Ex-councillor & planning chair | Working in public affairs | South East Cornwall 〓〓
Liskeard, Cornwall
Joined November 2010
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Nick Craker retweeted
Today, on #RemembranceSunday, we remember all those who served and died for our country.
From past generations to those who wear the uniform today, we honour their courage, dedication and service.
We will remember them.
#LestWeForget
Nick Craker retweeted
This is asking too much of the crew and their families. For the wives, husbands and children not being able to make contact for such a long time and not knowing when they are coming home must be unbearable
🚨 A BRITISH nuclear armed submarine is on course to set a new record for the longest ever patrol – after almost SEVEN months at sea.
HMS Vengeance set sail on 12 April – 208 days ago
Or 6 months, 3 weeks, 4 days and counting...
thesun.co.uk/news/40943002/b…
Nick Craker retweeted
They are right we are not increasing our war readiness
Defence spending plans ‘leave UK unprepared for war’ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Nick Craker retweeted
Now we can see the OBR and HMT Red book. The MOD faces a real term CUT to day to day spending of nearly 0.5% (RDEL) in 27/28. That’s money we spend on training, ammunition, maintenance and operations. So the Chancellors son in the Reserves will have even less training and ammo.
Nick Craker retweeted
Back British Farming 🇬🇧
IN FULL: Jeremy Clarkson and Charlie Ireland speak at Conservative Party Conference 👇
Nick Craker retweeted
“Why would anyone set up a business in this country right now?”
It’s becoming impossible to take risks, hire and build in Britain.
No wonder people are thinking twice.
Nick Craker retweeted
The diesel crisis shows the uncanny parallels between our energy and economic policy:
- Keep headroom pitifully low
- Blather about 'public control'
- Fail to treat crises as actual crises
- Bleat about global markets but keep us wholly dependent on them
Quick thread (1/?)
Very interesting analysis of the current Diesel price spike and looming crisis
thetimes.com/article/7663a60…
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Nick Craker retweeted
Exclusive:
Kemi Badenoch will publish a 30,000-word booklet summing up the principles of her new Tory Party at conference.
It is 95 pages long and inspired by ‘The Right Approach’, a 1976 pamphlet by Keith Joseph which laid out the tenets of what became Thatcherism.
The Sunday Times has been handed a copy. It is the clearest distillation to date of what the Badenoch project stands.
‘The Right Way’, as it’s been titled, reveals her values and underlying approach in six broad areas
- Economy
- Energy
- Government
- Country
- Defence
- Borders
Just don’t called it ‘Badenochism’. The leader has her own word for it: “Kemistry.”
I suspect we’ll referring back to this foundational document for a long while to come…
Have a read over here👇
thetimes.com/article/2643828…
Nick Craker retweeted
We’ve got a great team, a serious plan and plenty we’ve been working on.
See you in Birmingham 🇬🇧
Nick Craker retweeted
THIS, THIS, THIS
Half of the 50pc (!) rise in the cost of new housing is down to increased regulations and tax. Demand isn't the problem.
Remedy: cut the thicket of regulations delaying reservoirs and runways and saddling UK with the world's highest construction costs. times-comment.com/hs2
Nick Craker retweeted
An utter shambles, open for roughly five hours. Anyone using an agent or shock horror busy farming may well have missed out. If this is the new reset with the countryside the Labour Party really has a long way to go.
Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) closed at 15:48. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application.
Read the Defra farming blog for more information: defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/202…
Nick Craker retweeted
What is wrong with @DefraGovUK? They just don’t get it. Farmers have had an enough… we can’t keep expecting them to scrape by in such a ridiculous way.
@NFUtweets @NFUPolitical @_RobbieMoore @VictoriaAtkins
Nick Craker retweeted
This really is nonsensical. Claims £14bn could be raised by increasing CGT to income tax rates.
HMRC estimates that a 10% increase in CGT would *cost* £3.5bn. Exact magnitude can be disputed, but it sure as heck wouldn't raise close to £14bn.
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
Nick Craker retweeted
An increase 📈 in defence spending is needed and a clear path to 3% of GDP by 2030 is vital to national security as @kemibadenoch has set out
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
Nick Craker retweeted
Some news: @cmackinlay and I have been asked by @griffitha to report to him and @Conservatives on how to cut tax, admin and regulatory burdens on small business/self-employed, how we deal with issues like IR35 and Making Tax Digital, and what we can learn from other countries.
Nick Craker retweeted
This week, I joined @RishiSunak, @JeremyClarkson, Stephen Fry, Colin McFarlane, Steve McQueen, and Nick Jones, in writing to the Health Secretary about prostate cancer - the most commonly diagnosed cancer for men in the UK.
Yet, despite this, we still do not have a proper, national, targeted screening programme that involves all those at higher-risk.
We are calling on the new Health Secretary to take bold action now - put in place a targeted screening programme that involves all those at higher-risk. Without it, more men will die, and more families will lose a loved one. This is avoidable and can be done.
Nick Craker retweeted
It is with great sadness that we can confirm the deaths of Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson and Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher of 846 Naval Air Squadron, and Petty Officer Owen Green of 845 Naval Air Squadron, who died in Devon during routine training activity on 3 June.
ALT It is with great sadness that we can confirm the deaths of Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson and Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher of 846 Naval Air Squadron, and Petty Officer Owen Green of 845 Naval Air Squadron, who died in Devon during routine training activity on 3 June.
ALT Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson
ALT Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher
ALT Petty Officer Owen Green