🗣️ "I haven't downplayed the seriousness of the findings." Andy Burnham has addressed concerns that he devalued the verdict against Man City after the club were found guilty of Premier League financial rule breaches.

Sweet land of liberty. 🇺🇸

Please note this: M&S Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice (with bits). As I opened the bottle, I saw a not inconsequential amount of the liquid (and bits) clinging to the lid. Had I left the lid attached, there would be a non-zero chance the orange juice would gloop onto my white shirt. I therefore tore off the lid (attached due to the EU’s Single-Use Plastics Directive 2019/904) in order to make the product useable. It left a sticky scratchy bit of plastic at the top, which I now have to consciously think about avoiding as I drink my orange juice. My overall product experience has been made materially worse. Oh, and I ripped off the lid anyway. No one wins from this insane regulation.

Nigel out doing what he does best in Redcar. 🇬🇧

The Tories keep saying they “made mistakes”. Mistakes? You governed this country for 14 years. These weren’t a few bad calls around the edges. These were decisions that fundamentally changed Britain, some of them potentially forever. They left us with the highest tax burden since WW2. Now they talk about cutting taxes. They grew the state. They grew the Civil Service to historic levels. They let the welfare bill balloon. Now they talk about small government. They buried businesses, financial markets, property and housebuilding under regulation. Now they tell us regulation is strangling growth. No shit Sherlock. But who wrote it? They now say regulation stopped homes being built. Who wrote it? They milked Stamp Duty. Now they want to abolish it. Home ownership fell dramatically on their watch. Now they have the audacity to tell us they are the party of home ownership. London was one of the great centres of global finance. By 2024, the UK was down to 20th in the world for IPO fundraising. One of the greatest financial centres on earth decimated by a Conservative government. They enshrined Net Zero in law. Now they want to abolish it, apparently they just realised how damaging it is to our economy. Kemi said countries with expensive energy are poor. Who made our energy expensive? They allowed the Armed Forces to shrink while the rest of the state grew. Now they tell us defence is the first duty of government. Really? Was it not the first duty of government during the 14 years you were actually the government? They promised to stop the boats. They didn’t. They cut police numbers. They closed magistrates’ courts. They hollowed out the justice system. And while people were being robbed, burgled, stabbed or having their shops emptied, the Conservatives had the audacity to arrest people for tweets. And then there is immigration. They promised to control it. Bring it down to tens of thousands. Instead they gave us the Boris wave, just about 4 million people. Net migration reached levels Britain had never seen before. And this is exactly why calling these things “mistakes” doesn’t cut it. Because you cannot simply reverse years of mass migration. Some government decisions alter a country for a few years. The Conservative’s decisions altered Britain for a generation. Some may have altered it permanently. And please spare us the “new Conservative Party”. It isn’t. Kemi Badenoch was a minister. Chris Philp was a minister. Andrew Griffith was a minister and the Government’s Net Zero Business Champion. Claire Coutinho was literally the Net Zero Secretary. Richard Fuller was a Treasury minister. Alex Burghart was a minister. They were making the decisions. They had the power. They were the government. Governments don’t get to experiment on a country for fourteen years, fundamentally change it, leave behind damaging consequences that could last for generations, change the wording on the leaflet and demand that everyone treats them as the new management. These weren’t simply “mistakes”. They were deliberate choices. Choices that changed our economy, our population and the size and reach of the state. And some of those changes may never be fully undone. That is the arrogance of it. The belief that you can make decisions of this magnitude, fundamentally change the country, wait for the political wind to turn and then say: “Sorry. We got it wrong. Trust us to fix it.” No, you broke Britain and only Reform will fix it.

Oh no. Not a picture of a hotel lobby during a private function. Heaven forfend! 🤣🤣🤣

I know people are worried about fuel prices. And I get it. You get to the pump, watch the numbers climb, and wonder why it's costing so much more than it used to.   The reality is that global events are pushing up costs, and families here at home are feeling the impact.   But I won't accept that there's nothing I can do to help.   That's why from today, you'll be able to see petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, compare nearby stations and find the cheapest option before you fill up.   It's a small change, but if there's a practical way to help people keep more money in their pocket, I'll do it.

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