Tonyhd

Retired, Liverpool suppporter, voted brexit have some conservative views,raised on a council estate and dislike all things woke!

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

Sir Keir Starmer now occupies the same place in politics as Schrödinger’s cat does in quantum physics: simultaneously alive and dead - until someone opens the box and looks inside the Labour Party.

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

BREAKING: Borrowing is out of control - up by 30% compared to last year - and now we’re about to see what a real left wing Labour government looks like under Andy Burnham.

Burnham claims he is committed to the fiscal rules, yet when asked he could not even say what they are. The bond markets are watching nervously and we have already been paying a Burnham Penalty on our borrowing costs. Meanwhile, Reform have been busy pledging tens of billions in unfunded promises in their desperation to win in Makerfield.

The Conservatives are the only party with a plan to balance the books by getting spending under control, especially the welfare bill, in line with our Golden Economic Rule.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

An excellent point from @JuliaHB1.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Starner Congratulates Burnham After Failing to Campaign for Him Once https://t.co/kO6I3i7w5d

[The Reformed Media @ReformedMedia_]

Gogarth Mostyn By election Results:

🔵Reform — 496 ~33.8%
🔵Conservative: 406 ~27.7%
🔴Labour: 386 ~26.3%
🟡Liberal Democrats: 178 ~12.1%

REFORM - HOLD

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Tbf a sober, frank admission of some disapointment from Farage. Prefer this to hype and certainly not despondent.

[Ben Bradley @Ben_Bradley_32]

Even more clear that the next GE is Reform vs Labour and the 'progressive' left. If Burnham takes over and likely steers Labour further away from ordinary working people - the price of keeping his MPs happy - then I hope that GE comes sooner than later.

A vote in Makerfield to get rid of Starmer is maybe understandable, but it doesn't mean that what comes next from Labour is necessarily better. Chancellor Miliband in particular is the stuff of nightmares.

Only Reform can beat Labour. Nobody else comes close; in Makerfield, in Gorton and Denton, or across the country.

Congratulations to Andy Burnham and commiserations Rob Kenyon and the @reformparty_uk team who worked incredibly hard. The fight for our country's future is well and truly on!

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

Cool story bro

Now tell us the plan.

[Miriam Cates @miriam_cates]

The story in Aberdeen South does not seem to be one of SNP collapse - their vote share fell just 4% - but rather a huge direct swing from Labour to Tories.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

There is a particular breed of politician who wants to send Britain back to the Dark Ages.

Ed Miliband, with his bans on tumble dryers and underfloor heating.

The Green Party councillors banning leaf-blowers in favour of rakes.

The Malthusian de-growthers like Thomas Piketty who argue that we should impose growth caps on developed countries because of climate change.

What they all have in common is a supreme indifference to the hardship their policies impose on the public.

Ed Miliband has been on a joyless spree of consumer intrusion since coming to power. His spray of Net Zero policies leaves virtually no part of ordinary life untouched.

The cost of electricity, food, housing, tumble dryers, boilers, fertiliser, towel rails and underfloor heating will all rise because of his unshakeable belief that he should decide what is best for you to buy.

These are all features of modernity that make lives better for billions around the world, but does that matter to Miliband? Not a jot.

He believes that Britons should be uniquely punished, forced to wear a hairshirt while our industry is destroyed and our beleaguered consumers piled with even higher costs.

Why? So he can jet around to climate conferences talking about his ‘climate leadership’ and arguing for others to do the same.

It’s not clear who he is going to convince first. President Xi? President Trump? Putin?

No world leader will be persuaded by his spit-flecked proselytising. “I made my country poor! We no longer have any industry and the cost of living is out of control! You should do the same!”

We must be honest that forcing hardship onto British consumers is not saving anyone. It is only acting as a deterrent to the rest of the world who hold Britain up as an example of exactly what not to do.

Under Kemi Badenoch’s and my leadership, we have renounced the mistakes of those who came before us. We would repeal the Climate Change Act and its dogmatic net zero targets in full.

That’s not to reject all clean tech as “stupid”, as some on the right do. There are many consumers who enjoy their heat pumps, home batteries and electric cars. But consumer choice should be king.

Businesses should compete to innovate until they produce what consumers actually want. The public will adopt new technologies when they decide they make their lives better.

And the salt in the wound for the climate zealots? Countries that have seen clean tech through the eyes of consumers, not those of climate bureaucrats, have generally had much higher rates of adoption.

It cannot be right that a few privileged bureaucrats can keep pushing higher costs on a worn-out public.

We have to embrace uncertainty. We have to recognise government’s role is to enable, not to dictate. Consumer choice must prevail.

[Tonyhd @Tonyhd16]

@DPJHodges That chicken shit is my mp and has for months backed starmer time for more scrutiny on Burnham he has flip flops more than starmer do your dam job.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

The Makerfield result tells us more about how much people loathe Keir Starmer and want him gone than it does anything else.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Morning @AndyBurnhamGM just want to let you know there is absolutely no money for your Waspi trans net zero triple locked agenda.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Next 6 months will be fun...

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

Tories win in Aberdeen South - a by-election that was essentially a referendum on Net Zero. Huge result.

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

The Makerfield by-election should never have been about preferring one party. It was about stopping Labour’s best hope. Everyone f*ked up. The right preferred ego and infighting to working together to fight a decent campaign.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Great win for Conservatives in Aberdeen South on a platform of saving our oil and gas industry. The UK government should listen to this strong message from voters. The government needs to reverse the job losses and economic damage from its mad anti UK energy policy.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

Lol

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

This poll should be devastating for the police.
Britons uniquely lack trust in their police.
Captured by progressive views that don’t represent the majority.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

DRILL BABY DRILL