@zarahsultana Coward because Ed wanted to keep politics out of music? 🙄
Ed has donated millions of pounds to local charities here in Suffolk, including funding a new children’s ward at Ipswich Hospital. More than you’ve ever done to help others in need, Zarah.
Give the man a break! 🤦🏻♂️
@SandyofSuffolk “for heaven's sake don't enjoy yourselves by buying a plant for the garden, a lipstick, a pair of socks”-the irony here as you spend so much time ridiculing the young for treating themselves to a nice coffee or Netflix subscription when they’re moaning about the cost of living
This is such a sensible, common sense policy. It’s such a shame the other parties won’t follow suit as they’re too worried about loosing votes rather than taking the steps needed to reduce our debt and hopefully one day, our tax burden!
Because of the triple lock, the state pension is set to rise by roughly £488 next year.
Our pensioners absolutely deserve security, and Restore Britain will deliver that, but we also need to be honest about who is now largely funding it.
Younger workers are already facing outrageously high taxes, enormous housing costs and the challenge of saving for their own retirement - yet the triple lock can push pensions up faster than prices, leaving a younger generation of workers with an ever-growing burden.
It’s just not fair.
These are our children and our grandchildren.
Personally, I do not believe they should shoulder the costs of our generation’s selfish and destructive approach to the economy - leaving vast national debt as our inheritance is a shameful legacy for us. It just is.
When I launched Restore Britain as a party, I said we would take the difficult decisions needed to deliver a better Britain for those who come after us. I meant it.
So we will replace the triple lock.
Restore Britain will secure the state pension by linking it to CPI, protecting pensioners' purchasing power.
No other serious political party has the courage to do this.
Restore Britain will not attempt to buy votes today with money tomorrow's workers will have to earn.
Young people deserve a fair deal too. Unbelievable for a party leader to say, I know.
Our economy is broken, almost beyond repair - everybody is going to have to pay the price to drag our country out of the very deep hole it is currently in. I mean, everybody.
That includes replacing the Triple Lock, alongside a vast range of other cuts to the size of the state. Millions of freeloading foreign nationals will be deported, the asylum system abolished, and foreign aid reduced to almost nothing.
But we all have to shoulder the burden, sadly.
Everybody is going to have to pay to fix the mistakes of my generation.
@SandyofSuffolk “for heaven's sake don't enjoy yourselves by buying a plant for the garden, a lipstick, a pair of socks”-the irony here as you spend so much time ridiculing the young for treating themselves to a nice coffee or Netflix subscription when they’re moaning about the cost of living
Rental supply reduces for first time in 3 years, pushing up rents.
The consequence of ideology over logic from the people who think you can force rents down with regulation.
Markets are like balloons. If you squeeze one end of it, the other will bulge.
@Sacha_Lord Odd isn't it. The government puts taxes on tobacco, alcohol and sugar because it wants LESS of them. What do you think happens when it taxes tourism?
Wow! It didn’t take long for Andy Burnham to show how little he cares for all us hardworking, rural folk. Such disrespect towards all the current and past DEFRA ministers that are out there working hard to ensure rural voices get heard!
🚨 WATCH: Kemi Badenoch asks Andy Burnham why he's pretending a junior Minister, now her Shadow Chancellor, wrote Liz Truss' budget
Burnham: "He was hardly some PPS to the Defra Secretary, with all respect to my Defra Secretary. He was a senior Minister in the Treasury"
#PMQs
1250 illegal migrants. One small Suffolk village. One rural primary school.
The Government plans to turn RAF Barnham into a permanent migrant accommodation site, with residents free to come and go.
As Leader of Suffolk County Council, I will fight this proposal every step of the way.
Suffolk’s communities come first.