Charles Fifield

FRICS. Chartered Surveyor. CWC Cllr 2011-23. GE 2017 & 2024. Take X with a pinch of (Cheshire) salt. 🚜 🇬🇧🦼

[Charles Fifield @charlesfifield]

@ShitChester 21 maybe a typo as only 11 shown in the group photo at the end, but still quite an achievement - baby Hill would now be 64-65.

[History Girl @HistoryGirlBW]

A joyful Mr and Mrs Hill, 46, are greeted by their happy children as they arrive home with their 21st baby. Chester, 1961.

[Neil O'Brien @NeilDotObrien]

Given that some people are now trying to *completely* re-write history it is worth recalling which minister got lots of flack back in 2020 for attacking critical race theory.

[Weaver & Cuddington @weavercudding]

Cllr Lynn Stocks leading the canvass team this evening, speaking to residents in Cuddington and Sandiway.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

This is wrong. It doesn't matter who you vote for, but Kemi Badenoch expressly stated that ALL lives matter and it shouldn't be about someone's race. This sort of "attack ad" isn't about facing up to important issues, it's just a lie.

[Charles Fifield @charlesfifield]

I’ve always believed the welfare state should be a safety net to catch us if we fall, not a hammock to discourage us from climbing in the first place.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's Welfare Secretary admitted to Peter Mandelson what he won’t tell you.

Labour raised your taxes to pay for more benefits.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Labour's Welfare Secretary admitted to Peter Mandelson what he won’t tell you.

Labour raised your taxes to pay for more benefits.

[Charles Fifield @charlesfifield]

Todd was not only one of the first to land in real life but in one scene of the Longest Day he plays opposite an actor portraying his younger self.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

RICHARD TODD outside Café Gondrée - the first house in France to be liberated - while shooting

THE LONGEST DAY (1962)

Todd himself was among the first British soldiers to land in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord in June 1944.

[Vote Conservative @ToryVote_]

🚨 NEW Westminster Voting Intention

Con: 21% (+1)
Ref: 21% (-)
Lab: 19% (+1)
Grn: 18% (-2)
Lib: 11% (-)

Via @LordAPolls, 21-26 May (+/- vs 27 Apr)

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Incredibly, 90% of the new Labour MPs at the last election came from a trade union, charity or public-sector background. Barely 1/5th of the Cabinet has any private-sector experience. In the Shadow Cabinet, 3/4 of us do. That distinction matters.

The skills Labour MPs have acquired are in lobbying for more funding, campaigning for more benefits or more red tape. Britain needs a new generation of politician.

Only the Conservative Party can build a team for the economic war effort required after Burnham/Starmer have finished this catastrophic experiment. We will need to fix every aspect of our system at once. There will be no kicking decisions into the long grass, only rolling our sleeves up and getting to work.

If you've ever thought about a career in politics but decided it was too risky or you wouldn’t fit in, now is your time.…We are looking for people from every walk of life who know how to get stuff done.

In return, I will make politics work for you.

Britain does not lack talent. It lacks a system that draws that talent into public life. Join my team and help us get Britain working again.

My piece in the @Telegraph below👇

[Henry Curr @ecurrnomics]

The idea that Britain's economy would thrive if only it had more social housing is also absurd

[Sam 🌳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @samevansnffc]

Sensational decor in my local @maxandpaddyline

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Here are two other UK power records:
1. Highest industrial energy costs in the world.
2. Second highest domestic energy costs in the world.
As E Miliband says, we’re setting an example for the rest of the world. Indeed we are. Which is why nobody is following us.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Conservatives are the only Party with a plan to Get Britain Working Again 🇬🇧

[Helen Whately MP @Helen_Whately]

False narrative @TorstenBell

See how NEETs went up under Labour to nearly 17%. We brought them down to under 10%*

Yes, then the pandemic…everyone knows that hit young people…but not as badly as a Labour Government.

* Chart from Milburn’s report btw

[Charles Fifield @charlesfifield]

As Greedo was pointing a gun at him, not only did Han shoot first, it was self defence.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Star Wars is 49 today
One of the biggest gripes with George Lucas tinkering with the original trilogy: removing Han shooting first, an action that instantly defines him as the scoundrel we love
I tracked down the original cut, and here it is. Balance restored. Thanks, George.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The Supreme Court has ruled that under UK law, trans people never had the rights people like you insisted they had. You misrepresented the law and cheered on the removal of women’s rights. Trans people have lost nothing except the mistaken belief you fostered.

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

When he resigned he said it was because he was being prevented from making the changes needed to bring down immigration.

He is now claiming that he made the changes that brought down immigration.

Both can’t be true.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

RIP Jeremy Hanley, local Richmond MP and inspiration for one of the great political lines after returning to parliament after the 1983 GE:

“Mrs Thatcher, I want to thank you. I won by just 74 votes and without them I wouldn’t be here. I think your visit to the constituency made all the difference. You are responsible for those 74 votes.”

“No Jeremy,” she replied gravely. “It is you who were responsible for the 74 votes. I was responsible for the 20,000.”

[EFTA 4 UK @EFTA4UK]

Blimey, EU officials actually SUGGESTED that 🇬🇧 join the EEA..?!

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Exclusive from @eleanorhayward

Britain is facing an “economic catastrophe” as young adults “rewired��� by smartphones are becoming trapped in worklessness, a government review has found

A landmark report into why one million young people are off work says businesses must adapt to this “anxious generation” by offering greater flexibility and mental health support

Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, was appointed by Sir Keir Starmer to investigate the 946,000 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training, known as Neets

His interim report, to be published next week, says that a “rising tide of mental ill-health, anxiety, depression, neurodiversity” is the main reason for high economic inactivity

Milburn said that these young people “are not snowflakes or faking it”, adding that their heightened distress and anxiety is linked to growing up in a digital age on social media

The review team held focus groups with young people, which revealed smartphones had led to poorer sleep and mental distress. “Every one of a group of ten 12 and 13-year-olds told us they went to bed between midnight and 3am because they were scrolling on their phone,” the review says

Milburn said: “This is a bedroom generation. They are sort of living in their bedrooms. They are on all the time, they’re never off. [Social media] is leading to some evidence of functional impairment, changing their sleep patterns, concentration levels. That is having an impact on their ability to work “

https://t.co/pFopxqJj0P