Matthew
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@OrientationFrom @julianHjessop Me too. Talking my own book as a mortgage borrower, but part of me also wants them to hike and the ensuing fallout to bury Labour for good. The way out for Bailey is to cite the Bank’s secondary mandate of financial stability, which I suspect he’ll do.
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@julianHjessop Gut feel is to fade it. Hiking would only further the consumer demand destruction and make an already fragile labour market worse. Maybe contrarian, but I could still see a cut or two.
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FWIW, I do not think that the UK interest rate increases that are now priced into the markets are a done deal.
The future path of rates will still depend on the incoming data on both inflation and activity, and the need for at least 5 of the 9 MPC members to vote for a hike is still a high bar.
But the statement today clearly left all options open...
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@Marblechops79 @JohnPaulMarney @peter_sarris Yes - but the deleterious effect of Etonian/Wykehamist PPE grad types (who need to be excised from our politics brutally) doesn’t mean holders of SPS degrees aren’t morons in a different way.
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She loves herself so much . People whinge about Oxford PPE graduates damaging the country, but this infanticidal Cambridge grad proves that SPS can be even worse.
stellacreasy@stellacreasy
I will make an exception to my rule about EDMs to stand up for democracy and for refugees. I believe making confirmed refugees live in limbo fearing deportation does nothing for border control, our economy or their sanity. If I am wrong I still think elected representatives should get the chance to debate and vote on these plans. If you agree ask other MPs to add their name to EDM 2908 and let’s make sure Parliament has a say on how we treat those we have already given sanctuary.
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@TrooperSnooks @denbypottery Doesn’t this exemplify Labour’s transformation? One might (I do, vigorously) contend that socialism is always the wrong answer, but the Lab movement was rooted in our manufacturing industries, nonconformity, the dignity of a job well done & just recompense for it. Dirty words now
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This piece of @denbypottery sits proudly in the collection of VIP dust gatherers in my study. This grand old pottery's imminent demise due to soaring energy costs should haunt the current energy minister, and the equally incompetent fools who went before him. Sadly it won't.
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@JohnPaulMarney @peter_sarris SPS was notoriously for thickos - we mocked them for it 25/30 years ago. One of the shocks of going to Cambridge/Oxford is that on day one you start selecting on a scale of relative stupidity, just like in real life, and not just the diversity candidates.
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@peter_sarris Yet again, I'm slightly taken aback to find that someone I regard as pretty thick, is an oxbridge graduate. Blimey.
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@HumzaYousaf Your anti-white hatred is dressed up as anti-white hatred chum so eat what you ordered. It’s not halal.
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We all know why Nick Timothy MP singles out Muslims celebrating Ramadan in Trafalgar Sq.
Not because praying is domination, but because he wants to blow a rabid anti-Muslim dog whistle for political gain.
He should be nowhere near politics, let alone the shadow front bench.
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@si_rubinstein Well that would be an interesting game for them to play given that Reform is their best hope as republicanism/disestablishmentarianism become mainstream on the left. The bishops of course are all entryists so will give the ermine up before their leftist principles.
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If Reform gets into government it’s easy to imagine Charles/William undermining them by e.g. raising an eyebrow at some refugee charity dinner or making some pointed remarks about diversity & inclusion in the Xmas speech. There will need to be some kind of plan.
Pimlico Journal@PimlicoJournal
🚨NEW: The British right has begun to move away from a conservatism that naively venerates our long-rotten institutions, recognising the need for radicalism. As we re-examine our loyalties, we should not let the monarchy escape scrutiny. READ: pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/abolish-the-…
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@shivmalik Because public policy doesn’t occur in a vacuum & adherents to only one creed are vanishingly over represented in terror and mass child rape while demanding exceptions to free speech. Odd that you’re faking bemusement when you’re happy to generalise about boomers and rural people
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How can you have a future justice secretary who, without any evidence, just his own confected theological musings, believes that the Mayor of London is a radical Islamist by dint of having prayed in public?
Lord Walney@LordWalney
There might be some short term political advantage for this pile-on, but calling for Nick Timothy to be sacked just highlights Labour’s vulnerability to claims it leaders run scared of challenging cultural questions
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@alexanderrX_ 57 for most of us too. I’ve been doing it - we all have - but resent it bitterly.
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@paulmasonnews It’s a very new innovation in our history even including Christian denominations.
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Religious tolerance *is* our way of life. Badenoch is losing control of her front bench now 👇🏽
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
I will not be silenced. Labour are only demonstrating that they cannot see right from wrong. They will not stand up for our way of life. But we will.
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Further proof that the Greens can be depended on for the worst takes on every policy area. They want a wealth tax to spaff on the world. Global redistribution at your and your children’s expense.
Dr Ellie Chowns MP@EllieChowns
Cutting international aid is a false economy – and one which puts Britain’s security at greater risk. The UK’s defence does not exist in isolation from global security. You cannot make Britain safer by making the rest of the world more unstable.
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@EllieChowns This is utter nonsense. Soft power is a myth, and what we’ve been showering taxpayers’ money on has done nothing to improve security even for the beneficiaries.
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Cutting international aid is a false economy – and one which puts Britain’s security at greater risk.
The UK’s defence does not exist in isolation from global security. You cannot make Britain safer by making the rest of the world more unstable.
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@piggy_jags @TrooperSnooks @AnnaLongthorp Labour have refined this by smiting the working class in the towns as well, in the interests of an imported voting bloc.
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@TrooperSnooks @AnnaLongthorp I come from the towns and city. The Tories ruin the working class there, Labour the countryside. The problem is both sides only look after the elite
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Reading Labour's land use strategy makes me feel simultaneously sad, angry and depressed. In my 55 years on this planet, never have I felt more disconnected with a sitting government.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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@juliatetley @TrooperSnooks It’s completely immoral. They have set themselves up in opposition to millions of our people and literally to our land to buy votes. I think we all recognise what Richard describes - the complete disconnection. They’re ruling, not governing.
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@SuffolkMatthew @TrooperSnooks It doesn’t seem right that they can ride roughshod over so many people with no way real way of halting them. ‘Endure’ is the word Matthew. Each day brings a fresh horror. I hope people DO wake up enough to vote them out, if not I genuinely fear we could be lost.
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@TrooperSnooks It’s horrifying. A new government will have to have a plan - legislatively and otherwise - to mitigate the damage. Agriculture must be seen as a strategic asset, like steel used to be. Basing policy on the continued availability of cheap imports is madness.
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@SuffolkMatthew I fear so much damage will be done, and so much legislation put in place that it will take a decade to undo before any green shoots of recovery are seen
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@nowak_paul Calling things dog whistle politics is dog whistle politics.
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I’m not religious but I have friends, colleagues and neighbours of all faiths and none.
To call a public display of Muslim prayer an act of ‘domination and division’ is dog whistle politics.
Pure and simple.
independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/…
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@shivmalik @LFG_Leeds Unfortunately being from west Suffolk I don’t understand this, straw-sucking inbred yokel that I am, blinking in my ignorance at the little flashing box in my hand while my sister-wife stirs the gruel over the fire pit. @RosieP4
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Here is a route map.
Find out why we picked it.
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LFG Leeds Chapter@LFG_Leeds
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@RosieP4 @shivmalik Haverhill is a failed overspill town; the Thurlows etc are successful villages. Nothing suggests more of the former will work here, and that’s before AI comes for half the extant jobs in Cambridge. Also no mention of the GIANT development extending Haverhill into Little Wratting.
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Well this takes the biscuit. We've joked about @shivmalik et al treating East Anglians as straw chewing bumpkins but just listen - he says that people in the Forest City area do not 'share a language' with people like him, so when he mentioned trams, metro and terraced housing they had no reference point!
I am not sure it is possible to be more patronising than you hear, here.
When I talked in my blog about FC about imperialism/colonialism, I could not have been more accurate.
At 6 hours in (yes, hours, not minutes)
youtu.be/aqmWZeuONZw?si…
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@SuffolkMatthew @steamedhamms What happens when Christians preach the gospel in tower hamlets?
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this idea of the adhan as unacceptable because it “denies all other religions including Christianity” seems a bit mad. it does so only in so far as the first commandment does for christians or the nicene creed or the apostles creed
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
The wilful misunderstanding in this post says everything about the people behind the “Islamophobia” definition. The point is not that Sikhs have danced on Trafalgar Square. Or that the Passion Play has been hosted there. Neither is the point that Muslims gathered on Trafalgar Square. The point is that mass ritual prayer in public - in this case next to a church - is an act of domination. So is the public call of the Adhan, which explicitly denies other religions including Christianity. That is the difference. And yet neither Dominic - nor the Labour MPs who were instructed by No10 to attack me last night - will engage with the substance. Instead he claims he knows my personal views when we haven’t talked, and incorrectly describes me as a spokesman for the Free Speech Union. People like Dominic can’t work out why the ideological world they built is falling apart. They never pause to wonder if perhaps they might have got things very badly wrong.
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