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@Steven_Swinford @tompeck that’s just encouraging even more disaffected Labour voters to vote for the Greens, it’s wild we’re still told these muppets are political geniuses.
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neil merriman
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little fat politics & sci-fi geek who knows enough to know he does not know enough. follow many people you disagree with as this is just an echo chamber
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@fleetstreetfox isn’t showing his name, picture and nuj number a GDPR breach ?
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Snowflake who doesn't understand ancient public rights of way.
If I'm right, this is a fourth possible reason for pocketing £5m - now, apparently, it is to keep journalists away. Didn't work, did it?
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
My security team just found this journalist from The Guardian at my property. This is exactly why I need security. Completely unacceptable.
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Just received this - interesting both for what it says and that Mayor's office (Burnham's office) saw the need to say it. Burnham can *run* for Westminster and remain Mayor while doing it, but if he wins he has to immediately resign. Good for Burnham & Lab prospects imho 1/2
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@siennamarla how is a party that had millions in the bank when Starmer became leader in such dire straits ?
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EXCL: Senior Labour figures are concerned that the party will be dragged towards “bankruptcy” if Andy Burnham successfully stands as its candidate in the Makerfield by-election, triggering a mayoral by-election and possibly a leadership contest
Others say a Burnham leadership would attract enough new members to counteract all the costs: politicshome.com/news/article/b…
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@KarlTurnerMP @SteveReedMP @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting yeah as we all remember when Mr zero tolerance chose to be Mr very tolerant.
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.@SteveReedMP knows full well that @Keir_Starmer listens to those people that tell him what they think he wants to hear. That’s why Steve managed to stay in his cabinet. @wesstreeting is absolutely spot on and is brave enough to selflessly say so. Fact!
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@DavidDavisMP have they been lax or did the media portray a genuine mistake within a complicated process as some sort of grand conspiracy ?
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The lax treatment of Angela Rayner by HMRC has brought into focus how arbitrary the tax authority can be in its treatment of ordinary citizens.
Too often, HMRC has pursued individuals and small businesses for vast sums of money in error. HMRC are masters of using process as punishment, making themselves increasingly difficult to contact while torturing people with demand letters and bankruptcy notices.
Victims of these errors are often forced to spend huge amounts of time and money to prove HMRC wrong. This sometimes runs to hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal fees, many times the actual amount in dispute. They also find their names and details published in a list of deliberate tax defaulters, in effect a "name and shame" list.
I have to question whether this meets citizens' privacy rights, since these do not appear to be court rulings but HMRC opinions.
HMRC's excesses must be brought under control. It is time ministers took a grip of this.
telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/news…
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“I once waded into a situation I didn’t understand and landed thousands of low-paid workers and several local authorities with a bill of tens of millions of pounds.”
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@mcdermottkc_ @Miatsf @joshsimonsmp they’ll rather have Burnham who has lived locally for the last 25yrs over the fella from London who was parachuted in last minute in 2024.
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@Miatsf @joshsimonsmp And what about his constituents?
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Huge amount of respect for @joshsimonsmp for doing this. Not an easy decision to make.👇🏾
Josh Simons MP@joshsimonsmp
For decades, Westminster has overseen the managed decline of towns like mine. We have talked big, then acted small, stuck in a politics of incrementalism that cannot meet the moment. We have lost the trust of those our party was built to serve. It is my unwavering belief that nothing short of urgent, radical, courageous reform will make a difference. That must start with a change in leadership. Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield. I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter Parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for. This has not been an easy decision. This is my family’s home, where only a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses at Wigan Infirmary saved our newborn son’s life. But we all must make choices and in recent days I found myself with a difficult one: defend the status quo or step forward and act. I have made my choice. I am in politics because politics is how you change lives for the better. My party has one last chance to do that: deliver for the people and places I represent, drive economic growth, secure our borders, reform our state and politics, and change a status quo that is not working. That is the fight. I believe Andy is the one to lead it.
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@PippyBing he’s a brand in his own right up here not seen as tainted by London Labour.
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Such a bold, brave and high-stakes decision by Andy Burnham to fight for this seat. This becomes a de facto referendum on Labour and you can be certain Reform will frame it exactly that way. But I think he’ll do it.
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@SangitaMyska @Harryslaststand fella is a careerist pure and simple, knows his political career is already over, so jumping ship to get started on his new career in lobbying or consulting before all those other 2024 intake careerists lose their seats at the next GE.
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Zack Polanski on Andy Burnham:
“Last week’s elections shows the country is crying out for a break from the failed status quo. Keir Starmer has been unable and unwilling to break with an economic model that has fuelled the affordability crisis and this is why we have said he must go. Whatever happens in the coming byelection, Andy Burnham will need to make clear which version of him is going to show up. Is it the politician who has been part and parcel of the Labour establishment for decades, abstaining on legislation making brutal cuts to welfare, PFI and other Labour privatisations, or is it the one who has publicly supported proportional representation, been a popular Mayor in Manchester and expressed support to make changes to the failed economic model. The country needs to know if Andy Burnham is serious about breaking out from the terrible orthodoxies from the past, or if he will just be more of the same.”
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@NickCohen4 TBH he thinks he’s Trump’s friend not sure Trump sees him that way
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1/ If you want to know what Britain will be like under Farage, look at how he is imitating his friend and mentor Donald Trump. The arrogance must be contagious.
Harry Cole@MrHarryCole
EXC: “He who pays the piper picks the tune?” “Hang on a second. Hang on a second. I can't be bought by anybody.” Nigel Farage responds to £5m donor investigation insisting “I'm not and never have been” a crook Now claims it was “reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years”
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@NeilMerriman @AvaSantina Who are we kidding, they'll just roll out Goodwin again
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Customary in by-elections for Party leader to endorse the candidate
If Andy Burnham is selected, what will Keir Starmer do? 👀
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@OfSymbols @yet_so_far he’s an out and out careerist, Westminster career has stalled and is going nowhere,
so getting out now ahead of all those 2024 intake briefcases who are toast at the next GE,
ultimate careerist move.
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@yet_so_far I literally think he just doesn’t want to work as an MP anymore.
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@CurtisDaly_ think it’s more Simons knows his political career is going nowhere so wants to get out and start his new one in lobbying or consulting before the bulk of that 2024 intake who are toast at the next GE,
ultimate careerist move.
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John Simons is from Labour Together. Seems odd LT would help a soft left figure - unless this is the long game to rid Burnham forever?
Would they gift Reform a seat? Knowing Labour Together, they probably would!
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the so called experts saying it’ll be hard for #AndyBurnham in #Makerfield coz of how well #Reform did in the locals, this isn’t a local election it’s a high profile by-election and we saw in #GortonandDentonbyelection they don’t have a list top quality candidates to pick from.
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Greens could easily get 10% or more in the vote and deny him a coronation. If they’re smart, Burnham’s team will already be talking to the Greens
Josh Housden@JoshHousden
This is INSANELY high risk / high reward
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@meadwaj because it’s him running in his back yard he has something very few MP’s have, a personal appeal, the Heineken of politicians
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Greens on 4.4% in 2024. Reform forecast to win next time. Can see why Burnham would go for it.
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
Breaking: Josh Simons is expected to stand stand aside for Andy Burnham imminently
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@KevinASchofield spoken like a man who knows most of the UK’s political journalists will suddenly notice this book and start using it as a guide once Starmer’s out of No10
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Communities secretary and Starmer loyalist Steve Reed says: "I’m sorry Josh has taken this decision.
"If anyone thinks there is a caped superhero that is coming our way with all the answers they have another thing coming."
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-m…
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