Tory. Panellist on @jeremyvineon5 and sometimes in @conhome / @wearebrightblue. Formerly of @lgbtcons. Big on nightlife, housing & capitalism. Happily engaged.
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Luke Robert Black retweeted
Andy Burnham put in a poor performance at today's Prime Minister's Questions. He had a slightly plodding delivery, which didn't help, but the real problem was that he didn't have anything to say.
The Prime Minister ended up asking Kemi Badenoch a lot of questions to try to deflect from his inability to give answers himself. There were just too many of these deflections, though, and he appeared unsure and evasive.
✍️ Isabel Hardman
Article | spectator.com/article/andy-b… | @IsabelHardman
Luke Robert Black retweeted
Kemi Badenoch’s jab at Andy Burnham during PMQs left the Commons in hysterics 😅 #PMQs #uknews #ukpolitics
Luke Robert Black retweeted
EXC: Labour MPs are starting to sound the alarm over the 10-year-plan, asking who is in charge and if it will be radical enough.
One described the involvement of Boston Consulting Group as a “tragic joke”.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Luke Robert Black retweeted
This is excellent
Incredible to have @Helen_Whately announce Onward housing benefit reforms as part of a wider package to tackle the spiralling welfare bill!
“We are going to return welfare to its rightful purpose, a safety net not a lifestyle choice”
Luke Robert Black retweeted
LAB 309
CON 223
LD 47
SNP 26
REF 11
With TV
Latest voting intention in @Telegraph. Reform at 20% their lowest since 2024, 5pts behind the Tories. While Labour lead the Tories by 3.
🌹 LAB 28% (-1)
🌳 CON 25% (+2)
⏩ REF 20% (-2)
🔶 LIB DEM 9% (-)
🟢 GREEN 7% (-1)
⚫ RES: 6% (+1)
N = 2,013 | 6-9/11| Changes w 1/11
Luke Robert Black retweeted
Former Welsh Liberal Democrat leader turned Reform UK member Lembit Öpik has been named following a data leak as one of 500 westerners who helped Putin’s propaganda war on Ukraine ✍️@ShiptonMartin wp.me/p8Mk4U-1xbX
Luke Robert Black retweeted
Reform UK’s Lembit Opik (@lembitopik) has been named as one of the individuals who worked for a Kremlin-backed organisation to help spread Putin’s propaganda about the war on Ukraine
Here he is explaining why he joined Reform UK 🇷🇺💷
Luke Robert Black retweeted
.@David_Cameron respects the will of the people. Why doesn't @andyburnham ?
***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***
David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU
The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”
Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU
As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit
“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says
The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations
“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says
“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”
“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”
Story by @ChaplainChloe: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Translation: Member of Parliament pays her employees a wage for their work
Helen Whately has been an MP since 2015 when she was elected MP for Faversham and Mid-Kent.
Helen has held several positions within the Conservative party but is now employed as a full-time demagogue, attacking disabled and sick people for claiming much needed benefits.
Guess how much Helen has claimed in ̶P̶a̶r̶l̶i̶a̶m̶e̶n̶t̶a̶r̶y̶ ̶b̶e̶n̶e̶f̶i̶t̶s̶ expenses since becoming an MP? 👇
Helen is actively working to make those much less fortunate than herself … much worse off.
While having claimed almost TWO MILLION pounds from the public purse in expenses.
Just utterly reprehensible.
Luke Robert Black retweeted
Just caught up on #PMQs dear lord we are really starting to see Andy is not up to this is he
Luke Robert Black retweeted
This article just shows why populism is so damaging to democracy.
The Green councillors could have asked council officers to give them a briefing on this when they were writing their manifesto. They either didn’t or they did and ignored the advice given. 1/2
Hackney's Mayor, Zoë Garbett, on Monday night was forced to admit to a restive crowd of protesters that she could not halt the eviction of an autistic boy's family, despite backing the campaign to stop it during her election campaign.
One activist said the Greens had been "naïve" about the issue prior to their landslide election victory in May. Garbett's deputy, Dylan Law, conceded that there had been a "steep learning curve".
The demo, outside the Town Hall HQ, comes after a long campaign in support of the family, which saw London Renters Union and Green councillors physically block bailiffs from coming to turf out the family.
Get the full story👇mylondon.news/news/east-lond…
Luke Robert Black retweeted
Reform are boycotting the Senedd on Armistice Day.
This means that the official opposition won't be taking part in a debate THEY TABLED on how we can better support the armed forces and veterans.
Luke Robert Black retweeted
Wow! This is called an intervention in the never-ending Brexit war👇
***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***
David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU
The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”
Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU
As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit
“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says
The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations
“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says
“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”
“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”
Story by @ChaplainChloe: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
All parties will. It’s an inevitable outcome of us living longer, but also our quality of life improving.
If nearly 2/4 of us live beyond our 100th birthday, we are going to have significantly encourage more private pensions and workplace pensions.
The Conservatives will end up making people wait into their 70s for their State Pension theguardian.com/money/2026/n…
Luke Robert Black retweeted
They were announced in January. They’re being reannounced today because Big Green (RWE) and Big Capitalism (KKR), who will benefit from the massive state subsidies already being poured into these projects, have demanded more (to cover rising costs of developing offshore wind). So Labour has obliged with another £1 billion from the so-called National Wealth [Destruction] Fund. Life is truly grand for the crony capitalists.
Luke Robert Black retweeted
@KemiBadenoch doing @KemiBadenoch things at #PMQs . She’s absolutely CRUSHING @andyburnham and this pathetic @UKLabour government!
Luke Robert Black retweeted
Question @AngelaRayner
Why are you trying to destroy the UK rental market and make landlords want to give up?
Ofgem is consulting on a proposal to make landlords legally responsible for tenants that that fail to pay their electric bill. 🤯
landlordtoday.co.uk/breaking…?
Luke Robert Black retweeted
***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***
David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU
The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”
Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU
As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit
“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says
The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations
“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says
“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”
“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”
Story by @ChaplainChloe: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…