Will Cameron

Interested in politics, history, and rural issues. Likes graphs and analysis. RTs not necessarily endorsements

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The SNP has increased taxes on higher incomes. Not on wealth. Don’t you understand the difference in the Numpty Nursery? What have you done to tackle wealth inequality? What have you done to those who ‘hoard wealth’? Who are they? Name them. Or are you simply referring to folks who save — savings that are then invested. If this is what passes for economic discourse in Scotland then it truly is run by a kakistocracy. I despair.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

That CANNOT be true. ScotRail is state-owned and everybody knows that whatever is owned and run by the SNP Scottish Government works like clockwork — building ferries, dualling the A9, drug prevention, the Scot NHS app, The NHS itself, state schools, the Monkland Hospital, the Glasgow Queen Elizabeth Hospital, The Edinburgh Children’s Hospital and, of course, the country’s gleaming, peerless railways.

[Peter MacDonald @BlackIslePMD]

Politics, economics and history all on offer here from the collar gap guy.

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

Sadly, Chris has lost the plot

These claims simply aren’t true or are at least extremely misleading propaganda

Saddens me, because it makes environmentalists look like complete fools

[Hannah Rodger @HRwritesnews]

1/ The cairngorms wildfire handling has been an absolute disgrace. Here’s why, (with GIFs). The situation’s turned into game for ScotGov.
Nine days of brutal destruction,homes evacuated, land and 🐐habitat destroyed before SG convenes emergency room, declares major incident.

[Brian Spurrell @BrianSpanner1]

This chimes with issues I hear of many teenagers.

They want jobs but nothing available.

[Murdo Fraser MSP @murdo_fraser]

If only someone had warned them that this would happen.
Oh, wait….

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

The SNP’s urban ignorance is becoming a wildfire risk.

They don’t trust the people who manage our countryside. They’ve tightened restrictions on muirburn, made land management more bureaucratic and left fewer effective tools to tackle dangerous fuels like bracken.

Scotland needs common sense, not centralised ideology. Trust the people who know the land.

[Rt Hon Nigel Evans @nigelmp]

Towards the dying days of the last Conservative Government, with Rishi’s inability to take the right decisions to keep faith with the country on immigration, net zero insanity and eye wateringly high taxation levels , the public had had enough.

At the last election the voters decided to put the Conservative Party into special measures and 251 Tory MPs, me included,were fired. Many who returned were elected with wafer thin majorities.

Part of the problem was that the Party spoke from the right but governed from the left with the ratchet relentlessly pulling the country further leftwards closer to the miserable abyss we now find ourselves looking into.

As Andy Burnham, the easy rider of politics, takes to the helm, his honeymoon could dissipate whilst walking down the aisle if he appoints former convicted fraudsters and tax avoiders to his cabinet and rewards net zero obsessives with plum jobs in order that they can turn their zealotry towards hammering entrepreneurs and those with a bit of money.

Kemi is taking the right and difficult decisions to reshaping her Party in her fashion.

The Conservative Party will always be a broad church but it should never tolerate those whose ambition is to hold the Party hostage to the ideology of another faith. Some seem to prefer to see the temple doomed to irrevocable collapse. The Party only exists by permission of those who have elected their candidates over centuries but it has no God given right to exist.

Winning the trust of old and new voters will be essential and way more difficult in a fractionalised multi party system. Kemi is way more popular than the Party she leads and those who sit around her should take ownership of that.

Carping from the sidelines or open rebellion from the hallowed privileged positions of a place on the red benches should not provide immunity from collective responsibility. You have to be full playing members of the team or get off the pitch! Some have forgotten this or have become sneeringly arrogant in their defiance of recognising that if they are not part of the solution then they are most likely part of the problem.

The existential threat has been stayed thanks to firm management from the top. Blood, sweat and more than a few tears will be necessary to ensure the Conservative Party has the chance of replacing this shambolic Labour Government whenever Burnham decides to cut and run.

The abyss is deep and unforgiving - but there is a route away from it. I ,for one, know which road my Party must take.

[Peter MacDonald @BlackIslePMD]

Big fan of these. Should be much wider spread across a range of ruined sites

[Brian Spurrell @BrianSpanner1]

They hate poor people but as this could be seen as bad they blame them for societies problems with immigration despite the burden of actually integrating them being dumped on them while the middle class uni graduates run a drumming workshop and fuck off home to Lenzie at 5pm.

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

A twelve-year-old girl told a committee of MPs what happens when the wildfire call comes for her gamekeeper father: her heart drops, and she lies awake crying.

She was one of dozens from moorland communities who sent written evidence to Parliament's wildfire inquiry — the keepers and farmers who fight these fires, and the families who wait at home.

Behind that fear sits a policy decision. Since 2021 the deep-peat area where burning is restricted has grown from 246,156 to over 676,000 hectares. Keepers report heather left tall and continuous, and fires running hotter and deeper.

They are not alone. Harper Adams research finds managed burning, cutting and grazing can cut wildfire severity by 60–70%. The National Fire Chiefs Council warns that rewetting without managing the vegetation can raise fire risk.

One keeper's wife put it plainly: only fools would keep ignoring the warnings.

Read more on our website.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Met still a pointless disgrace. Go and arrest some burglars. Idiots

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

No punches pulled.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

England v Croatia is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries have a UNESCO World Heritage Site named after a Roman emperor.

England has Hadrian’s Wall. Croatia has Diocletian’s Palace in Split.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography(ish)-based World Cup analysis.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

@thecourieruk Disinformation, not misinformation. Misinformation implies doing it by mistake, rather than wilfully, which is disinformation.

[Murdo Fraser MSP @murdo_fraser]

It’s ain’t ‘fascist’ to jail scumbags who took a sledgehammer to a police woman’s spine

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[marshey ⭐️⭐️ @marshey71]

@F1 Where did it all go wrong ?

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

This is wrong. It doesn't matter who you vote for, but Kemi Badenoch expressly stated that ALL lives matter and it shouldn't be about someone's race. This sort of "attack ad" isn't about facing up to important issues, it's just a lie.