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Stuart Coster
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Stuart Coster
@StuartCoster
Research & campaigns • Better democracy • End Leasehold • Owner of broken cars • Director @DemocracyMovemt • Co-founder @PeoplesPledgeEU
انضم Mayıs 2017
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@alexburghart @john4brexit So much for the govt's claimed '£9bn by 2040' GDP gain from the reset. Starting to look like they'll have spent it long before the deal kicks in. SPS & ETS fees. Cut price uni fees for youth mobility. Fishing giveway til 2038 to cost £6bn. Now cohesion fund contributions, too?
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@anandMenon1 The government's domestic rhetoric on the 'EU reset' keeps slamming hard into the politics of conceding to the EU's own demands. Awks!
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Can’t see that landing well.
Kitty Donaldson@kitty_donaldson
EXC: Inside the UK-EU reset negotiations -The UK is looking at imposing an annual cap of 45,000 on young Europeans who can come to Britain, similar to the limit for Australians on working holiday visas -Reeves opposes EU students' fees demand for fear of universities going bust
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Truly scandalous. Will anyone face any accountability or sanction for wasting such a vast amount of public money? And where did it all go; did a spade even touch the ground? To then be lectured about the need for higher taxes is beyond tolerable.
LBC@LBC
Stonehenge tunnel officially scrapped - after more than £179,000,000 spent on plan lbc.co.uk/article/stoneh…
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Sadiq Khan's #Brexit intervention has at least usefully exposed the anti-democratic mindset of the EU's hardline backers. Are we a country with democratic values, or not? So when a senior politician suggests binning election promises to then over-ride a referendum vote via a much smaller election mandate, in order to hand lawmaking back to undemocratic EU institutions, it needs to be called out for what it is; not merely a Labour debating point, but an attack on #democracy itself.
@kafkaswife @AnnabelDenham1 @afneil @Peston @SophyRidgeSky @vicderbyshire @bbclaurak @IainDale @tomhfh @JuliaHB1
Stuart Coster@StuartCoster
Note how Sadiq Khan casually rejects multiple, basic democratic principles - and be very afraid of what the EU's biggest fans want to do to democracy, the power of our votes, our basic rights to hold politicians and lawmakers to account. He represents the autocrat tendency.
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A long-running story that, still, is getting more awkward for Keir Starmer by the day. Just toughing it out now til the inevitable resignation in May?
Neil O'Brien@NeilDotObrien
Starmer told the Commons that Mandelson "lied to me". Turns out not only did he not speak to him, he stopped others looking into him
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@tompeck Yes, but kind of a side show to calling for Labour to break an election promise on the single market, then try to over-ride the EU referendum on a much smaller mandate at a general election. Both profoundly undemocratic ideas. Disturbingly so, or should be.
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Sadiq Khan there, calling for Labour to scrap VAT on private
schools.
Sadiq Khan@SadiqKhan
The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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@SkyNewsPolitics @AliFortescue Complaining about EU border bureaucracy is an odd way to make the case to be inside it. If we were, everywhere else in the faster-growing world, over half our trade, will then face that absurd bureaucracy to export to the UK. Is that really a smart move?
@NickFerrariLBC
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‘The Labour Party's been very clear that we are not going to see a return to the customs union or the single market’.
Speaking to Sky's @AliFortescue, Baroness Luciana Berger says she supported remaining in the EU but accepts Brexit.
trib.al/k0vD2rb
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Powerful commentary here on this government's inaction on leasehold reform, after talking big in opposition. Now dragging its heels even on helping leaseholders who can free *themselves* via enfranchisement. While the flats market crashes. When can we expect change @mtpennycook?
Free Leaseholders@FreeLeasehlders
LEASEHOLD IS KILLING THE FLATS MARKET AND LABOUR PROTECTS THE EXPLOITERS 🥀 Leasehold is a scam. But this @UKLabour government has caved to Big Money interests who want to keep it going. They’ve published a draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill that’s been watered down. The manifesto and King’s Speech promised the remaining @Law_Commission recommendations on enfranchisement and Right to Manage. Yet none of it appears in the draft legislation published in January. Service charges can quickly become a second or third mortgage, and are often arbitrarily imposed and increased at rates that far outstrip inflation. People’s salaries are not increasing in line with service charges. Why would any sane individual put their life savings into an asset controlled by someone else – someone whose interests are completely opposed to their own – and whose extractive behaviour could easily devalue the property, making it unmortgageable and impossible to sell? It’s no wonder Barclays has found that first-time buyers are skipping flats altogether and instead procuring their ‘forever home’: a freehold house with no extractive outside freeholder and more predictable, controllable running costs. A recent analysis by Hamptons found that leasehold flats are disproportionately losing value compared to freehold houses. For example, in the capital, 60% of property sales were flats last year, but these represented 90% of homes sold at a loss. We have a crisis in the flats market and no serious government response. Even after winning a High Court judicial review fought by the freeholder lobby in October, the government won’t commence long-awaited policies in the 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act. That includes abolishing marriage value and setting enfranchisement rates high so leaseholders can more cheaply extend a lease or buy the freehold. Labour was founded to take on rentier interests. Yet with the second biggest majority in the party’s history, it acts powerless. Putting exploiters before the exploited. Local elections aren’t far off. Leaseholders will remember at the ballot box. telegraph.co.uk/money/property…
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Note how Sadiq Khan casually rejects multiple, basic democratic principles - and be very afraid of what the EU's biggest fans want to do to democracy, the power of our votes, our basic rights to hold politicians and lawmakers to account. He represents the autocrat tendency.
The Democracy Movement@DemocracyMovemt
Sadiq Khan is advocating breaking a manifesto pledge in this parliament, then over-riding the EU referendum vote by general election, in order to hand control of lawmaking, trade, foreign policy, defence and much more back to the unelected EU Commission. None of his views are compatible with democratic principles. #Brexit #democracy
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Sadiq Khan is advocating breaking a manifesto pledge in this parliament, then over-riding the EU referendum vote by general election, in order to hand control of lawmaking, trade, foreign policy, defence and much more back to the unelected EU Commission.
None of his views are compatible with democratic principles.
#Brexit #democracy
BBC Radio 4 Today@BBCr4today
Sir Sadiq Khan has called for Labour to go into the next general election promising to rejoin the EU. Chief Political Correspondent @hzeffman explains the comments made by the mayor of London.
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The real story is the sharp increase in unemployment among 18-24yo men - to a staggering 17.2%, up from 16.1% in last month’s data.
It was 13.8% in a comparable period a year ago.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: The UK unemployment rate has risen to 5.2%
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@RossKempsell Rejoining the single market sector-by-sector, directly contradicting their manifesto.
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Labour is obsessed with ramming through policies which were not in its manifesto
Digital ID
Chagos
Tax hikes
Massive social changes
No one voted for any of this - but still they continue
The most undemocratic government in modern history
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@timothy_stanley @andrew_allison There's a disturbing undercurrent of cruelty to this government. The way they immediately tried to rip away the winter fuel payment. Then disrupt independent schools for thousands of kids. Assisted suicide and this. What's going on with this lot? Adding up to genuinely troubling.
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Now there is a move to decriminalise abortion, effectively allowing it up to birth. Google it. It's not an easy read. It is the physical destruction of a baby.
This horror passed the Commons after 46 minutes of debate. The Lords must stop it. It is a line the UK must not cross.
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Tonight peers vote on abortion: a social justice issue.
In one ward, doctors fight to save a baby. In another, they kill a baby. The difference, very often, comes down to which baby is wanted or can be afforded.
Where is the equality? Where is the fairness?
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@Belisarius4567 @georgeeaton Not evidence - just a badly weighted fantasy counterfactual. Actual evidence, ie. real GDP data, already contradicts it. In fact, makes it look laughably absurd. Not worth giving the time of day, but Rachel Reeves idolises it. 🤦♂️
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@StuartCoster @georgeeaton Hi - here’s the evidence. A detailed report going into firm level data by highly credible analysts for the NBER in the US. You may not like it but this is actually evidence. nber.org/papers/w34459
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Reeves says in her Mais lecture that “Brexit did deep damage” and that “our fate as a country is inescapably bound with that of Europe”, vowing to make the case for closer alignment.
This is the most pro-European speech a cabinet minister has given since 2016.
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@anandMenon1 Indeed. How big a share of the EU's proposed €2 trillion future budget (nearly doubled over the current budget) will we be expected to contribute - and how could Rachel Reeves possibly pay for it? Questions no rejoiner will answer.
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@FraserNelson Yes, especially when AI is / will be a 'service'. Pointlessly selective and misleading of the chancellor. Is it her role to mislead the country, just to prop up her retro EU ideology?
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Odd to focus so much on goods when most UK exports are services. Here is the post-Brexit picture.
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@AnnabelDenham1 The Conservatives are repudiating 'alignment' deals. 👇 Honouring a Labour election pledge that Starmer-Reeves seem intent on breaking. The EU will now wonder why they should waste their time on this.
x.com/i/status/20338…
Alex Burghart@alexburghart
A future Conservative Govt will not be bound by this
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Reform and the Tories should state unequivocally that they will not accept any agreement Labour make with EU and will unpick it.
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@faisalislam Is this the speech approved by No.10 or, between the lines, is Reeves purely currying favour here with Starmer's likely successors? Policy, or politics of self-interest to hang onto her job after May?
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Chancellor at #MaisLecture goes further than anyone in Government on post Brexit single market realignment:
While there are sectors where regulatory autonomy “may be necessary” these “should be the exception, not the norm”
“I believe absolutely that closer alignment is the right course for our country, a course chosen as a sovereign nation, a course chosen in our national interest”
“alignment should be forward looking and durable, providing a certainty that businesses on both sides need to invest and grow..
“when the economic gains exceed the costs, the trade off is worth making. The prize is considerable. Costs of doing business, reduce the UK and EU companies new opportunities to export to each other's markets, new experience for travel, for work and study for our young people. Scale ups, gaining access to deeper, cool pools of Capital and Talent. Greater choice for consumers, both in the UK and the EU helping to bring down prices and inflation, a more resilient, more efficient energy system across Europe and a deeper, more integrated defence industrial base among close allies to repel common threats. All this within a stable economic framework that allows us to keep building the relationship without constant renegotiation of the basic terms.”
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“We want that pattern to end” Rachel Reeves says of the historic trend of top UK science and inventions only being commercialised in the US/ Silicon Valley, as the Government invests £2bn in quantum computing ahead of her Mais lecture on long term growth for the UK economy…
The Chancellor spoke to me for @BBCBreakfast and @BBCNews at the National Quantum Computing Centre in Oxford ahead of her Mais Lecture at Bayes Business School this afternoon setting out what she called long term “big choices” in the economy, making the UK the fastest adopter of AI in the G7, alignment with EU in multiple sectors and regional growth corridors Oxford-Cambridge (canary wharf style development powers for Oxford) and northern cities…
All this against a backdrop of clouds from global crisis again re growth and living standards…
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"It is hard not to conclude from her intervention today that the Chancellor appears to have given up on growth" - our Chairman @ShankerASingham responds to @RachelReevesMP's Mais Lecture 👇
growth-commission.com/2026/03/17/ree…
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