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Working for Keir Starmer is now one of the most dangerous occupations in the UK. There are few known survivors. Olly Robbins is just the latest fatality. All sacrificed to divert from a reality we can all see -our country deserves so much better than this man as our Prime Minister.

@Pureblood0 @suespensley More of a duffer, I would say.

@suespensley Let me try to explain for you Sue the UK has never had a Conservative Govt so of course the Torys are untrustworthy as for Labour they are trustworthy as a much they do exactly what their agenda dictates which is Socialism by stealth as for Farage he is a buffer .

A lot of people saying they would never vote for Nigel Farage as they don't trust him,presumably once trusted the Tories or the Labour party whom have both proven to be untrustworthy, Nigel has never been in government (yet) to be proven either way so I don't understand the logic

Cramlington South West (Northumberland) Council By-Election Result: 🌳 CON: 34.2% (+9.0) ➡️ RFM: 26.1% (-13.3) 🌹 LAB: 23.0% (-5.8) 🌍 GRN: 14.3% (New) 🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New) 🔶 LDM: 0.9% (New) No SDP (-6.6) as previous. Conservative GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.

@Gurdie1867 Kemi Badenoch! Why is she not on the list?

Which party leader do you trust to have the best interests of Britain and its’ people at heart? Please repost for a larger audience.

@andykings101 @Spring68 @Alex_Stafford @lukerobertblack @KemiBadenoch Good man.

@Alex_Stafford @lukerobertblack @KemiBadenoch She will get my vote. Moved from Reform to Conservative. Back to my roots.

Getting ever closer. Only a 3% gap. It is getting more and more likely we will see @KemiBadenoch in No 10 - where she belongs!

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 25% (-5) CON: 22% (+3) LAB: 21% (+1) GRN: 13% (+1) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 2% (=) Via @Moreincommon_, 10-13 Apr. Changes w/ 2-7 Apr.

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

Behold the utter smallness of Sir Keir Starmer. Scrambling around to save his leadership, he has decided to give his Euro-fanatic backbenchers something symbolic. Britain will automatically download EU rules in the fields of energy and food in return for… well, in return for nothing much beyond feel-good Europhile fluffiness. What is proposed is not that Britain and the EU recognise each other’s standards in certain areas. That is the normal way in which trade agreements happen and, indeed, the normal way in which the EU negotiates deals. Brussels, for example, has a mutual recognition agreement with New Zealand. Nor is it proposed that Britain and the EU should jointly agree in advance to certain standards on, say, animal welfare or food safety. No, what Starmer is offering is something quite different, something almost unprecedented among sovereign nations. What he proposes is write a blank cheque. Whatever standards the EU might adopt in future, Britain will automatically copy them. They might be ludicrously expensive. They might be inappropriate to our conditions. Whatever their content, we would have no option but to copy them. There would be no debate in Parliament, no vote in the House of Commons. Brussels would dictate, and Britain would scramble to obey. Starmer is not interested in practical solutions. His policy is wholly vibes-driven, designed to show how different he is from the awful Tories.

@MrTCHarris @manfuego007 Very perceptive of you Tom!

@manfuego007 Is it Watership Down by Richard Adams?

Hands up who knows what I’m reading rn

@apple_shwn @chilternbear11 @Conservatives I do so agree.

@chilternbear11 Pointless Poll, of no value whatsoever, since you failed to include the party of opposition, @Conservatives And @Conservatives would have my vote. You said that you would post again including others. Really ? Just feels like skewing the results. Poor job. 🙈

If there were a General Election tomorrow who would you vote for? (New poll to include others) Repost for bigger sample

@chilternbear11 The Conservative Party. Why have you omitted it from your poll? You must be heavily biased not to include all parties. A Reform voter, perhaps.

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I don’t hate Starmer but he’s an empty box, not the full package conservativehome.com/2026/04/10/i-d… via @conhome

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Britain is a Christian country. The Conservative Party will always celebrate our Christian heritage with deeds, not just words. This Easter, we want to ensure local churches are properly maintained and repaired so we’re announcing a plan to restore funding for the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme which the government has recently placed caps on. Churches matter. They aren’t just important places of worship, in many towns and villages they are the centre of the community and the pride of local people, often steeped in hundreds of years of history. It is critical we maintain them properly, because when they’re gone, this history and heritage could be lost forever. @Conservatives believe we have a responsibility to protect our churches and make sure they endure for future generations.  What are we for if not to conserve the very best of our country and our society for those yet to come? Conservatives will protect our heritage and build a stronger country.

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No one serious is claiming that North Sea oil and gas is state-owned. That's a strawman. The actual argument is about what extracting it does for Britain - and the answer is straightforward. North Sea oil gets sold on the global market, yes. Around 80% of it bypasses our refineries entirely, partly because those refineries were built to process Libyan crude, not the light sweet crude the North Sea produces. Fine. But when oil companies extract that oil and turn a profit, the Exchequer taxes that profit. That tax revenue is real money that can subsidise bills during supply disruptions. That's our stake - and it's a legitimate one. Gas is even more direct. North Sea gas feeds straight into the UK pipeline network. Britain consumes between 65% and 85% of the gas it extracts domestically. It stabilises supply. It generates taxable profit. There is no coherent argument for leaving it in the ground. Now, climate. Britain produces less than 2% of global greenhouse emissions. Not a single major polluter on earth is adjusting their behaviour based on UK climate commitments. What actually happens when we strangle our own energy sector in pursuit of rapid decarbonisation is simple - we de-industrialise, we export jobs to China, and China builds EVs powered by coal. We get poorer. The climate is unaffected. Leaving recoverable North Sea reserves untouched doesn't save the planet. It just makes Britain weaker.