Jonney Cox

🍽️🍷🍺🏉⛷️🏃‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏔️ Retired Ultra runner 😂 Thoughts usually my own and sometimes make sense….

[Jonney Cox @jonneycox]

@GobbyChef @katyrickitt @adamrickitt Brilliant!!!

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Me … telling it how it is ⬇️

[Alex Reilley @AlexReilley1]

@EmmaforWycombe either needs to issue a retraction and grovelling apology or be unceremoniously sacked (or both). Failure for either to happen will just confirm what a lot of us have long suspected - this @UKLabour Govt utter despise business.

[Michael Brown @MrMBrown]

This says it all, frankly!

h/t @sebs_tweets

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?

On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.

There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.

As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.

This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:

"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"

[@FT]

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

WTF? A Prime Minister who has never run a business in his life demands answers because a private business fails? … let me help you, Andy & co.

A retail chain needs to stay in fashion, needs to go with the flow! … But you and successive governments don’t like their “tat” products (mostly sourced off shore to sell them at £1!!! That the whole point right?) anyway…

for free (without a taxpayer funded £MULTIMILLION enquiry I’ll tell you the problems… (you’re welcome)

▪️massively increased regulations and compliance costs.

▪️cheap tat sourced from abroad, with rising shipping and transport costs.

▪️Hit by increased minimum wages and employer National Insurance.

▪️Hit by rising rents and business rates.

▪️Hit by soaring energy bills and net zero costs.

▪️Hit by higher interest rates.

▪️Hit by consumers with less disposable income.

▪️Hit by the soaring cost of borrowing to buy stock months in advance.

▪️Hit by higher insurance premiums.

▪️Hit by shoplifting, organised theft and security costs.

▪️Hit by packaging taxes, recycling regulations and environmental compliance costs.( which you just throw into general taxation, non of it changes the weather)

▪️Hit by higher fuel, warehousing and distribution costs.

▪️Hit by increased employment costs, pensions and statutory obligations.

▪️Hit by competition from overseas online retailers operating with very different overheads.( duty free … for foreign businesses oops)

▪️And hit by the impossibility of passing those costs onto customers, who shop at Poundland precisely because they need cheap stuff! … which isn’t cheap anymore (see above)

Every single time you add something on … so do they!

And the idiot, deluded politicians who have made Britain more and more expensive and difficult to do business in, are demanding to know why businesses are struggling?

You are all moronic. My work here is done 🤡

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

What sort of country gives loads of its people's money to other countries, then pleads poverty to its people and taxes them into oblivion?

This one 🇬🇧

[Alex Reilley @AlexReilley1]

What a load of shit #Budget2026

[Tom @tomwhx]

"Free movement had allowed, in my view, the undercutting of wages. Some people debate this, but I saw evidence of it. Where people were brought in by agencies from other European countries and it was used to bring wages down"

Andy Burnham in 2019

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Oh dear … here’s Precious Andy explaining in 2016 that the free movement of people has destroyed jobs in the UK…

He’ll say anything for power. But you must know that by now.

It’s just a race to the bottom hey Andy?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

I don’t want to post the video. You’ve all seen it. But I do want to write a love letter…

Dear everyone in Britain, ( even you illegals)

Just so you understand. The poppy is for the boys who never got to grow old. For the boys who were still somebody’s baby, brother, uncle or father. More than 600,000 of them.

It doesn’t matter if you support war, hate your country, think you are a woman (even though you are a man). It doesn’t matter which God you pray to, or if you pray to none at all.

It doesn’t matter who you vote for, what climate narrative you believe, or whether you believe Israel should exist or not!

The poppy isn’t for you!

It’s for those who came before. Those who fought for your right to be weird, annoying or even foreign.

The poppy is how we say thank you. Thank you for giving us time, peace and choice.

And attempting to ban our poppy by declaring it politically divisive isn’t a move towards freedom. It is an act of suppression. Understand that.

The poppy is about love and loss. For you!

So stick your rainbow flags and every other flag where the sun doesn’t shine and just wear your poppy. Those boys did not die as symbols. They died for you!

Did you know that poppies grew across the battlefields where so many fell? As though even the land refused to forget the blood once given to defend it.

So the poppy is for them. For those who came before us and paid in youth, in hope, in breath, in blood, so that we might have the freedom to be arseholes.

So that we might even have the freedom to fight over the ridiculous, the inconsequential and the insane.

Revere it, celebrate it and wear it. The very least you can do is that.

Best
The ordinary people.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🔥Clair Fox on fire again!

There were no tricolours on display!

Saying the things ordinary people should be allowed to say about the French riots!

And totally predictably being heckled by the progressive left because they refuse to accept the truth 🔥

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Honestly this is the UK! The powerhouse of historical leaders … and then we have Burnham!

Appearing on er … cheap TV on GOGGLEBOX? Like this makes him ordinary?

We are drowning in debt, at war on two front, the country almost at violent cultural clashes and Burnham decides his big role is to be a celebrity tv star.

I feel a bit sick 🤢

[Mark my Words. @havingagiraf]

Retweet everywhere, absolute disgrace.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

Andrew Neil’s Brexit reality check on BBC Question Time.

In a nutshell:

Rejoiners are ignoring the huge political wind of change sweeping Europe and the UK v Germany/ France/ Italy growth rates make a nonsense of their Mickey Mouse economic arguments too.
#bbcqt

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

Could the Prime Minister explain what was so particularly deserving about the Avanti train drivers that warranted such a pay increase - or was it done just to avoid the embarrassment of the Cabinet not being able to get back and forth to his Number 10 in the North vanity project - or do we take it that this Prime Minister will cave in to every trade union demand that comes across his desk?

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

Have we really got to the stage when men who go into bat in a cricket match are not allowed to be called Batsmen any longer? The BBC now refer to them as 'Batters'. A batter is something you make Yorkshire pudding out of, FFS.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Here's Matt, being terribly inconvenient for the narrative. I applaud him, they hate him.