The budget cost Sunak a LOT of money today...
Capital Gains Tax UP (his tax return shows majority of his "income" from capital gain
Halting offshore trusts to avoid inheritance tax
Stopping non-dom tax status (wife avoided £20 million in tax as non-dom)
Cue California
Oh yes and the private jet thing....funny to watch but he won't even know he's paying it....at least Starmer CANCELLED the £40 million new helicopter Sunak had ordered us to pay for him to use!!
THREAD:
1. PERSONAL NEWS:
Today BBC News has announced plans to close @BBCHARDtalk after 3 decades holding the world’s politicians and powerbrokers to account. This is sad news for me personally, but much more important, I think it’s depressing news for the BBC🧵
Brexit, the great unmentionable of this election, is really what has done for the Tories. It’s infuriated both those who voted to remain, who see it as a colossal self-inflicted disaster, and those who voted leave, who think they were told a pack of lies. Result: annihilation.
We've launched our https://t.co/cWTNy7bBTD website tonight
GO TO WEBSITE
TYPE IN YOUR POSTCODE
and find the tactical vote to make in your constituency (new boundaries) to STOP A TORY
Let me know how you get on
Search all constituencies on our menu👍🏼@MVTFWD
Piers Morgan, "The great unmentionable is Brexit.. Nobody is talking about Brexit" #ITVDebate
"I was somebody who voted remain.. I was adamant that you can't just have another referendum immediately.. But I'm sorry, after 8 years.. Given the state of our borders.. The self harming effect on our economy"
"Surely Labour should be honest about the polling in this country. Which is that most people would like another referendum to see whether they like what they have been given"
🔴
Imagine that Willy Wragg is NOT an MP.
Imagine he is a teacher and you are his Headteacher
Do you:
a) Let him teach Yr9 as normal
b) Praise his apology as courageous
c) Ignore parents concerns
d) Refuse to discuss it in the staff room
So, see the problem yet, @RishiSunak ?
The #WilliamWragg story made more suspicious with Tories still banging on about Angela Rayner & Daily Mail 'sleuths' desperately hunting her cushions!!! #DistractionTechniques
A little poll ⏬
Do you think the William Wragg story is much bigger politically than reported so far?
BREAKING
Happy Easter 🐣
Poll predicts Tories will have JUST 98 SEATS after the GE.
In @thetimes MRP poll (most accurate form of polling) from @BestForBritain gives Labour 468 seats and @Conservatives just 98 😂😂
I've said for a year that we're targeting Tories getting 70 seats or less when we include TACTICAL VOTING https://t.co/DmZEvRrEk0....things are looking good for all of us 👍🏼
And so bad for them....oooooffffff 👍🏼
Some Key Tories predicted to lose their seats 😂😂
Johnny Mercer
Jonathan Gullis
Penny Mordaunt
Robert Jenrick
James Cleverly
Alex Chalk
Grant Shapps
Mel Stride
Esther McVey
Chris Heaton-Harris
Andrew Mitchell
Jacob Rees-Mogg
David Davies
Gavin Williamson
Liam Fox
Therese Coffey
Looks like Badenoch will be next Tory leader after all
Behind the Scenes: The rise and fall of the Brexit empire 🙌 🥳 🍾
Geopolitics and inevitable realities are making the idea of a Brexit-reversal easier to imagine
Diplomats on 🇬🇧 Brexit Exit:
The general consensus was that “there is no queue” and that if the UK were to meet the technical criteria, then the political hurdles would not be impossible to overcome. Who knows if that means joining the euro or Schengen…
Nothing will change until the current Conservative government’s 14 years in charge comes to an end. That is almost certainly going to happen later this year at a general election that Labour is expected to win in a landslide.
Brexit’s 10 year anniversary will be celebrated during this new government’s first two years in charge. Whether that will be time enough to start reversing it remains to be seen but momentum is building in its favour.
https://t.co/qvsW9Tmcv5
@carolvorders @SimonClarkeMP I am presently still following the irrelevant fool🙄. I’ll update you if he tweets anything of interest - unlikely I know! #GTTO#GeneralElectionN0W