Gordon Snowden

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[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@RishiSunak @AJABurnett @thetimes Thank God for Badenoch! Sunak’s disastrous time in No10 ultimately threatened the very existence of the Conservative Party. Despite widespread demands, he lacked the nous to reduce steep Taxation so unpopular in the Party. Thanks to him, look where we are now!

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

The right needs to unite to defeat the dangers of the left.

Country before party, Britain before ego.

As a Tory, I’ve said I think the Tories should not have stood in Makerfield.

Same goes for Restore.

This is not any old election. It is a very specific one where the national interest should trump other considerations.

[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@afneil Like many of her fellow Nats, Wishart has mince for brains where simple arithmetic is concerned. Overall loss of support for the SNP reflects an ongoing trend they will find hard to buck

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

A narrator writes:
The SNP won 58 out of 129 Holyrood seats. Which, unless you’re a product of Scotland’s increasingly underperforming school system, is obviously not more ‘than everyone else put together’.
It was six fewer seats than the SNP won in 2021.
And the SNP’s vote share was roughly 10 percentage points below its share in 2021.
So by no acceptable definition did the SNP ‘win by a landslide’.

[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@JuliaHB1 @NONONOEU Streeting has missed the bus and his speech a vain attempt to inject some life into his zombie campaign for leadership of a doomed Party. If Burnham loses Makerfield, Witless Wes has simply opened the way to No10 for Red Ed. God help us all

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This poor boy was running away from someone who stabbed him & stole his phone, but the police in the UK attacked him instead of his murderer!

[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@benonwine Real Socialists would make us all part of their cabal

[Benonwine @benonwine]

How did so many Labour politicians who constantly preach for the working class end up building multi-million pound fortunes for themselves while on public salaries? 🤔

[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@afneil To think we pay this plonker nearly £100k a year for spouting such rubbish

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Usual SNP lies. Scottish taxpayers don’t contribute a penny to HS2. Indeed Scotland gets more public money to spend via the Barnet consequential formula because HS2 is deemed an England-only spending project. Doh!

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Literally just funding Russia at this point, all while we fund Ukraine.

They’ll do anything to avoid drilling in the North Sea, even fund an enemies war.

Total disaster.

[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@_HenryBolton @WebbLowrie Red Ed’s brains have been ‘blowing in the wind’ for some time now. But we’ve nowt to be complacent about as he is closer to a permanent bed in No10 now than ever before. If Burnham, the phony Party saviour, doesn’t win Makerfield, enter Ed. Get ready to emigrate!

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

I am genuinely starting to believe that Ed Miliband is either mad or is working for another government. There’s no credible alternative.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Does anyone believe this?
Who on earth are they polling?

[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@AllisonPearson The mother of all fictions. In the history of British polling, no one man, or woman, has flipped support for any Party so quickly. The great Labour experiment must truly be in its death throes for them to come up with this tripe

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things.
I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation.
Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right.
On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating.
I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

[Ms Panther @150G512XD]

There is a lovely memorial plaque to James at Whitley Bay War Memorial ❤️

Thank you for your service James ❤️

Lest we forget 🇬🇧

[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@AndrewBowie_MP @GallIain Definitely a Tory win if the candidate gets down to the nitty gritty and details exactly how the Voter stands to benefit under a future Scottish Tory administration, leaving out all the usual bull and cliches.

[Gordon Snowden @GordonSnowden1]

@MichelleDewbs @BraisbyI Starmer and his Socialist Comrades openly fighting like rats in a sack to lead the current incompetent Labour fiasco masquerading as a Government. He should call a General Election now. Only the Tories have the right policies which will lead to economic recovery

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I’ve enjoyed watching the past few days quietly from the sidelines…🍿 👀

What a car-crash it has been for Labour. I’ve watched aghast at the statements made by so many senior folk, not least Angela Rayner & today Keir Starmer.

It seems they have no true understanding (or acceptance) of why they are haemorrhaging like this…

You don’t win back a Brexit red wall by closer EU realignment. You don’t win working class folk back by calling those they chose ‘divisive’ or ‘dangerous’, nor talking about ‘dark paths’.

You don’t win them back by banging on about ‘far-right’ and certainly not by suggesting that many of the normal (often former Labour) voters who will take to the streets at the weekend, to raise their frustrations are attempting to “intimidate”.

And finally, you certainly…certainly don’t win them back by refusing to acknowled the impact of uncontrolled immigration or illegal migrants on their neighbourhoods, nor the bloated welfare state which sees many benefit claimants better off than the workers - (while expecting said workers to pay for it, tho struggling themselves).

Don’t even get me started on the elephant in the room of the broken social contract…

How is it even possible to be at the top of political power and be this clueless?

We have much to discuss tonight and I can’t wait for 6pm to do just that with you 🙌🙌