Nathan

Retired, married, grandfather.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

This is Mohammad Baghdadi "Baggy" Khan reporting to duty as a newly elected Councillor in the Halliwell ward, Bolton. He looks composed in his Lamborghini Huracán Spyder, worth £100,000-£200,000, it does 19-23 mpg.

He is a member of @TheGreenParty.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

Two men live in Zone 2 London.
Both are around 30. Both sleep in a one-bed flat.

But only one believes he has a future in the city.

James was born in London.
He went to university, got a degree, found a decent job and now works at a marketing firm near Old Street.

He earns just under £60,000 a year.
On paper, he is doing well.

But every month James opens his payslip and watches a third of it vanish before he ever sees it.

Income tax.National Insurance.Student loan.Then comes the rent.

Nearly £2,000 a month for a small one-bed flat with mould around the windows and a landlord who only renews the tenancy six months at a time.

Every evening James scrolls Rightmove looking at tiny flats he cannot afford in the city he grew up in.

Even the cheapest one-beds near him now cost around £400,000.

The deposit alone feels impossible despite earning more than most people in Britain.

His parents bought their first home younger than he is now.
James still does not know if he will ever own one.
So he keeps renting.Keeps waiting.
He watches friends delay children.

People earning what used to be considered “good money” still checking every direct debit before payday.

Now meet Shaheed.
He arrived in Britain recently and was granted refugee status.
He does not work.

He lives in a one-bed flat in East London. His housing costs and council tax are largely covered through the welfare system.

He qualifies for free prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests.

He does not spend his evenings worrying whether the next rent rise will wipe out what little he has left at the end of the month.

And this is the part driving so much public anger.

James works full time, pays a fortune in tax and still cannot see a long-term future in the city he was born in.

Shaheed does not work, yet has more housing security than the man whose taxes help fund the system.

That is how a city loses its young people, because they stop believing hard work leads anywhere.

London has to become a city where the people who work, contribute and build lives here can realistically afford homes, raise families and feel secure again.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

It's hard not to think that this might have something to do with Islamophobia

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Two weeks ago, Gazan women testified to a system of rape by Hamas to Palestinian women living in tents.

Last week, Gazan children testified to being raped by Hamas clerics.

This week, a report revealed the extent of sexual violence on Oct. 7th.

The NYT hasn’t written a word.

[Priti Patel MP @pritipatel]

Under Labour we are losing 1000 jobs per month in the North Sea because of their terrible Net Zero policies. 

We are calling on the government to end their ridiculous ban on new exploration & drilling licences in the North Sea, to unlock billions more barrels of oil & gas for extraction, safeguarding our energy security & to create new jobs.

https://t.co/g51T99uy3y

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

The leadership contest hasn’t even started and Ed Miliband is already running the Government.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Brian Wood was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery in Iraq.

When he came home, he was falsely accused of war crimes.

Lord Hermer helped prosecute him, despite being warned the allegations were suspicious.

Now, Hermer is Keir Starmer's most senior legal adviser.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Breaking: Muslim terrorists just stormed a Christian village in Nigeria and unleashed pure demonic savagery on innocent families who couldn’t run fast enough to escape.

They captured pregnant women and hacked their bellies open with machetes — forcing the young women to witness their own unborn babies die right in front of them as they succumbed to fatal stab wounds.

All because they were Christians who refused to convert to Islam.

No one in the international community, UN, EU, ICC, or ICJ seems to care. Not even Christian leaders in the West.

Please pray for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria.

💔💔💔💔

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

If you want to know why all the deeply silly “dog rape” stories were published this week, it’s because the paid pro-Palestinian influencer squad were ordered to get ahead of this, genuine horror story.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Wow. The British state is banning Members of the European Parliament now?!

While at the very same time allowing 200,000 unvetted migrants & Islamists into our country?!

Does anybody in Westminster understand how utterly absurd this looks to the rest of the world?!

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

New guidance on Inheritance Tax on Pensions:

- Family members (beneficiaries) and personal representatives are jointly and severally liable for paying IHT from pension fund.

- They have 6 months to pay.

- Interest and late payment fees apply after that.

- Property held in pensions will often have to be sold to pay the IHT.

- The short timeline is likely to create ‘fire sale’ reduced valuations.

- Yet IHT is payable on the gross property value pre death/property sale.

- Pension providers, trustees, administrators, solicitors, personal representatives and family - all have to liaise and work through the admin - a logistical nightmare.

- In a tight window whilst the family is grieving.

- And then family beneficiaries pay income tax on income from the net fund - after deduction of inheritance tax. Double tax.

- All this to possibly raise £1.5 billion - or about 48 hours of annual NHS spending.

Thanks Rachel.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

“What kind of a depraved monster slices off a woman’s breast while she is being gang raped, and throws it into the dust to be used as a plaything? What kind of a twisted pervert turns rape into necrophilia by shooting a woman in the head while he is still defiling her?
What kind of ‘freedom fighters’ go into battle with a set of handy Arabic-to-Hebrew phrases, including ‘take off your pants’, ‘lie down’, and ‘spread your legs’?
What self-respecting human being presses nails, scalpels, a hammer, an axe, screwdrivers and other household tools into a woman’s genitals?
How hard do you have to rape someone, and with what, to shatter their pelvis? Who shoots a young girl in the face and then films her mutilated corpse on her brother’s mobile phone?
The answer is: Hamas terrorists. This is the stark reality of what they did to men, women and children on October 7, 2023. And the world must never forget.”
@WestminsterWAG

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

Truly insane from a morally bankrupt Govt

Polygamy is rightly illegal here

We shouldn’t pay a penny of benefits to immigrants’ claimed multiple wives

In fact we shouldn’t pay non-citizens benefits at all

This is another insult to British taxpayers who fund this nonsense

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Ed Miliband’s Energy Independence Bill includes…

Banning new oil and gas from the North Sea.

He is not making us more independent. He is making us more reliant on foreign imports.

He is utterly deluded. We will fight him every step of the way.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨 Labour’s private school VAT raid is pushing over 65,000 children out of independent education
1 in 10 pupils.

The Adam Smith Institute says this is 3x worse than the government predicted, with 115 schools already closed.

These kids aren’t disappearing they’re flooding into already oversubscribed state schools. Bigger classes, longer waiting lists, overstretched teachers, and crumbling buildings. Standards will fall for every child.

Taxpayers face an extra £500m+ bill a year, while the policy likely loses money overall.
Ideological vandalism that punishes aspiration.

Britain’s children deserve better.

#EducationFail #StateSchoolCrisis
#LabourFail
#VATRaid

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

Under this Labour Government, shoplifting has increased by eight per cent since the election, fewer than one in twelve crimes are being solved and Labour have cut police numbers by over 1,300.

Meanwhile the immigration system is broken. Over 70,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the Channel and Labour are failing to remove them, instead putting them in HMOs in local communities.

It doesn’t have to be like this. That is why we are offering an alternative.

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Our Alternative King’s Speech includes plans to:

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

Many people have noticed that I’ve been posting a lot less on here over recent months. There are two reasons for that.

The first is that today I’m proud to announce that I have been elected as a Conservative Councillor for my home town of High Barnet.

I have spent the last 6 months campaigning and knocking on every door in the ward to try to take back control of Barnet Council from the flailing and failing Labour Party.

Why Conservatives?

I believe that the Conservative Party is the only party that can truly deliver on what the people of Britain need: lower migration, preservation of our national identity, getting the economy moving again, becoming tougher on crime and disorder, and representing us with pride on the international stage.

More personally, I believe that the Conservatives are the only mainstream party that recognise and will protect the importance of biological sex. I have spent years collaborating with Kemi on protecting women and children and I truly trust her principles.

As for the second reason, watch this space…!

[lodgey @IanLodge11]

Latest, Starmer has dug up, Gordon Brown. OMG.

The UK pension system was once the envy of the world, but former Chancellor Gordon Brown slaughtered it shortly after New Labour took power in 1997.
Brown launched an instant stealth tax raid on our workplace pensions by axing a valuable dividend tax credit that made them affordable for employers.
In doing so, he triggered the collapse of millions of gold-plated final salary company pension schemes. Nearly all are now closed to new members, leaving tens of millions of workers at the mercy of volatile stock markets for their retirement wealth.

Not all of them, though. Public sector workers still get final salary pensions as standard, with taxpayers footing the bill.
And so do MPs, naturally.

MPs build up pension rights worth £16,500 a year after just 10 years in the job. It would take the average private sector worker a staggering 49 years to accrue the same retirement income.
Funnily enough, Brown didn’t touch those. Nor will Starmer.
The hypocrisy is outrageous and a sign of things to come now Labour is in power.

[Nathan @johnhempsey]

@CroydonTories Yay!!🙌