elliott

Grow slow, grow real. #BleedMarroon

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

He wants to deploy UK forces we don’t have to keep oil and gas flowing 3,000 miles away but forbids any new investment in our sector of the North Sea. Bonkers.

[Oli Dugmore @OliDugmore]

Rachel Reeves admits it.

She says that student debts are not loans to fund university study. They are designed as a tax for other public services, thanks to their insane interest regime.

At least she’s honest!

[Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott]

Massive away win for the little fella.

[Christian May @ChristianJMay]

Reeves, October 2024: "It's worse than we thought, going to have to raise taxes."

Reeves, November 2025: "It's worse than we thought, going to have to raise taxes."

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

The man who has spent the last year trying to destroy the farming sector now turns his attention to the house-building sector.

#Reshuffle

[elliott @ellshre]

lol

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

There are 156 billionaires in the UK with a total wealth of £620 billion. Redistributing their wealth over £10ml at just 3% would raise almost £40 billion - enough to fully fund the NHS

Tax the billionaires.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

That’s my quant

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

We paid for Angela Rayner’s education. We paid her wages when she worked for the local council. We paid her wages when she became an MP. We even paid the settlement that enabled her to buy a house. Tax payers have funded every aspect of her entire life.

[Ross Baglin @ross_baglin]

You ran in two elections in the last eight years with an IRA supporting leader and Shadow Chancellor.

You recently gave away strategic British territory and made us pay £18B to do so.

I’d sit this one out if I were you.

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

I’m puzzled. Labourites tell us that Angela Rayner was only trying to look after her child which they quite rightly say is understandable.
But when a farmer tries to look after his children, they say he’s a tax dodger.

[Craig @craigmrosie]

My two children left private education because of this woman and Labour. Sept 24 we applied to the council to home educate as no schools in our area had places or were below par. I’ve heard nothing from the council since so as far as anyone is concerned right now my 11 and 13 year old have been lost from the system. The only benefit I can take them on holiday whenever I want! Nobody cares about them other than us! So don’t come telling me anything if you ever decide to find out how their education is going!

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Jaguar Land Rover has today announced the loss of 500 jobs.

[elliott @ellshre]

There is always a tweet

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

NEW: GDP figures see dramatic drop to -0.1% in March.

This adds to the worries families already face from the cost of living crisis.

If the PM and Cabinet come back from their Away Day in Staffordshire today with anything less than an Emergency Budget, they will have failed.

[elliott @ellshre]

Insane

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

JUST RAISE TAX

Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of a crisis. The tax system must be torn down. The government’s attempt to save £5.5bn has failed, as did the attempt to cut the winter fuel allowance, with the government spending slightly more than if it had done nothing at all.

Reeves is beginning to write her next budget. Her advisers will meet at the long, cabinet-style table in her office in Whitehall. It’s not an exaggeration to say that everyone around that table understands that taxes will almost certainly have to rise in the autumn. They will have to confront a terrible mistake that Labour made when it promised not to raise any of the three biggest revenue-raising taxes. The question that now hangs over this government is which would be worse: breaking that promise, or breaking Britain’s economy – before handing it over to Nigel Farage.

The truth is that middle earners, the people Reeves and Starmer’s advisers worry about the most, are not being taxed enough. The basic rate of income tax has not risen – not once, not by a penny – for more than 50 years. During that time the average life expectancy of people in the UK has increased by almost ten years, and as a result, our spending on healthcare and pensions as a share of GDP has doubled.

[elliott @ellshre]

Morons

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

After the welfare climbdown, one Labour MP was heard saying: “I don’t understand why this means tax rises when it’s only a few billion pounds.”

[elliott @ellshre]

Shameful

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is set to reduce the £20k annual ISA savings allowance to as low as £5k

[@FT]

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

A year ago today. How’s it going?

Bills have gone UP by almost £300.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Sophy Ridge is right - the claim that the Winter Fuel payment is back because the economy is stronger does not stand up to scrutiny. As she shows here...

[The Spectator @spectator]

Here’s a full transcript of the speech that JD Vance gave at the Munich Security Conference this afternoon. https://t.co/U9DP9fWaX9

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

The UK could lose up to 9000 pubs.

From April, pubs with a rateable value of £100,000, will see business rates jump by £19,000 per year.

They will need to sell an additional:

60,000 pints a year.
Thats 1200 pints a week.
Thats 170 extra pints a day.

Thats before rising energy bills, wages and other costs.