Charlie Dewhirst MP

Member of Parliament for Bridlington & The Wolds and Shadow Minister for the Union 🇬🇧

Promoted by Charlie Dewhirst, 13A Mill St, Driffield, YO25 6TS.

[Charlie Dewhirst MP @charliedewhirst]

The greatest honour of my life. It’s an unbelievable privilege to be elected as the Member of Parliament for my home constituency.

[Harriet Cross MP @HarrietCross_MP]

The Scottish Government has questions to answer.

More than 207,000 fallen men and women are listed on the Scottish War Memorial's Roll of Honour.

Yesterday, the country fell silent at 11am to remember those to gave their lives for us.

Also at precisely 11am yesterday, the Scottish Government's X account published a post. Not about Remembrance Sunday, but about a Sikh festival. In fact, that account did not post to mark Remembrance Sunday at all.

Later in the day they also posted about climate change. But still, did not see it necessary to mark one of the most poignant days in our nation's calendar.

Bandi Chorr Divas is, of course, an important date for Sikhs. Indeed, it coinciding with Remembrance Sunday was the perfect opportunity for the Scottish Government to recognise the almost 200,000 Sikhs who were killed or injured fighting in the World Wars alongside allied forces.

They didn't do this. They chose to just ignore Remembrance Sunday altogether.

I have written to the Scottish Government for answers, not least in identifying who is responsible for showing such contempt and disrespect to our armed forces and veterans.

[Graham Stuart MP @grahamstuart]

Best description I've heard of Labour's tax on private schools:

"A tax that raises less than it costs isn’t a tax.

It’s spite with a spreadsheet.

Aimed at the parents who sacrificed, and dressed up as fairness."

Businessman Alex Lovén in Times interview.

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

Is this a joke?

The EU wants the UK to put tariffs on Chinese EVs and Steel in the Reset agreement using WTO GATT rules, but it also wants the UK to dynamically align with its's SPS rules which are against the WTO's CODEX rules.

Talk about cherry-picking!

https://t.co/IZRjtRZQay

[Charlie Dewhirst MP @charliedewhirst]

Another day of ridiculous “leaves on the line” train cancellations in Driffield. These trains are still running down the line but don’t stop at busy stations like Driffield, Beverley and Cottingham so they can drive slower. Welcome to the nationalised rail network!

[Rebecca Paul MP @Rebecca_SPaul]

@TikTokSupport Why have you removed a video of my speech in the House of Commons on protecting women’s sport? How does telling the truth and standing up for women violate your community guidelines?

[Harriet Cross MP @HarrietCross_MP]

Threats to the UK’s offshore oil & gas pipelines and infrastructure are real.

Russian and Chinese vessels have been seen tracking above them. Drones are often spotted from rigs.

Any damage or disruption to these pipelines would severely impact our energy supplies.

These are critical assets, and should be treated as such.

@AndrewBowie_MP, @jcartlidgemp and I have written to the Secretaries of State for Energy, Defence and Scotland urging Labour to take action ⤵️

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Graham Stuart on Politics Live on Louise Haigh: "She'll be the first convicted fraudster to take PMQs"

[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

Terrible idea

[NPA @NatPigAssoc]

@charliedewhirst then went on to discuss some of the practicalities of this transition which we feel have just not been properly thought through.

Whether or not we end up relying on Russia, CO2 is largely available and we have no established argon supply chains. 4/7

[Charlie Dewhirst MP @charliedewhirst]

What an absolute insult!

The idea those running Bridlington & The Wolds' 3,964 registered businesses, the farmers on our 670 local farms, our 114 pubs' landlords and our 5,700 self-employed people, are somehow not working tells you it all about this govt's priorities & ideology.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Labour’s Treasury Minister admitted she doesn’t think employers are working people.

No wonder. The entire Cabinet has less private-sector experience combined than our Shadow Chancellor.

They’re no longer the Labour Party. They’re the Welfare Party.

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

“I don’t think employers are working people”. Emma Reynolds, Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Beyond belief.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?

On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.

There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.

As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.

This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.

[Harriet Cross MP @HarrietCross_MP]

@RussellFindlay1 and the @ScotTories have proven they’re still the only party at Holyrood capable of providing a strong opposition to the SNP 💪 

And @KemiBadenoch is taking the fight to Labour’s tax-and-spend approach at Westminster 🥀

👇Read my piece in the Scottish Daily Express.

https://t.co/6Qc5cBOCQH

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

Bridget, telling lies is a breach of the Ministerial Code.

It's well known from your time as Education Secretary (before your demotion!) that you struggle with the truth.

As the then junior minister responsible for financial services regulation, I was not even remotely a 'co-author' of the mini budget. I did not see it until the night before.

I’m flattered that my decades of real-world business experience outside Westminster trigger so many Labour MPs. It’ll be useful when the next Conservative government has to clean up your mess!

(P.S. Mortgage rates are higher now than in 2022…)

[Mims Davies MP @mimsdavies]

Blimey‼️What the gherkins is going on ?

[Charlie Dewhirst MP @charliedewhirst]

Our country is overspent, overborrowed, overtaxed and drowning in an out-of-control welfare system.

There is no such thing as government money – it is taxpayers’ money.

But yesterday's Budget showed Labour are still addicted to spending other peoples’ money, and wasting it:

[Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty]

“I don’t care if he’s the Chair of the Defence Select Committee”

A churlish and ill-tempered outing from Wes Streeting at the Despatch Box as he undermines Tan Dhesi and the Labour-chaired Defence Select Committee that holds the Defence Secretary to account.

This is entirely the wrong tone to adopt.

[Stuart @StuartMaggs]

The hidden tax measure in the Budget is huge for people paying tax under self-assessment - sole traders, partners, landlords, retired investors.

For 6th April 2028-29, you currently pay 50% of your income tax late in the tax year in question (in January 2029), 50% just after the year end (in July 2029) with any make-up payment in January 2030.

Under the new proposals you will pay your tax perhaps monthly or quarterly (TBC) from April 2029 onwards. A rough analysis suggests the impact is to draw about 50% of your tax bill forward, a huge cashflow boost to HMRC and a significant funding issue for the self-employed.

The Treasury recognises this, and expects to raise £1.3bn of additional tax in 29/30 as a result of this change.

The cashflow impact of the accelerated charge will send some businesses to the wall.

[Harriet Cross MP @HarrietCross_MP]

We know the SNP are an anti-growth, pro-welfare, high-tax government 📉

But yesterday the Chancellor missed a golden opportunity to mitigate their economic self-harm 🥀

⬇️ my piece in the Telegraph.

[No Context Politics @NoConPolHQ]

This is just lovely.

Instead of making it a culture war, inviting a pile on, an MP takes his medicine but makes his point.

Bravo Mr Dewhirst.