Lee Shuttlewood

We're lowering bills and increasing our energy security. Reform's answer is always more expensive fossil fuels. Someone needs to ask Farage & Tice how bills would go down when oil and gas are sold on global markets? Reform will do nothing. Labour are acting to lower bills.

@Keir_Starmer Looks luke everything that I was going to say has akready been said in the comments. So, I'll just leave you this:

St George’s flag stands for unity over hatred and decency over division. Those are the values I will always fight for. Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

This is not our war, but it is now pushing up bills for families and businesses. That’s why keeping costs down is my number one priority – and our economic plan has put us in a stronger position to face this crisis.

@Ed_Miliband Fuck off Beaker!

We’re facing the second fossil fuel shock in less than 5 years. Events far away are once again impacting families and businesses here at home. We can’t go on leaving our country so exposed. The solution lies in clean homegrown power we control. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@10DowningStreet Which, if all other prpnouncements regarding making us better off are anything to go by, means both gas and electricity bills will increase dramatically.

We are breaking the link between gas prices and electricity prices, so you don’t pay the bill for global energy spikes. We are building a more resilient Britain - putting more money in your pocket and protecting households from future global shocks.

@GBNEWS He's in charge, which means that the buck stops with him, and any continuing attempts to lie and gaslight his way out of it just digs the hole deeper.

🚨BREAKING: Keir Starmer breaks silence on the Peter Mandelson vetting row, saying he is 'absolutely furious' and insisting neither he nor any minister was told Mandelson had failed security vetting, calling it 'unforgivable'. More to follow on GB News...

@tom_watson Wanna buy a bridge?

He is many things but Keir Starmer is not a liar.

@Lord_Talbot64 @Peston I doubt that you'd find many that would believe that the civil service acted in this way without sny form of political pressure applied

@Peston Nobody believes that this information was not passed to the PM.

Downing Street says neither the PM or the then foreign secretary David Lammy knew that Peter Mandelson failed security vetting to be US ambassador till a few days ago. Sources say they are incandescent that they were not told. The clear implication is that the permanent under secretary at the foreign office Olly Robbins over-ruled the vetting recommendation and never told ministers. If that is right, and no official is denying that, it is impossible to see how he keeps his job

@Peston Oh, come on. Civil servants ignore all ptotocols snd security advice to green light the appointment of a known crook without any sort of political pressure, blackmail, or bribery from up on high? That dog don't hunt!

@BethRigby Starmer is the top man, and therefore, the buck stops with him.

NEW: Anger in No 10 tonight - am told by a source that neither the PM nor his advisors were told, over a series of months, that Mandelson had been granted security clearance against the recommendation of UK security vetting. That suggests this information was held in foreign office and not shared. Big Qs now about the PM misleading the House. I am told the PM had been asking Qs about vetting and not been told this information while giving statements to parliament. Told this week PM had been trying to get answers about what happened since Tues night - Guardian got ahead of story. The critical point is that the minister has to have ‘knowingly misled’ the House, and clearly No 10 saying tonight the PM was not aware. I understand the PM had been intending to update the HoC as soon as No 10 had established facts, which they have been doing since Tues. So expect to see the PM come to HoC on Monday to correct the record I asked PM on March 16 whether he has misled the House when he said due process was followed. This is what he told me BETH RIGBY: On the Mandelson files, your national security adviser said the process was quote, weirdly rushed, and Mandelson was appointed before developed vetting had been complete. You told MPs in the House of Commons that due process was followed. Is there a possibility that you have misled the House when you said that? KEIR STARMER: No, and the independent adviser looked at that very question. I think on Thursday or Friday of last week, and answered it very robustly, that the process had been followed. The process wasn't strong enough. And amongst the changes that I intend to put into place is the fact that you can't announce someone until the vetting is finished. It wasn't an individual decision in the Mandelson case, that was the process. Well, you only have to look at that. in the light of the appointment, to realise that that needs to change. But on due process, the process that was there was followed, the problem was the process wasn't strong enough, but ultimately, it was my mistake and I have apologised for that and quite right to.

@afneil Whether the FO lied, or No. 10 had decided Mandelson was having the job regardless. Starmer is the top man, and the buck stops with him.

We now have the Government response: Neither the PM nor 10 Downing Street nor the Cabinet Office knew the Foreign Office had decided to ignore the fact Mandelson had failed his security vetting. Call it the ‘know-nothing’ government. But it leaves a major question unanswered: why would the FO take it on itself to make such a huge judgement call — and not inform/consult Downing Street? What was in it for the FO? It hadn’t even necessarily wanted Mandy, unlike Starmer and the 10 Downing Street operation. Doesn’t add up.

@Artemisfornow Of course he won't allow the energy companies to stripe up consumers, that's his job! How very dare they try and take money that is rightfully Labour's!

Wait… what? The man who unfairly imposed a 78% windfall tax, unfairly loaded bills with surcharges, unfairly added carbon charges, and unfairly inflated costs to prop up uneconomical renewables… …now says he won’t tolerate unfair practices by energy companies?? LOL 🤡

@R_i_c_h_B @RStrongdoctor @afneil What steel industry?

@RStrongdoctor @afneil If the replacements are years away, what's the contingency plan for war breaking out in a fashion that needs boats? How quickly can our steel industry stamp out some warships?

Happy to be corrected by naval experts. But by my calculations the entire Royal Navy surface fleet of warships consists of: Two aircraft carriers Six Type 45 destroyers Seven aging Type 23s And of these 15 warships only three are currently active (soon to be four if HMS Dragon leaves port tomorrow. In any sensible estimation of deployable capability we don’t really have a Navy, do we?

@YvetteCooperMP If you are so keen on ending the violence and abuse of women and girls, why did you and the rest of the Labour shower vote against a grooming gang inquiry?

This #IWD I’m making women and girls a key priority for the FCDO. Tackling the global emergency of violence and abuse, boosting women’s political and economic participation, and unlocking the potential of girls everywhere will now be at the heart of UK foreign policy.

@parsleythedog @jonlis1 He ain't even that good. Chaimberlain was either naive or foolish enough to believe Adolf was honourable enough to to be taken at his word. Starmer is a cold, clculating, lying, self serving charlatan.

@jonlis1 Nope - POTUS is right and Starmer is so far away from Churchill as to be incalculable. He's more Chamberlain.

Ironically this may be just the thing Starmer needs right now. The British people may not like him but they’ll hate to see our elected government slagged off by a foreign bully they despise.

‘It is a very disappointing result.’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer reacts to Labour’s defeat at the Gorton and Denton by-election, and hits out at Reform UK and the Green Party.

@basils_brush @MikeTappTweets Good point. Well made.

@MikeTappTweets Whilst you don’t even need to be in Dover to offend them.

I hear Yusuf is in Dover today to spread hate (he doesn’t have to inform me as he is not an MP). Last time he was here he managed to offend my fantastic constituents. He is not a decent person and lacks British values.