Lindsey Robinson

Office manager at Altrincham & Sale West Conservative Association. All views my own etc.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

If parents aren’t paying for their kid’s education, then the tax payer is.

So of course this means state education is now MORE expensive for the tax payer!

But government doesn’t mind because they have forced those ‘rich’ kids back into the state sector.

Social justice! 🙄

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

There is an entire industry built around cheating our immigration system.

Any lawyers involved must be struck off and prosecuted.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

The insect is dead, but a different organism has taken control of its nerves and is now in total control of its direction. 
It has invaded the insect’s body, grown  inside it, and now manipulates its behavior to complete its own life cycle.
-Just like what has happened to the Green Party

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

"when they've notched up 12 U-turns and rising, the only conclusion is serial incompetence"

There's always a tweet.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

🙏🏻

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Can you feel it?

That icy grip that wants to get its hands on your hard-earned money?

It can only mean one thing…

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

EXC: Starmer Plans Biggest Purge of Parliament Since Cromwell Under Labour’s Lords Proposals https://t.co/POkS5aPUcj

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

The victims want a national inquiry.
The Conservatives want a national inquiry.
Even some of Labour’s MPs want a national inquiry.

So why is Keir Starmer so scared of holding one?👇

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

The UK government should legislate that supermarkets must immediately stop farmwashing in order to fool shoppers into thinking that certain food products come from British family farms when the food actually comes from overseas. Stop supermarket farmwashing now.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Such sacrifice — for a problem you and your colleagues on both sides of the House created in the first place — really is amazing. And working at the weekend is beyond the call of duty. I don’t think anybody has ever done that before.
But while we’re at it can you explain why refusing to open a new mine for coking coal in Cumbria while now shipping in tens of millions of pounds worth of coking coal from Japan is good for the environment?

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Who runs Britain? In a world of sprawling agencies and quangos and growing activism in domestic and international courts, it’s a question worth asking.

Whatever your answer, we can be certain it’s not Keir Starmer.

It’s becoming obvious that he simply isn’t a leader.

Starmer appears oblivious to the enormous challenges facing the country. We have experienced nearly two decades of lost growth, a surge in violent crime, and unprecedented levels of mass migration have left parts of our major cities unrecognisable. 

Britain’s social fabric is fraying from the denigration of British culture and the proliferation of divisive identity politics, high energy prices are deindustrialising Britain, and our borders have been blown open by young men crossing in small boats.

The British state is as expensive and poorly planned as it has ever been and struggles to perform even the most basic functions well. The diagnosis is dire and the prescription must surely be something strong.

But wherever you look, Starmer’s Government is tinkering around the edges, seeking to manage failure, not turn things around.

Take the sense of lawlessness on our streets. Starmer’s new Crime and Policing Bill has been heralded as a game-changer. But Labour’s own impact assessment shows that they only envisage between 13 to 55 extra criminals going to jail every year. 

Or look at defence spending, where Starmer talks with a straight face of moving the UK to a “pre-war” state with just a £6 billion funding boost.

Welfare spending is still forecast to rise even with his £3.4 billion pounds of savings, inevitably forcing the tax burden up higher still and killing any chance of growth.

Labour has already missed its target for new homes and analysis shows the housing crisis will continue to worsen because demand from immigration will outstrip supply.

When it comes to the economy, he is actively making things worse. His tax hikes have led to the growth forecast being halved for this year, and Reeves’s fiddling of the fiscal rules has massively backfired, with interest on debt now more than a £100 billion.

Meanwhile Ed Miliband’s head-first rush to reach net zero is crippling businesses and family finances.

Starmer is timid. He chooses to preserve his reputation within the British establishment as a status-quo politician that doesn’t rock the boat. It’s little wonder anti-politics sentiment is soaring and people have lost hope.

Starmer spent five years fighting a battle to make the Labour Party electable, root out anti-Semitism and defeat Corbynism. He largely succeeded. What he didn’t spend five years doing is thinking about how to fix the broken state. His mission has been to restore the soul of Labour, not that of the country.

It meant that when he entered into Government he had no real plan, and no agenda for rebuilding Britain. The country yearns for leadership, for an end to economic and societal decline.

If the penny does finally drop for Starmer, it will be too late. The question is: what will be left of the country after four more years?

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

In PMQs on Wednesday I was so shocked by Keir Starmer’s lies and obfuscation I went through the record and found he told 25 porkies in only 30 minutes.

A thread below, starting with the most glaring example.
https://t.co/EVChRGg0dy

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

More taxpayer-funded pork barrel for the Green Blob.
Ed Miliband is offering the CEO of his new state-owned GB Energy company a combined salary and bonus of £525,000/year. The bonus alone is bigger than the PM’s salary of £172,000.
Oh yes … for two out of five days of the week you can work from home.
Lovely Jubbly.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Drax — the energy company that cuts down trees in North America, ships the wood as pellets for its power station in the UK and calls that Green!! — banked more than £800 million of subsidies from UK energy billpayers last year, helping to propel the power company that is Britain’s biggest emitter of C02 to record profits of almost £1.1 billion.
A massive scam in plain sight.
E Miliband, of course, recently agreed a deal with Drax that will see energy consumers pay an estimated £500 million a year to keep the plant operating for another four years.
UK energy policy in action: Robbing the poor to pay the rich.

[Lindsey Robinson @Linzi170H]

🤥

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

BizSec Jonny Reynolds’ Wikipedia entry listed his profession as ‘Solicitor’ from 2010 to 2025.

It has in the last hour been edited to clarify that point.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Rachel Reeves now accused of wrongly claiming to have had her work published in one of the world’s leading economics journals, adding to existing claims about exaggerations on her CV.
The Chancellor’s entry in Who’s Who lists her as a contributor to the Journal of Political Economy, to which she has never contributed. But she has had published a single article in a far less prestigious publication, the European Journal of Political Economy.
Apparently the error is equivalent to claiming to have studied at University in Oxford when you went to Oxford Brookes University.
Those with entries in Who's Who are asked every year to review them, update and correct.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

This decision potentially allows anyone in any conflict zone anywhere in the world to join any family member already in the UK.

It effectively removes the right of the British Government to have an immigration policy.

It’s an outrageous example of judicial overreach.

[Morten Morland @mortenmorland]

Wednesday’s ⁦@thetimes⁩ cartoons https://t.co/WPdu34hxSc

[Lindsey Robinson @Linzi170H]

Quelle surprise!!

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

You've been played...