Lee Stewart
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Fighting outside of St James’ Park. One fan appeared in a bad way. CPR administered before being taken away. Not good 🙏🏻
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Another vertically challenged defender..
Yeah great move…
Péter Kamarás@peter_kamaras74
Barco is a no brainer for Chelsea. He can help the team in many things — especially to create chances and break down deep blocks. Here’s why🔽🧵
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@LoftusSteve @DeborahMeaden tRuSS cRAshEd tHe eCOnOmY 4.3% (black circle).
Reeves 'fiscal responsibility' 4.94% (red circle).
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Just a month ago @DeborahMeaden and the other Labour outriders were celebrating the sterling jon of Rachel Reeves because borrowing was down due to people selling up before CGT goes up.
Well, we're back in the real world now.
Office for National Statistics (ONS)@ONS
Public sector borrowing was £14.3 billion in February 2026, £2.2 billion more than in February 2025 and the second highest February borrowing since monthly records began in 1993, behind that of 2021. Read the article ➡️ ons.gov.uk/economy/govern…
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@BLUENOSEBOB1878 So you're slagging fans off for helping save their club?
I thought you Scousers were a socialist lot?
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Chelsea before Abromovich took over, had won 1 English title & had begging bowls to collect money from fans and a car park behind the goal.
Their recent fine does not fit their crime, theres most probably more we don’t know about.
Hope Everton fans are all over this tomoro.
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@ox_anna29 Borrowing has surged because the public finances are on a knife edge due to @UKLabour you twat.
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Borrowing has surged because of a war YOU fucking support you ghoul.
Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch
What is Rachel Reeves doing? She maxed out the nation’s credit card with record borrowing and runaway welfare spending. Now Britain is more exposed to global shocks and our debt costs are spiking. Only @Conservatives have a plan to cut spending and get Britain working again.
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@UtdForever7 @FA_PGMOL You literally won your last game due to a hand on a shoulder.
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🚨How is Maguire’s foul given but NOTHING on Amad??
Same situation, completely different decisions — absolute joke. We’ve been robbed here.
@FA_PGMOL — This is a JOKE!!
#MUFC
Manchester United Forever@UtdForever7
🚨How was Maguire’s foul any different from the one on Amad?? We’ve been robbed. @FA_PGMOL ???? #MUFC
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@MatthewStadlen @KemiBadenoch NO use of British bases
NO use of British bases except for defensive measures
NO use of British bases except for defensive measures that include attacking the enemy.
That's a(nother) U-turn dipshit!
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@KemiBadenoch Pardon? What precisely is the U-turn?
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@GeorgeSmileyOBE It's all about that. The model now can't be buying a Lukaku that costs £200 mill.
It can't be about losing Rudi on a free.
Roman could do that before the days of FFP, not now.
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@tapas321 Wasn’t about that..
The construction of the answer Trophies etc..
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The Mask slips again..
Sustainability & Profit come first..
More rimming of Brighton…
SHAYEE 𒀭@tier_1st
Behdad 🗣️ “We’re here to build a system. Sign young players early, lock them into long contracts, move them around our network, sell at peak value. That’s the model. If trophies come, great but sustainability & profit come first. Just like Brighton model”
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But there were no external events in play when ‘tRuSs crAShed tHe eCoNoMy’….oh wait!
John Redwood@johnredwood
The cost of government borrowing for 30 years has just hit 5.6%, compared to the worst one day spike to 4.8% under Truss. Rachel Reeves said that rate had crashed the economy. Oh dear, what has the Chancellor done?
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@Frencheconomics Feels like gilts will rally and sterling weaken. No way the BoE hikes 3 times in response to an energy inflation shock IMO
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The big move in the short end of the Gilt curve (+90bp since Iran War began) has a lot of influencing factors right now, and there is a degree of selective interpretation depending on priors. But I would suggest a top five:
1. The UK is by DM standards a high inflation economy (because it rations energy, land and capital). Inflation has averaged 3%/year since 2010. An energy shock hits UK hardest, so inflation premia on short dated Gilts quickly emerges
2. UK rate cuts and an inflation slowdown were a consensus trade for Q2 so unwinding that positioning by allocators risks overshooting - particularly with a scarcity of institutional Gilt buyers (one of the legacies of the ongoing DB-DC pensions transition) and ongoing QT
3. An expensive bailout of household and business energy bills would likely result in an unexpected increase in short-dated Gilt issuance - so higher interest rates will be required to clear the market. I am surprised GBP has held up so well FWIW.
4. Rayner manoeuvres of recent days brings UK political change (with more issuance, more spending, more friction, institutional uncertainty) back on the table. Pricing that impact (comments about the OBR are classic bogeyman tactics) remains tricky, but qualitatively it certainly has been noticed.
5. BoE appears worried around inflation expectations - that remain elevated, at least in survey-based measures. A hawkish reaction that asserts low tolerance for any “look through” reprices the UK rate path. That kicked off yesterday’s move - but the qualitative MPC comments couldn’t justify, in isolation, the degree of repricing.
Some of these factors unwind v quickly on anything that looks like a ceasefire - the benefits of being a high beta sovereign. Some are longer-lasting (political/structural) and should signal to Labour MPs demanding “rewritten fiscal rules” that the starting appetite for more issuance is already thin.
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Lee Stewart retweetledi
1. You’ll improve the UK’s Balance of Payments
2. You’ll raise UK tax revenues
3. You’ll strengthen Sterling
4. You’ll boost resilience of the UK’s oil and gas supply
5. You’ll support jobs in chemicals, and refining industries
Oh, and you will reduce the carbon footprint of UK gas consumption at the same time?
Nice.
Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband
5 things we’re doing to help tackle the cost of living 👇
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Old Trafford was ruled out as a Euro 2028 venue because building work on a new stadium would supposedly be well underway. Fans, Uefa were disappointed. Walking along Sir Matt Busby Way feels a pilgrimage, even for those who aren't disciples of Manchester United ... 1/2
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Markets decided long ago how well run the UK public finances are (higher yields on the Benchmark 10Y Gilt than the Truss budget for over 18 months).
BOE dropped rates not due to @RachelReevesMP but because growth was more of a risk than inflation.
That scenario has now changed!
Liam Halligan@LiamHalligan
Check out the ten-year gilt yield this morning - after the UK's likely next Prime Minister tried to lecture international investors about the intricacies of fiscal policy and the UK's national accounts. A subject about which she clearly knows absolutely nothing. Nice one @AngelaRayner !!! Markets now demanding 4.9% per annum to lend money to the British government. In Morocco, it's 3.4%. And get this. In February 2026, the UK government a massive £14.3 billion - according to figures released this morning. No less than £13 billion of that money borrowed last month went on interest payments on existing debt. Think about that for one second - it's utterly insane. The UK's national accounts are now akin to a Ponzi scheme. And yet still, lunatic MPs and potential Prime Ministers call for ever more borrowing and spending - "because it's the right thing to do" Labour's chronic economic illiteracy and internal party-political posturing is driving the UK economy off a cliff ... ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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@TmH80455932 @CFCJnR You finished 8th the year before, 6th two years before that. Over the last few years every time you’ve made the Champions League you’ve bombed in the Premier League
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@TmH80455932 @CFCJnR And got into 15th place when playing 2 games a week.🤣
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@JackWDart He's a pathalogical liar happy to throw colleagues under the bus.
He doesn't answer questions.
He has traces of misgynist behaviour (yesterday's PMQ).
He's just a wrong un unfit for office.
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