Michael Cuddington

No flannel I like to say it has it is . A proud Yorkshireman who works for DWP.

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

@SophiePrestonHa Cllr if you think he is MP quality you are on another planet he has been ridiculed for his appearance on @bbcquestiontime last week , so much so @reformparty_uk wouldnt allow him to take up the invitation from Newsnight he is a PLUMBING disaster.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

For DBS checks to be conducted, proof of ID and address must be provided by way of original documentation.
The fact Rob Kenyon will not co-operate with the process suggests something is amiss.
#DBS

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

@JohnSwinney given you wont hold a further internal inquiry into Peter Murell embesselment isnt it time the sovereign parliament (Westminister) investigate the devolved parliament @theSNP

[John Gittins @johngittins19]

@cuddy271 @mikoh123 @reformparty_uk @BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire He is being shielded after his dismall performance on @bbcquestiontime last week .

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

Another complete car crash.

You can see why Reform rarely lets him anywhere near a microphone.

Bad, even by their horrific standards.

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

@mikoh123 He can hardly put a sentence together, you can see why @reformparty_uk turned down an invitation on his behalf to appear on @bbcnewsnight I think @vicderbyshire would have made mincemeat out of him.

[John Gittos @JohnGittos27]

Question-Surely the parents are giving their children the tools (phones ) to surf the internet and shouldnt they taking responsibility . John ( Leeds ) @LBC

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

Is @edballs employed by @GMB because he is cheap or because his wife is a member of the government ,what does ITV see that viewers dont ?

[John Gittins @johngittins19]

I have been listening @GMB to your discussion regarding how bad our tech firms are but not once have you mentioned its parents who are paying and giving their children under 16 the tools to see what they dont want them to ?

[John Gittins @johngittins19]

@cuddy271 @ITV Its a far better game than @England match yesterday .

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

Watching Morocco vs Norway on @ITV and theres no commentary whats going on ?

[@david-t-evans.bsky.social @David_T_Evans]

Ooh,I bet @Jacob_Rees_Mogg & #LiarJohnson won't like that one!

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

If @England clearly struggle to control a friendly against New Zealand, how are they supposed to win the likes of France, Spain, Argentina, or Brazil. On that performance an early exit is inevitable for the team and in Thomas Tuchel case from the England job.

[John Gittos @JohnGittos27]

@Mather_Keir nearly put his foot in it on the BBC when he seemed to be on the point of backing Andy Burnham for PM, until he was reminded as a minister if he does not back @Keir_Starmer he should resign 🤣🤣🤣

[John Gittins @johngittins19]

@cuddy271 @bbclaurak They are begining to fuel the fires too , and until that report appears and @HantsPolice rightly have their chance to tell us what confronted there officiers that night .

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

@johngittins19 @bbclaurak @HantsPolice What is worrying if the IOPC say this is an incident that went tragically wrong due to a wrong decision made by a police officier and no more, will it be accepted.

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

Surely when the father of Henry Nowak said he didnt want his sons death to fester division perhaps broadcasters should realise they too like politicians have a responsibility and wait for the IOPC to report
@bbclaurak

[Victoria Freeman @v_j_freeman]

There he is! The Andy Burnham I remember from his Westminster days. Tetchy, evasive, unable to explain himself fully, irked by female interviewers.

[Michael Cuddington @cuddy271]

@Labourheartland Sorting out buses , potholes and the nightlife in Manchester is a long , long way from being PM and this interview should make Labour think again , very dissappointing @AndyBurnhamGM

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

“I’m not going to go through a discussion like an exam on the fiscal rules. I know what the fiscal rules are.”

Absolutely incredible.

Andy Burnham, the man currently being polished up as Labour’s great alternative, was asked a simple question: if you are going to bind the country to the Prime Minister and Chancellor’s fiscal rules, can you tell us what they are?

Instead of answering, he blustered.

And that tells us everything.

Burnham is not a break from Starmerism. He is Starmer with a bit more northern varnish and a better camera angle.

For all the talk of change, he is already promising to operate inside the same Treasury cage. The same self-imposed rules. The same obedience to the bond markets. The same economic theology that says Britain can always find money for war, banks and corporate contracts, but must suddenly discover “discipline” when people need homes, hospitals, buses, care, wages and dignity.

These fiscal rules are not laws of nature. They are political choices dressed up as economic necessity.

The current rules say day-to-day public spending must be covered by tax revenues by 2029/30. In other words, public services must live within whatever space the Treasury spreadsheet allows.

They also say public sector net financial liabilities, the government’s preferred debt measure, must be falling as a share of GDP by 2029/30.

Then there is the welfare cap, because apparently the poor must be numerically contained while the City gets to call itself “confidence”.

This is the machinery of permanent restraint. It locks government into managing decline rather than rebuilding the country.

And Burnham’s answer?

“We will set out a plan that is within those rules so that we keep the discipline.”

There it is.

Not transformation. Not economic sovereignty. Not a serious industrial strategy. Not a government prepared to use the powers of a currency-issuing state to mobilise resources for national renewal.

Just discipline.

Discipline for the NHS. Discipline for councils. Discipline for disabled people. Discipline for public sector workers. Discipline for the towns and regions left to rot.

But never discipline for finance.

A sovereign country that issues its own currency is not a household. The real limits are inflation, productive capacity, labour, skills, materials and resources, not some invented household-budget morality play. Modern Monetary Theory at least understands that public spending is not constrained in the same way family finances are. The question is not “where will the money come from?” The question is: what do we need to build, who has the power to build it, and what real resources are available?

Burnham had a chance to challenge the frame.

Instead, he accepted it.

So let’s stop pretending this is a new politics.

It is the same old austerity machine with a different driver at the wheel.

#MakerfieldByElection #Makerfield #AndyBurnham