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@DerylLynn Far from it, totally misguided, the socialists will be after you if you are a - Pensioner Saver Investor Landlord Small business man Any profit making org. Private school Be prepared, they're coming

This story below reveals the true extent of Angela Rayner's cluelessness when it comes to economics, the public finances and financial markets. I say that not with glee - but deep alarm and regret. If this is really how the probable next Prime Minister of the UK thinks - betting markets put a more than 50% chance on leadership coup by June - then the ousting of Starmer/Reeves by Rayner (or Miliband) is likely to spark an instant spike in gilt yields, from their already elevated levels. Just the fact that Rayner has said what she has below will put yet more upward pressure on the market-driven borrowing costs – whatever the Bank of England says is these days mere mood – that drive the interest rates faced by firms and households. I have nothing against more social housing – on the contrary, the arguments in favour of building more are at the heart of my book "Home Truths", along with policy mechanisms that could get that done. But if you think that, in the current environment, hard-nosed international creditors do - or even should - give a monkey's about the "social benefits" of subsidised housing then you are utterly and dangerously deluded. Again, I say this in sorrow, not glee. I knew plenty of smart people at the top of successive Blair governments. The architects of New Labour – at least the Blairites – always made sure there were financially literate and market-savvy people in the room when big decisions were made. That was important back then - when the national debt Britain had to service was 35pc of GDP. Now – with the same metric pushing 100pc of GDP and Britain paying more than Morocco to borrow money – it is absolutely vital. It seems that there is no-one – NO-ONE AT ALL – near the top of today's Labour government who has the first clue about the realities of public accounts and global finance. These are – once again – NOT tribal or party-political points, but statements of cold fact ....

@RomyCerratti @IsabelOakeshott @alaafromgaza92 @SuellaBraverman @PatrickChristys @GBNEWS I do.

@IsabelOakeshott @alaafromgaza92 @SuellaBraverman @PatrickChristys @GBNEWS The racist tax dodger speaks! No one with an ounce of decency cares what you think Isabel.

The past three days have been extremely stressful and draining. The attack led by @SuellaBraverman @PatrickChristys and amplified by their followers and @GBNEWS viewers, simply because I want to bring my three children (all under five) and my husband with me during my MA journey, has been vicious. @SuellaBraverman, your own parents came to the UK as immigrants and built their lives there. If the rules you are advocating today had applied then, you might have grown up in India or Africa, not in Britain. I don’t understand why @SuellaBraverman hasn’t been asked to comment on my case on @GBNEWS . Maybe it’s because her own parents were immigrants? I acknowledge that deleting my viral tweet and deactivating my account after receiving a wave of hateful messages was a huge mistake. I will not hide. I will not stay silent. I will defend my rights that are defined and permitted under the UK visa system. Being accused of visa fraud before I have even set foot in the UK is deeply unjustifiable. My sole intention in coming to the UK is to pursue my MA.

@alaafromgaza92 @IsabelOakeshott @SuellaBraverman @PatrickChristys @GBNEWS Of course you would say that wouldn't you, I'm extremely sceptical, if not outright suspicious. Suella Bravermans parents were Indian, India being a member of the Commonwealth, there's your answer.

My husband and I have been giving online Arabic classes to students around the world since we fled the genocide to Egypt. This is how we’ve managed to provide for our children and support our families in Gaza, alongside my work in writing and translation. I have no intention of being a burden on the UK government in any way. After losing our home, and both my job and my husband’s, everything we built was destroyed. We started from scratch, literally. If we manage to raise the funds to support ourselves throughout this journey, what is the problem with that? If people in our situation don’t deserve support, who does?

As I recall, this began with you appealing for help for your entire family to come to the uk so you can study. British taxpayers are entitled to ask how you plan to support them all, including housing, while you are a student, or whether your family will be wholly or partially dependent on the British state? These are fair questions.

@TonyTony439 @zarahussain999 @ITVNewsPolitics Islamism is not a race it's a religion.

@zarahussain999 @ITVNewsPolitics

'I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn't allowed' 'On day lets do one of these events not livestreamed. We'll do all the naughty stuff' Sarah Pochin says she wants to wear a tartan burka at Reform's Scottish Election launch

@PeterAGoring6 @zarahussain999 @ITVNewsPolitics Do you prefer a Muslim socialist alliance? its your right of course, as it is our right not to.

@zarahussain999 @ITVNewsPolitics Reform is bad for the UK and they must be avoided

@zarahussain999 @ITVNewsPolitics Living here is not compulsory.

@ITVNewsPolitics They hate us How much more can we take?

@DrMarianaClaire @matthew_elliott Whichever way you look at it our benefits and welfare system has become over generous, unsustainable and an impediment to growth.

@matthew_elliott Of that £333 billion, £180bn is spent on pensions and £90bn is spent on Universal Credit for those in work. £10-£15bn is spent on unemployment.

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare. In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do. And the cost? Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

@daysbwtweenus @golub Difficult to respect USA when Trump publicly disrespects Zelensky.

@golub First, the US is not allied with Ukraine. Second, you should be grateful for all the US's done for Ukraine. Third, it is both moral and strategic and how Ukraine is playing this drone stuff. Respect.

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Sacked for telling the truth. I have read the report from the DfE and it is disgraceful. A good teacher has been struck off for holding very normal, common-sense views. Civil servants in Westminster would faint if they met someone from Darlington or Middlesbrough. They are completely detached from reality. I hope Mr Everett appeals and is successful.

Leftist-Islamist coalition closes in on Timothy Nick Timothy said that mass ritual prayer in a shared civic space is an act of domination. He was not suggesting every Muslim at Trafalgar Square is an Islamist. He was identifying a strategy. Within twenty four hours, thirty six Labour MPs and peers had written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards demanding he be investigated. The letter, signed by Afzal Khan MP and backed by Naz Shah, Apsana Begum, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Zarah Sultana among others, accuses Timothy of Islamophobia, invokes the Great Replacement theory, and demands his removal from the front bench. Read that list of names carefully. Naz Shah was suspended from Labour in 2016 for sharing antisemitic social media posts. Rebecca Long-Bailey was removed from the shadow cabinet for sharing an article containing antisemitic conspiracy theories. Afzal Khan was himself the subject of a Campaign Against Antisemitism complaint. And Zarah Sultana, who co-signed a letter accusing Timothy of spreading hostility and hatred, is herself the subject of a complaint to the same Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for posting that Zionism is one of the greatest threats to humanity and that Israelis love killing kids. The complaint describes her language as a modern iteration of the medieval blood libel. The commissioner has not yet decided whether to investigate. That is the Leftist-Islamist coalition that has mobilised to silence Nick Timothy. A group of MPs, several with documented histories of antisemitic language or associations, using the parliamentary standards machinery to shut down a man who pointed out that declaring there is no god but Allah in the middle of Trafalgar Square is not equivalent to lighting a Chanukah menorah. The letter does not answer Timothy's theological point. It does not explain why the Adhan, which is by definition a declaration of exclusive religious truth, is equivalent to a celebration. It simply asserts that raising the question is Islamophobia and demands investigation. That is not a rebuttal. That is a demonstration of exactly what Timothy was describing. The domination of public discourse by a coalition that treats any scrutiny of Islamist strategy as racism, any observation about religious assertion in shared spaces as hatred, and any politician who names what is happening as a legitimate target for destruction. The grievance shield, deployed on cue. At parliamentary level. In a formal letter. With thirty six signatories. Meanwhile the teacher remains in hiding in Batley. The IHRC leads death chants on the Embankment. Iranian linked charities operate under Gift Aid while the Charity Commission files cases as resolved. And the parliamentary machinery is being used not to hold any of that to account but to investigate the man who said out loud what the evidence plainly shows. Nick Timothy was right. The letter proves it. And every MP who signed it has told us, more clearly than any opinion piece could, exactly whose side they are on. "Naz Shah was suspended from Labour in 2016 for sharing antisemitic social media posts. [...]. Afzal Khan was himself the subject of a Campaign Against Antisemitism complaint."

@CityAM Respectfully, the media should not give this loquacious leader of the Greens too much print or air time. For the uninitiated, he is a dangerous preacher!

@PolitlcsUK Unsurprising; Reeves raised NI and minimum wage, plus imposed more taxes on business, the socialists have failed to grow the economy and yet are content to keep pumping out benefits including scrapping 2 child cap.

🚨 BREAKING: The UK unemployment rate has risen to 5.2%

@ayeshahazarika You shouldn’t be proud of this, it’s extreme and wrong and not where public opinion is at all

@MattRestore @Suffragent_ 25 Muslim MPs in House of Commons. How long will it take for that number to double? And eventually become the majority?

@Suffragent_ Their loyalty is to the umma. Muslims shouldn't hold any positions of power in this country at all.

This is Judge Amjad Nawaz. He allowed a 70-year-old muslim to walk free after sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. In 2016, he did the same with a similar case involving a muslim. Yet, in the same year, he gave a white man 8yrs for rape. #twotierjustice 🇬🇧

@ArturRehi @Biz_Ukraine_Mag Why just former army combatants, it should be all Russians.

The Estonian initiative currently being discussed in the EU to ban former Russian army combatants from entering the Schengen area should become a model for others. And here is why. The issue is not only that they pose a threat to society through the risk of committing crimes - 🧵

The US delegation is now meeting with the dictator of Belarus, a country with a GDP smaller than the US state of Vermont. Putin needs the US to take sanctions off Belarus to use it as a conduit for western technology for the Russian war machine. The US gains absolutely nothing, but surely the Trump family will make billions from the coming arrangement.

@kelvmackenzie It seems the good old British tax payer picks up the bill for bloody well everything.

Instead of using a mother of 6 challenged children ( she receives £2,500 a month in state handouts) as an example of poverty in Colchester, Essex, the piece on R4’s Today would have made more sense if Amol Rajan had asked why she didn’t use birth control after say 3 of her kids were born with issues. I’m sure she would argue that she had the right to have as many children as she liked but surely we have the right to say we have the right not to pick up the bill for your decisions.

Her name was Leonie, she was a 13-year-old Austrian girl. While she was out with friends, 3 Afghan immigrants secretly put 11 ecstasy pills in her drink. Stunned and unable to defend herself, she was taken to the house of one of the three. The ecstasy dose was way too high, the girl started overdosing but the 3 immigrants, completely indifferent to her suffering, began to undress her and took turns raping her, putting their hands around her neck, strangling her. All of it recorded by themselves on a mobile phone video. That’s how Leonie died, naked, in atrocious suffering, while the beasts raped her. The autopsy would later confirm the cause of death was triple overdose and asphyxiation. When they were done, they wrapped the body in a carpet and dumped it roadside, under a tree. The girl’s body was found the next morning by some passers-by, wearing only her underwear and with clear strangulation marks on her neck. One of the perpetrators fled to the United Kingdom, but was quickly tracked down in a hotel and extradited, the 3 Afghans were sentenced: - Zubaidullah R. life imprisonment; - Ali H. 19 years in prison; - Ibraulhaq A. 20 years in prison. During the closing arguments, the Public Prosecutor told the court she was “stunned” by what the defendants said throughout the proceedings, stating that “there is not a trace of remorse”.