Simon Baynes
@baynes_simon
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Author, gardener, founder of charity Concertina - Music for the Elderly, former MP for Clwyd South and Home Office & Justice Minister.
Cranleigh, England
Joined September 2015
What an amazing result 🤩 Thanks to everyone who voted and campaigned for us 💪🏻 CON 622 (65%) LAB 108 (11%) RFM 222 (23%) Our energetic local campaign for the fantastic candidate Adam Brierley, has been truly amazing. Well done everyone on another Fylde #ConGain
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Does seem to be case the public prefer politicians who look like they enjoy the job (Johnson, Blair, Rayner, Cameron) over those who seem pained by it (Sunak, May Starmer, Reeves). May be part of boost for Badenoch is in parliament/elsewhere she now looks like she enjoys it more
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And that makes two #ConGains for Fylde Conservatives tonight on Kirkham Town Council 🙌🏻 CON 211 (65%) RFM 114 (35%) A straight fight with Reform, and a comfortable win. Huge congratulations to Julia Hesketh 🙌🏻
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Chris Mason is widely viewed across the political divide as one of the most objective journalists in Westminster. Labour’s co-ordinated attacks on him for accurately reporting how Reeves mislead the public over certain aspects of her Budget shows how utterly desperate they are.
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'A Day Indoors.' (1962) A classic Fairfield Porter picture of its period. Although a realist in subject matter he not only admired the work of Willem de Kooning, but also himself gravitated to the inherent abstraction found sometimes in interiors.
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The *UPDATED* AgentFi Landscape just dropped. Looks like I'll need to release these quarterly with how fast the tech is changing with AI agents. Agentic Finance unites autonomous agents with programmable money on DeFi protocols to create a whole new genre of finance. What we see
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Remember, Boris Johnson was ousted from the Commons because he allegedly lied about a piece of cake. Labour, especially Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, have lied about everything since they were elected. #GetStarmerOut #SackRachelReeves #GetLabourOut
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High windows. 32 Pearson Park, Hull. Philip Larkin lived in the top floor flat for 18 years, from 1955 to 1973. Most of the poems in 'The Whitsun Weddings' and 'High Windows' were written here. The windows look out onto Pearson Park with its lake and bandstand, and statue of
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Just one Labour MP, @MCSavours, voted against the Government on the Family Farm Tax… Why don’t they have the backbone to stand up to Keir Starmer? They’ve betrayed their local farmers and rural communities. They should hang their heads in shame.
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The Tories and Labour are neck and neck for the first time since the election in new @yougov poll. They're on 19% & another sign @KemiBadenoch is starting to cut through
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Smarter fashion starts here. At SHEIN’s CIGM, advanced tools and tech are changing how clothes are made, reducing waste and boosting production quality. It’s more than innovation—it’s empowering the supply chain from the inside out for better fashion.
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This Government found more money for benefits and illegal migrants. But not to get our courts sitting round the clock. So, today, David Lammy is scrapping jury trials for the vast majority of cases.
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War memorials and graves are testament to those that gave their life in the service of us all. But what did they, and so many others, do in life? When do we remember that. What prompts us to tell the next generation? The Tangmere Tower must not be lost, nor the stories of the
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Time and again Keir Starmer told us if we made him PM he’d kickstart growth and make UK fastest growing economy in G7 during the second half of the decade. He (and Reeves) have done the opposite. The last Tory Budget was March 2024 when the OBR forecast the economy would be 9%
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I will always be madly in love with the wholesome artwork from the old 'Ladybird Books' that depict England at its most beautiful.
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Prop trading isn’t just about charts and setups. It’s a mental game. You’re balancing profit targets, drawdowns, and emotions while trying to stay consistent under pressure. The real edge comes from mastering your mindset. Let’s dig into the psychology of prop trading and how to
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Five years ago Jamie Dimon, boss of JP Morgan Chase, world’s biggest bank, lamented Brexit and said he was looking to move the bank’s European operations out of London. This week he’s announced a new £3bn office tower in Canary Wharf for 12,000 staff.
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BREAKING: New @LordAPolls Westminster poll continues the trend of Reform DOWN and Conservatives UP. Now Conservatives are in second place just 6% behind Reform with Labour tied with the Greens in equal third place: Ref: 26% (-2) Cons: 20% (+2) Grn: 18% (+1) Lab: 18% (-) LD:
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2029 is everything to play for. Yet more evidence of Reform’s poll lead decline, and Tory revival ⬇️
📊 NEW | Reform lead by 6pts ‼️ Greens tied with Labour ➡️ REF – 26% (-2) 🔵 CON – 20% (+2) 🟢 GRN – 18% (+1) 🔴 LAB – 18% (-) 🟠 LD – 11% (-) Via @LordAPolls, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs 20 Oct)
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Movement…
📊 NEW | Reform lead by 6pts ‼️ Greens tied with Labour ➡️ REF – 26% (-2) 🔵 CON – 20% (+2) 🟢 GRN – 18% (+1) 🔴 LAB – 18% (-) 🟠 LD – 11% (-) Via @LordAPolls, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs 20 Oct)
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Jeremy Hunt on how his ancestor George Ward Hunt – a fellow Chancellor of the Exchequer – invented a key Treasury tradition in 1868: “He delivered one budget but forgot his speech and had to dash back to Number 11 to fetch it. MPs were furious. His successor held up the red box
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Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet ministers from the 1980's. Of course, not all of these men, or indeed the great lady herself, were perfect. But compared to the clowns 🤡 running the show today, Britain was certainly in better hands.
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