I’ll leave others to continue litigating Brexit, Carl, but these figures are nonsense. Just consider — for them to be true Britain would have been just about the fastest growing advanced economy in the world, up there with America, if we’d stayed in the EU, way ahead of rest of EU’s major economies. At a time when our biggest market — the EU — was stagnating growth wise. What would have made the British economy so exceptional in such circumstances? Magic beans? It’s simply not credible.
@NickJFuentes Justified!!! The car was barely moving and his life was NOT in danger, this video just compounds the video footage that was captured on the day. He was just looking for any reason to shoot someone. Disgusting!
@alexarmstrong Silence?? There have been marches in the streets up and down the UK involving tens of thousands of people. There has been outrage at the deaths in Gaza for the past 2 years.
@MartinSLewis Well done Martin for all your hard work bringing this awful practice to the forefront of the conversation and pushing the government to consult on the matter.
Chancellor Reeves still peddling the fiction on TV this morning that tax rises in last October’s Budget were forced on her by the £22bn Tory ‘black hole’ in nation’s accounts. Let’s deal with that once and for all before Wednesday’s Spring Statement.
Let’s accept, just this once, the ‘black hole’ even if, contrary to her claims on Sky News today, the OBR has never acknowledged its existence.
She taxed and borrowed by far more than necessary to fill in the alleged black hole — because she wanted to increase public spending, which she did by £70bn.
She financed this by £40bn more in taxes and £30bn more in borrowing.
She did not have to do anything like that to fill in her black hole.
But by doing what she did she lost the confidence of consumers, business and investors.
This has slowed the economy to a crawl and created a new black hole of her own making. Which she will attempt to fill in with spending cuts on Wednesday and, no doubt, more tax rises come next April’s Budget.
Exactly right. Zelenskyy will be seen by future historians as a true leader, one prepared to stand up to a brutal dictator. Trump will be seen as a Putin patsy. And as for J D Vance. Well, he's just an ignorant blowhard who knows jackshit about anything apart from his own vanity.
Kissing Trump’s ass to avoid a Trumpian primary challenge in 2026. Pathetic. Don’t remember you saying this about ‘Europeans’ when thousands of Brits fought alongside America in Iraq and Afghanistan, with over 600 losing their lives to help your country. Don’t remember you saying thank you.
ANDREW NEIL: This was nothing short of a disgrace, the bullying of a leader whose country has been savaged by unprovoked Russian aggression and who deserved to be treated better. Who knows where it leaves any peace process? https://t.co/au3LKGJixn
Not long after I posted this Trump went bonkers on Zelensky. It is very worrying.
Every claim he makes — from America giving a lot more than Europe to Ukraine, Zelensky support’s being down to 4% and Zelensky being a dictator because he’s not called elections (neither did Churchill when we fought for our freedom) — is demonstrably untrue.
More worrying than that every one is a Kremlin talking point/piece of Putin propaganda.
Why does Trump slag off Zelensky yet never have a harsh word to say about Putin.
Bizarre and distressing.
Starmer wants us to talk about how a 17 year old could buy a knife online.
The truth is there are murder weapons in every kitchen drawer.
What we should be talking about is the total failure to stop this terrorist & the cover-up of information that the public were entitled to.