Tom Harwood
@tomhfh
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Deputy Political Editor & Presenter @GBNews | Journalist, commentator, I do real news | For more nuance than 280 characters: https://t.co/XjLEStEwGi
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Joined January 2012
I can’t quite believe I am writing this, but perhaps Nigel Farage should take some lessons in humility from the man with the famous chainsaw, who spent the early hours of this morning singing “I am the king of a lost world”. 🔗My latest analysis on two elections, in either
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Exchange of letters between the Chancellor and Prime Minister. The Chancellor has referred herself to the standards commissioner.
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The biggest high stakes expectation management exercise in modern political history.
A lot of brutal tax rises are on the table - but they won't all come to pass Govt's preferred outcome from the Budget is a sigh of relief from those who end up seeing it as rather better than they'd feared
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I wish iPhones gave you the option to listen to music and play a podcast *at the same time*. Would be revolutionary for gyming.
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@tomhfh Twice as much tunnel London - Birmingham (65 miles) as England - France (31 miles) is insane. Especially as it's mostly cuttings through monoculture farmland, then filled in on top of a concrete tube. Italy just opened 1st section of €6Bn, 150km Naples-Bari line in 5yrs
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It's a revered British tradition that the Tories get the public finances in order, constraining spending, taxes and borrowing, then Labour opens the spending taps. The cunning Tories foiled Labour's plans this time by spending like drunken sailors themselves.
This is the problem. In 1997, when Labour last entered office, they inherited the most dynamic market economy in Europe with healthy growth figures & a budget deficit of £7 billion, heading towards surplus. Their commitment to Conservative spending plans (which they actually
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Pick your fighter.
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The Elizabeth Line had to be largely (expensively) underground because it was dug under central london. HS2 is largely (expensively) underground because... some MPs wanted to 'protect' a view of an empty field.
Cool fact of the day: More of HS2 will be underground than the London tube line, the Elizabeth Line. (50% vs 45%)
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Deport.
Tory MP on TV pronouncing anti ‘ant-I’ like an American. Kemi needs to clamp down.
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Bill Gates has significantly changed his stance on climate change, and in a new memo now says 'it will not lead to humanity's demise.'
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Instead he says "the Tories did even more damage to the economy than previously thought." Four months ago the Prime Minister said he could not raise VAT, National Insurance, or Income Tax. Today he makes no such pledge, saying the economy is in worse nick than was thought.
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The Prime Minister refuses to say he will keep his manifesto commitment to not raise VAT, NI, or Income Tax.
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The man expressed his desire to be deported from the moment he was convicted, and we paid him half a grand anyway?
Hadush Kebatu was packed off back to Ethiopia with £500 so he wouldn't kick up a fuss. Presumably this is what Shabana Mahmood meant when she said she'd "pulled every lever" to remove him - the lever marked "His Majesty's taxpayer".
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The Renters Act tribunal system is *insane*. 1⃣Any rent increase can be brought to tribunal. 2⃣No rent increase can occur until tribunal decides. 3⃣Tribunals are forbidden from saying rent should be higher than the Landlord. 4⃣ There are only *34* tribunal judges in the country.
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The Afghan national arrested over a triple stabbing in Uxbridge arrived illegally in the back of a lorry in 2020. He was subsequently granted asylum. One man has died and two more remain in hospital following the maniacal attack.
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I'm sure the rent tribunals will use these powers judiciously.
The tribunals aren’t just for rent increases. Almost unbelievably, this government has changed the law so that new tenants will be able to challenge their initial rent *after agreeing to it*!! Tenants will be able to sign a lease, move in, then months later challenge the rent
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Let’s grow together. I’m rooting for every one of you. Keep creating, keep posting, and I’ll keep showing up liking, replying, and encouraging. Community > competition. ⚡️
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I don’t think enough people have internalised quite how off the wall mental this all is.
The tribunals aren’t just for rent increases. Almost unbelievably, this government has changed the law so that new tenants will be able to challenge their initial rent *after agreeing to it*!! Tenants will be able to sign a lease, move in, then months later challenge the rent
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The tribunals aren’t just for rent increases. Almost unbelievably, this government has changed the law so that new tenants will be able to challenge their initial rent *after agreeing to it*!! Tenants will be able to sign a lease, move in, then months later challenge the rent
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Price controls are when you solve the loud noise your smoke alarm is making by removing the battery.
The Renters Act tribunal system is *insane*. 1⃣Any rent increase can be brought to tribunal. 2⃣No rent increase can occur until tribunal decides. 3⃣Tribunals are forbidden from saying rent should be higher than the Landlord. 4⃣ There are only *34* tribunal judges in the country.
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New towns should be built like this. We used to do what architects would today consider to be ghastly pastiche so well. Bring it back.
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