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John Cooper MP
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John Cooper MP
@JohnCooperDG
Member of Parliament for Dumfries & Galloway. Casework: [email protected]
United Kingdom
Joined September 2024
- 🏴 Earn £100,000 and you’ll pay about £31,458 in tax 🏴 Earn £100,000 and you’ll pay about £22,486 - £8,972 less - in tax. And in 🏴 you also get lectures from the fiscally illiterate Greens.The Greens, and their SNP friends, are anti-business and anti-growth 👇
00:00 - Not Parliament at its finest. The Private Member’s Bill system is entirely unsuited to a Bill of such massive importance, one which risks changing forever the patient/doctor relationship. The Government should have picked this up and devoted proper debate time.Intense distress from MPs on the #NoDebate approach to issues in Assisted Death @Jess4Lowestoft "how can we call that a debate" @TomTugendhat reminds MPs bill "allows the state to kill someone" @NeilDotObrien "there has been no time to have a proper debate" To no avail 👇
00:00 - 🏴 Scotland has been assigned our first credit ratings. They match the UK’s rating & they are better than major European and global economies like Spain, Italy & Japan. Here’s why that’s important... 🧵
- We must stand up for fragile coastal communities as the French try to use defence and security as leverage for #fishing rights. It’s ‘Non’ to mackerel for missiles.
00:00 - Undersea cables, be they for data or power, are as crucial to Britain today as the Atlantic convoys in 1940 - and just as vulnerable.Ed Miliband’s policies will leave us more dependent on electricity imports than ever before. But the interconnectors we rely upon are vulnerable to Russian and Chinese sabotage, as the destruction of Finnish cables on Christmas Day showed (1/7). telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/0…
01:37The Scottish Conservatives stand for freedom. #CPC25
- ⌚️Set your watches to local time… it’s 2014 as the First Agitator does the timewarp again. Independence wasn’t the answer then, and it sure isn’t now.6 months until the election. Let’s build a fairer, more prosperous, more affordable country. An independent Scotland. 🏴
00:00 - Labour’s #FamilyFarmTax is a major concern for the vital agriculture sector in Dumfries & Galloway. Delighted to join fellow @Conservatives to support today’s farmers’ rally.
- Replying to @authordlewisRaised it in the HoC and a #VC is being considered - this is not VAR for decorations, but a considered look at the odd downgrading of Mayne’s final gallantry award.
00:00 - Delighted to be out in #Stranraer with @Miles4Lothian and a great @ScotTories team supporting local candidate Julie Currie on the run-in to Thursday’s D&G Council by-election.
- Troubling - why on earth wouldn’t a @UKHouseofLords Committee not see written evidence as pivotal to their scrutiny of a Bill that’s literally life and death?Think you have something useful to tell the Lords about Leadbeater’s bill? Think again… “the Committee is not seeking or accepting written evidence other than from invited witnesses”! Anyone aware of any precedent for this? To actively say “we don’t want to know”?
- Great to have @RussellFindlay1 back in D&G. Lively discussion on driving forward our common-sense agenda.
