[The Weeping Angel]

It's yet another row for people to get worked up about.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is Leishman. Never mind what the Government is doing, take a pop at the Government for not pressurizing Ineos enough.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Leishman seems to have made a promise off his own bat that the jobs at Grangemouth would be saved by the Government. I'm surprised his silly arse didn't head out the door months ago.

In other news, this is promising. Doubtless restricting ISAs will be another "unthinkable" change that can't be made. We might as well all give up now.

[Oboogie]

He spends so much time attacking Labour, for a long time I assumed Leishman was SNP.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Member of the Campaign Group. Unite member.

Maybe he'll join one of the new Trot parties.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's an all purpose chucker about of public money. Not just Grangemouth (absolute money pit, unlike what the Government is investing in) but also WASPI.

You'll be amazed to hear "£24bn wealth tax" features in his thinking.

Here's another of his zingers

When we look at the regeneration needed around Old Trafford, why would we not say you can have that money, but you need to keep Grangemouth open? That’s just negotiation in my opinion.

Nobody has asked for any public money for redeveloping Old Trafford. And Grangemouth's closure was decided before there were any Old Trafford plans. So how could there be any negotiations?

[mattomac]

Radcliffe did ask for the funding for a northern national stadium

[Malcolm Armsteen]

This seems appropriate.

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Why isn't that working?
What have I done to make you mad this time, baybee?

[The Weeping Angel]

Don't worry, Stephen Bush is on hand with top advice.



The only people who seem to be bothered by this are politicos.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Radcliffe did ask for the funding for a northern national stadium

He didn’t mention money when the new Norman Foster stadium was announced, but vaguer “support”. The losses at Grangemouth are hundreds of millions a year, think it’s unlikely support is anything like that level.

[The Weeping Angel]

Haven't seen what regulatory changes Reeves is promising, but our pals at a certain paper have already tried to make them sound really stupid, and "trickle down", which sounds spectacularly unlikely. Trickle down means cutting higher rate taxes. No tax cuts are proposed, as far as I know.

You can read it here.

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... 025-speech

Reasonable reaction here.