@cjsnowdon But it’s imperative he gets to Parliament so that he can…yanno implement his…all his er…yanno values and…policies and stuff BOND MARKETS
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Katılım Mayıs 2020
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@FraserNelson Gosh now who’s ‘in hock to the bond markets’?
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Andy Burnham saying "there needs to be a plan to get debt down."
Reeves currently intends to raise UK national debt every year - from £2.8 trillion now to £3.1 trillion by end of decade.
If Burnham means what he says, it'd be quite a radical change.
Peter Stefanovic@PeterStefanovi2
“Let me say this really clearly. I support the fiscal rules. There needs to be a plan to get debt down, but beyond that, we need to change politics and take the turbulence out of British politics because that is a cause of uncertainty that then has that impact in the market” - Andy Burnham
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@peterrhague Gosh it’s almost like ‘being in hock to the bond markets’ is something you can’t just…choose not to be? Level of economic understanding among our leaders is terrifying.
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Obviously not a true projection because quite quickly in that process the bond market laughs in our faces, the currency turns to toilet paper, and the IMF comes in to explain with sock puppets how a national budget works.
Tej Parikh@tejparikh90
Britain gets the politics it deserves My latest for @FT. Cakeism, impatience and low-quality public discourse contribute to the UK’s instability: as.ft.com/r/282a11e6-c49…
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So even the sanctimonious DEI leftists in the Labour Party admit there are no women, no ‘people of colour’, no people of non-straight orientation among their mASsiVe MuhJOriTy who can take the reins? It can only be a white bloke called Andy?
Got it. Just wanted to make sure.
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@HonestYPTweets Nice! We covered a short clip of this in our recent episode, honestly don’t understand what these people get by doing this. Why not just give up the pretence?
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This weeks sermon review now live. Link in comments
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"People always seem to be trying to quieten the Christians, to get them to not speak up in staff meetings, to not preach on the streets, to not share their testimony with colleagues or shop workers or Uber drivers.
The voice that tells us to “be quiet” far too often wins out. It shouldn’t. Look at how the earliest apostles responded:
“So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:18-20)
Peter and John believed what they said. As I’ve said many times in recent years, what we really need in places like Britain today is for Christians to actually believe their beliefs again, and to speak them out; with prayerful wisdom, yes, but also with boldness (Col. 4:1-6).
Christians need to rediscover the power of their beliefs, to be willing to pay the price for living (and speaking) them out; to be willing to build, fight, preach, pray, and love accordingly, whether or not the current society (or the current government) gets in their way for doing so."
thatgoodfight.substack.com/p/christian-na…
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One of the great videos of our time. They laughed at him then. He's the sane looking one today. (Gideon's smirk is priceless)
Paul Bristow@paulbristow79
He wasn’t wrong was he? An absolute circus 🤡
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@cjsnowdon This will just keep aging like wine. Similar to Clegg’s nuclear energy ‘only coming online in 2020’ and Newman’s ‘so what you’re saying is’
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One of the all time great political interviews and a classic example of casting pearls before swine.
Paul Bristow@paulbristow79
He wasn’t wrong was he? An absolute circus 🤡
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AWFUL: A Quebec physician says parents should be able to euthanize disabled newborn babies.
He says parents “should have the opportunity” to have their newborn killed under Canada’s MAiD euthanasia regime.
This is absolutely insane.
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@JohnRentoul So he can run for the seat while mayor? And if he loses he stays as mayor? I thought he had to resign the mayoralty in order to run, have I got that wrong?
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Andy Burnham’s by-election candidacy risks Reform winning either Makerfield or Greater Manchester 1/8
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🧵 "Private ownership. State control. It's not socialism. Nobody's seizing anything. But it's not capitalism either. Because the price mechanism is being systematically overridden."
@cjsnowdon on Britain's capitalist command economy. 👇
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Some questions on Burnham to Makerfield:
1) Does Labour fund his campaign even though he is going to usurp the PM?
2) Does Starmer endorse the campaign? How visibly?
3) How can anyone talk about anything else until this is done?
4) If he loses…and Reform win his mayoralty…?
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Just remember, all those who live in places that aren't London - Labour thinks you're the bench. The Carabao Cup. Where they send their 'best players' out on loan to get their minutes up, their match sharpness, ready to leave you and head to the Big Smoke. Andy Burnham hasn't been 'on the pitch' while Mayor of Manchester. He's been a rotation option. A sub.
Lovely.
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We need our best players on the pitch. There is no doubt that Andy Burnham is one of them.
The Makerfield by-election will be tough. Votes will need to be earned.
Andy is the best chance of winning and that should override factional advantage or propping up one person.
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
I’m hearing the NEC isn’t as sewn up for Burnham as many are reporting. The vote is on a “knife edge” I’m told by sources close to the decision making body. “Everyone is wavering.” Number 10 might be briefing it is comfortable with shortlisting Burnham, but that’s not to say the 9 member officer committee agrees. “I don’t think any of us are taking notice of what [Number 10] are saying”, I’m told. NEC officers now expected to decide on Sunday or Monday.
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As someone with a worm’s eye view of the legislative process, it really irritates me that Starmer’s spin for the poor local election results is that his Govt hasn’t been moving fast enough. There were 40 bills in the first parliamentary session and there are 37 in the second, as set out in yesterday’s King’s Speech. Starmer has created 96 peers – a higher rate per year than any previous Prime Minister. He could not be going any faster.
The fact that the legislation the Govt has rammed through has not delivered growth or reduced the tax burden on working people or lowered the cost of living – delivered the ‘change’ that Labour promised – is because they’re not designed to do that. They’re designed to placate the Party’s ‘stakeholders’ – backbench Labour MPs, trade unions, NGOs, think tanks, lobby groups, allies in the legal profession, cheerleaders in the media, etc.
It’s been bleedin’ obvious to everyone on the opposition benches – and probably some on the Govt benches too – that the legislation was introduced in the last parliamentary session – particularly the Employment Rights Act – will impede growth, not accelerate it.
We’ve told the Govt’s ministers this in the chamber again and again and everything we’ve predicted would happen has happened – rising unemployment, rising inflation, accelerating borrowing costs, an unmanageable welfare bill, exodus of high income-earners, thereby increasing the tax burden on the rest of us, etc.
The idea that if the Govt had been going *even faster* – which is just straightforwardly impossible – the country would be better off, is for the birds. Even as a piece of spin, it’s pathetic. The reason we’re in an economic doom spiral is because this Govt is only interested in pandering to its ‘stakeholders’ and their only motive is to line their own pockets and advance their own narrow sectional interests.
Changing the leader will make no difference. We need a Prime Minister and a Govt who are going to prioritise the national interest. I don’t see anyone in the pack of hyenas stalking Starmer who’s going to do that.
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@timothybarnett Wow way to prove the point. The t-shirt and noughties era self confident New Atheist smugness, the lack of bother to entertain the fact that this may have been answered, that he’s the first person to notice this…10/10 for hitting the caricature.
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This video accidentally shows why Proverbs 26:4-5 is in the Bible.
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As I said on @SkyNews @UKLabour needs our best players on the pitch.
People with a proven track record of delivering
@AndyBurnhamGM has shown what Labour leadership can achieve in Greater Manchester. It’s important he's allowed to stand.
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“Will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency”
What about the trust of the people of Manchester, who he promised to serve a third term as mayor? They now get a £4m by-election?
All this smacks of voters used to serve politicians, not vice-versa.
Andy Burnham@AndyBurnhamGM
I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS
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"We need our best players on the pitch"
Right, so the devolved regions you go on about being so important are, what, the bench? Rotation for the Carabao Cup?
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