[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @afneil Andrew Neil Andrew Neil posts on X about debt, inflation, bbc, defence the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXXX +74% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +60% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +12% - X Month XXX +16% - X Months XXX +68% - X Year XXXXX +13% ### Followers: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +0.04% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +0.09% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +0.08% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #913 [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% [nfl](/list/nfl) XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [debt](/topic/debt) #11, [inflation](/topic/inflation) 2.68%, [bbc](/topic/bbc) 2.01%, [defence](/topic/defence) 1.34%, [twitter](/topic/twitter) 1.34%, [bank of](/topic/bank-of) 1.34%, [breaking news](/topic/breaking-news) #371, [gdp](/topic/gdp) 1.34%, [cos](/topic/cos) 1.34%, [welcome to](/topic/welcome-to) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@timesradio](/creator/undefined) [@wojtusciszynp](/creator/undefined) [@mailonline](/creator/undefined) [@tushsapa](/creator/undefined) [@justbob111](/creator/undefined) [@survivalistpt](/creator/undefined) [@jfoster2019](/creator/undefined) [@stoocrock](/creator/undefined) [@gojodfrey](/creator/undefined) [@julesap011](/creator/undefined) [@songbir40253612](/creator/undefined) [@theswearygolfer](/creator/undefined) [@populostone](/creator/undefined) [@theoldman2003](/creator/undefined) [@davidaltonhl](/creator/undefined) [@mrflashhq](/creator/undefined) [@markseddon1962](/creator/undefined) [@kathrynporter26](/creator/undefined) [@uk999ers](/creator/undefined) [@martinmonmouth1](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [National Grid PLC (NGG)](/topic/$ngg) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "The more Starmers government disappoints the more it resorts to absurd windy rhetoric to mask its failures A green energy superpower Miliband A science superpower Starmer A defence industry superpower Reeves. None of those things are true. Nor will this Labour government (or the Tories for that matter) ever get close to realising them. Indeed it most of these areas its already going backwards"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946495827817763187) 2025-07-19 09:02:24 UTC 1.2M followers, 143.3K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1940037279554158879) 2025-07-01 13:18:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 235.8K 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](/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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1942849186795331803) 2025-07-09 07:31:57 UTC 1.2M followers, 95.1K engagements "You need to go back XX years to find anything And even then its not convincing. Why dont we include my position of the Relief of Mafeking"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947669069400052028) 2025-07-22 14:44:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 51.5K engagements "ANDREW NEIL: Trump's conspiracy theories have come back to bite him via @MailOnline"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946465300506902984) 2025-07-19 07:01:05 UTC 1.2M followers, 49.5K engagements "Theres already a massive prison not far from my house. Typical twitter ignoramus. Next"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947280363543289919) 2025-07-21 12:59:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 58.7K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943921386348515443) 2025-07-12 06:32:29 UTC 1.2M followers, 460K engagements "Anti-Israeli protesters have broken into RAF Brize Norton and damaged two military planes spraying red paint into the engines of two Airbus Voyager aircraft in a supposedly secure airbase in Oxfordshire last night on electric scooters. The British state is now so incompetent it cant even protect its own military assets from a bunch of activists at a time of heightened international tensions. Various terrorist groups around the world must today be thinking gosh we never realised it could be so easy or that the Brits were so useless"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1936009742956065021) 2025-06-20 10:34:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 933.5K engagements "Last night President Trump posted more than two dozen times on his social media platform Truth Social. He posted phony mugshots of Barack Obama and an AI-generated video of the former president being arrested in the Oval Office. He posted about the NFLs Washington Commanders demanding they change their name back to the Redskins. He posted a video of a bikini-clad woman picking up and tossing a snake A man somersaulting down a stairway A red Lamborghini careening beneath a truck A man jumping a fence and coming face to face with a speeding train A woman break dancing A billiards trick A man"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947241981513744800) 2025-07-21 10:27:21 UTC 1.2M followers, 230.1K engagements "Back in March 2024 at the time of last Tory Budget the OBR reckoned the UK would borrow XXX billion over the coming five financial years (2024/25 2028/29). By March 2025 after Labours first Budget the OBR increased that to accumulated borrowing of XXX billion a XXX billion increase in borrowing including the actual XXX billion borrowed in 2024/25 (almost double the OBRs March 2024 forecast). The OBR regularly underestimates borrowing. So actual borrowing likely to be more than XXX billion. Yet Starmer/Reeves claim theyve fixed the economy and that it is improving"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1932428579561713774) 2025-06-10 13:24:10 UTC 1.2M followers, 496.4K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945368806794109143) 2025-07-16 06:24:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 332.7K engagements "BREAKING NEWS: More pressure on Chancellor Reeves to raise taxes/repair public finances/fix the foundations (still a work in progress contrary to ministerial claims): UK government borrowing rose to almost XX billion last month 6.6bn higher than June 2024 and the second-highest June borrowing figure since monthly records began in 1993. City economists had forecast borrowing to increase to 16.5bn. These days when it comes to inflation growth borrowing and pretty much every other economic indicator City economists are invariably over-optimistic about Labour economic policy"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947541763582808142) 2025-07-22 06:18:34 UTC 1.2M followers, 505.6K engagements "Is that all youve got Then youre bereft of anything useful to say. Nobody expected Labour to sort out the Tory fiscal mess in XX months. But we have a right to expect Labour not to make it worse by raising taxes even higher and borrowing even more. Which is exactly what theyre doing. You say Labour inherited borrowing and debt out of control. So why would you borrow even more and accumulate even more debt"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947584657664700519) 2025-07-22 09:09:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 121.3K engagements "Lets not forget that most of what were now borrowing is spent on meeting the cost of previous borrowing. The OBR reckons well borrow XXX billion this financial year 2025/26 (it will be more than that). It also estimates well spend XXX billion paying interest on existing debt (it will be more than that). The cost of servicing the national debt now takes over X% of government spending and is almost X% of our GDP. And XX% of what well borrow this year will be spent on interest incurred on previous borrowing. It is unsustainable"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947546366789484705) 2025-07-22 06:36:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 381.5K engagements "That was for the housekeeper. But weve now got rid of it and acquired another JLR vehicle"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945832200013832433) 2025-07-17 13:05:22 UTC 1.2M followers, 63.7K engagements "July 4th the 249th anniversary of the outbreak of the British civil war in North America"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1941036804125479174) 2025-07-04 07:30:11 UTC 1.2M followers, 88.9K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943561761061298493) 2025-07-11 06:43:28 UTC 1.2M followers, 364.2K engagements "Points curiously omitted from the official government statement: *I will be pushing up the daisies long before Sizewell C is generating electricity for the national grid. *Mr E Miliband will be in his dotage. *The estimated cost of nearly 40billion is twice what it was only five years ago. There will be no change from 50billion. Maybe 60billion on completion. *Households will foot most of the cost with a special levy on existing fuel bills. *For comparison Hinkley Point C in Somerset has seen its costs spiral from XX billion when it was approved in 2016 to XX billion today. Ive lost count of"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947574806477463863) 2025-07-22 08:29:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 181.7K engagements "Ms Maher please lets have a map of America showing those areas where NPR and PBS are the only source of news or even just the primary available source"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945876401506144588) 2025-07-17 16:01:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 51.2K engagements "Worth pointing out that since 2010 South Korea has built four nuclear reactors at a single plant in the UAE now supplying XX% of the Gulf states electricity needs (much of it for desalination). The plan now is to add two more reactors at existing plant and a new plant with another four reactors. The spec for the latter is currently out for tender"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947587236050178547) 2025-07-22 09:19:16 UTC 1.2M followers, 67.5K engagements "Indeed. The grooming gangs are the biggest British scandal of modern times. And were still not on top of it"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947277506643378527) 2025-07-21 12:48:30 UTC 1.2M followers, 199K engagements "Welcome to the Summer of Stagflation: inflation up growth down"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945372741193912706) 2025-07-16 06:39:39 UTC 1.2M followers, 196.5K engagements "UK labour market continues to weaken under Labour. Unemployment hits four-year high at XXX per cent in the three months to May highest since June 2021 a pandemic year. The number of workers on UK payrolls has fallen for five months in a row falling by 41000 in June alone the biggest monthly fall since Covid. Overall the number of workers on payroll has dropped by 178000 since Labour came to power. Pay growth is now at a three-year low"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946092773175624026) 2025-07-18 06:20:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 100.4K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944459834306461965) 2025-07-13 18:12:05 UTC 1.2M followers, 90.6K engagements "Well heres a turn up for the book Republicans in the The House having led the charge to release the Epstein files are planning to close the House early from summer recess so that Democrats cant force a vote on releasing the Epstein files"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947685841855517156) 2025-07-22 15:51:05 UTC 1.2M followers, 61.7K engagements "Finally Where have you been Mars As friend and foe alike on X will testify Ive been banging on about this for the past XX years"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946492854450139364) 2025-07-19 08:50:35 UTC 1.2M followers, 52.9K engagements "Indeed. Labour inherited a huge national debt from the Tories. It then proceeded to borrow even more rather than put the public finances right. And much of the Tory debt was accumulated by spending on furlough household energy bill subsidies NHS welfare on which Labour urged the Tories to spend even more"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947551217304899875) 2025-07-22 06:56:08 UTC 1.2M followers, 242.3K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945374720838307968) 2025-07-16 06:47:31 UTC 1.2M followers, 54K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945366078940430451) 2025-07-16 06:13:11 UTC 1.2M followers, 350.7K engagements "Salvadoran homicide rate which has plummeted in recent years still twice Britains. Next"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947277845803188719) 2025-07-21 12:49:51 UTC 1.2M followers, 83.7K engagements "Get back to me when you work for nothing. Until then pay up or shut up"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1943281249432334702) 2025-07-10 12:08:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 74.5K engagements "Untruth piled upon untruth. The so-called green energy strategy is NOT cutting bills Very few new jobs are being created more are being destroyed by high energy costs and the few new jobs are NOT across the country. This morning wind accounts for only XX% of electricity generation which is why well need to keep gas as an expensive back up for years to come. This morning gas is generating more than twice as much electricity as wind"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946489970597749187) 2025-07-19 08:39:07 UTC 1.2M followers, 293.7K engagements "Under-18s are deemed too young to buy alcohol or a lottery ticket smoke cigarettes get married (in England) fight in the military or sit on juries. But now they can have the vote. Labour thinks it will benefit from 16/17 year olds getting the vote. It could be in for a shock I suspect Reform the Greens and J Corbyns new Jezbollah party are way more popular with this demographic"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946098261653344444) 2025-07-18 06:42:36 UTC 1.2M followers, 422.3K engagements "Knowing all the cheapskates on here theyd just wait XX hours. No thanks. Not working for free. Do you"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947918670031675716) 2025-07-23 07:16:16 UTC 1.2M followers, 57.9K engagements "Farage is talking about sending British citizens to Salvadoran hellholes. You OK with that Im not"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947279398496833635) 2025-07-21 12:56:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 555.9K engagements "It must have come as a terrible shock/embarrassment to his wife when it was inadvertently revealed he was a fan of Coldplay 😂"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946828373340172721) 2025-07-20 07:03:49 UTC 1.2M followers, 149.7K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1910599659149537437) 2025-04-11 07:43:50 UTC 1.2M followers, 950.1K engagements "It is interesting to note that while Labour ministers were telling us the government couldnt afford 1.5billion for pensioners winter fuel allowance it was telling a court behind closed doors that it was allocating 7billion to resettle Afghans"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945743721649082810) 2025-07-17 07:13:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 502K engagements "Afghan scandal risks ripping asunder trust between voters and leaders"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945734060631826685) 2025-07-17 06:35:24 UTC 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "Bond markets remain skittish about UK sovereign debt. 30-year gilt yields at significant 5.5%+ highest point since 1998. 10-year yields at 10-week high of XXXX% this morning well above what the ClusterTruss managed"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945831651788882351) 2025-07-17 13:03:12 UTC 1.2M followers, 74.4K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944360845414175053) 2025-07-13 11:38:44 UTC 1.2M followers, 55.7K engagements "You dont have to be a member to watch cricket at Lords. Most arent. Suggest in future you mug up before posting otherwise people will realise you really are as thick as you seem"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947256582636712026) 2025-07-21 11:25:22 UTC 1.2M followers, 70.4K engagements "I guess you missed this bit in my article: The original blunder and its aftermath happened on the Tories watch. So they have most to answer for. It was also the last government that decided to shut down all the usual forums of democratic accountability - parliament Press public debate - by seeking and obtaining a court-ordered super injunction. Heres a tip: read before commentating. Otherwise you reveal just how thick you really are"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945742809106977064) 2025-07-17 07:10:10 UTC 1.2M followers, 73.9K engagements "Yet another call for even more borrowing. This year the government will borrow at least XXX billion of which over XXX billion will go to interest payments on previous borrowing (which now totals almost X trillion). Thats right XX% of what were borrowing will be used to service existing debt not for schools hospitals infrastructure. But hey lets borrow even more. If this approach worked wed be in the midst of an economic miracle not a fiscal doom loop"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1948304141417160899) 2025-07-24 08:47:59 UTC 1.2M followers, 238.9K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944721360720101786) 2025-07-14 11:31:18 UTC 1.2M followers, 109.8K engagements "Youve missed nothing. Other than the fact England won"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1944847673242353926) 2025-07-14 19:53:13 UTC 1.2M followers, 70.5K engagements "Coming up on BBC News 5pm London time. My take on Trump/Epstein developments. @BBCNews"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946232852250493155) 2025-07-18 15:37:25 UTC 1.2M followers, 37.7K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1941552877123555392) 2025-07-05 17:40:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 269.7K engagements "UK tariffs on US vehicles XX% US tariffs on UK vehicles XX% Explain your concept of equality to me please"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1906031219332051071) 2025-03-29 17:10:29 UTC 1.2M followers, 245.4K engagements "For many years now I have bought at home and abroad nothing but Jaguar Land Rover vehicles. A patriot not an enemy. Far from gloating I despair at what government policy and Jaguars absurd rebranding are doing to the company. And I can assure you I really dont need fresh ammo re Starmer. I already have a surfeit"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945825064043344122) 2025-07-17 12:37:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 89K engagements "Hundreds of thousands have already read it and it had generated 2200 comments by 07:30. Some of them are even nice You need to update your understanding of digital publishing"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947918329508708533) 2025-07-23 07:14:54 UTC 1.2M followers, 69.5K 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](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1939267383652175981) 2025-06-29 10:19:08 UTC 1.2M followers, 1.5M engagements "Naturally the usual anti-vax numpties have been triggered by this"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1934280079296884974) 2025-06-15 16:01:22 UTC 1.2M followers, 105.4K engagements "Jaguar Land Rover has today announced the loss of XXX jobs"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945756820749820021) 2025-07-17 08:05:51 UTC 1.2M followers, 3.3M engagements "It just gets worse. Turns out details of more than XXX Brits including spies and special forces personnel were included in the massive data leak MI6 agents SAS and special forces personnel included in the spreadsheet. Were there really no protocols governing the dissemination of such sensitive material"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945867598266028303) 2025-07-17 15:26:02 UTC 1.2M followers, 310.9K engagements "But Ed Miliband claims the world is following Britains net zero lead. So surely Poland will leave it in the ground 🤡"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1947530152134811949) 2025-07-22 05:32:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 213.2K engagements "Oh first it was at last youve deigned to mention this subject. When that was shown to be nonsense now its but youve not gone all out on the whole net zero agenda. Typical Twitter moving of the goalposts. And still wrong for some time now Ive argued that the billions spent on net zero should be transferred to defence spending"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946547872683409426) 2025-07-19 12:29:12 UTC 1.2M followers, 61.6K engagements "Healey picture is used because he is the defence secretary who made the announcement revealing the clandestine settlement program. And though the Tories are originally responsible for the scandal and deserve most of the blame Healey has been complicit. He kept the injunction in place for longer than it was under the Tories renewed it several times and continued to spend hundreds of millions on the secret airlift to the UK"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945753296985116903) 2025-07-17 07:51:51 UTC 1.2M followers, 92.9K engagements "Quite remarkable. Especially for a council that cant even empty the dustbins"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1946504447015653407) 2025-07-19 09:36:39 UTC 1.2M followers, 263K engagements "Yes. Best done by people not having kids they cant afford"  [@afneil](/creator/x/afneil) on [X](/post/tweet/1945145158078509460) 2025-07-15 15:35:19 UTC 1.2M followers, 178.5K engagements
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"The more Starmers government disappoints the more it resorts to absurd windy rhetoric to mask its failures A green energy superpower Miliband A science superpower Starmer A defence industry superpower Reeves. None of those things are true. Nor will this Labour government (or the Tories for that matter) ever get close to realising them. Indeed it most of these areas its already going backwards"
@afneil on X 2025-07-19 09:02:24 UTC 1.2M followers, 143.3K 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 on X 2025-07-01 13:18:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 235.8K 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 on X 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 on X 2025-07-09 07:31:57 UTC 1.2M followers, 95.1K engagements
"You need to go back XX years to find anything And even then its not convincing. Why dont we include my position of the Relief of Mafeking" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 14:44:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 51.5K engagements
"ANDREW NEIL: Trump's conspiracy theories have come back to bite him via @MailOnline" @afneil on X 2025-07-19 07:01:05 UTC 1.2M followers, 49.5K engagements
"Theres already a massive prison not far from my house. Typical twitter ignoramus. Next" @afneil on X 2025-07-21 12:59:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 58.7K 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 on X 2025-07-12 06:32:29 UTC 1.2M followers, 460K engagements
"Anti-Israeli protesters have broken into RAF Brize Norton and damaged two military planes spraying red paint into the engines of two Airbus Voyager aircraft in a supposedly secure airbase in Oxfordshire last night on electric scooters. The British state is now so incompetent it cant even protect its own military assets from a bunch of activists at a time of heightened international tensions. Various terrorist groups around the world must today be thinking gosh we never realised it could be so easy or that the Brits were so useless" @afneil on X 2025-06-20 10:34:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 933.5K engagements
"Last night President Trump posted more than two dozen times on his social media platform Truth Social. He posted phony mugshots of Barack Obama and an AI-generated video of the former president being arrested in the Oval Office. He posted about the NFLs Washington Commanders demanding they change their name back to the Redskins. He posted a video of a bikini-clad woman picking up and tossing a snake A man somersaulting down a stairway A red Lamborghini careening beneath a truck A man jumping a fence and coming face to face with a speeding train A woman break dancing A billiards trick A man" @afneil on X 2025-07-21 10:27:21 UTC 1.2M followers, 230.1K engagements
"Back in March 2024 at the time of last Tory Budget the OBR reckoned the UK would borrow XXX billion over the coming five financial years (2024/25 2028/29). By March 2025 after Labours first Budget the OBR increased that to accumulated borrowing of XXX billion a XXX billion increase in borrowing including the actual XXX billion borrowed in 2024/25 (almost double the OBRs March 2024 forecast). The OBR regularly underestimates borrowing. So actual borrowing likely to be more than XXX billion. Yet Starmer/Reeves claim theyve fixed the economy and that it is improving" @afneil on X 2025-06-10 13:24:10 UTC 1.2M followers, 496.4K 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 on X 2025-07-16 06:24:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 332.7K engagements
"BREAKING NEWS: More pressure on Chancellor Reeves to raise taxes/repair public finances/fix the foundations (still a work in progress contrary to ministerial claims): UK government borrowing rose to almost XX billion last month 6.6bn higher than June 2024 and the second-highest June borrowing figure since monthly records began in 1993. City economists had forecast borrowing to increase to 16.5bn. These days when it comes to inflation growth borrowing and pretty much every other economic indicator City economists are invariably over-optimistic about Labour economic policy" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 06:18:34 UTC 1.2M followers, 505.6K engagements
"Is that all youve got Then youre bereft of anything useful to say. Nobody expected Labour to sort out the Tory fiscal mess in XX months. But we have a right to expect Labour not to make it worse by raising taxes even higher and borrowing even more. Which is exactly what theyre doing. You say Labour inherited borrowing and debt out of control. So why would you borrow even more and accumulate even more debt" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 09:09:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 121.3K engagements
"Lets not forget that most of what were now borrowing is spent on meeting the cost of previous borrowing. The OBR reckons well borrow XXX billion this financial year 2025/26 (it will be more than that). It also estimates well spend XXX billion paying interest on existing debt (it will be more than that). The cost of servicing the national debt now takes over X% of government spending and is almost X% of our GDP. And XX% of what well borrow this year will be spent on interest incurred on previous borrowing. It is unsustainable" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 06:36:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 381.5K engagements
"That was for the housekeeper. But weve now got rid of it and acquired another JLR vehicle" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 13:05:22 UTC 1.2M followers, 63.7K engagements
"July 4th the 249th anniversary of the outbreak of the British civil war in North America" @afneil on X 2025-07-04 07:30:11 UTC 1.2M followers, 88.9K 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 on X 2025-07-11 06:43:28 UTC 1.2M followers, 364.2K engagements
"Points curiously omitted from the official government statement: *I will be pushing up the daisies long before Sizewell C is generating electricity for the national grid. *Mr E Miliband will be in his dotage. *The estimated cost of nearly 40billion is twice what it was only five years ago. There will be no change from 50billion. Maybe 60billion on completion. *Households will foot most of the cost with a special levy on existing fuel bills. *For comparison Hinkley Point C in Somerset has seen its costs spiral from XX billion when it was approved in 2016 to XX billion today. Ive lost count of" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 08:29:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 181.7K engagements
"Ms Maher please lets have a map of America showing those areas where NPR and PBS are the only source of news or even just the primary available source" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 16:01:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 51.2K engagements
"Worth pointing out that since 2010 South Korea has built four nuclear reactors at a single plant in the UAE now supplying XX% of the Gulf states electricity needs (much of it for desalination). The plan now is to add two more reactors at existing plant and a new plant with another four reactors. The spec for the latter is currently out for tender" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 09:19:16 UTC 1.2M followers, 67.5K engagements
"Indeed. The grooming gangs are the biggest British scandal of modern times. And were still not on top of it" @afneil on X 2025-07-21 12:48:30 UTC 1.2M followers, 199K engagements
"Welcome to the Summer of Stagflation: inflation up growth down" @afneil on X 2025-07-16 06:39:39 UTC 1.2M followers, 196.5K engagements
"UK labour market continues to weaken under Labour. Unemployment hits four-year high at XXX per cent in the three months to May highest since June 2021 a pandemic year. The number of workers on UK payrolls has fallen for five months in a row falling by 41000 in June alone the biggest monthly fall since Covid. Overall the number of workers on payroll has dropped by 178000 since Labour came to power. Pay growth is now at a three-year low" @afneil on X 2025-07-18 06:20:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 100.4K 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 on X 2025-07-13 18:12:05 UTC 1.2M followers, 90.6K engagements
"Well heres a turn up for the book Republicans in the The House having led the charge to release the Epstein files are planning to close the House early from summer recess so that Democrats cant force a vote on releasing the Epstein files" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 15:51:05 UTC 1.2M followers, 61.7K engagements
"Finally Where have you been Mars As friend and foe alike on X will testify Ive been banging on about this for the past XX years" @afneil on X 2025-07-19 08:50:35 UTC 1.2M followers, 52.9K engagements
"Indeed. Labour inherited a huge national debt from the Tories. It then proceeded to borrow even more rather than put the public finances right. And much of the Tory debt was accumulated by spending on furlough household energy bill subsidies NHS welfare on which Labour urged the Tories to spend even more" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 06:56:08 UTC 1.2M followers, 242.3K 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 on X 2025-07-16 06:47:31 UTC 1.2M followers, 54K 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 on X 2025-07-16 06:13:11 UTC 1.2M followers, 350.7K engagements
"Salvadoran homicide rate which has plummeted in recent years still twice Britains. Next" @afneil on X 2025-07-21 12:49:51 UTC 1.2M followers, 83.7K engagements
"Get back to me when you work for nothing. Until then pay up or shut up" @afneil on X 2025-07-10 12:08:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 74.5K engagements
"Untruth piled upon untruth. The so-called green energy strategy is NOT cutting bills Very few new jobs are being created more are being destroyed by high energy costs and the few new jobs are NOT across the country. This morning wind accounts for only XX% of electricity generation which is why well need to keep gas as an expensive back up for years to come. This morning gas is generating more than twice as much electricity as wind" @afneil on X 2025-07-19 08:39:07 UTC 1.2M followers, 293.7K engagements
"Under-18s are deemed too young to buy alcohol or a lottery ticket smoke cigarettes get married (in England) fight in the military or sit on juries. But now they can have the vote. Labour thinks it will benefit from 16/17 year olds getting the vote. It could be in for a shock I suspect Reform the Greens and J Corbyns new Jezbollah party are way more popular with this demographic" @afneil on X 2025-07-18 06:42:36 UTC 1.2M followers, 422.3K engagements
"Knowing all the cheapskates on here theyd just wait XX hours. No thanks. Not working for free. Do you" @afneil on X 2025-07-23 07:16:16 UTC 1.2M followers, 57.9K engagements
"Farage is talking about sending British citizens to Salvadoran hellholes. You OK with that Im not" @afneil on X 2025-07-21 12:56:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 555.9K engagements
"It must have come as a terrible shock/embarrassment to his wife when it was inadvertently revealed he was a fan of Coldplay 😂" @afneil on X 2025-07-20 07:03:49 UTC 1.2M followers, 149.7K 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 on X 2025-04-11 07:43:50 UTC 1.2M followers, 950.1K engagements
"It is interesting to note that while Labour ministers were telling us the government couldnt afford 1.5billion for pensioners winter fuel allowance it was telling a court behind closed doors that it was allocating 7billion to resettle Afghans" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 07:13:48 UTC 1.2M followers, 502K engagements
"Afghan scandal risks ripping asunder trust between voters and leaders" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 06:35:24 UTC 1.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Bond markets remain skittish about UK sovereign debt. 30-year gilt yields at significant 5.5%+ highest point since 1998. 10-year yields at 10-week high of XXXX% this morning well above what the ClusterTruss managed" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 13:03:12 UTC 1.2M followers, 74.4K 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 on X 2025-07-13 11:38:44 UTC 1.2M followers, 55.7K engagements
"You dont have to be a member to watch cricket at Lords. Most arent. Suggest in future you mug up before posting otherwise people will realise you really are as thick as you seem" @afneil on X 2025-07-21 11:25:22 UTC 1.2M followers, 70.4K engagements
"I guess you missed this bit in my article: The original blunder and its aftermath happened on the Tories watch. So they have most to answer for. It was also the last government that decided to shut down all the usual forums of democratic accountability - parliament Press public debate - by seeking and obtaining a court-ordered super injunction. Heres a tip: read before commentating. Otherwise you reveal just how thick you really are" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 07:10:10 UTC 1.2M followers, 73.9K engagements
"Yet another call for even more borrowing. This year the government will borrow at least XXX billion of which over XXX billion will go to interest payments on previous borrowing (which now totals almost X trillion). Thats right XX% of what were borrowing will be used to service existing debt not for schools hospitals infrastructure. But hey lets borrow even more. If this approach worked wed be in the midst of an economic miracle not a fiscal doom loop" @afneil on X 2025-07-24 08:47:59 UTC 1.2M followers, 238.9K 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 on X 2025-07-14 11:31:18 UTC 1.2M followers, 109.8K engagements
"Youve missed nothing. Other than the fact England won" @afneil on X 2025-07-14 19:53:13 UTC 1.2M followers, 70.5K engagements
"Coming up on BBC News 5pm London time. My take on Trump/Epstein developments. @BBCNews" @afneil on X 2025-07-18 15:37:25 UTC 1.2M followers, 37.7K 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 on X 2025-07-05 17:40:52 UTC 1.2M followers, 269.7K engagements
"UK tariffs on US vehicles XX% US tariffs on UK vehicles XX% Explain your concept of equality to me please" @afneil on X 2025-03-29 17:10:29 UTC 1.2M followers, 245.4K engagements
"For many years now I have bought at home and abroad nothing but Jaguar Land Rover vehicles. A patriot not an enemy. Far from gloating I despair at what government policy and Jaguars absurd rebranding are doing to the company. And I can assure you I really dont need fresh ammo re Starmer. I already have a surfeit" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 12:37:01 UTC 1.2M followers, 89K engagements
"Hundreds of thousands have already read it and it had generated 2200 comments by 07:30. Some of them are even nice You need to update your understanding of digital publishing" @afneil on X 2025-07-23 07:14:54 UTC 1.2M followers, 69.5K 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 on X 2025-06-29 10:19:08 UTC 1.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Naturally the usual anti-vax numpties have been triggered by this" @afneil on X 2025-06-15 16:01:22 UTC 1.2M followers, 105.4K engagements
"Jaguar Land Rover has today announced the loss of XXX jobs" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 08:05:51 UTC 1.2M followers, 3.3M engagements
"It just gets worse. Turns out details of more than XXX Brits including spies and special forces personnel were included in the massive data leak MI6 agents SAS and special forces personnel included in the spreadsheet. Were there really no protocols governing the dissemination of such sensitive material" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 15:26:02 UTC 1.2M followers, 310.9K engagements
"But Ed Miliband claims the world is following Britains net zero lead. So surely Poland will leave it in the ground 🤡" @afneil on X 2025-07-22 05:32:26 UTC 1.2M followers, 213.2K engagements
"Oh first it was at last youve deigned to mention this subject. When that was shown to be nonsense now its but youve not gone all out on the whole net zero agenda. Typical Twitter moving of the goalposts. And still wrong for some time now Ive argued that the billions spent on net zero should be transferred to defence spending" @afneil on X 2025-07-19 12:29:12 UTC 1.2M followers, 61.6K engagements
"Healey picture is used because he is the defence secretary who made the announcement revealing the clandestine settlement program. And though the Tories are originally responsible for the scandal and deserve most of the blame Healey has been complicit. He kept the injunction in place for longer than it was under the Tories renewed it several times and continued to spend hundreds of millions on the secret airlift to the UK" @afneil on X 2025-07-17 07:51:51 UTC 1.2M followers, 92.9K engagements
"Quite remarkable. Especially for a council that cant even empty the dustbins" @afneil on X 2025-07-19 09:36:39 UTC 1.2M followers, 263K engagements
"Yes. Best done by people not having kids they cant afford" @afneil on X 2025-07-15 15:35:19 UTC 1.2M followers, 178.5K engagements