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Suffolk, UK. Ex Tory voter, self employed, husband & father. Horrified & Dismayed by our government.

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

After the damage Rachel Reeves inflicted on our economy as Chancellor, you’d have thought she’d have found herself a very large cave on a tiny remote island and hidden there in embarrassment for a very long time.

But not Shameless Rachel. Bold as brass she popped up in the media over the weekend to rewrite history, pontificating she ‘got all the big calls right’. What a kick in the teeth to business owners who suffered at her hands.  

It seems Reeves has become the new Liz Truss - utterly deluded and telling anyone who'll listen she wasn't the problem. It wasn’t her tax and spend policies that has caused so much pain nor her tax on jobs that has consigned one million kids to not being in work or training.

What’s more, from the lofty pages of the Sunday Times, she asserted it was Brexit that made the country “poorer, weaker and less secure”.

The public isn’t fooled. They didn’t nickname her "Rachel Thieves" out of affection; it’s because she robbed them blind with her tax busting budgets. And when they called her "Rachel from Accounts," it wasn't a nod to her financial acumen—it was because she was completely clueless and had sexed up her cv.

Her solution to get the country back on its feet, is not to reverse her crippling tax rises, but to rejoin the EU.

As Mrs T would have said No, no, no.

France is bust and in flames and a far-left nihilist contagion is spreading across Europe with rioting now in Germany, Spain and Portugal.  Parts of the EU have youth unemployment at 40% and above - double the worst areas in the UK – and free movement that Reeves now advocates would leave more British youngsters without a job . 

This from a woman who stood on a manifesto promising that the UK wouldn’t betray the Brexit vote. She gave her word to her 53% Brexit voting Leeds West constituents, just as Burnham did to his constituency in Makerfield - which registered a 65% leave vote in the referendum.  

In interviews before Labour’s landslide General Election victory, Reeves said ‘the last thing we want to do is restart the division that occurred during that referendum’ - stressing ‘I don’t think it would be good our economy and for business’.

Will the real Rachel Reeves please stand up?  Perhaps she’s just trying to impress the continental Remainer establishment in a quest to land a highly paid job. How insulting.

Reeves loved being the first female Chancellor, something she never tired of reminding us of. It’s just a pity she was a useless Chancellor which was rather more important than her gender.

Andy Burnham is the same. He’s always craved being made Prime Minister but now he’s there he has no idea what to do. Last week’s directionless budget confirmed that.

Blaming this socialist government’s failings on Brexit is not going to wash, nor will it rescue Rachel Reeves’ tarnished reputation.

[Higgy @higgyboson]

Here's @EmmaforWycombe

She's a @UKLabour MP and the Chief Secretary to The Treasury.

She's NEVER had ANY employment beyond lobbying and politics.

She's the moronic airhead who recently declared that employers aren't working people.

She knows absolutely NOTHING about business, commerce or hard graft.

Her hands are as soft as fairy dust, she's never had dirty finger nails and her arse has been moulded to the shape of whichever "chair" she's been appointed to during her "career" of avoiding doing any actual work.

She has no grasp whatsoever on how this country is kept afloat by it's millions of small businesses and it's business owners.

She's an absolutely clueless waste of space. Totally out of her depth. An empty vessel with no hope of EVER understanding the endeavour, courage, entrepreneurial spirit and downright tenacity of millions of us who run businesses in this pitiful country that people like her have ruined through sheer incompetence, ignorance and indifference for the working people who foolishly voted for them.

She perfectly sums up what's wrong with a system that promotes useless failures to lofty positions of power and encourages them to stamp on the heads of the people who truly care about this country and it's citizens and are prepared to get off their arses to do something about it.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

#PAKWatch🇵🇰: Pakistan ranks a DREADFUL 131st out of 143 countries in the newly released @TheWJP 2026 RULE OF LAW INDEX.

PAKISTAN = MILITARY RUNS THE SHOW = NO RULE OF LAW.

FREE IMRAN KHAN.

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@PeterJarre52552 @JamesMelville Can work in sunny places to power air con — not great inthe UK to power heat pumps etc - when it is mostly cloudy with alow weak sun when the power is most needed. Plenty of data rich studies argue this point.

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@mattwridley The loss of habitat types Mr Goldsmith speaks of, are those protected and nurtured by gamekeepers! The same ones which encourage and protect populations of all ground nesting birds.

[Nobody Special @JG_Nuke]

Coreweave CEO Michael Intrator says the market is acting irrationally by selling his stock.

A run through SEC filings reveals Michael Intrator has been “acting irrationally” as well, selling $907 million worth of $CRWV shares this year alone.

His cofounders Brian Venturo and Brannin Mcbee have also been acting irrationally. The trio has sold a combined $3.3 billion of stock since the IPO. Venturo is the second biggest insider seller of any American company this year.

Their benefactors at Magnetar Capital have also been acting irrationally. They have sold more than $5.5 Billion of Coreweave stock since the IPO.

A lot of people seem to be acting very irrationally.

[The View From Here @nicevyoo]

Wow @BBCBreaking

They really care about French classroom standards....in Belgium.

Or is it radical Islam on the march?

Hmmm. Tricky one.

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@kastan_styrax @RestoreBritain 100% ! — & one reason ‘reform leadership’ always felt to me, lacking the credibility that comes from principled sincerity.

[James of Suffolk 🇬🇧 @HFFurnitureUK]

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[Goosey @Goosey30111568]

If you earn £100 & pay £30 in income tax, you’re left with £70.

BUT if you then buy £70 of fuel, you pay £41.46 in fuel duty AND VAT (59%).

Which means the taxman just took £71.46 in tax of your hard-earned £100.

This is why the U.K. economy is failing.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Oh.

[Polly @Polly778899]

@AllisonPearson No worries.

George Soros' high tax Institute for New Economic Thinking runs the economy thanks to their rep Torsten Bell.

When it all goes wrong, George Soros' pal IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva will give terms prepared by George Soros' Institute for New Economic Thinking.

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@whitepilledpage

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@Arkypatriot ❤️

[Fatbaldbloke @Fatbaldbloke1]

Nazis are now openly operating in our country completely unchallenged.

[Katie @KatieM12121]

Anyone joining the dots yet?

Mahmood opening the doors to more migrants from Afghanistan.
Terror suspects getting immediately bailed.
Miliband cosying up to the IRGC.
£Millions for Palestine.
Continual focus on ‘Islamophobia’.

[Kari A. Jaquesson @KariJaquesson]

Russland har absolutt alt av råvarer, energi og er det største landet i verden.

Hvorfor i alle dager skulle Russland ville overta et konkursrammet, skakkkjørt Europa som knapt har noen ressurser overhodet, og med store sosiale problemer?

Hadde folk bare brukt hjernen istedenfor å opptre som papegøyer for krigskanalen NRK, ville de nok kommet på andre tanker.

[Pato Bonato @patobonato]

Los europeos no tienen hijos porque no pueden mantenerlos.

Los migrantes tienen hijos porque los europeos los mantienen.

Si no financiaran a los inmigrantes, podrían reducir impuestos y permitirse tener hijos de nuevo.

[Jamie Jenkins @statsjamie]

🚨 Oil above $107.

If that pushes inflation higher, the Bank of England may be tempted to raise interest rates.

But we’ve been here before.

The Bank responded to the last external inflation shock by pushing up borrowing costs to suppress spending across the economy.

But higher interest rates do not produce more oil.

They do not reopen pipelines.

They do not calm the Middle East.

And they do not suddenly stop people needing to drive to work.

So households get hit twice:

Higher energy costs first.

Higher mortgage and borrowing costs second.

We tried this before.

Doing it again because oil prices have risen would be bonkers.

Would you support another rate rise because the global oil price has gone up?