Dan Wavell

Dad. Freelance Digital Marketing Consultant & Drummer @30TenMusic

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

I just took action with @theactionnet: Sign up: National antiracist network to stop the far right. Take action here: https://t.co/xMhKhaNAO1

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@rogersanders @DeborahMeaden Starmer needed to be given a chance to finish what he started. Yet again party infighting has taken priority over public need.

[Aaron Newbury @AJNewbury94]

I have to admit, Burnham's speech comes off as a bit naïve. To be blunt, it smacks of a man who's grown extremely used to not having much scrutiny and to being the centre of local power and attention for nearly a decade.

Him not taking questions at the end is just as telling. Burnham will effectively become Prime Minister by default: no contest inside his own party, no general election mandate for the changes he wants, and of course no scrutiny from the press.

His entire speech was, in effect, "why can't everyone be more like me" and yet it announced almost nothing. Nothing on cost, nothing on how any of it actually gets done. Just a collection of soundbites, and painfully political ones at that, with no substance behind them.

"A circuit-breaker." "Good growth in every postcode." All of it sounds lovely (let's do the good things and not the bad ones). Nobody's ever thought of that before!! But… how?

Being a Mayor is a fundamentally different job to being Prime Minister. A Mayor spends money, much of it handed to him by central government, and never has to weigh one department's misery against another's. The job he's warming himself up for is the one that has to make those trade-offs, and nothing today suggested he's reckoned with that.

He reaches, as these people always do, towards the idea of a country "lifted back up", homes built, places regenerated, industry revived, pride in place, etc etc. There are models for this. You can run massive public housing programmes, but historically they're delivered through expensive, highly centralised, government-run schemes. Singapore being the obvious example. What they are not delivered by is building a second centre of government.

What Burnham is really offering is top-down socialism with a smile. Devolution on steroids doesn't shrink the state, it bloats it. A "No.10 North" doesn't move power closer to people, it just builds more state, in a second place, at additional cost. It's more process, dressed up as a radical idea nobody's ever had before.

More and more, political speeches are just a hodge-podge of pleasant noise. We will do things, lots of things, good things. We'll make sure things you like have "social value", we'll make you proud of [insert thing to be proud of], we'll deliver [insert policy that sounds really nice].

But the problems this country faces are enormous. Law and order is eroding, and rebuilding it means serious money for police, courts and prisons. The state grows more expensive by the year while the workforce paying for it keeps shrinking. We have an energy crisis and a poverty crisis, conflicts multiplying abroad and armed forces begging for cash, and more than a million young people out of work - on top of housing nobody can afford, child poverty, and a generation that feels detached from the society around it.

You don't fix any of that with a slogan and a second postcode for the guy in charge.

Every Mayor thinks his city is the best, and Mayors, almost uniquely in British politics, are rarely questioned. Today we all saw what nearly a decade of that does to a man. And thanks to his refusal to so much as take a question, we've had no chance to hold a single one of his plans up to the light.

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@IoWBobSeely @faisalislam And you’ve failed to grasp a government can’t do all that in 2yrs, and can’t never do it in 14 years if you keep changing leadership every 5 minutes. This is media driven, not the public.

[ticketmasteruk @TicketmasterUK]

From @LewisCapaldi to @lastdinnerparty, and from rising stars like @ChloeQisha to @theguestlistmcr, don't miss these acts playing at the @IsleOfWightFest, one of the UK's most historic music festivals:

https://t.co/hN0MgAE44m

[ticketmasteruk @TicketmasterUK]

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[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

Oh my 🙌 Also…is Jesus played by David Harbour here? 😬🤣

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@IoWBobSeely @BBCNews @attorneygeneral Did you also say that as loudly in 2022?

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@IoWBobSeely @RachelReevesMP So easy to make nonsense slogans when you’re just a nobody who doesn’t need to be accountable or fact checked

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@IoWBobSeely @ZackPolanski Unbelievably pathetic response. Grow up.

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@DeborahMeaden Why does it stop at 9? Surely it did 10 and he’s cropped someone off?

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@IoWBobSeely @RachelReevesMP You’re starting to look really deranged and Bob

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@IoWBobSeely @10DowningStreet 1. Being anti Israel’s actions is not anti-Semite. 2. Your current leader was in a position to do something about grooming gangs when you were in power but did nothing. 3. You know full well there’s due legal process to complete to ascertain their status.

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

Seriously @thetimes I can sign up and continue monthly payments very easily online without talking to a human. But to cancel I need to phone up?

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

Seriously @thetimes I can sign up and continue monthly payments very easily online without talking to a human. But to cancel I need to phone up?

[Isle of Wight Festival @IsleOfWightFest]

🎤 @LewisCapaldi is BACK.

For the first time since 2022, Lewis returns to the Isle of Wight Festival as your Friday #SkyxIOW headliner.

After 2 years out of the spotlight, he came roaring back this summer with ‘Survive’, and we can't wait to hear it live in June.

#LewisCapaldi

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@bushontheradio Garden waste…what an aroma

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@BenInRushcliffe He’s not going to be running the country. You’ve seen how our FPTP system works yeah? And how far away an election is? And how polls at this kind of time in a parliament are often wildly wrong? It’s great to hear some new voices but everyone does need to calm down just a bit!

[Dan Wavell @danwavell]

@CamillaTominey @JMPSimor @peteratcmc Probably the most pathetic tweet of the day 👏

[Woke Lefty 🫣 @SalfordMe2023]

Ant Middleton goes bust owing £1 million in tax & vat.

Instead of paying his tax bill Mr & Mrs Middleton issued themselves £3 million directors loans which they 'settled' by paying the administrator £300k.

Angela Rayner paid £40k less stamp duty than she was meant to, she's now paid in full, and provided documents showing how it happened.

An accidental underpayment versus almost £4 million of self enrichment.

The hypocritical right in all their wonderful glory.

https://t.co/YydOsCtwOu