@AndyBurnhamGM You demanded a GE when the tories were in power. When you become PM if you want any respect from the electorate you need to hold one immediately.
Rachel from accounts/customer service needs a better calculator.
A family of 4 travelling from Chester to LEGOLAND in August will cost about £600 once you include the train fare, the shuttle bus, and entry tickets.
That’s before food or paid attractions in the park.
And her big “help for families” is a £5 discount on a LEGOLAND ticket 🤡
@RachelReevesMP If you want kids to thrive cut VAT on education. That’s far more important than a trip to the zoo - even you should surely be able to work that one out.
Given the ridiculous volume of Prime Ministers that Britain’s endured in recent years, I think it should now be law that if a PM quits or is forced out during his/her term, it automatically triggers a new general election. That might concentrate their minds to do a better job.
Burnham is a financial fool ( more Aye up than AI) who, according to his previous utterances recorded in today’s Times, will borrow more unworried about the bond market, increase income tax and inheritance tax , nationalise water and energy and do bugger all about Channel migrants.
Here is his manifesto all from his own mouth;
* increase the top rate of tax from 45% to 50%.
* Massive increase in council house building and a ban on sales to tenants.
* Integrate the NHS and social care, paying for it by adding 10% to Inheritance tax.
* Rejoin the EU.
* Scrap the first past the post electoral system and replace it with promotional representation.
* Borrow more money. He has said it’s wrong to be in “hock” to the bond market and is unconcerned by interest rate rises on mortgages and loans.
* Disagrees with the Supreme Court filing on trans and believes there should be a “consensus” on the issue.
* Says he agree with some of Mahmood’s migrant policy but once again says there should be “ consensus” ie do nothing.
Pretty much a joy for Lefties and nightmare for those of who have to pay for his ideas.
British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election:
Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister.
Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour.
We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run.
We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.
Some corrections:
You inherited 2% inflation. It doubled in 12 months after you became Chancellor. It is still 50% above the rate you inherited and 50% above target. It should fall to target 2% this summer. So two years to get back to where you started! What’s to boast about that?
Interest rates have been falling everywhere. UK cuts, which you don’t control, have been fewer and smaller because of your inflation record. We still have highest interest rate in G7. The Bank has made some cuts for the simple reason the economy is flat on its back. Well done.
Borrowing is slowly falling from a very high base. Almost six years after the pandemic-induced recession, we’re still borrowing around 4% GDP. And borrowing costs are the highest in the G7.
Retail sales are up in recent months. We’ll see how long that’s sustained. But the hospitality and construction industries are in crisis. Plus our massive services sector is stagnant.
UK fastest G7 economy? That’s simply a bare-faced lie. We grew by 0.1% in Q3 2025; and another 0.1% in Q4. End of.