Mark Brookes
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What might be acceptable, even desirable, in a grocer looks bad for a so-called premium brand
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@SnapfishUK Your editing functioning used to work really well. I’m not wasting any more time on the new one.
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@TheSimonEvans Really enjoyed the show last night. I’ve seen you several times in the last couple of years and this was the best show yet. I shall be checking my own testosterone levels later.
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Mark Brookes retweetledi
When people ask what’s the point of the NHS and socialised medicine.
It’s this 👇
No one in our country has to pay. It’s an investment in all of us.
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Labour’s plan to phase out animal testing is a landmark step forward.
By investing £75m in alternatives to animal testing we can protect animals while keeping the UK as a leader in science and research.🌹
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Labour promised not to increase Vat, National Insurance or the rate of Income tax for ordinary working people. They have kept their promise and their political opponents don't like it.
Lembit Öpik@lembitopik
Rachel Reeves admitted to Channel 4 News her Budget meant: “everyone would need to contribute… with higher taxes.” By her own words, Reeves & Labour broke their election pledge NOT to raise tax. With her lies over economic forecasts, how can she stay in office?
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@TrisOsborneMP Front ended benefits increases and back ended tax increases in an election year. See the FT analysis
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So the right telling people for months we had black holes (of £50bn or £20bn) proven not to be right?
The lack of a black hole is a good thing; the increase in headroom is a good thing; increased funding for public services a good thing.
Andrew Neil@afneil
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.
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Britain played a part in the destruction of Gaza .
Time to fix the fault and rebuild Gaza .
I call on the UK government to allocate at least £2bn to help Palestinians rebuild their homes, businesses, schools and hospitals.
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@clairemcilvenna @ZackPolanski The bar for intellectual just got a lot lower
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To the establisment:
Your corrupt system has been intercepted by @ZackPolanski.
Don't blame him, he's just more intellectual than you are and he's using his intellect to expose you.
You'll need a miracle to stop him from damaging your corrupt MO and brand.
Good luck. It's over
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Britain is responsible for the destruction of Palestine . So in tomorrow’s budget I expect Rachel to allocate money to help build Palestine.
Give Palestinians billions to repair and rebuild
UK government should say never again and stop arms to Israel with immediate effect
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Nonsense from businesses on minimum wage increase.
Those low earners will spend more in shops, restaurants & elsewhere as a result so helping these businesses
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Tesco disgracefully suspend a worker who refused to handle Israeli 🇮🇱 goods at their store in Newcastle (N Ireland)
Punished for refusing to allow their work to support genocide
Give the protests your support
change.org/p/urge-tesco-t…
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Rachel Reeves is doing what the Tories never could; bringing stability back to Britain.
Inflation falling.
Rates cut five times.
Wages up.
Growth leading the major economies.
NHS waiting lists starting to come down. 🧵 thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@davidyelland If it’s so brilliant surely everyone would want to pay for it ?
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Ending the licence fee would effectively abolish the BBC, a Beeb that seeks to cater for everyone in every home country, every region, children, the old, the young.. a universal service… also…Farage would make it reliant on politicians OR an elite subscription service.
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