Phil Soreel

Champions of Europe **former

[Stuart @StuartMaggs]

I have moved from being shocked and disappointed at the Treasury to being angry.

I spent some time with an elderly client today who is confused and distressed over what to do, and a huge portion of responsibility for her upset rests with unprofessionalism from the Treasury.

Starting from a manifesto that promised not to raise national insurance they then tried to argue that didn’t include employers’ national insurance. Then non-doms, private school fees and the craziness of the IHT changes and pension charges, none of which will actually raise any money if you adjust for the economic impact and uncertainty. All alongside the winter fuel debacle and failure to actually cut welfare costs.

And then, within six months of the Budget, came the Treasury Insiders and Well-Placed Sources leaking crazy plans and half-baked ideas to test the political water. Wealth tax, extending PETs, gifts of own income, reductions in pension allowances, caps on pensions, NICs on rental income and dividends, shifting income tax up but extending NICs, capitals gains alignment with income rates, tax hikes for lawyers, accountants and GPs, oil and gas and banking levies, additional costs on landlords and employers, VAT increases, mansion taxes, every awful idea that has ever had economists sitting bolt upright in bed at 3am in a cold sweat, this Treasury has embraced them all, leaked them to the papers and sat back to watch the slow motion catastrophe as their strategy paralyses the markets and dries up investment.

In my 30-odd years in practice I have never experienced such a devastatingly incompetent budget process that over the course of 12 months has, in my view, inflicted such horrific damage to business and consumer confidence.

Tax should be boring, not front page news every week. It currently feels like an angry school council has been given the economic reigns to the country and it has no idea what it wants to do beyond “Rich people bad”.

This morning, I tried to calm down an upset elderly woman and reassure her that as best we could we will help her through this. I place the blame for this awful situation wholly at the door of the Ministers currently in charge of the Treasury. They should be ashamed of themselves.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

This is reportedly the tweet that led @Glinner to be arrested.

If he’s guilty, so am I for retweeting him. If you support him, retweet him too.

We need to change the law - and the culture of the police and public sector.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

MoJ Refuses to Say How Many Super-Injunctions Labour Has Enacted https://t.co/YWwimkuorG

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

Katie Lam’s powerful speech about CSE gangs in Parliament now has ‘restricted access’ on X following the Online Safety Act coming into force.

The speech quoted directly from victims.

Their voices are being silenced by state regulation.

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

To @EssexPoliceUK I have seen this👇‘allegation’ all over SM I cannot see that this would be true but to remain silent allows others to believe it so; a response of “we are aware of a video & an allegation re use of our vehicles we can state this is just not the case or true”👇🤷‍♂️

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Next move on Wallace's Afghan debacle - lawyers swarming to bring compensation cases for the Afghans - they've been traumatised, mental health!
So as well as moving soldiers' families out their homes for the Afghans, as well as bringing the dude who blackmailed the MoD because obviously he was 'at risk' in Afghan, and bringing his family cos ECHR 'rights to family life', and bringing all the rest of the families also cos ECHR, costing billions - the next move will be more billions to COMPENSATE them for bringing them here.
Then there'll be the billions in benefits.
Then there'll be all the money spent dealing with their inevitable crimes.
And remember - our courts have decreed and our MPs have accepted that the WORSE their crimes abroad, the MORE they are protected by the ECHR here because the MORE at risk they are if deported from reprisals in countries outside the ECHR!
And remember the courts have decreed that no crime however horrific is more important than giving them their 'rights to family life' - even when these rights apply to step children they have raped.
*The system is working bang on as intended* and will continue until regime change...

[Phil Soreel @PhilSoreel]

@johnmcternan Yep most of those are as dreadful as
Chagos
Tax on jobs
Tax on farmers
17 in 1 out immigrant deal
Smash the gangs
Higher deficit
Higher unemployment
Higher gilt yields
Higher crime
Anti employer employment laws
Larger public sector
Anti wealth creation taxes

[Thomas Skinner ⚒ @iamtomskinner]

I love this country. I love London with everything I’ve got. It’s the greatest city on Earth or at least, it used to be. And I’ll tell you this now: anyone who says London is safer today than it was ten, fifteen years ago is lying through their teeth.

I’ve worked these streets my whole life. Grafted on market stalls since I was a kid. Rain or shine, cold mornings, long days
I’ve done it all over London and the surrounding counties. It’s in my blood. I don’t know anything else and I don’t want anything else. I love the graft, the energy, the people. I love giving someone a proper deal and seeing them walk off with a smile.

But it ain’t safe out there anymore. The streets have changed. And not for the better.

Honestly only just Fifteen years ago, you had better community. You had characters. People would stop, have a chat, laugh with you. You had respect. Now? It’s a lot colder. It’s more hostile. It’s tense. You get people arguing, stealing, mugging. I’ve had more fights in the past few years than I ever did when I started. And for what? Just trying to earn a living.

And it breaks my heart to say this but London don’t feel like London no more. The police ain’t on the beat. The people are scared. And it’s the older generation I worry about most. Their joy was getting out to the market, having a cup of tea in the café, seeing familiar faces. Now they’re prisoners in their own homes and they are too frightened to walk down their own street. That’s not the London I grew up in. That’s not the London I love.

London has fallen. But I’m not giving up on it.

I still believe in this gaff. I still believe in its people. And I believe it can rise again. But we need change. Real change. We need safety. We need pride. We need leadership that understands the streets, the markets, the working class. People like me.

Because I’m not here to moan. I’m here to fight for what’s right. And I will never stop fighting for this gaff, for London. because it’s my we’re my family are from, it’s the absolute governor of a place, and it deserves better. It needs a bit of love.

Who’s joining me?

Bosh❤️🇬🇧

[Phil Soreel @PhilSoreel]

@Keir_Starmer Traitor

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

FREE SPEECH - The one woman army that is @AllisonPearson isn’t standing for any bullshit!

The police complained about the article she wrote detailing their horrendous early morning ‘non crime hate’ visit.

Essex Police complaint has been thrown out!

Keep going Alison 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Phil Soreel @PhilSoreel]

@ukhomeoffice Useless useless useless

[Phil Soreel @PhilSoreel]

@RoyalFamily And it’s the start of Lent. The most holy season in the Christian calendar.

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

If you agree with this opinion in the ⁦@dailytelegraph⁩ I would appreciate a repost…

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

If you enter the UK illegally, you’ve broken the law and should never have a path to British citizenship.

That’s the basic point of fairness @SuellaBraverman and I made law in 2023.

Starmer wants to reverse it. Shocking.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🧵I haven’t told this story before but given the way in which the government is behaving, I feel compelled to do so.

Last year, I was, essentially, forced out of the Civil Service.

Up until July of 2024, I was a Civil Servant in the Home Office, where I had spent the previous 4 years working in the field of Public Inquiries (which is why I feel so strongly about the Labour government’s refusal to order an Inquiry into the gang-rape scandal plaguing our country).

Many reading will know that I have been a strong advocate against sterilising and mutilating children in the name of gender ideology. However, I always kept my work life and personal life completely separate, in order to ensure that I could carry out my work as a Civil Servant with integrity and neutrality. I never discussed my advocacy at work. I never mentioned my Civil Service role in my personal advocacy and campaigning. I had even specifically sought guidance from the Cabinet Office as to whether anything in Civil Service policy prohibited my advocacy - no response in the affirmative ever came.

This is in contrast to many of my colleagues, who bring their activism into the workplace. My line manager, for example, had pronouns in her email signature, along with a rainbow flag and ‘allyship’ slogan.

However, when the Inquiry I had been on secondment to concluded, I noticed strange things happening. I was told that my previous role no longer existed. Promises to move me to another Inquiry were reneged upon. I was given work to do, only for it to disappear into a vacuum, never to be seen again. I was subsequently told I was ‘at risk of redundancy’.

This was confusing and unsettling, as the Inquiry I led had performed extremely well (finishing on time and under budget, which is rare for Public Inquiries).

Then, a few days before Christmas 2023, I was told, with no prior indication, that there would be a formal investigation into a few posts I made on X back in July 2023.

The posts in question related to me raising concerns about members of the Labour Party and their fanaticism when it came to gender ideology and the risks to child safeguarding as a result. For example, Keir Starmer saying that women could have a penis and Labour supporting self-ID for men who claim they are women.

I spent the next 6 months being dragged through an investigation.

During the investigation, after putting in a Subject Access Request for my personal data, I discovered, to my horror, how the investigation had come about.

The office of the Permanent Secretary had instructed the ‘Professional Standards Unit’ to go digging into the private social media accounts of certain members of staff, including mine. Colleagues were tasked with snooping through my X account. This was a fishing expedition.

At this point, it was increasingly looking like a Labour government would be formed following the next General Election. It became clear to me that the Home Office were trying to shut down employees who could be seen as a ‘problem’ for Labour. Tellingly, during one of my hearings, the investigator asked me something along the lines of: “If we get a Labour Home Secretary soon, how do you think they will feel reading your posts on X? Do you not think they might be offended?”

Even then, the establishment were gleefully gearing up for Labour.

At the end of the investigation, I was warned that if I continued with my personal advocacy around child safeguarding that I would be charged with gross misconduct and could lose my job.

This was not something I could afford. I jumped before I was pushed and agreed to a voluntary redundancy.

I wish I could say I was the only Civil Servant shut down for having the wrong opinions. Make no mistake, it is a relief to now be free of it altogether.

However, what this experience taught me is that we have an activist and ideologically minded Civil Service, enthralled to Labour, content to undermine free speech at every turn.

This should worry us all.

[Katie Amess @KatieAmess]

When my father was killed due to #Prevent failing they blamed it on online social media hate. When the #Southport attack happened they blamed it on Amazon. WE WANT ANSWERS!!!!!

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

How come Elon Musk is automatically a Nazi, but a man who possesses a terror training manual, creates stores of ricin, kills several people and pleads guilty to terror charges, is not a terrorist at all? https://t.co/mbuBngDhn8

[Phil Soreel @PhilSoreel]

@DamianLow3 Because our government and civil service are the problem. They have not removed the regulatory burdens imposed by EU law that we retained.

[Barrister's Horse @BarristersHorse]

He partied back at No.10, straight after visiting Southport to lay floral tributes to the deceased.

Could you go home & party after being told what happened to those children?

https://t.co/lzY9DZS8cy