Ex-Cllr Ian Parsons #FBNHS

@MarkProEuropean @FIFAWorldCup Guess who drew them in the sweepstake?

I always felt that Spain had France's number. People have underestimated Spain. They are a top team and I think the English would prefer to play France rahter than Spain. #worldcup @FIFAWorldCup

@dave43law Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's weren't.

FARAGE SECURITY REALITY CHECK What reasons could Farage have for rejecting security except of course - his movements would be mapped - Parliament visits logged - visitors and associates logged - his 4 or 5hr lunches logged - foreign trips logged and not only logged but detailed as to where he has visited, who he has visited, who financed the trip - visits to Clacton logged (nil return)

@Hepworthclare Agreed. But an awful lot of people have fallen around Keir Starmer and that invites enmity.

@IanLabour No I haven't. I apply my concept of political decency & integrity across the board irrespective of individuals or their political allegiance.

I voted for you Lucy - something I now deeply regret.

@vicderbyshire About time.

Donald Trump pays writer E Jean Carroll $5m in damages over sexual abuse and defamation bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@ContractorCalc It IS a good idea: ask Thomas Picketty and Gabriel Zucman. It's not just @garyseconomics you know.

Q) How do you spot someone who doesn’t properly understand Wealth Taxes? A) They think it’s a good idea.

@TheRealSqueal Allowing food manufacturers to poison our children? In the name of not being a nanny state.

What were the governments in the last 30 years doing exactly? 'UK children will be one of unhealthiest generations in decades, doctors say' aol.co.uk/articles/uk-ch…

@TheRealJamieKay They are the ones who get away with malfeasance in public office, for £10 billion being wasted on useless PPE. Nothing to see here, Gov(e).

Can any on the far-right define ‘The Establishment’?

Where is Inspector Knacker of the Yard when you need him?

@michaelgove All evidence has been "disappeared" a long time ago. Somebody should bear the consequences of £10 billion of taxpayers money going missing - on top of the test and trace fiasco; but the Establishment closes ranks, doesn't it, Michael? You ought to hang your head in shame.

Of whom? No corruption or cronyism on the part of ministers or officials…

@michaelgove Well: you would say that. All I hope is that this is investigated by the police and evidence is found, enough for the guilty to go to trial. In law, you are innocent until proven guilty, in politics no such latitude exists. This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

Actually it wasn’t. Dame Heather Hallet found *no* evidence of cronyism or corruption on the part of ministers or officials. Mistakes *were* made. Honest mistakes. I take full responsibility for that. But the allegations of corruption are unfounded nonsense

@TonyWard867811 Do you even know how ten year bond deals actually work? I doubt that you do. If you did, you wouldn't post such rubbish.

Britain just paid a record £11.7 billion in debt interest in May alone. Hard-working Brits funded every penny of it. You paid for it through your taxes. You paid for it through the slow destruction of your savings and wages. While you were doing that, they still found money for foreign aid and the unproductive. And the whole time they were silently robbing you. They print more pounds out of thin air every year. They weaken the money you actually earned. This is not one theft. This is two. They take your money openly through tax. Then they take what’s left quietly by debasing the pound. This is how they grind down the people who still work and produce. You can still opt out if you know how...

@an0n_Nic I wish someone would give me £5 million for every time I'd heard this specious nonsense.

I can’t stress enough that we are not voting our way out of this. Half the population are sat in first class on the Titanic.

@BladeoftheS Except they can't win; he already has the votes sewn up. Corrupt doesn't begin to describe it.

UEFA is planning to run a candidate against Gianni Infantino in November's FIFA Presidential election. They need to. It is time for FIFA's corruption to end.

Just a thought: do all Reform members have to have failed basic English grammar to be eligible to join the Party, or is it limited to their supporters? Answers on a postcard .....

@SBarrettBar Don't be so hard on yourself.

How to tell everyone that you are a thin skinned narcissist ...

@ItsJamesHall We have the doom-loop of a high-price, low productivity economy. We let high net worth individuals and corporations get away with turbo-charged tax avoidance. Why? Have our politicians been bought? It's not just in this country, either.

If you earn over £72k, you're in the top 10% of UK full-time earners. Yet for many it still doesn't feel like enough. So…is it an income problem, a spending problem, or a tax problem?

@SimonMagus On normal working people, yes.

The only pro-growth tax reform is to cut taxes.

@andrew_lilico I think it would be better to incentivise private investment into the real economy. Despite the best efforts of governments of all stripes our private investment is 27th in the OECD charts. Why is that? We used to make things, you know. Curtail share buy-backs, for instance?

The single most effective, most straightforward & most plausibly "Labour" thing Andy Burnham could do to boost GDP growth would be to cut a deal with the unions to enhance public sector productivity.

@mattlynnwriter Exogenous shocks do not a crisis make.

The UK's 10 year bond yield has punched through 5% this morning. Seems like a good week to appoint a PM who thinks the bond markets don't matter, and make Ed Miliband Chancellor. What could pssibly go wrong.