Robert Corbishley
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Robert Corbishley
@robcorb
White wine and opinions. Member @speechunion
UK Katılım Şubat 2009
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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is strongly considering replacing council tax and stamp duty with a 0.48% annual tax on a home's current value
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@andrewlawrence Just personal pet projects (a Manchester office...)
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Extraordinary that you can now become prime minister in this country without ever having or expressing a single policy idea.
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@DouglasCarswell Actually, I think the MoD has done more to destroy British military power than any foreign army.
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Protectionist defence procurement has done more to destroy British military power than any foreign army
Nigel Farage@Nigel_Farage
Good to see that John Healey wants to buy British when it comes to defence. As EU members we would not be allowed to do that.
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@afneil Exhibit 45430: The quality of our politician is abysmal.
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Robert Corbishley retweetledi
This hardline protectionist ‘Buy British’ approach to public procurement is only possible because of Brexit.
How do you square it with the desire, oft proclaimed by Keir Starmer and now Andy Burnham, that we need to align much more closely with EU rules?
Also — don’t we have a number of agreements with other countries, in and out of the EU, for fair dealing when it comes to procurement? Won’t we be in breach of them?
John Healey@JohnHealey_MP
You will see this as a determined drive that you have not seen before from a British government. Buying British not “if possible”, but by design. So every procurement pound supports British jobs, British apprenticeships and British skills. thesun.co.uk/news/39871373/…
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@afneil How little Labour understands business Exhibit 45055.
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Ahhh. Now I get it. Like the French, we should cheat!! Fair enough. But we should be fully aware that in some cases it will mean more expensive procurement of less good equipment. Natural consequences of less competition. Are you up for that? For our armed forces, who surely deserve the best?
Toby Perkins MP@tobyperkinsmp
@afneil No I'm not saying that, I am saying that the way other nations have designed tenders have led to far more in-country buying than way Britain's strict 'value for money' approach has operated.
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Robert Corbishley retweetledi
@afneil The BBC is not a serious news organisation. It produces "shows".
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The BBC has traded integrity/robust interrogation for access, behind-the-scenes, largely irrelevant storytelling. This should have been a live 30 minute interview with no fripperies, no cosy build up.
Roger Mosey@rogermosey
I don’t like the way the Burnham-Kuenssberg interview is being played out with the release of clips. The first broadcast with a new PM should be a big moment: on the main BBC channels in full as soon as possible. Not a 4-day-old recording in which we already know the newslines.
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@DailyMail Come on Andy, you must have a tiktok on this, surely?
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Hundreds more small boat migrants arrive during Andy Burnham's first week as Prime Minister than first seven days of Sir Keir Starmer's premiership, it emerges, piling pressure on new PM to break his silence on immigration trib.al/VaAaqCl
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@yuanyi_z You can't go back, only make the future better than it would otherwise have been. Britain is long past its best, never to return.
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Modernity is very ugly, but retvrn is usually a worse proposition.
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@JohnRentoul It did not happen, it would never have happened.
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Lucy Powell would have been annoyed; she might have gone to health and Yvette Cooper to justice (she was a junior min in Lord Chancellor’s Dept 2002-03)
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What would have happened if Rachel Reeves had accepted education in Burnham’s cabinet?
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@JohnRentoul Healey didn't resign because of defence spending. A fundamentally dishonest act.
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Andy Burnham will give mayors income tax cash for cities #Echobox=1785055749" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the balletic poise, calm elegance and graceful athleticism of the panda.
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Good.
But it’s really important to say, the south east of England (outside London) presently has 0 metro mayors.
That’s 9.6 million people. South west has one mayor for 6 million people.
If metro mayors are this critical, we need more of them.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will announce next week that Mayors will receive a portion of income tax revenue to spend on their cities
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Truly horrific. All directly elected mayors need to be abolished as a matter of urgency. Devolution was always a scheme to destroy Britain as a unitary & coherent nation state.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will announce next week that Mayors will receive a portion of income tax revenue to spend on their cities
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