane Wilson @JaneFWilson1]

@JeevunSandher @NewStatesman Really?
Welsh miners 1910

[Jane Wilson @JaneFWilson1]

@JeevunSandher @NewStatesman Really?
Workers Travel Association

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

Cowardly Keir.

Last week in PMQs I asked the PM if all elections due next year would go ahead. He answered by calling us racists.

Now we know the truth.

https://t.co/iAYRAHumQ1

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Still one of the best aged tweets. Happened much sooner than expected.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Very proud of my mum for writing about the terrible experience she had with a nightmare tenant, and how the state turned its back on her at every stage of the process. A complete breakdown in the social contract. @StratfordDC were appalling too
https://t.co/7Hot2AtdPz

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There's a point in every scandal when the curtain drops and you see the thing as it really is. We've reached that moment. Until now, Labour's defence was that Rachel Reeves went rogue – that she spun up a phantom black hole, misled the public, and panicked the markets all on her own. That alibi has just died. Downing Street has now admitted the truth: Keir Starmer knew there was no black hole. He saw the OBR's positive forecasts. He read the speech. And he signed off the lie.

This is no longer a story about one dishonest Chancellor. It is a story about a dishonest government. Reeves lied on 4 November because Starmer approved the script. She warned of a fiscal cliff that didn't exist because Number 10 told her it would fly. She talked Britain into fear so she could raise taxes not out of necessity, but out of political convenience – and she did it with the Prime Minister standing at her shoulder. The black hole wasn't an error, or a misunderstanding, or an early draft of the figures. It was a joint operation.

You can now see how the machinery worked. Treasury insiders whispered horror stories about £20–30 billion gaps. Reeves hinted at income-tax hikes she knew were unnecessary. The media was steered towards panic. The public was softened up. All the while, the real figures – £4.2 billion of headroom – sat on Starmer's desk in black and white. It is the clearest case of manufactured crisis we've seen in years: engineer fear, justify a raid, blame old villains, and hope no one ever sees the timestamps. The Treasury didn't attack the OBR for "breaching private space." They attacked it for telling the truth.

This matters because the lie didn't land in a vacuum. It moved markets. It spooked pension funds. It influenced interest-rate expectations. It shaped decisions made by families, businesses, and investors. It was market-sensitive falsehood presented as fact. Reeves now faces allegations of market abuse – and if she is responsible, then Starmer is responsible twice over. The First Lord of the Treasury is either complicit or asleep. If he knew, he must go with her. If he didn't, he has no business governing.

What we are seeing here is the end of the pretence that Labour is a sober, technocratic outfit of grown-ups. The mask has slipped. Beneath it sits a government that lies first and explains later; a government that treats the truth as something to be shaped for effect; a government that thinks voters exist to be managed, not informed. This is the same crew that slashed winter fuel payments, raided farmers, hammered private pensions, and slapped "punishment taxes" on groups it dislikes – all under the banner of a mythical £22 billion deficit they now cannot explain.

When Number 10's response to being caught is to insist that Reeves's claims were "entirely accurate," even with the OBR's timestamps staring them in the face, it tells you something deeper has broken. Honesty is no longer expected. Accountability is no longer offered. The belief seems to be that power justifies the lie – that the ends excuse the means. That is the mindset of a government in decay.

And now their MPs know it. You can hear the panic in the briefings. "This looks pretty bad." "Hard to see how they come back." "Rachel is tied to Keir." They understand the stakes: if Reeves falls, she drags Starmer with her. If Starmer survives, he survives as a man who nodded through a deceit aimed squarely at the wallets of the very people who put him in office.

Britain cannot be governed on this basis. A Prime Minister who signs off a fiscal fiction, then calls it "entirely accurate," has no claim to moral authority. A Chancellor who uses invented numbers to justify the largest tax raid in years has no claim to office. And a government that treats the public as marks in a political con has no claim to trust.

"The First Lord of the Treasury is either complicit or asleep. If he knew, he must go with her. If he didn't, he has no business governing."

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Mandatory labelling of halal meat would have exactly the same impact as banning halal slaughter.

I'd ban all non-stun slaughter tomorrow, but at the very least we must enforce mandatory labelling.

We're all eating halal meat without knowing it.

It is sick.