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Here’s what I think about Paul Brand. In addition to ITV News, he hosts an LBC Show. LBC is produced by Global. Global ran the Assisted Dying adverts on the tube. That means it had a contract with Dignity in Dying. Global was priming people about assisted dying on its shows long before the bill was introduced. (It also had Dignity in Dying’s logo in the background on a News Agents interview with Kim Leadbeater). For instance, Carol Vorderman (yes), who had an LBC Show, randomly said she would choose assisted dying, months before Kim Leadbeater began pushing it. The priming is so that ideas aren’t as shocking when they’re finally introduced. Vorderman also primed people for it in her book, which mentions Esther Rantzen. Again, it comes across as very random at the time, but in hindsight I can see they’re just trying to plant the seeds (“ooh assisted dying is a good idea”) because they think were that thick. Oh also Brand was at Vorderman’s book launch, which brought together propagandists from the most odious left-wing networks, many with intersecting aims. The Global link is hard to ignore.

@MartinMonmouth @faisalislam Nailed on

@faisalislam Keir Starmer at the next #PMQs - 'Liz Truss' 'Nick Timothy', 'breakfast clubs', 'i love Muslims'.

BLIMEY. After disappointing borrowing numbers and the Bank of England’s hawkish tilt yesterday 10 year gilt yields reached highest levels since 2008 this morning above 4.9%… and possibly heading for 5%. This is rather delicate. The market judges the UK to be energy inflation prone, and somewhat political uncertainty prone too. UK political economy is sending messages right now… eg will the state always step in, in every circumstance now to stop energy bills rising for everyone, even in a generalised energy shock? See the Cornwall Energy projection of a possible £300 annual increase in energy cap typical bills. The IEA is about to advise the world on potential demand management solutions to help (of the sort Germany effected in 2022, which were deemed politically impossible in the UK). Across UK politics can there be reasoned conversations about these things? If the Gulf crisis continues all this will come to ahead in May, when the new energy price cap is set, in the middle of the aftermath of the May local elections, at a time when whispers emerge from leadership rivals of a looser relationship with fiscal prudence. As it happens, my sense is that the Treasury is firmly planning for a far more targeted offering for any support, IF needed, using data that was not available in 2022. The internal view is that many billions of pounds of Liz Truss’ universal £42 billion energy price guarantee scheme were wasted on rich households and on heating the air outside our badly insulated homes too. On top of that the market reaction to the Bank of England’s change of direction was somewhat overdone, as the Governor’s interview by me confirmed, as he told the MPC at the meeting, raising interest rates in the UK is not going to unblock the Strait of Hormuz… that said, some city economists are now saying we could get a rate rise next month, and markets imply three this year. Let’s see. These things could all change with one Truth Social post. There is some time here. We are less than a third of the way through the observation window on energy bills. Whatever the increase on bills summer is responsible for eg 7% of domestic gas consumption… so the immediate impact over summer would be around £10 a month. But there is an issue brewing at the crossover of political and geoeconomic uncertainty for the Autumn, and May is a key staging post. I can see why they keep saying they want a deescalation, both in the Gulf, and in gilts.

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@NeilDotObrien @destinyangel5 @RaoulRuparel It’s a double moron premium, the first reeves as chancellor the second rayner or milibrain as next pm

We already had the highest borrowing costs in the G7 and now the gap is growing. Taxpayers are paying a Reeves premium. HT @RaoulRuparel

@BurnsideWasTosh @moving_charlie As if they would know what a Bloomberg terminal was

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves looking at their bloomberg terminal this morning.

@RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer You’re both very quiet today I think after crashing the economy you’d at least attempt some gaslighting

@DefenceGeek @veritasPLANET Got to fund those extra welfare bennies somehow

Starmer: "War footing" Healey: "Pre-war era" Budget: *cuts £10bn more*

@Cryptic_Giraffe @jimmpowell @Ye_Olde_Holborn Yeah that’s great they could all enjoy gold plated public pensions, and double the days off sick and twice the pay inflation compared to those in the private sector. A bit of a shame that there’d never be any productivity improvement but hey ho.

@jimmpowell @Ye_Olde_Holborn The government outsourced it decades ago. Again, renationalise it all. The problem is petrostates are heavily dependent on their oil profits.

>>> Starmer/Reeves are toast (lol) ~ Brace for higher interest rates

The Tories shackled my generation with student debt. As one of the few MPs with a Plan 2 loan, here are some home truths.

@Goosey30111568 Still in parliament, still voting

LABOUR MP. One of Starmers mates. LABOUR HAS A PEADOPHILE PROBLEM. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@ZackPolanski Rent controls that have failed almost everywhere they have been tried. This is barely even student union level politics.

Hope *and* a plan. Rent controls. Nationalise water. Lower energy bills. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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This is a terrible "study" . It achieves renewables savings by explicitly not costing intermittency. It only prices renewables when they generate. Then they shift some of the costs into general taxation. It's the usually misleading trash to sucker morons.

@HugoGye passive state? we have record state spending, intervention and employment. With literally zero productivity improvement in pub sector in over a decade. She is utterly deluded if she thinks an even bigger role for the state will help productivity.

Rachel Reeves says in the Mais lecture she will deliver "a break with the laissez-faire politics of the passive state". This will help boost medium-term productivity growth, she claims.

Chart(s) of the Day 🤓 Here's what has actually happened to UK GDP per head since the Brexit vote in 2016, and what it would have looked like if the magical EU fairy dust had added 8%... 🤔

@RachelReevesMP Changing Britain for the better latest...

This government has the right economic plan for Britain. Stability in the public finances, investment in infrastructure, and reform to our economy. We’re changing Britain and our economy for the better. gov.uk/government/new…

Warm beer, scrapped juries, gulags, death pods, billions to give away islands we already own, nonce pals in the Washington embassy, no growth, higher taxes... I'm suprised anyone voted for that manifesto

@keirwrong duh sorry 🤦‍♂️

@TimPearson16 Covered in point 3

Harrow, Energy prices are worry. My 5 point plan to help you: 1. Close oil fields 2. Tax you more 3. Suggest you turn off lights, heating, TV and drink warm beer in dark 4. Turn on solar panels at night 5. Offer you MAID I man of action! All Hail Leader

Oh ok, so I'd better not have any- Premium Bonds, National Savings Certificates, AIM shares,VCT shares, ISAs, Additional Pension Contributions, Spouse, By the way I am sure you wont want to claim the £7m loss your company incurred last year against future corporate taxes as that would be tax avoidance?

Just to be clear, tax dodging is the common term for tax avoidance (legal but unethical) as opposed to tax evasion (illegal and unethical).   Avoiding tax is not a good look from someone who wants to run our country. Using rare and complex methods unavailable to normal people - takes away this lame attempt to re frame the issue as not paying more than you need to.