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Sep 15, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
A world of competing "empires" doesn't seem very liberal to me.

What seems like a lifetime ago, I wrote about the folly of the EU raising nationalism to the European level:

conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/20…

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Dec 17, 2021
🏠I wrote to @ChrisPincher on how we can use brownfield developments to deliver affordable homes with local community support.

🏷️Many in #Wycombe have a genuine concern their children will be priced out of their area.

🤝Heart of the problem is an adversarial planning system. Image
@ChrisPincher 🏗️Less than half of approved brownfield developments are completed within 6 years.

📉When developments are completed, the complexities of the current system mean that affordable housing contributions aren’t always met.

➡️We need to find a better way forward.
@ChrisPincher We must
👉Speed up the approval process which imposes a high burden on all parties.
👉Incentivise developers who have approval for developments but sit on brownfield sites for years.
👉Ensure new developments work for local communities by directing contributions directly to them.
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Nov 30, 2021
🗽"We should be living with coronavirus, like we live with flu"

👇My speech today in response to the new Covid restrictions
❌"If the Government keeps going down this path...if we panic every time there is a new variant - when there will be new variant after new variant - we are going to make entire sections of our economy uninvestable"

👇"Where is the hope from the Government"
🗽"This is about how we react, and the kind of nation and civilisation we are creating in the context of this disease"

👇"This is a fundamental choice between heading towards heaven and heading towards hell"
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Oct 19, 2021
📋Today MPs will consider the renewal of the #CoronavirusAct

🗽The Coronavirus Act has contained egregious powers but it's the Public Health Act that has been used to lock us down, shut businesses & stop family reunions

⬇️My position on today's motion

stevebaker.info/2021/10/todays…
🚷Covid restrictions have been mostly implemented under the Public Health Act 1984 - what happens today does not affect it

🔒The risk of immediate lockdown by ministerial fiat without scrutiny remains until we have a new Public Health Act ⤵️

“When we rammed this act of Parliament through, I stood and said it would bring forward a dystopian society. I had no idea then just how dystopian it would be.” 👇👇👇
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Sep 12, 2021
#Wycombe #WeighingIn
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Sep 12, 2021
🗽I campaigned and voted against the Coronavirus Act - EG: votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/… - so I am pleased ministers are getting rid of egregious powers like Schedules 21 and 22.

Summary: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/coronavirusact/

But the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 is a bigger danger⬇️
According to @HansardSociety, "Coronavirus-related Statutory Instruments have been made and laid under 133 Acts of Parliament, seven Orders, five EU Regulations (which are now retained EU law in the UK) and one Church Measure."

Great dashboard here:

hansardsociety.org.uk/publications/d…
Lockdown was overwhelmingly implemented under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, which remains in place and needs reform.

There's an official guide to the legislation here:

legislation.gov.uk/coronavirus
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Aug 7, 2021
⚠️There's been a great deal of difficulty obtaining workings out from @theCCCuk on #CostOfNetZero

🧐Now it sounds like the dog ate their homework.

⚖️👀See what the judge said about why this matters⬇️

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
"Judge Sophie Buckley said: ‘There is an extremely strong public interest in enabling scrutiny of the data, models and calculations which underpin the CCC’s conclusion that the net zero target could be met at an annual resource cost of up to 1-2 per cent of GDP.
"‘Any errors in the calculations that led to the CCC’s conclusions, which, in turn, led to the legislative change, have the potential to have a very significant impact on the lives and finances of large numbers of people, [...]
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