@DPJHodges@DarrenRJones Normal, decent people know how to behave, right from wrong, regardless of culture, they don’t need a lesson on ‘our cultural norms’ jeez.
Absolutely dire response to the small boats fiasco from Wes Streeting this morning.
Instead of tackling the issue at hand, he insists the Home Office plan is working and has a pop at Chris Philp for filming French police doing nothing to stop the boats.
Andy Burnham has been impressive in kickstarting conversations on big issues facing the country. But if he and his ministers think they can just ignore those inconvenient scenes of hundreds of undocumented men arriving on beaches, that is both laughable and incredibly insulting to the public.
Argentina stock market all time nominal highs, inflation high but a long way from 200% when he took power, ditto interest rates from 60%. That plank in your eye is your ongoing bias
@KarlTurnerMP@a_webb@Nigel_Farage Yep, you will still get your arses handed to you, only c 8 million people voted for you, narrow winners in many seats, lent votes etc. It’s all of you, not just him
A step by step guide how to crush the remainder of the private sector, disincentivise risk taking, wealth and job creation and in the long run make everyone poorer. Out of control wasteful spending is the major issue.
Andy Burnham is probably going to raise tax by at least £4.7bn, and maybe much more.
Here's my list of 37 ways he might do it: every potential tax rise, how much it would raise, and what the downside would be. There's always a downside.
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@SamCoatesSky If me becomes PM, his rating will plummet, nothing will change as the diagnosis of the problems are wrong. Left wing solutions aren’t the answer. The state can’t create economic growth.
Faced with a choice between a Defence Secretary who wanted to spend more on our armed forces, a Chancellor who wouldn’t, and an Attorney General who enjoys suing them, the Prime Minister decided he could do without … the Defence Secretary.