Andrew Neil

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Andrew Neil

@afneil

Columnist for Daily Mail UK and MailOnline USA. @TimesRadio anchor. Former Chairman of The Spectator, Editor Sunday Times, BBC TV anchor, Chairman Sky TV

Everywhere Katılım Nisan 2010

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Andrew Neil@afneil·7m

The case for public ownership is strongest when we’re talking natural monopolies. Even then taxes need to rise to pay for costs/losses and all the capex required. Of course that rarely happens. Instead state-owned monopolies are starved of investment as politicians prioritise more immediate needs eg welfare spending, public sector pay etc. That’s exactly what happened in ALL the state-owned industries/services between 1945 and 1980.

Amelia@amelia_tweetz

I don’t care how “efficient” the private sector is. Some services should never be run as businesses. Health care. Water. Electricity. Gas. Prisons. If a company makes more money when people get sicker, stay locked up longer, or have no choice but to pay, that’s a system built on conflicting interests.

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Andrew Neil@afneil·15m

Performative drivel. And out of touch with public sentiment. The British people expect their male PMs to wear a shirt and tie when performing nearly all their public duties. Look smart when representing our country.

Christopher Hope📝@christopherhope

New PM Andy Burnham “does not plan to wear a shirt and tie when he becomes prime minister tomorrow”, the Sunday Times reports. Not even to meet the King?

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Andrew Neil@afneil·29m

Also Truss and Sunak had fought the general election which got the government elected. Burnham didn’t.

Ⓖⓡⓐⓗⓐⓜ@abbeylinegold

@Roberts_Mark_ @afneil Truss and a Sunak both put themselves to their party members for election. Burnham was completely unopposed. Even worse, another sitting MP resigned his seat to create a vacant seat for Burnham and the bi-election and mayoral election are going to cost the taxpayers 5M pounds.

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Andrew Neil@afneil·20h

New York at midday. Combination of thunderstorm + smoke from Canadian forest fires.

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Daily Mail@DailyMail·1d

ANDREW NEIL: Never has a PM come to power with such a lack of democratic legitimacy. When it all goes wrong, voters will cut him no slack trib.al/utObtfv

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Andrew Neil@afneil·22h

Groan. If you bothered to read the article wouldn’t be repeating points it already makes. So tedious.

Simon Worrall 💉💉 💉💉💉💉@sworrall

@afneil Except Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Callaghan, Brown, May, Truss, Sunak. None of whom came to power for the first time by general election. Even Churchill ! We change PM, as you know best of all, more by internal Party machinations than by election.

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Andrew Neil@afneil·22h

Not as dumb as your cartoon. Nobody’s claiming Iran has ‘won’ militarily. But it’s still standing, more hardline than ever. America hasn’t achieved a single war aim. While managing to lose free navigation thru the Strait of Hormuz. No wonder its regional allies are in despair.

I Love America News@ILA_NewsX

@afneil @YouTube Really dumb post.

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Andrew Neil@afneil·1d

Trump’s Iran objectives have ALL FAILED. So what next? | The Andrew Neil... youtu.be/y_tzKoq4j8k?is… via @YouTube

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Andrew Neil@afneil·22h

Multiple reports in right and left-wing media of Labour rifts over Ed Miliband going/not going to the Treasury. And Andy B isn’t even PM yet! So much for ending Labour’s “insidious briefing culture’. Team Burnham has been at the forefront of it.

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Andrew Neil@afneil·23h

Fudging already. So much for change, hope and a new politics.

Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 CONFIRMED: Andy Burnham will not break Labour's manifesto pledge by issuing new North Sea oil and gas licences Sources say he is just expected to announce plans to speed up the exploration of existing licences and present it as a major change of direction

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Andrew Neil@afneil·23h

Actually we live for moments like this. It’s enervating.

Jon Owen@Finland_Edu

@afneil Sourpuss Andrew

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Andrew Neil@afneil·23h

I will if you contribute to my salary instead.

Christopher@Christo07291909

@afneil Please ask the DM to stop paywalling everything

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Andrew Neil@afneil·23h

You need to pay to play. I’m not a charity. And if you don’t want to pay, no problem. But please stop commenting on stuff you haven’t even read. It’s tedious and time consuming — and you’re far from alone.

Reese Of East Anglia@ReeseEastAnglia

@afneil The point remains that Truss came and left without a mandate, and had no issues completely deviating from the 2019 Election Manifesto... Maybe we'd read the piece if it wasnt behind a paywall...

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Andrew Neil@afneil·23h

Absolutely the RIGHT call.

Al Carns@AlistairCarns

If we’re still using oil and gas (which we are) importing it instead of producing it at home doesn’t change the climate impact. It does change who gets the jobs, who gets the tax revenues to fund our public services and who controls our energy security and national resilience. This is absolutely the right call.

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