Peter Michael Ward

@cabinetofficeuk @UKMisBrussels @NickTorfaen I hope you're supporting Montezuma's chocolate, montezumas.co.uk, an excellent British product. Forget Cadbury, now full of palm oil and foreign-owned.

British chocolate is a £1bn success story, with 71% of exports headed to the EU. We’re finalising a deal to scrap the barriers at the border that are melting away profits for British businesses. We’re slashing red tape for a sweeter deal for everyone. Happy Easter 🐰🐣🌷

@ukhomeoffice But it's not working, is it? You fall back on discussing processes just like Starmer, but your processes are failing. We can see that even if you can't. Something else is needed, and it's not just giving France more of our money.

Every small boat that reaches the UK is destroyed within 44 days. A specialist enforcement team examines boats and engines to identify upstream patterns, enabling supply chains and smugglers to be disrupted before Channel crossings are launched from the French coast.

@Keir_Starmer You will be defined by your inability to make decisions, your multitudinous u-turns, your bungs, your refusal to eject Miliband for his NZ bigotry, and your initial rejection of the Pakistani Muslim rape gang inquiry. As for your word salad list, you're failing on each one.

We will be defined by our ability to stand up for British interests in this volatile world. To make our country more secure and resilient. To give working people a fairer deal and deliver more opportunities for their children.

John Swinney reverses the SNP position on North Sea drilling. This is a good move. I respect politicians who are willing to change their position when circumstances change and not stubbornly cling to ideology He said... “We need oil and gas for the foreseeable future. The two risks about imported oil and gas is that you could be importing more climate damaging oil and gas, and you might not be able to import it because of disruption and interruption to supply, because of what’s going on in the Middle East right now. So I think that context changes the balance of the arguments.” Now we just need @Ed_Miliband to do the same thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@lukejcr Labour is also led by millionaires. It seems working-class Labour MPs suddenly become millionaires overnight. How does that happen? Is it all freebies and bungs like Starmer and Reeves get? Or is it simple corruption? Perhaps that's why you have neutered the rape gang inquiry?

Reform pretend to be on the side of working people. The reality? They’re led by snobby millionaires who have no idea how much cost-of-living support matters to families. They’re not on your side. Labour is.

@vonderleyen @Keir_Starmer We don't want to "further strengthen our partnership", thank you. Keir Starmer is not acting with the approval of most of the UK.

Good call yesterday with @Keir_Starmer. We discussed the situation in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s actions are putting global economic stability at risk. We will work with our partners to ensure freedom of navigation can resume as soon as possible. We also discussed the upcoming EU-UK Summit. A key moment to deliver on last year’s commitments and further strengthen our partnership.

@Ed_Miliband @DailyMirror You have moved the cost to tax. That's not bills falling, that's rearranging the deckchairs.

Energy bills are falling today as a result of action we have taken on the cost of living. The route to energy security and lower bills for good is through clean, homegrown power that we control. My latest for the @DailyMirror👇 mirror.co.uk/money/we-conti…

@lukejcr @Ed_Miliband Rather than allow the market to find the right level, the cap is simply the price every company now charges. And the cap reduction is actually moving cost to tax so we're still paying the same, just in a different way.

Back in 2013, @Ed_Miliband proposed an energy price cap. David Cameron called it “Marxist.” Today it kicks in, cutting £117 a year from bills, perfect timing given the conflict in Iran. Turns out someone was right all along. Cheers, Ed. ⚡

@10DowningStreet @Keir_Starmer Lies, gaslighting and deceit. That's all we ever get from you. You know the list of taxes and bills going up this month. You could be "pulling every lever" to reduce benefits and taxes, but your MPs won't let you.

This government will always act in the national interest, on the side of British people. From today, you will see wages go up, bills come down, and more support for those who need it most. We will pull ever lever possible to tackle the cost of living.

Liar. Keir, this very morning you are putting up vehicle excise duty, air passenger duty, landfill tax, aggregates tax, plastic packaging tax, the climate change levy and business rates. All of these tax hikes are increasing the cost of living. So stop claiming that you are cutting it.

Since the General Election... We have the highest tax burden since the 1940s Inflation is up Unemployment is up Youth unemployment is massively up Business closures up Deindustrialisation up Energy costs up (moving them to taxation doesn't make them go away) Gilt yields higher NHS waiting lists higher Educational outcomes lower Speech being restricted Antisemitism out of control You're destroying the UK. Time to call a new General Election and have done with it

@UKLabour ...and it shows. No experience of running anything means no idea how to lead, to make things happen, to enable growth. We don't want a working-class government. We desperately need a government of business leaders, scientists, economists, realists not bigots.

This Labour Government is the most working-class government in the history of the UK.

.@Ed_Miliband why is it ok for Norway to drill but not UK? Do you understand the term "balance of payments"? Do you understand that drilling our own oil would also generate more tax and support job creation? Do you understand you're single-handedly destroying the economy?

@PatrickChristys He thinks growth comes only from public spending. That's the core misunderstanding of how the economy works, and it's shared by all of them. What will be left in another 3 years?

Today you’ll notice an army of Labour MPs have been told to post on social media about how they’re giving working people a pay rise. The Business and Trade Secretary literally doesn’t know how many people are now unemployed. They’re morons.

Imagine I own a pub and have 10 members of staff - 5 x 18-20s on £10 hour and 5 over 21s on £12.21 an hour. Cost per hour is £111.05. If you award a 50p increase to over 21s and an 85p rise to the young ones, your hourly cost rises by £6.75/hour. If everyone works average 8 hours a day, that’s £54 a day. Let’s say that they work 300 days a year - the pub will pay an extra £16,200 PLUS increased National Insurance. The average pint in a wet-led pub delivers profit of about 3p in the £pound e.g 15p on a £5 pint. In the example above, the pub will have to sell an extra 360 pints a day (very unlikely), just to cover wage increase (not NI, rates, or energy increases) or else lose a member of staff. The other alternative is to put prices up and chase away customers - this will add to inflation. 9 workers will get higher wages (but work harder), probably at the expense of the other worker who may go on benefits. The pub meanwhile will feel far more financial pressure - many pubs will close, and unemployment will rise. Businesses destroyed, increased unemployment, less govt income, inflation etc. Nothing to brag about.

I went on national TV and said that little British girls are still being raped and tortured by Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs. The next day, the police came to my door to threaten me into silence. But I was right. And it isn’t just taxis and takeaways. Vape shops are plying little girls with free vapes in exchange for “sexual favours”. It’s the textbook grooming model: gifts, compliments, making their victims feel special and wanted. It’s that much easier to coerce a child into “accepting” their abuse when one creates a power imbalance or a sense of social currency. That the price you pay for being groomed is rape, abuse, and exploitation. That you deserve it. That you asked for it. That you brought it on yourself. Child sexual exploitation is a tale as old as time. But it isn’t a thing of the past. There are hundreds of pedophile gangs still abusing little girls. And there are tens of thousands of little girls still being abused. It is still happening in towns and cities across the UK. Little girls are being subjected to the worst abuse imaginable, at the hands of men who know they can get away with it. How? Because they’re already done it for years. Nothing has changed. Powerful people are still turning a blind eye despite decades of undeniable evidence. Politicians are trying to sweep the scandal under the carpet, sabotaging the National Inquiry at every turn so that they can save their own skins. And little girls are still being sacrificed at the altar of multiculturalism and traded for votes. Decades later. The same old story. The grooming gangs scandal is the worst stain on British history, and I hold every powerful person accountable for it. Their sneering ignorance has facilitated the industrial-scale rape of little British girls. The continued failure to protect our children from these vile predators is an indictment on every sector of British society. A national enquiry run by the same party that told little girls to “shut up for the sake of diversity” will do nothing to stop the systemic abuse of little girls today. We are letting the perpetrators mark their own homework. Starmer may not have shoved little girls into taxis or plied them with vapes himself, but he is just as guilty as if he had. And I, for one, refuse to be silenced by the very people who have spent decades discrediting victims and survivors like me. Enough is enough.

Britain now has the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world. At 25p per kilowatt-hour, its power costs stand at double the EU average and quadruple those of the US (6p) and China (7p). But this isn’t just about the death of old industry. Just as cheap electricity determined the industrial powers of the past, it will now determine the AI superpowers of the future. The real competition is not about who builds the best AI models, but who can afford to run them. Sovereignty in this century is found in the physical ability to process Intelligence at an industrial scale. Britain’s current path is a dead end. There are 140 data centers in the UK’s grid connection queue, representing 50 GW of demand — more than the entire country’s current peak usage (45 GW). For many, the quoted connection date is 2040. As Intelligence proliferates, productivity will no longer be measured in man-hours, but in Tokens-per-Watt: how many units of ‘Intelligence’ a kilowatt-hour of electricity can buy. With its 25p rate, it is already 400% more expensive to buy Intelligence in Britain than in China or the US. This is a direct hit to the UK services sector, which accounts for 82% of the economy. As AI automates knowledge work, British firms must 'rent' intelligence from foreign clouds at predatory rates just to stay competitive. Even if Britain builds domestic AI infrastructure, the 25p barrier means it would be structurally uncompetitive from day one. This leaves only the path of outsourcing national productivity to foreign clouds, a permanent transfer of British wealth. True sovereignty requires a radical shift to dedicated, low-cost power for compute. Without cheap energy, Britain won’t just lose its factories — it may lose its offices, too.

@UKLabour April Fool post! I claim my £5.

Labour will always defend British interests abroad and stand up for you at home.

@mtpennycook You've all been told to say the same things. It doesn't make it true. £117 has been shifted to taxation, and you promised £150. Raising wages at this time is leading to higher unemployment - surely you've noticed? And prescriptions are only paid for by working people in England.

As a result of decisions made by this Labour government, today sees: 🌹A 6.6% reduction in the energy price cap. 🌹A Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rise. 🌹NHS prescription charges frozen. We're delivering for working people.

We once had a king known as Ethelred the Redeless, or Unready. We now have a PM at least as Unready as he was. His solution to opening Hormuz? Another meeting. Since he has no navy, what can he do but talk? Never-Ready Keir.