Glenn Shaw

Business Owner - Mortgage and Protection Advice

Fmr Bank Manager & Haulier
Dad of 3 amazing kids

[Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps @grantshapps]

Little noticed by the wider media: Russia launched its deadliest attack on Kyiv since the invasion began last night. 30 dead. 90 injured. Homes hit, not the 'military targets' Moscow claims. This is Putin when the world looks away.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

When Margaret Thatcher cut tax rates on the rich in the UK it actually increased what the rich paid in the long run.

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

Yesterday Keir Starmer did a Ben Stokes. His defence announcement was all about his own legacy and his own ego > Daily Mail > https://t.co/uNQQc1SHvn

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

No, mortgage rates are historically normal.

It's asking prices that are frustratingly high.

We can thank Rightmove's index, the ONS's failure to report accurately, endless gaslighting and of course rampant agent overvaluing to win business for this.

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

He’s not the Messiah, he’s just a bloke in mascara.

Behold the glorious Son of Manchester, Andy Burnham, as he waves his hand and the afflicted are miraculously healed. Dr No-Mandate himself returns in Life of Burnham.

{satire}

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

The bank says I can't afford an 800 a month mortgage so I pay 1250 rent instead.

[JustG @Little_G2]

First glimpse of the interior design at the new northern no 10 …

[Glenn Shaw @glennshaw]

No it doesn't, it will poison us and kills us from the inside.

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

Conservatism needs @Nigel_Farage. Watch now: https://t.co/XsphaVsWaL

[Moving Home with Charlie @moving_charlie]

Explosive story out this morning: £4.5bn group action against multiple large housebuilders for 700,000 new home buyers who overpaid due to anti-competitive (price fixing) practices.

Everyone overpaid the scammy big housebuilders.

Small house builders should not be included.

[WarrensBuffet @warrensbuffet2]

When Ukraine wins, never forget, they achieved it with Trump on russias side

Ukraine defeated russia, China and maga USA

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Kemi Badenoch has claimed that Ed Miliband is behaving like a Nigerian military dictator with his plans for state intervention

Badenoch, who grew up in Nigeria, said that Miliband would "ruin" Britain's economic potential

She said: "Ed Miliband is doing the same thing. He wants to do more state control. He has terrible policies that are reducing our capacity and reducing our energy security.

"Having lived under both I am uniquely placed to make that comparison. Ed Miliband is acting like the Nigerian military dictators who ruined a lot of that country's economic potential and made it so much poorer. We should not make the same mistake. There are lessons to learn."

[Anna @tokkianami]

Such a great photo of the Princess of Wales with a fellow climber on the summit of Mount Snowdon this weekend ⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Catherine is so beautiful!

📸 Hubert Mensah

[Political Currency @polcurrency]

“Oh my God isn’t that just serendipity”

As Ed and George describe the emotion surrounding Gordon Brown’s departure from Downing Street, Ed receives an unexpected call.

🎧 LISTEN: https://t.co/9qA6ffpP8h

🖥️WATCH: https://t.co/UsNKpKNSyh

[The Prince and Princess of Wales @KensingtonRoyal]

The National Three Peaks Challenge. 

Together, we can stand alongside everyone navigating life with cancer, ensuring no one faces this disease feeling unseen or unsupported.
 
Please know you are not alone.

C

[Cat23 @joannajone67922]

While the Markles have been crying about their security, in a feat of strength and endurance, Catherine has demonstrated why she is the epitome of real royalty and genuine unselfish service and they are irrelevant.

[The Grocer's Daughter @Thatcheritage]

35 years ago today, on 28 June 1991, Margaret Thatcher gave her first UK television interview since leaving Downing Street.

Speaking to ITN’s Michael Brunson, she recalled, dramatically and graphically, the build up to her resignation. At one point in the gripping commentary, the Iron Lady mask slipped, and she became visibly upset, having to wipe away tears with a handkerchief she had taken from her suit pocket.

When Brunson noted the impact on her of talking about the events of the previous November, she replied, ‘You are thinking back to traumatic things.’

He then asked about her famous speech in the House of Commons on 22 November 1990. ‘By that time I was back fighting fit,’ she replied.

As she was in the interview with Brunson. When he suggested that people thought Thatcherism was about personal greed, she quoted John Wesley, ‘Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.’ She then vigorously expanded on the theme, ‘Some people are greedy. But people who want a better standard of living and a better way of life for their children are not. They are highly moral, they are highly valued citizens and they are usually those people who look after their houses and their families, look after their neighbourhoods, join in, doing things for their neighbourhood, community spirit. This is the real Thatcherism.’

She also spoke about her Foundation and her hopes that it would help people in Central and Eastern Europe learn how to roll back the frontiers of socialism and roll forward the frontiers of freedom. Talking about her visit to the Soviet Union the previous month, she commented, ‘When I spoke to the young people in Moscow, in Leningrad, they are Thatcherites to a man, and woman. Isn't it marvellous!’

She concluded by reflecting on her future role, ‘That is what I will do. The best of Britain to the best of the world.’

—    Peter Just, Author of ‘Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street’

[Rebecca English @RE_DailyMail]

The Princess of Wales has completed the gruelling Three Peaks Challenge in a bid to spread her message about life during and after cancer.  She started the endurance event on Saturday night and finished 24 hours later - cheered on by her family - for @royalmarsden

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

A UK family where both parents work full-time, pay full council tax, and earn enough to be 'doing alright' on paper, can't afford to take their kids to the Tower of London on a Saturday in 2026.

Two adult tickets and two child tickets at standard price comes to roughly £100. Add £40-£80 in train fares and £50-£70 for lunch — that's around £200 for a single Saturday at one tourist attraction in their own capital city.

A family on full Universal Credit, living in subsidised housing, paying no council tax, can take the same four people to the same Tower for £1 a ticket — £4 total — under the 'inclusive access' schemes most major UK attractions now run.

The working family pays the full £200 day out AND covers — through their taxes — the £196 discount the benefits family gets on the same trip.

Whatever the original intention of those schemes, this is the structure most UK working families are now living inside. Pay the full bill, then watch the people next door enjoy the day out you can't take your own kids to.