"It’s quietly devastating and concerning.” Lewis Goodall says Rachel Reeves's "biggest mistake" was to not have a summer budget, leaving a "void" in which bad Labour headlines could dominate. emily m | Jon Sopel

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel So what you are saying is that the right wing press wolves with no access to their pet MPs anymore, are devising their own narrative and that is Labour’s fault?

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Where were the "bad" headlines coming from? Oh yes the smearing MSM.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel I’ve been saying this for ages. But.This is where the Tories were cunning and elections aren’t held in July. Parliament is in recess.Then party conference season.Then government need time to decide where to spend/cut etc.This creates a void that the RWP will fill.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel The void Lewis, as much as I love you guys, is that our current media environment was established in a time of constant chaos and lying, and now with relative calm there simply isn't enough news to fill all the space - everything is being blown out of all proportion.

@maitlis @lewis_goodall @jonsopel I understand the point and I’ve been reflecting on all the ‘stories’ over the weekend and I just think that everyday people see through the sensationalism. In the big scheme none of the specs & frocks stuff is very important to most people!

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Disagree would have looked like the truss mini budget

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel There has been so much else in terms of policy announcements, you in the media have just chosen not to cover it because you prefer Westminster bubble gossiping instead. Autumn budget so there could be a full OBR Report on it - no repeats of Liz Truss is a good thing actually.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel You are saying this as if bad headlines have an independent life of their own - they are created and amplified by bad faith actors

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Didn't Liz Truss have a budget with no OBR report? How did that go Lewis?

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Poor take on this. Labour has to assess the mess caused by the Tories.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Starmer's bleak speech in August worse in my view. There were no policy deadlines to herald a drive towards achievement. Instead he signalled indefinite dread & targeted pensioners. No wonder people feel aggrieved. Pain for us while Ministers freeload.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel She probably did. My bet is that she had to rip it all up when she realised what terrible state the Conservatives left the treasury.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Just got to twiddle your thumbs. They're not doing things to suit your schedule. Much work to be done beforehand, assessing the extent of the Tory mess. Only then can they put forward an effective budget.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Remember this forensic giggly challenge to @Keir_Starmer

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@maitlis @lewis_goodall @jonsopel When could that have been? How long to work out the details?

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel That and lying with impunity about black holes etc.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel And paying fora Genocide.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel What rubbish, they’d only just got voted in 🤷‍♂️

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel There once was a Chancellor named Reeves, With whom many had peeves, Like leaving the poor and old in the cold, And saying this was bold, She could not see the wood for the trees.

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@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel The @TheNewsAgents tea boy 😂 two lumps for me Lewis there’s a good lad 👍

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel I was on a bus with a couple of elderly passengers. I said that our free bus passes are so handy and the wife said "They will take that away from us next". This policy is so damaging to the Labour brand. Probably means they have lost a large portion of voting public at a stroke.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel The biggest mistake was to take one decision that made it look like you’d won the 2010 election, rather than the 2024 one.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel The budget shld be brought forward

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel @maitlis your more intelligent than this

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel It’s quietly devastating and concerning - hyperbole monitor says. Even if they had solved all the UK's problems, the broken record would be the same. What they need is Malcolm Tucker.

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel I mean starving poorer kids & freezing pensioners are kind of biggies

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@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel the problem was ..they got found out

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel In your humble opinion of course, I'll trust the actual Chancellor and elected government

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Lewis is so clever you wonder why he hasn’t stood for office. Could it be he is just a pathetic coward who likes sniping from the sidelines

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel Go bad to bed Lewis

@lewis_goodall @maitlis @jonsopel diddums