Chris Webb 🔸🇺🇦🇪🇪 #FBPPR

Every time we see this it is is totally shocking. How on earth did this country get to this state where our @EnvAgency was not protecting the environment. its just unbelievable.

The most brutal reality check of the Iran war. A US Senator points out the absolute insanity of spending 2 billion dollars a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz when it was already open before Trump started the war. They created a global crisis out of nothing.

Trump is not a reliable ally. His war is pushing up energy bills, petrol and mortgages here in Britain. Whilst Farage and Kemi cheerlead him on, we stood up for Britain The Lib Dems are the only party calling him out. @EdwardJDavey

🔴 Stella Creasy nails it 👏 You can’t say our energy system has left us vulnerable… and then oppose the only things that actually make us independent. Oil and gas tie us to global markets. Renewables break that link. It really is that simple.

BREAKING: Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended. A blow to Reform UK which has received about £12m in last year from Thai-based investor Christopher Harborne and other donations from donors based in Monaco.

Dear Kemi Badenoch Just in case you'd forgotten. The curious case of Priti Patel and why the right wing media are ignoring this story. #PMQs #PritiPatel

Highly suspicious… Is Trump using his illegal war to enrich himself and his friends? This looks like corruption of the very worst kind.

Reform UK have joined the public health debate on the side of cancer.

Farage hasn’t learnt a thing from the Nathan Gill Russian bribery scandal. Reform accepting untraceable, anonymous crypto from across the globe is a direct threat to our national security. He must return the cash or admit he’s happy to let foreign money poison British politics.

@griffitha All those trade deals you mention - the EU has negotiated much better, especially with 🇦🇺. (And, in case you’ve been asleep the last 15 months, the US is not a normal country.

Labour want to rejoin the Brussels lunch club — surrendering Britain’s freedom so 27 other countries can decide our destiny. They tried to give away the Chagos Islands. Now they’re trying to give away control of Britain to Brussels. Conservatives won’t let them. 👇

@BenGrahamUK The point you are missing is that most of the remaining gas fields in the North Sea are distant from shore, +/or small, +/or hard to develop. Since we left Euratom we have to develop our own “sovereign” nuclear specs for new designs, which takes years. So renewables it is, chum!

75% of Brits want North Sea oil & gas. That’s not a fringe view, it’s the majority. Energy policy should reflect reality, not ideology. Go all in on the North Sea. Back nuclear. Secure Britain’s future. The renewables debate is over.

@MelJStride @Conservatives We need Land Value Tax. But your (and Reform’s) property developer and land-banking mates would hate it.

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.

Must OFCOM publish a full review or investigation into the blatant rule-breaking of GB News? Please RT after voting - thank you.

Wow. On Tuesday 107 MPs met frontline sewage campaigners, including those featured in Channel 4’s 'Dirty Business', to hear directly about their experience and what needs to change. Campaigners, including prominent figures like @Feargal_Sharkey, had one clear message: it’s time for public ownership.

Millions of Londoners and tourists who visit Oxford St disagree. Times have changed; urban planning solely for the benefit of motor vehicles is a thing of the past.

You are five times more likely to survive being hit by a driver doing 20mph vs a driver doing 30mph. Great to see Enfield rolling out new life saving 20mph zones. Slow down. Slower speeds save lives. #VisionZeroLDN. 👏👏@EnfieldCouncil @JourneysPlaces

Totally unforgivable @Keir_Starmer Stomping over our democracy to be a lap dog of Donald Trump is your choice and your choice alone!

🤩 “Brexit wasn’t just shooting yourself in the foot 👉it was like amputating your leg for no reason.” “A colossal mistake.” Finland’s president @alexstubb in the UK today 👏👏 Saying it like it is ❤️

Johnson and Sunak and Hancock and Gove and Tory Collective Cabinet #democide negligence whilst in public office They should be prosecuted and justice seen to be done

Not a lot of people know this but most wizened journos do: Margaret Thatcher’s 1960 Private Members Bill gave the press the right to report on council meetings. In Nottinghamshire, Reform’s curbs on the freedom of the press lay bare the simple fact that they don’t like proper journalistic scrutiny.