Burnham's likely economic policies if he becomes PM

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And so the onslaught against Burnham begins.

I am indebted o David Hollas from The Receipts UK for this:

Companies House filings confirm Marie-France van Heel now holds 252 shares in Iduna Infrastructure, parent of Be.EV, and is a beneficiary of a long-term incentive plan, both acquired after she joined the board in September 2024. That directly updates what Burnham said in 2022, that she held no shares and received no bonus or incentive payments.

The GMCA maintains it has met disclosure obligations throughout, and Iduna hasn't tendered for the newest contract.

Marie-France van Heel isn’t chief anything for Octopus Energy. She is Chief Customer Officer at Be.EV.

Octopus Energy Generation's investment fund is Be.EV's majority backer, a separate entity from Octopus Energy the retail supplier and she holds no role there.

Andy Burnham’s statement 18 February 2022.

andyformayor.co.uk/2022/02/18/personal-statement-by-rt-hon-andy-burnham-mayor-of-greater-manchester-on-the-gm-clean-air-zone/

It’s reminding me of the only negative about KS the DM could find was he’s a landowner. Bought a field so his mum could enjoy rescue donkeys

Attacking Marie France van Heel fits the attack attack rule book How very dare her be a successful professional, married to a politician, especially as they appear to have brought up three children together despite busy successful careers.

lizzypopbottle

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The best thing about your OP is the word 'if'. I doubt if it's relevant but someone might at least challenge him and his acolytes.

I’d like someone to challenge him, too. Perhaps Al Carns (sp?) will give it a shot. Then we could see what a future leadership prospect believes in, too.

I understand AB will be announcing some of his proposals next week, as early as Monday- I'm waiting to read the detail.

I suspect he will continue Labour policy of concreting over the Green Belt.

MaizieDI
The best thing about your OP is the word 'if'. I doubt if it's relevant but someone might at least challenge him and his acolytes.

Moii

Why should I pay twice the council tax when I live alone and only put one bin out than a family of 7 who claim and pay nothing.

Isn't that what the hated poll tax was trying to mitigate ie at its simplest, all adults, no matter how many in the household, paid towards running their local council ? Didn't go down well did it! As a single person you are eligible for a discount on your council tax. You have to apply for it.

Moii surely you get 25% off living alone ?

Why should I pay twice the council tax when I live alone and only put one bin out than a family of 7 who claim and pay nothing.

the sooner a general election comes the better, i do not agree with getting a new pm who has not been voted in by the people, i voted labour for the the first time in 20 years because i thought starmer could make a difference and i think he was and could have done more given the chance, i am scottish and have always gone with the snp, i don't like anyone being fast tracked when they have not been on the front bench for nearly 10 years.

I wonder what his views are on the twelve asylum centres that Keir is rushing through by the sounds of it? No mention in the HP

Not with Rachel Reeves as Chancellor he wouldn't.

Oreo

Obvs another term in office will be needed after the next three years But I think he will have some appealing ideas and policies and will look forward to hearing about them.

Imo by the time of the next election Labour, under Keir, would have been able to bring in more radical policies because hopefully America will have regained it’s sanity and the current wars should have ended.

Appealing to me anyway😃

Obvs another term in office will be needed after the next three years But I think he will have some appealing ideas and policies and will look forward to hearing about them.

And so the onslaught against Burnham begins.
Indeed. And it sounds libellous to me.

And so the onslaught against Burnham begins.

I am indebted o David Hollas from The Receipts UK for this:

Companies House filings confirm Marie-France van Heel now holds 252 shares in Iduna Infrastructure, parent of Be.EV, and is a beneficiary of a long-term incentive plan, both acquired after she joined the board in September 2024. That directly updates what Burnham said in 2022, that she held no shares and received no bonus or incentive payments.

The GMCA maintains it has met disclosure obligations throughout, and Iduna hasn't tendered for the newest contract.

Marie-France van Heel isn’t chief anything for Octopus Energy. She is Chief Customer Officer at Be.EV.

Octopus Energy Generation's investment fund is Be.EV's majority backer, a separate entity from Octopus Energy the retail supplier and she holds no role there.

Andy Burnham’s statement 18 February 2022.

andyformayor.co.uk/2022/02/18/personal-statement-by-rt-hon-andy-burnham-mayor-of-greater-manchester-on-the-gm-clean-air-zone/

Just a minute Primrose - are you implicitly accusing them of corruption? That’s pretty serious. Still I guess you’ve read up on all the facts including the fact that the contract was initially awarded long before she joined the company and all the proper processes that have been followed since? I just don’t understand how having read up on all of this, you still think something is shall we say amiss?

Primrose53

You can bet he will be feathering his own nest!
His wife is Director of BeEV and Induna Infrastructure. She secured a contract to supply EV infrastructure and supply energy to Greater Manchester Combined Authority for the famous “bus” project that her husband keeps banging on about. She is Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Octopus Energy. What a surprise! 😝

What surprises you about any of that?

It surprises me how many women dislike seeing other women do well.

Primrose53

You can bet he will be feathering his own nest!
His wife is Director of BeEV and Induna Infrastructure. She secured a contract to supply EV infrastructure and supply energy to Greater Manchester Combined Authority for the famous “bus” project that her husband keeps banging on about. She is Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Octopus Energy. What a surprise! 😝

Oooohhhh a clever successful woman. How very dare she.

You can bet he will be feathering his own nest!
His wife is Director of BeEV and Induna Infrastructure. She secured a contract to supply EV infrastructure and supply energy to Greater Manchester Combined Authority for the famous “bus” project that her husband keeps banging on about. She is Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Octopus Energy. What a surprise! 😝

It's a lot of Dosh 🙄 They'll have to throw me off London Bridge 🤣

My MIL is paying something like £1500 a week, and it is more for residents with Dementia. That's £78000 pa.

The annual cost of care in England certainly exceeds £50.000. My friend pays £9.000 per month. She initially went into 2 other care homes (still over £8.000 per month) but they were not very good. She has enough to pay for another 3 years, then she will be wiped out. Some very interesting hypothesis above.

Yes, it will be an uphill struggle. I really hope that AB will use the time between now and taking office (assuming he does that) to get the best Comms team available, and have them up to speed from day 1.

He's already shown a sense of humour that will help - his 'I'm a naughty boy' comment in the HoC, and the clip of him fluttering his eyelashes and looking down at his T shirt then saying 'it's dark blue' in response to KB's jibe were good natured and amusing, and met the jokers on their own ground. It will be more difficult when they really get going though - a laddish smile and 'bacatcha' retort won't help with cutting through tweets and soundbites.

I think he's likely to appeal to younger people, so maybe he could find a way to ridicule the trotters out of slogans, in the way Jasper Carrott did with Sun readers? He needs a strategy of some sort, whatever happens.

For example, look how the changes to interest on cash deposits in stocks and shares ISAs have been reported in papers like the Mail, Telegraph . Truth twisting and scaremongering. And now they’ve started on the fears of the equalisation of rates of CGT and income tax. Again deliberately misleading and scaremongering and zilch attempt to seriously address the issue and construct a rational argument against it. Just rolling out the ‘pensioners will be hit’ line. This is what AB and whoever is his Chancellor will be up against.