High energy prices have cost Britain £3 trillion since 2004. That is more than the entire national debt. It has come out of your wages, your public services, your community. Every year this continues costs another £146 billion we should have had. In 2024 alone, we lost £310 billion. That is the price of doing nothing.

Urge the England football team to hold a minute silence for Henry Nowak - Sign the Petition! c.org/sRHLYLhBR4 via @UKChange Sharing this as I thought it would be a lovely gesture by the team.

.@MatthewStadlen, nobody serious condones the burning of homes or violence against innocent people. That has been said clearly and repeatedly. Peaceful mass non-compliance, sustained public anger expressed through votes, through civic pressure, through the kind of informed public argument that refuses to be silenced, would be far more effective and far more legitimate than disorder. That is the argument worth making. What you deliberately fail to address is why we are here. This didn't happen because of social media. If anything social media has given a voice to millions who were ignored, dismissed and labelled by the very people supposed to be representing them. For thirty years the political and media class controlled the terms of the debate. They decided what could be said, who could say it and what label would be applied to anyone who said the wrong thing. Social media broke that monopoly. The anger you are now describing as dangerous was always there. It was simply not permitted a platform until now. Britain was forged over a millennium. Out of invasion and resistance, reformation and revolution, industrial genius and imperial reach, two world wars and the stubborn refusal to be broken. The people who built that country, who dug its coal, staffed its factories, fought its wars and buried its dead, were never consulted about the transformation of their communities at a speed and scale that their own government now admits was too much, too quickly. When they objected they were called racist. When they persisted they were called far right. When they voted for parties that reflected their concern those parties were dismissed as extremist. The working class communities now erupting with anger are not doing so because of a website. They are doing so because their concerns were ignored for thirty years by people like you, who had the platforms, the education and the proximity to power to raise these questions honestly and chose instead to brand those raising them as bigots. The road to perdition was not paved by the people of Belfast. It was paved by the political and media class that substituted mass migration for economic reform, celebrated the transformation as diversity, prosecuted those who questioned it as racists, and is now, as the consequences arrive, reaching for the same tired accusation one more time. You are not describing a backward ideology. You are describing the consequence of your own class's choices. The difference is that the people in those streets have to live with those consequences. You do not.

Britain has the most expensive electricity in the developed world. Your energy bill has more than tripled since 2004. Because politicians made choices, over and over again, that put ideology ahead of your heating bill. The SDP published Energy Abundance last year. It explains how we got here and what it takes to fix it. Read it here - sdp.org.uk/energy_abundance

Very sad. There are many causes - such as high energy prices and Labour’s tax on jobs but there is something even bigger. In Tesco you can buy Chinese made plates which look unnerving like Denby - knock-offs effectively - at a fraction of the price. We continue to delude ourselves that ‘free trade’ is fair trade. It isn’t and the long-term costs to our society of this wanton de-industrialisation is devastating.

At the SDP, we believe that the United Kingdom should remain united. Four nations with cultures and heritages as closely connected as ours should not be divided. Long live the Union. 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Makerfield was Andy Burnham’s back up plan. For Robert Kenyon, it’s his home. This battle will be David Vs Goliath.

Can't believe the scenes in Southampton overnight. Actually I can believe them. More true to say I am deeply saddened by them. But also true to say I completely get the rage that people are feeling. As always the political and media class will focus on that rage rather than addressing the reasons for it. Just like Southport. And that is why they are detested. I await the inevitable wave of arrests, remand until trial and 24 hour courts to ram through those convictions at the direction of the PM, because he is a weak, spineless fool. Caveat... If you violently attacked the police then you should take the consequences, albeit those should not be enhanced because of political interference. Expressing anger is okay. Violence is not. Learn from Lucy Connolly. Don't plead guilty and get a good lawyer.

The media attacks are coming in thick and fast, but that won't stop us. I was born here, schooled here, and live here. Makerfield deserves to finally have a local MP.

The PEOPLES Politician Vote Rob Kenyon Makerfield. Delivering what you need, just when you need it. Reform U.K. 👍

So that’s another £500m loss in lifetime costs to the British state - all because of the dim-wittedness and dishonesty of our ruling elite.

As someone with a worm’s eye view of the legislative process, it really irritates me that Starmer’s spin for the poor local election results is that his Govt hasn’t been moving fast enough. There were 40 bills in the first parliamentary session and there are 37 in the second, as set out in yesterday’s King’s Speech. Starmer has created 96 peers – a higher rate per year than any previous Prime Minister. He could not be going any faster. The fact that the legislation the Govt has rammed through has not delivered growth or reduced the tax burden on working people or lowered the cost of living – delivered the ‘change’ that Labour promised – is because they’re not designed to do that. They’re designed to placate the Party’s ‘stakeholders’ – backbench Labour MPs, trade unions, NGOs, think tanks, lobby groups, allies in the legal profession, cheerleaders in the media, etc. It’s been bleedin’ obvious to everyone on the opposition benches – and probably some on the Govt benches too – that the legislation was introduced in the last parliamentary session – particularly the Employment Rights Act – will impede growth, not accelerate it. We’ve told the Govt’s ministers this in the chamber again and again and everything we’ve predicted would happen has happened – rising unemployment, rising inflation, accelerating borrowing costs, an unmanageable welfare bill, exodus of high income-earners, thereby increasing the tax burden on the rest of us, etc. The idea that if the Govt had been going *even faster* – which is just straightforwardly impossible – the country would be better off, is for the birds. Even as a piece of spin, it’s pathetic. The reason we’re in an economic doom spiral is because this Govt is only interested in pandering to its ‘stakeholders’ and their only motive is to line their own pockets and advance their own narrow sectional interests. Changing the leader will make no difference. We need a Prime Minister and a Govt who are going to prioritise the national interest. I don’t see anyone in the pack of hyenas stalking Starmer who’s going to do that.

1 follower away from 200... Surely there is a bot sex account out there that hasn't found me yet ? Come on sex bot accounts. Do your thing !

'We can't pretend anymore - we have to build, invest, save and grow our economy. That's the vision of the Investment State' SDP's Investment State documentary out this Sunday.

For all those people who think that our salvation lies in rejoining the EU this is the sobering news..… The truth is nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves We have to reorganise our own economy and ultimately that begins with a political project. We know that labour and the conservatives have failed and I have little to no faith that Nigel Farage will be up to the task That means we have to build an alternative The only solid foundations to build on, no matter that they are modest right now, is @SDPhq As Pete North @FUDdaily correctly pointed out yesterday the SDP start out with a serious policy making platform and we are positioned, uniquely, in the upper right hand quadrant of shared by 65% of the UK population (I.E.socially conservative, slightly left of centre economically) I’m an entrepreneur so not naturally attracted to left-wing economics, but I do not believe another dose of Thatcherism is the answer to our problems. If harnessing the state to deliver cheap electricity can be made to work I will do everything in my power to support it . If you examine the facts that is what the central electricity generating board achieved between 1945 and 1985. I only care that it works I’m not interested that it’s not in accordance with the theories of Milton Friedman or Hayek. If you’re a serious person who is seriously worried about the trajectory of our great country and you’re prepared to work hard then join the SDP and help us build a party that people positively want to vote for

It’s time we invest in growth, not stagnation. The investment state is here. 🇬🇧

He’s a lousy prime minister of no noticeable integrity or principle. Mandelson alone should have ended him. He appears to have wanted power for the sake of power. He blows like a feather in the wind, U-turning so often he must have permanent whiplash.

It’s even deeper than that. The loathing for Labour isn’t the just result of what they are doing - which is bad enough. No, people are sickened by what Labour politicians actually are - deeply unpatriotic people who put others above the British.

They still don't get it do they: 1) we want you to enforce borders 2) we want you to deport millions of illegal migrants 3) we want people to go to prison for the muslim rape gang horror 4) we want you to stop welfare state abuse 5) we want you give us back our freedom of speech 6) we want you to uphold and celebrate the historical identity of the People of these Islands; in culture, education and civic life 7) we want you stop climbing in bed with islamists at home and abroad 8) we want you to stop waste in public finances, lower taxes. 9) We want jobs and homes for British people 10) we want illegal migrants removed from our communities 11) we want you to tighten legal migration and run a system that works for the country We want you to do these things, but you will not, because your too busy calling us names for wanting these things ...and so we will destroy your party at the next general election!

Happy "if you didn't vote how I wanted you to then you're a far right nazi" day...