Tom Williams

Politics addict. 🇬🇧

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: It's been revealed the Treasury ditched a maths test on its graduate scheme as it had an 'adverse impact' on candidates from ethnic minorities

Numerical reasoning was removed from the graduate recruitment scheme soon after the death of George Floyd

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[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

There’s a £4.7bn hole in the Defence Investment Plan.

That’s a gap that would have been filled by Labour’s abandoned welfare reforms.

But Labour MPs chose more benefits over battleships.

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

Defence spending in 2030 (share of GDP)

🇬🇧 2.69%
🇩🇪 3.70%
🇵🇱 4.48%

Or in £ terms, £9.3 billion short of what was assessed as needed.

A DIP unworthy of Britain.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Adam Brooks is an absolute fucking legend.

He literally just said what we were all thinking.

What a lefty twat. 👏👏👏

Well done mate, I’m raising a glass to you.

These lefties are apologists for the Pakistani Rape Gangs!

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

Scrutiny really matters in politics. The Tories held 16 hustings in 2019 and 12 hustings in 2022 in all parts of the UK when they were changing leader/Prime Minister.
Party members grilled them, some on camera, some in private. I reported on many of them. These debates allowed voters to be ready for what was coming.
We have had nothing remotely like this scrutiny of the next Labour PM Andy Burnham who replaces Sir Keir Starmer two weeks on Monday.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 THE BRUTAL BUSINESS REACTION TO BURNHAM'S PLOT.

Yesterday I warned you about Andy Burnham’s master plan to crash our economy and drag us straight back to Brussels.

Now, the actual backbone of the British economy has just delivered a devastating response. 🤡

Over 30 top British business owners and economists have signed an urgent open letter warning the Prime Minister-in-waiting not to give the EU a single inch.
The data they are exposing is absolute gold.

Only 8% of UK companies export to the EU single market.

By surrendering our sovereignty, Burnham would force the remaining 92% of domestic British businesses to be completely strangled by EU red tape.

They are actively trying to destroy the exact business model that made our country work, leaving the UK economy broken and defenceless.

RT if you see right through this globalist trap and demand we stay completely OUT! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilm]

Everything Andy Burnham proposes was tried 60 years ago by another PM from the North of England who represented a Lancashire constituency. In 1966 UK debt was 84% of GDP and falling. It’s now 95% and rising. If Harold Wilson’s policies didn’t work then why would they work now?👇

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Guido Fawkes has given estimates of how much Andy Burnham’s No10 North gimmick could cost the British taxpayer.

Roughly more than half a billion. Absolutely ludicrous.

A waste of money which could be used elsewhere to improve Britain and not for Burnham’s convenience and ego.

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

Here’s Makerfield MP Andy Burnham leaving by a side entrance moments after his speech today. I think it is appalling that he would not take questions from us journalists. He will be made Prime Minister of our country three weeks today. More coverage and analysis at @GBNEWS.

[Talk @TalkTV]

"I've never in 25 years as an MP having read a lot of MOD documents seen a disclaimer like that. That in pub English means you can't trust anything that's in this report.

Shadow Defence Minister, Mark Francois breaks down disclaimer buried in spending plan.

@petercardwell

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 YOU LITERALLY HAVE TO READ THIS TO BELIEVE IT.

If you own a home, have a pension, or plan to leave an inheritance, Andy Burnham's leaked economic plans should terrify you. 🤡

He is planning to scrap the capital gains tax "uplift on death," meaning grieving families will be hit with double tax bills on inherited family homes.

Begbies Chartered Accountants confirmed this double levy will hit grieving families with an effective 62% tax rate!

But it gets even worse.

Burnham wants to replace council tax with a new annual property tax of 0.48% of your home's value.

If you live in an average £553,000 house, you will be forced to pay £2,654 every single year just for the privilege of living in your own home!

They want to tax you while you live, tax you when you die, and tax your children for mourning you.

RT to expose the ultimate Labour wealth grab and demand a general election NOW! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

😱 WOW! Listen to this, it’s INSANE!

This is about as damning a verdict on Starmer and his government as you will hear:

“In terms of military preparedness, we’re now the second last. [31st out of 32 members of NATO] Who’s behind us? Only Iceland, and Iceland doesn’t have a military. When it came to a choice between funding the cost of rearming our country in dangerous times, or continuing with a rapid increase in welfare benefits, benefits street won.”

I knew things were bad, but I had no idea they were this bad! Shocking.

[Mike Graham 🇬🇧 @Iromg]

He’s like a parody northerner. Absolute BellEnd…

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

Burnham, Rayner, Phillipson, Powell, Haigh, etc represent the worst of Labour - chippy, arrogant, nasty, resentful of anyone who's done well from themselves, especially aspirational working class people. They're very happy to live the high life themselves, though.

[Lloyd @LGB_1962]

Did your Labour MP son, or your Labour MP son-in-law advise you to post that nonsense?

Or was it your daughter who is special advisor to Yvette Cooper?

Do enlighten us, Labour shill.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

These people are utterly ridiculous and complete hypocrites.

General election now.

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

Given Andy Burnham is saying today that we have a housing crisis because there isn't enough council housing…

A reminder that the UK has one of the highest rates of social housing in the whole of Europe 👇🏻

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Do as I say, but not as I do.”

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

LABOUR Have done it

They have axed the 200 year old Vagrancy act

Get ready for tent cities in your high street

And Police will be powerless

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? 🇬🇧

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

The is superb from @afneil! 👏👏👏

“Andy Burnham delivered today's speech from Manchester to show that London doesn’t dominate everything and that he’s going to spread power around the country.

"But he’s not going to take questions because he’s got to get back to London, which is the capital and where the power is. It’s all performative nonsense.”