Matt Quelch

Director | Driving innovation in Food & Beverage through tailored supplier partnerships | Sustainability & Innovation Specialist | Reposts ≠ Endorsements.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, Burnham has appointed:

- a Housing Secretary who “resigned” in disgrace from the same job because she couldn’t even pay the correct stamp duty on her 2nd house

- a previously sacked convicted fraudster who will be in charge of ethics in the Cabinet Office

- a Business Secretary that had to apologise to parliament over misleading CV statements

- a Chancellor who couldn’t count how many frigates we had in our fleet when he was defence secretary

- a Defence Secretary with no military experience (despite multiple ex-servicemen available)

So much for the “hope” vibes.

[Eamonn Butler @eamonnbutler]

A reminder, Andy, of the Thatcher era:
•⁠ ⁠Income tax: 83% → 40%
•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%
•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
•⁠ ⁠Real pay for the average earner: up by a third

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Aren’t you the minister for safeguarding women against violence?
And you have to apologise for what you tweeted after a fellow female politician was violently murdered?
Isn’t that a resigning matter?

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Not true 👇Uniform is the number one way school leaders improve behaviour across schools.

This policy prevents schools from improving- disadvantaged kids suffer.

Bridget is hurting the kids she says she wants to help.🙄

[Cllr George Madgwick @GeorgeUK]

Portsmouth MP Amanda Martin has criticised Nigel Farage for taking a donation when he was just a member of the public and not elected

What she fails to mention is that she took a 5 figure donation from a known convicted criminal to fund her election campaign to win her seat.

[Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott]

Andy Burnham calls @Nigel_Farage by election a "gimmick" - apparently failing to see the irony that he himself just pulled an identical stunt.....embarrassing

[Matt Quelch @MAQuelch]

@sophielouisecc Sorry Sophie can’t agree on this one. So will Burnham be paying for his?

[Matt Quelch @MAQuelch]

@piersmorgan The are increasing illustrating they are unfit for government or even to be opposition.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨The BBC had just sunk to a new low.

On Newsnight last night, presenter Matt Chorley claimed Nigel Farage said people should respond to the murder of Henry Nowak with “white cold rage”.

Nigel DID NOT SAY THIS.

The insertion of the word “white” by the BBC is obviously designed to change the meaning completely.

It was no slip of the tongue, Chorley said it THREE TIMES.

He came prepared to defame Nigel and lie to the country.

This is disgusting from the BBC.

Why do they insist on spitting in the faces of the millions of Reform supporters who are forced to contribute to their salaries?

THE BBC MUST APOLOGISE IMMEDIATELY

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Labour folk accusing @Nigel_Farage and Reform of exploiting Henry Nowak's murder for political gain really need to take a long hard look in the mirror.

[Jonathan Wong @WONGthink]

It's not in the public interest to prosecute the pair of Pakistanis who punched a police woman, but it is in the public interest to prosecute an Englishman for pointing out the absurdity of it.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Let’s nail this state lie once and for all. The government is NOT increasing defence spending by £270 billion during this parliament. It is a ludicrous claim.
Yet one Keir Starmer made to Parliament’s Liaison Committee in March: Labour, he said, will “spend £270 billion MORE (my emphasis) than we would otherwise have done on defence” in this Parliament.
Starmer has always been weak on facts and figures but even by his standards this is a massive porkie.
This is the truth: £270 billion is the total cumulative projected defence spending for the four financial years from 2025/26 up to and including 2028/29 lumped together.
It is NOT even the cumulative increase in defence spending during these years.
Nobody (except perhaps Gordon Brown) speaks about public spending in this way, unless the intention is massively to mislead.
By 28/29 defence spending is projected to be £13 billion a year more than at the start of the period. So not exactly £270 billion. But I guess if you’re going to lie you might as well make it a whopper.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

After Farage rightly branded the Manchester Airport assault trial "two tier justice,” Judge Neil Flewitt KC referred him to the AG for potential contempt of court.

We all saw the CCTV and the Judge proves Farage’s point.

The Judiciary needs a purge, it’s not fit for purpose.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Labour inherited a defence budget for 2024/25 of £60.2 billion. Latest projections put defence spending at £73.5 billion by 2028/29. That’s a rise of £13.3 billion. Where did you get the £270 billion increase from? The tooth fairy? Let me speak plainly: it’s a lie — delete the tweet.

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

A total car crash interview for Labour.

Labour voted to block new drilling in the North Sea, which would allow us to drill for British oil.

At the same time, Labour are now happy to fund Putin’s war by paying for Russian oil.

This is a disgrace. #LabourOut #PMQs

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

🚨 Labour is using the “Online Safety Act” to silence political opponents, and TikTok is doing their dirty work.

First, TikTok removed my video announcing Reform UK’s new policy to place secure illegal migrant detention centres in non-Reform constituencies, prioritising Green ones. 

TikTok explicitly cited the Online Safety Act as the reason for its removal.

This is hard evidence of this draconian legislation being weaponised to silence political opponents. 

That same video has 6.2 million views on other platforms.

Today, the censorship escalated. 

TikTok has now removed my video outlining the key policies I would implement as Home Secretary, claiming it is “Hate Speech and Hateful Behaviour.” 

They warned me that any further "violations" will result in a strike, potentially leading to being de-platformed altogether.

This is all the more staggering given TikTok happily hosts hundreds of videos of people calling for the assassination of Nigel Farage.

My TikTok videos had received 18 million views over the previous 28 days.

This is a chilling attempt to silence one of the biggest and fastest-growing UK political accounts on the platform.

TikTok is engaging in direct political interference in the midst of the most pivotal elections in our country’s history.

All under the auspice of the “Online Safety Act” that the Tories and Labour claimed to be about protecting children.

It is, and always will be about silencing voices the open-borders political establishment don’t like.

@TikTokComms have decided to try and suppress Reform.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is economic ignorance of a high degree, even for my old mate Diane. If you don’t want to be ‘dominated’ by the bond markets then don’t borrow £3 trillion from them. Be honest with the people and explain how your idea of socialism will entail EVERYBODY paying a shed load more in tax. If you can’t do that then you will be in hock to the bond markets. It’s as simple as that.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

We need a general election.