@Daves1412 @MatthewStadlen Did you think the same when they were monstering the Tories?
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@inconnu071980
grumpy middle aged guy and Stoke season ticket holder (which is currently contributing to my state of grumpiness)
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@inconnu071980 @MatthewStadlen I think they are doing more than that TBH. We seem to have lost our stoicism as a nation. In fairness I think Matthew gets that
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A Tory friend messages:
I’m no fan of Starmer
But he won a huge majority not long ago.
I have never seen a more unecessary and damaging act of self-destruction. It’s like the Labour Party have a death wish and don’t actually want to be in power
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@Daves1412 @MatthewStadlen The press is reporting events, that’s their job. Labour a just am incompetent joke
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@MatthewStadlen Press isn’t helping. Starmer, Streeting and Press equally responsible IMO. Starmer is a deeply flawed & mediocre leader: appalling at comms, but has done better than the Tories in spite of blaming his staff. Wes appears to only believe in Wes. Press believes it runs the UK. Bad.
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@RhonddaBryant Really bored with a party that has taken just two years to descend into farce.
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Really bored with the word decimated being used completely inaccurately.
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@Anna_Soubry What on earth has Brexit got to do with an incompetent government? 😂🤡
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I am deleting this
I despair at what our country has become.
And it all stems from the #Brexit #Referendum
Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍@Anna_Soubry
Is it just me but suddenly everything feels …. normal ? No more psycho dramas and scandals. Like the grown ups are back in Govt & people can get on with their lives watching politics out the corner of their eyes. Safe
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@lukeakehurst @nicolelampert You are a bunch of clowns, it’s taken you two years to descend to this level of farce - you are worse than the Tories, at least they waited a few more years before imploding
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Nothing that has happened today is remotely proportionate or reasonable behaviour this far out from a General Election scheduled for 2029. This level of internal game playing risks driving us into a General Election within months, as well as causing months of deep political instability that have real world consequences for the economy and national security. I am, to put it mildly, unimpressed.
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@DPJHodges He has to win it first - I expect there to be a huge amount of tactical voting
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Yesterday Downing Street were boasting Wes Streeting had bottled it and Andy Burnham didn't have a seat. This evening Wes Streeting has followed though and resigned, and Andy Burnham does indeed have a seat.
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@julianHjessop I do t understand how people can still listen to this guy
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There's a lot of this about - and it's a really poor take 👇
It's perfectly normal for investors in any market to require a higher return when lending is perceived to be riskier, for whatever reason.
This is just basic economics and has nothing to do with politics, or ideology.
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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@MatthewStadlen The grown ups are in the room!! They complain about Tory chaos, it’s taken these clowns only 2 years to descend into chaos
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Labour were out of power for 14 years. They won a 174 seat majority under Starmer. Now, less than two years in, MPs are panicking and self-destructing. Just amateur.
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@paulmasonnews The strategy of tax and spend? That’s definitely going to work over the medium term 😂
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Labour's strategy was beginning to work until Trump/Netanyahu screwed up the global energy system with their reckless war. We are right to stay out of it but we can't escape the consequences: place blame where it lies - on Iran, Israel and Trump...
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP
Today’s strong growth figures show the Government has the right economic plan. The choices I have made as Chancellor mean our economy is in a stronger position as we deal with the costs of the war in Iran. Now is not the time to put our economic stability at risk.
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Sinner is a 2X Doper allowed to play by a corrupt tennis establishment spearheaded by the powers that be from Italy. He has shamed Italy and tennis!
Internazionali BNL d'Italia@InteBNLdItalia
32 CONSECUTIVE WINS AT MASTERS 1000 LEVEL. Jannik Sinner stands alone. #IBI26 | @atptour
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@Lauren_83_ I just end up “treating myself” to make myself feel better which I do for a short time then I just feel terrible for having eaten. I’ve been on diets before but this time I’m cheating and using Munjaro, I’ve lost a stone in 3 weeks and just don’t feel like eating
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@thinkofthehuma1 @bluesbreaker2 @premnsikka Last I looked, you cannot actually bank or spend a %. This personal will pay his taxes and very likely that of 40 nurses
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@bluesbreaker2 @premnsikka The chap who gets his income from 40 london flats he inherited via a tax free gift/trust arrangement, that a management company manages on his behalf for 0 effort, pays a far smaller % of the tax on his £2million pounds per annum than a nurse pays in taxes, NI, etc on her £40k.
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88% of UK millionaires proud to live in Britain.
75% willing to pay more tax to fund public assets.
Yet right-wing constantly peddles project fear ... They would leave, etc.
Capital gains, dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages.
theguardian.com/news/2026/may/…
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@ChillinJalfrezi @ju25378 @RichardJMurphy I don’t criticise her, he keeps spouting the same nonsense.
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@inconnu071980 @ju25378 @RichardJMurphy I think she is performing a public duty by trying to talk sense into him.
Unfortunately, his ideas are popular with Zack Polanski so more people are being taken in by it.
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Bond markets sold off UK gilts this week, not because of fiscal recklessness, but because they fear Labour might elect a slightly more left-wing leader. That is not rational economic analysis. It is financial power being used to constrain democratic choice, but the media covered it as though it were the former. cnbc.com/2026/05/12/uk-…
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The adventures begin!!
I'll let you know what I'm up to very soon but in the meantime, I may be taking a short break so I'll catch up soon!
P.s. someone suggested I could be the PM, I'm just saying, it's not that... on this occasion 🤭🤭
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@RichardJMurphy The bond market is not a person. You know that I hope? It’s a collections of pension funds, investors, banks, unit trusts etc. They don’t collude and decide to bring down govt. They make rational decisions about risk independently.
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@CurrencyWar1 @afneil It was Nero and he played a lyre not a fiddle but apart from that I take your point !
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@afneil not possible.
bad anough that she sounded illiterate to the point of embarassment, her tone was arrogant and dismissive.
Starmer's behaviour is of the same cloth.
Cesar fidled, while Rome burned.
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Wow. You’re even more economically stupid than Diane.
Mike Murphy@dalkeithfiddler
@afneil Hey Andy Luv ... maybe read up on it bit. The bank of England owns about a third of that 3 trillion and remits the interest paid back to the treasury. The bond "vigilantes" are really not as indispensable as they think are
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He hasn't lost his sense of humour - or the ability to make Badenoch seem a very small politician!
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
Turning back to the leader of the opposition, the PM says he and Kemi Badenoch have something in common: "Our parties both had tough results at the local elections last week, the difference is she hasn't noticed," he says Follow live: bbc.in/48TqGfk
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Kemi Badenoch - a women who thinks what matters is being rude rather than being right
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@CheekyVic It’s crazy, I’ve put the central heating back on as it’s really cold
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We saw some madness under the Tories. But the Prime Minister literally refusing to discuss with his cabinet the fact 100 of his MPs have just resigned and called for his resignation is pretty close to the top.
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