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[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The BBC has just released a statement about their outrageous decision to exclude Restore Britain from yesterday’s Makerfield Question Time - explaining they consider ‘panel selection carefully’ and they ‘recognise the multi-party nature of UK politics’.

This is the most blatant example of BBC bias I have ever witnessed - it is scandalous.

They had the irrelevant Lib Dems and Tories, along with the Greens. We will outpoll all of them combined, easily.

Ask yourself. Why is the rotten establishment so desperate to censor Restore Britain?

Here is why.

Restore Britain’s policy platform is robust and unapologetic.

We will do what needs to be done.

- The largest deportation programme ever seen in Britain to remove those migrants living in our country illegally. The entire asylum system will be abolished. The boats will stop.

- Net negative immigration. Far more must leave than arrive.

- If a foreign national can’t speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, doesn’t work, hates our way of life - they go too. If millions go, millions go.

- Close entire visa routes from countries proven to supply us with illegals, criminals and sex pests. The immigration ‘Red List’. We will discriminate.

- Fairer spouse visas - so that British men and women can bring their spouses to Britain without the endless bureaucracy and cost currently inflicted on them.

- An overhaul of British agriculture that puts growing and farming at the heart of any policy for rural Britain. Food security is national security. Slash red tape, simplify payments, ease planning laws, encourage farm diversification and more. Crucially, help youngsters into agriculture. We will ensure a level playing field for British farmers.

- Restore Britain will force the British public sector will buy British - it will support British farmers, producers and small businesses.

- We will encourage and fund youngsters to take up apprenticeships and learn a proper skill instead of some nonsense university degree. Teach children at school the life skills they will actually need in modern Britain.

- An education system that teaches, respects and celebrates British history and the triumphant contribution our little island has made to the world.

- Businesses freed from crushing regulation, red tape and tax. Reward hard work. Let entrepreneurs enjoy their success.

- Lowest corporation tax in Europe. IR35 scrapped. VAT threshold doubled. HMRC brutally slashed back. Dividend thresholds raised.

- High streets restored. Safe, secure and welcoming. Business rates for small businesses abolished. Turkish barbers, vape shops and other suspicious businesses investigated. Graffiti cleaned, litter picked. Pavements fixed. We will make Britain clean again, and we will take pride in our communities again.

- We will implement free parking in select areas to drive back footfall from the retail parks and back into our town centres. Councils will be forced to accept common sense.

- Fly-tippers will be crushed under the law. It will not be tolerated. Foreigners indulging in the destruction of our countryside will be deported.

- Personal tax slashed. Trust families to spend their money, not the bureaucrats.

- Put pro-family policy at the heart of everything we do. If British families want to have more children, let’s use the power of the state to enable that. Make childcare more accessible and more affordable.

- Reform family courts - so that good, decent fathers, and mothers, are not kept away from their children for malicious reasons. This is important.

- Trust parents to make the best decisions for their families. A limited number of days for a term-time holiday for well-developed children. This is just common sense.

- Restore Britain will make Britain safe again. No-nonsense policing that does what it needs to do. Widespread stop and search back - accusations of racism will stop nothing. Brutal sentences for carrying a knife. Foreign criminals deported, third world sex pests removed before their feet can touch the ground.

- Welfare radically slashed back. Those who can work, will work. Litter picking, graffiti cleaning, whatever else. Don’t like it? No benefits. That simple.

- Support those Brits who genuinely need the help, particularly children, but under a Restore Britain Government the piss-take will end.

- A foreign policy that puts the British interest above all else - proudly and unapologetically. We won’t participate in never-ending foreign wars. We will act when, and only when, the British interest is served.

- Rebuild and rearm Britain. We will have a big stick, and we will wave it when we want.

- A comprehensive support system for British veterans - including fast tracked recruitment into immigration enforcement field roles.

- Arbitrary foreign aid targets that serve no British interests, gone.

- Restore Britain will reverse the creeping islamification of Britain - no burqas, sharia courts, halal slaughter and so on. Cousin marriage will be banned. If you want to sleep with your family, this is not the country for you. This is Britain, we do things our way.

- Exemptions for barbaric religious practices will be removed. Gladly.

- Anti-white racism, eradicated. No more DEI. The Equality Act repealed, along with the various iterations of the Race Relations Act.

- Self-defence rights restored. If an intruder tries to kill you in your home, and they end up dead? So be it. That’s their problem. Pepper spray legalised.

- End the war on motorists. Cut fuel duty, no more 20mph zones. Motorway speed limit raised to 80mph. Sort out our decaying road network.

- Biological reality respected. Men are men. Women are women. No amount of surgery will ever change that. That filth will be kept away from children.

- Inheritance tax abolished - for farms, for small businesses, for everyone. The scam will end. Death will no longer be taxed under a Restore Britain Government.

- An infrastructure first housing policy. Developers forced to fund proper infrastructure before a shovel goes in the ground. British homes for British families.

- A Government that prioritises building roads, bridges and projects HERE in Britain. Can you even imagine it?!

- We will purse a British first energy strategy. Net zero will be scrapped. Domestic energy production will be ruthlessly prioritised. Nuclear, oil/gas, fracking. We will make it happen.

- End the lockdown legacy. Inquiry into COVID vaccine harms, lockdown convictions quashed, a truly independent look at how that was all allowed to happen.

- No Digital ID, ever. Repeal the Online Safety Act. Protect free speech.

- Defund the rotten BBC. Make it a subscription service and let it wither on the vine.

- A binding referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty for the most evil criminals. One of my favourites.

- A national strategy, working from the findings of the rape gang inquiry, to ruthlessly tackle and decapitate the national crime network of primarily Pakistani muslim sexual slavery, torture and murder.

- Restore Britain will end political Islam. Abolish postal voting except for those in genuine need. Remove voting rights for foreign nationals.

- Foreign language translation ended, in the NHS and beyond. You live in England, you speak English.

- The NHS will be restored as the NATIONAL health service. Serving British people as its first and only priority. It will accept ultra-high skilled migrants to work, it will not support millions of low-skilled migrants who contribute nothing, yet take so much.

- Free car parking for NHS staff, patients and visitors on tight permits. We all pay for the NHS, we shouldn’t be ripped off for the sodding parking too. Especially medical staff.

- Medical school caps will be demolished. We will allow talented young British men and women to train in medicine - the NHS will then be forced to employ them over foreign staff. We will prioritise our own people.

- Reclaim our fisheries - take back our seas and take back our fish. We will take back control. Finally.

- The quangocracy will end. Power will be returned to the people through their MPs. Parliament will be empowered.

- Restore Britain will crush the parasitic state. It will all be hacked back in the most spectacular fashion. Unlike anything Britain has seen before.

I could go on.

This is a platform that millions and millions of British men and women are agreeing with.

The BBC does not want you to hear about it. So please, tell your friends/family. Get the message out there.

There is finally a political party with the balls to put you all first - to put the British people first.

Restore Britain.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want the world to hear what we heard.

[Trevor Phillips @TrevorPTweets]

My thoughts on the @EHRC guidance laid yesterday; this is not about non-existent "rights". It is about the safety of women - mothers, sisters, wives, daughters. We men need to hear their voices. Virginia Woolf : "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes".

My intro on @TimesRadio yesterday:

Where I live there are two different routes to and from the tube station. One, let’s call it Acacia Avenue, is quiet and residential. The other, London Road, is a busy major route with lots of traffic. At all times of the day, I automatically head for Acacia Road. It’s just much nicer.

The women in my family, on the other hand, will never willingly make that walk after dark. They live with an anxiety that most men find it hard to imagine, and frankly, rarely think about unprompted.

Last year 739,000 women were sexually assaulted in Britain. Virtually all such assaults - nine out of ten - are perpetrated by men. One in four women have been attacked at some time in their lives. Acacia Avenue is exactly the sort of place in which most women fear that they become vulnerable, and they are right.

As the author Virginia Woolf once wrote " Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes".

I think this is the right context in which to understand the furore over the guidance being laid today by the government, over the meaning of the words man and woman when it comes to providing services and facilities in workplaces.

Many men think this is about a rather arcane dispute about who gets to use what loo. For their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, it isn’t.

In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue.

This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls.

What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected.

But the whole business illuminates some serious issues in our politics.

First that many of our institutions, in spite of the fact that they always knew what the right thing to do was, decided to ignore the fears of their women customers and employees, under pressure from noisy pressure groups. Instead, the people who were supposed to be the grown ups behaved as though the law said what campaigners wanted it to say, rather than what it actually said. They settled for what they hoped would be a quiet life.

In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different.

Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination.

Look, it would almost certainly have been to my advantage as a young man to self-identify as a handsome, white public schoolboy. None of those things is true of me. And at various points I am pretty sure it’s been to my disadvantage. It is certainly statistically likely to have been to my disadvantage.

But according to the logic of those who say that self-ID should be the rule and that anyone should be able to decide for themselves whether they are male or female, black or white or Asian, were I to complain about racial discrimination, it would be difficult for anyone prove that I’d been discriminated against because of my race since anybody to whom I’d lost out could just tell the courts that they too were black.

I know that sounds like Alice in Wonderland but you can google the case where a chap, both of whose parents are white, insisted he should get money from the Arts Council because he so identified with the black struggle that he considered himself black, and everyone should accept his point of view. In the United States and Brazil exactly such outlandish claims have been made and people rewarded to the disadvantage of people actually born into minority families.

I have even been told about firms who, when reporting their gender pay gaps have put men who just happen to like wearing dresses at weekends - nothing wrong with that, let me be clear - into the female column and told their women employees that they really haven’t got anything to moan about because statistically they are paid equally, and they should get back in their box.

So today’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

The Chancellor promised "every single penny" from the VAT hike would go on state schools.
But the PM says the money has gone on housing.
Both *cannot* be true.
And state school teacher numbers are down not up! 🤔

[Victoria @vickygrayson_]

Earlier today, I attended the debate in Parliament in relation to VAT on private school fees.

@bphillipsonMP was nowhere to be seen as MPs discussed the impact on children, parents, schools & staff.

Next stop, the High Court on 1-3 April.

Link: https://t.co/FiCsW5PpY6

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

My open letter to the Education Secretary ⁦@bphillipsonMP⁩

Many teachers and school leaders share my concerns with regard to her decisions but are scared to say.

If you can find it in you, please RT.

My letter is also here: https://t.co/phAiybAov5

[ENT - Education Not Taxation @EducationNotTax]

🏉 #SchoolFeeVAT has real consequences👇:
❌ Fewer bursaries. Less financial support for aspiring athletes and future sports stars.
Don’t let rushed policies limit opportunities for the next generation. #EducationNotTax
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[Olly @oIIyjm]

🧵 Musings on @UKLabour's education tax from a teacher.

Over the last few months I have often felt like a lone voice speaking out against private school-VAT amongst the education community. I have been shocked as many of the loudest and most influential... (1/10)

[Rufas @rufas_botsmel]

@bphillipsonMP @joenutt_author @RealAlexJones @EducationNotTax

Inequity in the VAT Decision: Penalizing Opportunity for All

The government’s decision to impose VAT on private education disproportionately impacts families who make sacrifices to provide their children with opportunities that the state system may not offer—particularly those from diverse backgrounds who rely on bursaries, scholarships, or who scrape together resources for a better education such as myself trying to fund my granddaughter’s private education and SEND needs through a dwindling inheritance I was left.

Yet, activities like gambling and lottery tickets remain VAT-free, even though they offer no tangible societal benefits and often harm the most vulnerable communities. How is it equitable to tax education—a tool for breaking cycles of poverty and marginalization—while shielding activities that can perpetuate inequality?

What’s Not Taxed: A Question of Values
•Gambling: Exempt from VAT, despite evidence of harm to society and individuals.
•Sporting Activities: Often VAT-free to encourage participation, but education is penalized, even though it fosters personal and societal growth.
•Books: VAT-free for their educational value—yet private education, which goes further in equipping children with tools for life, will be taxed.
•Luxury Items Like Fine Art: Exemptions for certain goods reflect societal privilege over true equity.

Private education is not just for the wealthy. Many schools have diversity initiatives, bursaries, and scholarships aimed at giving children from underrepresented groups access to opportunities they might not otherwise have. Taxing these institutions risks undoing progress toward inclusive access to high-quality education.
•Families from marginalized communities who make sacrifices to access private education will feel the burden of VAT disproportionately.
•The move risks widening existing educational inequities by making private schools less accessible to middle-income families, leaving them as exclusive enclaves for the wealthiest.

How can taxing education align with values of fairness and inclusion, while activities like gambling and luxury items remain VAT-free? True equity supports access to opportunity—not limits it. Let’s rethink this divisive policy. #EDI #FairTaxation #EducationForAll”

[LBC @LBC]

'You're Secretary of State for Education. What is the true figure?'

'I can't provide you with that figure for the reasons I've set out.'

@NickFerrariLBC asks Bridget Phillipson how many private school students have applied to join state schools between June and September...

[Ana Boulter @anaboultertv]

https://t.co/aoRzmTwvOQ @dshensmith @BBBarrister

[Ana Boulter @anaboultertv]

Schools are closing Bridget because you have imposed VAT on school fees.... https://t.co/gW4jXINMBJ via @YouTube - can you find places for the kids from Carrdus school? Answers on a postcard @EducationNotTax @bphillipsonMP @MailOnline #idonthavebroadshoulders

[A Ju @aju94650]

Labour led Edinburgh council affirms that state school places are available but when parents enquire, they are told no places are available. What’s the plan @bphillipsonMP @Keir_Starmer ?
@EducationNotTax

[Berney48 @BerneyEars]

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[Berney48 @BerneyEars]

@Telegraph So gambling remains VAT exempt but education does not. #EducationNotTaxation

[James Denison @jrkdenison]

One of the things that I find most depressing about the #educationtax fiasco is that so many of those who support Labour's policy (and who often revel in it) turn out to have fundamentally misunderstood key elements of the topic and base their (often quite aggressive) views on serious factual errors or just straightforward ignorance.

The most common error is the old canard that VAT is charged on luxuries and that, given the existence of state schooling, private education is a luxury that should be taxed. This is nonsense because 1) VAT is not determined with regard to an assessment of luxury v necessity; and 2) education is not a luxury on any view.

Other common errors concern the reason for the VAT exemption on education, the effects of charitable status, the idea that VAT exemption is a cost to the taxpayer, how VAT is paid and who pays it, the capacity of parents to fund the VAT exposure and/or the capacity of schools to absorb it, parents' reasons for choosing independent schooling and their freedom to do so, generalisations about the nature and character of independent schools and so on.

Sadly, when these errors are pointed out, very few indicate that they'll reflect on the new information and adjust their views accordingly. This rather suggests that most supporters of the policy view it along ideological lines, rather than basing their perception on reason and facts, and that some are acting in bad faith when engaging with the issue on social media.

It was for all of these reasons that I produced my FAQ document back in June. All I ask is that anyone considering the issue do so with an open mind and with regard to the truth of the matter rather than assumption. If you do that, I'm confident that you'll oppose any attempt to obstruct access to private education, just as you'd oppose any attempt to obstruct access to state education.

[Amy Eileen Hamm @preta_6]

Turns out Raygun isn’t the biggest idiot in Australia after all

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