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Last week's IMF forecast for UK growth - minus 0.3% in 2023 - featured heavily across TV/radio news bulletins. Very few mentioned that IMF also reported that in 2022 chalked up 4% growth, the fastest in the G7 – a fact, rather than a forecast. The highly-influential @EY_UKI "Item Club" has just predicted the UK will actually grow 0.2% in 2023. How much news coverage will this attract? #doomandgloom

@toryboypierce I very much doubt it, have you tried to see a gp? They do everything they can to avoid seeing anyone yet the surgeries are empty. An absolute disgrace.

Is the 25 % fall in 999 calls a sign people have been calling emergency services unnecessarily. Or are people turning to their GPS instead

Crikey !! This is from OBR documents. Fuel duty hike not mentioned in the Chancellor's speech, funnily enough ....

Turned away from the post office as “on strike today”. An absolute disgrace. There is no cost of living crisis there is a lack of leadership crisis across the entire public sector and in many of the major corporates of this country. Something needs to change before it’s too late!

Great news that all COVID restrictions have been lifted. A massive bit of positive news for everyone. School kids, business, life. Looking forward to a better world and more rational times.

Incredible call to Nick Ferrari on LBC earlier - The stepson of the UK's first Omicron death @NickFerrariLBC @LBC

@MetroMayorSteve This man is just another example of a government that are nothing short of a disgrace. Bewildering how they keep going and are so unaccountable. They wouldn’t survive a single day in the real world of work and commerce.

This is indefensible. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

@susannareid100 Really @susannareid100 ? Good to see @Keir_Starmer talk of #ExcludedUK sad you & @piersmorgan brush it aside. Please don’t start saying we are in this together @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak @GavinWilliamson @AlokSharma_RDG are killing the country by lack of leadership, we need you!!

New lockdown. Schools closed. Exams cancelled. Shielding reinstated. Starts now. Hold on tight everyone. Get that vaccine. We are in this together and we’ll get through this. But it’s going to be hard.

Look at these Guardian headlines! Every winter, the NHS is “at breaking point” ...!

.@HMTAllegra quick question for you, on behalf of @TVNaga01 and @mrjamesob ahead of the PM’s acceptance of the Starmer Plan at 8pm tonight: where is @RishiSunak?

@toryboypierce These jokers are bonkers but never mind that, why don’t they believe in this country and it’s entrepreneur spirit ???? Oh wait a minute, maybe because @RishiSunak has destroyed that #ExcludedUK #killingsmallbusiness

Lord Heseltine in denial about the referendum result & trade deal insists the fight goes on

@Nigel_Farage Happy New Year Nigel. Am struggling to find anything in your vid to disagree with. Good luck, keep on keepin’ on

Stopping China is the next big battle to fight.

@toryboypierce @LewisHamilton Very Unlikely.

Now he is Sir @LewisHamilton will he move back to UK from tax haven Monaco and start paying British taxes on his fortune

How countries that properly managed the crisis will celebrate the new year. We should envy them, admire their leaders, and continue to deplore our own Govt’s shocking incompetence. 👇

So BBC indulge in a day of broadcast mourning as, at last, the UK is free! Where is a modicum of self-confidence, an ability to stop looking in the rear-view mirror & to look forward instead? Not one minute of analysis on the opportunities

If closing schools will slow down acceleration of R rate why has it been surging since the schools closed?

Count the hours until liberation. At 11pm we finally leave the undemocratic profligate out of touch EU

Once again, @Nigel_Farage who did more than anyone else on the planet to get us out of the EU, is denied an honour. What a nonsense this makes of the whole corrupt system.

@stevepsmallwood @ExcludedUK @RishiSunak @Caroline_Ansell @APPGGapsSupport @Eastbournenews @RadioDGH @EastbourneEcho Once again the arrogance of this man is a disgrace. Being one of the excluded it’s his determination to positively discriminate, ignore and pretend we don’t exist that hurts more than anything.

10mths now! Uknow it fgs how much longer @RishiSunak @Caroline_Ansell b4 u help 3m families #ExcludedUK #ForgottenLtd @APPGGapsSupport forced into poverty many r yr constituents #Eastbourne @Eastbournenews @RadioDGH @EastbourneEcho savings gone, so choosing either food OR heating

@AngelaRayner Another shining example of what a complete shambles our government are. Completely destroying our country all in the name of PR

What a disgraceful failure. Like so much this government does the Nightingale hospitals were just an expensive PR stunt. Just when we need them most this January there are no staff to operate them because of the NHS staffing crisis the Tories created over the last decade.