Northerner. Blue Team. Freedom enjoyer. Pensions supremo. Dog person. Left-footer. GE24 Conservative Candidate in Pontefract, Castleford & Knottingley.

Joined September 2023
Just gonna pause it DON'T TOUCH IT I'M GOING TO WATCH BYKER GROVE THEN I'M COMING RIGHT BACK!!! (Actual conversation with my brother circa 1994)
As someone who believes the SNES was the peak gaming experience I just have to say THIS IS AMAZING!!!!! 😍😍😍 Truly we are the party of millennials.
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As someone who believes the SNES was the peak gaming experience I just have to say THIS IS AMAZING!!!!! 😍😍😍 Truly we are the party of millennials.
💪 Join Kemi and me and save the North Sea from Miliband and Miatta! 🎮 The game taking the world by storm. Move over Super Mario, it’s Super Kemi! super-kemi.pages.dev/
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Bloody hell, @SeanOAHoulston as well?! Bumper day for bins innit?! xitter.cf/SeanOAHoulston/status/…
Council tax up 4.99%. Bin collections facing cuts. My survey shows overwhelming opposition to the cuts. I've presented them to Cheshire East Council, but they continue to ignore the way this will affect local families. Read the report 👇🏻 seanhoulston.uk/Bin-Report
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I'm not averse to the idea of equal pay for (truly) equal work when it comes to age, but if the argument is that da yoof don't need to be paid as much because it's effectively just pocket money as their living expenses are lower, why not just scrap the minimum wage, mandate equal pay, and let people who don't mind being paid less for other reasons do those jobs while people who need more cash give them a swerve? Many of those jobs that would pay less currently *DO NOT EXIST AT ALL* because employers can't afford the min/living wage. Nobody is saying we should put a gun to people's heads to force them to accept poverty wages but we're apparently stuck in the 1970s. Hey, you know MAYBE stagflation and prices and incomes policies might be..... linked?!?!?! 😱😱😱😱
There’s basically no price differentiation in the entire bottom half of the labour market and then people act surprised when gluts and shortages emerge. Obviously, when all jobs pay the same, people will choose between them based solely on factors like which jobs are nicer to do.
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If you publicly throw your subordinates under the bus then you are no real leader.
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage blames "staff incompetence" for a half empty hall at Reform UK's event in London
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Reform UK's policy stranglehold by Boomers Who Love The Past™ remains clearly unabated...
Bob Generic has made yet another scattergun list of vague policy pledges because he doesn't really know much about macroeconomics...
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Bob Generic has made yet another scattergun list of vague policy pledges because he doesn't really know much about macroeconomics...
Britain is broke. And to fix it, we need to start growing again. That’s why Reform’s Economic Rescue Plan includes these 64 pro-growth measures I’d take if I were Chancellor: 𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗮 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 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 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 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 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 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 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 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 32. Review regulatory barriers to AI adoption 33. Permit on-site gas generation for data centres and industry 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 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 𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 39. Review bank capital requirements to boost lending 40. Rule out Net Zero in financial regulators' remits 41. Repeal climate-related financial disclosure rules 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 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 𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀 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 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 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! Britain’s full potential is waiting to be unleashed 🚀
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Always great to do numbers on a clip of myself where 36 hours previously I'd discovered that I'm basically horrifically allergic to fish and I'd been absolutely sick as a dog and a puffy shade of grey for the whole of the day before! Thank heavens for bronzer I suppose...
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I'm absolutely certain that @KemiBadenoch is leading a party that knows who it is. The economic policies she and @griffitha are coming out with are the kind of things you won't see from either Labour or Reform who are wedded to big tax and spend. This is why I'm a Conservative.
How will Conservatives respond to Wednesday’s budget? Speaking to Politics North @LauraRWeldon said Kemi Badenoch was different to Tory leaders of the past #bbcpn
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See me talking about things this morning Wherever You Get Your telly
Politics North kicks off at 10am on BBC One with @annalouisedixon @LauraRWeldon @GemmaLDillon We’re looking ahead to the budget, focussing on hospitality and care, also talking about new station for Bradford, Doncaster Sheffield Airport and tackling youth unemployment #bbcpn
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No, Andy is quite right - a bottle of vodka is a much more suitable thing to include because it's multi-use.
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham criticises Angela Rayner for including a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in her survival kit “I’m not sure that’s the top of the list… You need to have a clear head in a challenging situation. Some tins of food, bottled water. People are allowed a glass or two”
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He doesn't know about FTRS does he?
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has announced Armed Forces Reserves will pay no tax on the pay they receive
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The Labour Party has just discovered the Laffer Curve and you love to see it
▫ No increase to capital gains tax in the budget ▫John Healey wants to prioritise growth and business investment over tax rises, despite pressure from senior Labour figures to increase levies on wealth ▫@Steven_Swinford ▫tinyurl.com/26ap6hya @thetimes #frontpagestoday #UK
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Is it really beyond the wit of man in the Year of Our Lord 2026 to have subtitles for *JUST THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE BITS* in a TV programme that's otherwise in English? Watching this actually quite interesting documentary and now I have to faff about with my TV settings because the only people that @DisneyPlus assume are watching are apparently either a)hearing impaired or b)completely fluent in Korean. No middle ground whatsoever. Oh and on some programmes you just get [SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE] yeah cheers thanks for that, I guessed as much in that I had absolutely no clue what they were saying, good to know it's in "unnamed foreign" and I'm not having a psychotic episode... I just want a translation for the stuff that's not in the main language of the programme - not random descriptions of sound effects or subtitles for the bits I can fully understand. This used to be a normal expectation on telly! Honestly this is peak enshitification.
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My guy, I could make you a newspaper on toolkit right now. This ain't nothing new.
Do you trust the mainstream media to tell it like it is? We certainly don't. That's why our very own paper, the Reformer, will be hitting your doorstep soon. 🗞
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Excellent article here from @PensionsMonkey on inheritance tax changes for pensions. The unintended consequences of this desperate tax grab are going to be massive - mark your calendars because I see Sunday paper spreads of impoverished bereaved families coming soon.
I don't think the impact of this change to pensions is fully priced in yet. The punitive tax rates are one thing, but the administration process are going to cause a lot of unnecessary grief as well thetimes.com/money/tax/artic…
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Torch or GTFO.
The Conservatives have updated their party logo to a darker shade of blue. I like it 👌
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My monstera needs a new home so @CCHQPress can you please sort out getting these available in the party shop ASAP?
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A better description would be a ‘Tory Plant.’
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