Richard Greenwell

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@wallaceme Bur does it rule out a by election in September? Presumably the standards cttee rumbles on with potential sanction & recall petition still a possibility.
'Vote Reform & do this all again in three months'?

[James Heappey @JSHeappey]

Full of admiration for @JohnHealey_MP. This is a stand against Treasury (& Number 10) that needs to be made. Who on earth can take job in his place, accept deal HMT are offering, tell service chiefs they’ve got it wrong & look rest of NATO in the eye. HMT need to change tack now.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@WiltsAnnabelle @LucyTrims @Telegraph I don’t really follow the Clacton house hoo-ha.

Farage took £5 million from a Thai-based crypto billionaire, tried to keep it secret and has been pushing crypto interests ever since.

Makes no odds how he spent it - it’s the brown paper bag it came in that’s the problem.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

Although God help us with what comes next😨

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

One thing confusing me about this Starmer must go debacle. On the one hand, he’s so terrible that he must be removed as PM (no argument there!) but on the other, he should stay in place until September. Really? If he needs to go, and he does, he needs to go.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@harriet_symonds @DPJHodges Gives him a couple more people he can sack I suppose…

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@LucyTrims Don’t be so mean- they’re just trying a different approach to cutting taxes after last year’s pledge (up everywhere they run, despite their promises, & a spectacular 9% in Worcestershire) worked out so well.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Starmer and Hermer chose to tear up the protections, that Conservatives put in place, to stop our brave veterans being dragged through the courts in their old age. They claim the courts had left them no choice.

Well guess what?

My Shadow Attorney General stepped in, acted pro bono for veterans and won: the UKSC have reinstated immunities and confirmed that the vast majority of our Act is lawful.

When a lower court said the Legacy Act breached the ECHR and the Windsor Framework, Labour did not appeal. It suited them to hide behind international law rather than stand up for those who served our country.

There was no legal duty to betray our veterans. Starmer and Hermer chose to do that. Conservatives chose to fight for them.

I'm proud of @DXW_KC, @AWNDinsmore and my Shadow Northern Ireland & Defence Teams for keeping up this fight.

We are the ONLY party actually holding Labour to account. Farage did not bother to turn up last Monday and vote against Labour’s terrible anti-veterans bill.

Another reason to VOTE CONSERVATIVE today.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@LucyTrims You can never spend enough time with the dog.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@KarlTurnerMP Always dangerous trying sarcasm on this platform. 🤦‍♂️

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@bbcnickrobinson @Keir_Starmer @BBCr4today I’m inclined to agree with sir Keir on this one. But I wish he’d apply the same logic to our special forces - he’s literally legislating to prosecute them for exactly this sort of split second decision.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@BBCr4today @BBCPolitics @hzeffman “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@LucyTrims I used to imagine Boris going to Kyiv & trying to explain why he wouldn’t be able to support Zelenskyy anymore because he was resigning over a piece of cake. Same exercise with sir K is rather less surreal. But agree, I can’t see him owning up to his culpability.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@kevinhollinrake @TerraOrBust Does anyone really believe it was his staff who made the mistake here? So, technically, this one might not be a porkie.

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

I’ve written to every Member of Parliament today.

Proposals before Parliament would remove jury trials from offences carrying up to three years in prison.

Freedoms rarely vanish overnight. They are chipped away in the name of efficiency.

Juries did not cause the crisis in our courts. Removing them will not fix it.

When the state seeks to take someone’s liberty for serious offences, the judgment of ordinary citizens should never be optional.

This is close to becoming law.

Please read the letter. Contact your MP now.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@LucyTrims Looks like they’ve got the board the wrong way round. 🥴

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@bbcnickrobinson This is rather the point isn’t it? No complaints because due to the skilful splicing nobody realised the BBC had misled us.

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@brianaconnell @JulianEllacott 😩 (for the pun, not the sentiment)

[Richard Greenwell @RichardGreenw]

@AVFCOfficial This is shocking 😨