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@justincbs @ramonagusta Your last two words explain why he was bullied at school.

@ramonagusta He's a product of post-modernism; shy, resentful, bullied at school, ideological, average intellect, aspirational, cowardly and a total cunt.

I know a lot of people keep asking this… but is Starmer a full shilling? 🤔

@manduca_paul @truemagic68 The West Midlands was a khasi well before Brexit was even dreamed about!!!

@truemagic68 Why don’t you go to the West Midlands and see what Brexit has done

I see talk of rejoining the EU has evoked strong comments & lectures on the tough terms that would be a prerequisite. Is the U.K. ready for lectures? I think we are doing just fine independently trading with the world. Many would need to see a friendlier approach to acquiesce

@Duffycaramole @Helen_Whately And Starmer/Labour wanted to lock down harder and longer.

@Helen_Whately Please stop demonising people who can't work. Many, many folk have long covid; your govt failed the UK in its covid response. There are many others who can't work through illness, who'd rather do so.

Alarm clock Britain is sick of paying out for Benefits Street. Why bother working when you can get £30,000 or even £60,000 on benefits - untaxed. So what's the Government doing about it? Nothing.

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times. They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

@GambitSeven @paulmasonnews @wilkinsoncape 29 years actually

@paulmasonnews @wilkinsoncape Stop blaming Truss. You’re in this mess because of the past 26 years. The UK never recovered form the 2008 financial crisis and that happened nothing to do with Truss and everything to do with labour. Covid lockdown also caused huge economic damage.

In the name of public service, and as ex-economics editor of BBC Newsnight, I offer to do a zoom call, tonight, with any Labour MP who wants to understand why bond markets do not "fall into line" with governments. 1/

@oneplotman @RebelHQ Twat

@RebelHQ Close the loopholes on corporate tax and force multinational and rich to pay fair share, why is it always benefits pick on the poor too scared of the wealthy and powerful . Start with farage and his £5 million gift

First year for a new government after Starmer - A Budget: Cut benefits across the board by 5%, raising £16.5 bn. p.a. End benefits to foreigners and multiple wives. Saving £10bn p.a. Cut the Civil Service by 30% raising £7.5bn End subsidies to green energy companies raising £26bn Repatriation of illegal migrants saving £15bn+ a year Reintroduce the 2 child cap saving £2bn Allow freedom to explore and produce energy from the North Sea and onshore fracking Raising £5bn £82bn raised. Cut Business National insurance by 2% - Net costing £7bn End the triple lock and link just to inflation + 0.2%, which would grow pensions each year still. Give tax relief on profits to co’s coming to the UK at 50% for 3 years – self funding. Effective cost of these measures would be neutral as there would be a rise in growth and so more income for the government. Interest rates would likely fall too, cutting the tax burden for government and interest payments and reducing mortgage costs for the public. Scrap Stamp duty on property sales, cash cost £13bn but a huge boost to the housing market, increasing £5bn a year from house construction in sales, VAT and increased economic activity in year one and growing in future years. Remove VAT from private schools, this would be self funding by reducing the load on state schools, reversing what Labour has done and the effect. Reduce small business rates significantly to the tune of £7bn, which net would cost the government £6bn. Something like this would power-boost the economy, set strong growth in motion and create the drive and ambition back intro the country, none of this tinkering around trying to find £100m here and there. This would in total reduce the gov borrowing in the annual budget. You could use £10bn a year of that boosting policing, NHS and schooling. Leaving a net saving of £66bn p.a. and giving people better services. I’m no economist, but it seems to me you don’t need to be to come up with a decent economic growth plan with the huge waste and abuse of the system we have in this country. Sadly, under Labour, all they know is Borrow, Tax, Spend. This is just an example, it could be varied hugely. But until we have a Government that does something like this they just are not serious. You have to earn money to spend it.

@Handre @richardcalhoun But the money received should have gone straight into building more homes, not general revenue. That was the original plan.

The state should not own any property. Thatcher's council house sales created 1.5 million new property owners from 1980-1990. Tenants bought homes at 33-50% discounts, transforming renters into stakeholders with real wealth. The state had no business hoarding housing stock while families paid rent forever. Returning property to those living in it rather than to bureaucrats managing it from London offices builds generational wealth. Council tenants became homeowners, their children inherited assets instead of nothing.

@piers_J_morgan @Keir_Starmer @GordonBrown Naff off Piers, you ignorant buffoon. Twas his love affair with the tax generated by Finance that caused the crisis. Sorting it was the easy bit.

People like to knock Gordon Brown but they forget he was the one that saved us all from the 2008 financial crash. That should have been the end of the western financial system and arguably maybe it should have been. But it was Browns intervention that saved the UK from financial ruin by guaranteeing peoples savings up to £80k. It stopped a run on the banks, Northern Rock was the only victim of a run and other western leaders followed his example. He deserves a lot of credit for that. He gets a lot of stick for selling our gold but sure with hindsight we'd all be billionaires. How many of you wish you'd bought bitcoin 15 years ago? I like this appointment. And rather shockingly, even though I despise Starmer, if he keeps on like this, maybe he will turn things around.

Today I’m pleased to appoint @GordonBrown as my Special Envoy on Global Finance and Cooperation. As Britain’s longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon is well placed to work with our international allies to build a stronger Britain and boost our country’s security and resilience.

@twitthickos @implausibleblog I hope you have a tent cos you’ve just lost your house.

@implausibleblog I don't have the statistics, but I would bet my house that straight men are more of a risk to women/girls than a trans woman, who yes, biologically, does have a penis, yet, just wants to live peacefully in a gender they see themselves as. Str8 men dressing as women are not trans.

Piers Morgan, "We haven't got to the bottom of it yet of why he thinks that if women have hypnotherapy their breasts will get larger" Rachel Millward, "He clearly doesn't think that" #BBCQT Piers Morgan, "When I interviewed him he said women can have penises. Zack Polanski is weird, dangerous" Rachel Millward, "You have a uniquely strange obsession with people's genitalia" Piers Morgan, "It's a straightforward question" Rachel Millward, "That's a weird question" Piers Morgan, "It's a straightforward question" Rachel Millward, "It's a weird question" Piers Morgan, "What's the answer?" Rachel Millward, "The answer is the trans community in this country are treated appallingly" *audience claps* Piers Morgan, "You don't want to answer my question because as a woman you know its ridiculous" Rachel Millward, "I know you're being ridiculous" Piers Morgan, "Why?" Fiona Bruce, "Let's hear from our audience because they've all got their hands up"

@truemagic68 Every day i read about another industry being hammered by green levies, insane energy costs, employment tax, employee rights, unfair rules helping overseas companies, etc, the list is never ending.

On BBC Radio 4 Today Justin Webb had 2 eminent Labour aficiandos, bemoaning about Labour not tackling the cost of living. They don't get it. Growth is where the country can deal with living standards. If the Government throttles business at source, its never going to happen: FACT

@Nigel_Farage Council votes means nothing, except higher council tax, fraud and lazy councillors. Vote reform for lazy politics and to blame everyone else.

@ColinBrazierTV @CatharineHoey Having done 5 yrs as a local councillor I’ve seen the skiving that defines huge numbers of them. It’s v hard work to do properly, so far Reform LCs have not shown that. Like Farage.

In recent months I've helped train a hundred or so Reform members, most of whom hoped to become councillors. The vast majority never planned to enter politics. It was something other people did. They were from all walks of life. Former teachers and police officers. People who'd served as soldiers, nurses, civil servants. One man - a builder - felt out of his depth. But, persuaded by those around him, he went on to give a brilliant and humbling account of what had propelled him to stand for Reform. Why he could do no other. The groups were mixed in terms of class and race and religion, to a degree that I think would astonish many of the Party's critics. They were united in a belief that the country they were born in, or had moved to, was not the same country they would die in. It had mutated in their lifetimes in a way that rendered it unrecognisable and, many of them felt, ungovernable in the future. They were not bigots or opportunists or charlatans. They are the best of Britain. Thoughtful patriots. Conscientious citizens. Mothers and fathers who fear for the society their children will inherit. Screwing up their courage, they had taken a leap of faith. Decided to do something they feel might shape our future. Help us all avert catastrophe. Simply moaning on Facebook or X or at the bar was no longer an option for them. These are the people who will go into this weekend with a new sense of purpose, as part of our island story of democracy. As newly-elected Reform councillors. I pray they can stay the course and give thanks that people like them - all over Britain - have chosen to stand up and be counted. #Reform

@ann_dempsey Very sad dear, I thought better of you.

Me too. It’s a great start to the holiday 😍

@MichelleDewbs Sad when a supposedly intelligent person is proud of an addiction problem such as alcoholism

I confess… I am one of those who heads to the bar for a drink pre-flight, even at 5 or 6am (that’s midnight somewhere in the world😉) Makes me feel like ‘holiday has started’ 🙌🥂 And worry not Mr O’Leary, I don’t seek your understanding. gbnews.com/news/ryanair-b…

Get Creative Guys?

@JagerbombsORtea @tnewtondunn Twat

@tnewtondunn Maybe if your beloved Tories hadn't destroyed the economy/brexit...

Britain’s military spending actually fell last year despite Sir Keir Starmer’s repeated promises to raise it - just as Europe’s rocketed, new study finds thetimes.com/article/28fc71…

@mtpennycook @lisanandy And left landlords screwed therefore in a declining rental supply the renters also get screwed in the long term. Typical leftist liberal stupidity.

Happy Renters’ Rights Day, England. This Labour government is delivering for private renters.

@ann_dempsey @RoyalFamily I’m not a great fan of Charlie Boy but he has just done a brilliant job, way beyond expectations. Absolutely terrific 👍👍

It was a fabulous visit. Exceeded all expectations. Well done @RoyalFamily

@TonyWard867811 @AllisonPearson Andrew Bailey is merely a massively over promoted bureaucrat who was totally hopeless at the FCA and continues in the manner at the BoE. We desperately need a competent banker in charger who understands the systems, fiat, crypto, basic banking etc etc. He has to go.

Andrew Bailey earns £598,000 a year. To do what. Sit in a room. Hold rates. Watch your mortgage swallow your wage. He printed £450 billion during covid. The money went to asset holders. You got the bill. He raised rates 14 times in two years. Your mortgage doubled. His salary did not move. He sits on Thursday. He will hold. He will say nothing has changed. Your bills changed. Your tax changed. Your future changed. The man paid £598,000 to manage your money has destroyed it. Dissolve the Bank of England.

@danielgbates @Martina Is paying the air fare of an adult with whom one plans to pay for sex considered ‘traffficking’ in a legal sense????? Just asking.

Important BBC investigation shows that Epstein continued trafficking women through the UK even after The Met Police declined to investigate further in 2015. That decision now looks worse and worse given the force said at the time it involved conduct that mostly wasn't in Britain bbc.com/news/articles/…