Labour doesn’t get the best way to help most people out of poverty is to get them into well paid jobs. Create the environment for new jobs and stop benefits being so easy. #Budget2025

There will be give aways for voters in either 2027 or 2028

Time and again Keir Starmer told us if we made him PM he’d kickstart growth and make UK fastest growing economy in G7 during the second half of the decade. He (and Reeves) have done the opposite. The last Tory Budget was March 2024 when the OBR forecast the economy would be 9%

Another mil-foy on #celebritymasterchef. ⚠️ It’s meel-f-eye-yuh

A long post, but worth reading. Rachel Reeves is out of her depth. Economically and politically

Chaos - strategically, politically, fiscally.

I had high hopes and expectations for Rachel Reeves. She seemed capable and with integrity. Not any more. I don’t trust her anymore.

Rachel Reeves is either deceitful or incompetent. Or both.

Often when restaurants close, I think ‘well, it was overpriced/not good food/strange menu/friends wouldn’t go there’. But not Leon, it was good. I’ll miss it. What terrible reflection on our economy & tax system. mol.im/a/15371643

With unemployment peaking today, don’t the Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have anything more important to do than a pancake stunt? God help us. #PancakeDay

“_What can be done to improve young people’s access to jobs?” Reduce employers NI rate on under 22s BBC Question Time

For patronising tones. Bridget Phillipson is the new Diane Abbott.

Latest Peter Mandelson news, we are completely Through The Looking Glass.

“Young less likely to work if they live with parents, says jobs tsar” Who’d have guessed that? Or, those who don’t live with parents have more need of a job. thetimes.com/article/477d8e…

Watching BBC Question Time - there is no more scope to increase taxes, whether it’s income tax on rich or VAT or council tax or NI. We need to look at productivity in the public sector. Hospitality & retail provide important first jobs and part-time jobs. #bbcqt

Wow - Richard Branson named in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. That’s brave. #bbcqt

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