Cllr. Andrew Schrader 🌳

@BasildonTories Cllr for #Billericay East, @BasildonCouncil | Cty Cllr for Burstead, @Essex_CC | [email protected] | fb/CllrAndrewSchrader

[Cllr. Andrew Schrader 🌳 @APSchrader]

I'm all for prayers. I'm all for flags. I'm all for 'God Save The King' (both verses, if they like). But what I'd really like is some meat on the bones when it comes to, for example, filling "every pothole in Essex".

[BBC East @BBCLookEast]

We want policies not prayers, say Reform critics https://t.co/a6s9fPbuYX

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@DestroyerGort Nah.

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'First day at school' vibes @Essex_CC. County Hall steeped in history: frescos, marble busts, portraits, &c. Chamber magnificent. V intimidating, but I feel privileged to be here. Thank you, Burstead. I'm going to work hard for you. [email protected]

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@peteratcmc @jackiem29967594 It's HM, not HRH, and it is not a matter for the King to decide. It is a matter for Parliament, more specifically the Labour Party.

How are you in the House of Lords and apparently don't understand these things?

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

Side note.

To the Labour MPs who shout “Liz Truss” whenever the economy is discussed, should note that the UK 10yr bond yield under Truss peaked at 4.7%

This morning, because of Reeves’ and Starmer’s ineptitude the 10yr bond yield is 5.02%

Labour crashed the economy.

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@Victoria00025 @BrassGun2 No. Not in a million gazillion years.

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@CommonsSpeaker @Cathy57600977 @UKHouseofLords @UKParliament Have you found the Speaker's wig yet?

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@PeterTatchell @RepublicStaff Bore off.

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@maturefinancier @ianschofieldi You do realise Oliver Cromwell was our first and mercifully, so far, our only military dictator.

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@KemiBadenoch A future Conservative Gov't should completely reverse the Blair reforms (along with so much of Sir Tony's constitutional vandalism).

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Hear! Hear!

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

In the midst of all the news today, and with Parliament prorogued, many people may not have noticed that this was the final time the hereditary peers sat in Parliament before being forced out by Labour.

I want to pay an extra special tribute to them.

Combined they had 1784 years of parliamentary experience, wisdom and service to this country. That is not something easily replaced, and it should not be casually discarded.

Most were Conservatives. All were public servants.

They have brought to public life judgment shaped over decades, deep expertise, institutional memory, and a sense of duty that has strengthened Parliament and, very often, improved legislation in ways the public will never fully see.

Their record speaks for itself. They have served in war and peace, in government and opposition, in defence, diplomacy, farming, business, science and public service. They have not merely occupied seats in the Lords, they have contributed to the life of the nation.

That is why what has happened matters. Hereditary peers are a living part of Britain’s constitutional inheritance that Labour is casually tearing up.

Labour has rubbed away another part of our heritage, not to strengthen Parliament but to replace it with political appointees, four of whom it has already had to suspend the whip from because they were so inappropriate. That contrast says rather a lot.

At a time when public trust in politics is fragile, I think it is worth saying plainly that experience, seriousness and tradition still matter. Service still matters. Duty still matters.

So today, as an era closes, I want to put on record my profound gratitude and admiration for our hereditary peers. Britain has been better governed because of them. The Conservative Party has been stronger because of them. And Parliament will be poorer without them.

Their contribution will long outlast the petty politics that has brought this moment about.

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@CheekyVic @mattsansell She is still Queen Consort.

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@CheekyVic That is essentially the dictionary definition of a queen.

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@LondonHistorian @RafHM I wrote to Lord Janvrin suggesting precisely this!

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

The Victorians built a sumptuous memorial to Prince Albert. Edwardians built a monumental memorial, triumphal arch & new road layout for Victoria. We've put Elizabeth II on a bollard & now lack the civic literacy to distinguish between parks & public spaces.

She deserves better.

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Remembering Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of happy memory, on the centenary of Her birth. God rest Her mighty soul. R.I.P.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

“God bless you, darling Mama; you remain forever in our hearts and prayers.”

A special tribute from His Majesty The King on what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday.

🔗 Watch in full on The Royal Family YouTube channel: https://t.co/u8jeiFocT5

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@JeremyVineOn5 It was probably for the best, for all concerned.

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@TheBritishIntel @linB2198 What are you talking about??? The King doesn't *use* the King's Speech to *do* anything. He simply outlines the Government's legislative programme for the forthcoming parliament. The content of the speech is entirely down to the Government.

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@danbarker @DCBMEP How perfectly ghastly.

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@EshaAA33 @DavidPedder5 Complete poppycock.