Carl

Thankfully Retired!

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

LibDem MPs are all out now parroting the claim that Brexit is costing us £90 billion a year.

It's garbage... 👇

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Taking YouTube away from your daughter is your choice.

Taking it away from everyone else’s sons and daughters shouldn’t be.

This is going to put British children and teenagers at a profound disadvantage compared to children in other countries, who have access to an unimaginably large educational resource.

Our children will now know less about the world, and find it more difficult to ‘read around’ the subjects they love.

I’m sorry you didn’t grow up with YouTube. I did, and it has done me the world of good.

[Joanna Williams @jowilliams293]

Disappointing from Kemi Badenoch. Arguing "we came up with this first" on illiberal social media bans that will impact everyone is really not the gotcha Conservatives think it is. Argue for parents' rights, argue against censorship, argue against infantilising 17- year-olds. Challenge the panic and hysteria. Don't back up Starmer’s authoritarianism.

[Luciana Berger @lucianaberger]

Here’s what all the organisations have said about the Bill :

[Emma Lewell MP @EmmaLewell]

Absolutely dismayed that the Assisted Dying Bill is being re-introduced. Not a single one of our major medical or professional bodies support it. A deeply flawed and dangerous bill that poses a real risk to the most vulnerable in our society.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with.
Prison is where they belong.
Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This means:

Significant microprocessor and lithium ion battery production in the UK

A lot more engineers (we’d need to scrap student fees I suspect)

Re-industrialisation

Much greater energy & food sovereignty

All completely incompatible with model of last 45 years.

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

Sama, I generally agree with you but you are wrong in this one.

The UK Australia Trade deal excludes all pork and chicken even though Australia is not an exporter of either.

However, the EU Reset is going to allow the EU to make UK animal welfare rules. EU still allows practices currently banned in the UK. But not for much longer...

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

Following on from the article from Bloomberg yesterday, The Times is also saying that the OBR 4% GDP reduction forecast was "doom-mongering", and correctly outlines that it was a simple average of old forecasts skewed by a 10% outlier.

Facts and reality are seeing a comeback.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

The Justice Committee has given its verdict on Labour’s plans to restrict our ancient right to a jury trial.

It’s utterly damning.

It says there is NO evidence for David Lammy’s claim that judge only trials will take 20% less time than jury trials. 🧵

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.

But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.

That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.

There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.

The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”

Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.

That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

Britain has the most expensive electricity in the developed world.

Your energy bill has more than tripled since 2004.

Because politicians made choices, over and over again, that put ideology ahead of your heating bill.

The SDP published Energy Abundance last year.
It explains how we got here and what it takes to fix it.

Read it here - https://t.co/Pc980vLgLu

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

This is what drives people up the wall with Labour:

a) Every Minister, from Starmer down, mouths the platitude "our priority must be Epstein's victims".

b) Mandelson is forced to resign because of his friendship with Epstein

c) Darren Jones sends Mandelson a sycophantic, fawning message AFTER his relationship with Epstein is fully exposed.

d) Darren Jones literally goes on national television and lies about sending that message.

e) Darren Jones lies are finally exposed themselves.

f) Jones "allies" then start roaming around, briefing the media HE is the victim.

g) Jones carries on in post as if nothing has happened

[Social Democratic Party @SDPhq]

Henry Nowak was stabbed five times and left dying in the street. His killer accused him of racism, officers then handcuffed Henry instead of helping him.

He was eighteen years old.

One law. For all. No exceptions.

Read our full statement here:
https://t.co/EFS6gBSMWf

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Conventional wisdom says that leaving the European Union has harmed the British economy.

Listen to almost any Brexit debate – over the airwaves or on the professional conference circuit – and it’s invariably taken for granted being outside the EU has done serious economic damage.

Now we're in June, and as the 23rd approaches – the ten-year anniversary of that hotly-contested, era-defining referendum – this message will be rammed home again and again.

But it simply isn’t true.

My latest "Economic Agenda" column in @Telegraph

🧵1/7

https://t.co/3x1C903R8n

[Murdo Fraser MSP @murdo_fraser]

This is deflection, pure and simple. No-one is saying that Sturgeon is responsible for Murrell’s crimes. What they ARE saying, rightly, is that as his boss and SNP leader she had a responsibility for its accounts, and she aggressively opposed scrutiny of those. Her failure.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

HMRC has decided to punish 'nice pubs.'

They have ordered valuation officials to levy higher business rates on pubs that are in “attractive locations”, play an important role in the community, or are based in “character properties”. Pubs with playgrounds or those which serve a so-called "premium priced menu" will also be landed with higher taxes.

This is an extraordinarily disreputable approach to valuation but only to be expected once the independent Valuation Office was shoved under the control of HMRC by dim-witted Labour Minister James Murray. HMRC are as usual obsessed with extracting the maximum amount of cash from families & businesses

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

‘The only way to increase public investment is to reduce entitlement spending’

I explain the SDP case for growth with John Gillam and @firasmodad on the @lthinkingclasses podcast (link below).

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

I expected people to keep quiet during the trial. But, now that we have the conviction, why has no minister spoken out? Where are all the celebs who took the knee six years ago? Where is the wall-to-wall BBC coverage? Unlike the Floyd case, this one happened in Britain, ffs.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

@Harry_pitt Chilling.

As I have said so many times - you can't have evidence-based policy without evidence. If some European states are prepared to lock people up for presenting facts to the public then Europe has truly fallen and society can not be protected.