Ellen Barton retweeted
Left: Conservative Helen Whately criticised Labour for 174,000 young people unemployed under Labour, suggesting they have the policies to fix it
Right: But under the Conservatives, there were 872,000 young people unemployed, because of Conservative policy
My view:
Helen Whately talks as though the Conservatives have just arrived to discover a problem somebody else created. They governed Britain for 14 years.
They had 14 years to improve education, strengthen training and help young people into secure employment. Yet in the final full quarter before they left office, an estimated 872,000 young people were outside education, employment or training. Roughly one in eight.
That is a record they must answer for. If their policies offer such convincing solutions now, why did their government leave so many young people without those opportunities?
Whately cannot claim authority on fixing the problem while skipping over her party’s responsibility for tackling it when it actually held power. Fourteen years gave the Conservatives ample time to turn promises into results.
Labour deserves scrutiny. But Conservative politicians demanding better outcomes should start by explaining their own failures. Losing an election does not wipe away 14 years in government—or turn the people who failed to solve a problem into credible experts on fixing it.
Here's a novel idea get all the thieving Torys to pay back what they stole over the last 14 years, and then start on your expenses go live in your own house in your constituency and commute like everyone else has to do.
Ellen Barton retweeted
Dear #Clacton my Nan used to holiday in Clacton every year so I have an affection for the area.
Please listen to this.
Ellen Barton retweeted
So just to make sure we’ve got this right, Reform would like to:
Remove our human rights
Remove equality protections and hard won rights for women and minorities.
Remove workers rights
Remove minimum wage for those on low incomes
Remove welfare for the disabled and struggling families.
Give tax cuts to the wealthy.
Privatise the NHS.
You’d have to a mug to vote Reform
Ellen Barton retweeted
DESPITE NET MIGRATION HAVING FALLEN BY 82% SINCE ITS PEAK NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS INCORRECTLY BELIEVE ITS ACTUALLY INCREASED!
This is a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows to get the actual facts about net migration across to the public and call out the bull**** by the likes of Nigel Farage.
If UK news shows can’t get the job done let’s do it ourselves!
🚨DESPITE NET MIGRATION HAVING FALLEN BY 82% SINCE ITS PEAK NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS INCORRECTLY BELIEVE ITS ACTUALLY INCREASED!
Politicians have now been blamed for skewing the public's understanding of immigration levels.
This is a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows to get the actual facts about net migration across to the public and call out the bull**** by the likes of Nigel Farage.
If UK news shows can’t get the job done let’s damn well do it ourselves!
Ellen Barton retweeted
We are sick of you trying to pitch neighbour against neighbour.
When you politicians stop living in your privileged bubble and actually realise how hard you have made our lives, maybe then you might start doing your job instead of trying to make each person angry at the next, so we do not look at all the corruption you lot are up to.
This is a disgusting post and you should be ashamed, because you are one of the biggest benefit receivers going.
What you get in a few months is what many people have to live on for a whole year, and yet you think we should listen to your tripe while you try to make us hate each other.
While we fight each other, you enjoy the treasures we work hard to create. People are sick of it, and the ones who are not are clearly living in the same bubble as you.
Ellen Barton retweeted
I voted Labour in 2024 and joined the Party because of Keir Starmer. I do not regret that for a single moment.
Look at the delivery over only 22 months. I voted for Change and I got more than that I got improvement and a Gov focused on delivering for all of us.
#VoteLabour
Ellen Barton retweeted
Reform is in hock to oil & gas companies. Renewables are cheaper, don’t depend on long & insecure supply chains, they’re in our country, sovereign and not sold on international markets. They’re not donors to reform, which is why reform hates them.
Ellen Barton retweeted
Are you going to be transparent and honest with the British public and publish how many of your candidates are paper candidates?
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It’s all starting to unravel for Reform UK LTD.
The whole charade is starting to show, the facade has dropped and the majority have simply had enough.
The shop window of Kent county council has been an abject failure and Farage rarely mentions it now hoping others don’t ask him how it’s doing.
In Worcestershire county council he’s now griping he wished he never taken it on and that “I wish we hadn’t bothered” that has simply shown he’s lazy and anything that demands hard work is beneath him.
Every council that campaigned on tax cuts have in fact raised them, some to the maximum or above. When confronted by this he evaded, denied and then refused to take responsibility for it.
He lost Gorton and Denton after predicting they would win, when the results came in he said it was through cheating, when he complained to the police they found no evidence so he acted like a toddler throwing his toys out of his pram refusing to take the evidence as fact and went on to accuse the police of performing a “whitewash” because the enquiry didn’t go the way he wanted.
In recent by-elections where they expected to win by large majorities they only won one out of the five.
In Scotland less than a week after announcing candidates they have already lost five who have stood down, been suspended or removed.
Candidates elsewhere have been outed as paedophiles, abusers, fraudsters et al proving they are not interested in the proper etiquette of vetting but the £200 they get from each candidate.
Since winning in the May elections they have lost well in excess of 70 elected officials for all manner of reasons ranging from financial impropriety, racism, misogyny, domestic abuse, in fighting, you name it this motley crew have done it.
Donations have been made through cryptocurrency that cannot be traced but one company has allegations of money laundering. Now the government is banning donations through cryptocurrency meaning he will lose a revenue stream.
Speaking of money laundering one of Farage’s closest advisors was arrested and sentenced for the very same crime of money laundering.
One of his senior members in Wales is currently serving ten and a half years for taking bribes from Russia, he tried denying he knew Gill until a multitude of images of them together emerged.
At the same time he denied ever meeting the Russian ambassador until an image appeared of him having a meeting with him in the Russian embassy.
He bought a house in Clacton for just shy of £900,000 cash, no finance, no mortgage. He failed to pay an extra stamp duty of £44,000 as a second home and then went on to say it was bought by his girlfriend who clearly does not have that kind of spare cash lying around. There is still no explanation of where the money came from?
One council caused uproar for spending £75,000 on flags while potholes went without being repaired.
Another spent some £6,000,000 on outside consultants whilst closing eight care homes at the same time.
Another has blown a £70,000,000 deficit into the budget since they took over less than a year ago. At the same time paying £600,000 to refurbish a courtyard into an executive car park whilst charging council staff £4 per day to park.
Talking of car parks another has removed free parking for disabled blue badge holders now making them pay in all council car parks.
His deputy Richard Tice has been exposed as avoiding tax to the tune of £600,000 and he himself has been exposed as putting his earnings through his own corporation to only pay 25% corporate tax rather than the 40% personal tax.
His constant trips to the USA rather than spending time in his constituency in Clacton is starting to show where his loyalty lies, in fact his relationship with Trump is toxic to the public watching him.
He wanted to join in with the USA’s illegal war in Iran and tried to chastise Starmer for not doing so. Only for a week later with his tail between his legs he U turned realising it wasn’t a popular choice with the public.
He staged a walkout of parliament along with the rest of Reform UK LTD’s MP’s because he didn’t like being held to account for trying to take us to war or voting against giving law enforcement more powers to tackle small boat crossings. It made him look weak and childish in the eyes of the public and he went on the defensive only to make matters worse.
He laughed when in parliament when the Dunblane massacre anniversary happened. He wants to repeal the law on handgun restrictions as he believes it was a knee jerk reaction to the killing of 16 primary school children aged between five and six and their teacher.
He wants to repeal the ban on fox hunting to placate his friends in the establishment that he says he is fighting against.
Talking about fighting the establishment he took a private jet donated by a billionaire to stay in 6 star accommodation in DAVOS to fight the “establishment!”
Add on top of this he now has to deal with an even bigger racist, fascist and all round nasty piece of work Rupert Lowe and his party that is splitting the far right vote, not only taking supporters from him but his councillors and other elected officials who are defecting.
The bubble has burst, decent people can see what they are and those who were once unsure are now sure and are turning their backs on Reform UK LTD. All they have is their die hard fan base of racists, fascists and bots and bots can’t vote.
Ellen Barton retweeted
Respectfully, this framing misses a fundamental point.
The United States President did not seek authorisation from Congress for military action, nor did he pursue a mandate through the United Nations.
That matters.
European nations are not subsidiaries of US foreign policy. We are sovereign states, accountable to our own laws, parliaments and people. Decisions of this magnitude, particularly those involving military risk and escalation, require legitimacy, scrutiny and due process.
Alliances are built on cooperation, not compliance.
If the expectation is that allies should simply align without question, regardless of legal basis or strategic judgment, then that is not an alliance. That is something else entirely.
Europe does recognise the risks posed by Iran, including nuclear proliferation and regional instability. But recognising a risk is not the same as endorsing a specific course of action, especially one taken without broader international backing.
Serious decisions require a serious process.
Sovereignty is not arrogance. It is a responsibility.
Ellen Barton retweeted
How is it possible that the media does not report the £7.5bn of money saved by Labour from fraud in our public services.
The savings secured are equivalent to the cost of employing an additional 230,000 nurses or repairing every pothole in the country.
This is big news!
Ellen Barton retweeted
I worked with Farage from 1999-2003 when he was first elected as an MEP, sharing an office with him in Strasbourg. I stayed at his home, travelled with him, dined and entertained when we were in Europe, and worked with him in the UK.
Outwardly charming, he is in fact a vindictive, aggressive bully, with a huge chip on his shoulder. He is intolerant of criticism, has no loyalty to anyone, and will shaft anyone who disagrees with him, gets in his way or poses a threat (usually by underhand means, via third parties).
I am not surprised, therefore, that you have come to your view. Most people who have been close to Farage feel the same way and would not trust him in the slightest. Many more will come to the same conclusion, and eventually the Farage bubble will burst. I hope it does so before he does even more damage.