Alison #FBPE 3.5% 💙💛

@RishiSunak @Conservatives @tuckwell_steve Gaslighting all the way

Early morning with volunteers, members and our new @Conservatives MP @tuckwell_steve. It's clear voters want us to get back to dealing with what's important to them. I’ll keep focusing on doing the right thing by the country - sticking to our plan and earning back trust.

@hairbearbunch73 @Dahshur11 @ericrw28 @GatesheadLad23 @carolvorders Yawn

@Dahshur11 @ericrw28 @GatesheadLad23 @carolvorders The left can dish it out but can’t take it

I don't know where to start with Tory Stories today, there are so many... -Sunak ridiculous defence of Farage, Coutts has now put the record straight -2 Johnson cronies joining House of Lords -Grant Shapps gaslighting letter to Starmer -direct link between Tata & Sunak's family! 🤷🏼‍♀️ And that's just the shortlist

Took this photo as was going past protest in Westminster on a bus. These people were all arrested later, also amount of hate these people receive is totally disproportionate. Just Stop Oil are campaigning to prevent any new oil gas happening in UK, that’s it and they are right.

@grantshapps @angeltweetie @Keir_Starmer Your tweets are getting more and more absurd. Or is this a parade account? Better check …

I’ve written to @Keir_Starmer to request he pays for the criminal damage the Just Stop Oil attacks on the Energy Security Department caused this morning As the political wing of Just Stop Oil, it is the Labour Party not the taxpayer that should be paying the bill

@grantshapps @Conservatives ‘Fanatics’?

You know Just Stop Oil now meet Just Stop Nuclear Today the @Conservatives launched a massive revival of nuclear power and these are the eco-fanatics and anti-nuclear radicals who want to stop us growing the economy and protecting you from energy warfare Read the thread below👇

@afneil What about wave?

Wind generating less than 5% of UK electricity this morning, solar even less (3%). Both wind and solar utilising only a small fraction of installed capacity. Gas generating 55% electricity. Now, please explain again how the grid will be carbon neutral by 2030 …

@tuckwell_steve Do you not want clean air?

Sadiq Khans plans to expand ULEZ into our community will not only affect local residents, but also local businesses. Clive will feel the effects first hand, and that’s why we need to send Labour a clear message on the 20th of July. To protect our businesses and stop ULEZ

@GaryLineker twitter.com/dalevince/stat…

We’ll need a rethink eventually, I imagine. We need to seek alternatives, if we’re still around to seek them. Yes, I take scheduled flights, never under any circumstances these days will I go on private planes, but I’ll say again, we’re all hypocrites and all can do better.

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@RupertLowe10 It’s so depressing seeing someone who seemed to be intelligent and thoughtful jumping on right wing bandwagons using words like ‘woke’ which are meaningless but flung around as terms of abuse. Please stop - this quality of ‘debate’ gets us nowhere. At all.

The woke mob would rather import in cheap labour than teach our own youngsters a decent skill. Why is the answer always more immigration? What about training our own? Young people and those who are perfectly healthy on benefits. Cut immigration and get Britain working.

@RupertLowe10 Want to define a “pointless degree”. Mine was in law - ended up being pointless FOR ME. And there’s the rub.

It's a total lie to say that we need more immigration fill vacancies. Not when there are millions of healthy people out of work claiming benefits. How do we solve it? Stop sending youngsters to university for pointless degrees and fundamentally reform the welfare system.

@grantshapps @JustStop_Oil Yawn What we know… Do you want the Tory list? Not a great game for you to be playing…

What we know: 🥀Labour are in the pocket of @JustStop_Oil 💰Labour are funded by JSO backer Dale Vince 🏳️Labour have adopted JSO’s energy surrender plan 🗳️Labour voted to weaken our laws on disruptive protest aimed to stop JSO And now this:  dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Nothing that I can really divulge at the moment about the Covid-19 Inquiry but... Here are a few of my personal observations and opinions thus far. 1/ I think we can safely say the British government never really had a plan to try and save people’s lives in a pandemic. 2/ UK politicians and it’s scientific advisors don’t make great good bedfellows. 3/ Oh yeah! Westminster also hung the Welsh out to dry by not funding them or providing much practical support during the pandemic. 4/ The UK Government were more concerned with it’s disastrous “No Deal Brexit” and “Operation Yellow Hammer” than it was the UK’s pandemic planning strategy. 5/ UK government then subsequently reallocated resources to such failures such as Brexit instead of focusing on a more robust pandemic and public health plans. 6/ Government had never considered the fact a respiratory virus can be airborne and become a pandemic from what I can gather. 🙄 7/ It was more a plan of what do we do with all those dead bodies when a pandemic does emerges. 8/ The UK Governments strategy for pandemic preparedness was never proactive and was inadequately reactive. 9/ The precautionary approach was not used or even considered. 10/ Has UK pandemic response plans improved yet and have they learned lessons yet? Well that’s a hard NO from me! 11/ Expect much more ‘group think’ from Tory politicians as a way to blame share and dodge any of their actual personal accountability and justice in the future. 12/ Most of the actual decisions continue to be motivated by economic concerns above people’s public safety and wellbeing. 13/ The Tory government will claiming Brexit helped with the UK Governments reactionary pandemic response. Something that is simple and clearly Tory gaslighting 14/ Austerity started killing people and our #NHS long before the pandemic ever came to these shores but it sure did highlight the systemic inequalities. 15/ The Tory Party are utter scumbags who have a problem with their own judicial system. Obviously more will come out in the Covid-19 Inquiry in the following days, week’s, months and years. #KatiePersinger #CovidIsNotOver #CovidInquiryUK #CovidInquiry

@simonhancock_uk @ChrisMidgley20 @Stillteaches @AndyGJBurge @UKLabour It would achieve something - and also mark a massive shit in emphasis

@ChrisMidgley20 @AlisonJBrett @Stillteaches @AndyGJBurge @UKLabour By 'optics' I meant a policy that looks attractive to supporters but won't actually achieve anything. Bit like the tories and 'stop the boats'.

Public Schools' Charitable status will be abolished by @UKLabour if they win the next UK GE. Here is a worked example based on Eton College which shows why this is a good idea. Number of Scholars = 70 Number of fee-paying pupils = 1245 Fees: £45k per annum (actually closer now to £46.3k per year) Value of Charitable Scholarships = 70 * 45k = £3.15m Annual income from fees = 1245 * £45k = £56m VAT (at 20%) avoided = £11.2m Corporation tax avoided (based on 20% profit) = £2.8m Value of charitable giving = £3.15m Value of Tax breaks = £14m Business rates avoided impossible to calculate but rates are based on acreage and Eton College covers 1600 acres. Land is worth up to £1m per acre and the rateable value is 50%. Note I have not included extra-curricular fees. Finally, this article shows that there is no likelihood of a mass exodus from private to state sector which the Tories pretend is the case theguardian.com/education/2023… @cmackinlay @bphillipsonMP @GillianKeegan

@simonhancock_uk @Stillteaches @AndyGJBurge @ChrisMidgley20 @UKLabour I could not disagree more. This is much more than optics - it’s about where the priorities lie - our priorities. Subsidising private education or giving that £ to our state schools.

@AlisonJBrett @Stillteaches @AndyGJBurge @ChrisMidgley20 @UKLabour Of course we should do that. I think this policy is more about political optics than any serious attempt to improve funding for state schools. You might generate 1%-2% extra funding, but increase the number of state school pupils by 1%-2%.

@simonhancock_uk @Stillteaches @AndyGJBurge @ChrisMidgley20 @UKLabour How do you know this?

@AlisonJBrett @Stillteaches @AndyGJBurge @ChrisMidgley20 @UKLabour A complicating factor is that any increase in funding, however small, will take a while to have an impact, but the increase in state pupils pupils would happen first.

The @OBR_UK assessment of the sustainability of the UK government's debt is off-the-charts alarming. It paints a picture of shocking Treasury incompetence over the past fifteen years in managing the debt burden - which has left the UK's public finances much more exposed to rising inflation than any other comparable country. For example 1) QE has turned a third of government liabilities into overnight debt at floating rates, 2) the UK has borrowed twice as much in the form of inflation-linked bonds than any other government, and 3) the proportion of government bonds in flighty foreign hands is the second highest among G7 rich nations. One immediate consequence is that what the government pays to borrow - the yield on ten-year debt or gilts - has risen by 2 percentage points, compared with a G7 average of just 0.5 percentage points over the past 12 months. In the OBR's words, "the rise in global interest rates has fed through to the UK's debt servicing costs more than twice as fast as in the past or elsewhere". And we have the wrong kind of inflation, in the sense that compared with other countries, nominal GDP or national income isn't rising fast enough to offset the increase in the nominal debt burden, and wages aren't rising fast enough to generate additional tax revenues. As the OBR says, UK general government debt is forecast to rise by 3.1 per cent of GDP this year, compared with average falls of 1.8% in other European countries. So the obsession of Hunt and Sunak with defeating inflation is understandable - because in the absence of any significant fall in inflation, there is a risk that investors will shun UK government debt and interest rates for the government and for all of us would then rise to crippling levels. This parlous debt backdrop explains why the Bank of England and the Treasury are prepared to risk recession to bring down inflation. It is what you need to know ahead of the imminent announcement of how the government will fund pay rises for teachers, nurses and other public servants.