Aaron Rankin
@Aaron_R_Rankin
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Anglo-Aussie, former @Conservatives parliamentary candidate & Northern Ireland Conservatives Exec. Fintech aficionado. Views are my own. [email protected]
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined June 2011
“As we leave the European Union we now have more control over our destiny than we’ve ever had. As the UK re-engages with the rest of the world, we share in the new opportunities that brings” @News_Letter
https://t.co/i5LIZeLV7w
newsletter.co.uk
In his letter of August 26, Thomas Stewart posed the question: “Is there a case for the Union?”
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Jeremy Corbyn’s Christmas card list has really been cut down the past year With Hezbollah & Hamas wiped out he’ll only have Ayatollah Khamenei & Gerry Adams left
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So much for stamping his authority in the wake Rayner’s resignation
🚨NEW: Keir Starmer wanted to remove Ed Miliband as Energy Secretary and move him into Angela Rayner's housing and local government responsibilities, but Ed Miliband refused to leave [@Peston]
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This is basically what it is, displacement activity, trying to look like you’re writing the ship after someone got thrown overboard
Good reshuffles symbolise a new message with new people. This, in contrast, is more a rotation than a reshuffle. Same people, in different jobs, to which they are generally even less suited than before. Hard to see why Starmer thinks this would change perceptions of his govt.
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The expression “failing upwards” comes to mind
*DAVID LAMMY TO BE UK DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: OFFICIAL
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I bet Keir Starmer was hoping for a quiet Friday but now, just after lunch, he’s got to do a reshuffle
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Now that Angela Rayner has resigned from all positions it leaves Labour without a Deputy Leader This is an elected position, so it’ll be interesting to see what right lunatic the party chooses that Keir will have to pretend to like…assuming he’s still around by then
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As it is the night before Onam, I am making Kerala Beef Roast, it’s as good an excuse as any…
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One thing quite shocking about these figures is how much the Northern Ireland parties are bankrolled by the taxpayer As a % of their total funding for Q2 of 2025, public funding was: - Alliance 71% - DUP 100% - People Before Profit 100% - SDLP 91% - Sinn Fein 26% - TUV
Interesting Q2 party donation figures just published. Tories out-fundraised Labour and Reform (Reform by 2:1). Oh, and Lord Alli was back with another £20,000 for Labour in April
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Ah the Jimmy Carr defence! Didn’t work for him…
Deputy PM Angela Rayner says she should have paid more tax on Hove flat
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Ok I’ll bite…how does everyone in the UK having a digital ID on a government database to stop people, with no ID of any kind, entering the country illegally on boats?
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer is planning to introduce digital ID cards for every citizen to help stop the boats [@theipaper]
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November…they way things are going we’ll have GILTs at 12% by then
NEW: Rachel Reeves has pencilled in November 26 as the date of her eagerly-awaited Budget, HuffPost UK has learned. https://t.co/csQV81CFmk
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This is some serious cognitive dissonance from Nick Clegg saying leaving the EU (a protectionist racket) was very damaging to the the UK then decries the rise of protectionism ie Trump flexing the USA’s tariff muscles He’s so universally wrong about everything that he could
“He... is clearly responsible for making the country more divisive, divided, poorer, less relevant in the world, fewer opportunities for our kids and grandkids.” Nick Clegg criticises Nigel Farage and labels Brexit “the most extraordinary act of self-harm”. #Newsnight
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At this rate Birmingham will descend into a series of fiefdoms governed by local warlords by Christmas
🚨BREAKING: Birmingham bin workers have voted to keep striking until March 2026
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Off to see Lokah tonight, the first instalment of a new Malayalam superhero cinematic universe Should be refreshing now that Marvel is totally clapped out
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“Ok Prime Minister, act natural, sound positive & try not to look at the camera otherwise you’ll come across as someone doing a David Brent impression…all good? 3…2…1…ACTION!”
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Did they run this by Lord Hermer? This is the exact sort of thing that’s utterly haram under his authoritative (& delusional) interpretation of international law Perhaps the AG’s interpretation changes with Labour’s poll ratings? 🤷♂️
🚨 BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she has suspended all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system
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Apparently Jude Law is playing Putin in an upcoming movie, however in it he looks like the hard nosed manager of a struggling English football team in the 1980s Not quite sure I can buy into the illusion
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As UK skills shortages go, this is one that I was unaware of
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