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[Adom @Adom993]

@hiltonholloway It’s rampant. Chatting to one of the store managers while on survey the other day. Thieves just walk in, empty armfuls of steaks into bags and brazenly walk straight out (telling any staff they aren’t allowed to stop them).
The law is fucked.

[Gerry 🏇💨💨💨 @gerryd84]

Never in my life have a heard a French Geordie accent until now 😂😂

[Adom @Adom993]

@HenryPryor @peterproperty Maybe. But there are swathes of the UK where you can’t even generate a positive land value.

Construction cost inflation, BNG, CIL, AH, Building regs etc etc

But 1.5m homes over this parliament… Okaaaay.
Commercial development also largely goosed.

[Adom @Adom993]

@Toptracer @jamierkennedy Pro-tracer a way better name btw ✊

[Adom @Adom993]

@cjsnowdon Hilarious….The holy trinity of economic fuckwittery👍

[Adom @Adom993]

@tony_jardine @RACRMC @sustainfuels @mismotorsport @MRFtyresUK Phenomenal effort…many congratulations 💪

[Alex Chalmers @chalmermagne]

This is demented.

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

This is the 'economics' equivalent of jumping off a building and blaming gravity. You might wish that you could simply float safely to the ground, but that's not how the world works - despite the fantasies of the Green Party.

[Adom @Adom993]

@tom550993 @AutoPap @ListerLawrence @AutoInfatuation Lovely thing. Unfortunately the govt have fucked cars like this because for most people looking in this price bracket, £735 pa (!) road tax is just unpalatable.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fun fact.

There were just 32 years between the maiden flight of the Spitfire and the Concorde's.

[Adom @Adom993]

@holland_tom @TheRestHistory …I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere
Somewhere in a field in Hampshire, all right.

[Adom @Adom993]

@AndrewBowie_MP @TheSun Just can’t understand why the public distrust politicians….🤷🏻 almost like what was convenient in 2019 is the complete opposite now

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

It feels like all this is already in place, but it’s not.

It’s like stepping on the economy’s head when it’s already drowning.

Few understand what’s coming and how hard it’s going to hit and hurt.

And that’s before any new tax rises and/or spending cuts that are necessary now that the chancellor has bust her fiscal headroom.

[Adom @Adom993]

@createstreets Wtaf! ….pure vandalism

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

Kim Leadbeater really does not want to answer the question of whether the assisted suicide bill would allow a person to die to save money for their family.

The word she is struggling for is “yes”.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

My weekly "Economics Agenda" column in @Telegraph often focuses on the UK’s national accounts – with good reason.

Britain’s public finances are in a parlous state, teetering on the brink of systemic meltdown. I don't say this lightly.

In this week's column, I show that, even though our headline national debt figures are alarming, the underlying reality is even worse.

That's because the true scale of our national debt, the liabilities that the government - ie. taxpayers - face is much, much bigger than the numbers we hear discussed in Parliament and on our airwaves.

Serious financial analysts understand this - and the scale of our vast "off-balance sheet" liabilites is another reason why "gilt yields" have been rising.

In other words, the borrowing costs faced by governmment have been going up – along with the related debt interest bill which must be funded by higher taxes and/or even more borrowing.

In 2023/24, the government spent a jaw-dropping £107 billion on debt interest – almost 4pc of GDP, around 9pc of all government spending, roughly what the state spends on education !! This is insane - and deeply immoral - and that total is set to rise even more.

The danger is that the state's debts and related interest payments spiral out of control, causing a funding crisis and a market meltdown that does very serious economic and societal damage.

Again, I don't say this lightly - and, even though I'm an optimist by disposition, I certainly don't apologise for pointing out these bleak financial realities.

Read the rest of this thread to learn more ...

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https://t.co/ExbnvT1J1a

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

I wish I could've told the girl in this photo what was to come in 2025. She felt cheated, betrayed, and violated.

I'm just glad that girl trusted God and took a leap of faith by stating the obvious when it wasn't popular. It was true then and it's true now. He's a man.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

BREAKING: America’s new Secretary of Energy just exposed the entire climate scam

“Media & politicians NEVER bothered to actually learn about climate change.”

$2 TRILLION to lower fossil fuel use by 2%

They’re not saving the planet—they’re robbing YOU
https://t.co/ziVFC3Ed5c

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Rachel Reeves last week claimed that she is “fixing the foundations of the economy…creating the conditions for growth and investment”.

Yet in last October’s budget, with the tax burden already at a seventy-year high, the Chancellor raised taxes another £40bn per year – equivalent to putting 5p on the UK’s 20-pence-in-the-pound basic rate of income tax.

Reeves also said in her speech at Siemens in Oxfordshire, that: “There is no trade-off between economic growth and net zero”.

This is arrant nonsense.

A major example of how net-zero policies are curtailing growth, doing serious economic damage in fact, is the zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate, including the ban on new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.

ZEV rules, and the related fines, which are far more punitive in the UK than across the EU, are now systemmatically destroying the UK's car-making industry - a sector which employs upwards of a million people.

My latest weekly @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column.

https://t.co/oaEafaY0aL

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