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G M retweeted
This morning I discovered a massive black hole in my finances.
Naturally, I gave my cleaner and gardener a 15% pay rise, ordered a brand-new Range Rover, ripped out my perfectly good boiler and replaced it with a heat pump.
I also handed a fortune to the neighbours and, to balance the books, threw my mum out onto the street.
Apparently, that’s how you fix a financial black hole.
The Labour Budget, brought to you by the people who think someone else is always going to pick up the bill.
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I thought I had heard it all.
But someone describing Alastair Campbell as “honest and astute” really is quite something.
I wonder how the families of the estimated 150,000–600,000 Iraqi civilians who died in the Iraq War and its aftermath would react to that description?
The Iraq War and the infamous dodgy dossier remain a devastating part of New Labour's legacy.
Some people have remarkably short memories.
G M retweeted
Man in blue, "If you can't afford to have children, don't have children.. We shouldn't be paying people to have three, four five kids"
Tim Montgomerie, "Who's going to look after you when you're older?"
Man in blue, "Sorry?"
Tim Montgomerie, "Who's going to look after you when you're older if we don't have more children?"
Man in blue, "My young partner"
Surreal 🤦♂️ #BBCQT
G M retweeted
We can’t help our elderly, we can’t afford police stations in our towns, we can’t afford to allow our armed forces to practice war game scenarios, we can’t afford new prisons or hospitals… and our taxes are at 85 year highs.
BUT £10 BILLION FOR UKRAINE -
F**K OFF
G M retweeted
WTF has Ukraine got to do with us?
🚨 NEW: John Healey has announced Ukraine will receive £10bn in additional economic and military support
"We called him this morning... he told us we made his day"
#Budget
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🚨 WATCH: The Government has launched an investigation after the BBC secretly filmed a lawyer explaining how to dodge a £45,000 illegal-working fine by getting someone abroad to pose as the shop owner
G M retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: The Government has officially approved the Jackdaw gas field for North Sea drilling
It's the UK’s largest known untapped gas reserve and will start to supply gas to British homes and businesses from the end of this month
G M retweeted
A further £54million donated to Zelensky, meanwhile the UK motorist gets a wee Google maps update to find the cheapest petrol.
You can't despise Andy Burnham enough.
🚨 NEWS: The British Government has committed another £54 million to help Ukraine through winter as households across the UK face continued pressure from energy bills.
The package, announced by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, includes:
• £20 million for energy infrastructure repairs, generators and power supplies.
• £34 million for heating, water services and humanitarian support.
The Government's latest figures put total UK commitments to Ukraine at £25 billion.
With British families also facing financial pressures this winter, questions remain over how ministers balance overseas commitments with support at home.
G M retweeted
THE FOREVER WAR
Your money. Their war. No limit.
£25 BILLION of British public money to Ukraine since 2022. And the billions keep going.
Who else wants a full, independent audit of every penny we've spent on Ukraine?
Where did it go? Who received it? Who profited?
Before Westminster signs another blank cheque, let's see the bloody receipts.
#ukraine
G M retweeted
Sunderland was built by miners, shipbuilders and generations of hardworking patriots.
They broke their backs, risked their lives and sacrificed everything to give their children and grandchildren a better future.
So why are their descendants now treated with contempt in the very city their ancestors built?
Why should hardworking families put up with crime, declining communities and lectures from sanctimonious politicians and taxpayer-funded activists?
Our ancestors didn’t build this great city for their legacy to be trampled on by a political class completely detached from ordinary working people.
British people first. British industry first. Criminals punished. Our heritage defended. Taxpayers respected.
I’m not interested in appeasing the status quo and nor should I be.
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Kevin Maguire on @bbcquestiontime, blaming the public again. Illegal migration is our fault. We’re racist. We’re scaremongering. Shut up, peasants.
“They’re fleeing terror. They’re coming here because we went there.”
So foreign policy is now an open-ended right to skip the queue. We went somewhere, therefore anyone from there can turn up illegally and stay. Convenient.
Legal migration, of course, is wonderful. They all work. They contribute hugely. Diversity heaven. Some even score for Sunderland. Repeat after him: diversity is our strength.
They’re in hotels, he says, because we won’t let them work. No. They come for the handouts, not the jobs. We often don’t know who they are, which is dangerous, and we don’t need more people competing for work and holding wages down. We need our own people in jobs.
Maguire’s real complaint is the standard of the free hotel and the fact they only get £10 a day. Not the boats. Not the cost. Not the vetting. The accommodation isn’t nice enough for people who entered illegally.
He finishes by telling you to stop “demonising and scaremongering”. Mention the crimes and you’re a racist, because they’re black and brown. The boats, the bills, the offending: none of it counts. Objection itself is the offence. Call the public bigots and the argument is over. That’s the whole routine.
Completely out of touch.
