Sean Toms

@RichardBurgon Your high tax , high spend and culture of dependency has no future Richard Expect to lose your seat at the next election and Labour to lose power.

Tony Blair has nothing to offer Labour in 2026. His neoliberalism, backing of endless wars and acceptance of inequality are exactly what Labour must break from if it wants to rebuild support and defeat the far-right.

The Labour Party Is Playing With Fire Over Its Future and the Future of the Country via @InstituteGC institute.global/insights/polit… Tony Blair’s 5000 plus word policy document My summary Low taxes , small government, free enterprise From this springs growth and from that power

Police pelted with bottles as Celtic fans celebrate Premiership title win - what an appalling example of football hooliganism, the Police enter the crown to help with a medical emergency and are pelted with bottles , incredible bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Keir_Starmer @DeborahMeaden @GordonBrown This is an appalling decision, to survive let alone thrive , you need fresh thinking , not reheated dogma from the serial failures of the past Whose idea was this ? Sack them , oh it was your own idea , time to consider your own judgement, again …..

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.

@RichardBurgon @arise_festival @TUCGinfo Quite correct Richard It’s your policies that are wrong Excessive taxation Constant attacks on business Attacks on the private rented sector Uncontrolled immigration Out of control public spending Reform will sweep Labour from power and restore accountability

We don't just need a new leadership. We need a total change of direction. Join me and other socialist MPs and trade union leaders tonight to discuss the real Labour policies needed to transform people’s lives and to stop Nigel Farage. ▶️ Register here: tinyurl.com/whatnextmay26

Ed Milliband states that BP profits are “morally and economically wrong” But hang on HMG benefits from much increased VAT on every £spent and increased corporation and other windfall tax receipts from BP Fuel duty should be cut back as HMG are profiteering from a crisis

@KirstieMAllsopp Exactly , this shows just how dangerous the Green Party and its leader are . In the USA this man would have shot for not releasing his knife and here in the UK some people hand wring about excessive force being used on a man who has already stabbed two people.

I love the U.K., a man can run around the streets stabbing people for being Jewish, and the issue people debate is whether the police officers trying to remove the knife from him used excessive force. Proof that we will do absolutely anything to avoid addressing antisemitism.

@campbellclaret @Ofcom It must be annoying Alastair when someone so biased is allowed to have so much oxygen 🤣, it’s annoying for us with you but it’s called freedom of speech ….i know you are not keen on that unless the speakers say what you like

I am at a loss to understand why the government has done nothing to reform @ofcom which is not fit for purpose and has allowed Farage UK to have its own TV news channel; nothing to push back on the relentless bias and untruthfulness of most of our press; and nothing to respond to the capture of the BBC political coverage by the Gibb brigade.

Yet another example of a criminal who successfully appealed deportation for a crime committed, and then went on to brutally rape a woman . When are UK courts going to protect women from men like this by kicking them out of the Uk at the first opportunity! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Matt_Pinner Makes a big impression !

Say ONE thing nice about this car.

@edballs what a fantastic interview with Susannah of Zac Polanski Wants to legalise all drugs Have totally open borders Ban the private rented rented sector Well done for exposing the actual policies of the Green party to real scrutiny Bring him on again please 🙏

@Ed_Miliband Wow , just read 100 replies and not one supportive of you Rather like the move to EPC C to be able to rent out a property in 2030 , this is leading to vast landlord sell ups , major housing shortages and rent increases Ever heard of the laws of supply and demand ?

We’re facing the second fossil fuel shock in less than 5 years. Events far away are once again impacting families and businesses here at home. We can’t go on leaving our country so exposed. The solution lies in clean homegrown power we control. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@ZackPolanski I heard today that your view is that right of centre voters should be shunned . This reveals an authoritarian streak to you and your party. It’s reminiscent of Hilary Clinton calling Trump supporters “the deplorables” It did not end well for her did it ?

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The Downfall of New York City The promises sound shiny. Government stores. Government housing. Free buses. Free childcare. But beneath these made-for-Internet slogans, New York is being led toward the same failed experiments that have collapsed cities and economies throughout history. Government Stores Mandimi’s plan for “public retail” is being sold as an equity initiative. The idea is that the city will open government-run grocery stores to compete with private businesses that supposedly “overcharge” residents. But this model has been tested before—Caracas, Havana, Moscow, even small pilots in the U.S.—and it never works. Private bodegas operate on razor-thin margins of one to three percent. They survive through efficiency, loyalty, and hustle. A government store doesn’t need to compete or profit—it just needs funding. When it fails, taxpayers refill the till. Eventually, private shops can’t match subsidized prices and close their doors. The entrepreneurs who spent decades serving their neighborhoods are replaced by bureaucrats with no incentive to care. The end result: no competition, no innovation, no service. Just sterile shelves and a waiting line. Government Housing Mandimi calls it “affordable housing for all.” History calls it something else: slums. Every nation that’s tried mass government housing has seen the same pattern—low quality, poor maintenance, unsafe environments, and despair. Rent control, another part of the plan, sounds compassionate but kills housing supply. When landlords can’t charge market rates, they stop improving their properties because they’ll never recover the costs. Amenities vanish, repairs are delayed, and buildings decay. Eventually, the city steps in, buys the properties for pennies, and turns them into more public housing—permanently trapping residents in government dependence. In Soviet Russia, those gray concrete towers were hailed as progress. Within years, they became monuments to neglect. Free Buses There is no such thing as “free.” Someone always pays. Eliminating fares shifts the cost from the rider to the taxpayer. The expense doesn’t disappear—it just hides in the budget. If affordability is the issue, the answer isn’t to make buses free—it’s to make people prosperous enough that they can afford their own transportation. Free rides don’t create opportunity. Jobs and wages do. Free Childcare New York already faces a severe shortage of childcare workers. Adding “free childcare” just drives more demand into a system with no supply. The burden shifts to taxpayers—including those who chose not to have children. Having a child is a personal decision. The responsibility is private, not public. Turning parenthood into a collective expense is redistribution disguised as compassion. The Pattern Repeats Mandimi’s platform continues with the same recycled ideas—expanded subsidies, new agencies, public jobs programs, “guaranteed income.” Each one sounds generous, but every dollar comes from someone else’s pocket. Each new promise creates a new dependency, a new bureaucracy, and a new layer of inefficiency. New York City was built by entrepreneurs, artists, immigrants, and dreamers—not by planners with clipboards. Every time government expands, independence shrinks. Every “free” program carries an invisible tax. Every intervention erodes the competition that keeps cities alive. Our Sad Closing Thoughts Feeling good about voting for someone different doesn’t make their ideas new. Mandimi’s platform is a repetition of ideas that have failed every single time. These are recycled policies from failed systems around the world, dressed up in modern slogans. The downfall of New York City won’t come from a lack of compassion. It will come from confusing control with care, equity with ownership, and governance with growth. History has already written this story. We just seem determined to repeat it.

@RichardBurgon The Workers Rights Bill will be a huge impact on hiring anyone marginal. No Labour government has ever left power with unemployment lower than when elected This bill seals Labours fate. Start looking for a new job Richard sharpish !

Nigel Farage just voted to water down workers' rights. We were voting on the Employment Rights Bill - the biggest strengthening of workers’ rights in years. But of course Farage sided with the bosses. Again.

@DavidLammy get a grip man …….this was your comment today in Parliament You need to get grip. You have misled the houses of Parliament You are incompetent and your government is incompetent Resign

@Peston Only if Labour want to lose the next election - she is a toxic socialist that huge numbers of the electorate have no connection with - high spend , high tax , and she cannot even get her own tax affairs in order.

Fighting talk from Angela Rayner in the Commons just now. She will undoubtedly be a candidate for lead her party, when the vacancy arises

@ElizabethBangs You forget to mention incompetent….whatever else a PM maybe , competence is paramount.

I wonder how many will wake up one day and realise with shame that Keir Starmer was a good, decent PM without the easy social arrogance public school gives you, but who was hard-working, cautious, thoughtful and they'd joined in a bullying psychosis obsessively hate-posting?

@sharrond62 The problem is that the Labour front bench have almost no experience of working in the private sector and none have any experience of founding and running a business . They are totally out of their depth …..and they don’t take advice , socialists are lead by dogma.

How bad does it have to get before we all realise Labour cannot manage the economy. Highest inflation in the G7. Unemployment up. Again. Dept in absolute dire straits free fall…

@DanielPriestley Excellent points excessive tax on individuals and companies kills ambition and investment

Poland’s economy is rocketing ahead while the UK is floundering. The top rate of income tax in Poland is 32% while the UK is 45%. The corporation tax is 9% on small business and 19% on bigger businesses. While the UK is taxing businesses 19-25%. Higher taxes kill economies and poor/stagnant economies hurt poorer people much worse than wealthier people who can move or trade internationally. When @RachelReevesMP announces higher taxes on the wealthy, her party will cheer because it sounds gratifying to tax those who have more even more. The unintended consequences of doing so will be to punish those who have less. Economic freedom is the key to reduced poverty. High taxes destroy economic freedom. Contrasting the UK with Poland is a good indication of that.