Brian Linsell

Horse Racing, Politics, Finance and Art, in all its forms.

[Brian Linsell @BrianLinsell]

@Axaxia88 Anyone find themselves saying ‘calm down, dear’ 😏

[Gawain Towler @GHWTowler]

My son has just found this pic from Avebury in 1990. Not much changes.

[Brian Linsell @BrianLinsell]

@jfoster2019 @miriam_cates @Conservatives Triple lock aside, comparing it to a universal basic income is puerile. You have to work and contribute for at least 35 years to get a full state pension, as Miriam’s no doubt aware.

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@RaceShare @johnsonhoughton Tuck him in off that wide draw and let him come with a late rattle down the outside. Every chance today imo!

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@GuidoFawkes My forecast is the OBR is wrong again.
It’ll be lower still.

[Brian Linsell @BrianLinsell]

@ElectionMapsUK @YouGov The polls seem all over the place at the moment. Theres an Opinium poll with Reform on 30 and Greens on 13.
May 7th will show us where we actually stand..

[Brian Linsell @BrianLinsell]

@GBNEWS @CamillaTominey So now we’re giving the islands away to Mauritius along with billions of pounds to ‘keep it as a British base’?
I’m still waiting to hear any logical argument for this farce.

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@zatzi Lots of comments about how small an area it affects, in the centre of the city - but you just know, once its set up and the money from fines starts rolling in, the area will be extended and extended again.

[Calgie @christiancalgie]

When your boss asks why you’re late in on a Friday

[Brian Linsell @BrianLinsell]

@AllisonPearson In the 80s and 90s, we were spending 7% of our GDP on the NHS and the waiting list was around 700,000.

Now we spend 11% of GDP and the waiting list is 7 million.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Dear Keir Starmer,
Eva Vlaardingerbroek has been told that her presence is “not conducive to the public good” so she can’t come to the UK.
Eva is a young white Christian woman. What threat exactly does she pose to the British people?
Your government has allowed 40,000 undocumented males from backward, misogynist countries to enter the UK.
They are very much “not conducive to the public good”. Yet you spend billions of taxpayers’ money feeding and housing them while they decide which girls to sexually harass.
Me, I’d feel safer letting Eva in.
How about you, Prime Minister? 🤷‍♀️

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

Patrick Cockburn warns agains the new war hysteria.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

A Tale of Two-Tier Policing 👇
Please read and share.

Thames Valley Police visited a bed-bound Deborah Anderson at her home last year to warn her over a Facebook post. A rightly furious Deborah told the officer she had cancer (he could see she was bald from chemo). That desperately unwell older woman stood her ground magnificently. With huge scorn, Deborah, a member of the Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion told the copper he was only there because she’d “upset” someone.
Brainwashed about “hate” as all today’s police are, the officer simply couldn’t see how appalling it was that he should be sent to frighten a sick lady in her home because some grievance-monger had reported her over a social media post.
Here’s the thing. The police believe their role today is to usher in a progressive Utopia. Anyone who calls into question multiculturalism must be silenced and punished.
Deborah Anderson has just died of a brain tumour. Desperately sad news. Friends say her battle with the police took all the strength she had left. But she did get TVP to apologise.
Now, let’s look at West Midlands Police who lied about a threat posed by Israeli football fans because they had consulted “community leaders” who told them armed Muslims would riot if the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Aston Villa went ahead.
That was not a one off, not a mistake. Like all other police forces, @WestMidsPolRBLX has a policy of appeasing “protected characteristics” and treating them very differently from white people like Deborah Anderson.
Instead of admitting that there were threats of aggression from within the Muslim community that they would struggle to contain, the Chief Constable and his team decided to lie and blamed a non-existent threat from Jews to justify cancelling the match.
I repeat, this was not an error. It is police policy to do whatever Muslim leaders want. Police are terrified of Muslim extremists kicking off. Appeasing the loudest voices after “consultation” - ie getting their orders from people who feel hugely powerful within our society because they know they get special treatment - is official policy. One reason the Pakistani rape gangs were allowed to ply their vile trade for so long.
“Hate crime” of the kind Deborah Anderson was absurdly accused of will be taken seriously by police. Because Deborah, a Trump supporter, posed a threat to the prevailing leftist ideology that has infected police forces.
Actual hate crime - Muslims threatening to arm themselves to attack Jews - is hastily brushed under the carpet because it too threatens the prevailing liberal view that Diversity is our strength.
Muslim leaders -including a local Labour MP - effectively morally blackmailed West Midlands police into restricting the rights of Jews in a free society. They enabled the ugliest antisemitism.
West Midlands Police lied because the truth is too shaming to admit - even to themselves.
Yes, what WMP did was utterly disgraceful. It’s a betrayal of the British people who rely on the police to act without fear or favour.
But it’s not just one police force. ALL of them have been captured by the same pernicious, anti-British ideology.
They are afraid and they have favourites. Police are the hapless playthings of Islamists.
We all know where this “anything for a quiet life” approach will end. Appeasing a crocodile won’t work.
We should mourn the passing of Deborah Anderson who understood full well what game police were playing by visiting her on what turned out to be her deathbed.
Deborah wouldn’t stand for it - the hypocrisy, the cowardice - and neither should we.
RIP Deborah, brave warrior for free speech. 🙏

[Brian Linsell @BrianLinsell]

@philipmurraylaw Try PALS, patient advice and liaison service. Very helpful with this sort of thing.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

So many roads in Britain are flooding on a frequent basis. But before they blame it on cow farts causing climate change, it might helpful if local councils could be arsed to regularly unblock and clean the road drains. That’s what we pay our council tax for, apparently.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

The reason all these progressive mouthpieces like The Guardian, John Simpson, Ed Davey, Emily Maitlis, Adam Boulton, Emily Thornberry et al. are having meltdowns about the criticism of the BBC being accused of bias, and calling it a “coordinated attack”, is because they are so marinated in globalist dogma and progressivism they don’t even realise their worldview is flawed and biased.

The Guardian say “each criticism of BBC coverage comes from the anti-progressive culture-war playbook”. Implicit in the statement is that progressivism is the truth. To be progressive is to be unbiased. To be anti-progressive is to be not true.

They see the BBC as a “beacon of truth”, when it is demonstrably a beacon of progressive bias.

And those complaining that other media outlets like The Telegraph or GB News are biased ignore the fact that those media groups don’t purport to be unbiased, as the BBC do and have a responsibility to be. GB News would never have existed if the BBC had been unbiased.

A further insult is that the British people are forced to fund the BBC, unlike those other outlets.

But Matthew Syed paints a bleak picture in his Times piece of the problem facing Samir Shah and the BBC. 75% of establishment institutions are staffed by progressives, who’s ideology is only shared by 13% of the public.

So of the 20k+ BBC staff, likely 15k+ are progressive.

Good luck trying to reform that behemoth.

[Brian Linsell @BrianLinsell]

@darrengrimes @MarianneSansum It looks bad, but more importantly it completely ruins the habitat of billions of animals and insects. You’d think the right-on Greenpeace types might be interested in this - but it seems not..

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@EdmondsonSandra @MrTimeform They could evaluate the sperm back then, nowadays they can test genetically - but its still no guarantee of continued, long-term fertility. (They’re not machines, etc, etc..)

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@MaryCook25 Modesty to the last! 😉

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@MaryCook25 What was the score?