Max Chaplin

[David P GCSE (multiple) @DavidPGCSE]

@krishgm A lot of it about

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

There are economies in the world which basically work: high income, sky-high social capital, world-class education, efficient services, low crime, high happiness, clean streets, functional everything. At least two of them, Hong Kong and Singapore, were British creations, back when we still had sane and competent politicians and bureaucrats instead of a captured civil service that ditched numeracy in the Treasury for diversity quotas.

That was the promise of Brexit: ditch the straitjacket, cut taxes, restore sovereignty, and become the Singapore of the Atlantic. Low tax, high trust, open but orderly, ambitious on the world stage. The so-called smart people sneered it was impossible, stupid, even dangerous. Instead they offered us Manchesterism.

WTF?

As if any sentient person on Earth wakes up thinking, “Yes, Manchester, that’s the glittering future I want for my children.” No one believes this. Not even the most committed Labourites in private. It’s garbage politics: the globalist endgame dressed up as progress, wheeling yet another mid-range, mid-competent, thoroughly biddable satrap onto the stage. It is genuinely humiliating. Brezhnev, for all his senility and stagnation, had more tangible accomplishments than Burnham.

Look at the record. Finances? Not healthy by any serious high-income standard. A £1 billion-plus budget now, yes, after central tweaks, but saddled with £1.6 billion in debt (up sharply), persistent gaps, heavy social care pressures, and reliance on reserves or central props.

Health? Life expectancy and healthy years lag the national average with grotesque deprivation gaps, higher preventable mortality, obesity, and services stretched to breaking.

Crime? Elevated violent and knife rates in known hotspots — Moss Side, Longsight, parts of Salford — creating patchwork safety: fine in the centre by day, avoid certain estates at night.

Youth? Rising NEETs and gang pipelines where opportunity died.

Native housing? Priced-out locals renting into middle age while home ownership slips away.

Happiness and life satisfaction? Dragged down by the lot of it, lower in the North West than in more cohesive places.

We invented better models once. Brexit was the chance to revive that competence and ambition. Instead, the “smart” people gave us Manchesterism: mid-tier outcomes, strained services, visible decay, and lectures on net zero while the basics creak.

It humiliates a nation that once exported order and prosperity. We could have been serious again. We still can if we reject this midwit self-fart sniffing managerialism and remember what we once built.

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@WilliamClouston Very sorry for your loss,William.

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@SartorialThug *compared

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@SartorialThug Agreed. Margo was properly sexy when confused to Barbara's chipmunk like cuteness. A very sad day indeed.

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

Regardless of who she played; Margo Ledbetter (and I will die on the hill that Margo was sexier than Barbara Good), Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton or Agatha Raisin, Penelope Keith was always fabulous and funny. A very sad day indeed. Rest in peace.

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@DavidPGCSE £86 isn't bad for 50 minutes work, especially if she's keeping her north and south closed the whole time, but personally I'd still ask for more before I agreed to go and see Lily Allen.

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@DavidPGCSE 'tis a fine salady lunch. 10/10

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

What are you going to do if they don't stop? Make their boobs bigger?

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@windsorholden Never change Grauniad, never change.

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

Don’t take it from me.

Take it from one of the internet’s greatest pioneers @jimmy_wales

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

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[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

I suppose that I should be grateful to the Conservative Party for so diligently reminding me, every time I start thinking they are the principled and sane choice for my vote, that they are actually the same interfering, nanny state busybodies they have been for the last 35 years.

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@Steven_Swinford

[Patrick Doran @lunch_enjoyer]

wow I never realized she speaks almost like trump. almost identical cadences. I see why they hate each other. its a highlander type situation

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@TheSimonEvansX As fine a tribute as anyone could ask for. So sorry for your loss Simon.

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@BDSixsmith

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@DavidPGCSE No urge for offal then?

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

7 things every kid needs to hear:
1. I love you
2. I’m proud of you
3. I’m sorry
4. I forgive you
5. I’m listening
6. Communism has failed every time it was tried
7. You’ve got what it takes

[Max Chaplin @chaplin_max]

@AtticumFloreat I'd settle for the fleet we had in 1979... or' 89 for that matter.