Andrew Leatherland

Chair, East Midlands SDP. Rebuilding Britain. Don’t wait for someone to come along one day. Join us now and make the difference.

[Andrew Leatherland @AndrewNotts_SDP]

This is who we are and what we believe in. We want to go to work and rebuild Britain for its people by focusing on three big things. There’s room on board for those who want the same. You are the hope you’re looking for. Join us.

[Chris Bowden @ItsChrisBowden]

Beautiful.

Proof positive of what i strongly suspect in almost any area.

Politicians, due to laziness; foolishness or a pig-headed desire to pursue ideological follies failing to simply use the tools already available.

Here, marriage.

This is a doubly exciting example however because it touches on another bug-bear: rights versus obligations.

The modern moral code as instilled by New Labour is one of rights, not duty or obligation.

Why can't we just ask people to get married?

Because our faux morality grants rights without obligation. And marriage can't give you that - marriage actually asks you to commit to something.

[Chris Bowden @ItsChrisBowden]

This is what 40 years of neolibralism looks like.

You are a vessel that can be relied upon to accumulate some money each month.

Your money can then be harvested by faceless, foreign-owned companies. Rent-seeking on the assets our foolish governments allowed to be sold.

[Andrew Leatherland @AndrewNotts_SDP]

When gravity and consequences kick in from the hubris of self regarding politicians.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

BP is preparing to quit the North Sea after more than 60 years as Labour ramps up taxes on oil and gas. https://t.co/gE3ViPvoS3

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

BP is preparing to quit the North Sea after more than 60 years as Labour ramps up taxes on oil and gas. https://t.co/gE3ViPvoS3

[Andrew Leatherland @AndrewNotts_SDP]

@GlenAdvanceUK Glen. If you feel politically homeless, then maybe take a look at @SDPhq . Ultimately you decide if it’s attractive for you. There’s some red bits and some blue bits, but ultimately we all just want what we feel is right for the country and the interests of its people.

[Chris Bowden @ItsChrisBowden]

Buy British.... and tell your friends.

Let's start spending our money on ourselves.

[Andrew Leatherland @AndrewNotts_SDP]

Make a stand for your country. Buy British. Don’t be a participant in the collapse of British business.

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

Shein made £2.05bn in UK sales in 2024.

Its investment pledge was about £211m over five years - across the UK and Europe.

In the same year, 11,341 independent British shops closed.

31 a day.

We can pretend these things are separate.

They aren’t.

[Made In England @BuyEnglishMade]

Shein made £2.05bn in UK sales in 2024.

Its investment pledge was about £211m over five years - across the UK and Europe.

In the same year, 11,341 independent British shops closed.

31 a day.

We can pretend these things are separate.

They aren’t.

[Andrew Leatherland @AndrewNotts_SDP]

@WilliamClouston @bencobley @jfwduffield Word has gone around the world that Britain is open for plunder.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

Under Blair’s New Labour government the state built fewer houses in total than the Thatcher administration built PER YEAR.

I explain the difference between Blair’s essay and reality on the @spikedonline podcast (link below).

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

I would find Tony Blair’s intervention less nauseating if he’d practiced what he preaches.

New Labour ran down our industrial base, built no nuclear power stations, no new airports, not a single reservoir and far FEWER state homes than Thatcher!

He preferred illegal wars…

[Andrew Leatherland @AndrewNotts_SDP]

@ItsChrisBowden @4sec7 I think the issue comes (as it often does) with politicians who have misunderstood a perfectly good idea and mangled it for their own ends but badged it with the same name. The is a placemaking design principle based on mixed use planning. The cities we love to visit have this.

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

Logic and reason are the two things our political establishment lacks.

If you want cheaper housing, you need to build more and control immigration.

If you want cheaper energy, then build more nuclear capacity.

If you want better wages, do more training and don’t undercut workers with foreign labour.

If you want industry that isn’t undercut by the Far East, you need tariffs.

This is all common sense, something the British establishment doesn’t have.

If you want this to change, then join the SDP. 🇬🇧
https://t.co/cFewZZ43pn

[SDP Thames Valley @SDPThamesValley]

@GBPolitcs @Telegraph Anyone really wanting to build a better country could do far more good by defecting to the Social Democrats. https://t.co/kpMRW1RAqh

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

Deindustrialisation and the continued wilful ignorance by every group of politician for 40 years to pretend that a service industry & financialization of our economy could replace our big heavy industries & industrial heartlands has come to an end. We are a broken divided & diminished country. Unless we have an economic plan of reindustrialising the country I fear that our decline will be permanent & divisions dystopian

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

A house is not enough.

A home needs to be warm.
Cheap to run.
Connected to clean water and reliable services.
Close to work and schools.

Something you can own and pass on.

Britain is failing on every single one of these.

[East of England SDP @SDP_EoE]

The SDP aren't simply Left or Right - we transcend this outdated divide.

We truly understand what Britain needs. Our policies tackle the root of the problem.
From industrial strategy to social reform, we address the real issues.

Interested? Join below:
https://t.co/eQlfJPAVvn

[Daniel WhetstoneSDP @WhetstoneSDP]

People tell me the (little old) https://t.co/36q0REifN3 have no influence!

Yet the minute we produce a green paper, everyone else suddenly has (similar) great ideas!

https://t.co/aomcirRHqh

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

The average British salary should be £65,000.
It's £34,000.
Fifty years of political failure.
One plan to fix it.

The SDP's Investment State documentary, out now:

[Tim Stanley @timothy_stanley]

Compelling and convincing, why Britain should switch from entitlements to investment.