Ed Barradell

Councillor for Flamstead, Markyate and Great Gaddesden on @DacorumBC. Interested in Housing and Economic Growth. 🚀

[Ed Barradell @EMJBarradell]

Meanwhile in China:

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NEW

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announces that the new lower speed curtailed HS2 trains between Old Oak Common and Brum will not run start running for at least a decade, and might not start until.. 2039.

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

While it is encouraging to see a commitment to Delivering at Pace, it is disappointing that there was a failure to See the Big Picture.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

A truly Labour love story 💔

[rt hon Sir Desmond Swayne TD MP @DesmondSwayne]

If, like me, you were born in 1956, you’ll receive almost £300,000 more in benefits than you’ll pay in taxes in your lifetime

State Pensions make up a huge chunk of that

Long term, we simply can’t afford to sustain the Triple Lock’s generosity

Blog:

https://t.co/nHaFEHdFCe

[Luke Robert Black 🌳 @lukerobertblack]

On this graph you can see when @SuellaBraverman was Home Secretary (2022-2023) and @JamesCleverly’s short but significantly more impactful 2024 stint.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

how it feels to be in Keir Starmer's government rn

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Is this really the legacy Keir Starmer wants?

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Soon.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Britain's two party system has now neatly coalesced around a new top two parties, one that wants radical reform and one that is conservative.

As Britain has a two party system we need not concern ourselves with parties other than these top two.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Enjoy your flight, Prime Minister?

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

Another bad day for Nick, 30
>Income tax up £658
>Student loan repayment up £239
>Rent up (landlord tax passed on)
>Tax on savings up
>Non working neighbour gets 7k benefit payout

[Ed Barradell @EMJBarradell]

No one’s really picked up on it..

But by freezing the student loan threshold, Rachel Reeves has whacked up taxes on young working graduates to increase welfare benefits of those who don’t.

(and she wonders why graduate employment is at a record low…)

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

There are no words good enough to express the horror of this.

The killing of Charlie Kirk is a blow to everything Western civilization stands for: open discourse, robust debate and peaceful dissent. He lived his life by those very principles, no matter the danger it put him in.

This may have happened far from our shores, but the rising intolerance of opposing views affects us all. We cannot turn a blind eye to it.

My thoughts are with Charlie’s family, his wife Erika, and their children.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Rachel Reeves has done it once.

And she's going to do it again.

[Oliver Cooper @OliverCooper]

Great team out in Fulham today, campaigning for Liam @DownerSanderson ahead of Thursday’s by-election.

A great, energetic, and fun @HFConsCllrs campaign for a cleaner and safer Fulham.

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

Rory Stewart turning out to be a Lib Dem is the most shocking reveal since Feathers McGraw took his rubber glove off.

[Gavin Barwell @GavinBarwell]

The goal is laudable but by fuelling demand without increasing supply Help to Buy helps a few people now at the cost of making it harder for everyone else in the longer term. The answers lie on the supply side (and in reducing demand by getting net migration under control)

[Ed Barradell @EMJBarradell]

@SAshworthHayes We’ve got more (cheaper) renewables than the US, but still pay higher prices because the most expensive source - usually gas - sets the cost for everything. Makes no sense. Ditch marginal pricing!

[Ed Barradell @EMJBarradell]

@TiceRichard @reformparty_uk Reform have one job - reform things to make them better. Yet here you are pushing anti-growth nimby nonsense.

You don’t get cheap, secure energy by banning pylons. Build more, not less.