Whittaker & Gray

For the love of mid-century, eclectic, all things home, architecture, gardens and creative 😍

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

Heat pump tumble dryers being made mandatory as U.K. adopts EU rules. I push a vote to protest the way these statutory instrument regulations are slipped through

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Please play to your kids, and those so wrapped up in bashing Britain they can’t see the wood for the trees 🇬🇧

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Some of the Bills announced in the King’s Speech have caught the attention of the Free Speech Union because of the potential threat they pose to free speech:

1. Digital ID Bill
2. Removal of Peers Bill
3. National Security Bill
4. Courts and Tribunals Bill (which could dilute the right to trial by jury)
5. The ‘Hillsborough Law’
6. A draft Bill to ban conversion therapy

Watch General Secretary of the Free Speech Union Lord Young’s reaction below 👇

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Labour MPs are so arrogant. They want to lead our country but they can’t even lead a coup.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Despite repeated warnings from judges, lawyers, opposition MPs and even his own backbenchers, Keir Starmer’s government is pressing ahead with plans to restrict our right to trial by jury.

Restricting jury trials is a full-scale assault on English liberty — especially free speech.

FSU research shows that people charged with speech-related offences are almost twice as likely to be acquitted in a Crown Court before a jury than in a magistrates’ court without one.

Jury trials are a vital bulwark against an increasingly authoritarian state and a militant cancel-culture mob — both of which pose an acute threat today.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The King’s Speech:

"Proceed with the introduction of Digital ID.”

And there it is. A lame duck and massively unpopular Prime Minister trying to ram through digital ID. No one voted for this illiberal and Orwellian digital control by the Labour government.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Solar panels on farmland. You can’t eat solar panels.

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

Just throwing this one out there as I was asked this question earlier today.

A couple both working with a combined income of £50,000 would pay £11,500 a year in income tax and national insurance,

Another couple receiving £50,000 in benefits including Universal Credit, Personal Independent Payment, Housing Benefit, Income Support and Child Benefit would pay no income tax or national insurance, keeping the full £50,000.

Should the non-working couple on £50,000 a year pay the same amount of income tax and national insurance as the working couple?

Please leave a comment below.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Digitalisation is “for your convenience.” - try explaining that to the 3 million people who are not online in the UK. The majority (67%) are aged 70 or over. The digitalisation of everything is creating digital exclusion for millions of people - in particular, our elderly.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Today is #EarthDay. And let’s remember those who turn our soil into food and our earth into beautiful countryside - farmers.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

This week, Labour MPs voted to give ministers the power to decide how your pension savings are invested.

So ministers get pensions with guaranteed payouts, while they direct your savings towards their pet ideological causes, even if that means you lose money.

Disgraceful.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

"Labour wins vote to seize powers over private pension pots"

Communists/Socialists always steal private property

https://t.co/0OdszAsjCL

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Covering car parks with solar panels is a hell of a lot more logical than plastering them over prime farmland that provides our food.

[Helen Whately MP @Helen_Whately]

Pensions aren’t piggy banks for governments to raid.

But this Labour government is desperate.

Today they forced through the power to control where your pension savings are invested. @Conservatives voted against it - and we'll do so again in the Lords next week.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

This is an utterly pathetic excuse.

If the Government can publish press releases about potholes, then they can publish the EHRC guidance.

This is just the latest desperate distraction from a Labour Party too scared of its own backbenchers to protect women's rights.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Covering car parks with solar panels is a hell of a lot more sensible than plastering them over prime agricultural land.

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

RACHEL REEVES IS COMING FOR YOUR PENSION

This afternoon in Parliament Labour pushed through a change in the law to allow the government to mandate how pension schemes invest your savings.

Here's why Labour's pension grab is so dangerous👇(1/7)🧵

[Mel Stride @MelJStride]

Rachel Reeves is coming for your pension.

After #pmqs today the @Conservatives will vote to stop mandation AGAIN 👇🏻

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Keir Starmer said this in 2023:

“Every day seems to bring a new existential risk to British farming.
“Losing a farm is not like losing any other business, you can’t come back…you deserve better than that.”

Instead, he did the opposite. He punished farmers.