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@Free_Wales_2024 @Miss_Snuffy If you look at her schools results she is doing her job very well indeed. Shame other schools don’t follow suit!

@Miss_Snuffy Wow how about doing the job tax payer expect you to do..

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Chart of the Day 🤓 Andy Burnham: "if we don’t have sufficient public control over the cost of the essentials, how can we have control over inflation?" Reality: prices have risen much more sharply in sectors with greater state intervention than in those led by market forces 👇

We are in a very dark place. The football World Cup is on & this council has spent tax payers money going to court to make it illegal to fly Our flag on Our streets.

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Not the main contests of tonight, but while we wait some sizeable within bloc switching in two Essex contests with big swings from Reform to the Conservatives since May’s locals.

@rcolvile How convinced are you that Reform voters will back the Conservatives in middle class areas? I’m in a middle class area and was dismayed to see how many council seats the Conservatives narrowly missed out on because of an often equal split with Reform, to the benefit of the LDs

Obviously Aberdeen was primarily a referendum on the oil and gas industry slash local economic devastation. But given sheer scale of the win, it was also a proof point of at least some of the stuff I suggested below...

Wrote this last week on why - given likely annihilation in Makerfield - picking up votes in places like Aberdeen South was existential for the Tories. And boy, did they pick up votes thetimes.com/comment/column…

I mean, you get a massive contraction in the economy from Covid, you get >10% inflation, you get spending raised by 6% of GDP, you get multiple massive energy price spikes & you get 5 PMs in under 7 years, & growth is slower & your response is "Brexit. It's all or mainly Brexit"?

What many people within Labour seems to be assuming is that they have some kind of financial/policy wiggle room. They don't. (1/?)

This is what a 34 week old baby looks like outside the womb. The UK just voted in favor of killing an unborn child at this age. For no reason, just because someone wants to. They call it “reproductive rights” because they refuse to call it what it is: murder.

@andrew_lilico It’s utterly shameful. Is nothing sacred?

So we're going to let a mother kill her own infant right up to birth. What a shameful blot on our history.

@AlistairHaimes Let’s hope so, ideally before 2029!

Miliband will lose Labour the next election

@DavidGHFrost @LordLucasCD @denbypottery Noooo! I love my Denby, what am I to do now? When will the country wake up to the devastation Labour are causing? Industrial suicide 😡

Britain's net zero national suicide pact is about to kill off another great British (and great Derbyshire) company. Denby Pottery @denbypottery goes into administration because of "soaring industrial energy costs" and of course "escalating costs of employment in the UK". itv.com/news/central/2…

Thank you @PaulMorseActor that made our Xmas! 🤩

Looking forward to seeing our favourite @PaulMorseActor in Sleeping Beauty @Thehexagon 🤩 #ohyesweare #panto

@nickdixon Poor Matthew!

Gary Neville is watching this relieved that someone else is making a bid for worst person in the country. x.com/TheGriftReport…

@marksandspencer I have been unable to return an order via the app, and cannot reset my password to try and return it through the website. I don’t have a local store. What am I to do?!

I am being called a ‘racist’ because I believe it is unfair that white kids are being rejected from top universities with 3A*s whilst BAME kids get in with ABB That IS unfair. It is not racist to say it is unfair. Why should you have to do more because you are white? White kids from state schools face no less barriers and have no greater advantage than their BAME counterparts To suggest that they do is simply a lie. So why should they take the placer of a student more deserving just because they aren’t white.

I have seen many ugly things on social media. But after the murder of Charlie Kirk, something new and disturbing appeared. My feed was filled with people celebrating his death with grotesque glee. Videos of Kirk were chopped, twisted and repurposed by users, making him appear to say things he never said – all to justify their hate. Influencers and Left-wing ‘journalists’ joked about the father-of-two’s assassination, reducing his death to a sinister meme. This is not just cruelty. It is the normalisation of violence against those who dare to think differently. A culture that cheers when opponents are silenced by force is one that is heading towards catastrophe. Yes, Kirk’s murder is a personal tragedy for those who knew him. But it is also an attack on everything Western civilisation stands for: free debate, peaceful dissent and the ability to speak the truth even when others find it offensive. The assassination alone will have a chilling effect on free speech – and not just in America. In Britain we may not have the menace of guns, but we face the same threat from Leftist activists trying to silence and persecute their political opponents. And, chillingly, our rulers are following their lead. Take Graham Linehan, the comedian and writer who gave us Father Ted and who was arrested by five armed officers at Heathrow airport last month for three tweets challenging the presence of males in women’s changing rooms. He had made no threats. He broke no moral code. He said what millions of ordinary people believe. Yet the thought police came for him, because someone disagreed with Linehan’s belief that men cannot be women and called them in. That should terrify anyone who values living in a free country. There are several ways in which free speech is being eroded in Britain, and the @Conservatives are going to fix them all. Two of them stand out. First is the criminalisation of speech. Laws meant to prevent harm are now being used to police people’s own opinions. Offending someone has effectively been turned into a crime. That is wrong. Second is politicised policing. Real and appalling crimes – like shoplifting, burglaries and rape – are going unsolved, yet police are being sent after comedians like Linehan for what they post online. Justice is being twisted into a weapon against ordinary people while violent offenders and abusers walk free. At a time when bakeries are locking up sausage rolls for fear of theft, this is a waste of police time and a betrayal of voters who expect officers to protect public safety rather than for them to arbitrate on personal disputes. Of course, what happened to Charlie Kirk and to Graham Linehan are on different scales. But both are symptoms of the same sickness: a culture that seeks to silence, not debate. Worse, we have a government that sneers at those who dare raise the alarm about the erosion of free speech. That is why I have asked Lord Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, to lead a review into the laws now being abused to stifle expression. He will bring together the sharpest legal minds, parliamentarians and campaigners to identify where reform is needed. Because this is bigger than one case – free speech is the foundation of democracy. Without it, there is no accountability, no creativity, no freedom. I have never flinched from that fight. As equalities minister, I challenged Stonewall’s attempts to rewrite the law, defended academic freedom and said what too many feared to say: there is no right not to be offended. Protecting people from satire or criticism is not the job of the state. Charlie Kirk paid the ultimate price for expressing his beliefs. And Graham Linehan is being dragged through the courts for sharing his. Free speech is not negotiable. It is the bedrock of a free nation and one of the values true liberals and true conservatives share. It is now the duty of all of us to defend it.

@nickdixon If he can bring some more social conservativism to the table I will be following him with my vote. But can he do it, and are they ready to listen?

Interesting. Clearly Reform are just going to be a branch of the Tories, but Danny Kruger is the first serious and actually conservative Tory they’ve got. Wonder if he’ll be put off by Reform’s lack of social conservatism. Or perhaps he will change that.

@Ed_Miliband Let me help you Ed ⬇️

The approval of Berwick Bank offshore wind farm today is a major step towards our offshore wind targets and delivering clean power by 2030. Clean homegrown power is the route to energy security, good jobs and lower bills. That’s what we’re delivering.