Jo Williams

[Cllr Lauren Davison 🌹🍒🐆 @CllrDavison]

Can I just say, as someone who has lived in a fairly under resourced part of the far South West, at no point have the commentariat deigned to give a shit about that area - until it was a chance to bash Labour/Burnham.

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

Yesterday I spoke in the Westminster Hall debate, secured by my good friend @RichardBurgon, on banning second jobs for MPs.

Being an MP isn’t a side hustle. It’s a public duty.

Our constituents expect and deserve representatives whose only priority is serving their communities, not chasing private interests or boosting their own bank balance.

Public office should never be a business opportunity.

Our loyalty belongs to our constituents, and our constituents alone.

It’s time to ban second jobs for MPs.

#BanSecondJobs

[Jo Williams @Overthebrush]

@AmunBainsJourno Agree, there is poverty throughout the country. However, the difference is in opportunity. My son has just had to move from Liverpool to London for an internship. His uni mates are based around South East & can live at home and commute.

[Dr Hanko Honkasson @drhanko2]

I hate the way the managed decline of heavy industry and manufacturing north of Watford for a laser economic and investment focus on a square mile of London is now portrayed as London altruistically funding its bumpkin cousins in the uncultured North.

[Samuel Jenkinson @samueljenkinson]

This is what you’re up against, when even 0”pretty modest, tokenistic rebalancing proposals get proposed.

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

“How will he travel between London and Manchester” you’ve got to love this stuff come on

[Manic Kieth Preachers KC @wrb91]

“The Prime Minister is…a northerner!”

[Rebecca Callaghan - Droylsden West Labour @RebCallaghan_]

About an hour ago - I posted a photo of myself with Angela Rayner after attending my CLP meeting.

The responses? One person called us “a pair of slappers”. Another suggested that, because of my face, no one would ever take me seriously and that I should start an OnlyFans.

🧵1/5

[Mike Jones @technopopulist]

If you want to know how pathetically out of touch the British establishment is, just listen to John Major. Apparently, getting buses to run efficiently is beneath the political class, and far less important than being able to negotiate with foreign leaders.

The snobbery just oozes out of Major’s pores, and his sense of priorities is completely out of kilter. No wonder we’re so fucked. Too many Tories went into politics so they could cosplay their big-boy Churchillian fantasies.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Dutchy of Lancaster income: £25,200,000

Sovereign Grant: £86,300,000

Sandringham and Balmoral income: (estimate): £5,000,000

Personal investment portfolio (estimate): £10,000,000

Percentage of tax paid: 10.2%

[Fairer Share @FairerShare]

A £190 million mansion.

Yet under our current system, some of Britain's most valuable homes pay less Council Tax than ordinary family homes elsewhere in the country!

That's not a fair tax system.

It's an outdated one.

[Fairer Share @FairerShare]

This isn't about London vs the rest of the country.

It's about replacing two broken taxes with one fairer system.

✔️ 77% of households would save.
✔️ Stamp Duty would be abolished.
✔️ Lower and middle-value homes would pay less.
✔️ The most valuable properties would contribute more.

That's what fair tax reform looks like.
https://t.co/l3o9KzrkPS

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

It’s official - 2nd class mail is to be scrapped and replaced with 3rd class that may arrive when there isn’t a ‘y’ in the day. All at the old 2nd class price of 91p

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Private equity controls UK dentistry.

Initial consultation fee up by 23%, tooth extraction up by 32%.

Gross profit at private equity controlled companies rose by 20% year-on-year.

Profit margins of 20%-30%.

Too many can't afford dental care.
https://t.co/I0XaUBp0QC

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

BREAKING: I've secured a parliamentary debate next week on banning all MPs' second jobs.

Farage has pocketed over £1 MILLION from outside "work" since the General Election

Being an MP is a full-time job. No MP should be out chasing lucrative second jobs.

Let's end this racket!

[Fairer Share @FairerShare]

So, replacing Stamp Duty and Council Tax with a flat-rate property tax, what does that actually look like?"

@iancollinsuk asks the key questions, and @AndrewDixonARC explains how our Proportional Property Tax would work, who would pay it, and why it would be fairer than the current system.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Financialisation of humanity

Vital services handed to private equity

84% of children’s homes, 80% of adult care homes in England controlled by financial investors. Private equity is a key player.

£1.5bn profit from care homes.

Public purse looted.
https://t.co/I0XaUBp0QC

[Simon Fletcher @fletchersimon]

There’s a big campaign underway to press the incoming Burnham leadership to appoint a Chancellor from the party’s right: ie find most rightwing name and run with it. If successful this will do to the policies and popularity of the incoming govt what happened to the outgoing one

[Mishal Husain @MishalHusain]

Very little attention in UK media thus far to this story - low prominence, few details of injuries, who the victims are, where they were when the attacks took place, community reaction https://t.co/Lm2Bg1XSZv

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

400,000 UK children supported by baby banks, up 11%.

4.5m children living in poverty.

Low incomes, rising cost of energy, water, housing, essentials drive poverty.

Tories and Reform pledged to reimpose the two-child benefit cap.

What future?
https://t.co/WUL0celyNW