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@johnredwood "Margaret Thatcher taught government to stop borrowing and taxing too much. She delivered growth wider ownership and prosperity. Rachel Reeves should learn from her"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-13T04:35Z 235.6K followers, 26.4K engagements

"69% of our electricity today from burning gas and X% burning wood. Where are renewables when you need them No wonder our electricity is so dear as we need to support so much back up for dear wind power"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-17T05:56Z 235.6K followers, 5044 engagements

"When we privatised the main utilities we kept Golden shares to stop foreign takeovers. Tony Blair and the EU cancelled these shares leading to foreign takeovers with predictable bad results"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-12T04:03Z 235.6K followers, 34.9K engagements

"August government borrowing surges to XX bn with spending up XXX% on last year well over budget forecasts. August capital gains tax inheritance tax and self employed income tax down on August 2024 after tax hikes"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-09-19T06:36Z 235.6K followers, 23.5K engagements

"The Chancellors big deficit is the result of failure to control spending. Pay awards with no productivity deals; Chagos give away; surge in sick notes for life; rising unemployment; big losses by Bank of England British Steel and railways;big rise in illegal migrants etc"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-17T04:37Z 235.6K followers, 6086 engagements

"Will the PM and Mr Miliband rule out flying to Brazil for COP XX to lecture everyone else to fly less Join the meeting on line and save taxpayers the costs of double standards"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-15T04:58Z 235.6K followers, 16.7K engagements

"The poundEuro and yen have all fallen this year against the dollar as US interest rates are higher attracting deposits. The U.K. also imports too much giving us a need to sell pounds to buy foreign currency for goods. We need to grow and make more at home to cut the deficit"
X Link @johnredwood 2022-09-24T04:54Z 235.6K followers, 4427 engagements

"Removing Stamp Duty would stimulate housebuilding. Cutting public spending would help bring down the UKs high longer term interest rates. The government needs to do this to get anywhere near its XXX million new homes pledge"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-09T05:12Z 235.5K followers, 4604 engagements

"The XXX th anniversary of Margaret Thatchers birth is a good day to remember what success lower taxes more free enterprise and personal responsibility brought our country"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-13T04:47Z 235.6K followers, 32.6K engagements

"The Unite Union is right to call government energy policy a disaster. Energy prices go up again whilst an important refinery closes. UK net zero extremism is destroying jobs here whilst boosting world CO 2"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-01T07:14Z 235.6K followers, 8654 engagements

"Government to take British heroes off bank notes.Would they be happier with pictures of Von der Leyen as EU gets back powers over us With PM of Mauritius for kindly taking Chagos and our money President Macron for offering to help with the small boats"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-07-05T04:54Z 235.6K followers, 17.8K engagements

"UK government finances would be in an even worse state without Brexit. Government is much better off with no annual membership payments and no liability for the huge extra EU borrowing. We can spend all the customs dues plastics tax and other money we had to pay away to the EU"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-08T05:16Z 235.6K followers, 7377 engagements

"What did the PM achieve by flying to Egypt Will he now spend more time at home tackling the excessive borrowing and the surge in illegal migration"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-15T05:05Z 235.6K followers, 13.4K engagements

"Has the Chancellor got a list of wasteful and less desirable spending to cut How much will the Bank of England lose next year sending taxpayers the bill When will she spell out the costs of steel losses and of rail nationalisation"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-15T05:01Z 235.6K followers, 3878 engagements

"People and media saying we need tax reform. Yes we have too many taxes and taxes that are too high. Try cutting them and spending less"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-18T04:40Z 235.6K followers, 4010 engagements

"BBC Commercial should raise new share capital from the London stock market for its non UK business. It needs more investment money to commission new materials and to improve its digital marketing and delivery for existing product"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-10T05:33Z 235.6K followers, 3623 engagements

"The government needs to go for much cheaper energy. Instead its net zero policies give us the dearest energy closing far too many of our factories and energy using businesses"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-16T06:20Z 235.6K followers, 5015 engagements

"The UK finances are undermined by a lack of government spending control; the runaway granting of benefits for life to people who could be helped into work the excessive costs of net zero policy and illegal migration the productivity collapse in the public sector"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-08T05:11Z 235.6K followers, 4062 engagements

"The Conservative blueprint to restore UK sovereignty and control over our borders should be taken up by the government. Great democracies like the US and Australia do not belong to the European human rights system but they also respect human rights and freedoms"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-07T05:38Z 235.6K followers, 4633 engagements

"The SNP pretend to want independence yet they want to keep the King to use the pound as their currency and submit themselves to EU lawmaking. That is dependence. Their elected MSPs would have less power to make laws and decisions than today"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-14T04:53Z 235.5K followers, 5508 engagements

"Great news there is more oil and gas in the UK North Sea. Just get it out to bring more tax revenue and less world CO X as it replaces imported LNG"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-18T04:38Z 235.6K followers, 27.1K engagements

"Unemployment up again to XXX% from XXX% at the time of 2024 election. The predictable result of the Jobs tax the extra taxes on business and runaway public sector costs"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-14T09:32Z 235.5K followers, 9265 engagements

"It is easy to start getting public service productivity back up to 2019 levels. Stop external recruiting other than medics teachers and uniformed personnel. Promote internally and rationalise jobs"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-06T09:47Z 235.5K followers, 4180 engagements

"Far from Brexit causing the UK budget problems it has greatly reduced our deficit. If we were still in the EU our annual charge would be at least X% of GNI or XX bn. We would have to give to the EU X bn of customs dues and 1bn of Plastics tax. How would we pay for all that"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-17T04:38Z 235.6K followers, 8626 engagements

"The government needs to get productivity up to get rid of the hole in its finances. Start by urgently getting public sector productivity up to 2019 levels after the collapse. That means an immediate recruitment ban apart from medics teachers and uniformed personnel"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-16T06:18Z 235.6K followers, 3808 engagements

"Is there a Council that will manage without a Council tax rise next year to ease cost of living pressures Too many Councils love wasting our money on schemes to worsen our roads and on excessive bureaucracy"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-18T04:43Z 235.6K followers, 3412 engagements

"The OBR forecast of XXXX% less productivity growth over XX years from Brexit hitting our trade is wrong. For X years since 2016 our total trade has grown strongly led by dominant services. The idea we have lost X% GDP from Brexit is untrue"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-16T06:14Z 235.6K followers, 12.7K engagements

"Rachel Reeves says she has not heard alternatives to her approach to the economy. She should read Mel Stride today in @Telegraph setting out how to cut spending and relieve the extreme taxes on business and young people"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-13T04:39Z 235.6K followers, 5447 engagements

"When will the government restore public sector productivity to 2019 levels Why the long delay The losses of productivity are costing us more than the tax rises of the last budget"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-10T05:12Z 235.5K followers, 4706 engagements

"The Bank of England bought bonds at the top of a bubble in prices they inflated. They are now selling them at huge losses making them one of worlds worst bond traders. They should not issue share market forecasts when they need to run their own portfolio better"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-12T04:03Z 235.6K followers, 18.9K engagements

"The new digital ID system is a disaster in search of an excuse to introduce it. It will not stop a single illegal worker as they already ignore the need to provide a National Insurance number and dodge paying tax"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-14T04:47Z 235.6K followers, 26K engagements

"Glad government wants to get energy prices down after the big rises so far. Electricity is so dear thanks to the very high costs of renewables with all the extra grid and back up they need. Gas is cheaper"
X Link @johnredwood 2025-10-17T04:35Z 235.6K followers, 3318 engagements