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Lord’s and Common’s Cricket fixture against the Lashing’s XI

September 9, 2013 0 Comments

Mr Redwood participating in the game against Lashings All Stars in Maidenhead on Sunday 1 September 2013.

September 9, 2013 0 Comments

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John Redwood@johnredwood1h

The government is going to ban some cheaper and popular home heating systems and wants to cut use of heaters. Welcome to cold over regulated Britain where EU alignment will put up the cost of living. Net zero policy closes factories, costs us jobs and now wants colder homes.

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John Redwood@johnredwood1h

The Channel tunnel has been hit by a 200% increase in UK rates, so it is cancelling plans to invest in better freight services. I thought the government wanted us to be closer to the EU and do more trade with them. Once again its self harming tax policies get in the way.

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John Redwood@johnredwood1h

The government that cannot find more money for defence announces more cash for bike lanes, for the rip off Erasmus student scheme, subsidies to employ workers from abroad and for France to fail to stop the boats. Why?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 12

@_antstevens The infrastructure has been nationalised for many years!

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 12

The costs of social security are out of control so the government short changes national security.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 12

The PM’s cost of living champion thinks the answer to the pressures on budgets is to cut future pension increases. It just shows how far from the realities of living on a low pension they are. People pay in for all their working lives only to find everything is dear.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 12

Why has the government not published the Defence Investment Plan, as the outgoing Defence Secretary has revealed its key numbers? The new Defence Secretary must have signed up to the Plan as otherwise the PM would have offered more money to prevent the resignation.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 12

Why do Northern trains with fully nationalised services have such poor punctuality performances, well below many privatised train operators?

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↻Brexit Facts4EU.Org@Facts4euOrgJun 11

Essential reading from @GBNEWS based on our report overnight. Please read and please re-post! ...

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 11

The Defence Secretary was right to ask for more money. The Chancellor was right to challenge that. The PM should have got them to agree a sufficient increase to defend us which both could accept.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 11

What a shambles. We were right to press to see the budget for defence so our industries could get on with making and supplying the equipment they need. Instead we saw a Defence Secretary decommissioning ships and running down our forces against his wishes.

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↻Brexit Facts4EU.Org@Facts4euOrgJun 11

‘Diversity, Equality, EX-clusion’ The shocking facts of how Whitehall’s plans will kill off a living national treasure, with us for 3,500 years, IRREVERSIBLY. Plus, what readers can do to prevent this tragedy. Summary: ... Pls re-post! ...

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 11

As it dithers over how to pay for the new defence programmes needed the government also needs to answer why it gets so little for the £62 bn it is spending this year. Why have Ministers decommissioned so many ships? Why did they withdraw the navy from the Middle East?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 11

Net zero zealotry wants to be rid of many of our grazing animals. See my comments on @facts4eu and @GBNews on this attack on our farms and wild ponies.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 11

Yesterday in the Lords I forecast the government will not hit its target of 1.5 million new homes. No government supporter or Minister disagreed. When will there be actions to help people buy a home and get a job to afford the mortgage?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 10

The high taxes imposed by this government have slashed new jobs and closed farms and factories.Then they offer some subsidies to try to ease the problems. This is destructive, imposing double costs on taxpayers to collect the money in then to give some back.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 10

The government’s delay with its defence budget is alarming. Talk of more cuts in the new ships and planes needed. No talk of cutting welfare spending by getting people back to work to pay for national security.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 9

... is running their interview with me on populism and conservatism.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 9

Given the continuing inability of Iran and the US to re open sea lanes for commerce, what plans does the UK government have to help secure reliable supplies of fertiliser and oil products? Why no plans to produce more at home?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 9

When will the PM contact President Putin to get Ukraine talks started? Or was the meeting at Downing Street just for show with no follow up?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 9

Why did the PM U turn from wanting Ukraine to fight on to expel Russia, to wanting Ukraine to make concessions to negotiate a peace? What is the PM going to do to help get a peace deal?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 8

@Joe_Valachi777 I do not express support for candidates in foreign elections. I offer advice on how the UK can respond to the leaders other countries choose.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 8

The Archbishop wants to regulate AI more without saying how. All our laws against harms like fraud, theft, libel, hate speech, incitement to violence, and sexual abuse already apply to doing these things by computer.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 8

What is the UK getting from EU re set for the damaging sacrifice of money and lawmaking to Brussels? Making it easier to import more will close more of our factories and farms, adding to the huge costly goods trade deficit we already run with them.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 8

The PM should ring President Trump and tell him the Chagos islands are not for sale. The UK is keeping them.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 7

@peacey2010 Not so. Foreign companies were prepared to invest in our oil and gas where the state and UK companies did not.They paid us huge taxes to do so.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 7

The latest poll showing more than twice as many people oppose giving more powers and money to the EU than support it should lead the government to drop their ill conceived and potentially damaging re set. They offer too many concessions for no wins.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 7

The government says our energy prices are dictated by a world market oil and gas price. So why is our energy around 4 times the price of US and 3 times China?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 7

Rumours that the government will concede a deep discounted fee for EU students attending UK universities. How would universities make up for the big loss of revenue?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 6

Good to see the public decisively rejects surrendering powers to make laws and taxes to EU, with 59% against and just 27% in favour. See @BritainUnbound and @Telegraph .The EU re set is a very bad deal which will not promote growth.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 6

If the government is now keen for farmers to grow and sell more food they should start with the home market, where there is plenty of scope to sell more. That cuts the food miles with all those transport emissions. Change policy and subsidies to support home food growing.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 6

The farming industry says signing up to EU food rules could cost £800 m just for the transition, along with restrictions on innovation and research. More government damage to our farms.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 5

The government is watering down its promise of more state teachers. It is discovering its VAT move has landed it with a big bill as pupils transfer to state schools.Some private schools have to close, sacking their staff.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 5

In the Lords debate we told the government high UK energy prices are helping destroy industry with many closures and job losses.High taxes, emissions trading and the need to pay for back up to unreliable renewables are all damaging policies the government can change.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 5

The government complains that dear gas gives us dear electricity. They can stop that by removing their huge carbon taxes on gas. They also make gas power dearer and less fuel efficient by switching it on and off as and when the wind changes.

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Excellent comments from @johnredwood in this report. You can read these here: ... or in the @GBNEWS version here: ... We recommend both versions! And pls re-post! ...

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 4

Every time something goes wrong with public services the government tries to avoid blame, announcing a review. It says it cannot say anything before seeing the review. They are running these services so they should know what went wrong and should respond faster to disaster.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 4

So the government’s answer to water shortages is a new Water Regulator. Getting on with building new reservoirs would be a better idea. Why not get the present Regulator to do their job? Why do we keep adding to the population without adding more water resource?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 4

Why does the government stop the flow of tax that would come from more UK oil and gas production, so we have to pay huge taxes instead to foreign countries for imports? @Facts4euOrg today sets out this huge self harm. There’s more than £200 bn awaiting a sensible government.

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↻Brexit Facts4EU.Org@Facts4euOrgJun 4

Our Brexit Facts4EU Net Zero madness report is the top politics story on GB News! Please click and re-tweet it! ...

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 3

I asked the government yesterday how many jobs will be lost in steel using industries in the UK as a result of the high steel tariffs being imposed. No answer. Did they not think about that, or is it too worrying to say?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 3

Yesterday in the Lords I pointed out the Impact statement for the government’s civil aviation bill says no financial benefits from it over the next three years. Another missed opportunity to boost growth of an important industry.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 3

Why did the government publish so many nearly blank and uninformative pages in its response on Mandelson? Waste of much of the money and paper when we need to see the key exchanges with the PM over the appointment and checks.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 2

Labour’s Housing Bill sets out to stop people buying their social rented home, or to make it dearer to do so. Why this attack on people’s security and wish to reach retirement without rent bills?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 2

Why did the government publish so many nearly blank pages in its Mandelson papers? Why so many messages or exchanges with most of the content removed?

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 2

Glad to see some people in government are critical of just looking for more ways to tax people in order to pay more benefits. Pity that remains government policy.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 1

My new book “Who’s right? “ sets out conservative values and policies for today and looks at populist parties on both sides of Atlantic. ( Bite-sized Books, available on Amazon)

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 1

@Kemi Badenoch’s reply to Tony Blair is brilliant. The government needs to radically change its hostile treatment of the job and wealth creators who pay the bills. It needs to cut its damaging interventions especially on energy and reduce its bloated benefits bill.

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John Redwood@johnredwoodJun 1

Nationalising the railways will not end delays and cancellations. A majority of these were caused by nationalised Network Rail pre full nationalisation. There will be huge costs and losses sent to taxpayers.

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