Arron Saeed

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨Important Announcement: Puberty Blockers Judicial Review🚨

Following months of radio silence, I’m saddened to report that the government has announced that it is pushing forward with the puberty blockers trial, regardless of the significant ethical concerns raised that led to the temporary pause.

Most troubling of all is that they are now refusing to halt recruitment of children until the end of the Judicial Review that we are bringing.

As such, we have no choice but to seek an emergency injunction to block a single child being recruited and given this poison. There will be a hearing at the end of July to determine this.

Please rest assured that I and the entire team will be pursuing this Judicial Review all the way.

@jamesmurray_ldn - Just as with your predecessor, Wes Streeting, we implore you to do the right thing and pull the plug on this monstrosity of a trial. If you don’t, we will see you in Court.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

A welcoming present just out this morning for a Mr A Burnham to underline just how limited his latitude as PM will be:
The UK government borrowed £23.3 billion last month, 30 per cent or £5.4 billion higher than a year earlier.
It was also more than the £18.8 billion expected by most economists and the £17.7 billion forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK’s independent fiscal watchdog.
 The interest payable on government debt rose to £11.7 billion, the highest ever recorded in any May.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Taking down WPATH would be the gender critical Battle of Stalingrad.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

But you already did negotiate women’s rights away by allowing men to be women. It’s you who thought no one would come for the other rights too, not us.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Complete silence from the BBC on our rape gang inquiry report.

A truly despicable organisation.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Oxfordshire County Council has become the first council to start a legal battle to ban residents from raising flags.

The reason given is that it makes ethnic minorities feel "intimidated."

The LibDems don’t speak for me. Keep Raising the Colours everywhere!

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

I was pleased to speak in Parliament today on the topic of Sharia councils and how they are used to oppress, exploit and abuse Muslim women.

Britain is the "Western capital" of Sharia councils and helps set up councils in other countries.

60%-80% of Muslim marriages in the UK are sharia-only marriages, with no British civil registration (and thus no protection for the wives, who can be quickly divorced and left penniless by the husband, who also has priority over custody of the children).

This is far higher than anywhere in the Western world.

Far too little is known about how some of these completely unregulated councils are led by extremists and Islamists.

Some councils condone wife beating, ignore sexual and honour based violence, and allow forced, child and cousin marriage - and can deny mothers access to their children. And that's just the start!

Sharia law and councils have no place in Britain or any advanced Western nation.

Around 50 in attendance today including MPs, Peers and other notable figures such as Sir William Shawcross who led the critical review into the Government's "Prevent" programme.

Thank you to the Women's Policy Centre & Paola Diana for inviting me and to Sarah Pochin MP for hosting.

Brilliant speeches from Dr. Anna Loutfi, Camilla Tominey and Khadija Khan.

[Young Bob @YoungBobRB]

Attacked in Manchester for defending nationalism and remigration.

After the vicious attack in Manchester, I was able to retrieve some of the footage from the debate stand from a few minutes before the attack.

The woman who you now see throwing water at me is now in police custody.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 FSU Victory!!

The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on “anti-Muslim hostility”.

The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam.

Under this guidance, criticism of Islam could have been recorded as an anti-social behaviour incident and potentially appeared on DBS checks, affecting someone’s ability to work as a teacher, carer, or in other regulated professions.

South Wales Police has backed down because the Free Speech Union threatened them with a judicial review if it chose to press ahead with the policy.

The force has described this move as a “pause” to the guidance — but we think it is highly unlikely to return.

We must also thank Shadow Equalities Minister @ClaireCoutinho for referring South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after we brought this issue to her attention.

Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament 18 years ago. We must not allow them to return through the back door.

Let this be a warning to any other public body — particularly police forces — considering the adoption of its own blasphemy laws.

Watch Lord Young below 👇

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Young Bob @YoungBobRB]

This is absolute nonsense and the same stunt that got Henry Nowak killed, claiming racism after a gang of foreigners attacked you.

It's what I've come to expect from Britain.

I will happily invoke everything, my mother's life, and God in saying that I did not racially abuse and attack a girl, because it is ungentlemanly and un-British.

[Arron Saeed @ArronSaeed]

@Bushra1Shaikh @YoungBobRB Bushra you clearly haven’t seen the video of the whole attack. Young Bob didn’t push anyone. You then play the race card (as did Digwa) as if somehow that justifies a gang attacking Young Bob. No evidence, race baiting, disgusting.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Coleman Hughes is the exact opposite to the hacks I just mentioned. Bravely addressing the world as it is, not as he imagines or wants it to be.

[Conversations with Coleman @ConvoswColeman]

.@coldxman: “There’s only one religion in the world where, if I slandered its deepest sacred principles right now on this podcast, my whole life would change and I would have to hire security.”

Watch the full episode with @Coldxman and @PeterBeinart now: https://t.co/g2WVscTlXC

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, continues to call for greater intervention and regulation of social media platforms that highlight rising crime in the capital.

Khan has claimed that London has been subjected to a “relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred” on social media. He now argues that online “misinformation” is deterring tourists from visiting the city.

Yet Home Office data show that there were nearly 100,000 thefts or attempted thefts in London last year, compared with around 45,000 in 2019.

Rather than trying to shut down criticism and debate, or blaming social media for London’s problems, the Mayor should focus on tackling rising crime and making the case for his own policies.

More open discussion is not the problem. It is part of the solution.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

An Iraqi Too Westernised to Deport. A Nigerian Too Possessed. An Albanian Not Extreme Enough. This Is the System Philp Wants to Dismantle.

Chris Philp announced something this week that deserves more attention than it has received. Leave the ECHR. Repeal the Human Rights Act. Abolish the immigration tribunal system entirely. Replace it with Home Office decisions subject to a quick internal appeal. The only remaining route to court would be judicial review on a single ground, that the government had acted outside its legal powers. Philp estimates this would remove 98 percent of immigration cases from the courts.

Judge the policy on its own terms, because the cases Philp cites are real and devastating. An Iraqi drug dealer avoided deportation because a judge ruled he had become too Westernised to safely return. A Nigerian armed robber assessed as presenting a high risk of serious harm to the public won his appeal because mental healthcare in Nigeria was deemed inadequate and he might be considered possessed there. An Albanian burglar with 50 convictions was allowed to stay because a judge decided his offending was not very extreme. These are not edge cases. 93 percent of small boat arrivals whose claims are decided are permitted to stay. Only 12,000 failed asylum seekers were removed last year against 80,000 rejected applications. Twenty thousand foreign criminals who should be deported by law remain in Britain.

Philp's diagnosis is correct. The problem is not that Parliament has failed to legislate. It is that whatever Parliament legislates, ECHR jurisprudence and a tribunal system staffed in part by judges with documented backgrounds in open-borders advocacy will find a way to reach the same outcome.
Shabana Mahmood's reforms, restricting Article 8 to immediate family, a 28 week appeal limit, a single appeals body, operate entirely within that framework. Philp's point, that Labour is tinkering, is hard to dispute when the tinkering leaves intact the legal architecture that produced the Iraqi, the Nigerian and the Albanian rulings in the first place.

Reform's own proposals go further in one respect, an outright bar on asylum claims for anyone arriving illegally. On the core mechanism, removing the courts from the centre of immigration policy and returning the decision to elected ministers, the two parties are not describing different destinations. They are describing the same destination by routes that converge.

Which is why the silence around this announcement is worth examining. A policy this radical, more radical in its institutional implications than anything Labour has proposed, has been almost entirely absorbed into the noise of Belfast, Makerfield and the social media ban. The government's response, that this is far too late and that Labour has already announced a system addressing this, is not really a rebuttal of the policy. It is a rebuttal of the messenger, and it works because it's not wrong about the messenger. The Conservatives had 14 years and the Boriswave happened on their watch, with Philp himself serving as a minister inside that government.

That history is real and it matters. But it doesn't make the policy wrong, and the people most likely to privately agree with it, Reform voters who have spent years insisting the Conservatives are part of the problem, are the least able to say so without seeming to concede the argument that got them to Reform in the first place. That's not a comment on the policy. It's a comment on how thoroughly trust has collapsed, to the point where the right answer and the credible messenger for it currently belong to different parties, and voters are left choosing between the two rather than getting both.

Philp is right about the courts. Whether anyone believes him is now a separate question from whether he's correct.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Fact check:

1. Owen you’re already a loser

2. We are an Ofcom regulated and defined news channel

3. We are pro-free speech, unlike yourself who has blocked half of Twitter, including me

4. I have the highest rated news show on Saturday evening 🏆 (it starts in 30 mins, everyone is welcome)

Happy Birthday to Britains Number 1 news channel, they’re so rattled because we’re winning.

[Schrödinger's Lesbian ⚢ @IsleLesbos]

Another one to remember. Jean O’Leary calling out the misogyny of drag, addressing Rivera directly at NYC Gay Pride 1973. Have a listen. Lesbians were already fighting against the misogyny inherent in drag culture back then. Same old misogyny today. Even worse as men skin walk us

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Giggle has applied to have Giggle v Tickle heard in the High Court.

“We have filed for special leave in the High Court… Because the federal court is saying men can be women in law & making women only spaces effectively unisex, we are going to the High Court to challenge that.”

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

These thugs fractured the spine of Sgt Kate Evans, who spoke in court of the medical and emotional trauma she still lives with.
Prison is where they belong.
Unlike Zack Polanski, I want serious consequences for anyone who attacks police officers risking their lives to protect us.