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All things Clevedon, Calgary & Alcossebre. Padel. Pickleball & Sea Shanties. Intend to live to 100 or die trying.
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Andy Nash retweeted
Scrapping the Triple Lock won't get Burnham the billions he needs to fund free social care.
He should be looking at working-age welfare. Getting those who can work, to work. Not going after pensionsers.
“You can’t make a reputation out of what you are going to do.”
PM Burnham will be toast (and so may the UK be) by 2029 if he doesn’t address crises in defence, national debt, energy costs & welfare spending now.
“Andy Burnham is talking like an opposition leader: hope, change."
Fraser Nelson and Ayesha Hazarika discuss the need for the PM to act on his power now because Labour “will never have a majority this big again”.
@FraserNelson @AyeshaHazarika
Andy Nash retweeted
Burnham has fucked up big time. Easily his stupidest mistake so far as PM. Unfortunately it’s not ‘extraordinary’ to realise he got far too close to the Abu Dhabi millions while he was Mayor of Manchester and the best case assumption is that he doesn’t want to offend them.
"The prime minister's intervention is one of the most extraordinary things I've ever heard"
On #PoliticsLive, Times columnist Matthew Syed reacts to Andy Burnham's comments relating to the ownership of Man City
bbc.in/4ddsSQR
FFS doesn’t anyone in Government realise we’re now dancing to our creditors tune. 6% is widely regarded as a rubicon. These yields have to come down otherwise UK can’t borrow enough to pay the interest on our national debt. 🫣
Hopeless.
🤦♂️ Another day. Another Labour MP. Another CAR CRASH interview.
This time it was Financial Secretary to the Treasury James Murray on @LBC, who appeared to know next to nothing about the Treasury’s own finances, much to Nick Ferrari’s mounting bemusement.
Murray was busy boasting about removing VAT from energy bills to “help families this winter”. Nick asked the most basic question imaginable: how much will that cost the Treasury?
Murray hadn’t a clue.
Nick tried again. And again. Getting more exasperated with every attempt.
Ferrari: “There must be a ballpark figure as to how much this is going to cost?”
Murray: “Yes, but I haven’t got that figure in front of me.”
Ferrari: “Hang on. You’re the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and you don’t know how much it’s going to cost you?”
Murray: “I haven’t got the figure in front of me right now, Nick.”
Ferrari: “Why not? Don’t you think it’s a fairly relevant figure, Secretary?”
Nick pointed out that Murray and his colleagues must have sat around and come up with the plan, and the cost, so he should obviously know the answer. Murray just kept repeating the same line: he didn’t have the figure.
Nick finally gave up: “Well I’ve asked four times and you haven’t answered. I find that extraordinary.”
The whole interview was like that. Question after question on a range of subjects. No answers. Just waffle. I don’t know why these people bother going on air. Pathetic.
This below from a well regarded UK economist. After many years of financial mismanagement and reckless spending and borrowing the UK seems on course to follow the paths taken by Ireland and Greece into serious financial crisis. #ukgilts
Andy Nash retweeted
The hazard of Jukes.
Car thieves target Nissan Jukes as 11 stolen in one county in 24 hours bbc.in/4dMzJAV
Undeterred by the predictable financial disaster that is Bristol Energy UK Govt have announced to go all-in on a privatised Great British Grid. What could possibly go wrong? #bristolenergy #GBG
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39w…
Andy Nash retweeted
Did you know “Trumpery” is a real English word that has fallen out of use? We really need to bring it back because it is astonishingly accurate.
Hail two Somerset greats. 🙌🏻
That was some evening for @SomersetCCC & @SomersetWomen 🏆
They have two trophies heading their way courtesy of the @ToyotaUK PCA Men's & Women's Players of the Year 🔥
#PCAawards
Andy Nash retweeted
Man City issue statement: "The dog ate our irrefutable evidence".
shorturl.at/kwnBR
Andy Nash retweeted
"Burnham has a theory of growth in the way I have a theory on quantum computing. I can offer up a paragraph on the topic but don’t expect me to understand it."
Absolutely brilliant line from @ChristianJMay in today's City AM.
Andy Nash retweeted
Man City’s top lawyer mounting a robust defence and providing a full explanation to each of the charges from the Premier League.
#ManCity #PremierLeague
Outstanding achievement by one who is a “Somerset great.”
Craig Overton captains the 2026 @PCA Men’s Team of the Year!
⚪️ 951 runs
⚪️ 76 wickets
⚪️ County Championship MVP
⚪️ Nominated for PCA Men’s Player of the Year
Read more ▶️ somersetcountycc.co.uk/news/…
#YouAreSomerset
