@KemiBadenoch@_AndersonStuart@KemiBadenoch having a good go on all fronts. BUT let’s get YOUR LIB DEM WETS publicly stating & supporting YOUR recent policy directionals.
This is what it will need for me and many other similar to come back. Please demonstrate. #14years
@JChimirie66677@CeeMacBee I said a while ago that Powells position should be the first thing Burnham needs to check out. Those that can bring pressure to this should!!
@RUKWales@marion1_alice@DanWalesReform Look, the newspapers used to make a big difference (lightbulb moments) but now….? Yesterday’s chip paper.
Use your elected Council Platforms to demonstrate your capabilities and excellence, support @reformparty_uk national policies. Be better, be the best. Lead.. @Nigel_Farage
Now today's out the way I'm sure we will be hearing a lot more about how:
- Labour's first two Budgets increased taxes on British workers by £36 billion and £26 billion respectively, pushing the tax burden to an historic high of 38.3% of GDP
- The OBR forecasts 240,000 more people will be unemployed in 2026 than it previously projected - it said this is largely attributable to Labour's employment policies
- The UK unemployment rate was 4.9% as of early 2026, up from 4.6% a year earlier, an increase of 124,000
- Total UK welfare spending this year is estimated at £333.7 billion - up from £315 billion
- The UK is spending £301 million per day just to service its debt interest on Labour borrowing
- Labour promised 1.5 million new homes this parliament. Between 9 July 2024 and 15 March 2026, it had build just 342,100, way off target
- More than 1 million young people aged 16-24 were not in education, employment or training in the first quarter of this year - up 89,000
- The NHS waiting list stands at 7.22 million cases
- When Labour took office in July 2024, just 58.8% of patients were treated within 18 weeks. The target is 92%. By March 2026 it had only reached 65.3%
- Around 100,000 patients are waiting over a year for NHS treatment
- Over the past year, approximately 1.56 million people waited more than 4 hours in A&E - a huge breach of the target
- The outstanding caseload in the Crown Court stands at around 80,200 - the highest level recorded since 2016 and more than double the pre-Covid caseload
- A quarter of all Crown Court cases have been open for more than a year
- There are currently 14,749 sexual offences cases waiting to go to the Crown Court - a 75% increase
- There were approximately 530,640 shoplifting offences recorded in England and Wales over the past year - the highest in the entire time series on record
- There were 41,000 small boat arrivals in 2025
- Of all people who have arrived by small boat since 2018, only around 7,500 (4%) had been returned from the UK by the end of 2025
- Last year the Home Office spent £4 billion on asylum support. This includes £2.1 billion on hotel accommodation alone - around £6 million per day
This is wonderful. @CamillaTominey beautifully turns the screw on James Murray over Andy Burnham's coronation and directly calls out Labour's eye-watering hypocrisy.
Well worth a watch.
She doesn't give him an inch.
Absolute car crash.
@ClaireCoutinho We have big problems now but 20 years on will be a different world again. Net stupid zero. Continuance of low skill migrants, grey economy, money launder, Chinese supply chain dominance and toss in AI maximising on administative positions - will all lead to absolute social chaos.
@LizaRosen0000@im_man_magic How are the Tories going to stop anything with their many ridiculous, ‘Wet’ Lib Dem types who split the Tory Party? I like @KemiBadenoch but I’m seeing zero evidence of their Wets signing up to this purported tougher half dozen shadow frontbenchers. Demonstrate Tory unity.
@CPhilpOfficial@im_man_magic How are the Tories going to stop anything with your many ridiculous, ‘Wet’ Lib Dem types who split your Party? I like @KemiBadenoch but I’m seeing zero evidence of their signing up to your tougher half dozen shadow frontbenchers. Demonstrate your unity.