Dr Tim Aker

Strategic Advisory and Communications Consultancy. Academic Director @ThatcherCentre. Former MEP, Cllr etc.

[NPRG @CptHastings1916]

Reactionary colonels in the Home Counties who wrote to the newspapers half a century ago warning that the Labour Party were a bunch of lunatic Communists who would ruin the country are some of the most vindicated people in history.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@SimonDanczuk Happy birthday 🎂

[Roger Helmer ☀️🏴‍☠️ @RogerHelmerMEP]

This argument is like telling a starving man he can’t have bread, because he needs a balanced diet.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Paging @itvnews

I missed this on the news?

[Andrew Rosindell MP 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AndrewRosindell]

Today MPs will vote on Labour's Northern Ireland Troubles Bill.

It tears up the 2023 Legacy Act and opens the door to fresh investigations and civil claims against our brave veterans, decades after they served Queen and Country, fighting against IRA terrorists.

How can this country ever ask people to serve their country if the government refuses to protect them?

I voted against this proposal in November and will do so again. We have a duty to stand by our veterans! 🇬🇧

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

If you instigate a wealth tax at 9.01am tomorrow, you won’t collect a penny in revenue before 2030.

The revenues are fragile, it’s anti-growth, and would take years to implement.

[Oliver Lewis @policy_uk]

Hey @andyburnham @Heidi_Labour can you introduce fines and have a national campaign to end this next?

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

Today’s slight drop in unemployment masks the real problems in education and training. Further Education providers were taking on 32,000 unfunded students last year. The system is creaking at the seams with extreme short term fixes.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

Excellent info and analysis of the diesel price spike.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

"The UK's crazy diesel prices are a problem of our own making"

Average UK forecourt prices are now above £2 per litre, some 40pc up on a year ago.

Diesel is the "workhorse" fuel of any modern economy, powering transport, manufacturing, agriculture, its high price now feeding into multiple supply chains – and likely to send headline inflation much higher.

But what we are living through is less an oil supply crisis than a refining crisis – a crisis of our own making.

My latest weekly @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column.

🧵1/7

https://t.co/4ySbtHD7Sy

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

Burnham to call snap local elections.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Burnham vows end to 'rip-off parking charges' under new rules https://t.co/BBAmS4POug

[Polemic Paine @PolemicTMM]

Bigger pay increases for the people who are paid for by the people with lower pay increases.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

What rich people?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: John Healey has ruled out raising capital gains tax in the Budget over fears that rich people will leave the UK

[@thetimes]

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

Quality evening and a quality book. Thoroughly recommended.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Great to be at the launch of @LeeDavidEvansUK “Coronations and Defenestrations” - the definitive modern guide to Tory leadership election

There’s no vacancy currently but would be plotters ought to pick up a copy…

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

It’s as if the government hasn’t properly thought this one through.

Yes and ho!

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Let me get this straight. Work all your life building a business. Sell that business to a rando - charged at 24%. Try to pass it on to your family - charged at 45%. Genuinely insane https://t.co/uNhYXHdn32

[Douglas McWilliams @DMcWilliams_UK]

Consultations like this, although cleared by Ministers, normally result from civil service initiatives. Which means that in the Treasury there are permanent officials who want to shut down the entire family business sector of the economy. (1/2) https://t.co/50rCUWJtNX

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

🚨BREAKING🚨

New polling conducted for City AM, published in the last hour, shows that two thirds of Brits would OPPOSE rejoining the EU if it meant a commitment to adopt the Euro at any point in the future. Which it would.

This is terminal for the Rejoin campaign. Terminal.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@ChountisFabbri The Heath dish was remarkably bitter and sour.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

@SamW4Reform Then he should put his name on the ballot paper.

[Dr Tim Aker @Tim_Aker]

Dropping ‘C’ bombs and handing in petitions doesn’t take balls.

Standing for election does.

Will he?

[LBC @LBC]

Danny Dyer has delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for the water industry to be nationalised.

@HenryRiley1 wants to know why...

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Several Tory MPs Fail to Vote for Party's Own Proposal to Leave ECHR https://t.co/LT5jvrNXLD