Stephen Wynne-Jones

🧔🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Marketing Director @nucleuswrap & @britishswimming Referee for @CMKSwimmingClub. Mad keen runner. Always busy...

[Stephen Wynne-Jones @Stephen_WJ]

I try not to get shouty or emotional at swimming meets … but I made an exception this evening 😍😍😍

[City of Milton Keynes Swim Club @CMKSwimmingClub]

‼️HE’S DONE IT AGAIN‼️

This time it’s an *individual* international medal!! 😍😍😍

Harry puts in a blistering swim in the 400 Free final at @thecgf Junior Commonwealth Games to win
🥉BRONZE🥉

So well deserved. Great job Harry ⭐️

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

So the ministers who haven’t seen the Defence Investment Plan thinks it’s great.

And

The ministers who have seen the Defence investment Plan thought it was so bad they resigned! https://t.co/rZTzJ5vt9W

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

When Rachel Reeves announced her £25bn NI tax hike in October 2024, unemployment stood at 4.3%.

In March this year it reached 5.5% with unemployment among 16 to 24-year-olds reaching 16.4%.

A 1.2% hike to NI was accompanied by the lowering of the threshold at which it starts being paid: from £9,100 to £5,000, directly targeting low-paid jobs.

@AlecMarsh writes that this could be part of a deliberate strategy developed by Torsten Bell's Resolution Foundation to manipulate productivity figures by trying to eliminate low productivity jobs. “Boosting minimum standards for pay and conditions would force low-productivity firms and sectors to up their game or shrink,” stated a 2023 Resolution Foundation report.

Shifting the low paid onto benefits both creates an illusory increase in productivity and expands Labour's voter base. If Labour wanted to actually improve productivity, they would tackle declining public sector productivity. But that would involve a clash with their union paymasters.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

While there were over 30.4 million with staff jobs when Keir Starmer entered Downing Street, that’s now below 30.2 million – with payrolled employment down almost a quarter of a million over a period when the population has grown by around a third of a million.

And, over the last year, youth unemployment has soared from 14.2pc to 16.2pc – with 729,000 16-to-24-year-olds unemployed at the end of March, 110,000 up over the previous twelve months.

Within the same age bracket, there are also 1.01 million “Neets” – those not in education, employment or training. Around 600,000 of those don’t even count in the unemployment numbers, classified as “economically inactive”, increasingly due to sickness, disability and other health problems.

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[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

Labour bankrupting the UK again in record time.

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

This interview on @bbcnewsnight with @vicderbyshire is an absolute car crash for Andy Burnham. All over the place. No clue about 'fiscal rules', tetchy, unable to answer basic questions. Why do some people see him as the Messiah who can save Labour?

[Stephen Wynne-Jones @Stephen_WJ]

Love this. @KemiBadenoch is a serious politician with the right instincts 👏👏👏

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Every life matters.

One law. One standard. For everyone. 

This is about justice, for Henry, for his family and for all our children. They deserve better.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

This needs to be posted every day from now on...

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Labour MPs don't know where money comes from. That's why Keir Starmer is a dud and why every contender lining up to replace him will be one too.

You can't fix this busted flush of economic illiteracy that is the Labour Party, so stop trying.

My open letter to Tony Blair below👇
https://t.co/ugLKx9ufCM

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

What an embarrassing display of fiscal and economic ignorance.

Capital Gains Tax is lower than income tax because of the risk of losses on investments.

You can't compare income tax with CGT. Wealthy people pay 45% income tax AS WELL as CGT.

This kills investment, and growth.

[David Turver @7Kiwi]

Because UK Net Zero won't change anything except the collapse of the economy. Our emissions are little more than a rounding error.

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

Rachel Reeves: "We promised to cut inflation – and we have” 🤔

Reality...

1⃣ Labour inherited an inflation rate of 2% then saddled businesses with a load of extra costs, lifting the CPI measure to 3.8% last autumn

2⃣ inflation has since fallen back but is still 2.8%, while all Labour has done to help is transfer some household costs to general taxation; this is hardly "fixing the foundation", and inflation is set to jump again over the summer

#gaslighting

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

Who reckons Andy Burnham would be just as bad as Keir Starmer if he ever became PM?

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

He said he would freeze council tax

He said he would lower energy bills

He said he would reduce student tuition fees

He said he would support farmers

He said he would protect pensioners

He said he would support the disabled

He said he would help small businesses

He said he would fix the economy

He said he would overhaul the immigration system

At every turn, he’s done precisely the opposite.

Keir Starmer is the ultimate traitor and the most hated PM of all time.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Green MSP Q Manivannan has been caught out big time. ‼️

Hes been telling voters he grew up starving from a lower caste family back in India.

Turns out he went to a fancy private school in Chennai studied at a private uni and comes from a proper upper middle class background with doctors engineers and academics in the family.

Now on a student visa in the UK and running for Holyrood. Wild how these stories unravel.

#ScottishPolitics
#WokeHypocrisy #IdentityPolitics

[Richie Taylor @RWTaylors]

He's a lunatic!!

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

A family who can’t afford to feed their kids is not going to spend £200 going to a theme park.

And what difference does a “saving” of less than £1.70 make on a £200 family outing?

Trevor Philips ridicules’ Darren Jones’ defence of Labour’s absurd Government by gimmick policy.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

The Labour government says that food prices are too high and that food retailers should cap their prices.

The Labour government is introducing a new £2bn tax increase on food retailers which will push up prices.

Go figure!!!!

https://t.co/buuLSKvAKA

[Stephen Wynne-Jones @Stephen_WJ]

@10DowningStreet @jamesmurray_ldn @DHSCgovuk Privately educated then straight into politics. Entitled metropolitan elite who’s never had a proper job. Proper Labour people must be scratching their heads as to why this career grifter is now Health Sec 🤦🏻‍♂️

[John Longworth @john4brexit]

You clearly have no idea what a customs union is. It will introduce protectionist tariffs which will increase the cost of living for consumers and the cost of materials for manufacturers. It will also destroy our good trade deals including the recent one with the gulf states. Do your homework