Richard Banner

Still currently keeping an eye on twitter but have a 'FBPE' account on Bluesky (and a second account following sea shanties on there)

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

The problem with our politics: I have friends who plan to vote Reform, I ask why, what do they want? They want funded NHS, potholes fixed, cost of living addressed etc., none of which Reform will deliver but the issue is I can't suggest another party to vote for who I think will.

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@EJPointer @BrianNights01 To be fair to the people around Clacton, more of those who voted voted against him rather than for him.

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@HenryALister4 @BrianNights01 @Mr_Tibbles_ He's never answered an e-mail either!

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@elonmusk It's the same way the Prime Minister of the UK is appointed. 'The People' don't vote for PM they vote for a local MP, the party with the most MP's then appoints a Prime Minister. For all his (many) faults it's worked better than the US system look at the problems they have there!

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@LizKershawDJ Have them all, vaccinating people is a much less load on the system than treating them when they have caught these diseases.

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@Neccccy No, I wouldn't vote for anyone who stood for Reform, and there are some people I wouldn't vote for regardless of the party they stood for.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Farage: epic grifter. Part 1

(Part 2 below 👇)

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@ByDonkeys He's my MP too. All my previous MP's, if I've emailed them about an issue, have had the courtesy to reply. So at least I knew they were aware of one of their constituents concerns, even if their reply showed they disagreed with my views on the matter. Farage has never replied.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

The question of our future membership of the EU is for the voters of the future, not the voters of the past. In a rapidly changing trading and geopolitical environment, the terms of the UK’s engagement with Europe cannot be assumed to have been settled by a 52 - 48 vote a decade ago. Sunk cost fallacy as policy.

[The Rejoin EU Party @RejoinP]

🇬🇧Billionaire Michael Bloomberg says “Brexit was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done.”

Do you Agree 👍 🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺
#ExitBrexit #JoinRejoin

https://t.co/9NmBhqtv3S

[Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 @vivamjm]

Why is more not made of the fact that UK chose to give up **85%** of its (wholly reciprocal trading barriers free) *internal* market when it left the EU?
Its internal market is now smaller that UK itself for GB goods sales
& it is **never** going to offset this 85% loss elsewhere

[mainstream @Nillo82948721]

There is a class war going on right now in the UK.

The Farages the Badenochs the billionaires and the media oligarchs are trying to convince the working class that the problem is small boats.

But the problem is the Farages the Badenochs the billionaires and the media oligarchs.

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

Jimmy Raskin, a US Congressman yesterday called my MP a "Putin loving free speech imposter & Trump sycophant" I can't criticise the Congressman because I agree with him! I'd email my MP to ask why he's in the US not representing me in Parliament today but he's never answered me.

[Otto English @Otto_English]

No it isn't.

No it doesn't.

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@NicholasTyrone Plus any tax has to apply, 'in principle', to everyone. How does the Government know how much you or I have? Everyone would have to fill in returns to 'prove' they had less than £xM or whatever. Anyone who's handled valuing an estate for probate will know how difficult that is.

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@RichardJMurphy I wonder if the system would work better if we stopped calling 'money given by the Government to people who need it' , 'benefits' and called it 'entitlements' instead?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

"Brexit has ruined this country, and now the majority of Britons thinks so too."

RT if you are that majority.

[A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR @acgrayling]

Some good things in the budget. But - a v big But -:
Brexit has:
- Shrunk the UK economy by £140 billion
- Reduced imports and exports by 15%
- Decreased productivity 
- Is predicted to cost 3m jobs by 2035.
So: no matter how much lipstick you put on the pig, it's still a pig.

[Richard Banner @RichardJBanner]

@TedUrchin We have a system where the politicians we get just want power for themselves and don't care what policies they need to get it. If opinion polls keep going the same way, pretty soon they will realise there are votes in being "Pro EU" and they will all move to that queue.