Historian, linguist, author. Good governance campaigner. Veteran Westminster/ Brussels adviser and think tanker. Dir Special Projects, Vote Leave.
London, England
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Sort the UK deficit out NOW, Government.
🇧🇪 Bart De Wever plans to resign after overnight talks among his coalition failed to reach a budget deal to rein in Belgium's 5% deficit and 110% debt.
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Lee Rotherham retweeted
This graph demonstrates how mad it would be for the UK to give back control to the EU over product regulation. The EU Single Market is solely about goods, and is largely a failure, losing global share of GDP, and, as you can see, UK goods exports to the EU are a less and less significant percentage of the UK’s economy. Our services exports to the EU continue to grow, up by 28 per cent since leaving the EU. There is no s-market in services, So no Brexit problem there. @UKLabour , @LibDems and the nationalist rejoiners all seem to think that subjecting the entire uk economy to EU regulation is worth it, when only 5.9 per cent of UK GDP is exported to the EU. The chart shows that being in the Single Market was a failure for the UK economy, since that share of GDP declined from the day the single market was created! @Facts4euOrg @BritainUnbound @Conservatives @ScotTories @WelshConserv @labourleave The reasons for the structural decline of UK manufacturing need to be addressed but reflects long term factors. Even so, the UK has grown goods exports to RoW much faster and this already exceeded goods exports to EU before leaving the EU. @BBCPolitics Please can the @BBCNews confirm these figures in the interests of impartiality!
If Marxist professors can put together a board game, it shouldn't be beyond the wit of UK free market think tanks to do so too. en.philenews.com/local/hegem…
"Flexible"? In return for what concessions?
EXCLUSIVE: Brussels would be flexible on letting Britain stay out of the euro and the Schengen area if it applied to rejoin the EU, two EU officials have told POLITICO.
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He's conceded reparations. This guy has the negotiating capability of a five year old and the common sense of a duck. What will he be like with the EU?
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is “open” to payouts in health and education for Commonwealth countries to make up for Britain’s role in the slave trade
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Lee Rotherham retweeted
This may be the most damning statement ever uttered by a Labour minister. It's so revealing of the attitude of a government that thinks that employers are a class that don't work for their profits but somehow exploit others for them - rather than understanding the nature of small and medium-sized businesses and how bloody hard most employers work to create wealth and employment.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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A more interesting question than the Tony Martin scenario: which members of the public by career path arguably might be more trusted to carry a concealed weapon?
Lee Rotherham retweeted
This is the reality about the EU. An organisation @RachelReevesMP claims she is proud to join. I suspect she knows nothing about it.
Ko smo se odločali za vstop v EU, si ni nihče predstavljal, da bo v kaki njeni članici in uniji nasploh mogoče brez posledic:
1. Razveljaviti predsedniške volitve (Romunija);
2. Ukiniti informativni program na nacionalni RTV (Madžarska);
3. Poslati policijo na Ustavno sodišče (Poljska);
4. Tri tedne pred volitvami poslati v zapor predsednika stranke, ki vodi v anketah (Slovenija);
5. Zasesti nacionalno RTV s policijo in zamenjati vodstvo (Poljska);
6. Prekiniti mandate vodstvu nacionalne RTV in izvesti čistko zaposlenih (Slovenija);
7. Poslati v zapor člane prejšnje vlade brez možnosti obrambe (Madžarska);
8. Podeliti skoraj milijon državljanstev ilegalnim migrantom po hitrem postopku (Španija);
9. Zapreti novo Nuklearno elektrarno in zgraditi plinovod do Rusije (Nemčija);
10. Obdavčiti ogljične energetske vire ob hkratnem zapiranju NE ter preseliti industrijo v države z nizkimi ekološkimi standardi pod pretvezo, da tako rešujemo planet.
Nastala je EU, ki se mora reševati sama pred sabo.
The BBC should be playing a proper role in this. A series on national heroes that isn't written by Marxists would be a start.
"I'm too incompetent to run a country"
Reeves says UK's future should be inside the EU bbc.in/4jS3XXi
Lee Rotherham retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Oh come on, now. These PR terms become more laughable every day.
Today, at the 21st Summit in Montréal, the Leaders of Canada and the EU launched the #CanadaEU Alliance for the Future to create a common prosperity and economic security space.
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It's a rubbish Americanism, that encourages children to beg and to take sweets off strangers.
Go read an M R James story in a darkened room instead.
Police have warned that Hallowe’en trick or treating may go against “religious beliefs”.
Councils and forces have issued “no trick or treat” posters that households can display on Saturday to deter unwanted visitors.
Official guidance for some areas states that these posters should be respected as some people may avoid Hallowe’en for cultural reasons.
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Utter, utter stupidity. You need to disperse assets; and you need spaces to recruit and train in major conflicts.
💷What will the MOD sell to raise £400m?
The Ministry of Defence has handed the Treasury a list of assets for potential sale to help fund the Defence Investment Plan
Bases, buildings or land – what could be next on the chopping block?
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The correct answer consists of two words and the second is "off".
The strategic response is to push back against the Woke machinery and smug elite that drips out this effluent unchallenged, and poisons the well.
Revelation is from Lammy's ex-SpAd @b_judah
No. 10 aides had similar mutterings — one said they were aware of the report
A Foreign Office official said this week that it isn't the UK government's position. Summit format decided by nations collectively
politico.eu/article/andy-bur…
Farewell, Sejanus.
Legendary Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart dies aged 86 bbc.in/3USsdyg
One route pre-2010 would have been for the Germans to spend big on the logistical kit and heavy lift to get the French places, showing 'willing yet peacenik' while effectively creating for themselves a veto. The world has changed since though.
