TormeadMike

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The idea that a government populated by ministers who, combined, have close to zero proper business experience, dribbling out small dollops of cash to companies they favour will play any role in finding ‘the UK’s first trillion-dollar firm’ really is one for the ages. If it ever happens it will be despite the government, not because of it. They really have no clue.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Andy Burnham branded a 'hypocrite' after taxpayer-funded spending on consultants triples to £27million a year under Manchester mayor - despite previously slamming 'indefensible' waste https://t.co/yuZoUG3bAU

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Remarkable story in Telegraph revealing just how useless recent Tory governments were:
A secret Whitehall report found that more than £28bn in foreign aid and Covid-19 loans was handed to terrorists, hostile states and gangsters!
The misappropriation of taxpayer funds from 2015 to 2021, includes millions sent to the Islamic State and Russia.
Those responsible remain unpunished and the dossier was buried to spare official embarrassment.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Wow. A billion of taxpayers money. Most of which will be frittered away and never seen again. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, US AI companies plan to invest £750 billion this year.

[TormeadMike @TorqueVerum]

Too many people, too big a state, and too little income. UK socio demographics are all in the wrong direction yet we have crippling taxes, anaemic growth, no productivity, and a debt and welfare bill running off the scale. Governments can do little without radical spending cuts.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘The country hasn't been in such dire straits since the early 1960’s…’

Business and finance broadcaster Michael Wilson gives a bleak warning on the state of the UK’s finances.

[TormeadMike @TorqueVerum]

More public money pissed away by government!

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Oh fantastic news Taxpayers…

A secret government report found £28 BILLION of our money has gone to…

▪️terrorists
▪️hostile states
▪️organised crime
▪️Kremlin linked entities
▪️Human traffickers

And then they buried the report, cos they didn’t want you to know 🔥

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

With debt growing faster than everywhere except Botswana, the chances of Britain needing an IMF bail-out climb by the day, says ALEX BRUMMER https://t.co/gq1rjNk8j4

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The government tell us to turn our heating down and eat less red meat for net zero. Yet they ram through gigantic hyperscale data centres that consume as much electricity in 24 hours as roughly 89 average streets use over an entire year. We are being treated like suckers.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

After years of economic crises, rising borrowing, higher spending and repeated failures to reduce the debt burden, the consequences are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore

With £650m added to the bill each day, economists warn an IMF bailout is no longer remote ⤵️
https://t.co/6MwnhhuoAd

[TormeadMike @TorqueVerum]

This was and still is bizarre…

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

How on earth has Angela Rayner been "cleared" by HMRC?

She didn't pay the extra £40,000 stamp duty that was due. She didn't take the specialist tax advice on her flat purchase that she was advised to take.

She failed to pay the extra stamp duty that she, as Housing Secretary, had brought in for second home purchasers.

For HMRC not to issue a fine means they judged her decision as "reasonable care" having been taken, or it was possibly "careless", but not a "deliberate" underpayment.

She clearly did not take "reasonable care" to ensure her tax was correct. And if it was "careless", it was *deliberate* carelessness.

Do you seriously think that if YOU underpaid your taxes by £40,000 as the then Deputy Prime Minister did, that you would get away without a fine?

Sorry, but this stinks.

[Rogue @RogueUnfiltered]

‼️ Darren Selkus says Labour’s entire economic growth plan is “collapsing in real time”

Darren Selkus is a British Army veteran, businessman (CEO of UV Group Plc)

Darren says Labour’s entire economic growth plan is “collapsing in real time”

He states higher stamp duty & punishing taxes have crushed the housing market instead of creating the promised boom

“We’ll all end up poorer…
We’ll all end up worse off…
again!”

[TormeadMike @TorqueVerum]

Another amateur to balls it up!

[Simon Danczuk @SimonDanczuk]

Here’s a reminder why Burnham couldn’t even beat Miliband or Corbyn for the leadership. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he’s tetchy, and temperamental. Most of today’s Labour MPs don’t know him. They’re in for a shock if he wins Makerfield…

[Emma Woolf @EJWoolf]

Slow handclap to @UKLabour 🙄

[TormeadMike @TorqueVerum]

Utterly pointless - UK net zero will not move the dial on global climate numbers but this academic twonk’s zealous approach will prove cripplingly costly to business and working people.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

British households could spend around £1.4bn subsidising European electricity bills in 2030 as part of Ed Miliband’s green energy push, a report has warned.

🔗: https://t.co/eKt4l3tNGs

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

A car crash interview.

Andy Burnham wants to be the next Prime Minister but clearly doesn’t know what the fiscal rules are.

Campaigning on change but not much is different from the past two years.

Still blaming Thatcher despite him being an MP during the New Labour government.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

Burnham’s BS.

Victoria Derbyshire asks Burnham 5 times how he would pay to take utilities back into public ownership and 5 times he fails to tell her.

This guy hasn’t got a clue what he’d do as PM except speed us back to the 1970s even faster than Starmer is doing.

[TormeadMike @TorqueVerum]

And self interested Burnham will only accelerate us towards the consequences of this socialist nirvana…

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Labour risks being forced to seek emergency help from the International Monetary Fund as Britain lurches toward a debt crisis, leading economists have warned.

🔗: https://t.co/aAw68Q9hDQ

[TormeadMike @TorqueVerum]

Typical academic policy twonk - never had to run and survive a business in his life. That’s Labour all over!

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Ed Miliband's new Net Zero targets requiring the tripling of electric vehicle sales in just three years are not credible, carmakers have warned. https://t.co/7TcuUbEXLs

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman explains why our government keeps growing:

“I don’t believe it’s true for a second that we have so much government because people have such demands upon government.”

“We have so much government because once you get started in an area, it becomes a preserve of the people who can best take advantage of it, and they have a far greater interest in maintaining it than the population at large has in destroying it.”

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

“No new taxes on working people”.