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# ![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::136004952.png) @afneil Andrew Neil

Andrew Neil posts on X about gdp, france, inflation, india the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  #218 [countries](/list/countries)  XXXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  #2090 [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[gdp](/topic/gdp) #113, [france](/topic/france) 3.88%, [inflation](/topic/inflation) #5, [india](/topic/india) 2.91%, [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) 2.91%, [productivity](/topic/productivity) #594, [told](/topic/told) #233, [stagflation](/topic/stagflation) #1, [bank of](/topic/bank-of) #3, [bbc](/topic/bbc) XXXX%

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Yes. Best done by people not having kids they cant afford"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945145158078509460) 2025-07-15 15:35:19 UTC 1.2M followers, 173.9K engagements


"Yes. But social mobility was meant to unleash more talent not less"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943933822221136386) 2025-07-12 07:21:54 UTC 1.2M followers, 94.9K engagements


"And England win the 3rd Test at Lords by XX runs despite Indian resistance til the very end. Wonderful testament to Test Match cricket. England now 2-1 ahead in the series. Two more matches to go. Two excellent teams"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944789114617794905) 2025-07-14 16:00:32 UTC 1.2M followers, 69.7K engagements


"French Prime Minister Franois Bayrou proposes eliminating Easter Monday and Victory in Europe Day (May 8) as public holidays as part of a plan to help the country's deteriorating public finances. Bye bye Bayrou bye bye. Gone before autumn is out"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945144644876058646) 2025-07-15 15:33:17 UTC 1.2M followers, 50.1K engagements


"So who pays for family life if there are no jobs"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945149618531991579) 2025-07-15 15:53:02 UTC 1.2M followers, 66.9K engagements


"Fourth day of the Test at Lords the best so far in what has been a magnificent third Test perhaps one of the best of modern times. India starts day five as favourites. But its cricket and anything can happen. England certainly still in with a chance. Lords is a sellout for tomorrow"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944459834306461965) 2025-07-13 18:12:05 UTC 1.2M followers, 90.3K engagements


"This 30000 unwanted migrants returned schtick is bogus. We only have official data for July 2024-March 2025 so far when there were 24103 returns. BUT only 6339 (26% of total) were Enforced Returns i.e. they were deported against their will. The rest were Voluntary Returns i.e they went willingly often with a large cheque to smooth their departure courtesy of the British taxpayer. Projecting these trends for Labours first full year and you get Starmers 30000 of which almost XX% (22000) would be voluntary and so nothing to boast about (nor up much overall on 2023)"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944337458155737525) 2025-07-13 10:05:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 189.8K engagements


"ANDREW NEIL: I know what Labour's wealth tax plans will do to Britain via @MailOnline"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942395616987861011) 2025-07-08 01:29:37 UTC 1.2M followers, 151.2K engagements


"Thank you England. You can now enjoy lunch. India XXX for X. Looking good for the home team"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944728572691984809) 2025-07-14 11:59:57 UTC 1.2M followers, 91.7K engagements


"Core CPI (excludes energy food alcohol and tobacco) rose by XXX% in the XX months to June 2025. The RPI measure of inflation was XXX% in June"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945374720838307968) 2025-07-16 06:47:31 UTC 1.2M followers, 44.3K engagements


"Its a property tax. It raises a pittance. So of course nobody is fleeing. Not even the Flemings who ever they are. Its too tedious to waste a morning dealing with somebody so stupid. Our interaction is over. Bye"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942517390236914026) 2025-07-08 09:33:30 UTC 1.2M followers, 80.8K engagements


"My monologue from todays The Times at One with Andrew Neil on @TimesRadio Keir Starmers government has become the master of maximum pain for minimum gain. Thats what it achieved with the winter fuel allowance squandering shedloads of political capital for very modest savings and its now repeating the exercise with its half-hearted attempts at welfare reform. The case for radical welfare reform is strong. But it was never made by Labour in opposition which did no policy work on it. It turned to it in power to save money and meet Rachel Reevess fiscal rules rather roll out an over-arching grand"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1940037279554158879) 2025-07-01 13:18:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 235.4K engagements


"The Trump Slump continues in American markets open Easter Monday: Stocks fell with the Dow industrials dropping 1200 points and on track for their worst April since 1932. The dollar hit fresh multiyear lows against the euro and other major currencies. Yields on longer-term Treasurys rose. Gold surged to a fresh record high"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1914401578972225878) 2025-04-21 19:31:18 UTC 1.2M followers, 140.2K engagements


"Latest official French statistics find almost 10m people living below the poverty line set at XX% of median monthly income or 1288 for a single person. Another 650000 people fell into poverty in 2024 the largest increase since 1996. The poverty rate hit XXXX% up from XXXX% in 2022 = both a record level and a record jump. This is probably the most generous and extensive big government welfare state in the world with the state now accounting for XX% of French GDP. Cause to ponder for the many who want the UK to go down this route too"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942849186795331803) 2025-07-09 07:31:57 UTC 1.2M followers, 94.9K engagements


"UK inflation rose to XXX% in the year to June up from XXX% in May steepest rise in inflation since January 2024 The Bank of England expects inflation to peak at XXX% between July and September before eventually dropping back to its X% target"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945366078940430451) 2025-07-16 06:13:11 UTC 1.2M followers, 288.6K engagements


"Get back to me when you work for nothing. Until then pay up or shut up"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943281249432334702) 2025-07-10 12:08:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 74.3K engagements


"Pay people properly in social care give them some respect and status and there will be no shortage"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945149895129579953) 2025-07-15 15:54:08 UTC 1.2M followers, 68.5K engagements


"France had fewer millionaires than UK by 2012 because over 40000 had left in the previous decade to avoid the wealth tax. Hollande upped the wealth tax in 2012 because it was bringing in so little revenue. The increase failed encouraged more capital flight. Macron abolished the wealth tax in 2018. Hence the rise in millionaires again. Not sure what youre smoking. But I wont than you"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942487016999936375) 2025-07-08 07:32:49 UTC 1.2M followers, 216K engagements


"There are 40000 fewer workers in construction than a year ago. Which is strange since DPM Angela Rayner is meant to be building 1.5m new homes. Either its another nonsense target or shes presiding over one helluva an increase in construction industry productivity Yet Starmer/Reeves claim to have fixed the foundations of the economy"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1932432284071690744) 2025-06-10 13:38:54 UTC 1.2M followers, 763.5K engagements


"Gulp. Of course a general election is still likely a long way off but if current polls were to reflect election day when it comes a huge chunk of the current Labour leadership would face wipeout and the Tories would be also-rans"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944425309429723198) 2025-07-13 15:54:54 UTC 1.2M followers, 129K engagements


"I think its pretty well-established I do my own research. Sometimes I ask those on Twitter if they have anything useful to contribute. Most of the time like you they dont"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944736166705848813) 2025-07-14 12:30:08 UTC 1.2M followers, 51.8K engagements


"It sends a shiver down the spine but Im not sure Farage and Le Pen would do a worse job than these two losers"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943921386348515443) 2025-07-12 06:32:29 UTC 1.2M followers, 458.1K engagements


"Ive now seen what youve done. You saw a report about 3930 migrants arrested for working illegally in UK in recent clampdown and turned that into 3930 people smugglers being arrested. Not sure if its a genuine mistake or you intentionally muddied the waters. Either way your claim almost 4000 people people smugglers arrested in Labours first year is unadulterated nonsense on stilts"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944714760164913301) 2025-07-14 11:05:04 UTC 1.2M followers, 215.3K engagements


"To spend an interview with the Leader of the Opposition on a supposedly serious news programme beating her up for not watching a particular TV drama (not a documentary as they kept calling it) is quite surreal. Ms Badenoch politely held her ground well. I would have been rather more robust with the interlocutors"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1910599659149537437) 2025-04-11 07:43:50 UTC 1.2M followers, 950.1K engagements


"I wouldnt base much on any one quarter. You need a longer time series of data to discern trends. At the moment looking at Q1s actual Q2s likely and the consensus of forecasts for Q3/4 Id hazard the view that the economy will largely stagnate in 2025. Thats my honest assessment biased or unbiased"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943699464822067640) 2025-07-11 15:50:39 UTC 1.2M followers, 69K engagements


"She must be a fifth columnist in Labour for the Reform Party"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944411459481718859) 2025-07-13 14:59:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 88.5K engagements


"Chancellor Reeves now said figures were disappointing but she remained determined to kickstart economic growth. Only weeks ago she and Starmer were touting UK as fastest growing economy in G7. They really have no idea what theyre talking about. And how she can kickstart growth with another huge tax rise coming down the pike is one of lifes enduring mysteries"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943578475408818222) 2025-07-11 07:49:53 UTC 1.2M followers, 212.1K engagements


"National Trust to cull at least XXX jobs in a cost-cutting drive to save 26m after Chancellor Rachel Reevess first budget pushed up labour costs"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943608418884899289) 2025-07-11 09:48:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 532K engagements


"Youd lose your bet. Have you ever shopped in Scandinavia Try this Eurostat comparison for size re cost of supermarket shopping: - Sweden: XXX (6% above EU average) - Norway: XXX (31% above EU average) - Finland: XXX (13% above EU average) - Denmark: XXX (26% above EU average) - United Kingdom: XX (4% below EU average) Also outside London UK housing costs are not that different from Scandinavia (despite our much higher population density). And theres a 5-10 year waiting list for a rent-controlled property in Stockholm"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944732519338848389) 2025-07-14 12:15:38 UTC 1.2M followers, 99.8K engagements


"Starmer-Reeves can no longer claim UK fastest growing economy in G7 (that was only ever true for one quarter since when growth has petered out). But they can now boast UK has highest inflation in the G7"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945368806794109143) 2025-07-16 06:24:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 251.7K engagements


"You mean we dont collate murder charges and convictions Plus if your election campaign was dominated by promises to smash the people smuggling gangs you might think it proper to collate arrest/charges/convictions so we can judge if youre living up to your promises. Otherwise folks might conclude youre being to use your word disengenuous"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944360845414175053) 2025-07-13 11:38:44 UTC 1.2M followers, 55.5K engagements


"Resident (formerly junior) doctors in England are due to strike from XX July to XX July the British Medical Association has announced. A big test for Labour government. Will it stand firm Or dole out another big pay rise"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942892149441490956) 2025-07-09 10:22:40 UTC 1.2M followers, 107.6K engagements


"Keir Starmer told his cabinet at Fridays Chequers away day that they were part of the most working class cabinet in British history thereby at a stroke undermining the case for social mobility"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943930030297325655) 2025-07-12 07:06:50 UTC 1.2M followers, 312.9K engagements


"It is indeed an extraordinary story of the British state (under the last government) screwing up then using the full force of the law to cover up. Chapeau to The Times for pursuing so tenaciously"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945106034323788004) 2025-07-15 12:59:51 UTC 1.2M followers, 67.6K engagements


"July 4th the 249th anniversary of the outbreak of the British civil war in North America"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1941036804125479174) 2025-07-04 07:30:11 UTC 1.2M followers, 88.8K engagements


"Three years ago Reeves described a XXX% fall in Monthly GDP a dramatic drop and demanded the then Chancellor come up with an Emergency Budget. Of course that was all nonsense as it would be now if anybody repeated it. But we should not forget the nonsense she spouted in opposition for which she is far more suited than government. Nor that she and Starmer continue to spout economic drivel with claims theyve fixed the foundations"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943566822936076359) 2025-07-11 07:03:34 UTC 1.2M followers, 327K engagements


"Excellent interview showing the simplest questions are often the best. If this chap is the boss of GB Energy its doomed. And he repeats the canard that the more renewables and the fewer fossil fuels the lower our electricity bills will be. If that was true wed already have much lower fuel bills and America would have some of the most expensive electricity in the world"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1886473929570533653) 2025-02-03 17:56:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 405.3K engagements


"No. It was a point you are too thick to understand and your generational drivel doesnt excuse you for being so"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944065142301635011) 2025-07-12 16:03:43 UTC 1.2M followers, 87.9K engagements


"Mr Starmer was right to claim hes stabilised the economy. It has the stability of the graveyard"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945430545246171637) 2025-07-16 10:29:20 UTC 1.2M followers, 66.9K engagements


"UK GDP declined XXX% in May after XXX% decline in April. Looks like Q2 will show decline overall. So perhaps ministers can now stop spouting nonsense about being the fastest growing economy in the G7. As some of us have pointed out it was always going to look a forlorn boast with a very short life. Its clear growth in Q1 boosted by activity being brought forward for which were paying the price in Q2. Overall GDP is broadly flatlining at below the OBR's forecasts which means trouble for government revenues (which are based on OBR forecasts). And GDP per capita on which so much of the"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943561761061298493) 2025-07-11 06:43:28 UTC 1.2M followers, 363.5K engagements


"This is worth watching. Jones the Boy reduced to a gibbering wreck"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1940797309668991443) 2025-07-03 15:38:31 UTC 1.2M followers, 612.1K engagements


"Why should pay of resident doctors reflect the private sector NHS doctors have total job security. Pretty much nobody in private sector has that. NHS doctors enjoy massive employer pensions contributions. V rare in private sector. NHS productivity is XX% below 2019. Private sector productivity is up"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942982401581285632) 2025-07-09 16:21:18 UTC 1.2M followers, 332.4K engagements


"I hear you want your US visa back Huh Shut the F- up (Adapted from words by B Vylan)"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1939703469536895181) 2025-06-30 15:11:59 UTC 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements


"Why does the BBC have some celebrity chef opine on the geopolitics of the Middle East on its Sunday flagship political programme Has it had enough of experts"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1934378649870114862) 2025-06-15 22:33:03 UTC 1.2M followers, 468.3K engagements


"Why do you want to increase birth rates when our productivity is rubbish and AI is destroying millions of entry level jobs"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945148364711920065) 2025-07-15 15:48:03 UTC 1.2M followers, 58.5K engagements


"ANDREW NEIL: We've become an unserious country"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1941389648103866879) 2025-07-05 06:52:16 UTC 1.2M followers, 807.8K engagements


"The UK tax burden is currently XX% of GDP a record high. The equivalent in Norway is XX% Finland XX% Sweden XX% Denmark 47%. So significantly higher in every case. Scandinavians at all income levels pay higher taxes on income consumption (VAT) and social security contributions than in the UK"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944721360720101786) 2025-07-14 11:31:18 UTC 1.2M followers, 109.3K engagements


"Youve missed nothing. Other than the fact England won"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944847673242353926) 2025-07-14 19:53:13 UTC 1.2M followers, 69.5K engagements


"Green corporate welfare never ends at taxpayers expense. Government bails out wind turbine factory after demand for its blades collapsed. Despite state aid XX% of Vestas XXX workers at its Newport Isle of Wight plant will lose their jobs. Government says if it had not intervened to save the Vestas factory it was almost certain to close. Maybe. But it will be back for more. Meanwhile theres talk of devoting huge chunk of Labours so called National Wealth Fund to massive battery-building factory. I have one word in response: Northvolt. The billions that are about to be squandered on Green Blob"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1866986595758510495) 2024-12-11 23:21:06 UTC 1.2M followers, 143.3K engagements


"On Friday Chancellor Reeves was asked if shed guarantee she wouldnt raise taxes as a result of the welfare reform surrender. Im not going to she replied because it would be irresponsible for a Chancellor to do that. Yet last November she told the CBI: Im really clear: Im not coming back with more borrowing or more taxes. So by her own lights she was irresponsible in November. More important another round of tax rises is effectively baked into the Autumn Budget. Its a crying shame"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1941552877123555392) 2025-07-05 17:40:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 269.4K engagements


"I do believe there were two items on BBC News last night that were not about the BBC 😲😧😨"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945033372960456738) 2025-07-15 08:11:07 UTC 1.2M followers, 92.1K engagements


"Whats it got to do with free marketeers Thames Water the very opposite of a free market a badly regulated monopoly. Either you learn how to regulate privatised monopolies or you keep them nationalised. Simples"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1938955906550473033) 2025-06-28 13:41:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 117.5K engagements


"My monologue to on The Times at One with Andrew Neil: There are some images which come to haunt a government and its prime minister which in retrospect become emblematic of their decline and fall. Jim Callaghans unconvincing attempt to underplay the impact of the 1978/79 winter of discontent from the sunny Caribbean. John Majors efforts to explain away sterlings unedifying exit from the European exchange rate mechanism in the autumn of 1992 which still stalked him when he lost by a landslide in 1997. Theresa May insisting nothing has changed when clearly it had and not to her benefit. Boris"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1940758607248711743) 2025-07-03 13:04:44 UTC 1.2M followers, 363.3K engagements


"I think you make my point for me. France spends almost quarter of GDP on welfare and still has 10m below the poverty line"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942851272073437563) 2025-07-09 07:40:14 UTC 1.2M followers, 77.9K engagements


"Some nonentity rapper shouts death death to the IDF from a Glastonbury stage. The audience of idiots repeat the refrain again and again. Its effectively a call for a second Holocaust because the IDF is all that stands between Israel and a second Holocaust. And the BBC broadcast it live. Which at least let us see with our own eyes how Glastonbury can morph from music concert to Nazi-style rally more Nuremberg than Glasto"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1939267383652175981) 2025-06-29 10:19:08 UTC 1.2M followers, 1.5M engagements


"These polls becoming quite consistent now: Reform clearly in lead with high 20s enough to be largest party. Labour stuck in low 20s with at least half the current cabinet cruising for a bruising come the election on this showing. Tories on very of wipeout territory in mid-teens. Lib Dems/Greens with combined XX% which shows potential if only Left could ever unite and the opportunity for new Jezbollah Party of Corbyn/Sultana (another threat to Labour which could demote it to the teens)"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945078706835276252) 2025-07-15 11:11:16 UTC 1.2M followers, 96.1K engagements


"Naturally the usual anti-vax numpties have been triggered by this"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1934280079296884974) 2025-06-15 16:01:22 UTC 1.2M followers, 105.4K engagements


"Youve been in power for just over a year now. How many people smugglers have been charged and convicted on your watch"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944329884165083384) 2025-07-13 09:35:42 UTC 1.2M followers, 411.2K engagements


"Pay of resident doctors up X% in real terms since 2015"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942934735220555847) 2025-07-09 13:11:53 UTC 1.2M followers, 197.9K engagements


"Welcome to the Summer of Stagflation: inflation up growth down"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945372741193912706) 2025-07-16 06:39:39 UTC 1.2M followers, 139K engagements


"It is a shambles. But she needs to wait till autumn to determine how big a shambles then by how much she has to whack up taxes again"  
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"The OBR doesnt compile GDP stats. Thats the job of ONS"  
![@afneil Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::136004952.png) [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943577791741526297) 2025-07-11 07:47:10 UTC 1.2M followers, 47.7K engagements