We need you to stand up for your #StIppolyts constituents @alistrathern - the village is being concreted over and green belt lost forever - read the objections from locals https://t.co/KFNxwGdJtV
Happy 5th Christmas in Brexitland 🎄
🧑🎄 Here’s👇 the financial market verdict on Brexit Britain 🇬🇧
🎄 UK 10-year borrowing costs are now consistently higher than:
🇩🇪 Germany 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇦 Canada 🇯🇵 Japan 🇮🇹 And often worse than Italy
🚩For a country that issues debt in its own currency and used to be seen as ultra-safe shows markets are pricing in risk:
🇬🇧 is less stable
🇬🇧 has weaker growth prospects
🇬🇧 has poorer policy credibility
🇬🇧 is more exposed to shocks
👉Why Brexit is to blame:
The divergence starts after 2016 and hardens after 2020: Loss of frictionless trade. Smaller tax base. Lower productivity. Chronic current account weakness. Reliance on footloose capital instead of embedded EU investment
Brexit didn’t free the UK, it reclassified it and this matters
🆙 Higher borrowing costs mean:
⬇️ Less money for public services
⬇️ Less room for investment
🔥 More pressure for austerity-by-stealth
🔥 More raids on assets that can’t move (farms, pensions, family businesses)
This is the hidden link between:
Brexit. Farm taxes. Welfare cuts. Public sector squeeze
When borrowing is expensive, govt stop investing and start extracting.
Brexit didn’t restore sovereignty, it merely raised our mortgage rate.
And every policy we are fighting -
farming, welfare, local government collapse - flows from this chart 👇
After 9/11, NATO's Article 5 was invoked for the first (and only) time ever by the United States.
Troops from the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Poland, Norway, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Finland, and many others joined the fight in Afghanistan.
More than one thousand of these soldiers paid the ultimate price.
JD Vance - Have you said 'thank you' once for their sacrifice?
It’s a fact that since we ran this front page, our engagement on this platform has collapsed. It’s not a great concern to the ongoing success of our business model which is entirely reliant on subscribers and newspaper buyers … but it’s an interesting coincidence!
@BBCNews - you’ve really lost it - just an absolute disgrace - allowing Tories to lecture about donations as a lead news item? Really? You used to be so much better
Keir Starmer gives his Chief of Staff a pay rise…
The Times leads with it.
Boris Johnson tries to hire his girlfriend as his Chief of Staff…
The Times speaks with Johnson’s team and then pulls the story.
Pathetic.
Robert Jenrick, who is the favourite to be the next Conservative party leader, received £75,000 from a firm which has no employees, has never made a profit and has £332,000 in debts after taking a loan from an untraceable British Virgin Islands company https://t.co/9xVksRJEC8