Marcus Fysh

Former UK MP & Exports Minister. Intelligent systems, innovation, energy, investments.

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@SteveBakerFRSA @profpauldolan This work is so needed

[Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 @SteveBakerFRSA]

💡“Beliefism: How to stop hating the people we disagree with” by @profpauldolan

https://t.co/suNlmek7wf

🤕Much needed, I find.

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[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@CharlieWalsham_ Logical

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

As somebody who voted Remain in the Brexit referendum, I’d be happy to have the debate again if it were even vaguely honest.

The truth about the European Union is that being part of the single market obviously brings considerable benefits. But the EU is much more than a single market. It’s a political project committed to ever-closer union, one that progressively strips nation states of their sovereignty.

And you either believe in sovereign nation states or you don’t.

I voted Remain because the EU’s progressivism chimed with my worldview at the time. But world events, not least the pandemic and the authorities’ response to it, have opened my eyes and shifted my political outlook.

And those waving the flag for the EU today should ask themselves a simple question: would they still be so enthusiastic about membership if the EU evolved into something they profoundly disliked?

Because that’s the crux of the matter.

You either want to live in a country where your vote matters, where there’s a direct line between the ballot box and the laws of the land, or you’re happy to sacrifice that democratic accountability to a bureaucratic, supranational body that takes powers away, slice by slice.

Why do you think the European Union has its own flag, anthem and currency? Its architects have long envisaged a political union that goes far beyond economic cooperation, potentially culminating in a federal United States of Europe.

And look what’s happening in the actual United States. A country increasingly divided into two bitterly opposed political camps, united under one flag but profoundly divided over values, identity and the direction of their country. There’s even been serious talk of civil unrest as political polarisation deepens.

Do we really want to replicate that on a continent of countries with different languages, histories, cultures and political traditions?

Why not focus instead on making the United Kingdom sovereign, strong and resilient? A country that cooperates with its neighbours, trades freely with the world and negotiates agreements without surrendering democratic control over its own affairs.

Why is that such a controversial ambition?

Why has the perfectly reasonable desire for democratic self-government become something that so many supposedly progressive people regard with suspicion, even contempt?

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Your greatness as a human being is not your productivity, your financial potential, or your speed at finding “answers," as a machine might. Your greatness is that you are a question the universe has never asked before.

—from *How We Survive: A Guide to Being Human in a Time of AI* (forthcoming in March 2027)

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@KatieAmess David was a gent Katie. So kind to us when we came up to Parliament. Not forgotten.

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@ShippersUnbound Wait till she hears about France

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@wallaceme Actually cattle are terrific and I'd be up for their full epic story

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@wallaceme The Cattle of Britain

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

I will not purposefully watch a human being being killed.

No matter what they have done.

Wanting to watch someone’s life be taken is nothing but morbid curiosity.

It will not act as a deterrent but as a justification for other heinous crimes.

And as Damien Echols says 👇 if you see it, you cannot unsee it, and it will change you.

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@darrenpjones Agree Darren. The public service efficiency angle is interesting but more consequential in terms of driving growth is innovation being applied to private businesses that expands their scope (including for employment btw)

[Simon @LiberalSimon]

As others have said, this is dumb. And should just transferred to the King.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

This just actually happened.

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@matthew_elliott @realartlaffer Word

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

At the end of a momentous week, here’s a final video, of @realartlaffer explaining the Laffer Curve, as we walked from a meeting in Parliament to a podcast recording at the QEII Centre. It was an honour and privilege to host Dr Laffer in London this week.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

still more 🔥 from Terence Tao!

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

Chart of the Day 🤓

One more for those blaming Liz Truss for the current high level of mortgage rates in the UK.

Here's the cost of mortgage borrowing in the United States. Note the surge around September 2022, and that rates remain higher.

Was this the UK mini-Budget as well? 🤔

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

Great choice. Congratulations @griffitha

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch has appointed Andrew Griffith as her new Shadow Chancellor

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

Until @Conservatives understand and admit what happened there is no hope for them. @RishiSunak brought in this windfall tax. It was never a Conservative thing to do and he was never right for PM. It's sad to see how the party destroyed itself and is still deluded as to how.

[Andrew Bowie MP @AndrewBowie_MP]

Someone is going to have to explain how a 78% tax, (which, by the way, has led to investor flight and thousands of job losses) is not already a “windfall tax” 🤦‍♂️

[Marcus Fysh @MarcusFysh]

@AndrewBowie_MP Rishi did this. You cheer led for him