
Platform exec, business author & failed artist. Oenophile & oik. Enjoys making stuff. Brit abroad. Personal account. #Libertarian #COYS
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The agenda gap between the government and the governed has rarely been larger.
Much of the โwokeโ agenda pushed 24/7 is viewed as purely political and a distraction from the obvious problems.
Victory awaits those that seek action, which is hard, rather than optics, which is easy.
Rob Phillips retweeted
๐จ BREAKING: A UK bank chief executive has said of Healey's budget:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
ft.com/content/80acb561-34e2โฆ
Rob Phillips retweeted
UK new minimum wage: ยฃ27,456 per year.
Higher-rate tax bracket: ยฃ50,270.
1.8x difference.
In 1997 there was a 5x difference.
Mind boggling.
Rob Phillips retweeted
Single mothers with British citizenship are being pressured into registering 'asylum seekers' as their baby's father to help men commit immigration fraud.
Known as the 'fake dad' scam, it is believed to be organised by the same criminal gangs behind countless 'sham marriages'.
In one case, a couple with a newborn baby didn't speak the same language, lived hundreds of miles apart, and the โfatherโ didnโt even know the womanโs name.
How many nonsense stories like this have enabled people to stay here?
Whistleblowers have revealed mountains of fraud โ non-existent gay relationships, bogus political dissidents, pretending to be children.
The Tories and Labour created an asylum system that has become a scam on the British people.
Reform will end it.
We will take our country back.
Rob Phillips retweeted
Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again.
Thatโs why Reformโs Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures Iโd take if I were Chancellor:
๐จ๐ป๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ก๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฎ
1. Approve Rosebank
2. Restart oil and gas licensing
3. Legalise onshore exploration
4. Abolish the Energy Profits Levy
5. Restore maximum economic extraction as the North Sea regulator's objective
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป
6. Abolish the Emissions Trading Scheme
7. Halt the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
8. Repudiate AR7 contracts for difference and scrap AR8
9. Implement the Fingleton Review on nuclear in full
10. Automatically approve French and South Korean nuclear designs
๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ข๐๐ฟ ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐
11. Cut affordable housing requirements on brownfield sites
12. Permitted Development Right for brownfield housing
13. Repeal Biodiversity Net Gain
14. Exit the Aarhus Convention
15. Repeal and reform the Habitats Regulations, including Nutrient Neutrality
16. End the boiler ban
17. Legalise air conditioning to meet overheating rules
18. Remove mandatory EPC improvements
19. Revoke the Future Homes Standard
20. Repeal the Renters' Rights Act
๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ
21. Legislate approval for new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick
22. Auction airport landing slots
23. End 'target-consistent' carbon pricing in project evaluation
24. Ban carbon emissions considerations in planning applications
25. Fast-track all water reservoirs as nationally significant projects
26. Make Development Consent Orders a true one-stop shop
27. Restrict judicial review of ministerial planning decisions
28. Scrap Net Zero construction rules
29. Scrap the social value test in procurement
30. Lift launch limits at SaxaVord Spaceport
31. Open completed sections of East-West Rail
๐๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption
33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
34. Cut Employer NI back to 13.8%
35. Introduce a migrant worker levy
36. Repeal the Employment Rights Act
37. Clarify that workplace rights don't require mandatory training courses
38. Let experienced tradesmen work on government contracts without CSCS qualifications
๐จ๐ป๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐
39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending
40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits
41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules
๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด
42. Scrap airport 'surface access strategies'
43. Abolish the electric vehicle mandates
44. Apply domestic GB hours to all UK HGV trips
45. Ban Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
46. Back the M4 Relief Road
47. Move a new car's first MOT to four years
48. Abolish the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation
๐จ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐
๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ผ๐บ๐
49. Replace GDPR with a New Zealand-style Privacy Act
50. Fully re-legalise Imperial units
51. Review all unchanged EU law
52. Automatically repeal remaining EU law in 5 years unless retained
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐
53. Make quarterly Making Tax Digital reporting voluntary
54. Reduce legal obligations on SME Non-Executive Directors
55. Double permission-free event days from 28 to 56
56. Make pavement dining licences automatic and permanent
57. Let shops open until 10pm, except Sundays
58. Repeal board diversity and inclusion rules
59. Remove the Sustainable Aviation Fuel mandate
60. Abolish the packaging tax
61. Scrap BBC and Channel 4 priority on streaming platforms
62. Remove the Public Sector Equality Duty
63. Five-year sunset on all QUANGOs
64. Five-year sunset clause on all new regulations
And there are more to come!
Britainโs full potential is waiting to be unleashed ๐
Exactly this โคต๏ธ
Christopher Hopeโs performance is textbook lobby cartel behavior. Farage and Jenrick stood up to deliver a serious, structural 64-point economic rescue blueprint to salvage a bankrupt country, and the very first question from "the people's channel" wasn't about productivity, ยฃ40bn in Whitehall cuts, or tax relief. It was a sneering, gossip-column attack about room capacity and a cherry-picked Ipsos poll. GB News built its entire brand promising to be the insurgent antidote to the BBC, yet the moment Reform puts forward real alternative governance, @christopherhope sounds indistinguishable from a Guardian lobby intern doing a hatchet job for the Tory rump. @GBNEWS
Hearing from a pal in the City who is โin the knowโ that Britain rejoining the EU will mean a broad 0.5% financial transaction tax on City of London equity, bond, derivative and FX trades by the US.
The aim will be to reduce reliance on London. Shifting it more to New York.
I do find this hard to believe.
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 32% (+5)
CON: 24% (+3)
RFM: 20% (-3)
LDM: 9% (+1)
GRN: 8% (-5)
SNP: 3% (-1)
RES: 3% (=)
Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 15-22 Oct.
Changes w/ 10-15 Sep.
The Uniparty is scared. Tories willing to lose in 2029 in order to scupper Reform. Labour fixing polls and gaslighting via friendly media placements.
They all assume that without Farage/Tice/Lowe/.. normal service will be resumed.
Why is @lewis_goodall asking blokes I've barely ever met about my tweets? Why not ask me?
I'm free to come on @LBC and discuss my tweets whenever he likes.
Will he oblige, or is he just blatantly using this as a partisan cudgel against Reform? @Ofcom
Politicians should not be allowed to turn replies off on posts @elonmusk
Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.
standard.co.uk/news/politicsโฆ
BBC News still pretending that the demonstrations are about education, when almost every placard and flag is about Palestine.
True
Margaret Thatcher explained this perfectly back in 1983
The government doesn't have money of its own. Every time politicians promise to spend more, someone has to pay for it
And people somehow still think it's someone else's money
โThere is no such thing as public money. There is only taxpayersโ moneyโ
And sooner or later, that someone else they expect to pay is YOU
If this is proven to be true, then itโs effectively fascism. ITV must be disbanded and criminal investigations instigated. โDiscoveryโ would be a very interesting.
STATEMENT:
Reform UK has reported ITV, its board, and its undercover reporters to the police.
Some of the crimes carry up to 10 years in prison.
They forged a passport.
They directly interfered in elections and almost certainly altered the results. Being paid to โcanvassโ for Reform in crucial wards we lost by a few dozen votes.
They lied to a veteran about their service and left him โviolatedโ.
This is unprecedented.
The police are now involved.
Scrutiny of political parties is one thing.
But anyone breaking the law to try and ruin the lives of Reformโs staff, members or volunteers will be reported to the police and pursued relentlessly in the courts.
Hereโs what happened ๐
This needs to be investigated. Broadcasting license should be lost, if found guilty.
When Reform's letters to postal voters in Portsmouth were ready to go out, two undercover ITV reporters were personally responsible for almost two hundred of them in the ward of Drayton and Farlington.
Reform lost Drayton and Farlington by 24 votes.
The same two men were responsible for delivering leaflets to half the ward of Baffins.
Reform lost Baffins by 85 votes.
These were men whose purpose was to infiltrate Reform UK and damage it.
In two wards decided by a few dozen votes, we believe there are reasonable grounds to conclude that ITV altered the result of British elections.
There is no precedent for this.
It is certainly not journalism.
We believe it to be criminal.
We will hold ITV and its activists to account.
Wow, massive numbers for UK & Spain!
๐ European countries that added the most migrants (2000โ2024)
1. ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom: +7.1M
2. ๐ช๐ธ Spain: +6.8M
3. ๐ฉ๐ช Germany: +6.4M
4. ๐น๐ท Tรผrkiye: +5.8M
5. ๐ฎ๐น Italy: +4.4M
6. ๐ซ๐ท France: +3.0M
7. ๐ฆ๐น Austria: +1.4M
8. ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: +1.4M
9. ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland: +1.3M
10. ๐ง๐ช Belgium: +1.3M
11. ๐ธ๐ช Sweden: +1.3M
12. ๐ต๐ฑ Poland: +917K
13. ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland: +840K
14. ๐ณ๐ด Norway: +720K
15. ๐ท๐ด Romania: +521K
16. ๐ต๐น Portugal: +476K
17. ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark: +475K
18. ๐ญ๐บ Hungary: +393K
19. ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia: +386K
20. ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: +378K
Europe's migrant population grew by 40.8 million between 2000 and 2024, up 67%. The UK, Spain and Germany together account for almost half of that increase.
Source: UN DESA
















