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@wesstreeting People are really not in the mood

I hope everyone can see there was no ill intent behind this ribbing of the new Justice Secretary - it was a reference to an old May/Clarke joke. But I appreciate these are very serious issues and am sorry for any offence inadvertently caused by this moment of levity.

@CountDankulaTV Drivers in Britain have got significantly worse in my experience over the past few years, I'm sure there must be a correlation somewhere

I like motorcycles. Tax is cheap, petrol is cheap, they look like a lot of fun. But even if you are the most careful and talented rider in the world, all it takes is for some paint huffing mongoloid to not check their wing mirror and bang, you're done. You are relying too much on other people being careful which I am just not prepared to do.

@DirtyWalsall Broken windows add up, just making more and more smaller things worse than they were before

Canal & River Trust so cheap they replace locks at the end of their life span with a bunch of planks glued together from B&Q. The chief executive is on £230,000 a year btw £50,000 more than the Prime Minister

@ShabanaMahmood @andyburnham 'Fair for all' is entirely the problem. It should be exclusive and incredibly selective as to who can live here. Instead every stray with a sob story gets put up where they can open a phone shop with a government grant

It is an honour to remain as Home Secretary in @andyburnham’s Cabinet. I may be biased, but it's the best job in the business. We have begun the work of major reform, to make our streets safer and our immigration system fair for all. Now let’s finish the job.

@PolitlcsUK One of the first rules of goal setting is to set something that is actually attainable

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham pledges to end homelessness in Britain as his first act as PM "I will soon go through that door behind me and issue my first instruction: to end rough sleeping in our country"

@Ed_Miliband We should be hooking up your cake hole to the turbines, the hot air generated will power Britain for Millennia

Big day today… Our latest renewables auction opens up. Building on two record breaking auctions that have secured enough power for 23 million homes. Delivering energy security, good jobs, lower bills and climate action.

@YisraelChaiAdam That's just the art of the deal

It’s supposed to give us soft power in poorer countries but we give Pakistan £150m and they won’t even take back their rapist.

£23b on foreign aid. Same as NASA’s entire yearly budget btw.

@ukhomeoffice But is knife crime down, are stabbings down?

🚨 Knife murders in England and Wales are at the lowest level in a decade.

@garyseconomics 'Further dismantling of the welfare state'. The size of the welfare state has exploded, the government shipped in millions of recipients that were supposed to be 'paying for the pensions'

Will Andy Burnham raise your taxes?

@SN_JenC @PolitlcsUK Let's start with getting rid of all the levies

@STC898 @PolitlcsUK Drilling more will not make our energy cheaper. The country doesn’t own the oil fields, private companies own them and they sell the oil to the highest bidder on the international market.

🚨 NEW: The policies Andy Burnham is set to outline when he becomes PM on Monday - Plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, a possible break from Labour's 2024 manifesto - Lower bus fares, potentially through reinstating the £2 bus cap - Public control of water and energy companies - Lower energy bills through VAT cuts or by moving older wind and solar farms onto fixed-price contracts - The biggest council house-building programme since the post-war era - Social care reform through a cross-party consensus Burnham will also spend the later part of next week at the new No 10 North in Manchester to symbolise his shift away from Westminster

@SN_JenC @PolitlcsUK No, we need cheaper energy

@PolitlcsUK We need to stop drilling not do more.

@RollingHedge The people 'paying for the pensions' will actually be on pension credit. Who knew?

The modal Boriswave entrant is a care worker on £21-25k with a non-working spouse. Half the state’s own threshold. A fifth of the real one. By design. That household draws roughly £34k a year in public services and pays £9k in tax. A £25k gap per family per year before a single benefit switches on. The benefits switch on at ILR. For the 2021 arrivals that means now. Then Reeves raised employer NI to 15% for hiring a Brit while the India deal exempts Indian workers from NI for three years. Cheaper to hire the import than your own countryman at the same salary. Total cost: £36-40bn a year. £360-400bn over a decade. Nearly the entire policing budget for England and Wales, every single year. Over 60 years, comfortably north of £1.3 trillion in today’s money. And every figure above is the conservative case. The real figure could be as high as £1.8 trillion over 60 years. They must all go.

@Fink_Money Absolute shite, gave up after the goal and parked the bus

Non finance post. Thomas Tuchel has to be sacked tomorrow. A strategic disaster class. - sit back for 30 mins - put 5 defenders on - allow an aging Messi to dictate the play when making him run up and down more is the smart thing to do - sat back against the previous teams but the previous teams weren’t Argentina In trading terms, this is basically like putting your money into @StanphylCap’s fund. You will always lose with that strategy.

@Fink_Money Load of crap largely propped up by IHT avoidance investment vehicles

British investors still punting on AIM are doing themselves a disservice. There are US midcaps that move more than those fraudcos.

@HeatherMassey2 @ToryFibs Sub replacement since the 70s

@STC898 @ToryFibs It would've added up had Thatcher and subsequent PMs not declined to contribute their bit - saving £270bn (1990-2020 figure, obviously it's more, 6yrs later) And post WW2, there was a baby boom for 20yrs!!!!

I warned folk they’d go down this route. It’s started. One day they’ll come for your pension.

@FsmDog @ToryFibs Those 'withheld earnings' via national insurance have already been spent. Irresponsibly by the government.

@STC898 @ToryFibs Pensions aren't a 'benefit' - they are withheld earnings...

@based_data_uk @PolitlcsUK @FUDdaily Just added a few million pension credit claimants, Brilliant Boris

🚨 NEW: The Government is now set to raise the state pension age to 68 in 2037 - seven years earlier than originally planned

@myownwinters @PolitlcsUK The reality is that potential pension credit recipients have exploded, oops

@PolitlcsUK I was told we brought in millions of migrants to pay our pensions. Why would the government increase the pension age? The pension pot should be flush with cash now. 🙄

@BBCBreakfast Someone took these ideological clowns to one side and explained that you literally cannot ban VPNs, a cybersecurity nightmare

'We have decided not to limit VPNs' Online Saftey minister Kanishka Narayan told #BBCBreakfast the Government has decided not to restrict access to Virtual Private Networks (VPN) as part of a social media ban for under 16s, despite initially suggesting it would take action bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…