Matthew Hawley

Music teacher

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

We need belief in sensible policies again

[Young Social Democrats (YSD) @SDPyouthUK]

#CloustonForClacton

[Rik_W 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇱🇩🇪🇮🇪 @Rik_w2010]

@BAESystemsplc @BoeingDefense @Saab @RoyalAirForce Why not design and build an all-British successor to the Hawk?

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

@SDPhq William Clouston talks sense

[Will ✝️🇬🇧 @Politics__Will]

People of Clacton, you have the chance to have an MP that will actually make a difference #SDP #Clacton

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

Sensible policies
#CloustonForClacton

[John SDP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧✝️ @JohnSouthyorks]

#CloustonForClacton

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

@sdphq @cloustonforclacton

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

People argue about what size the state should be, but we ask what it's responsible for.

When you think of it like that, it becomes really simple:
✅ maintain the pitch
❌ don’t play on it

A serious economy needs a competent state: one that keeps the ground in order, the pitch playable and applies the rules fairly.

If you do that, then the people of Britain can play the game their own way. Raising a family. Building a business. Just getting on with your life.

What we’ve had recently is the opposite. We’ve had governments who
•⁠ ⁠let the pitch turn to mud
•⁠ ⁠asset-strip the stadium
•⁠ ⁠try to tell you how to play the game

So it makes perfect sense that some people want less government - they've watched it done badly for decades.

And it makes perfect sense that some people want more government - they've been left trying to play on a bog.

But a state that doesn't know its job - and doesn't do it for good of the nation - will do it badly at any size.

The issue is competency, not size.

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

#CloustonForClacton

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

. @TiceRichard went on TV and called four parties cowards for not turning up in Clacton.

We turned up.

He also said Nigel wants a debate.

We accept.

@Nigel_Farage - name the date.

#cloustonforclacton

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

Believe in Britain
@sdphq

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better, argues @AndrewOrlowski
https://t.co/yY3l3iZzpK

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Solar panels are for roofs, not farmland.

Ed Miliband is vandalising Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

@DavidGHFrost This is depressing - you are saying 'conservative thinkers' have to abandon their freedom of expression unless they join another party or choose to be without any party membership at all. .....Democracy....??

[Chagos Islands Government in Exile @BiotCitize56752]

@DanielJHannan @andyburnham The Chagos Islands are British and must remain so. A clear majority of Chagossians overwhelmingly want to remain British and are calling on the UK government to support resettlement. We will stand and defend every inch of our rights of self determination and British territory.🇮🇴

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

The first test of @andyburnham is the Chagos deal. Almost everyone – including, in private, almost every Labour MP – is against it, and with reason.
It would mean raising taxes here to fund tax cuts in Mauritius, a country that never had sovereignty over the archipelago; abandoning the world’s most pristine marine reserve to a country with a terrible record on biodiversity; inviting unfriendly powers to establish a presence on neighbouring atolls; straining our alliance with the US; and betraying the truly wronged party, the exiled Chagossians, who do not want to be governed by Mauritius.
It is hard to imagine any government pushing ahead so determinedly except one dominated by Keir Starmer, Lord Hermer and the human rights lawyers.
Will Burnham do the correct and popular thing? Or will he side with the most anti-British elements of the Doughty Street/Matrix Chambers clique?

[Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green @MPIainDS]

Andy Burnham pressing ahead with Starmer’s disastrous Chagos surrender tells us everything we need to know.

Different Labour leader. Same weakness. Same terrible deal.

Paying billions to give away strategically vital British territory is an act of national self-harm that benefits China and betrays our allies.

Burnham must scrap it.

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

Governments should prioritise our nation above all else. The economy should be serving our people, not multinational companies.

The SDP understands this. Join the SDP if you want a party that would always put our country first.

https://t.co/Mr0N9rD8T3

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

Surely this is not "avoiding pollution" it is as much environmental pollution as any other form of energy production available to humans

[Dr Jennine Morgan @jemmm85517813]

Solar & wind really are not green technologies. see also @JohnLeePettim13 pinned post & thread.

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

British workers are citizens and people – not just numbers on a spreadsheet.

Repeated governments have forgotten this fact.

Under the SDP, policy will be designed with this in mind and will always prioritise the needs of the British people.

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

@SDPhq has the right balance of cultural conservatism and left-leaning economics whilst advocating "the mixed economy". Sensible, appealing ideas rising above the rest.

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

For years, a lack of clear direction has weakened British manufacturing. We have given up our self-reliance and now we desperately need to rebuild it.

It is time to stop letting our industrial base decline.

The SDP is the party with the will to do what is necessary to revive our industry.

Join us below:
https://t.co/N5fd2T8Cxn

[Will Barnish @WillBarnish365]

@Regenerate_SOT @PotteriesParty S-O-T has hundreds of brownfield sites in need of regeneration. Development should prioritise these before building on greenbelt in Packmoor. The issue isn’t just whether infrastructure can cope, but whether the council has shown that viable brownfield options have been exhausted

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

The climate debate is a worldwide problem, one country cannot change the weather; we need day to day policies to sustain living standards not ethereal concepts about the world in 500 years time

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

And if we can't persuade them, we should go ahead and wreck our own economy anyway.

[Matthew Hawley @Matthew71883979]

Always a courageous speaker in the Commons @NJ_Timothy @sdphq

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Today Bridget Phillipson called me a racist for what I said about mass Muslim prayer on Trafalgar Square.

But religious belief and racial identity are different things.

That's what's wrong with the "Islamophobia" definition.

It's already being used to shut down free speech.