Mike Butler

Passionate about public services. Dislike liberal divisiveness that erodes a society we all enjoy. Westminster apathy. Views are my own personal perspective.

[Dan Whiting @TheMiddleStump]

Petrol forecourts, you were very quick to raise petrol prices in March up to 160 a litre. Now that a barrel of oil is down to $82, I assume you will be just as quick to drop it back to 140...or am I pissing in the wind?

[The Football Feed @TheFootballFeed]

Married his childhood sweetheart, has four kids, donates to the armed forces and mental health charities while running his own foundation. Doesn't drink or smoke. Zero career scandals, which is rare for anyone at his level of fame.

He's also his country's and boyhood club's all-time top scorer, with six Golden Boots including four in the Premier League and one at a World Cup.

He's easily the best striker in the world right now.

And yet Harry Kane remains one of the most disrespected and underrated players in world football. Which is bizarre because he's exactly the type of footballer kids should be looking up to. 👏

[Mike Butler @MikeButler1210]

Interesting perspective but clearly world decided not to support USA in intervention. Has world missed the opportunity or listened to Jeremy Corbyn and the Left? The shah’s son: ‘Any deal with this Iranian regime will fail’

https://t.co/0fjKQNizSX

[Mike Butler @MikeButler1210]

@piersmorgan Never had or needed to work……

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Wow. He really is the Prince Harry of spoiled brat entitled sons. Imagine doing this to your family for cash?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Ed Miliband’s expensive mad dash to net zero has close to zero impact on climate change. So small as to be unmeasurable.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Simples:
Release tens of billions from Ed Miliband’s net zero follies for defence capital investment.
Release billions more for day-to-day spending by some tough love for the 10m of working age not working and living on benefits. Plus abandon triple lock.
Go through current defence spending like a dose of salts to root out current waste and inefficiency (which is mega). Cull legacy programmes for platforms soon to be obsolete.

[Mike Butler @MikeButler1210]

@LNallalingham And we hear Ed Miliband for Chancellor????

[Mike Butler @MikeButler1210]

@PolitlcsUK @e_casalicchio Cut net zero lunacy, welfare reform and size of central government.

[Mike Butler @MikeButler1210]

@piersmorgan @andrewamg Or Rachel reeves.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Defence resignation dominos.
Starmer can’t survive this, surely?

[Mike Butler @MikeButler1210]

@jk_rowling Simply outrageous this is allowed

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Appalling 🧵

I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Gulp

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Perhaps the grimmest part of John Healey’s brutal resignation letter is that defence spending, projected to be 2.6% GDP by 2027, will only reach 2.68% in 2030. A pathetic 0.08% increase over three years after all that Starmer rhetoric about the dangerous times we live in and how UK would lead the way stepping up to the crease. A real leader would have told Reeves to cough up the dosh and ordered Miliband to hand over a big chunk of his net zero budget. But he’s probably too weak to do either.

[Mike Butler @MikeButler1210]

Start by reforming welfare, reduce net zero revenue and capital costs and reduce size of central government. Paying for defence may mean higher taxes, says Rachel Reeves

https://t.co/9xxKMOVMRq

[Mike Butler @MikeButler1210]

The raise tax Chancellor. Why? Hence no business growth and poorer households. Welfare reform? Net zero? Central gov? Banks? Energy Companies? Cost of living crisis. Paying for defence may mean higher taxes, says Rachel Reeves

https://t.co/IxNc1cAB5b

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water sparks fury with ‘absolutely disgusting’ sewage dumping plans."

So Southern Water's big plan to fix the sewage scandal is simply to extent their pipework and dump it further out to sea, no I'm not kidding, just as the good people of Whitstable. @SOSWhitstable

https://t.co/XZjO15OAqu

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Picturesque river polluted with sewage just 13 days after being given official bathing status."

Yep the River Avon at Salisbury was designated as a bathing spot on 15th May and just 13 days later on the 28th the EA have to issue a pollution warning due to E. coli levels. What a shambles.

https://t.co/nC3WWbwgt6

[GBN @GBNationalism]

When Rachel Reeves became Chancellor unemployment was 4.1%. By the end of 2026 it will hit 5.5%.

Payrolled employment has fallen in 14 of the 21 months of her time in office.

Raising Employer NICs, business rates, and NMW alongside the ERA in the AI era is economic illiteracy.