Peter Connolly

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

You can not claim to be letting out dangerous criminals early due to prison overcrowding, to then threaten 2 years imprisonment for putting a flag on a lamppost.

We really and truly have lost the plot.

I really don’t think we can vote our way out of this!

Sad times 😢

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🇪🇺 THE EU WILL FALL

🇮🇸 Iceland votes to reject the EU
🇬🇧 UK has already left
🇫🇷 Le Pen says she will hold referendum on EU powers
🇩🇪 The AfD say they will leave schengen and the EURO

Anti-EU sentiment is rising
We cannot be stopped

[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