Jan70

With a special Easter message to Tory MP Jonathan Gullis: Given the multiple bits of embarrassing personal information we have on you, I suggest you pipe down on your attacks against me

Oh wow, that's awkward. #Gullis

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BREAKING NEWS:

The UK manufacturing sector returns to growth.

The UK’s factory sector returned to growth last month for the first time in over a year.

Output across the sector rose last month, and business optimism has hit a nine-month high.

👏👏 ‘Malevolent’ sums up the post budget hysterical coverage by the media perfectly.
It’s almost as though they were hoping for a negative reaction in the markets to the budget & didn’t get one!🤔

Constant attacks, criticism, get people angry over nothing.

Throw enough mud and hope something sticks.

And the Tories? They are just caught up in it all and are along for the ride.

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social

And it’s getting worse. Disgusting.
First Angela Rayner,then Jess Phillips, now Rachel.
I hope that women in this country are waking up & seeing what’s happening & turn against voting for any party that the right wing media wants & that means Reform & Tories. Starmer needs to call the media out too.

Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as 'unmitigated economic disaster' We've now got The Telegraph joining the Brexit resistance, after the formerly pro-leave paper ripped into its 'near-disastrous' consequences.

The Telegraph denounces Brexit as ‘unmitigated economic disaster’

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...

This is a long one. But well
Worth a read. It sets out our Labour governments growth plan. From New Towns to infrastructure to paying down our debt. It’s clear and concise and worth quarter of an hour of your time. I’d get a drink though!!!

Very interesting thread. Thank you for taking the time to do it.

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

Co-op to cut prices of 1,000 products after Autumn Budget announced The grocer has announced major plans for the chain

The Co-op is backing the government, supporting the people in our country and our farming industry.

In news totally ignored by all major news outlets the Co-op has said "Today’s Budget provides the clarity & certainty that small shops and local communities have been waiting for".

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The always-disgusting Jeff Randall used the the grossly misogynistic sobriquet “Rachel from Accounts” on Trevor Phillips today. Baroness Ashton called him out but Phillips & Lionel Barber didn’t

I didn’t see this, thank goodness but how this can be deemed acceptable is beyond me. What has happened to ‘respect’. Argue/disagree about policy, yes, but this is a personal insult & they know it.
Seems the media here are now prepared to copy Trump! I thought we were better than that. It’s gross!

'Every single penny' of Budget energy savings is for consumers, Ed Miliband says

Ed Miliband has written to energy suppliers to ensure they pass on savings announced in the Budget to consumers, including those on fixed tariffs.

Reform UK on X We have launched a major ad campaign across 6 national newspapers today. Our message is simple: Reform UK stands ready to fix Broken Britain.

Reform UK Party Ltd spent £700,000 on a 2-page spread — one page being just an image of Farage and the other a letter, meaning he spent £350,000 on pictures of himself.

The average UK house price is £272,000.

Also, the ‘full English’ is badly photoshopped on — it's tiny!

France to start intercepting small boats in the Channel after pressure from UK The change in policy comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wrote to President Emmanuel Macron.

France to start intercepting small boats in the Channel.

I look forward to Farage and the Mail etc acknowledging Starmer & Macron’s efforts on this issue.

I think we’ll have a long wait for them to acknowledge anything positive that our Govt does. 😢

"We believe recent events underscore the urgency of this issue."

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Many newspapers and politicians have been calling yesterday's fiscal statement a 'Budget for Benefits Street'. Here's three reasons why that is not accurate 🧵

The economic benefits from scrapping two child limit can outweigh the initial costs. Some estimate the wider economic burden of child poverty at £39bn a year – lifting 10 per cent of children out of poverty will help alleviate this.

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So this is supposed to be journalism. What next!

Lots of noise from the turquoise tits in Reform.. but the reality ⬇️

"Welfare spending went up, you raised taxes 20 times in the last parliament... you added £1.5 trillion to national debt..."

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Harriett Baldwin, Shadow Business Minister, on her party's 14-year record - after her criticism of Labour's Budget.

#Newsnight

Agree & I sincerely hope that they cease to exist & very soon.

👍 This is getting ridiculous. Net Immigration reduces but Yusef doesn’t like that. Hopefully the media will start to question what they do want & not before time IMO. All proves to me that Reform don’t actually stand for anything. A complete waste of time & hopefully won’t get anywhere near power.

YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!

I’m totally confused!
Are Reform now saying that they don’t want immigration to come down despite spending every ‘press conference’ droning on about immigration being too high. It’s almost as though they don’t know what they’re doing & making up things as they go along 🤔.

Resolution Foundation analysis of the Chancellor's Budget:

Typical families gain approximately £230 from energy bill support, fuel duty & rail fare measures.

Scrapping two-child benefit limit helps over half a million families by an average of £5,000.

The Budget is progressive overall, RF finds.

Victoria Derbyshire rinsed Baldwin - a washed-up Shadow Business hack from the 14-years-of-chaos Tory circus - after she moaned about Labour’s Budget. Derbyshire hit back: everything they whine about now is what they did while trashing the country. Fourteen years of ruin and they act brand new.