Alex Green

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Immigration Minister Mike Tapp has called for a new law forcing a general election if a party forces out its leader

"That would stop the constant churn and focus all politicians on delivery, instead of workplace politics. The country would benefit"

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

@SarahForRuncorn Difficult to articulate just how stupid this is from an MP. Rather than putting the responsibility for domestic abuse onto England's footballers, how about telling domestic abusers not to be domestic abusers?

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

>renames it to the Department of War
>names himself the Secretary of War
>fights one war
>loses

[Monty3812 @monty3812]

@VintageMrHobbes Most of what’s left of our armed forces is undeployable, but a declaration of war against the French is the national duty.

[JamesFennell MBE @FennellJW]

Allegations that the frigate opened fire on a yacht. If anyone remains under the illusion that we are not under threat or close to war, this should end that fantasy.

[WuffJustice @WuffJustice]

@Tony_Diver Bullshit…..so we send a cameraman down the ladders first…..to film the search team with guns up? Pahahahah…we’re being gaslit. Performative nonsense on the week Starmer lost his defence term and narrative

[Tim L-G🇺🇦 @IntercityFC]

DIP will become known as ‘Didn’t Invest Properly’.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Really what we’ve seen with the Defence Investment Plan is a failure to make a choice. This is why. The UK is committed to four major defence projects:

• Renewing our nuclear force
• Meeting our NATO commitments
• The AUKUS submarine project with 🇺🇸🇦🇺
• The new GCAP fighter jet with 🇯🇵🇮🇹

You cannot afford that at current spend. You either need to drop one or move up to 2.5% GDP rapidly to keep up. It you don’t want to drop one — with all the diplomatic pain and security exposure that comes with it — you have to decide how to fund it and there are only two options:

• Borrowing hitting future taxpayers
• New taxes hitting current taxpayers

But 2.5% of GDP is not even the sum necessary for war readiness rearmament — all those drone, AI, equipment and manpower upgrades — which is at a minimum 3% and probably closer yo 3.5%.

What went wrong is the Strategic Defence Review said yes to all four projects, the government then adopted the rhetoric and diplomatic posture of war readiness rearmament but failed to make a decision on how to pay for all this — costing us merely one Defence Secretary, one Armed Forces Minister and the government’s credibility when it comes to defence.

And that’s before a serious attempt has even been made to build a totally new procurement and delivery process to confront the fact the MoD is the Ministry of Armed HS2s, highly unlikely to deliver rearmament without insane overspend.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

Britain spent a decade choosing to be smaller in the world.

Right now the rules on communications, energy and trade are being rewritten. By China. By Russia. By countries that take their own security seriously. We need to be at that table. That's a choice we must make.

Strong countries get cheap energy. Weak countries pay whatever the strong ones decide.

[Alex Green @AlexGreenbiking]

@RoworthJack This is just regular training!

[DefenceGeek 🇬🇧 @DefenceGeek]

The second major MoD resignation today and notable for a few reasons. Al Carns left military service and a career that would quite likely have resulted in promotion to high rank to stand as an MP and help Labour's defence and veterans policy.

With both him and Healey gone, we know the DIP is going to be yet another failure for the Starmer government, and a time-sensitive one at that.

The UK will be woefully unprepared for conflict at home or overseas - NATO's warning about Russia in 2030, the risk of China's invasion of Taiwan before then, and ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East - the UK will struggle to play a major part.

How has a permanent member of the UN Security Council let it get to this... I despair...

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Given the ridiculous volume of Prime Ministers that Britain’s endured in recent years, I think it should now be law that if a PM quits or is forced out during his/her term, it automatically triggers a new general election. That might concentrate their minds to do a better job.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

We told you to vote Reform to get Starmer out.

And thanks to you, voting for us, Starmer is now gone.

This is the victory Reform will now claim. Legitimising this campaign, and their message.

Victory will be Farage’s.

[SnoopDeg @SnoopDegB]

If Zack Polanski ever kicked a terrorist in the head, he'd break his ankle and dislocate his knee.

[Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk]

Watch as police officers confront a man suspected of carrying out a terrorist attack in north London where two men were stabbed.

The suspect refused to show his hands, was violent and continued to pose a clear threat. Using only their training, courage and tasers, they detained him while he continued to try to attack and stab them. This took true courage.

[Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk]

Our brave officers confronted a man they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat. Using only their training, courage and tasers, they detained him while he continued to try to attack and stab them. This took true courage.

[Alex Green @AlexGreenbiking]

@tylerbw1108 @HoggcastM @adje__ @Kieren_MUFC Police can do whatever they feel is necessary to end a threat (especially if it’s a lethal one) as long as they can justify their use of force

[Orm @orm0nde]

Average British Commando on “The Malvinas” in 1982:

[Richard @RedWallPleb]

@PolitlcsUK "I've never seen him threaten genocide"

He's threatened to use nukes multiple times and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians.

Polanski and the Greens are dangerous.

[SPFL Mediawatch @SPFLWatch]

“Illegal to drink in public”
“Illegal to walk to the stadium”
“100$ for a train to the ground”

“Land of the Free”