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Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
Who should run the countryside: the people you elect or agencies nobody voted for?
Natural England and the Environment Agency answer to no minister. Homes are blocked and farmers are buried in red tape.
Conservatives will scrap them.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
President Xi’s aim is to make the world dependent on China, while China depends on no one.
Without a coalition of countries to counter it, he will succeed.
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Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
Then the 70% are wrong.
Privatisation of energy was a success. Prices fell. Consumers benefitted.
It all started to go wrong when the Tory/LD Coalition relentlessly increased state control of energy in pursuit of net zero. Continued under subsequent governments. The state now has more control over UK energy than it did in the days of the Central Electricity Generating Board!
And the remuneration last year of the boss of Gaz de France (now Engie) was €5.5m.
Other than that you’re spot on.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
Stephen Kinnock’s claim that there were no boat people because we were in the European Union is a straightforward lie. Illegal immigrants flooded in by lorry, train and cars. They disappeared into towns/cities and couldn’t be properly counted. When advances in technology made these methods of transport much harder to use the illegal migrants took to boats, courtesy of the people smugglers. Since the boats are usually interdicted on arrival the counting is easier. Nothing to do with being in or out of the EU.
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@andyburnham today: “We’ve all spent too much time arguing with each other and looking backwards and not enough time looking forwards. What I’m trying to do is draw that line.”
Sadly he only meant that for Scotland. He wants to sow division amongst the rest of us.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
The Attorney General is the Govt's lawyer.
I told her that there is no international court with binding jurisdiction over our sovereignty of the Chagos Islands.
Watch her being unable to say that there is.
Labour's decision to give away sovereign UK territory, and pay £35bn for the privilege, is nothing to do with legal necessity.
It's a political decision taken by Labour idealogues against our national interest.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
There’s a lot of self-serving spin emanating from the UK government about how virtuous it is re fiscal consolidation.
Here are the facts.
Labour inherited an OBR budget deficit forecast of £87bn (3.1% GDP) for FY2024/25. After R Reeves’ 1st disastrous budget the actual deficit was £153bn (5.2%). Massive jump.
Labour inherited OBR budget deficit of £77bn (2.7%) for FY2025/26. After RR’s disastrous 2nd budget that turned out to be £133bn (4.3%).
So in its first two years it added over £120bn to borrowing/deficit (despite huge increase in taxes).
The OBR forecast it inherited for this FY2026/27 was £69bn (2.3%). It is now forecast to be £116bn (3.3%). That looks like an underestimate. More likely to be closer to £130bn again.
Inherited budget forecast for 2027/28: £51bn (1.6%). Latest forecast: £97bn (2.9%).
Inherited budget forecast for 2028/29: £39bn (1.2%). Latest forecast: £86bn (2.5%).
Far from fiscal consolidation Labour is forecast to borrow an incredible £260bn more over the 5 years from 2024/25 than the forecasts it inherited. Despite the tax rises.
Which will continue. Alone among G7 countries the IMF projects the UK tax burden to rise by 3.7% of GDP 2025-31. The only other country with a rising tax burden is France (0.8%). Italy is static. Rest of G7 have falling tax burden.
And let’s not forget Labour’s so-called ‘fiscal consolidation’ is all backloaded to end-decade. Unlikely to happen. So taxes will have to rise by even more.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
The small boats crisis has gone on longer than WWII. I will always regret that I could not solve it.
We have to show people the journey is pointless. Rwanda was criticised as a fantasy, but the real fantasy is thinking you can stop the boats without it.
For some time I had said that if forced to choose between membership of the ECHR and our national and border security, I would pick the latter.
During my tenure, attempting to leave the ECHR with only two years left in the parliament and with no mandate to do so would have been a recipe for constitutional chaos. You couldn't resolve all the issues thrown up by leaving in 24 months with a fractious parliamentary party, a sceptical House of Lords and limited diplomatic capital. Other countries can read our opinion polls.
With the help of KCs, we'd done extensive work on leaving. The plan was to say in the election campaign that we'd seek radical reform of the convention and the court, and leave if that could not be achieved quickly.
Like so many things in that campaign, it didn't go to plan, and we dropped the idea after Nigel Farage entered the race, for fear it would be dismissed as a panic move and make it harder to focus the election on tax and the economy.
With a mandate, a majority and a five-year term, it would be very different, and worth doing.
My Sunday Times column today looks at how 👇
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Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
The women of Piddington deserve to be heard. @KemiBadenoch made that clear in her speech yesterday - and that’s why she went to meet residents.
Whilst I’ve been twice to meet these wonderful women, Bridget Phillipson has refused to go AT ALL.
Labour won’t stand up for women and girls. The @Conservatives will.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
🍺 PUBS UNDER PRESSURE - BREAKING NEWS 🍺
Last week Cornwall was told it would lose Doom Bar's brewery. Today Burton-upon-Trent is told Marston’s is closing after brewing in the market town since 1834.
These are massive blows to those communities, where breweries have employed locals for decades.
Operating costs have shot up due to crazy energy bills, employer taxes and rates. But it’s also part of a bigger hospitality crisis.
Cask ale depends on the pub trade, which has been under the same massive pressures. Even if a pub looks packed, it's likely the landlord is finding it way harder to make profit because costs are up and punters are spending differently.
That’s why at our conference this week we’ve focused on getting those costs down:
📉 Cutting energy costs with our Cheap Power Plan
🧾 Halving employer NI for 21–24-year-olds
🛍️ Taking most of the high street out of business rates
🚛 Stopping the New Year fuel duty hike that will push up delivery costs
Get the economics wrong, and we all know we lose way more than breweries, pubs, and pints. This is as much about history, community, culture and friendship.
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Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
The Governor of the Bank of England is right to warn that UK spending and borrowing need to be cut. In 2022 he decided to force up rates by selling bonds. This time he is reducing sales of bonds to help the government but still markets push up rates as borrowing is too high.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
The 10 year UK bond yield hit 5.48%, more than 1% above the highest rate in 2022 that Labour still complain about. It is well above the 4.88% French rate despite the riots and budget chaos there.When will the Chancellor stabilise UK finances? He needs to act.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
I will never forget hearing from some of the first responders who came to speak in Parliament. Chilling reports of the unbelievable evil carried out, especially to women's bodies, and the compassionate care taken by those tasked with identifying victims.
MPs always have mutiple conflicting committments, but my friend @KemiBadenoch and I stayed for the whole event. Incredibly difficult but necessary. #7October.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
@wesstreeting Wes stop misleading the public. You know i said “that both Labour and Conservatives hollowed out defence for 30 years.” Your constant editing of the quote while imposing real term cuts to todays RDEL exposes that fact that this Labour defence team are fundamentally dishonest with the our nation’s defence. The “tucking under” of 0.4% of GDP and pretending to the media it is also “defence spending” shows that you are part of a government that puts benefits above our nations security.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
£53 million for 500,000 trees might sound a lot but to put that in perspective… a landowner just told me they planted 1.5million trees over 3 years for just 3% of that Government budget.
Yep. That’s x3 more trees AND 97% cheaper.
After the SFI26 shambles, Labour is spraying around more taxpayers’ money with no measuring of proper outcomes for nature.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
There is something deeply unpleasant about how this Labour Minister views rural Britain.
She is, by the way, a Defra Minister so has responsibility for the very communities she apparently abhors, including pubs. Oh, and she also represents a rural seat in Suffolk with lots of lovely-looking pubs. Thank you to everyone who has posted photos of their local.
Whilst it has brightened my day to see trusty four-legged pub companions all over social media (Zuzu looking brilliant, @kevinhollinrake), as well as the mickey-taking this Minister’s comments deserve, this is sadly just another example of the disconnect between Labour MPs and the countryside.
Earlier this month in PMQs, the Prime Minister made some throw-away comment about the role of the Defra PPS. He later apologised via a TikTok video (so that’s ok then). But it revealed his instincts.
This government neither knows nor cares about rural and farming communities.
Further evidence of this is the decision by the Defra Secretary of State to run their shambolic version of SFI on a first-come, first-served basis for the first time ever. That was her choice and it has consequences for farmers and nature: thousands of farmers missed out on this massively cut budget (another Labour decision) and so they won’t be able to afford to carry out the nature improvements they were planning.
The Countryside Alliance has established that there are at least 27 Labour policies that are having, or will have a significant - and bad - impact on rural communities.
We saw it with their vindictive Family Farm and Family Business Taxes, which every rural Labour voted for multiple times, putting their own careers before their constituents’ livelihoods, homes and wellbeing.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
With common sense, ambition and care, our rural and coastal communities can flourish and our rural way of life can thrive. It just won’t happen with this bunch of Leftist lanyard-wearers who feel threatened by an image of a country pub with a roaring fire and a lovely dog.
The choice is stark between the Welfare Party of grievance, offence and scornful judgements, and the modern Conservative Party in which @KemiBadenoch and our team are proud of our rural and coastal communities, have a laugh, create serious policies and can enjoy a pie and a pint with our pooches.
Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
A Conservative Policy, announced last year…next?
Andy Burnham confirms that VAT will be removed from electricity bills starting this Thursday.
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Cherilyn Mackrory retweeted
Remember all the triple lock really does is keep an old age pension (which many have spent between 40-50 years paying into in with NI contributions) up with inflation so pensioners can afford to pay their heating & food bills. We also have one of the poorest pensions in Europe.
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There's just not going to be anything in this Budget for Hospitality is there? Yet again. You cannot have growth if businesses are closing at the rate of 4 a day. And the Treasury makes zero VAT on a closed restaurant/hotel with a list of redundant staff. #VATsTheProblem.