Strategic Advisory and Communications Consultancy. Academic Director @ThatcherCentre. Former MEP, Cllr etc.
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Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Reactionary colonels in the Home Counties who wrote to the newspapers half a century ago warning that the Labour Party were a bunch of lunatic Communists who would ruin the country are some of the most vindicated people in history.
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
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I missed this on the news?
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Today MPs will vote on Labour's Northern Ireland Troubles Bill.
It tears up the 2023 Legacy Act and opens the door to fresh investigations and civil claims against our brave veterans, decades after they served Queen and Country, fighting against IRA terrorists.
How can this country ever ask people to serve their country if the government refuses to protect them?
I voted against this proposal in November and will do so again. We have a duty to stand by our veterans! 🇬🇧
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
If you instigate a wealth tax at 9.01am tomorrow, you won’t collect a penny in revenue before 2030.
The revenues are fragile, it’s anti-growth, and would take years to implement.
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Hey @andyburnham @Heidi_Labour can you introduce fines and have a national campaign to end this next?
Today’s slight drop in unemployment masks the real problems in education and training. Further Education providers were taking on 32,000 unfunded students last year. The system is creaking at the seams with extreme short term fixes.
Excellent info and analysis of the diesel price spike.
"The UK's crazy diesel prices are a problem of our own making"
Average UK forecourt prices are now above £2 per litre, some 40pc up on a year ago.
Diesel is the "workhorse" fuel of any modern economy, powering transport, manufacturing, agriculture, its high price now feeding into multiple supply chains – and likely to send headline inflation much higher.
But what we are living through is less an oil supply crisis than a refining crisis – a crisis of our own making.
My latest weekly @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column.
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telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Burnham to call snap local elections.
Burnham vows end to 'rip-off parking charges' under new rules bbc.in/3TQJwPT
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Bigger pay increases for the people who are paid for by the people with lower pay increases.
What rich people?
🚨 NEW: John Healey has ruled out raising capital gains tax in the Budget over fears that rich people will leave the UK
[@thetimes]
Quality evening and a quality book. Thoroughly recommended.
Great to be at the launch of @LeeDavidEvansUK “Coronations and Defenestrations” - the definitive modern guide to Tory leadership election
There’s no vacancy currently but would be plotters ought to pick up a copy…
It’s as if the government hasn’t properly thought this one through.
Yes and ho!
Let me get this straight. Work all your life building a business. Sell that business to a rando - charged at 24%. Try to pass it on to your family - charged at 45%. Genuinely insane telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Consultations like this, although cleared by Ministers, normally result from civil service initiatives. Which means that in the Treasury there are permanent officials who want to shut down the entire family business sector of the economy. (1/2) telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨
New polling conducted for City AM, published in the last hour, shows that two thirds of Brits would OPPOSE rejoining the EU if it meant a commitment to adopt the Euro at any point in the future. Which it would.
This is terminal for the Rejoin campaign. Terminal.
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Dropping ‘C’ bombs and handing in petitions doesn’t take balls.
Standing for election does.
Will he?
Danny Dyer has delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for the water industry to be nationalised.
@HenryRiley1 wants to know why...
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
Reform isn’t The Truman Show. Political parties deserve some privacy behind closed doors.
When newspapers hacked private voicemails, it was a national scandal. Why is spying celebrated when the target is Nigel Farage?stevenedginton.com/p/the-med…
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
It’s very clear that the threat to Nigel Farage and other Reformers is off the scale, recent events speak for themselves.
And it’s also very clear that some ‘journalists’ are no more than activists.
Dr Tim Aker retweeted
My vote on Brexit was affected by disinformation. I voted Remain because I was told if Leave won there would be terrible consequences.
The BoE Governor told me he would raise interest rates - he lowered them.
The Chancellor said he'd have an emergency budget - he didn't.
The Treasury said unemployment would go up - it went down.
Goldman Sachs and others said they would pull out of Britain - they spent billions on new HQs
The Chief Executive of the NHS Alliance said there would be an epidemic of super-gonorrhoea.
As for foreign interference - The EU, the US and Irish Presidents etc etc all weighed in on the side of Remain.