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Ted Newson

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Researcher at @GWPF_org | All views my own | Clacton | @JoinYVUK Political Commentator | [email protected] Words in @Spectator @TheCriticMag @SpikedOnline

Katılım Kasım 2017
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Fred de Fossard
Fred de Fossard@defossardf·
I really hate posting about infrastructure, it doesn't interest me at all, but Britain is going to experience a hellish real-life experiment in the dangers of nationalisation in the next few years. Essential and functional lines are going to be cut and starved of money, performative ticket price cuts will not make up for a collapse in service, standards or reliability.
Murky Depths@TheMurkyDepths

Thameslink will be taken over by govt in coming weeks. Shortly after service cuts commence. It includes stations in areas of major housing growth. Just one direct train per hour from north Kent stations to the Elizabeth line will result. fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/05/24/tha…

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Ted Newson
Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
LNER train from Leeds delayed because of the heat. I love that regardless of whether it's too hot or too cold, British infrastructure can't cope.
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Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
Walking through the student parts of Leeds, its clear that the kind of people that supported Corbyn's Labour are now firmly behind @ZackPolanski's Greens. I expect to see scenes akin to Corbyn's Brudenell Social Club rally here when Polanski realises his extensive student base.
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Matthew Bowles
Matthew Bowles@Matthew__Bowles·
The pushback to this tweet revealed how many people hear a large nominal figure and stop thinking proportionally. Tesco made about £3bn last year on roughly £70bn in revenue. On that scale, a £3bn profit is a remarkably thin return. My thoughts for the @spectator👇
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Matthew Bowles@Matthew__Bowles

Supermarkets have profit margins of between just 2% and 4%. Price caps have a long history of producing shortages, weaker supply and many empty shelves. Britain went down that path in the 1970s - it didn't end particularly well...

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Ted Newson
Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
Young people are hindered at every stage by government. So much so that we have over 900,000 NEETs under 24. Get government out of the way, build homes, allow businesses to create opportunities for young people and my generation will capitalise. We simply need the opportunity.
GB News@GBNEWS

'Stop waiting for the world to come to you. Go and seize the world!' Mike Parry goes head to head with Political Commentator for Young Voices UK, Ted Newson, over the work ethic amongst Britain's younger generation.

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Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
Pleasure to be on @Iromg's show earlier. We discussed the out-of-touch Rachel Reeves getting a reality check from a heckler at a petrol station and Ed Miliband's cunning Net Zero plan to buy fuel from Russia instead of the North Sea. Let's get Britain back to being sensible!
Mike Graham 🇬🇧@Iromg

Catch up with THRILLING THURSDAY here. @yarwoodwilliam @kinseyschofield @statsjamie @claire_pearsall @NewsonTed @elliehodges62 AND @nigelmp with Plonk of the Week… youtube.com/live/uqYA4jnsr… youtube.com/live/uqYA4jnsr…

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Ted Newson
Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
@AaronBastani Behave poorly in public office or stay complicit in policies that hurt people, and as a politician you will get jeered and heckled. This person is expressing his displeasure at how Labour govern, and the moral lecture from Reeves is just her trying to save face.
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
@NewsonTed What would your mother say if you behaved like that? Mine would have been livid with me.
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Ted Newson
Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
All credit to the speakers for such a good-natured debate. We may disagree, but keeping an open discourse on such an important issue is highly important.
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Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
"Bringing back boring" isn't the way to better ideas. It creates the politics of drift and further emboldens fringe views to gain traction as a solution. Politicians need to take the public with them without selling promises at the expense of future generations.
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Ted Newson
Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
Watching UK politics collapse into Labour infighting and total public disengagement feels like a warning for the US after Trump. “Just elect competent adults” isn't a governing philosophy. Starmerism is what happens when politics goes heavy on "normality" but light on ideas.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 WATCH: Wes Streeting's resignation speech in full "We are in the fight of our lives against nationalism... the nurse from Nigeria is not the enemy of the factory worker in Newcastle. The family fleeing war is not responsible for the cost of living crisis"

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Javier Blas
Javier Blas@JavierBlas·
The British gov will put the blame on the White House. And sure, US President Trump's Iran war is the problem. But the UK wouldn't be in its current predicament if sucessive Labour and Conservative govs have not ignored the closure of multiple oil refineries over 20 years.
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Javier Blas@JavierBlas

BREAKING: UK waives some Russian oil sanctions, allowing imports of diesel and jet fuel processed in third countries from Russian crude (most likely supply chain: imports of Indian refined products produced by processing Russian crude). gov.uk/government/pub…

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Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
This is what happens when the UK shuts down the North Sea and closes almost all of the refineries. We're now left with the unpalatable decision of funding Putin's war machine because of overzealous Net Zero commitments.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas

BREAKING: UK waives some Russian oil sanctions, allowing imports of diesel and jet fuel processed in third countries from Russian crude (most likely supply chain: imports of Indian refined products produced by processing Russian crude). gov.uk/government/pub…

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Ted Newson
Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
Here's a simplified economic explanation (courtesy of grok) as to how new supply of housing in Peckham mitigates excess demand pushing prices up. Adding new homes increases supply, which counters demand-push price inflation on the existing housing stock. Hope this helps!
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Reginald Popoola 🍉@ReginaldPopoola

It's a fantastic day for residents in Peckham! The Planning Inspector has ruled against Berkley Homes a tiny amount of affordable homes as possible in the heart of Peckham. Building affordable homes, not luxury flats, is the only way we can tackle the housing crisis.

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Ted Newson
Ted Newson@NewsonTed·
@darrengrimes Backing overly-ambitious Net Zero targets only drives up the cost of energy and harms industry. Advocates such as Burnham have massively accelerated deindustrialisation while moaning about the results of their choices. They can't have it both ways.
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Darren Grimes
Darren Grimes@darrengrimes·
Oh spare me. Andy Burnham talking about how deindustrialisation has harmed Wigan. The same fella from the party giving us an extreme diet of Net Zero. Believe that Labour will bring back heavy industry and you’re clearly not right in the head.
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Matthew Bowles
Matthew Bowles@Matthew__Bowles·
New figures show the price of a Freddo is UP again. It’s more than DOUBLED since the 2000s. ▪️2000: 10p ▪️2026: 35p While millions struggle to get by, the cocoa elite keep taking more and more. Tax big chocolate now!
Richard Burgon MP@RichardBurgon

New figures show British billionaire wealth is UP again. It’s more than DOUBLED since 2010. ▪️2010: £250bn ▪️2026: £670bn While millions struggle to get by, the billionaire class keeps taking more and more. Tax extreme wealth now!

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