tom henderson

believes in democracy and free enterprise

[Sean Bw Parker @seanbwparker]

'Ahead of his first day in Number 10, Matthew McGregor deleted his X account; clearly he doesn’t want the media trawling through his old posts. However, his digital footprint is far from gone'

10 awful quotes - harvested by @CharlotteCGill

https://t.co/jGsAR7Jm5t

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

Lucy Connolly only had a few thousand followers. And isn't a party leader.

Zack Polanski has hundreds of thousands of followers. And is a party leader.

Lucy got 31 months.

Reform recently had a senior member murdered.

Given context, Polanski's offence is far, far worse.

[Dave @DaveKent101]

The Leftist infiltration of the Establishment is now so deep that these arrogant people openly defy the law.

Staffordshire Police have defied the Supreme Court and put biological men in women’s cells.
Wait for it, because “detainees may be placed in accommodation consistent with their gender identity”
🤨🤨🤨

No wonder contempt for the police is rising by the day.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Don’t believe them when they say it’s only a few 👇🏼 the more it’s not stopped the more boys & men will steal opportunities & rewards from women & girls. These are biological males who would win nothing against other biological males. It just cheating.

[Jac o' the North 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @JacotheNorth]

Cadno Communications sells its political connections to commercial clients. 'You wanna wind farm? - leave it to us'

Here are images of Cadno smooching politicians. Who do you recognise?

A register of lobbyists is the VERY LEAST we need to clean up Welsh political life 1/2

[Pat Condell @patcondell]

If Hope Not Hate were a right wing group they would be shut down and everyone involved would be in prison.

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨Angela Rayner got £17k as standard Cabinet severance when she resigned — automatic three months’ pay.

While she was backbench she then received £150k in donations from Refrigeration House Limited for her office and staffing.

Detailed accounting not required..

Nearly a year later she’s back as Housing Secretary.

It feels like this goes against Labour’s stance for ordinary people.

There should be a clear clause: if you return to Cabinet within a year, you repay the money.

If she had any real morals she’d just hand it back now.

[David Vance @DavidVance]

This is the new UK Business Secretary.
His name is Jonathan Reynolds.
He has never worked in business.
Oh, and he pretended to be a qualified solicitor on several occasions when he wasn’t.’

[Rt. Hon Ben Wallace @BenWallace70]

I am no fan of Refom but every time the @timespolitics @guardian mentions Geroge Cottrell the prefix it with “convicted criminal.”. They must prefix Louie Haigh then with “convicted fraudster.” Not to do so is to show disdain for professional journalism.

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼

•⁠ ⁠Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%

•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)

•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)

•⁠ ⁠Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

•⁠ ⁠Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners

•⁠ ⁠Home ownership: 55% → 67%

•⁠ ⁠Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

•⁠ ⁠Foreign holidays: roughly doubled

•⁠ ⁠Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten

•⁠ ⁠Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Infant mortality: down almost 40%

•⁠ ⁠Real GDP: up by almost a third

•⁠ ⁠GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million

•⁠ ⁠Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon

•⁠ ⁠Britain became a net oil exporter

•⁠ ⁠London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986

•⁠ ⁠Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90

•⁠ ⁠National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%

•⁠ ⁠State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%

•⁠ ⁠The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

•⁠ ⁠Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Higher rates of income tax: nine → one

•⁠ ⁠Death duties: fourteen rates → one

•⁠ ⁠Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

•⁠ ⁠40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector

•⁠ ⁠The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987

•⁠ ⁠British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)

•⁠ ⁠BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen

•⁠ ⁠"Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986

•⁠ ⁠British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"

•⁠ ⁠The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed

•⁠ ⁠The Falklands liberated in 74 days

•⁠ ⁠Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War

•⁠ ⁠Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Oh dear Nick @lowles_nick a full copy of your hate piece on Ann Widdecombe is still available.

Cc @hopenothate

[Bev Turner @beverleyturner]

These people have tried to destroy @GBNEWS for 5 years.
'Hope Not Hate' orchestrated a tireless campaign against anyone to tried to advertise with us.

They believe cancel culture is a useful weapon to curate their own world view. They despise free speech.

More than ever we are going to need help from the Americans to remind them that the solution to what they would call 'hate speech' is more speech.

@UnderSecPD
@SecRubio
@JDVance
@POTUS

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

Hi @lowles_nick is this a screenshot of your hit piece on Ann Widdecombe? Was her murderer a fan of yours, a subscriber to @hopenothate?

Not only have you taken the piece down, you've also removed it from being tracked down as an archive.

I suggest you rename HNH as "Hate."

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

Interviews with Lineker, hiring former Hope Not Hate directors…Burnham will outdo Starmer as the most hated PM of all time.

A virtually unelected, radical leftist who will do massive damage.

The only good news is he might also destroy the Labour Party.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Matthew McGregor will be Andy Burnham’s new head of political strategy in No10.

Matthew was Director of Campaigns & Communications for Hope Not Hate from January 2018 to October 2021.

Tells us all we need to know about the relationship between Labour and Hope Not Hate.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

This has moved beyond insulting and ungrateful demands for cash and is now a hostile territorial claim. We should halt the issuing of all visas from the countries backing it.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

What is the rationale for a public service broadcaster like the BBC paying a DJ (Scott Mills) £750,000 a year to present the breakfast show on Radio 2 playing soft rock music which commercial radio already provides in abundance?

[Shaun Richards @notayesmansecon]

Has anybody seen the BBC Economics Editor Faisal Islam this morning? If you do let him know the UK ten-year yield is above 5%.
He used to be very concerned about much lower bond yields.....

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

BREAKING: Tomorrow, Conservatives were going to force a vote to extend Parliament and make Andy Burnham’s new government face scrutiny.

But Labour have just BLOCKED it.

What are you scared of, @andyburnham?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Aren’t you the minister for safeguarding women against violence?
And you have to apologise for what you tweeted after a fellow female politician was violently murdered?
Isn’t that a resigning matter?