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Apr 2 6 tweets 7 min read
#AnyQuestions “With rising energy costs, should we be exploiting our gas and oil reserves?”

@EdwardJDavey “The truth is that price of gas/oil is set globally so even if we produce more it won’t help. Good news is renewables can cut people’s bills.” #CostOfLivingCrisis
@RobertJenrick argues that Govt are helping people with #CostOfLivingCrisis.

@EdwardJDavey “This is just a swindle! The chancellor is telling you, Robert just repeated it, that he’s cutting taxes. He’s not, he’s shoving yr taxes up…conservatives have completely lost the plot!”
“There should be visa free access to our country for #Ukranian refugees. No visas! Says @EdwardJDavey

“We allow wealthy people from over 50 countries to enter 🇬🇧 visa free, with no security checks…. Why can’t we allow Ukrainian mothers and children fleeing Putin’s bombs?”
Fantastic take down of @RobertJenrick by @EdwardJDavey, “Our home office is not fit for purpose and @pritipatel is not fit for purpose either!” #UkraineWar #RefugeesNeedHelp
Just listen the audience’s reaction to @RobertJenrick claiming that @BorisJohnson is the linchpin to the west’s response to the aggression of #VladimirPutin

He even gets a baa 🐑 towards the end 🤣
#UkraineRussiaWar #JohnsonOut68 #ToriesInPutinsPocket
“This PM has to go!” Declares @EdwardJDavey audience breaks into 👏👏👏

“And the reasons is to face the domestic #CostOfLiving crisis and #Ukraine️ crisis, we need a PM we can trust. And I don’t think even Tory backbenchers trust him TBH, let alone the British public!”

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More from @LizWebsterLD

Apr 3
UK’s trade deficit in January easily 💥biggest💥 on record: huge £26.5bn for goods and £16.2bn for goods & services taken together.

Not figures for those of nervous disposition. The deficit in goods is usually c £12bn, while overall deficit well below £10bn.

🧵 #Brexit Image
The other worry, recently highlighted by the OBR is the UK’s disengagement from international trade.

Trade is good: it drives productivity and other improvements. It is no accident that politicians of the past lauded export-led growth. “Export or die” used to be a slogan and … Image
in run-up to 2016 referendum the BoE highlighted how the UK had become a more open economy, with trade comprising a higher proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) during the long period of EU membership. Image
Read 7 tweets
Mar 2
Joe Biden’s speech 🔥

“I say to the #Russian oligarchs and corrupt leaders who built billions of 💵 off this violent regime, no more. I mean it.

🧵
#Ukraine

https://politico.cominteractives/2022/state-of-the-union-2022-live-watch-online-streaming-video-transcript-3-1-2022/
The 🇺🇸 dept of justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the 🇷🇺 oligarchs. We are joining with European allies to find and seize their yachts, luxury apartments, private jets. We are coming for you. Tonight, I am announcing we will join our allies …
in closing off 🇺🇸 airspace to all Russian flights.”

“He has no idea what is coming. The ruble has already lost 30% of its value. The Russian stock market has lost 40% of its value. Trading remains suspended. The Russian economy is reeling. Putin alone is the one to blame.”
Read 4 tweets
Feb 20
Thinking the unthinkable: emergence of “a vast zone of destabilisation and insecurity” from Estonia to Turkey if Putin wins sovereignty over Ukraine.

@LianaFix: “Any idea EU or Nato can ensure peace on the continent will be the artefact of a lost age”
thetimes.co.uk/article/2bfa58…
“Cold War analogies will not be helpful in 🌍 with Russianised Ukraine,” bc in the Europe of the Cold War the geopolitical dividing lines were stabilised under 1975 Helsinki Accords.
By contrast Russian control of Ukraine would insert an unpredictable new dynamic into the heart of the continent and make it impossible for Ukraine’s neighbours to feel secure.
Read 4 tweets
Feb 19
Times reveals that another unreported event was taking place on the same day in No 10 as cheese & wine party.

Leaked docs reveal Tory donors given access to Boris Johnson’s top team during pandemic as part of secret ‘advisory board’

#JohnsonOut26

thetimes.co.uk/article/295ea6…
At 3pm, Johnson’s longest-standing adviser and confidant Lord Udny-Lister sat down to open the latest virtual meeting of the “advisory board”: a secret group of ultra-wealthy Conservative Party donors.
After their large donations, members of the advisory board had been granted privileged access to the prime minister, ministers and advisers at the top of government.
Read 14 tweets
Jan 9
I stood against Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, big Brexit backer, in GE19 in #cotswolds which voted remain.

I challenged him on what #brexit means for farming, essentially decimation for rural constituencies reliant on agriculture like Cotswolds.

🧵1/6

politicshome.com/news/article/p…
2. I urged Sir Geoffrey to connect with his brother, Colin, who was chair of Suffolk NFU.

Here is Colin in 2016 predicting exactly what is unfolding for #farming now we have Brexit.

eadt.co.uk/news/business/…
3. And to recap, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown voted against protecting our food standards despite the fact low quality imports coming into the UK impact the livelihoods of farmers in the UK who have to meet the high standards and damage public health.

wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/18807840.…
Read 8 tweets
Dec 13, 2021
Politico’s Playbook on #NorthShropshire

“Tories downbeat: The conclusion that the Lib Dems are now favorites is shared by Tory MPs who have visited the seat. One told Playbook they expect to lose.”
Lib Dems sniff an upset as Tories win apathy vote.

thetimes.co.uk/article/0acb04…
The North Shropshire by-election on Thursday is shaping up to be the closest battle in the Tory stronghold in living memory, as weeks of scandal in Westminster show signs of angering the party faithful and eroding support for Boris Johnson.

ft.com/content/d738d2…
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