I’m a very proud father and firefighter, I think it’s more important to be nice than to be important. All opinions on here are my own.
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Rob Shaw retweeted
So let me get this straight.
Suella (Conservative Home Secretary 2022 - 2023) felt so strongly about the betrayal of the Boris Wave that she stood as a Conservative candidate in 2024 and then sat as a Conservative MP for a further 18 months before jumping ship.
Stacks up 🤔
The Boriswave was the greatest betrayal by the last Conservative government.
It’s why I left the Conservatives.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Braverman served as Attorney General under Johnson and Home Secretary 2022-23 amid the immigration surge called the Boriswave. She remained a Conservative until defecting to Reform in Jan 2026 after the 2024 election.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suella_Br…
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Rob Shaw retweeted
It's shocking to see 'low-wage care workers' portrayed as a drain on the welfare state. They're doing essential jobs and the only reason they claim benefits is that the fat cat private equity bosses that own care homes don't pay them enough to live on.
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Thames Water is borrowing £2.4bn at 10% interest so it can keep funding dividends, even though bosses know it won't be able to repay the money when the company goes tits up. This is corrupt and the government should make it clear that taxpayers won't pick up the tab.
Rob Shaw retweeted
Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension. Means-testing even though people have paid for it.
Proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains tax; cut corporation tax. Enrich the wealthiest. No means-testing.
Chaos and cruelty.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Rob Shaw retweeted
Britain’s banks are super successful at making money. That makes them a target every now and then for a windfall tax. But their success is built on subsidies, massive taxpayer subsidies running to the tune of £30billion a year, paid by the Bank of England - as interest on their cash piles.
This interest payment serves no purpose - it simply enriches the already rather rich. So rather than agonise over a windfall tax, the last one raised a handful of billions by the way - the better way is to stop fuelling their already huge profits with our taxpayer subsidy.
This is probably the easiest reform we can make.
The EU has already done it - if we end banking subsides, we save £30billion a year. We can use that cash for things that can help people and grow the economy - like restoring the personal allowance for income tax.
buff.ly/lCR6wtK
Rob Shaw retweeted
BBC News spent Sunday referring to Jim Ratcliffe as one of Britain's richest men, except, he's an immigrant in Monaco, having moved there to avoid paying £4 billion in tax.
They screen him complaining about those on benefits, even though he grew up in a council house, went to state school, had free university education, and has taken hundreds of millions in public state support from the UK, French and German governments.
They screen him talking about broken Britain which is poor, but don't mention that he is a Brexiter, and Brexit has made the country poorer.
Our national broadcaster should have spent the day providing context to his criticisms, instead they wrapped it in a bow, pushed it out, to stoke further division in society.
I remember when the BBC was so much better than this, and I hope one day it will return to having better standards, than to simply churn out divisive nonsense masquerading as news and analysis.
Rob Shaw retweeted
In October 2020, Robert Jenrick voted against a House of Lords amendment to the Agriculture Bill. The amendment aimed to legally prevent post-Brexit trade deals from importing lower-standard food, specifically targeting concerns over US chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef.
That’s not “always backing British farmers”.
Rob Shaw retweeted
Firefighters battled month-long fires this summer, often without proper PPE or adequate welfare facilities.
We need 5,000 more firefighters and a wildfire summit that delivers.
Rob Shaw retweeted
MPs call for emergency legislation for public control of Thames Water, restore and resell.
Hedge funds want to takeover TW, want exemption from penalties for breaking laws
Neither will do.
Profit motive is the cause of the crisis. Need public ownership.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Rob Shaw retweeted
@ofcom - when an MP hosts his own TV show on a TV Channel that are paying him and then re-posts clips from that show on his social media account branded with his Party's logo.
At what point will you do your job?
Rob Shaw retweeted
How very convenient
Reform to hand crypto investors hundreds of millions in tax breaks
Exclusive: Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100m a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
Rob Shaw retweeted
Firefighters are more likely to suffer or die from cancer than the average worker.
Our goal is presumptive legislation, so no firefighter or their family has to fight for recognition of occupational disease.
Rob Shaw retweeted
Rachel from Piddington was magnificent on #Newsnight.
She described how hard-right activists and “plastic patriots” arriving from outside the village have used fear to organise hostility towards plans to house 1,200 asylum seekers, bringing overt racism into what had always been a peaceful community.
When @vicderbyshire said local women were worried about 1,200 male asylum seekers, Rachel rightly reframed it:
“Women would be worried about 1,200 men from anywhere.”
Legitimate questions about the scale and management of the site must be answered. But women’s safety must not be weaponised to portray every asylum seeker as a sexual threat.
Rachel eventually broke down while describing what it feels like to discover that she is living among such prejudice.
An excellent, courageous interview. It will deeply upset all the usual people which rather proves her point.
"It's really upsetting - it's always been the most amazingly peaceful place to live and we've never experienced the level of overt racism that we’re witnessing"
Rachel, a Piddington resident, expresses her concern at some of the arguments made in opposition to plans for a nearby disused MoD base to house 1200 male asylum seekers.
#Newsnight
Rob Shaw retweeted
Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’; accompanied by deregulation of the City, weakening the courts.
That is the return on donations by the super-rich.
Cost borne by the old, sick, disabled, unfortunate; cuts to public services
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Rob Shaw retweeted
Dear @Ofcom
Please can you clarify to the nation why this is allowed under your current broadcasting rules?
A sitting MP [sometimes] on a TV channel he part owns, delivering a party political broadcast on behalf of Reform UK?
Seriously ... WTF?
Rob Shaw retweeted
Firefighters are significantly more likely to suffer and die from cancer than the average worker.
We're demanding UK-wide health monitoring and presumptive legislation.
And now we have the full, unanimous backing of the TUC.
Rob Shaw retweeted
The FBU has won unanimous backing from the TUC for the firefighters' concordat on health and wellbeing.
We're calling for regular health monitoring for all firefighters and proper decontamination practices at every fire station in the UK.
Rob Shaw retweeted
"Public ownership of water industry could save £22billion, MPs are told."
Oh look, you were lied to, nationalising the water industry isn't going to cost you billions, it could in fact save you £22 billion.
Who'd have guessed it.
mirror.co.uk/money/water-ind…
