Harriet Cross MP

2️⃣ days and @ScotTories & @DLumsden4AE aren’t stopping in Aberdeenshire East 🙌 👉Fair funding for the North East 👉Fighting for farming, fishing and oil & gas 👉Get Scotland Working - Lower taxes, supporting high streets, sorting out benefits 👉Improve healthcare & education

You may not agree with me, but you will always know where you stand with me. Today in Billericay, a heckler tried to shout me down as I spoke about the normalisation of hatred towards Jews. I did not back down, because it needs to be said. British Jews are being targeted and too many people are pretending this is the same experience of other minorities. This lady implied Muslims are being similarly targeted. This is simply not true. Let's be honest about what is happening. Certain groups (in particular but not solely Islamic Extremists) are creating a climate of fear and intimidation that is normalising Jew hatred. I will never stand for that. Governments have spent too long hand-wringing, making excuses and hoping it would go away. It is time to call this what it is: a national emergency in our attitude, our urgency and our response. I will always engage with people who disagree with me. That is politics. But there is a difference between argument and intimidation. Shouting does not make a bad case good. It's done to silence others. And it certainly does not change the truth. The truth is that British Jews have been made to feel less safe in their own country. Our country. They are being singled out, threatened and harassed in ways that should shame everyone in public life. If we do not stand up now and stop this rise in antisemitism, then why bother saying "Never Again" at Holocaust Memorial Day? Because this is how it starts. I am not prepared to play along with the pretence that this is normal, or manageable, or just another example of tension between groups. It really is not. It is targeted hatred and it is getting worse. So my message is simple. Not here. Not in Britain. And not on our watch. We need to stop the hand-wringing and start doing the right thing. That means standing with British Jews openly, unapologetically and without fear.

👉For a MSP who actually stands up for Aberdeenshire, 👉Who will fight for better funding, improved roads, rural healthcare and education, 👉Who believes in our oil & gas and farming & fishing sectors, 👉 🗳️ Vote @DLumsden4AE and @ScotTories in Aberdeenshire East on Thursday ✨

3️⃣ days to Scottish Parliament Elections! Every vote for the Scottish Conservatives is a vote to Get Scotland Working and to stop an SNP majority 💪 @ScotTories

Labour’s choices have made the UK less secure and less resilient: 🥀Targeting farming & fishing - impacting food security. 🥀 Targeting North Sea oil & gas - impacting energy security. 🥀 Targeting businesses with huge taxes and more regulation - impacting economic security.

No one, not one single person, should be surprised at this. Labour have utter disdain for our oil & gas sector, the jobs and skills it supports, the tax it brings and investment attracts. They know the damage their policies are causing. But they keep doing it anyway.

@ScotTories are the only party with a fully costed manifesto to lower your taxes. ⬆️Raise the threshold where tax starts being paid ⬇️Reduce to 19p the rate for low and middle incomes 📈Raise Higher Rate threshold so Scots stop paying more than rUK 👉 scottishconservatives.com/wp-content/upl…

You’ve spelled ‘The King delivered’ wrong.

🥃 FANTASTIC news for Scotland! Scotch whisky is world renowned, a key export, a vital industry across Scotland and each dram is a source of national pride and history 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This is great news from the King’s time in America. Thank you, Your Majesty.

And another one. OK, for the slow ones in the room… The Government tax profits made in the UK by production of oil and gas. BPs profits did not come from the UK. It also did not come from drilling. It came from global trading. The ignorance on their own policies is frightening.

Strange from a Prime Minister confident he has done nothing wrong.

Either Miliband doesn't understand the difference between UK profits and global profits (and which the Government can and cannot tax), or he is purposefully trying to fool people. Neither option is a good look for him.

🚨 Scottish Labour cannot say they oppose UK Labour’s jobs tax. Or UK Labour’s Family Farm Tax. Or UK Labour’s anti-North Sea policies. Labour are bad for jobs and industries across the whole of the UK, including in Scotland. #stvdebate

Throughout the last parliament it’s only been the @ScotTories who’ve stood up against the worst SNP policies. Gender Recognition Reform, Deposit Return Scheme, numerous tax raising budgets… ✅All opposed by Scottish Conservatives. ❌ All supported by other parties. #stvdebate

Today, Labour MPs could have voted to allow light to be shone on the PM and the Mandelson scandal. They choose not to 🥀 If they truly believe the PM has done nothing wrong, what did they have to fear from the Privileges Committee?

John Swinney brags about “record knee and hip operations”. Tell that to the lady I met in Gordon & Buchan last week who ended up paying for a private hip replacement after waiting 2 years on a NHS Scotland waiting list. The SNP are delusional about their NHS record. #stvdebate

🥀 Labour’s ban on new oil and gas licences is ideology dressed up as an energy policy. There is a reason nowhere else is following.

🥀 Labour’s anti-North Sea oil & gas ideology is making the UK vulnerable. On this trajectory, production will be down by 1/3rd just this year. To blame… ❌ The mad ban on new oil & gas licences, and ❌ The extortionate Energy Profits Levy. 👉 not the North Sea’s geology.

Perfect summary from @HarrietCross_MP, on why we need to be as self-sufficient as we can on #northsea #oilandgas. Although declining, demand for oil and gas AND our skills, tech, supply chains etc WILL be with us for decades to come.

🔹In North East Scotland it’s a direct fight between @ScotTories and SNP. We will always fight for our local industries like oil & gas, farming and fishing. We prioritise work, high streets and businesses. We will improve the NHS and education. We will Get Scotland Working 💪