Kevin Crisp

Liberal in the old (proper) sense. Athiest but fascinated by religion. Climate model sceptic. Interested in classical music and politics.

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

I've been asked again what the Bank of England should do in response to the latest jump in gilt yields.

Short answer - nothing. The MPC's job is to worry about inflation, not to make it easier for the government to borrow even more.

[Kevin Crisp @SalemTheRat]

@KevinCraigUK @UKLabour @andyburnham Gilts went over 6% this week didn't they?

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@JerryBarnett I don't think it's the facts this MP wants, I suspect it's a stick to beat Jews with.
As an aside, everyone is still alive and presumably gave the authorities all the facts. Hence a quick conclusion.

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@TerraOrBust He misses the fact that the Tories had just won a General. He also misses the enormous publicity for the EU vote. Most of it from Remain.

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@ItsAndyRyan @IngrahamAngle If Carney gets the Nobel, you'll be able to see Trump explode from Mars.

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@Lord_Sugar No
Yes
Yes
No
No

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@NoContextBrits Has the injunction on his husband's extra curricular activities been relaxed yet?

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@rcolvile @imlirvingit If the chip on his shoulder grows much more, he'll be able to feed Manchester with it.

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@JohnRentoul @ayeshahazarika Most of the public will not hear anything about it. I think it was the 7th most read on the BBC yesterday.

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@DanielJHannan How many votes will just be "Oh god, not again, please just shut up about it".

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@TerraOrBust Fair play to you GF, but why are they keeping them. Who ordered it? To what end? Sounds like some heads need to roll.

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@AdrianYalland @Jebadoo2 At least privatise the hospitals!

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@Figuregirl1977 Agreed, but not pennies :-) Unless you meant tens of thousands of them.

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@JournoStephen Channeling Ronnie there Stephen.

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@EnarialP @WrathQueenof Good call.

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@thinking_manc I can't think of anything that would be different except brexit in the last 16 years.

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@WonPeople @THE_SIR_HOBBY There are actually very few insurance companies, it's perfectly possible he's now insured by the same company as last year.

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@jared_shult Mike Johnson is doing sterling work driving up Democratic turnout.

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@Joc7376 @Mike_Fabricant She fucked herself with "trans women are women" comment in the HoC.