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@Keir_Starmer Erm, just don't. It's the only way that tone-deaf Starmer might realise that his policies are unpopular and plainly not working. Vote ANYONE but Labour on May 1st.

Security for working people and national renewal for our country. Bring change to Britain. Vote Labour on Thursday, 1 May.

@Keir_Starmer Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, pensioners, the sick and those on low wages that will never catch up with inflation are suffering ever lower standards of living. Put bluntly, we're NOT feeling it. Wake up, and stop kidding/lying...

Wages growing faster than prices. Jobs up. Inflation down. Interest rates down. NHS waiting lists down. Houses and infrastructure unblocked. Free breakfast clubs rolling out. National Living Wage increasing. National Minimum Wage increasing. Defence spending increased. 2 million more NHS appointments delivered. Housebuilding to be at the highest level in 40 years. People to be £500 a year better off. The Tories blocked change for Britain. My Labour government is delivering it.

@Keir_Starmer Oh, they’ll do the job alright - a quick badge job which will be accounted for at an exorbitant cost with a nice little skim. Try ensuring that a pothole repair will last longer than 6 months and we might be remotely interested.

Potholes have a huge financial impact on working people and small businesses – that's why I want to see them fixed. We’ve done our part by handing councils the cash and certainty they need, now it’s up to them to get on with the job.

@Keir_Starmer You know that when a government starts talking about potholes they are in deep trouble. Behaving like a desperate local council at election time. If you think this will distract from your punching down to pensioners and the sick you are wrong.

Broken roads cost hard-working people time and money — and they are understandably fed up. My government is fixing this. We are unlocking new road schemes and funding pothole repairs across the country.

@LordAshcroft Too many appointments to the House of Lords given to unelected, tax dodging toffs taking the piss...

It’s time for the Motability scheme to be wound up or seriously restricted to the most needy…too many vehicles given to those taking the piss…

@Keir_Starmer So Starmer continues his Tory like crusade to punch down instead of up at every opportunity. When will you realise that if you want the electorate to go with you, you'll need to make them better off instead of worse off?

We inherited a fundamentally broken welfare system from the previous government. It does not work for the people it is supposed to support, businesses who need workers or taxpayers who foot the bill. This government will always protect the most severely disabled people to live with dignity. But we’re not prepared to stand back and do nothing while millions of people — especially young people — who have potential to work and live independent lives, instead become trapped out of work and abandoned by the system. It would be morally bankrupt to let their life chances waste away. When I talk about opportunity for all, I mean it. That’s why we are bringing forward the biggest changes to the welfare system in a generation and improving support for those who need it. Ensuring those who can work do work is not only right, but it will also improve living standards and drive growth, the number one priority in our Plan for Change.

@plymouthcc Can't even get the year correct. Utterly hopeless.

We have approved changes to parking charges that will simplify the system and help maintain key services. ✅ These updates will provide more parking and payment options, create more consistent tariffs and permits, and align with other UK areas. ➡️ ow.ly/p1aa50Vh9RL

@plymouthcc Boarder? You can’t spell let alone administer the City! Those poor people being pulled into Plymouth’s clutches.

📢 Local government reorganisation plans announced! Responding to the Government’s invitation, today we have announced bold plans to expand the city boarder – this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape the future of our city. Read more ➡️ ow.ly/IObt50VgM1n

@LukePollard I am against it if it means less oversight over funds in Plymouth. The local authority track record on how taxpayers money is spent is woeful, does not listen to public opinion and is lacklustre in it's administration. Until that changes I think this is a dangerous move.

I'm backing a devolution deal that's in the best interests of Plymouth and the wider south west: a Devon and Cornwall Combined Authority. I am not prepared to leave money on the table - millions of extra pounds - and powers for our region.

@whereisbre Once, in a high state of anxiety a colleague said "Richard, do you have any control of these things? Is there something that you can do to change it? If the answer is no, you must let it go as it is a waste of mental energy." I ask myself these questions and it brings me calm.

I’m incredibly depressed every single night to the point where I’m drinking every single night. I just can’t handle life at the moment.

@Keir_Starmer Rather than building, maybe you could clear up the shit first? theguardian.com/environment/20…

I want people to be proud of where they live. Today we've announced £1.5 billion of funding to empower communities to build thriving high streets, parks, youth clubs, libraries, and cultural venues. Supporting local growth. Breathing life back into your neighbourhood.

@BBCPolitics This is a massive underpromise and typical of a government that is pussyfooting around the property lobby. Weak, weak, weak. Until leasehold in it's entirety is abolished and true ownership replaces it, the system of organised racketeering in favour of landlords will continue.

Ministers outline plans to ban new leasehold flats bbc.in/4bn4EBk

@calvinrobinson Dear @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk please, please fix this for @calvinrobinson. It would be the best thing for the "special relationship" for him not to return to bother the UK. Far better for him to remain amongst you MAGA ding-a-lings. Thank you.

This week, after being doxxed, abused, hounded by the press, sacked, and smeared by the Archbishop, I had another battle to fight. My US visa was revoked. But we soldier on. calvinrobinson.com/p/visa-revoked…

@RachelReevesMP Well, we're not satisfied with you. Perhaps you could cut yourself out of government?

The interest rate cut will help ease cost of living pressures, but I am still not satisfied with the growth rate. That’s why we are going further and faster for growth, taking on the blockers and ripping up unnecessary regulatory barriers, to get more money in people's pockets.

@whereisbre They are incompetent (as incompetent as the previous lot). I laughed when they announced their big AI hosting plans and strongly believe that the winners in AI hosting will be countries that have cheap and plentiful energy). We don't.

Ironically the UK has a huge opportunity to be a powerhouse in energy if their leaders aren’t incompetent

@BBCBreakfast Meanwhile the developing world is in absolute stitches about it taking a decade (it'll be more like 2 or never) to build a runway.

'I think we can get that done in a decade' Chancellor Rachel Reeves told #BBCBreakfast she believes a third runway at Heathrow Airport could be ready to use by 2035, after backing plans to boost growth in the UK economy bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Peston But totally committed to bolstering the grip that Oxford/Cambridge has on wealth and establishment. Couldn't make it up - a perfect opportunity to build out a tech corridor in the north, but no - once again a lack of ambition to do something different to a typical Tory move.

Reeves insists she hasn't given up on closing north-south wealth gap despite criticism itv.com/news/2025-01-2…

@Peston @RachelReevesMP @elerianm @itvpeston It'll be platitudes and lies from a weak government to know that growth will not happen until Reeves gets a grips on the basics - & not burdening a population that is over taxed, over charged and under motivated.

Does the government at last have a coherent and deliverable plan to revitalise economic growth? See my interviews with the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP and with economics super-brain @elerianm on Peston tonight, 9pm here on X via @itvpeston and 10.45 on ITV

@RachelReevesMP Even if you couldn't give a ^&@$ about the burden on the population, what do you think the highest energy prices in the Eurozone are going to do with your pie-in-the-sky growth plans. It's basics and you fail to grasp them.

@RachelReevesMP Increased taxes, increased the burden on small businesses, made pensioners poorer, sat on your butt whilst energy companies increase prices, water companies clawing back their fines from consumers, 9bn more in borrowing. Get a grip, your policies are an absolute joke. Resign.

For 14 years of Conservative government, we accepted low expectations and accepted decline. We no longer have to do that.  This Labour government will drive growth in all corners of our country.