Cllr. Rashmi Kalu

“There is a corrosive complacency today in Britain’s political leadership. Lip service is paid to the risks, the threats, the bright red signals of danger.” An extraordinary intervention from Lord George Robertson, former Labour Defence Secretary, former Secretary General of NATO and co-author of the current Strategic Defence Review. His criticism here of Keir Starmer’s failure to expedite the increase in defence spending to match the current threats we face says much about our inability to address the gaps in our capability. Lord Robertson points towards the inability of Rachel Reeves and the Treasury to make funding available as they prevent the Defence Investment Plan from being signed off in favour of an ever-increasing welfare budget. Keir Starmer has no answers on defence.

The breakfasts are not free. They are paid for by taxes - mostly on parents who feed their own kids. Most of these 10,000 children would have had a perfectly healthy breakfast at home without these clubs. This isn't about helping the poorest kids, it's the state taking over the basic job of parenting.

Lewis Capaldi spotted with Kim Kardashian at Coachella during Justin Bieber’s set last night. 🌴

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

Britain is building a culture where people think they can do what they like and nothing will happen. All too often, they’re right. Crime, disorder and welfare dependency all point to the same problem: a country where rules exist, but no consequences follow. We must change this.

Young people want a house, a car, a good job. They realise only the Conservatives are going to really deliver for them - in a way that isn’t all pantomime and theatre. That’s why young people like myself are backing the Conservatives - we want to make something of our lives!

Labour = the party of the corporate elite 🥀 🟩 Greens are the new party of workers and unions