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@Toptap_one @itvnews @Peston Yes. You are having a laugh aren't you?

@itvnews @Peston Pesto is a tory shill. Always was, and always will be. I blocked him ages ago, now I'm blocking you too.

Starmer is effectively a lame duck PM whose utterances about policy will barely be heard above the racket of speculation about how and when he will go, writes @Peston itv.com/news/2026-05-1…

@weezer316 @afneil The Tories inherited a deficit of £155 billion from Labour. That size of deficit can only be whittled down over several years so a large chunk of the debt increase was labour's fault.

@afneil They didn't. Tories borrowed about 2.3 trillion of that

This is economic ignorance of a high degree, even for my old mate Diane. If you don’t want to be ‘dominated’ by the bond markets then don’t borrow £3 trillion from them. Be honest with the people and explain how your idea of socialism will entail EVERYBODY paying a shed load more in tax. If you can’t do that then you will be in hock to the bond markets. It’s as simple as that.

@DianeLBW @lester_hickling @afneil And we know labour would have locked down for longer if they had been in power then. Also we would not have been as quick to vaccinate people under labour.

@lester_hickling @afneil Yes. And then covid arrived. Would you rather everyone lost their jobs like they did in the States?

@TruthSentinel1 @afneil Wow, you have just matched Diane with that comment.

@afneil Hold on a minute Andrew, it was your conservative government that put us into the £3T black hole by selling off all of our assets.

@timetoshine1234 People on this channel should expect truth instead of propoganda.

Nigel Farage government. We get: Putin. No NHS. Heath poverty. Crashed economy. No workers rights. No maternity pay. No sick pay. No holiday pay. No right to strike. ICE fascists. We ALL lose. Nigel Farage is a grave dangerous to our democracy and national security.

@DickWinchester Grow up please. Nothing to do with a PM who left office 35 years ago. Scotland and Wales have been run by socialists. That is why their economies are failing.

Which is why Scotland, Wales and NI should simply leave now.

@paulmasonnews Look at your graph..the UK has become an outlier since labour got in.

3/ And because HMT favours issuing long-dated bonds, and because the UK suffers unique stresses due to decades of privatisation, ill health and ageing, (and Truss), our borrowing costs are an outlier...

In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/

@SamJRushworth This paragraph doesnt make sense. If you are trying to say rates are higher today because of Truss, you are wrong. Rates have increased since labour got in despite the bank rate dropping.

I met someone in my surgery this weekend who had to sell their home because they could not afford the huge increase in their mortgage when their fixed rate came to an end during Truss' self-made crisis. Stop trying to re-write history.

@DickWinchester And how would it survive economically? Welfare cuts? NHS cuts? Pension cuts?. Even higher taxes? Misinformed Indy voters will become very angry with those who pushed independence when they become poorer.

Given the rapidly developing shit show at Westminster tonight the Scottish government should be gearing up to declare UDI immediately. Let's move Scotland forward under its own steam.

@DaddyCoffee73 @Keir_Starmer Wrong and divisive. Why are you calling millions of people fascist? Maybe look at yourself.

Labour didn’t lose council seats because of @Keir_Starmer’s leadership… They lost seats because there’s a pernicious fascist cancer infecting public discourse and giving simplistic solutions to people that would never normally vote in local elections

@TheRealJamieKay There is something deeply divisive about people who believe that those who think it is sensible to have control over immigration hate foreigners.

There’s something deeply pathetic about grown adults building their entire identity around hating foreigners, asylum seekers and Muslims. No ambition. No ideas. No empathy. Just endless outrage and someone else to blame.

@jazzyrussell59 No, the question is whether all those who voted SNP and Greens would vote for independence.

Scotland returned a fifth pro independence government. Regardless of whether you support independence or not, the question is do you support democracy.

@LesBlair53 You are factually wrong. Wales voted to leave.

She is wrong , in the Celtic nations there is massive support for the EU , time to leave England to its fate #ScottishIndependenceASAP

@meljomur @SangitaMyska @LisaMoorish Why would they not believe a millionaire? What sort of schoolyard politics do you follow? Failed brexit? Contentious.

@SangitaMyska @LisaMoorish Yes. But why would they believe Farage, a multimillionaire. Who helped give us a failed Brexit, is the answer? It’s madness.

Matthew, not everyone who votes Reform is a racist, but every racist will vote Reform (unless Restore is on the ballot). To ignore that fundamental truth serves no one; least of all people of colour.

@KieranMacNeil_ I dont believe she is telling lies. To get rid of the deficit, do you propose cutting benefits and spending and raising taxes.

Angela Ross on #bbcdn is lying when she says the Scottish government is “overspending”. The Scottish government is legally required to deliver a balanced budget, and it has consistently done this. If you look at GERS, you’ll see that the so-called “deficit” is a result of reserved spending. You can read more about this on my Substack: kieranmacneil.substack.com/p/scotlands-fu…

@politixintheuk Largely due to the changes made by the Tories.

Times columnist Fraser Nelson pointed out over the weekend that new Home Office statistics paint a striking picture: net migration has fallen dramatically since Labour entered government, now sitting around 80 per cent below the record highs reached under the Conservatives. And it is not just the headline figure shifting. Remove international students from the equation and long-term immigration levels are now “probably at a multi-year low”, Nelson wrote on his Substack — a remarkable turnaround after years of Tory chaos, broken promises and soaring numbers. The asylum backlog is also being rapidly reduced under Labour. After ballooning in the aftermath of Covid while successive Conservative ministers appeared paralysed and unwilling to grip the crisis, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has begun making serious progress in clearing the system. Away from the Westminster psychodrama and endless Reform stunts, an uncomfortable reality is emerging for Labour’s opponents: the Government may quietly be delivering results where the Tories failed for years. Source: The London Economic

@Grouse_Beater @ScotNational Ok, just take his alleged racism...please state an example of it.

@ScotNational He's definitely gone gaga. His recent outpourings are racist, pure trolling and goading. I can take no more. Then again, retaining his hack columns for income depend on him developing a Shock Jock persona. grousebeater.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/the…

NEW: An economic expert has ripped into Andrew Neil for writing 'specious drivel' about Scotland in his column for the Daily Mail #Echobox=1778406209-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/26093148.…

@IslingtonChap Great stuff. Looking forward tk hearing some more comedy from you.

Harriet Harman. Superb. Gordon Brown. Even better. But let’s be honest. The best talent is still on the bench. Everything started going wrong for this country when it betrayed Tony Blair.

@ruth_wishart This is just wrong. Please do some research before you try and influence people.

The alleged "black hole" in Scottish expenditure misses 2 important facts: We are not "permitted" a deficit and the "gap" includes costs which an independent country would choose not to pay - eg Trident.

@SarahLudford Not true though. If that were the case our performance against Germany for example would be 8 % ahead.

The people who voted a decade ago for the UK to lose 8% of our national income (cumulative) are angry that things have not got better