Billie

I love classical music,pop,opera,musical theatre, Love chocolate hate marmite.,,,, ,smile an the world smiles with you,cry an you cry alone

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

Ann Widdecombe gave her life to public service.

My tribute after the upsetting news today.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

"He is not here, for he has risen.”

Happy Easter. 🙏

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

JD Vance dropping truth bombs in Munich. It's impossible to disagree with a single word of this.

"No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants"

Spot on! 🔥

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Meanwhile at Microsoft headquarters.. 😅

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Reform UK manifesto in full

Immigration:

- Freeze non-essential Immigration

- Pick up illegal migrants out of boats and take them back to France

- Leave the European Convention on Human Rights

- Zero illegal immigrants to be resettled in the UK

- New Department of Immigration

- Secure Detention for all Illegal Migrants

- All asylum seekers that arrive illegally from safe countries will be processed rapidly, offshore if necessary

- Those entering from a safe country will also be barred from claiming asylum or citizenship

- No legal aid for non-citizens

- Immediate Deportation for Foreign Criminals

- Deport foreign nationals immediately after their prison sentence ends

- Withdraw citizenship from immigrants who commit crime with the exception of some misdemeanour offences

- Ban Student Dependents

- Introduce new visa rules for international students

- Only international students with essential skills can remain in the UK

- Close down fake courses and immigration schemes that abuse the rules

- Stop Health Tourism and Immediate Access to Benefits

- Impose a requirement of 5 years residency and employment to claim any benefits in the UK

- The National Insurance rate will be raised to 20% for foreign workers

- British citizens National Insurance rate would stay at 13.8%

Government spending:

- Bank of England Must Stop Paying Interest to Commercial Banks on QE Reserves

- Every department must slash wasteful spending and cut bureaucracy

- Cut Unnecessary Regulations

- Cut Foreign Aid by 50%

- Collect £ Billions in Unpaid Tax

Economy for people:

- Lift the Income Tax Start Point to £20,000 Per Year

- Lower fuel duty by 20p per litre for both residential and business users

- Scrap VAT on energy bills

- Scrap environmental levies

- Cut Residential Stamp Duty

- Cut Stamp Duty to 0% below £750k, 2% from £750k

- £1.5m and 4% over £1.5m

- Abolish the VAT Tourist Tax

- Abolish Inheritance Tax for all Estates Under £2m

Economy for businesses:

- Free Over 1.2 Million Small and Medium Sized Businesses from Corporation Tax

- Lift the minimum profit threshold to £100k

- Reduce the main Corporation Tax Rate from 25% to 20%, then to 15% from Year 3

- Abolish IR35 Rules to Support Sole Traders

- Lift the VAT Threshold to £150,000

- Free up small entrepreneurs from red tape

- Abolish Business Rates for high street based SMEs

- An Online Delivery Tax at 4% for large, multinational enterprises

- Cut entrepreneurs’ tax to 5%

- Reform the Planning System

- Fast-track new housing on brownfield sites and infrastructure projects

- Slash Red Tape to Boost Industry and Exports

- Scrap thousands of laws that hold back British business and damage productivity

- Reform the Tax System

NHS:

- End Doctor and Nurse Shortages

- All frontline NHS and social care staff to pay zero basic rate tax for 3 years

- End training caps for all UK medical students

- Write off student fees pro rata per year over 10 years of NHS service for all doctors, nurses and medical staff

- Use Independent Healthcare Capacity

- Tax Relief of 20% on all Private Healthcare and Insurance

- A New NHS Voucher Scheme

- NHS Patients will receive a voucher for private treatment if they can’t see a GP within 3 days, a consultant in 3 weeks or get an operation in 9 weeks

- Services will always be free at the point of use

- Improve Efficiency by cutting waste and unnecessary managers

- Operating theatres must be open on weekends

- Rotas must be planned further in advance

- Nail down better prices using economies of scale

- Review all NHS Private Finance Contracts for
significant savings potential

- Charge those who fail to attend medical appointments without notice

- Abolish the NHS Race and Health Observatory

- Offer tax incentives for new pharmacies and those who employ more staff

- Excess Deaths and Vaccine Harms Public Inquiry

Net Zero:

- Scrap Net Zero and Related Subsidies

- Scrap Annual £10 Billion of Renewable Energy Subsidies

- Start fast-track licences of North Sea gas and oil

- Grant shale gas licences on test sites for 2 years

- Enable major production when safety is proven, with local compensation schemes

- Cleaner Energy from New Technology

- Increase and incentivise ethical UK lithium mining for electric batteries, combined cycle gas turbines, clean synthetic fuel, tidal power and explore clean coal mining

Policing:

- Recruitment to increase UK per capita police numbers to 300 per 100k population

- 40,000 new front-line officers, over a 5-year parliament

- Commence Zero Tolerance Policing clampdown on all crime and antisocial behaviour

- Increase Stop and Search substantially

- Prison for violent crimes and possessing a knife

- Drug dealing and trafficking will get mandatory life imprisonment

- A new offence of Substantial Possession of Drugs will meet heavy fines

- New Police Leadership and Recruitment Regime

- Strong preference for ex-military officers and personnel

- Ensure a high standards of fitness and presentation for front line officers

- Sack Chief Constables that allow two-tier policing

- Use better technology and stop wasting time on paperwork

- Allow PCSOs to become police officers before the role is phased out

- Scrap all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion roles and regulations

- Overhaul the Independent Office of Police Conduct so that the police complaints system becomes more accountable and works for the law abiding public

- De-Politicise the College of Policing

- Prioritise crime prevention, discipline, public service and high standards of strength and fitness among trainees

- Replace degree-standard entry with an entrance exam

- Require officers to complete a 2-year probationary period

- Stricter entry requirements

Justice:

- Urgent Sentencing Review with Automatic Life Imprisonment for Violent Repeat Offenders

- Increase the Criminal Justice Budget from £10 billion to £12 billion

- Reopen local magistrates’ courts to clear the case backlog

- Change the Definition of Hate Crime

- Start Building of 10,000 New Detention Places

- Start expansion in capacity of state built and managed prisons

- Commission disused military bases if needed

- Reform the Child Maintenance Service

- Launch a special division of the Family Court for maintenance and default

- Stop Child Grooming Gangs

- Deport offenders holding dual citizenship

- Make child grooming an aggravating offence

- Improve safeguarding of victims and vulnerable

- No bail for grooming gang offenders

- Tackle Youth Crime

- Reopen High Intensity Training Camps for young offenders to teach basic education, teamwork and values

Education:

- A Patriotic Curriculum in Primary and Secondary Schools

- Ban Transgender Ideology in Primary and Secondary Schools

- Tax relief of 20% on all Independent Education

- Scrap Interest on Student Loans

- Cut Funding to Universities that Undermine Free Speech

- Permanent Exclusions for Violent and Disruptive Students

- Universities Must Provide 2-Year Undergraduate Courses

Benefits and welfare:

- Lift the Income Tax start point to £20,000 per year

- Motivate up to 2 million People Back to Work

- Enforce a 2-Strike Rule for Job Offers - job seekers must find employment within 4 months or accept a job after 2 offers, or lose their benefits

- Face to Face, Not Remote Assessments for Benefits

Brexit:

- Legislate to Scrap EU Regulations with Immediate Effect

- Abandon the Windsor Framework

- Independence for Britain’s Armed Forces

- Prepare for Renegotiations on the EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement

Defence:

- Increase Defence Spending to 2.5% of National GDP by year 3, then 3% within 6 years

- Introduce Urgent Pay Review

- Introduce new Armed Forces Justice Bill

- New, Dedicated Ministerial Department for Veterans

- Recruit 30,000 for the army

- Regenerate Britain’s Defence Manufacturing and Technology

- Reform Defence Procurement

- Free Education for Military Personnel

Housing:

- Review the Planning System

- Reform Social Housing - prioritise locals. Foreign nationals go to the back of the queue

- Scrap section 24 for Landlords

- Abolish the Renters’ (Reform) Bill

- Protection for Leaseholders

- Incentivise Use of New Construction Technology

Children and families:

- Support Marriage Through the Tax System

- When feasible, introduce a 25% transferable marriage tax allowance, exempting the first £25,000 of income for each spouse to encourage work and help those on benefits reenter the workforce

- Choice for Stay-at-Home Parents: Front-load Child Benefit for children aged 1-4 to give parents the option to stay home more

- Mandate Single Sex Spaces

- Promote Child Friendly App Restricted Smartphones by launching inquiry into social media

- Review the Online Safety Bill

Transport and infrastructure:

- Scrap HS2 and save £25 billion

- Stop the War on Drivers and legislate to ban ULEZ Clean Air Zones and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

- Accelerate transport infrastructure on coastal regions, Wales, the North, and the Midlands

- Introduce a new model for national infrastructure: 50% public ownership, 50% UK pension funds; cap standing charges to help low users and pensioners

- Create a single government infrastructure funding stream by merging the National Infrastructure Commission and the Infrastructure Bank, scrapping Net Zero objectives, and simplifying the funding process

Farming:

- Increase the Farming Budget to £3 Billion

- Scrap Climate-Related Farming Subsidies

- Protect Country Sports

- Stop Supermarket Price Fixing

- Buy British: Aim for 70% food security by sourcing 75% of taxpayer-funded food from the UK, ensure clear labeling for consumers, and support smaller food processors and abattoirs with tax breaks and incentives

- Farming not Form Filling by cutting red tape

Pensions and Social Care:

- Commence Royal Commission of Inquiry into Social Care System

- Simplify social care through a single funding stream

- Stop the Offshore Taxpayer Rip Off

- End some larger care home providers are avoiding tax on hundreds of millions of profits

- Review Pension Provision

- End the Mineworkers Pension Scandal

Constitutional Reform:

- Leave the European Convention on Human Rights

- Commence reform of the Human Rights Act

- Commence Reform of the House of Lords & Civil Service

- Replace the House of Lords with a much smaller, more democratic second chamber

- Immediate end of political appointees

- Replace Civil Service leaders with successful professionals from the private sector

- Commence Reform of the Postal Voting System

- Stop postal voting except for the elderly, disabled or those who can’t leave their homes

- Proportional Representation Voting for the House of Commons

- A British Bill of Rights

Fisheries:

- Reform will ensure foreign fishermen possess a license to access the UK’s 200 nautical mile waters

- Expand the Royal Navy’s overseas patrol squadron

- Ban foreign supertrawlers in British waters and end the practice of electric pulse fishing within Britain’s 200 mile EEZ

- Rebuild the UK's fish processing

- Increase the UK's fishing fleet through tax incentives and vocational training

- Work with the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission to implement a new management system that would guarantee sustainable stocks

Reclaiming Britain:

- Reaffirm British Sovereignty - reject World Economic Forum influence, oppose the WHO Pandemic Treaty and consider leaving the WHO without reforms, oppose Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and a cashless society

- Replace 2010 equalities act and scrap Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DE&I) rules that have lowered standards and reduced economic productivity

- Propose a Comprehensive Free Speech Bill to legislate against left-wing bias, politically correct ideology, de-banking, cancel culture, left-wing hate mobs, and political bias in public institutions

- Stop the use of Sharia law in the UK

- Commence Reform of the BBC by addressing its institutional bias and inefficiencies

- Scrap the TV licence, considering it taxation without representation, and support freedom of choice in a world of on-demand TV

- Make St George’s and St David’s Day a Public Holiday

- Launch an Anti-Corruption Unit for Westminster to ensure that public officials face sanctions if they break the rules, including prison, with legal powers to investigate past and future scandals

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Babe, tell me the truth …

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview

[Billie @Bi11ie]

@NormanBrennan Eloquently put Norman!!

[Billie @Bi11ie]

@Rylan Just started in Berkshire

[Charles Spencer @cspencer1508]

Fair to say, ⁦@CatJarman⁩ ⁦@RevRichardColes⁩ and I are deeply touched by the kind reception for our podcast, The Rabbit Hole Detectives. Lovely that our happy chats about the history of “stuff” have found an audience that shares our humour & love of quirky knowledge.

[Billie @Bi11ie]

@spencermorgan93 Absolutely fantastic 🥰

[Fatbaldbloke @Fatbaldbloke1]

Places where @theJeremyVine has almost had an accident on his bike

[Robert E Fuller @RobertEFuller]

The heartening story of how a male kestrel raised his chicks alone after their mum disappeared is out now 📽🍿
Watch single dad Mr Kes defy the odds to learn to care for his chicks on my YouTube Channel now
👉https://t.co/2rvuNvPhBe

[Joss Eton @EtonJoss]

@Mike_Fabricant Seems it was all made up ....by the Daily mail...quelle surprise

[Mike Graham 🇬🇧 @Iromg]

Well said @JeremyClarkson⁩ via ⁦@thetimes⁩

“We’re in the midst of a coup. Who the hell’s behind it?”

https://t.co/6YbCjvsTwy

[Billie @Bi11ie]

@mrdanwalker Yes, seems a ok guy..at the end of the day he's one man, he was the face we knew they weren't all his decisions..Hes one man he's not as powerful as some seem to think,or maybe suits them to believe it..

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

5-year-old Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani performing some Mozart🎹🎶🎵

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

Just found out that nurse I've been slagging off for saying the NHS shouldn't resuscitate Tories is my cousin! Totally didn't recognise her! This will make Christmas awkward lololol

[Mahyar Tousi @MahyarTousi]

Where is the media? 🤔

[Kylie MacLellan @kyliemaclellan]

This is just such an incredible camera angle #QueenElizabethII