@Emilymmlz @NTForwardFocus @Ipsos_in_the_UK It's a less than a 2 hour journey to London on the train. Under 3 hours to Edinburgh, and next to the M62 belt. But also biased because I live there 😅
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Andy Burnham has said that as PM he will set up a “No. 10 North” in Manchester, while Parliament would continue to be housed in Westminster.
4 in 10 (40%) of Brits don't think the Government should create another No.10 outside London 🚫
But 1 in 4 (24%) think that if there is a second one, it should be in Manchester.
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@ZoeJardiniere @OliverRyanUK There is an irony though that when Polanski was challenged months ago about market reactions to his policies, he said "we need to bring the markets with us".
Now markets are reported to be 'calm', with no formal policies released, what makes you think she hasn't done the same?
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@OliverRyanUK Babe, being progressive does not = “anything a brown woman does is good”
That’s identity politics👍
But ofc you knew that. You’re just joining the rest of the right in being a performative idiot on the internet cos you think for some reason that might make someone like you 🤦♀️
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Why is posh Polanski attacking a working-class BME woman [who is incredible by the way] in this way with words like "subservient" & that she can't "challenge power"?!
Bang out of order. Not very progressive.
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His comms so far have been very very good. Direct to consumer. Bypass the lobby. Being normal with normal people. Totally relaxed.
Andy Burnham@andyburnham
When I said I was going to do politics differently, I meant it. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours in Cardiff city centre inviting people to ask me anything about my plans for the UK.
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Did you know?
In the UK, it is ILLEGAL to drink pints in the stands at a football match.
Why? Well, the anti-fun lobby DESPISES the idea of ANY fun.
We say NO.
We must LEGALISE fun, and allow *adults* to DRINK alcohol in THE stands.
MAKE PINTS LEGAL.
What do you think?
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@SBarrettBar There are plenty of neighbouring countries that have bigger states than the UK, and higher disposable income per person.
Our problem is low wages, high energy costs, a complex tax system, and "job for life" policies which don't match the realities of a rapidly changing economy.
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Our problem is a bloated Socialist state that is crushing the economy
It's not pensioners.
The Triple Lock is a distraction. Cut the state.
GB News@GBNEWS
‘Currently, the government steals from us in taxes.’ ‘We are facing a really difficult situation.’ Steven Barrett and Stuart Fawcett go head-to-head over the Treasury’s consideration of bringing forward plans to increase the state pension age to 68.
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@LBC @JosephDraper5 Can someone dress up as a lettuce and stand against her at the next election please?
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'If the system is trying to sabotage you, you're not going to succeed.'
Liz Truss refuses to rule out joining Reform during an interview at CPAC Great Britain.
@JosephDraper5
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@MattCas04807118 @horton_tin78514 He didn't prepare that well then.
"They're literally taught to treat people unequally".
Just completely forgot to mention the rather important nuance ⬇️
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@horton_tin78514 Campbell was destroyed by someone whom had bothered to prepare for their chat.
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Campbell totally destroyed and it’s glorious!👏👏👏
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@ZiaYusufUK You literally used the death of a boy to politically point score even though the family publicly told you not to. You deserve no respect from anyone in that chamber.
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While Nigel Farage and Reform are grieving their friend who has been brutally murdered, and on the day a man is arrested for threatening to murder Nigel, how does Kemi Badenoch respond?
She cosies up to Keir Starmer and chooses to mock and deride Nigel.
She is mocking and deriding millions who support him.
Appalling.
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@MikeHanlon99 @Steven_Swinford @GaryLineker @andyburnham You can't 'efficiency' your way out of this problem, but people don't want to hear that.
You can't have a comprehensive public sector that's bigger and performs better than our current one, and tax at the rates we currently do.
The evidence doesn't lie ⬇️
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@RLY15_ @Steven_Swinford @GaryLineker @andyburnham That's just fiddling. Problem is too much tax. And then you can't access the services you've paid for. Operation cancelled twice in our house, no further date since Easter. What are we paying every spare £ for? 🤷♂️ It's not working. No more tax til what we pay is used properly.
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Breaking:
Andy Burnham refuses to rule out a wealth tax as he says that people may have to pay 'a little bit more' in tax because of the state of the public finances
He told @GaryLineker that he doesn't want to 'create new divisions' or to 'be perceived as somebody who's coming with grudges and agendas and going to immediately demonise one group'
'So you know, decisions to be taken in time.
'They’re going to be difficult, I’m not going to shy away from that. You know, we are going to have to work quite hard to make sure, you know, we can pay our way.
'And at some point that might be having to ask for a little more. But, you know, those decisions are not for now. They’re for another day'
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@Helen_Whately @andyburnham Because if you make some welfare savings, as a proportion of GDP, the UK would then spend LESS on welfare than it did in the 1980s. Remind us who was in power in the 1980s???
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Rather than putting up taxes, why not make some welfare savings @andyburnham ?
Or will we see more of the same from the Labour Party under your leadership…
“Who can we tax to spend more on benefits”
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Breaking: Andy Burnham refuses to rule out a wealth tax as he says that people may have to pay 'a little bit more' in tax because of the state of the public finances He told @GaryLineker that he doesn't want to 'create new divisions' or to 'be perceived as somebody who's coming with grudges and agendas and going to immediately demonise one group' 'So you know, decisions to be taken in time. 'They’re going to be difficult, I’m not going to shy away from that. You know, we are going to have to work quite hard to make sure, you know, we can pay our way. 'And at some point that might be having to ask for a little more. But, you know, those decisions are not for now. They’re for another day'
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@MikeHanlon99 @Steven_Swinford @GaryLineker @andyburnham We waste billions on inefficient tax systems. Take VAT. All the evidence suggests 1 flat rate applied to everything yields better returns than multiple thresholds and exemptions. It stifles business growth, which limits salaries and the rate of tax you could (not should) apply.
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@RLY15_ @Steven_Swinford @GaryLineker @andyburnham The economy isn't growing because middle-earners have no spare cash. Of course taxes are too high. Can't go any higher. The "comprehensive state" you mention has to stop wasting billions before grasping for more. No-one can afford it.
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@MikeHanlon99 @Steven_Swinford @GaryLineker @andyburnham We should simplify tax to incentivise growth to increase wages, and tax land and assets more. People will have the salary to pay the tax rates needed to deliver the state funded services people want, properly. Just look across Northern and Western Europe for examples (2/2)
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@Steven_Swinford @GaryLineker No, sorry. We already pay far too much tax, only to see government waste it hand over fist. If @andyburnham can't fix that, he might as well not bother taking the job of PM. Because he'll be out again in a couple of years too.
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Blue Labour =/= right-wing
Some people get their political views from TikTok and it really shows.
Manchester Green Party 🐝@McrGreenParty
Burnham has surrendered to Blue Labour. No chance this will be a Progressive Government with someone so right wing like Shabana Mahmood as Chancellor.
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🇬🇧 “I’m fucking fuming. I just found out that London Mayor Sadiq Khan, under the Islamic housing plan, is building 40,000 new homes for Muslims only, to be near mosques and halal shops.”
Imagine if the British government announced free homes for non-Muslims or Christians only?
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@BenKentish It's almost like we should wait until things are formally announced. There's been about 3 rumoured chancellors from different papers this week!
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So a Chancellor with no economic experience who made clear she didn’t want the job (and was doing well at the Home Office), and a Foreign Secretary with no foreign policy experience who also didn’t want the job…
Kitty Donaldson@kitty_donaldson
EXC: Andy Burnham's team has “pretty much locked in” senior Cabinet picks - Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is now expected to become Chancellor of the Exchequer - Opponents of Ed Miliband campaigned to stop his appointment as Chancellor. He is expected to be offered Foreign Secretary. - A Labour insider sympathetic to Miliband said his prospects of becoming Chancellor had suffered not so much because of scepticism about his net zero agenda, but because many in the party had not forgiven him for Labour's 2015 general election defeat. - Also in line for Cabinet positions are Louise Haigh who will be in a “beefed up" role as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a senior Cabinet Office minister who drives cross-government policy and collaboration. - Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Labour’s deputy leader Lucy Powell and former Housing Secretary Angela Rayner are all in line for Cabinet positions. - Cabinet expected to be announced late Monday afternoon
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@EssexPR Britain has a populist problem.
Take tax as an example.
The real way to create a social security net that most people want in this country is to raise taxes on the broadest base (middle earners), not a wealth tax.
Do the right want to do the above? No
Do the left? No
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@LBC @TomSwarbrick1 I can absolutely tolerate people who have concerns about immigration and rapid changes to their community. Those are perfectly rational and normal thoughts.
I absolutely won't tolerate people who are racists and fascists about it.
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‘I’m tired of being called a fascist and a racist.'
Caller Seamus takes aim at the ‘progressive left’ who, he feels, don’t ‘tolerate any views other than their own’.
@tomswarbrick1
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This will do the rounds to scare people.
It's investment debt, not operational cost debt.
I.e. because Greater Manchester is growing well, it's been able to borrow more for long term investments in things like buses and infrastructure. The city's growth will pay it back.
Cut My Tax@CutMyTaxUK
Andy Burnham increased the debt of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority by 28.8% (£300m) during his tenure in office, leaving it with the highest debt of any combined authority in England. If he expands this track record to the whole of the UK, that would mean an equivalent national debt increase of about £860 billion, taking UK debt towards £3.85 trillion. The debt-to-GDP ratio would rise from 95.1% to 122.5% & at an average interest cost of 5% we'd pay an additional £43bn in interest costs each year. High spending Andy could be a very expensive choice for Britain.
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