Chris Heaton-Harris retweeted
At the going down the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
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What a completely ridiculous thing to say!
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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There’s nearly always a tweet, but actually here’s some proper footage…
Rachel Reeves, LBC 6 February 2023
RACHEL REEVES: Well, I voted to remain in the European Union, I thought that was in our national interest. But almost seven years have passed now, we are outside the single market and the Customs Union, we have to forge a path outside. The last thing I want for our country is to restart the division that occurred during that referendum.
IAIN DALE: If you believe coming out of the single market was so awful, if you believe coming out of the Customs Union has had bad effects if you think the lack of freedom of movement has damaged our economy, why wouldn't you argue to go back into those or allow those?
RACHEL REEVES: Because those decisions have been made. And we are now outside, and I don't think it would be good for our economy and for business if we started a whole load of protracted negotiations over a period of time. What I'm putting on the table and what Keir is putting on the table are practical things that could be done now to make it easier for British businesses to trade across the European Union. The status quo is not working, we want to improve on it. But I don't want to go back to the terrible division that we had in our country over many years through these negotiations.
IAIN DALE: Isn't the simple truth it's political expediency? Because you know that you'll find it more difficult to win back those Red Wall seats if you don't have a sort of bit of a Eurosceptic line in your policy line-up.
RACHEL REEVES: No, it's a genuine belief and from talking to businesses, that what they want are some of the practical changes that we've started to put on the table to make our trading relationship easier. And the idea that another seven years of negotiations is going to serve our economy. Well, I just don't think it will. And it will open up the divisions, which I think did huge damage to us as a country and I don't want to reopen them. x.com/tomwhx/status/…
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Chris Heaton-Harris retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
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“You can’t have social security without national security” - spot on from @KemiBadenoch yesterday. Unbelievably the government doesn’t understand that very simple and obvious point.
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Chris Heaton-Harris retweeted
Wow - just listening to Jonathan Haskel, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility on Radio 4
He says UK GDP spent on welfare is rising to 11% of GDP from 10.5% of GDP following the budget. "That's a big increase."
Yet Chancellor John Healey can't even say how he's going to inch up defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030 even as his government says the military needs to be ready for war by then.
He says UK GDP spent on welfare is rising to 11% of GDP from 10.5% of GDP following the budget. "That's a big increase."
Yet Chancellor John Healey can't even say how he's going to inch up defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2030 even as his government says the military needs to be ready for war by then.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is talking a lot of sense again. AI used properly could help improve profits and productivity across most business sectors.
And it could also massively improve our public service offer in the UK too.
france24.com/en/live-news/2…
And it could also massively improve our public service offer in the UK too.
france24.com/en/live-news/2…
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Chris Heaton-Harris retweeted
A powerful intervention from the head of the Army. Something is coming, and government needs to wake up.
He says the public will have to make sacrifices so we can prioritise defence and security.
This is no time for “national security can’t come at the expense of social security”. Hard choices are coming whether ministers like it or not.
I have been clear where I would start: cut welfare spending and put the money into defence. x.com/ForcesNews/sta…
He says the public will have to make sacrifices so we can prioritise defence and security.
This is no time for “national security can’t come at the expense of social security”. Hard choices are coming whether ministers like it or not.
I have been clear where I would start: cut welfare spending and put the money into defence. x.com/ForcesNews/sta…
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What the Prime Minister is demonstrating in spades is the lack of accountability, scrutiny and questioning our elected Mayors receive and how few “real” decisions they take.
He’s floundering for lots of reasons but lack of any real practice for years has to be high up there.
He’s floundering for lots of reasons but lack of any real practice for years has to be high up there.
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Chris Heaton-Harris retweeted
A separate Scotland would be free to use whatever currency it wanted, including sterling. But it could not print sterling — indeed the Scottish banks would have to stop printing Scottish pound notes — and the Bank of England would not be lender of last resort. It has no need to be that to any foreign jurisdiction just because that jurisdiction uses sterling.
So a separate Scotland using sterling would have no ability to create money and no central bank lender of last resort. But by far the biggest deficit in Europe to finance. Borrowing rates would be penal. It’s a Darien-style financial crash in the making which will pauperise the nation. And the real threat to Scotland’s pensions/pensioners.
So a separate Scotland using sterling would have no ability to create money and no central bank lender of last resort. But by far the biggest deficit in Europe to finance. Borrowing rates would be penal. It’s a Darien-style financial crash in the making which will pauperise the nation. And the real threat to Scotland’s pensions/pensioners.
Would the Bank of England still be the lender of Last Resort?
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For 11yrs before I entered politics I wholesaled fruit & veg in New Covent Garden. I admire folk who stand in markets, plying their trade in all weathers. This week Kingston Market burnt down. I buy from “Tim the Fish” & he’s raising money to keep going:
gofund.me/11e303cd0
gofund.me/11e303cd0
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I would say this was one of @KemiBadenoch ‘s most important part of her speech yesterday. Cheap, clean and abundant energy is achievable and a necessity for growth in our economy - and is proven by our history.
.@KemiBadenoch identifies “Cheap, clean, abundant energy” as the foundation of a growing economy. #cpc26
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Chris Heaton-Harris retweeted
“The motion passed by the Green Party today is an attack on the Jewish community. It is an antisemitic platform, based on a grossly offensive distortion and erasure of Jewish experience and identity.”
The full statement by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish C_uk
The full statement by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish C_uk
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Two “conventions” being binned here at the same time.
Firstly, not making major policy announcements during your opponent’s Party Conference (Perm Sec at Ministry of Justice looking very weak here) & secondly @LindsayHoyle_MP will not be happy seeing Parliament sidelined again.
Firstly, not making major policy announcements during your opponent’s Party Conference (Perm Sec at Ministry of Justice looking very weak here) & secondly @LindsayHoyle_MP will not be happy seeing Parliament sidelined again.
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I can imagine the PM posting something like…
I know festivals are expensive and these are small things, but hopefully they'll make your gig just that little bit cheaper and easier.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing.
I know festivals are expensive and these are small things, but hopefully they'll make your gig just that little bit cheaper and easier.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing.
I'm surprised Andy Burnham hasn't done anything about the price of Glastonbury tickets yet. Surely we need a regulator to make sure prices are fair. Of-Fest.
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