Bob Lyddon

Independent financial analyst

[#Brexit #WTO Trade, #EU is not Europe @astro_trader]

.@johnredwood: Labour govt wants me poorer, more controlled & less happy.
This govt oppresses many enterprising & hard working people, disdains our views & threatens removal of our liberties if we fall out of line.
Thomas Jefferson would not be impressed.
https://t.co/1Ffaoeee9N

[Independent Business Network @IndBusNet]

Ed Miliband has been a disaster for the British economy. His net-zero dogma is destroying British industry and killing jobs.

It is making us dependent on imported energy and costing businesses and the public with soaring bills.

https://t.co/DVDuPB5gX6

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

Come and hear Toby Young and Jacob Rees-Mogg take on the censorship state and champion free speech at CPAC GB.

Get your ticket at https://t.co/ZRu456rrCj

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Great expose by Mail on Sunday. The Labour ministers and MPs airbrushing their private education out of their entries in Who's Who. There 's something pretty dishonest & sinister about that.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

A county council has imposed a ban on the placement of flags on lampposts, claiming they cause "fear and division". When will our political elites understand that growing nationalist sentiment is rooted in alienation and loss, not xenophobia? My latest. ⬇️ https://t.co/vaODtEABva

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

If Andy Burnham thinks the answer to the cost of living crisis is to put taxes up, he is heading for disaster. He needs to offer better value for money from the public sector, not put its costs and prices up.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

That’s odd Darren. When Quadrature Capital, a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund, donated £4 million to Labour in 2024, I didn’t hear you complain.

It was the largest single donation in your party's history.

Foreign money for me but not for thee.

[Geopolitical Intelligence Services @GIS_Reports]

Who suffers the most from the cynical measures governments take to fund their irresponsable policies? Retirees. Workers on a modest income. Anyone with limited savings. These are the people who will bear the cost of this recklessness.

👉 GIS Founder and Chairman Prince Michael of Liechtenstein @MvLiechtenstein argues that debt and inflation are the harbinger of larger troubles. Read the full comment: https://t.co/7GJOlNSQhb

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

Banning discussions of elections on social media would be impossible without totalitarian controls, perhaps that is what they want?

[Fred de Fossard @defossardf]

Free speech is going to become the most existential political issue in Britain between now and 2030, possibly more than even immigration.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Andy Burnham is about to give a convicted criminal, Louise Haigh, a plum job in his government.

You don’t get to play these silly games.

Call a general election and let’s see what the public have to say about you.

[Monty3812 @monty3812]

Burnham is such a political void that this vacuous, anodyne spokesthing, doing the morning rounds today on his behalf, is quite apposite.

Breakfast clubs aren’t free.

The purpose of govt isn’t subsidising theme parks for the economically inactive.

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

ps. remarkably, by far the weakest sector last month was "civil engineering" - the Labour government is even failing to kick-start public sector projects and infrastructure spending 🤷‍♀️

source and more: https://t.co/ehguMd3b3s

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

FYI, S&P Global UK Construction Activity Index edged up to 38.4 in June, only just above May's six-year low of 38.2 and still well below the neutral 50.0 level.

Builders are more optimistic about the next 12 months, but from this low starting point that's not much to cheer... 🫤

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

Rahman: 'The EU of 2026 is an organisation built increasingly on common borrowing, an assertive joint industrial policy and a growing role in security and defence that encroaches on the traditional powers of nation states. It is also an EU that is moving toward a far more assertive stance with regard to the US and China than that of the British government. Understanding these changes should be the central theme of any rejoin debate in the UK.'
🎯

https://t.co/JqMx4JPWgJ

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

So now it's the turn of the SNP to admit, finally, that an acceding country would have to accept the Euro as currency.
https://t.co/Q63E9Omcf7

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

When the establishment gets it wrong they cover up or blame someone else. They never seem to learn from their repetitious and costly mistakes. Treasury /Bank boom bust of 1972-6, ERM boom/ bust 1987-92, great banking boom and crash 2005-10, inflation 2022-23.

[David C Bannerman @DCBMEP]

Fixing elections is authoritarian

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

Following the atrocious rollout of the EES digital border control system - that still managed to be atrocious after a four year launch delay - has resulted in the knock-on effect of its sister scheme, the ETIAS pre-registration system, being delayed too.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

None of the Government’s ‘trusted’ news sources have reported this story.

If Lisa Nandy proceeds with her dystopian plan to rig the media landscape in their favour we will lose a vital safety valve.