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@RachelReevesMP In reality... "Thanks to the choices we've made, UK interest rates and inflation are now the highest in the G7. Our economic plan is costing jobs, raising the cost of living, damaging energy security. increasing national debt and failing to create the conditions for growth."

This will be a tough weekend for the Chancellor. She knew almost six weeks before the Budget from the OBR there was no ‘black hole’. Yet she and the Treasury still stoked up the idea that there was — and it would take big tax rises to fill it. By Oct 31 she knew from the OBR there was actually £4bn headroom rather than a black hole. Yet still on Nov 5th she commandeered breakfast media to roll the pitch for big tax rises. Even by mid-November she was telling the BBC if Labour stuck to its manifesto commitments (ie no income tax rises) she’d need deep cuts to capital investment. None of what she said in the run up to the Budget was true. The Treasury select committee needs to ask her why she so misled the Parliament, the markets and the British people. She raised taxes to give herself some more headroom and to pay for yet another increase in (largely welfare) spending. The tax burden is going to all-time record level for a simple reason: the Labour manifesto said public spending would be around £10bn higher than Tory plans by 2028/29. In reality on the latest projections it will be £179bn higher!!! Nothing to do with filling in black holes.

If you earn over £50,270 a year you will now pay 40% tax even if things are tight for your two-child family and the cost of living is horrendous. If you have six children, Labour will now give you £14,000 extra. What was that about Fairness? #Budget

@Bairdric1 Claudio Raina?

Rangers XI for Saturday Ronald Waterreus Sergio Porrrrrrrrini Richard Loch Lorenzo Amnogoininthere Where’s ma Willie Woodburn Robbie Front Crawlford Jim Wett Pool Gascoigne Swim Baxter Ally McMoist Peter Armbands

@BBCNews Was it the three partners of the well known law firm Dewey, Cheatem and Howe?

Rayner consulted three people about flat purchase bbc.in/4661UX5

Net Zero is the most costly self-inflicted wound in modern Britain mol.im/a/15036639 via @DailyMail

@BrianSpanner1 @alexmassie @LucyHunterB 🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻

Your position appears to be ‘Nicola Sturgeon is a person of immense historical significance; why are all these people writing about her?’ I fear this risks leaving you looking like a chump.

@Acemcl @RangersFC Enjoy the game. 👍🏻

@Ggoggsie @RangersFC 👍🏼 you're welcome 😁

@Acemcl @RangersFC I’m well aware of that, but thanks. 👍🏻

@Ggoggsie @RangersFC Its the only source for UK viewing, otherwise you're following via twitter or putting on Teletext

@Acemcl @RangersFC It is if they’re promoting it via the official club site.

@Ggoggsie @RangersFC The company that bought the rights from Plzn, nothing to do with RFC

I thought the VAT from school fees was to go on state schools? Not housing. You can’t even get your lies straight. By the way what’s the latest estimate of how much the VAT will raise minus the cost of those leaving private education for the state system? Enough to build a cottage or two? I see in another tweet you’re still claiming to preside over the fastest growing economy in G7. Has nobody told you the economy contracted by 0.3% in April?

There’s gaslighting - and then there’s this. 🙄

@ToryglenRangers Carlos Cuellar

Been asked on WhatsApp by a Pompey man who has more than a soft spot for the Teddy Bears who the five best defenders I've seen for Rangers are. Taking my time over it and so far I have Gough, Butcher and Numan. Who are yours?

Two Tier Keir No justice for severe, violent crimes, but prison for social media posts

Elderly man arrested in Britain for “causing anxiety” with a social media post. This is insane. Thank God there is a constitutional right to freedom of speech in America!

So a tax that no school has ever paid is now being described as a tax break, which nobody ever has before. As opposed to a new tax on education, which is what it is. It’s an impressively Orwellian use of nomenclature. And it will pay for a third of an extra teacher in every state school. Well done. Revolutionary.

Shameless propaganda. Can’t even call it what it actually is - a new tax on education.

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the land, Keir Starmer was scheming, with taxes in hand. The grannies were starving, no heat for their fire, While Keir and his mates drank champagne to admire. Two-tier Keir, with his free gear spree, Gave handouts to cronies but left none for tea. “Tax the poor harder!” cried Rachel, with glee, While she filled up her purse with the rich’s decree. "Farmer Harmer", they whispered, down in the shire, For Keir’s latest rules set their fields aflame higher. “And what of the windmills?” Ed Miliband chimed, “Let’s build them in Africa—on Britain’s last dime!” David Lammy, meanwhile, with passport in hand, Flew off to give away some far-off land. “Where am I going?” he asked with a grin, “Is this Europe, or Africa, or somewhere in between?” For Christmas this year, he’ll need quite the look— A sturdy new map and a thick history book. Old Rachel Thieves, was next to appear, “Let’s rob all their pockets, my conscience is clear!” From the rich she took nothing, they gave her a grin, While the poor cried, “What happened? We’re skint again!” And for those who are old, with no heating or stew, Labour's solution is ready for you. “Take the assisted jab; we’ll see you out right, But do it before April, or the tax man will bite!” Up on the rooftops, they laughed and they plotted, While the working folk’s savings grew tattered and rotted. For free gear Keir and his mates so dear, Were feasting on steaks while the cupboards stayed clear. But lo, as dawn broke, the people awoke, And saw through the plans of this laughable bloke. “Enough of the nonsense, the taxes, the lies, We’re taking our votes, and we’ll cut you to size!” So here is the moral, for those who still dream, Of leaders who promise and then plot and scheme: Beware of the Starmer, the Lammy, the Band, Or you’ll find yourself penniless, hand in hand.