Peter Connolly

[Kevin O'Sullivan @TVKev]

World War 3 looms, the migrant crisis gets worse by the day, the £3trillion national debt costs £3,500 a second, the £350billion welfare bill is crippling the economy... but Andy Burnham is prioritising the scourge of cowboy builders. What kind of a parochial idiot is this guy?

[Arlene O' Neill @arleneseesit]

If you worked for 35 years you qualify for a state pension of £243/ week.

If you have never worked a day in your life pension credit will provide you with £238/ week.

Who is the idiot?

[David Vance @DavidVance]

Labour came to power pledging to cut power bills by £300. They have now risen nearly £400.
Labour is a fraud

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I'm being attacked in various parts of the media today for receiving money from X. I would like to invite those same journalists to Great Yarmouth to see how my entire net MP salary is given to local charities in our community.

Some of the causes I have donated to...

- Great Yarmouth Community First Responders
- St Mary Magdalene Church
- Hemsby Lifeboat
- Phoenix Karate Schools
- Martham Boat Dyke Trust (helping young people get skilled qualifications)
- Shine, a local charity helping children with special educational needs and disabilities
- A graffiti clean up
- Belton Scouts Group
- Caister Lifeboat
- Great Yarmouth Pathway Cafe & Support Centre (food bank)
- Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, ensuring everyone could access a poppy for free.
- Great Yarmouth Sea Cadets
- East Coast Truckers (helping disabled children)
- Great Yarmouth Minister (repairing a church window)
- St Elizabeth Hospice
- Centre 81 Dementia Programme
- Louise Hamilton Trust (end of life care)
- Local football club
- A Heart2Heart lifesaving defibrillator

Each and every month this money is donated - I made a promise during the election, and I am keeping that promise.

I am NOT in politics for the money.

If I wanted to increase my bank balance? TRUST ME - I would not be doing this.

Roughly £100k donated since the election, and I will continue to do so. As promised to my constituents.

If those journalists want to take up the offer and see how that money has been spent, they know where to find me.

[Matt Gubba @MattGubba]

I fund small businesses.

And I can tell you something politicians still don’t understand.

Small businesses are dying...

Not because they need more Labour slogans.

They are dying because the numbers no longer work.

Business rates.
Energy.
Employer NI.
Wages.
Red tape.

Cost after cost after cost.

And when cash gets tight?

The state still expects to be paid first.

Small business owners are being treated like a free overdraft by the government.

That has to stop.

Britain does not need more “support schemes”.

It needs lower costs.
It needs less taxes.

Let business owners breathe.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

So what ?…
The man donates his whole MP salary to charity. He clearly not in this for the money.
Also, if he’s earning £100k from X a year, that’s 45k to the tax man and the public purse.
Lefties should be happy no ?

[Rob (No FBPE or nastiness/rudeness please) @RobNoLastName]

The OBR predict there are 71,000 £2m-£2.5m homes.
Taxing each £50 a week raises about £110m. Almost nothing.

I doubt it'll cover the administration of the scheme.

This isn't about raising revenue for public services.

It is about being seen to punish people who've done well.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🔥 The Gallagher brothers are fully aligned on this one.

Liam just told the croc-wearing flag-waving brigade to calm the fck down, and Noel also once had a go at “fcking idiots waving flags”.

Here’s how Noel once described “woke” Glastonbury:

“Don’t get me wrong, I fcking love Glastonbury. It’s getting a bit woke now, that place, and a bit kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling.”

“I don’t like it in music, little fcking idiots waving flags around and making political statements and bands taking the stage and saying, ‘Hey guys, isn’t war terrible, yeah? Let’s all boo war. Fck the Tories man’, and all that.”

“It’s like, look, play your fcking tunes and get off. It’s too much. Donate all your money to the cause, that’s it, stop yapping about it.”

“Everybody knows what’s going on in the fcking world, you’ve got a phone in your pocket that tells you anyway. What is the point of virtue-signalling?”

Brilliant! 😂

Take note, all you flag-waving “idiots” 😭

[Les Mileistes Français 🦁🇫🇷 @Mileistesfr]

D'après le FMI, l'économie argentine devrait croître de 30% entre 2025 et 2031 si Milei reste au pouvoir.

C'est quoi le secret de la méthode Milei?

C'est très simple:

- il a baissé les dépenses publiques de 30%
- il a mis les comptes publics dans le vert
- il a dérégulé plus de 17,000 articles de lois ou normes absurdes

Et ce n'est que le début. Si l'Argentine parvient à continuer dans cette voie, le pays sera un pays à haut revenu dans 20 ans.

À bon entendeur, salut.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Sending snoopers into people’s homes to try to squeeze more Council tax out of them is not going to solve the loss of tax revenue from lack of growth. It will not cut the runaway wasteful spending on benefits, illegal migration and badly run nationalisation.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

The rate of stamp duty on buying property used to be 1%.

That was fair. The tax was directly proportional to the price paid and at a manageable rate.

Tax on a £500k property was double that for a £250k property. Tax on a £1m property was double that of a £500k property and so on.

Labour’s Gordon Brown (who else?) first introduced big increases in the 1990s and so-called Tory George Osborne then hiked the tax massively for main residences & introduced a 3% penalty tax on second homes. Rachel Reeves pushed up the second home surcharge to 5%.

Stamp duty is now ridiculously high and a huge deterrent to moving home.

It has helped wreck the market, deter downsizing, limit mobility and pushed the dream of home ownership further out of the reach of many. In the process it has harmed housebuilding. It is a totally destructive and distorting tax.

The Treasury loves it because it is easy and cheap to collect and the blinkered souls who inhabit No.11 don’t seem to comprehend that the revenue it raises would quickly be dwarfed by the amount of domestic economic activity that would be unleashed if people moved house more often.

The party largely responsible for today’s SDLT disaster is of course the Conservative Party.

They now propose abolishing it altogether. (Yet another huge policy U-turn to rank with net zero, the ECHR etc). Although coming from the party that once promised to reduce inheritance tax but never did, I doubt they would actually abolish it if they were elected.

If stamp duty can’t be abolished but has to retained, it should be reset to a blanket 1% as before.

I would imagine that even Angela Rayner would agree…..

#mansiontax

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

To buy a £2m property you have to pay a staggering £153k in stamp duty (or an eye-watering £253k if it’s a second property).

Having been fleeced to buy it, you will have then to pay thousands more to the State each year on top of your council tax just to live in it. How is that fair?

All this will mean that only the genuinely rich will be able to buy. It will do nothing to help the economy or to attract the brightest and best to come to the UK. It will be another nail in the economy’s coffin.

It’s also stupid.

It will cost a fortune having an army of bureaucrats trying to value millions of properties and dealing with thousands of inevitable appeals and court cases as people dispute the rushed valuations.

A massive waste of time, energy and money to raise relative peanuts - just to satisfy socialist spite.

Idiotic and sinister in equal measure. Plus we all know that the tax will be extended to cheaper properties in time.

[Frank Geelen @Beursduivelfan]

Het was droger in 1976 dan in 2026!

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

So clear, so true

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Is James O'Brien going to respond to this?

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

For everyone.

[𝘚𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘩 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 @sarah__british]

This is a must watch if you really want to understand what Labour are doing to our economy..

[🇬🇧UKJ0N🇬🇧 @ukJ0N]

🤣🤣🤣
"If you want another economics lesson, I'll talk to you later"

BBC hack tries gotcha after gotcha.
Then comes back for more.
Richard Tice finally has enough and schools him properly.

Marvellous takedown. Calm, precise, and completely in control.

The usual BBC approach meets someone who will not play the game.

@TiceRichard @SuellaBraverman @ZiaYusufUK

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: Marine Le Pen offers REFERENDUM to people of France

"The French people will vote for their future!"

THIS IS A GAMECHANGER

Le Pen has promised if she becomes the next President of France there will be a Referendum on immigration to PERMANENTLY stop the problem

Le Pen has long hinted at this but now her FOURTEEN ARTICLES are available for all to read.

If the people vote in favour they will become part of the French constitution meaning no future government could open the borders again without another binding referendum

The 14 Articles:
Title I – Control of immigration and the status of foreigners

Article 1: Gives the Republic full freedom to set conditions for foreigners’ entry and stay; allows limits or bans on family reunification; enables restrictions on access to jobs, benefits, and public services; strengthens rules on removal, bans on re-entry, and penalties for aiding illegal immigration. Laws can differentiate by nationality, length of stay, family situation, or resources.

Article 2: Restricts the right of asylum to conditions set by law; allows requiring asylum claims to be filed outside France; defines refugee/stateless status and duties of those granted it.

Article 3: Limits the Defender of Rights’ role regarding foreigners to the conditions set in the new articles on entry/stay and asylum.

Title II – Protection of French nationality and the identity of France

Article 4: Defines French nationality primarily by descent (at least one French parent); ends automatic jus soli (birthright citizenship); allows naturalization only on request, with strict assimilation conditions set by organic law; permits withdrawal of nationality for serious acts incompatible with being French.

Article 5: Reserves voting rights and eligibility to French nationals only (with limited EU exceptions already in the Constitution); restricts certain sovereignty-related functions to French nationals.

Article 6: Affirms that the only recognized community in France is the French people; no one can claim exemptions from common rules based on origin, culture, language, or beliefs; anti-discrimination policies cannot undermine French citizens’ rights.

Article 7: Adds explicit protections against discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and disability to Article 1 of the Constitution.

Article 8: Strengthens French as the language of teaching, work, exchanges, and public services; requires the Republic to safeguard France’s identity, historical/cultural/linguistic heritage, and landscapes; expands the President’s role in protecting this identity and heritage.

Title III – Primacy of the Constitution and national law

Article 9: Declares the Constitution the supreme norm of the French legal order; expands the Constitutional Council’s power to review international commitments, EU acts, and laws for conformity with the Constitution and national sovereignty principles; creates broader citizen referral mechanisms.

Article 10: Gives organic laws control over how treaties take effect in domestic law and their authority; limits the invocability of certain international human-rights provisions (notably from the 1946 Preamble) in constitutional review on migration-related matters.

Article 11: Eases parliamentary resolutions on denouncing international agreements or positions in international organizations on rights, free movement, or cultural heritage; increases parliamentary information and oversight of treaty negotiations in these areas.

Article 12: (Completes primacy rules; adjusts related institutional provisions on international commitments.)

Article 13: Provides for adaptations in overseas territories.

Article 14: States that the new constitutional provisions can themselves only be revised via Article 11 (referendum) or the standard parliamentary procedure of Article 89; includes transitional measures.

In closing, Le pen has made clear this does not mean she won't go even further with immigration reforms but what this would mean is no future government could roll back the law further than this

Protecting France's future 🇫🇷

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

I’ve stood on dozens of protests next to women and girls that have been sexually harassed, abused or attacked by asylum seekers.

I’ve stood by these women and girls in Whitechapel, when counter protestor mobs started abusing and trying to intimidate them.

YOU ARE NOT SHUTTING US UP

DEPORT DEPORT DEPORT