I’m Ryan and have an opinion
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Cameron is correct.
Rejoining isn’t a panacea. Maybe it was a mistake leaving, maybe it wasn’t.
We left though, just deal with it and make most of advantages it brings
***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***
David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU
The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”
Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU
As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit
“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says
The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations
“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says
“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”
“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”
Story by @ChaplainChloe: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Back to the dark ages” 🥴
Child Poverty Action Group on Tories' plans to cut over £36billion from welfare - including reinstating two-child benefit limit - say: “These proposals would take the UK back to the dark ages, causing the biggest overnight increase in child poverty since records began.
“We need all our politicians to commit to a plan to reduce child poverty rather than condemn the next generation to a future of struggle.”
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/t…
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Labour still have a clear lead, but what this consistent cross over means between reform and cons is that come election time, people will chose cons over reform is they don’t want Labour.
Latest voting intention in @Telegraph. Reform at 20% their lowest since 2024, 5pts behind the Tories. While Labour lead the Tories by 3.
🌹 LAB 28% (-1)
🌳 CON 25% (+2)
⏩ REF 20% (-2)
🔶 LIB DEM 9% (-)
🟢 GREEN 7% (-1)
⚫ RES: 6% (+1)
N = 2,013 | 6-9/11| Changes w 1/11
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Of course this is correct thing to do
Tories would save £2.8bn by cutting ADHD benefits for children thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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Thing is he doesn’t believe this himself
Kemi Badenoch says trying to save the 12,000 jobs at Poundland is “bonkers”.
Imagine you’re one of the families facing an uncertain Christmas. Or one of the suppliers, worried about being paid for stock delivered or sitting in your warehouse. Or even the landlords, concerned their properties will soon by empty for months and rent unpaid. How do you think they view it?
Here are the facts. Today we learnt from the company itself that it is in fact in the midst of a pretty successful turnaround. The company is not just solvent, but looks set to make an £18-20m underlying profit this year. Yes, it has debts and operates in a very challenging market, but it’s moving in the right direction. Fair play to the management and staff for what they’ve achieved this year.
As a result there are multiple bidders keen to discuss purchasing the business as a going concern.
And yet Gordon Brothers appear to be resisting, intent on shutting down the business and selling off its parts.
One of the bidders informed me tonight that Gordon Brothers “do not seem interested in doing a deal”. They are not responding and are not paying the suppliers.
In stopping the flow of money to the business shelves will empty, sales dry up and stores resemble ghost towns.
A business that took years to build could be destroyed in a few weeks. In retail, even if you opened a store a week, it would take a decade to reach 600 stores.
A decent business which brought value to people struggling with bills will become a failed one.
It’s not right that a foreign investor can cut off funding to a solvent business while offers are still on the table. As I’ve said before, not only will the workers and suppliers lose out, but the taxpayer will be on hook for tens of millions in benefits claims. This is not in the public interest. We should do our utmost to find an alternative.
That Kemi Badenoch doesn’t understand or even care about this says a lot about her.
When you dig down into the likely details of EU membership you see many against.
Genuinely don’t understand why Burnham opening this up again.
Who wants to go through all this again?!
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New @Survation poll for @BritainUnbound shows that Burnham’s EU ‘reset’ fails his own Makerfield Test.
Voters in the PM's constituency believe the UK government alone should decide policy in ten key areas, including food standards and state aid.
More coming soon...
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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I’m old enough to remember when sunak was getting pelters for moving this target
EXCL: Ministers are expected to make steep cuts to the government’s electric vehicle targets this week, in a move that will relieve carmakers but alarm many Labour MPs who are worried about the government’s commitment to the green agenda - @kiranstacey reports
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Rattled. Ashcroft (note
Wording is different to most) has been a leading indicator in last 6months
This is totally dishonest polling by Tory donor who isn’t even a member of the British Polling Council.
He had us at 21% in May and we achieved 28% - his polling has been proven as bogus time and time again.
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Who’d have thought someone that was head of resolution foundation would be propose something like this.
thetimes.com/article/d77bce8…
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Can someone tell me is there any precedent of spending more to save more from government policy in last 25 years?
We'll need to spend money on Neets to get benefits down, Andy Burnham tells Times Radio’s political editor Anna Mikhailova.
“I am prepared to take difficult decisions … there does need to be quite radical change in the way we support young people.”
@AVMikhailova | @AndyBurnham
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This is gunna be a must watch. Hope they do it.
SpaceX will attempt to catch both the Super Heavy booster and Starship on the upcoming flight.
If both are successful, it will mark the first time that all parts of an orbital rocket return to Earth intact.
This is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary.
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Who would have thought piling on loads of added regulation increasing cost of building homes (many are close to break even now) would mean the target would get missed?
The Government is going to miss the 1.5 million homes target.
Homes are now getting built slower than under the previous three Governments.
We need a new wave of planning reform to get back on track.
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I’m still bullish on AI despite mid terms and issue over data centres.
Perhaps a buying opportunity
Absolute insanity.
In just 40 minutes, the S&P 500 has now erased -$2 trillion in market cap.
The entire post-Midterm Election rally has been erased in a matter of minutes.
This is one of the fastest market cap losses in stock market history.
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This point is damming of governments of past and present (although present has made it worse)
Rationing of energy, planning, labour all contributes.
The subtext to the whole MPR is “the UK can’t grow particularly fast without generating inflation”. That is why the MPC felt they had to act to a supply side shock.
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