Emma Wilde Hale

F1 Junkie, Bulldog parent, professional interferer - views all mine 🙅‍♀️

[Jonathan Greatorex @greatorex]

@UKHospKate @ChefTomKerridge
My dearest chums,

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be aware that hospitality is having a bit of a tough time of it.

VAT at 20% is killing our industry and is completely out of line with the rest of the planet.

Please, take just one minute to sign this petition (and share wild afield):

https://t.co/l7u392oHRc

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Mandy Files — 2. May 2025
Another zinger from Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden to Mandelson:
‘Every meeting I have is “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others”. They’re asking the wrong questions.’
Wow! Just wow!!

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[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

How times have changed 😂

[Emma Wilde Hale @RealWilde]

@greatorex @elwyn04 @mabonapgwynfor @CyngorGwynedd @Plaid_Cymru That’s a bit radical for the public sector and would be impossible as it requires applying a modicum of common sense 🤯

[Emma Wilde Hale @RealWilde]

@greatorex @elwyn04 @mabonapgwynfor @CyngorGwynedd @Plaid_Cymru Yep about the same here 🫣🫣

[Lloyd Warburton🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @LloydCymru]

Only two of the 14 candidates in this by-election live in Makerfield. Reform and the Tory…

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Labour has 'no coherent plan' for country, says Blair https://t.co/0xZol2u8D9

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

Folkestone in Kent!!👍😎

[Dan Thomas MS @DanWalesReform]

The BBC can push this all they want. The people of Wales do not want to fork out for a mansion for the First Minister while veterans sleep on our streets.

[Cai Parry-Jones MS @Cai_ParryJones]

The Welsh Government spends MILLIONS on employing climate change experts for positions such as:

'Head of Net Zero Evidence',
'Assistant Climate Economist',
and 'Climate Change Analyst'

Wales produces less than 0.1% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Getting rid of these types of roles will be an easy cost saving win for a Reform Wales government.

https://t.co/YI4geqCZ9Z

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Golden retriever puppy heals rescued kitten in just three days..🐕🐾🐈😊

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

'If I cut tax on visting Alton Towers, more people will go. If I increase the tax on employing people...no, hold on...'

[Emma Wilde Hale @RealWilde]

Meanwhile their parents and anyone with a car will have to stay at home as they can’t afford fuel

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Rachel Reeves has joined TikTok to announce 5-15 year olds in England will receive free bus travel this summer

[Powys Business Awards @PowysAwardsBusi]

Only 2 weeks to go until the 2026 Powys Business Awards are launched!

This year's awards will be on Friday 23rd October 2026 at Dering Lines in Brecon.

[Emma Wilde Hale @RealWilde]

Mother of God … 😫🤯🙄🫣

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

The IMF upgrading its growth forecasts for the UK and backing our fiscal strategy is yet more proof that this Government has the right economic plan.

[Cai Parry-Jones MS @Cai_ParryJones]

The Senedd have given each member two £2000 laptops and offered a £1000 phone on top. That's approximately £300k all together on devices used primarily for Google Chrome.

[Jonathan Greatorex @greatorex]

@elwyn04 @mabonapgwynfor I, for one, will be asking you personally to back this. For too long, Wales has been run by lobby groups and third sector organisations. Will you both be supporting this?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things.
I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation.
Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right.
On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating.
I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.