East Lothian Conservative & Unionists

Welcome to East Lothian Scottish Conservative & Unionist Assoc.Promoted by S Russell on behalf of ELCUA of The Granary, Kingston, North Berwick EH39 5LT

[East Lothian Conservative & Unionists @ELConservatives]

Promoted by ELCUA of The Granary, Kingston, North Berwick EH39 5LT

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

"The Chancellor has already banked the tax revenue, but there's just one problem, Rosebank hasn't been approved…

If it's not going to be approved, why was it in the Budget?"

The Budget was fiction. Revenue from things that don’t exist and big decisions on welfare and defence moved to next year. #PMQs

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

[Scottish Conservatives @ScotTories]

Labour think drilling for oil and gas is fine, as long as it’s nowhere near Scotland.

It’s unacceptable. We need to get Britain drilling.

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

We need a proper national conversation about how we elect the Scottish Parliament.

There's something wrong with a voting system that most people struggle to understand, never mind explain.

Voters should know how their votes translate into seats and who is accountable to them. Is the current system really delivering that?

I'm a list MSP myself, but that doesn't mean I think the system is right or beyond criticism.

The Scottish Greens have learned how to work the system to their advantage. Rather than engage with the argument, they resort to personal insults. Predictable.

No voting system should be a sacred cow. We should be prepared to challenge the way Holyrood is elected and find something simpler, fairer and more accountable to the people of Scotland.

https://t.co/vkHaTuxheU

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Burnham's do nothing government has left Britain in limbo.

[Scottish Conservatives @ScotTories]

This sums up the SNP’s skewed priorities👇

[East Lothian Conservative & Unionists @ELConservatives]

On this Armistice Day we remember all who laid down their lives in service of our country. We owe them an eternal gratitude! #Thankyou #ArmisticeDay #WeWillRememberThem #LestWeForget

[Russell Findlay @RussellFindlay1]

The SNP are already using this👇to ramp up demands for another independence referendum.

Labour can't be trusted, with Michael Marra just as naïve as Andy Burnham.

The Scottish Conservatives will ALWAYS stand up for Scotland’s proud place in the United Kingdom.

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

Labour won’t reform welfare. They’ll just make you pay for it.

John Healey has announced that he is abandoning Labour’s small crackdown on welfare fraud…

It would have meant simple open banking checks to make sure claimants are eligible. Not much different from the checks faced by anyone applying for a mortgage, renting a property or taking out a credit card.

Healey’s decision is estimated to cost £10 million next year because of an increase in fraudulent claims.

At the same time, Labour are giving HMRC new powers to raid the bank accounts of hard-working people, potentially emptying them, leaving nothing to pay the bills.

They’ll even have the power to take money directly from a couple’s joint bank account to pay off just one partner’s debts.

If taxpayers can have money taken from them under the threat of being thrown into one of our overcrowded prisons, why on earth shouldn’t welfare claimants face the same?

Of course, we should put £10 million into context. We are estimated to spend almost FIFTEEN THOUSAND TIMES that amount on debt interest alone.

That’s not the point. It is two-tier treatment of taxpayers and welfare claimants. And it exposes just how utterly unserious Labour are about meaningful welfare reform.

When Keir Starmer attempted some small reforms – which were not enough – Labour MPs staged a full-blown rebellion, determined to keep handing over more and more taxpayers’ cash to people who can and should work.

The day after the Budget, Chancellor Healey went on the BBC to claim that the benefits bill would be cut before the next election, only for his army of Treasury and Labour Party spinners to be forced to clarify that it wouldn’t happen.

Welfare reform is more urgent than ever. Working-age welfare spending is set to increase by £57.7 billion under Labour’s plan.

That’s more than £2,500 for every working-age household.

As Chancellor, I would make very different choices.

We Conservatives will cut the welfare bill by £36 billion. We’ll reintroduce the two-child benefit cap, reform Housing Benefit, the Disability Living Allowance and sickness and disability benefits, and more.

Welfare is a safety net, not an entitlement. It is paid for by hard-working taxpayers.

If you can work, you should work.

Every time Labour ducks welfare reform, hard-working taxpayers are left picking up the tab.

[Andrew Bowie MP @AndrewBowie_MP]

🤷‍♂️ Today the Attorney-General of the United Kingdom will appear at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to defend the right to exploit oil in British waters off the Falkland Islands. This is the right thing to do.

🤷‍♂️ But today we will have our first meetings to go line by line through Labour’s new Energy Dependence Bill which bans all oil and gas exploration in British waters off…Britain. 🤦‍♂️

[Scottish Conservatives @ScotTories]

Only the Conservatives will get the ballooning benefits bill under control and fund our nation’s defence.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

This ought to be a criminal use of tax payers money

[Russell Findlay @RussellFindlay1]

Kemi has launched our new paper - Welfare that Works.

Our common-sense plan would get Britain working and save taxpayers £36 billion a year👇

[Agent P @AgentP22]

The question for John Swinney is straightforward. Why did the Scottish Government’s festival greeting go out at 11am, just as the Remembrance Sunday silence began?

He still hasn't answered that key question.

[Scottish Conservatives @ScotTories]

Our national security must take priority.

Conservatives will make the right decisions to keep our country safe.

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

I wrote to the Permanent Secretary, Joe Griffin, in September demanding answers about John Swinney’s £17,893 business-class flights to the World Cup. I followed that up in October because I was far from satisfied with the response.

Now Audit Scotland is considering the concerns raised by my colleague @murdo_fraser about this and other examples of SNP Government spending.

And quite right too.

How can it be acceptable for senior officials to authorise expenditure from which they themselves benefit? Who is checking these decisions? Where is the accountability?

Then there’s the £11,000 away-day for senior civil servants and a £10,000 consultancy contract awarded without competition.

This is public money. Every penny of it comes from taxpayers who have every right to expect it to be spent properly.

There cannot be one set of rules for everyone else and another for those at the very top of the Scottish Government.

We need straight answers about who authorised this spending, why it was approved and what safeguards were applied.

My letter to the Permanent Secretary ⬇️

No reply as of this date.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Britain cannot keep spending more on welfare while working people pay more in taxes.

The Conservatives have a plan to cut £36 billion from the welfare bill and get Britain working again.

Watch @KemiBadenoch set out our plan LIVE at 10:30am.

[Harriet Cross MP @HarrietCross_MP]

Your letter has not answered my questions, John.

Why did the official Scottish Government account not acknowledge Remembrance Sunday, but did post about a Sikh Festival at precisely 11am?

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

Awful.

Another business gone and more jobs lost thanks to Rachel Reeves' Jobs Tax, endless red tape and regulations.

It's all piled on the pressure.

Labour have no idea how much damage they've done to business because so few of them have proper private sector experience.

[Russell Findlay @RussellFindlay1]

Stephen is right. There's a crisis in Scottish prisons - with organised crime gangs wielding huge power.

Yet the SPS appears more interested in loyalty to SNP ministers than in protecting its people and the public.