How BIG is the Welsh Government's bureaucracy? 🤔 *£460 MILLION* is allocated for 'Central Services & Administration', including: 👥 £270m on staffing. ✍️ £25m on 'general admin'. 🖥️ £20m on I.T. ⚖️ £6m on tribunals. But all of this doesn't even tell the full story...👇 1/4🧵

This is just lovely...

ChatGPT's UK budget, when asked to come up with one to drive growth. 👇 ------ Here’s a budget proposal designed to stimulate a boom in the UK economy. Each measure is specific, targeted, and aims to balance growth with fiscal responsibility. 1. Cut Employer National Insurance

Reeves’ world vs real world 👇

In all seriousness, it’s ridiculous that this wasn’t on the table when it came to Wales.

Labour has shelved what limited inquiries it was prepared to mount into the industrial scale child abuse by Pakistani-heritage rape gangs over several decades. It is fitting that this shameful surrender was made by vacuous ministerial show pony Jess Phillips, who announced it as

Wrote in Politico today about what will happen next. There’s a risk of massively over complicating something very simple to diagnose and very hard to fix. politico.eu/article/shock-…

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Today’s “new” transport investment? The same £13.8bn the Conservatives announced in October 2023. Same routes, same money, just a new driver.

Ahead of her Spending Statement on Wednesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces a set of national accounts drenched in red ink. But Nigel Farage MP's Reform party has a plan which, at a stroke, will apparently bring about a multi-billion-pound improvement, paving the way for higher

Sophy Ridge is right - the claim that the Winter Fuel payment is back because the economy is stronger does not stand up to scrutiny. As she shows here...

Reeves once ludicrously posed as the Iron Chancellor. Now she is seen by the markets as a spendthrift with no growth plan. Bookmark this: a debt crisis is coming.   Let me explain what’s happening… The yield on government debt is the measure of how much interest people

It’s been 6 month, but we’re.. Just. Getting. Started.

‘So we lose 15,000 rich men and women and we gain 22,000 penniless asylum seekers.’ Nick Ferrari is doubtful that a wealth tax would do the country any good.

The Labour government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill: This includes compulsory purchase by public bodies & governments (local & national) to buy land (which includes the green belt, farmland or even allotments) at low agricultural value rather than full hope value. After

When unfunded public sector pensions and state pensions are included, UK national debt is over £12 trillion. The only way this can be funded is more and more money printing. This means more inflation, debasement and greater wealth gap. Slow motion financial car crash.

👋 Hey, Laffer Curve, how've you been?

At today's press conference, Bev Turner 🌸 asked President Trump how important farmers were to him amid the backdrop of the UK changes to inheritance taxes. Thank you for backing your farmers, Mr President. We need our government to do the same and #StopTheFamilyFarmTax.

We are governed by people who are not only spiteful but extraordinarily stupid

Dear Keir Starmer - we don't need another bill. Here are 9 quick & easy planning reforms that can happen today. Our open letter to the Prime Minister: