I totally agree - Lowe will not be forgiven for this bit of vengeful pettiness
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@DCBMEP I agree - and rather gives the lie to the protestations by Lowe that he has the interests of the country at heart.
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This could be enough to get Burnham in. Surely Restore Britain need to put the greater good first.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Rupert Lowe has confirmed Restore Britain will stand a candidate in the Makerfield by-election
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@mtpennycook Who exactly will 'be frightened' ? What a divisive and unpleasant inference.
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I appreciate that many people will understandably be frightened by what they are seeing at the Unite the Kingdom demonstration today.
The right to protest is fundamental. But it can’t be a cover for inciting hatred.
We must stand against attempts to inflame and divide us.
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@Jenny_1884 Quite agree - talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Is Rupert Lowe's wish for revenge so bad as to hurt the country? If it is then he would be basically as poor as the rest of them.
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We have a big problem !!!!
Restore will be putting in a candidate to stand in the Makerfield by-election
Reform will be putting in a candidate to stand in the Makerfield by-election
This will split the votes
This will result in Andy Burnham winning.
Some serious thought needs to go into this in order to get these charlatans out of office.
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@barry_halverson @JohnCotton @TrisOsborneMP @UKLabour Better than not knowing the difference between 7 and 8
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@RobertRees_ @JohnCotton @TrisOsborneMP @UKLabour A couple of laughing emojis doesn’t hide the fact you can’t count Robert.
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Worth a comparison:
🌹 First seven Q’s under Labour +2.3% GDP growth.
🌳 Prior 8 quarters under the Tories, +1.3% GDP growth
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@HannoLustig I wonder if it is because he expects yields to rise and prices to fall in the near future. He wouldn't be alone.
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BoE selling gilts for no good reason other than to try and avoid ending up like the BoJ with a huge balance sheet that's a permanent warehouse for government bonds, thus distorting yields, asset returns, incentives for fiscal policymakers etc., oh, and engineering large wealth transfers within and across generations.
Daniela Gabor@DanielaGabor
Bank of England was until recently largest holder of gilts. It's been aggressively selling for no good reason other then Bailey wants to. We have a Bailey premium on gilts nobody talks about
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@wendlingere49 How are they making their feelings clear exactly?
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The silent Majority, those who don't use social media, or ring up radio hosts are coming out and making their feelings clear.
They want Keir Starmer to carry on.
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@Artemisfornow 'Common Purpose' a well known code word. A group set up by Prescott and others to populate professions like Civil service/academia/media/police/NHS/NGOs with socialist sympathisers.The 'march through the institutions' has worked very well.
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It is not a coincidence! … The UN and the WEF have used the language of “common purpose”, “common good” and “common agenda” repeatedly for decades, until it became embedded in global policy language.
You did not vote for it. No citizen voted to hand unelected global bodies influence over national policy, economies, energy, speech or behaviour.
Starmer has already told you he would choose Davos 🔥
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@DrChrisParry @Conservatives Damn stupid by the Reform members who pig headedly refuse to deal with the Tories , and by the Tories who then lose all moral scruple to deal with the Greens.
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This is a catastrophic self-harming manoeuvre by the kamikaze Tory councillors in Worcestershire.
How to trash the @Conservatives brand nationally in one inane step.
Jessaline Caine@jessalinecaine
Worcestershire’s new administration is a PERFECT snapshot of establishment politics. The Greens on 8 seats end up in charge following their COUP. Reform on 24 get frozen out. Tory voters should be absolutely furious that Conservatives helped facilitate this nonsense
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@HeidiBachram I presume they will be arrested for hate speech and tried 'o the fullest extent of the law' as Starmer has just said about the Unite the Country march.
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Threats to behead Jews outside a mosque in Tower Hamlets. This is where we are as a country and it’s not being talked about enough by sensible people.
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@WiganAndrew And now the truth from the BMJ "A large majority of NHS trusts (around 80% in recent surveys) report using corridors or temporary spaces for patient care."
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Do you remember when A&E had lines of patients in the corridors?
Of course! It was only two fucking years ago!
This was due to 14 years of Tory corruption, incompetent and stealing money from the public purse.
#BackLabour
#BackSirKeirStarmer
Or have Tory/Reform UK cunts.
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@paulmasonnews Just carry on insulting a great swathe of reasonable people - it will shift a few more from the failure that is the labour party to Reform. 😀
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Tomorrow, we should stand WITH the government, WITH the Metropolitan Police, AGAINST the fascist drunks and hooligans who will urinate their way from Euston to Whitehall in support of an insurrection fantasy - a moment of peril for our democracy...
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So Tories on Worcestershire County Council did a deal with the Greens & Lib Dems to lock out Reform, but they won’t do a deal with Reform in Makerfield to lock out a socialist Prime Minister? 🤷🏼♂️
GB News@GBNEWS
'I am not doing any deal with Nigel Farage or Reform.' Leader of the Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch looks ahead to the Makerfield by-election and refuses to stand their candidate down to help Reform. 📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
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@TrisOsborneMP @UKLabour Why not 7 for each - could it be that the 8th tory quarter was not so good?
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@RobertRees_ We haven’t had 12 quarters yet of @UKLabour govt.
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@andrew_lilico @DanielJHannan I agree - perhaps that is why Starmer tried to shoehorn all the new stuff into this Kings Speech.
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@RobertRees_ @DanielJHannan If there is a major change in the central plank of policy on which a government was elected, that is grounds for a dissolution *whether or not the PM changes*. It is the change in policy that is the reason, not the PM. eg There had to be an Election post-euref even under Cameron.
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A rare case of disagreeing with @DanielJHannan. At a General Election we elect our MPs. We don't elect a Prime Minister. Our system is Parliamentary not Presidential - & the better for that. I don't want a Presidential system & I don't want General Elections to choose the PM.
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@Frencheconomics How can Murphy call himself an economist and then spout such arrant nonsense. The movement has a political bent precisely because everyone knows the far left will trash the economy, put up borrowing, stifle growth and turn the UK into even more of a basket case.
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The Pound is softer, yields are higher on the Josh Simons/ Burnham news. This is not trying to “constrain democratic choice” this is rational repricing of expectations for more Gilt issuance, and more inflation.
Richard Murphy@RichardJMurphy
UK gilt yields have hit an 18-year high. That's not because the economy collapsed. It's because bond markets fear Labour might elect a slightly more left-wing leader. When financial markets seek to constrain democratic choice, that is not economic discipline. It is political power, exercised without a ballot. cnbc.com/2026/05/13/gil…
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@rcolvile If you don't want to listen to the bond markets don't borrow money off them.
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Bond markets don’t have political views. They think inflation is going up and the finances look dodgy, and they want a higher premium to lend to us as a result. It’s not a constraint of ‘democratic choice’ if the people you’re begging for money impose conditions on the lending.
Richard Murphy@RichardJMurphy
UK gilt yields have hit an 18-year high. That's not because the economy collapsed. It's because bond markets fear Labour might elect a slightly more left-wing leader. When financial markets seek to constrain democratic choice, that is not economic discipline. It is political power, exercised without a ballot. cnbc.com/2026/05/13/gil…
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@LoftusSteve @michaelgove It is a very good summary. And he hasn't even got started on the price that will be extorted by the EU to rejoin.
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Superb, and accurate, from @michaelgove
Mike Gardner@mikegardner_wb
“Disastrous for our politics with no economic benefit”. Michael Gove schools a pro-EU questioner and audience on #bbcqt as to why Labour’s pre-election lies about respecting Brexit and their actions since, threaten to undermine, rather than help our economy.
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