Lawrence R

All round good guy

[Lawrence R @Riley64Riley]

@DeborahMeaden What did you expect they are self interested politicians. In the end they are all the same.

[Lawrence R @Riley64Riley]

@adamparsons Not really

[Becky Argyle @ArgyleBecky]

Drill baby drill. We desperately need to start drilling again to save Aberdeen, our livelihoods, our businesses, and most importantly, our country and our future safety.

[Lawrence R @Riley64Riley]

@Peston @skippytoodo Hmm so when Stramer didn’t help Trump out when needed did you think he’d leave it at that?

[Lawrence R @Riley64Riley]

@BrechinYes2 First offshore drilling in UK was in the significant fields off the east coast of ENGLAND. Get your facts right before you start on this garbage.

[Lawrence R @Riley64Riley]

@piersmorgan @parkern747 Sometimes I just love Trump ❤️

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

BREAKING: President Trump confirms Keir Starmer is resigning as Prime Minister… before Starmer has confirmed it himself. The final humiliation.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

You have no idea what you’re talking about.
There is no punitive interest rate. They just reflect the scale of our national debt.
Every time the Tories increased spending in a crisis — pandemic, Ukraine — Labour demanded even more.
When it took over in July 2024 it increased borrowing by tens of billions.
Stop drivelling, do your homework and get back to me. Or don’t bother.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Reform would not have won Makerfield even if every other party on the Right stood down.

Meanwhile, in Aberdeen, the Conservatives took half the votes despite Reform being on the ballot paper.
We united the city behind a genuine offer.

Had I done a deal, our emphatic victory in Aberdeen would have been diminished. People would have sneered that we only won because Reform stepped aside. A win 'helped' by Reform would have been no win at all.

That’s why I am not doing any deals. If you want the Right -Vote Conservative

[Harriet Cross MP @HarrietCross_MP]

The Government must not ignore the message sent by Aberdeen on oil & gas.

👉 End its ban on licences.
👉 End the Energy Profits Levy.
👉 Permit Rosebank and Jackdaw.

🔹Get Britain Drilling Again!🔹

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

Love this.

Michael Gove’s wonderful depiction of Starmer’s Sunday morning - complete with a nod to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

And a suitably brutal, bleak conclusion: “there’s no future for him”.

[Lawrence R @Riley64Riley]

@Eddkelly75 Like Swinnie ?

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Kemi Badenoch declared that the Aberdeen South by-election was going to be a referendum on our oil and gas industry.

The election of the Conservative candidate Douglas Lumsden – on almost 50% of the vote – proved her right.

Douglas has spent two decades working in the oil and gas industry, so he knows more than most what is at stake because of Labour’s ban on new licences and the crippling taxes they are imposing on the sector.

We are losing a thousand jobs a month as Labour’s policies take their toll.

Families are making the agonising calculation of whether to uproot and move abroad, or stay and watch as the industry that built their city is suffocated by a government that has decided it is worth sacrificing on the altar of Net Zero.

Aberdonians can see that just on the other side of the North Sea, the Norwegian oil and gas sector is thriving.

Norway is drilling new wells, reopening old fields, and making new discoveries – including some which butt right up against the border they share with us.

Only someone as deluded as Ed Miliband could think that oil and gas deposits respect geopolitical borders drawn down the middle of the North Sea.

The truth is that none of this matters to Ed.

He doesn’t care about the thousands of people who are losing their jobs, or the fact that we are becoming more dependent on foreign imports with higher emissions and harming our economy.

He doesn’t engage with any of the arguments. He is much more comfortable repeating tired old slogans about 'climate leadership' and 'green jobs’.

This is an ideological crusade and nothing will make him admit he is wrong.

Which is why the result in Makerfield should concern us as much as Aberdeen encourages us.

Andy Burnham is now in Parliament – and the job destroyer-in-chief is reportedly set to be rewarded with a promotion to Chancellor.

Given the damage he has already done to Aberdeen and other vital industries like refining, chemicals, and ceramics, the prospect of Ed Miliband being put in charge of the British economy should fill every family with dread.

The result in Aberdeen South was a vote to return to energy realism.

It was a vote to end Labour’s mad ban on new licences, scrap the taxes that are crippling the industry, and to finally give the go-ahead to the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields that have been sat on Ed Miliband’s desk gathering dust for a year.

That is the argument that Douglas will make as he takes his seat in Parliament this week, and it is the argument that the Conservatives will continue to make at every opportunity.

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

If you take strong action and it is very different action from what your country has known before...you can only be confident that your action is right if it is founded on strong principles.

Mine was founded on the belief that governments are there to serve the liberties of the people under a rule of law, a free enterprise economy, and strong defence.

After we lost the election in 1974, and the Labour Government came in, we had departed from our fundamental principles. And I set up a great study with many people—not only politicians but businessmen, academics, journalists—and we redrafted our whole principles. From the principles, we decided the policies and we sorted out what needed to be done and how it was to be done when we got into power. That took four years.

I had confidence we were in the right and our policies would achieve the right.

Although, as you know, great change means great dislocation. We had to cut expenditure; we had to privatise; we had to get down taxation; we had to cut the bureaucracy. All of the people objected, and for two and a half years my name was marred.

It's always difficult to do the right thing.

But my father had taught me to persevere: It's easy to be a starter, but are you a sticker-to? It's easy enough to begin a job, it's harder to see it through.

And I saw it through. After three years, all of a sudden, the good things in the economy began to show through.

At the same time, we had the Falklands, and against all odds we won. Although, the world thought it was really rather astonishing that Britain sent a fleet 8,000 miles away into the bitter cold Antarctic against a foe that had air cover from land when we only had it from aircraft carriers.

So the two reinforced one another. But I couldn't have done it unless I had been confident that we had the right principles and that if we persisted, it would show through to the benefit of our people.

I was never defeated in an election by the people of my country. That is my proudest boast.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

"Thank you so much for all the kind messages I’ve had but now, an announcement"…

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Andy Burnham is not ‘the messiah’ and this is why | Andrew Neil https://t.co/QLBRotwK7S via @YouTube

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Andy Burnham is not ‘the messiah’ and this is why | Andrew Neil https://t.co/2yo26O2M2P via @YouTube

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The argument sounded clever: Conservatives have never won in Makerfield. Do a deal with Reform. Stand down and they’ll do the same in Aberdeen “Unite the Right”.

I decided it was more important to Unite the Country. That’s why we won in Aberdeen.

My piece in Daily Mail below 👇

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union: “It is no secret that I disagree with Ed Miliband on almost every issue relating to a workers’ transition. Ed only seems to be interested in one side of the equation, rushing Britain to net zero with almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security.”
Couldn’t put it better myself.

[Lawrence R @Riley64Riley]

@luluphooey Ballocks.