I would like to hear an announcement from @nadhimzahawi today that children don't have to wear masks in school tomorrow.
Harry Phibbs
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Harry Phibbs
@harryph
Journalist. Local government editor of @ConHome. Married with three daughters. [email protected], capx.co/author/harryph…
- In 2016 Christine Lagarde was convicted of fraud. Today the EU nominated her to be the head of the European Central Bank. Thank goodness we are leaving this squalid, corrupt outfit.
- Joe Biden says cutting top income tax rate in the UK from 45% to 40% would have been wrong. The 40% rate here kicks in at £50,270. In the US the tax rate is 22% up to equivalent of £80,000. Then 24% on income up to £153,000. Top rate of 37% kicks in over £483,000.
- Extraordinary exchange on Any Questions, 23 mins in. @montie: "I don't know if you saw that documentary on Channel 4 about rape gangs?" @LucyMPowell: "Oh, you want to blow that little trumpet now, do you? Let's get that dog whistle out, shall we, yeah?"
- Perhaps the BBC might care to correct this?
- I actually think Rory Stewart would be a worse PM than Theresa May!When asked what actually differentiates him from the Labour Party, Rory Stewart didn't mention the size or scope of the state, no word on the position of the individual in society, not even a contrast on tax policy! To him the difference was his romantic love for the EU's CAP.
00:00 - Various reporters describing Sir John Major as a "Conservative". But Sir John urged people to vote against Conservative candidates at the last General Election.
- .@KemiBadenoch: "My Government will discard the priorities of Twitter and focus on the people's priorities. When we can't deliver passports and driving licences on time why are we spending millions on people whose jobs literally didn't exist a decade ago?"
- When @MPIainDS became Work and Pensions Secretary in May 2010 there were 2.51 million unemployed. Now down to 1.28 million. His welfare reforms have halved unemployment. A very well deserved knighthood!
- Would it not be a tad inconsistent to accuse Boris Johnson of being a "dictator" and then try to prevent him from calling a General Election?
- .@DanielJHannan: "Historians will look back in wonder at our recent resignations. A sitting prime minister was removed over uneaten cake on the advice of a civil servant who, it later emerged, was planning to work for the Leader of the Opposition."
- .@DanielJHannan: “Outside the EU, Britain could have become freer and more competitive. We had a Conservative Government with an 80-seat majority, for Heaven’s sake. We could have scrapped Brussels regulations, flattened and simplified taxes, embraced global markets...
- It is a shame. A magazine that used to be anti establishment now peddles corporatist group think.
- Erasmus scheme VERY bad value for money. We put in £250 million a year. In return around 15,000 British students each get around £3,500 a year towards studying abroad - so about £50 million back! Lots of its budget goes on non-educational stuff - eg EU propaganda.
