MD Vickers Young Director Gresley Rovers,Forest fan, served Royal Navy 23 years. All views my own.
Swadlincote, South Derbyshire
Joined December 2010
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corby macdonald retweeted
I'm sick of so called British MP's, mostly predictably from the Left, standing in parliament banging on about shitholes like Palestine and Pakistan. These bastards are on almost 100k a year to represent people in British towns and city's not these toilets. Drain the fucking swamp
corby macdonald retweeted
Dear @JohnHealey_MP , did you know that the State Pension pays £241 per week?
Your proposed new Minimum Wage pays £528 for 40 hours.
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT WE PENSIONERS TO LIVE ON LESS THAN HALF THE MINIMUM WAGE?????
corby macdonald retweeted
“I knew I would be refused entry, but I went anyway, just to whinge about it”. Fucking idiot.
Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
We knew that by crossing into the occupied Palestinian territories, we risked being detained, interrogated and turned away by Israeli authorities. And that, alas, is exactly what happened.
For more than eight hours, we were held, interrogated and made to feel as though we had done something wrong simply by attempting to enter.
The simple truth is we had done nothing wrong. We went to show our support for the Palestinian people and highlight the terrible injustice and violence being perpetrated against them. We want to ensure that people back home do not look away from the reality of what is happening.
Ultimately, we went to show solidarity. But we left with an even greater determination to speak out. We will not be silenced, and we will not look away. None of us should.
corby macdonald retweeted
"Europe used to have a GDP per person of 90% of America’s. It’s now 65%. It’s on its way to 50%."
The EU has been CATASTROPHIC for Europe.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns Europe is falling dangerously behind America economically… and blames anti-business, anti-investment, and anti-innovation policies. 🇺🇸🇪🇺
“If you don’t believe me, go to Europe, folks. Europe used to have a GDP per person of 90% of America’s. It’s now 65%. It’s on its way to 50%.
That will jeopardize the health of Europe itself over time.
And it’s all anti-business, anti-investment, anti-innovation. They kind of know it.
If they don’t fix it—and we should help them fix it, because Europe matters—it’s really bad for the Western world, too.
We should do it wisely.”
Europe shift over the past three decades has proven decimating for their economy. Aging population forces mass immigration in order to maintain adequate growth. Crazy regulation and bureaucracy slows innovation and investment… forcing the economy further down. At the same time, the United States has pulled ahead exponentially and will continue to do so. Europe is struggling.
corby macdonald retweeted
Growth in every postcode and an affordable gherkin with marmalade on every plate.
corby macdonald retweeted
Who the hell do you think you are? You represent constituents in Norwich, not Ramallah, so you have no democratic or legal mandate to interfere in Israel’s affairs. Come home and do the job that the British taxpayer is paying you to do.
Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
What's happening here in Palestine is unjust. We've just witnessed what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many others have called a genocide unfold in Gaza.
We came here to show the world, and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The Israeli government didn't allow that.
corby macdonald retweeted
Since Brexit, the UK has avoided 21,000 EU laws, regulations, directives & case law out of 115,000 total, 13/10/26
By contrast, the unelected EU Commission has 2,100 live legal cases against member countries, with 10 cases still raised against the UK
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corby macdonald retweeted
This was the @andyburnham I supported for Leader way back in 2015 when I was still a member of Labour. Just wish he had stuck to the principles he had when he made this speech. Opening the free movement issue again is just madness and I think he will live to regret it.
corby macdonald retweeted
Finger crossing, Scottish accent faking Arbroath SNP MP Lara Bird was detained and interrogated for 8 hours by Israeli officials following her attempt to cross into the Palestinian West Bank during Israeli elections. Did the people of Arbroath really elect her to act like this?
corby macdonald retweeted
The price of natural gas is the same all across Europe.
That the UK's sky high electricity prices are 'because of the price of gas' is self-evidently untrue. Other countries pay the same gas prices but have much lower electricity prices.
We must look elsewhere for the cause of our predicament
Could it be our 'world-leading' renewables?
corby macdonald retweeted
The treaties we signed and @UKParliament agreed have always been clear - we didn't give the ICJ jurisdiction over the Chagos Islands.
We should be defending the Chagossian people and the laws we signed, not bowing to expansionist courts reaching beyond their remit.
Whose side is the Foreign Secretary on?
corby macdonald retweeted
I wear a Poppy 🌺 out of respect for those who served this country and went before me.
Not because someone tells me I have to, or tries to shame me into not.
I do so to remember my Dad, my Grandad, my Cousin’s and my Uncle’s, and the friends I’ve lost.
Don’t make it into anything else because to do so is absolutely wrong.
corby macdonald retweeted
This is where Lara Bird’s job is. UK taxpayers pay her £98,599 per year for the privilege. Did she get lost?
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP detained in Israel after trying to enter Palestine ift.tt/4O8GQKM
corby macdonald retweeted
"UK announces further tariff suspensions on food, drink and fuel"
Not a big deal in the wider scheme of things but also, of course, not possible if the UK were still in the EU, or even just a customs union... 👇
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corby macdonald retweeted
The problem with EU free movement is almost everyone in the UK just thinks it will allow them to travel in the EU more easily.
What it also means is that all EU citizens including those rioting ‘students’ will be able to come here.
And every illegal migrant given a passport anywhere in the EU will be able to settle in the UK on the taxpayers expense.
And Burnham is fully aware of this.
Is that what you want ?
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corby macdonald retweeted
Burnham has spent the day going on about how the only way for the UK economy to survive is to get close to the collapsing EU
The he announces a policy of cutting import tariffs, something he can only do because of Brexit
It’s not so much that the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing but the left hand not knowing of the existence of the right hand & denying that it even exists in the first place
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced five "everyday fixes" ahead of the Budget
1. Carer's Allowance will be changed so carers no longer lose their entire benefit when they earn over the limit - instead, their support will reduce by £1 for every extra £1 they earn
2. Import tariffs will be removed on more than 100 products, including baked beans, chocolate and gherkins, to save households up to £21 on their food shop a year
3. Tax-free mileage rates for workers using their own cars will be made permanent at 55p per mile for the first 10,000 miles, with the rate for additional miles rising from 25p to 35p
4. Parental pay will be extended to over 150,000 more parents a year, including self-employed fathers and partners
5. Hundreds more Post Office drop boxes will be rolled out to save people queueing at branches