Edward Daunt

@afneil To paraphrase WC, a bare faced lie can travel half way round the world before the teller has laced up their boots.

Some corrections: You inherited 2% inflation. It doubled in 12 months after you became Chancellor. It is still 50% above the rate you inherited and 50% above target. It should fall to target 2% this summer. So two years to get back to where you started! What’s to boast about that? Interest rates have been falling everywhere. UK cuts, which you don’t control, have been fewer and smaller because of your inflation record. We still have highest interest rate in G7. The Bank has made some cuts for the simple reason the economy is flat on its back. Well done. Borrowing is slowly falling from a very high base. Almost six years after the pandemic-induced recession, we’re still borrowing around 4% GDP. And borrowing costs are the highest in the G7. Retail sales are up in recent months. We’ll see how long that’s sustained. But the hospitality and construction industries are in crisis. Plus our massive services sector is stagnant. UK fastest G7 economy? That’s simply a bare-faced lie. We grew by 0.1% in Q3 2025; and another 0.1% in Q4. End of.

@spencerreiss @Mr_Andrew_Fox Interesting re-write of history.

@EdDaunt @Mr_Andrew_Fox not entirely blameless for the first

Americans really do not understand us *at all*. At this point there's more that conceptually, politically and culturally divides us than we have in common.

@JohnFarren15 @Mr_Andrew_Fox Effectively, 5 minutes after Israel was formed, several Arab nations (Transjordan, Lebanon Egypt, Syria and Iraq), invaded expecting a quick and easy win. They were wrong. I wonder how the region would now look if they’d opted for peaceful co-existence?

@Mr_Andrew_Fox It's interesting that from 1948 to 1967, there was hardly a concerted campaign to establish a Palestinian state in the parts of the former Palestine mandate controlled by Jordan and Egypt. But instead the fedayeen and the PLO demanded the ending of "1948 Israel".

We need to be more aggressive in pointing out that “Free Palestine” is a blood libel, as it suggests that something called “Palestine” has ever existed as an entity to be freed from something else - ie the Jewish state. “Free Palestine” has its roots in straight-up antisemitism.

@spencerreiss @Mr_Andrew_Fox Pray tell all which world war the UK “birthed”.

@Mr_Andrew_Fox fortunately for us, understanding you is not amazingly high on the priority list (other maybe than some worries the habit of birthing world wars)

Starmer & his lefty lawyer mates want to hand over the Chagos Isles & pay £35b for the priviledge. What cld that money pay for? 3500 new primary schools, 100000 council houses, 40 hospitals. Don't tell me this government cares about public services. What are Labour MPs thinking!?

@StevenGalton What a result!!

Oh ye of little faith... #saintsfc

I understand there are financial pressures but this saves next to nothing (in Govt terms) but will have a huge impact on so many. Cadet Forces offer a fantastic opportunity for young people and we should be encouraging more to join, not cutting the funding.

'Can we please agree that you have indirectly ended up taxing working people?... Please don't insult the audience.' @CamillaTominey grills James Murray MP on his party's decision to increase taxes in the budget, despite promises not to do so.

Evening all. For @ChiIdreninNeed my 6 year old son, Henry, will transform into a punk rocker, complete with Mohican to raise money for @HampshireAutism If you’re inclined to donate thanks in advance! Photographic evidence on the day - 15th November. justgiving.com/page/henry-dau…

Give them some credit please. They make looking bad so easy.

@CathyMo41926708 @JanisBlackburne @bphillipsonMP Actually losing private education will worsen society (I only went to state schools). The VAT raid on private education is also lazy, selfish and somewhat vindictive. “We need more money so let’s take it from families who worked really hard to give their kids the best education.”

@JanisBlackburne @bphillipsonMP What planet are you living on? Society has never been equal and it never will be. Losing private education will change nothing.

Our state schools need teachers more than private schools need embossed stationery. Our children need mental health support more than private schools need new pools. Our students need careers advice more than private schools need AstroTurf pitches. inews.co.uk/news/private-s…

You make an assumption that she knows what that means.

A mutually shared distinctive element between two marks is enough to cause confusion in the case study of #Minuty v #Miura Brands: dycip.com/3zaWoWz #onlyrose #trademarks

#Romania has now become the 18th member state of the #UnifiedPatentCourt (#UPC) as of 01 September 2024, meaning that the territorial scope of any #unitarypatents registered on or after this date will include Romania: dycip.com/3AJyiTo

Labour are blaming their economic inheritance for ‘tough decision’ to cut winter fuel allowance. On OBR figures, if the deficit Labour inherited from us in 2024 was the same % of GDP we inherited from them in 2010 it would be… £161bn higher. That’s what I call a ‘black hole’.

The General Court has annulled the EUIPO's decisions concerning oppositions to the mark #CHIQUITAQUEEN, in the case between #ChiquitaBrands LLC and the EUIPO: dycip.com/3ASzILd #trademarks

#Trademarkparalegals, join Kate Cheney's talk today at the #CITMAParalegalConference to build on your recordals and assignments knowledge: dycip.com/3xHoh7Q

@RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @UKLabour What an absolute disgrace you are. @age_uk #WinterFuelAllowance #Pensioners ageuk.org.uk/our-impact/cam…