Alan Corinaldi-Knott

Town Planner for @Knightsplc. Do #tugofwar as a sport. @bosleytugofwar @englandtugofwar. Views my own. RT's not necessarily an endorsement.

[Alan Corinaldi-Knott @alanpknott]

@BNHWalker Reform and Labour clearly united in their objective to unseat Starmer. It will happen whichever way the result goes!

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

If it hadn’t been for England conceding two goals, it would have been the perfect performance, says Lee Dixon. This is why he gets paid the big bucks.

[Alan Corinaldi-Knott @alanpknott]

@Iromg Did they put Rachel Reeves in charge of the pricing strategy?

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

The State will give your children breakfast, help them choose their gender, and determine what information they are exposed to.

Some might say this overeach by the chunky jewellery class that did fuck all to protect children from predatory rape gangs.

[Martin in Monmouthshire @MartinMonmouth]

@JuliaHB1

[Alan Corinaldi-Knott @alanpknott]

@JuliaHB1 There is a two letter word that all parents can use when kids ask to use an ipad or ask you to buy them a smartphone.

[Doombar Dave @Doombardave]

@JuliaHB1 We'll be fine

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

Faced with a choice between a Defence Secretary who wanted to spend more on our armed forces, a Chancellor who wouldn’t, and an Attorney General who enjoys suing them, the Prime Minister decided he could do without … the Defence Secretary.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

“The White Star Line is delighted to appoint a new purser for its flagship vessel The Titanic”

[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

@AlistairCarns had a distinguished military career. It is damning that Benn, Starmer, Hermer, Reeves and others would not listen to him on lawfare, the Northern Ireland Bill, on defence transformation or on financial resources; and all credit to this RM veteran for stepping into the breach and his resignation on principle.

His dynamite resignation, on the back of the Healey exit represents the necessary detonation of a political bomb under UK defence; highlighting how screwed up it all really is, how badly Starmer is lying to the country, and how totally irresponsible is this @UKLabour government.

Carns is very right on the big things, the MoD and the “centre” are not facing reality on the changing technologies of war, they are not getting the resources they need and they are not defending veterans from lawfare. On this latter and vital point, this is led and encouraged by the UK’s own Attorney General as chief back-stabber.

For this, Hermer should be the next to go. And by the way, don’t expect much from the Starmer-loyalist, ex-Para Jarvis….not every Politician has the guts to do what Carns and Healey have just done…

[Festus Akinbusoye @FestAKINBUSOYE]

There is evidence to show that targeted stop and search deployed in hot spot areas, is a deterrent. No one is angered more by knife crime than people who live in the areas where this is prevalent. Trust me. I grew up in Newham. I lived through it, and some sadly, did not.

[John Bell @PlasFron]

THIS is a straightforward lie.

Those who send their children to a private school pay twice, first for the private school, and then for state schools through their taxes, while making no demand on the state system.

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

Jimmy Corry has lived on this Belfast street for 13 years. Now he’s homeless. He’s lost sentimental items forever, including his dad’s possessions.

He told me that he shares the anger many feel about the attack on Monday night but that burning down houses won’t solve anything.

[Alan Corinaldi-Knott @alanpknott]

@cjsnowdon so many killjoys out there...

[Alan Corinaldi-Knott @alanpknott]

@aswren quite - "youth clubs" are a long lost relic of the 1990's and most people won't have encountered one since the days of watching PJ & Duncan in Byker Grove. There are loads of sports clubs, scout/guide groups, boxing gyms, etc. out there already.

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

He’s dating Kim Kardashian, who has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion. He's worth nearly $500 million and lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK.

Remarkable lack of self-awareness.

[Mark Wallace @wallaceme]

You first, Lewis. There’s nothing stopping him giving away his hundreds of million of pounds to charities, or even to HMRC if he so wishes.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Andy Burnham's business rates proposals would lead to significant food price inflation. Here's why:

He has proposed abolishing business rates entirely for shops, cafes, & hairdressers; increasing the business rates exemption from £12k to £18k tapering to £21k, & implementing a 20% rates cut for pubs, clubs & music venues

This would cost respectively £6.5bn, £800m & £120m.

He claims the money can be recouped from higher taxes on large e-commerce warehouses / tech giants’ warehouses. This is pure fantasy.

The government says its high-value multiplier will make 1,900 distribution warehouses pay about £90m more a year. To cover the cost of Burnham's rate reduction elsewhere, their bill would have to go up by £7.4 billion a year, i.e. many multiples higher

Amazon's warehouses have a rateable value of some £60-£70m. The biggest operators of distribution warehouses are in fact supermarkets, notably Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Aldi, Lidl, M&S, John Lewis & Ocado. Even if Burnham waters down his unworkable £7.4bn scheme to say only £1bn that additional cost is going to be passed straight through to consumers. Amazon will also pass on the increased costs to its 30m British customers. People won't be happy.

It's sad that Burnham won't countenance the only real solution, which is to reduce public spending.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

This is how bizarre Andy Burnham’s by-election campaign is: he is simultaneously giving interviews and sending press releases opining on various national policies when it suits him, while refusing to answer more difficult questions because he says he’s focusing only on Makerfield

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Yesterday Burnham said on prime time television that he is going to challenge Starmer to become PM. Today he says he won’t tell voters why?