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anti EUSSR. blocked by Donald Tusk and herr flick, sorry junckner, owen jones 😏 wonder what they have in common. Pro MAGA AND PRO MBGA

[Go @Gormo472]

@MayorofLondon Own rental property in Scotland. Get £550 a month rent, mortgage is now £950 a month, plus insurance etc, £1200 a month costs us. Rent controls mean rent could only be put up by 3%, £16 a month. didn’t put up because tenants couldn’t pay. Tenants won’t leave. Council won’t pay.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

If you need to be told not to have sex with unconsenting or underage girls, you have no business coming to a country on whose citizenship you have no claim. It is beyond depressing that I need to say that.
Paywall down.
https://t.co/79oewuInHi

[sandieshoes 🇬🇧 @sandieshoes]

So basically the Mayor is to become more powerful than councillors and MPs.

How is stripping councils of their power and putting that power in the hands of one individual enabling local communities??

Burnham is already allowing mayors to keep a share of income tax and business rates to spend in their area.
All that money under the control of one person, they will be free to spend it on their very own pet projects - what could possibly go wrong.

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“Andy Burnham is set to hand mayors new powers to overrule councils and take control of local planning decisions.

Mayors will be allowed to "call in" decisions, and direct councils to take them forward or refuse them, in proposals to be unveiled next week.

They will also be able to grant upfront permission, so developers can start building without having to apply”

Tories - “Burnham will be stripping councils across the country of their ability to make planning decisions in their own communities, while making it easier to build traveller sites against local wishes”

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[Crewkerne Man @CrewkerneMan]

Kemi Badenoch warned Iran posed a direct threat to Britain. Labour dithered. Farage went weak at the knees and wanted out.

Now Iran-linked hackers have SHUT DOWN a British power facility for FOUR DAYS. That is an attack on our national infrastructure.

Kemi was right.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Labour really believe that every penny that you earn belongs to the state, unless they say otherwise.

Even a private business succeeding must somehow actually be thanks to the government.

They cannot conceive of anything but more state control, and more tax, forever.

[Duncan Bannatyne @DuncanBannatyne]

She is the best currently available.

[Go @Gormo472]

@afneil Also the petro chemical business and products we need

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Nobody who knows anything about energy has ever claimed more North Sea drilling would lower bills. But it would:
Improve security of supply (esp of gas, all of which lands on UK shores).
Help balance of payments
Add to government revenues
Create/preserve well-paid skilled jobs
Reduce UK carbon footprint since, eg, gas brought onshore from North Sea generates 3 times fewer emissions than LNG
Given even E Miliband admits we’ll be using oil and gas for the foreseeable future, why not develop a bit more of it ourselves rather than importing more and more of both.

[Cllr Lucy Trimnell 🫖 @LucyTrims]

Kemi is being noticed everywhere.

I voted for her under the premise that when she speaks you can’t help but listen.

She has an instantly recognisable voice, I imagined people driving to work, cooking dinner or watching her in an interview on the news paying that bit more attention to her than to anything else they heard, something I simply couldn’t imagine happening with Jenrick.

When she was first elected leader - the negativity, the briefing against her. I feared she wouldn’t be given the chance and then it all started to come together all of a sudden and now she is talked about so much in glowing terms.

I remember Peter Cardwell saying to Saqib Bhatti ‘you might think she’s good but nobody else is listening to her’.

That is no longer the case and she is favourite to be the next PM with one of the big bookies. There is hope for Britain, its businesses and its economy. 😃

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Look at this pictures. This is why the Q angle between male & females is so different (hips to knees) it enables a totally difference cadence in running, jumping, cycling, even kicking in swimming. It’s why we walk differently. It’s just one of 100s of physical differences

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

This county really does need to get a grip!

[Migrant Hotel Manager @Migrant_Auditor]

Today Riot police issue a search warrant at my house, arrested and now bailed for allegedly eating a bowl of chicken pasta at a migrant hotel, CCTV at end!
Please share far and wide and tag anyone who needs to hear as I’m now officially silenced!

[Migrant Hotel Manager @Migrant_Auditor]

Exactly one year ago today greater Manchester police sent 10 riot police to my house for an allegation of burglary. The alleged burgled item was a plate of free chicken pasta that was being served in a migrant hotel.
I was on bail for 6 months where I was not able to leave the country, had to sleep at my home address every night, wasn’t allowed within 200 metres of any protest (planned or unplanned) and was not allowed within 100 metres of a migrant hotel or HMO. All my electronic devices were seized for 8 months and there is damage to my door and handle where they applied excessive force to it.
1 year later the case has not been dropped and is classed as RUI (released under investigation.) because of this greater Manchester Police refused to release the body cam footage of them entering my house where they searched everything from my loft and garden to my terminally ill mothers underwear drawer.
I was held in a cell for 8 hours whilst 2 CID detectives travelled from another police station to interview me who asked about my politics and my view on migrants.
Every time I now leave the country I am now greeted by customs or border force on return who ask where I have been and search my belongings/car.
If anyone says 2 tier policing does not exist show them this.
I am still fighting to get this charge dropped but I am dealing with one of the most corrupt police forces in the country!

[Rachel Maclean @redditchrache]

I strongly endorse this policy. When I was Housing Minister I started looking at this issue.

Back then I felt very strongly that social housing is a scarce resource, and an expensive subsidy from taxpaying private renters and homewoners to those who are not contributing in the same way. I never believed the myth that those in social housing contributed more than they took out, and that myth has been roundly shown up as the progressive fantasy that it always was now.

Most people can't afford to live in some of the parts of London or other bits of the country that social housing tenants benefit from. And yes, a small minority of them are doing important jobs but this doesn't justify us subsidising vast swathes of foreigners, benefit claimants and asylum seekers. No other country has the same generous entitlement to social housing that we do.

As minister I saw all the figures for the staggering sums that are provided in subsidy for housing benefit, which were shocking then and are no doubt even higher now (in the billions). Social housing doesn't "pay for itself" and it is not an "investment". It is a pure handout and pretty shocking when you start finding out who benefits and how much it costs.

At the time there was resistance in even collecting data let alone giving it to ministers. (Data almost certainly still isn't collected in any usable form which is why this had to be obtained by FOI)

The government did not know who was actually living in these properties. There was also resistance from our own party from looking at this sort of thing. It was a bit of a sacred cow. I wanted to start looking at how to limit social housing to people who were genuinely local to the area, from the UK, working, force people to move out when their incomes rose or they retired, break the link of inheriting properties from parents to children, get councils to sell off high value properties in the likes of Islington and Westminster and use the proceeds to invest in new housing or upgrades in less expensive areas.. and housing for people in desparate circumstances such as victims of domestic abuse - all of which seemed to me sensible and fair. Things that most people would assume would already happen!

The basic problem is the principle of allocating social housing based on "need" not any kind of contribution, entitlement, local connection or concept of service to the country (like veterans) or paying in to the system. Its a whole back to front system which is why we can have so many asylum seekers in this valuable tax payer funded resource. Of course they "need" to be housed - now they are here for the wrong reasons - otherwise they would be on the streets. But that is not the way that the vast majority of the population thinks about need.

Every single house occupied by a social housing tenant is one less house that can be on the private selling or rental market, for a young graduate living in eg London starting out in life to try to find a place to live in. Which is why their rents are astronomically high and why no amount of new building can ever make a dent on it, as councils are forced to go out into the open market to buy housing to house their huge social housing waiting lists and asylum seekers.

Now our party is under new leadership we can have common sense conversations about this issue without being branded racist. About time.

[Russell Quirk @russellquirk]

£280m is the estimated cost to set this tax up and to administer it, physically value a sample of properties, fight appeals, deal with litigation etc.

Against a projected income to HMRC of £400m, assuming a 100% collection rate. For what will be just two remaining years of this government.

What a stupid idea.

Perhaps this is more of a political, ideological tax than a practical one?

https://t.co/Qc0qVSvRFg

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

“Lucy Powell Is Going To Destroy The Country When It Comes To Our Schools” - Katharine Birbalsingh - @Miss_Snuffy

When The Facts Change, Ep. 27 - Liam Halligan talks to Katharine Birbalsingh – Founder and Headteacher of Michaela School

Watch/listen to full interview on all ‘When The Facts Change’ platforms - YouTube, Substack, Facebook and Spotify

[Go @Gormo472]

@Rising_america2 Absolutely, just listen to her

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Get the POPCORN ready!!!

I have been waiting for this!!

Counting the days @Hebro_Steele !!

Respect to your father! You are doing him proud! CANNOT WAIT!! Woohoo!!! 🥳

[Edgar Holroyd-Doveton @EdgarHolroyd]

Performance and Charlatans...
The deep rot in British politics runs through all established political parties, but particularly Labour. This rot flows from "career politicians". These are people who, at university, eyed up the gravy train that politics offered and entered politics as students - and stayed there.
What they learnt in student politics and since is that to get on you need to lie convincingly, not have any moral convictions, but just manipulate the current situation - which you calculate in a way to best advance your career and attract "donations".
Here we see Powell calculating that playing the "race card" in the Arday situation may boost her credentials. So, straight-faced, she denies reality and creates a fiction. But of course Powell has been crafting this art for decades - it's her career.

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

And here's the clip of the woman who should be in charge of education in the UK.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Labour made a fuss about the government’s borrowing rate hitting a high level for one day in 2022. The 30 year rate spiked at 4.8%.The government did not borrow at that rate that day. For the last year it has always been above 5% and is now 5.8%. Labour are spending much more and borrowing at these high rates.