Martin Brown
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84% of the electorate voted in the EU Referendum. The UK voted to exit the EU.
The EU Withdrawal Act 2020 states
No SM CU ECJ
Starmer's plan is a betrayal.
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Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch
🧵 THREAD: Labour is dragging Britain backwards. Yesterday’s UK-EU “Summit” should have been about moving us forward. Instead, Keir Starmer is reopening the old Brexit battles we’ve already fought—and won. The result? More EU law. More EU judges. More money sent to Brussels. Here’s how 👇
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@tomhfh Because the last 10 years have been fantastic haven’t they?
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Partnering with the zero growth museum continent. For what?
Their cheap abundant energy?
Their dominant defence sector?
Their trillion dollar tech companies?
Oh wait.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer says he will form a new partnership with the EU in the coming weeks "As the world continues down this volatile path, our long-term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union"
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Britain now has some of the highest energy prices in the developed world, despite sitting on huge reserves of oil and gas. Why? Because we’ve pursued Net Zero at any cost, even though the UK produces less than 1% of global emissions. High energy costs drive manufacturing out of Britain. Businesses simply move somewhere cheaper often to China, where companies are heavily subsidised and able to undercut the global market.
Meanwhile the United States has done the opposite. By using its own energy, including shale gas, it has driven costs down and brought industry back home. We could be doing the same: develop the North Sea, consider properly regulated fracking, and bring energy prices down.
Instead, we’re refusing to use the resources beneath our own feet and our economy is paying the price.
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What has caused Britain's decline? "We've been stupid in opening up as we have done to China. "We've been stupid in ensuring that our energy costs are high." @iancollinsuk @MPIainDS
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@HughEaston @latimeralder All of these things are finite resources. Exploration takes years. Shale gas isn’t an exact science add to that in the uk nimbyism
It wouldn’t happen.
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@latimeralder @martb1985 It's actually way more than 50 years. We have an estimated 40 trillion cubic metres of shale gas, 500 years supply at current consumption.
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What's making Britain's electricity right now?
Norwegian gas (48%)
We pay Norway nigh on £20,000,000,000 per year to sell us North Sea Gas.
Which we've banned ourselves from extracting on 'moral grounds'
So we pay Norway to do it instead. They get rich
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ABSURD
Starmer’s ludicrous suggestion to get closer to the EU, a failing economic bloc that has also a long track record of failing to invest in defence.
Let’s remember the EU became way too reliant on Russia for gas so their judgement is not to be trusted
We must use all our own energy treasure of oil and gas
We must invest in our own sovereign capabilities
This is why my British Sovereign Wealth Fund plan is so critical
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Another pointless press conference from Labour’s Keir Starmer this morning.
Literally announced nothing and is doing absolutely nothing.
We have the weakest and most incompetent prime minister in history.
This Labour government is the worst we’ve ever had. Clueless.
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Says the Government that is raising taxes, refusing to drill our own oil and gas and regulating to make employing people more difficult and expensive.
UK Prime Minister@10DowningStreet
This government will continue to pull every lever possible to support you with the cost of living. We are working together with leaders across the energy, finance and insurance sectors to protect the British people from the impact of conflict in the Middle East.
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Why do people hate new technology so much?
johnny99 🐝@johnny997594342
You can put petrol up to £3 a litre still not buying an electric car you cunts
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@SeddSezz Hard working people don’t have more than two kids obviously.
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🚨TWO CHILD BENEFIT SCRAPPED
From tomorrow, families will be able to receive support for every child, not just the first two.
What does this mean?
A greater burden on the hardworking taxpayer to fund the offspring of slothful parents.
The IFS estimates this measure will cost the public purse up to £4 BILLION every year by 2029.
This will entail more government borrowing or higher taxes, as we know Labour will NEVER cut back on spending…
Most disappointing though? This DISINCENTIVISES hard work, aspiration and providing for one’s family.
Labour takes pity on the poor and lazy by handing them the cash of hard working Brits.
Giving to those who DON’T deserve over those who DO is in Labour’s DNA, but it is neither right nor fair.
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The jobs you listed are in private sectors.
Doctors doing private work receive more than £22 ph
What nonsense tweet is this?
David__Osland@David__Osland
Plumbers have a £90 an hour callout charge, corporate lawyers are billed at £1000 an hour. Resident doctors deserve £22.
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@BenGrahamUK Drilling in the North Sea isn’t a serious energy strategy.
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Instead of a serious energy strategy, drilling the North Sea and building new nuclear plants, Ed Miliband’s grand plan is, an app to save you £40 a year on fuel.
This is what passes for leadership now.
This government is a shambles.
MrBounceBack.com@Bounce_BackLoan
In a pathetic, last ditch attempt to make it look like the sordid Gov are "saving people money" during the day @Ed_Miliband @RachelReevesMP are going to be rolled out to promote a new "Fuel Finder" page on the Government website that they claim will save people £40 a year
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@jzrdan I could go through all of them but I doubt you would listen so not really much point.
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@martb1985 That entire list and this is what your defensive response is?
That’s like the postman shagging your wife and you thanking him for delivering the mail.
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And people wonder why they’re in no rush to offer any support to the people…
Has there ever been a government so out of touch with the British people?
Raising council taxes
Accepting thousands of £ worth of gifts
Tax dodger Rayner
Sticking the finger up to farmers
Letting pensioners freeze through winter
False NHS improvement promises
Scrapping key infrastructure projects
Public sector pay in absolute chaos
Numerous party scandals
No where near housing targets
Most expensive energy in Europe
Crushing small businesses
Inflation & cost of living still a problem
Little to no economic growth
and of course… our none existent borders
Labour have got it so unbelievably wrong but above all, they have made us look beyond incompetent on the world stage.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The Government is making an extra £20m a day from energy taxes due to the Iran War [@thetimes]
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@Katie_Lam_MP Katie, I’m sure you get paid handsomely by the fossil fuel lobby but we need to use less not more. We need a better mixture of energy.
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For years, institutions covered up grooming gangs because they wouldn't face the truth about the role of ethnicity, religion, or culture.
Thanks to survivors and the public, the inquiry will investigate these issues.
There's more to do, but this brings us closer to the truth.
Charlie Peters@CDP1882
BREAK @GBNEWS: The national grooming gangs inquiry WILL investigate how ethnicity, culture, or religion influenced the abuse. This is a big shift. Previously the inquiry was only going to look at how those factors influenced institutional responses and failures.
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@higgyboson This is bollocks. There are limits on universal credit.
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I'm self employed.
I've just worked out that I have to charge my customers over £900 per week in order to take home the equivalent yearly wage of someone on the new national minimum wage.
So I need to charge over £1,000 per week to be £100 better off than a minimum wage earner.
I have 12 individual costs associated with running my one man band business. No holiday pay. No money if I'm off work due to illness or anything else.
And this doesn't even take into consideration all the time spent on visiting new customers, pricing work, producing quotes etc, some of which is a complete waste of time when you don't get the work. All time that can't be charged for.
This is why, for many self employed people, it's just not worth it any more.
I've been self employed for 30 years and it's never been this bad.
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@johnredwood Should every dr be free to sign people off sick John?
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Stopping patients getting on a waiting list is not the right way to bring waiting lists down. Every GP must be free to refer patients for diagnosis and treatment as necessary. We need more doctors to see patients.
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@TVKev @Lego_Yoda I think it a typo is your biggest concern in a global conflict that causing so many issues around the world you have already lost the argument.
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More Starmer gibberish: "We're not going to get dragged into the war in the Middle East. That's my values, that's my principles." What does that even mean? Sad litte man not invited to join the war, but pretends this was somehow his decision. Stop lying Starmer... we see you!
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There are many red sauces, but only one brown sauce. HP or nothing
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@TVKev @Lego_Yoda I’m not an expert but I have eyes and ears. I trust military personal. However an apprentice host and a former Fox News person not so much.
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@Lego_Yoda @martb1985 How do you know their tactics are stupid and ridiculous? What do you know about military strategy? Nothing, right? But suddenly you've decided you're an expert. What a joke!
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