Michele Williams QPM

@SkyNews We all feel let down by Keir Starmer 😩

British couple detained in Iran feel 'let down' and call on Starmer to 'help us' 🔗Read the full story trib.al/O7kwO4Z

@AnonInclusive @ProfAliceS What about her lived experience of being a woman - doesn’t that make her an expert ?

@ProfAliceS If you are nasty to people, don’t be surprised when they are actually glad that you are gone. The impact that Jenni Murray, a presenter with no expertise in this area but given a platform due to celebrity status, had negatively on the lives of trans people should be recognised.

1/ Dr Natacha Kennedy, a lecturer at Goldsmiths, has been celebrating the death of Jenni Murray, the highly-respected former presenter of BBC Woman's Hour. Kennedy wishes for Jenni Murray's grave to be treated as a 'gender-neutral bathroom'. Kennedy is an important figure in academic trans activism in the UK.

@Suffragent_ Not everyone of course, just the women.

“This morning I’ve been at Madina Mosque and joined in prayers with everyone for Eid,” says Green MP Hannah Spencer. Liberal white women are now actively promoting the most patriarchal, regressive, anti-feminist religion in history. Astonishing, really. 🤯

@OperaSocialist No they don’t.

Apparently Reform and the Tories now have a problem with women praying separately from men and covering their heads. Strangely enough they've never complained about Catholic nuns... #islamophobia #racism

@iofiv @liamtuffs1 No, but it does include adhering to rules that treat women as equals. Where are they ?

@liamtuffs1 Does assimilation have to include giving up your religion?

Is this what assimilation looks like?

@iofiv @NJ_Timothy The women are present and able to celebrate.

@NJ_Timothy What are your thoughts on Chinese New Year?

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.

@FormerylNurgle @MelJStride It wasn’t as high and interest rates were rock bottom.

@MelJStride Why didn't you remove it when you were in power for 14 years then?

In Britain today there is a tax that punishes ambition, traps families in the wrong homes, and quietly freezes our housing market in place. You all know the one I mean. Stamp Duty. It is a punitive tax on moving house. And that means it is a tax on living your life. It punishes the young couple trying to buy their first home. It punishes the growing family who need another bedroom for a new baby. It punishes the worker who wants to move across the country for a better job. And it punishes pensioners who would happily downsize - freeing up larger homes for younger families - but simply cannot afford the tax bill. The result is predictable. Fewer people move. Fewer homes come onto the market. And the ladder of home ownership becomes harder and harder to climb. A healthy housing market should allow people to move to the right home, in the right place, at the right stage of life. Stamp Duty does the opposite. It locks people in place. Abolishing it would unlock Britain. Young people would find it easier to buy their first property. Couples could upsize to start a family. Older homeowners could downsize without being punished by the taxman. And when people move, the whole economy moves with them. More people moving means more work for builders, painters and renovators. More customers for local DIY shops. More business for furniture shops and tradespeople. A single house move sets off a chain reaction of economic activity in communities right across the country. Estate agents @WinkworthUK, who I have been out with this week, see buyers and sellers every day who have to face hugely punitive stamp duty bills. And the evidence shows just how damaging stamp duty is. According to the @OBR_UK, a one percentage point increase in stamp duty can reduce property transactions by between five and seven per cent. Yet on this Government’s watch the stamp duty due on a £300,000 home will have doubled during their time in office. But beyond the economics lies something deeper. We @Conservatives believe that owning your own home gives you a real stake in society. It gives people roots in their community and pride in their neighbourhood. So a future Conservative Government will abolish Stamp Duty on primary residences altogether. Finished. Gone. And we’ll pay for it by getting a grip on government spending - including £23 billion in welfare reform because responsible tax cuts must be funded and must support economic growth. If Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are serious about growth - about unlocking opportunity and fixing Britain’s broken housing market - they should do the same. Because a country where people cannot afford to move is a country where social mobility stalls. But a country where families can settle where they choose, not where they’re stuck? That is a freer, fairer, more dynamic Britain. And it starts by scrapping Stamp Duty.

@DanielJHannan This is delicious red meat for the left isn’t it.

Three of Starmer’s nominees have already been brought down by revelations about their pasts. No one - literally no one - believes that the rest of us are here “through public service and merit”. We are a collection of quangocrats, trade union dinosaurs, councillors and ex-MPs.

@StephJMorgan1 I know that you feel strongly about this and acknowledge your disappointment. Personally it’s not the grown adults I’m concerned about, it’s the vulnerable.

Another wrong decision that doesn’t allow grown adults to have control over their own lives. The majority of the public want the choice but of course our politicians think we should be treated like children who can’t be trusted to make the right decisions

The prospect is quite unthinkable.

@AlanHaw69641513 @SkyNews @SamCoatesSky @annemcelvoy Avoidance is legal. Evasion is not.

@SkyNews @SamCoatesSky @annemcelvoy And still no mention of Richard Tice about how he avoided paying 600.000 corporation tax,when you and sky , kept hounding Rayner about her tax affairs?

Angela Rayner's allies are eyeing her return to frontline politics before the May elections. Will Rachel Reeves be her next target? @SamCoatesSky and @AnneMcElvoy  consider how credible a Rayner vision for the UK would be. 🎧 Listen to #PASAA ➡️ podfollow.com/politics-at-sa…

@Diogenes1 @ClaireCoutinho As tenuous links go this is right up there 😂

@ClaireCoutinho But the Tories support the war! They need to take responsibility for the consequences of the war they support

Iran’s strike last night on the Ras Laffan facility in Qatar is a significant escalation. It risks a prolonged supply crunch on the global LNG market. Yet here at home, the Chancellor says all countries must play their part in boosting oil and gas production - while her own Energy Secretary bans new drilling in the North Sea. Ed Miliband’s position is untenable. Those desperate to shut down our own industry will say it takes too long to get our own wells up and running. They argue it won’t make a difference to the current crisis. This is bogus. By autumn, Jackdaw could be producing enough gas to heat 1.6 million homes. All of it will go into our pipes. The approval has been sat on Ed Miliband’s desk for months. If the conflict is not resolved, we will be in for difficult times. Turning our backs on the tax revenue and extra supply from the North Sea is inexcusable. However, so too is Ed Miliband’s other mistake. He has spent the last two years making electricity expensive, when he should have been making it cheaper. If you want people to use electricity to heat their homes or drive their cars, we need to address the biggest problem we have - our electricity is too expensive. Our Cheap Power plan could have been adopted by the Government by now to cut everyone’s electricity bills by 20%. Expensive electricity has stopped consumers from adopting technology which gives them options in energy price spikes. We also need to cherish our industrial power. The crippling Carbon Taxes - which have doubled because of Labour’s policies - mean we lost a third of our refineries last year alone. That makes us more reliant on imports at the worst moment. In the longer term, renewables tie us to gas as we always need flexible power that we can ramp up when the wind stops blowing. Yet Labour’s plan means that gas power gets four times more expensive. The Government must reinstate my plans for a third large-scale nuclear plant. That’s why our Energy Resilience Strategy is as follows: BACK THE NORTH SEA MAKE ELECTRICITY CHEAP STOP IMPOSING CRIPPLING CARBON TAXES ON INDUSTRY DOUBLE DOWN ON NUCLEAR

@policecommander Did you pay voluntary tax on your commutation John ? There is a moral case for it. Is any of it wrapped in Isas ?

Just a man - seemingly devoid of morality - standing in front of an electorate, wondering why it doesn’t love him…

@ECrieghton44 @SirSimonClarke And let them have all our fish.🐠

@SirSimonClarke If we wish to export into Europe we have to comply with their rules.

Labour are going to make the UK a rule taker. They don’t dare rejoin outright, so instead they will seek to render leaving futile. What was the point of leaving, if not to take back control, and innovate? A future government will have to reverse this.

@StephJMorgan1 De escalation 😩 Let us continue our regime of hate and we will let more oil through.

This chap is the personification of a chocolate fire guard! The Iranians will be quaking! 😳😱 what a bloody embarrassment

@policecommander Police commutation - tax free. Some think that’s immoral but it’s legal.

I see we’re at the stage in the Reform UK journey where their leadership are trying to tell us that, to pay the full amount they owe in tax would be bad for the UK economy…

@treesey @TracyEdwardsMBE @BBCWomansHour 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

A man who decided he wanted to identify as a woman at the age of 62 is chosen by @BBCWomansHour producers to talk about misogyny. Apparently, there were no female academics with any expertise in misogyny suitable for @BBCWomansHour

@JournalismSEEN Huge house and garden. I’m sure they have plenty of money to fill the tank.

ITV Evening News decided to use a trans identified male called “Charlotte” as their case study for high oil prices.

@Bharat_in_2024 @otokyo__ And they did a blue black which was a subdued blue.

@otokyo__ Colours available: Blue (mostly used), Black (very high sediment and pen needed frequent washing), red (only for teachers for paper evaluation), turquoise (vibrant blue green combination, not available). Wing Sung (best pen) : Heard a judge used Wing Sung pen on a smuggling case.

Who’s old enough to remember using this at school?

@chrislittlewoo8 @DonnaDlm71 £357 a month here and extra for green bin.

Can someone tell me what I’m actually paying for? My latest council tax bill has arrived. £330 a month. For what? We still have to pay extra just to have the garden waste collected. The roads are knackered, the drains are blocked, and every time it rains the streets flood. The local town is now devoid of shops because business rates and parking charges have made it almost impossible to trade and expensive for people to visit. So where is the money going? Councils spend tax revenue on vanity projects like cycle lanes that might see a bike once a decade and disability parking bays that sit empty most of the time. Meanwhile the services we actually rely on continue to decline. We are expected to pay more and more for less and less. And at the same time we all see public money being spent on people who entered this country illegally and have never contributed. So I’ll ask again. What exactly are we paying for? The whole system is broken.