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"I would never, ever, want to use my flag to bully or intimidate anyone" - Big John.
Bosh.
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As a fellow ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight happy to join Paul on the call explaining why bond markets ‘ do not fall into line’. This is deep and dangerous economic illiteracy.
Paul Mason@paulmasonnews
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/
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If Starmer goes that would be 5 different PMs in five years, despite two of them having historically large Parliamentary majorities…
Impossible to plan, strategise and deliver even medium term economic plans, let alone long term thinking going on elsewhere…
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78.4% of the rise in the Universal Credit caseload between Jul 2024 and Feb 2026 has been from people moving from legacy benefits onto Universal Credit
Data source ow.ly/8KKo50YY6vT
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Welcome @catkinson80 who has been appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in @MoJGovUK.
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So bored of news outlets trying to write the news rather than report it.
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Not true that we've "become Italy": Italy has PR and a coalitional politics. Twice, the UK has given governments massive majorities in this decade of "chaos". Politicians have had their instructions, they've thrown it away. Why? Maybe... a) no money & b) Twitterisation?
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The media is in full blood lust and may
soon be feeding off a 7th PM in 10 years. Our politics looks increasingly unserious. Although Labour MPs have lots of justifiable concerns, a little pause for thought might yet be good for both them and the country.
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Fucking rabble. Hold the line, grow some balls. Think about the outcome of pollitical instability, reject populism. Its not Britain's Got Talent.
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What we crave is an old-school government so boring no-one knows their names. Competent, professional.
But we're led by a story-hungry media desperate for new drama for sponsored podcasts.
If they had their way we'd have a new PM every month, each worse than the last.
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If Labour MPs detonate this government, the calls for an early general election will be immediate.
Reform will claim that whoever succeeds Starmer will be illegitimate, because they didn’t win the election.
The media will hound them, as relentlessly as they have Starmer, and the cycle continues.
This all plays into Reform’s hands. It’s exactly what they want.
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At times like this I wonder if some in Labour want us to be a perpetual party of opposition.
It's as if they don't understand governing the country is difficult and at times unpopular. They dont want to accept that getting the country back on track will take time and effort.
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Can't have kids having a bit of free fruit
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Break out students, and below shows the UK immigration story. Latest data only takes us to June last year: it will have fallen further since.
Basic net migration is probably at a multi-year low already. Why doesn't Starmer say so?
comment.press/brown
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Now do North Sea oil and gas.
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Reminder: the £2 billion of gold Gordon Brown sold when he was Chancellor would be worth £44 billion today.
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… I will never join the TenYearKeir # brigade but all this drama and nonsense has pushed me into strongly supporting him
Why is it that some Labour MPs and members always seem determined to do the tories job and destroy Labour prime ministers?
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