Conservative, West Sussex. Regeneration, Health, Education. Pharmacist.
Worthing, England
Joined December 2009
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Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
@KemiBadenoch @kevinhollinrake @DamianHinds @alexburghart @HuddlestonNigel @BobBlackman @amgalojan @DBTInvestment @DrAshrafChohan @danielmgmoylan @Conservatives @Matt_VickersMP @RicHolden
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
My Remembrance Day tribute tinyurl.com/85k2fyw2
When you go home
Tell them of us, and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
We Will Remember Them.
Today, we honour the courage, sacrifice and selflessness of those who gave their lives for the freedoms we hold dear.
Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. Their legacy lives on.
Lest We Forget.
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
If @KemiBadenoch was on the left, we would be inundated by broadcasters with profiles of her courage and character in overcoming racist barriers. But she's not so we aren't.
Instead we can simply admire her as a human being.
"It’s this self-assured demeanour that many mistake for arrogance, or in some cases aggression. That, combined with her quick-wittedness and sharp tongue, makes her a formidable opponent, as we have seen time and again at the despatch box. The slightest chink in an opponent’s armour, and she strikes with deadly precision."
SARAH VINE: The unscripted moment Kemi proved to me that she really IS a woman of substance... and the only politician worthy of No 10 trib.al/OsJV26y
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Labour won’t reform welfare. They’ll just make you pay for it.
John Healey has announced that he is abandoning Labour’s small crackdown on welfare fraud…
It would have meant simple open banking checks to make sure claimants are eligible. Not much different from the checks faced by anyone applying for a mortgage, renting a property or taking out a credit card.
Healey’s decision is estimated to cost £10 million next year because of an increase in fraudulent claims.
At the same time, Labour are giving HMRC new powers to raid the bank accounts of hard-working people, potentially emptying them, leaving nothing to pay the bills.
They’ll even have the power to take money directly from a couple’s joint bank account to pay off just one partner’s debts.
If taxpayers can have money taken from them under the threat of being thrown into one of our overcrowded prisons, why on earth shouldn’t welfare claimants face the same?
Of course, we should put £10 million into context. We are estimated to spend almost FIFTEEN THOUSAND TIMES that amount on debt interest alone.
That’s not the point. It is two-tier treatment of taxpayers and welfare claimants. And it exposes just how utterly unserious Labour are about meaningful welfare reform.
When Keir Starmer attempted some small reforms – which were not enough – Labour MPs staged a full-blown rebellion, determined to keep handing over more and more taxpayers’ cash to people who can and should work.
The day after the Budget, Chancellor Healey went on the BBC to claim that the benefits bill would be cut before the next election, only for his army of Treasury and Labour Party spinners to be forced to clarify that it wouldn’t happen.
Welfare reform is more urgent than ever. Working-age welfare spending is set to increase by £57.7 billion under Labour’s plan.
That’s more than £2,500 for every working-age household.
As Chancellor, I would make very different choices.
We Conservatives will cut the welfare bill by £36 billion. We’ll reintroduce the two-child benefit cap, reform Housing Benefit, the Disability Living Allowance and sickness and disability benefits, and more.
Welfare is a safety net, not an entitlement. It is paid for by hard-working taxpayers.
If you can work, you should work.
Every time Labour ducks welfare reform, hard-working taxpayers are left picking up the tab.
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
The much-vaunted Milburn review on welfare reform was kicked past the Budget. Now we know why - it comes with a £6bn price tag.
Labour’s plan to control public spending is to spend more.
How is this all going to be paid for?
People were told Labour's tax rises would fund better public services but if they don't get a grip on welfare, Labour will end up having cuts forced on them instead.
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Dear @Ed_Miliband Why don't you ask Hamas why they used all the drainage pipes that could have alleviated the flooding to build rocket launchers to fire deadly missiles at Israel? You forgot all about that didn't you? And Hamas is still in charge in Gaza so could sort this out
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
the uk government's plan for growth, as far as i can tell:
> punish people who start businesses
> punish people who provide homes to rent
> punish people who earn over £100k
> punish people who buy nice houses
> write to people who build wealth asking what they own
then hold a review into why nothing is growing.
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
The Secretary of State for Education can't spell, 'GCSE'.
As part of our once in a generation reforms to the curriculum, Key Stage 3 will get the focus it needs to be engaging, exciting, and richer so that more children participate and progress.
To do this, schools should not routinely bring forward GSCE content and options into this important and distinct part of a child’s education.
thetimes.com/uk/education/ar…
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Amazing that Burnham is so lacking in vision that he has to ask management consultants what his own vision is
Interesting that parts of the 10 year plan are being outsourced to Boston Consulting Group, where James Purnell used to work.
Story by @KatieTarrant_
thetimes.com/article/8a202a0…
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Healey scraps welfare fraud crackdown as Labour’s benefits bill spirals towards £431 billion conservativepost.co.uk/heale…
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
So the Chancellor John Healey and the Labour government will scrap crackdowns on welfare fraud, but at the same time, allow HMRC to get access to raid taxpayers’ bank accounts.
Soft on the benefit fraudsters. Hard on those who fund them.
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Always trust @UKLabour politicians with your money 🤡🌎
Labour politicians put £68m of pensioners’ cash into energy firm that built no wind farms but gave its directors a £58m payout #Labournomics
thetimes.com/business/energy…
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
Rother:
Cllr Jimmy Stanger, a Liberal Democrat councillor for Bexhill St Marks, has left the party and defected to the Conservatives.
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
@Katie_Lam_MP is a breath of fresh air visiting #essex today who’s going to blow @reformparty_uk out of local office.
I bet @Nigel_Farage secretly wishes he had just a fraction of the talent that @Conservatives have got 😉
And women are Conservative leaders! Not *because* they’re female, it’s because they’re effective. Take note Nigel.
ALT Cllr Sara Naylor, deputy leader of the opposition at Essex County Council, and Katie Lam MP, shadow local government secretary in Essex
Bryan Turner 🏴🇬🇧 retweeted
🖤 A Black Day For Remembrance Weekend
This weekend, something has shifted — and not for the better.
For over a century, the red poppy has stood alone. It is the universal, unchanging symbol of Remembrance. When blood ran on Flanders Fields, on the Somme, on the beaches of Normandy, in the mud of Korea, the dust of Helmand — it was one colour only: red. It represents the sacrifice of every man and woman who served, regardless of background, creed, or cause. It binds us together in grief and gratitude, above all division.
Yet now we see black poppies laid alongside them — presented not as a personal tribute, but as a public statement, each bearing labels: "Ethnic Minority Veterans Support Network", "Black History Wales 365", "Muslim Council of Wales".
Let me be clear: the service and sacrifice of all veterans, from every community, deserves equal honour. No one disputes that. Those who wore the Monarch’s uniform did so side by side, under one flag, answering one call. Their service is indivisible. Their memory should be too.
But Remembrance Sunday is not a platform for identity politics. It is the one sacred day in the veteran’s calendar when we do not ask who they were — only that they were there, and many did not come home. To fragment our act of Remembrance along cultural or community lines is not inclusion — it is division. It politicises silence. It breaks the single thread that should bind all our tributes into one.
If we truly value the contribution of minority veterans, we should recognise them within our shared act of Remembrance — not carve them out into separate wreaths, separate symbols, separate narratives. The red poppy already belongs to them. It always has. It was there for them on the battlefield; it should be there for them at the memorial.
When we lay different colours at the Cenotaph, we do not celebrate difference — we dilute the meaning of the one symbol that transcends it. The blood that was shed was not black or white or brown. It was red. And that red should be enough for all of us.
Lest we forget — lest we become the generation that remembers everything except unity.
