Charles Bunker

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Reality Denied

Elon Musk’s interview with The Economist exposed a political absurdity: basic common sense now sounds radical because the elite progressive left has spent years treating reality as a nuisance rather than a guide. Secure borders, safe streets, fiscal restraint, and institutional competence are not fringe positions. They are the minimum requirements of a serious society.

That is why the debate has become so warped. Too much of the progressive left now operates in a post-factual universe, where ideology is treated as evidence and evidence is treated as negotiable. In that environment, ordinary standards of order and accountability are recast as oppression, while failure is excused with slogans.

The same argument would be celebrated as wisdom if Obama made it and denounced as extremism when Trump does.

The result is a public discourse detached from consequences. If you point out that uncontrolled migration strains public services, that crime affects working families first, or that governments cannot borrow and spend forever, you are no longer making a practical argument. You are accused of hostility, ignorance, or worse.

Musk’s real value in this conversation is not that he is universally right. Which he is. It is that he forces the confrontation between reality and rhetoric. And once that confrontation happens, the weakness of the left’s worldview becomes obvious: it can explain feelings, but it cannot reliably explain facts.

The middle of the political spectrum has not become more extreme. The left has simply moved so far from reality that common sense now looks like rebellion.

[David Collier @mishtal]

This is Ramallah police station. The image captures the moment after a Palestinian mob lynched two Jews, and mutilated their bodies. Aziz Salha proudly shows his blood stained hands.

Ramallah is the city the Greens want to twin Manchester with.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Funny how on the new Left,
- ‘Hope Not Hate’ is in fact a purveyor of hate
- ‘Liberal’ really means illiberal, often frighteningly so
- the ‘anti-fascists’ are strikingly similar in outlook and methods to the actual fascists
- the ‘anti-racists’ turn out to be more obsessed with race and more racist than any generation since the 1930s, especially when it comes to Asians, Jews and whites
- ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ really means no diversity at all, rather strict uniformity of ideas, and the forceful exclusion of dissenters
- ‘Safe spaces’ are very unsafe spaces for anyone expressing any kind of open inquiry or challenging idea
- ‘pro-science’ says men can have periods and women can have penises.
It’s exactly as Orwell said it.
The Left has truly lost its way.

[Charles Bunker @charlesbunker]

Before judging Farage and The Times people should listen to these four podcasts

https://t.co/Vt3sJvpgCw

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Nor will I

Repugnant

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

Westminster has built a country where we spend more money on the planning paperwork for a single road than it costs other nations to build an entire mountain tunnel.

This isn't a system accidentally strangled by red tape: it is a highly lucrative industry. A vast priesthood of consultants and lawyers is making a fortune they have no interest in the work being done.

It is corruption by bureaucracy, and working-class communities are footing the bill for projects that never even see a spade in the ground.

The absolute paralysis of modern Britain was laid bare in a recent parliamentary committee. A single witness gave them the truth with both barrels, exposing the administrative vampires sucking public money dry while the work goes undone. The details are an insult to every community waiting for homes, decent transport, and cheaper energy.

Take the Lower Thames Crossing. The planning application alone has swallowed more than a quarter of a billion pounds. For that exact same amount, Norway actually constructed the world’s longest road tunnel. We spent it on paper, and we have not even turned a sod of earth.

This is a permission state eating itself alive.

Look at HS2, the most expensive railway line on earth. Part of the reason it cost so much is that we are spending £121 million on a specific "bat tunnel" to protect a few hundred bats living in a nearby wood, a wood the line does not even pass through.

Look at Hinkley Point C, the most expensive nuclear power station in human history. For eight years, developers locked in a multi-million-pound wrangle with regulators over installing an underwater "fish disco", an acoustic deterrent to stop fish swimming into the pipes. 20 years ago, we built nuclear fleets at a fraction of the cost. Today, we sacrifice national infrastructure to the gods of endless compliance.

The final absurdity is the plan to reopen just 3.3 miles of an existing railway line between Bristol and Portishead, a route already built but closed during the Beeching cuts. The planning application is 80,000 pages long. Over one thousand of those pages are about bats.

We have created a system that trades in paper while the real economy rots. The working class pay the price for this institutional cowardice. They pay for it in soaring energy bills, missing homes, broken transport links, and a country that cannot build the future it keeps promising.

Protecting the environment is vital, but drowning ourselves in paper is not environmentalism. A system that takes 80,000 pages to clear three miles of existing track is broken. It is not governance: it is managed decline with a clipboard.

It's the bureaucratic vampires drinking the country's wealth...

[Harry Phibbs @harryph]

.@KHarveyProctor: “Her support was never loud or theatrical. It was something far rarer. It was principled. She offered practical advice and support, personal kindness and public solidarity when these things carried political cost rather than reward. She neither sought headlines nor applause. She simply believed that justice demanded it.”

[Ben Habib @BackBrexitBen]

Rupert Lowe is right not to stand in Clacton. Farage’s by-election has been called to dodge the timing of parliamentary standards scrutiny.

Winning it does not clear him. The investigation will resume when he returns. This is a stunt, and it should not be legitimised.

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

Every news broadcaster from the BBC to Sky to ITV are relentlessly covering the Farage circus yet couldn’t report on the rape and torture of 250,000 British 🇬🇧 children @rapeganginquiry shame on them all 💔

[Charles Bunker @charlesbunker]

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[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

If you have heard the name Operation Hexagon, it is because of this.

[Donna Louise @DonnaLouise1212]

This would have been funny a few years ago. Now however...🤷‍♀️

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF BRITISH FREEDOM!

Good morning to the millions of everyday Brits.

You are probably still asleep after we knocked out the Mexicans last night, but you need to wake up to a terrifying new reality!

It has just leaked that Andy Burnham is quietly preparing to enforce strict new VPN restrictions to stop teenagers bypassing his under-16 social media ban. 🤡

They are trying to spin this as protecting the kids, but here is the absolute nightmare they are hiding from you.

You cannot restrict VPNs just for children.

To enforce this, the state will be forced to ban, monitor, or require a mandatory Digital ID check for every single VPN user in the United Kingdom.

They are literally building a state-controlled internet firewall, copying the exact digital prison models used by China and North Korea.

They want total control over what you are allowed to see, say, and access online so they can completely kill off independent free speech.

We are trading a failed Prime Minister for a high-tech socialist dictatorship.

RT to completely blow up the UK timeline and demand our freedom back! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Mr Starmer,

You say you have made Britain a better place. I beg to differ, let’s have a look at how you have made Britain better shall we?

▪️tried to cancel elections
▪️arrested 12,000 ppl a year for posts
▪️300,000 businesses closed
▪️125,000 increase in unemployment
▪️Unemployment up to 4.9%
▪️Vacancies at lowest level since 2021
▪️Borrowing higher than forecast
▪️Inflation rose again after falling
▪️NHS waiting list still over 7 million
▪️Record Channel crossings
▪️Heat pump rollout stalled
▪️AI data centres priority grid connections
▪️Offshored emissions
▪️increased subsidies to wind farms
▪️Lied to Trump about free speech
▪️27 More quangos and regulators
▪️Expanded facial recognition policing
▪️Online Safety Act censorship
▪️operation scatter of illegal migrants
▪️Winter fuel allowance cancelled
▪️highest tax in 70 years
▪️highest electricity in the world
▪️fake £22 billion black hole
▪️ 22.3% pay rise for doctors
▪️15% pay rise for train drivers
▪️attempts to join EU by stealth
▪️ Closed the migrant barge
▪️4 more years of hotels for illegals
▪️NI tax rises for businesses
▪️£500 million to foreign farmers
▪️£3.4 BILLION on consultants
▪️Two tier policing at protests & riots
▪️crackdown on free speech
▪️No deportations for foreign criminals
▪️let prisoners out early
▪️net zero madness spending
▪️Carbon capture experiment
▪️solar factories on green belt
▪️oops had to cancel non Dom policy
▪️VAT on private schools backfired
▪️Softer sentences, prisons are full
▪️Free clothes for MPs
▪️Free tickets for MPs
▪️Rent free house for MPs
▪️free Pass for Ali for Downing Street
▪️introducing pay per mile
▪️Ended steel production
▪️Stopped oil and gas licenses
▪️ refused to use huge new gas field
▪️Spaffed £8.3b on British energy
▪️Energy bills went up TWICE
▪️Palestine marches out of control
▪️Ended free speech in universities
▪️Increases in fuel duty
▪️Said “free the sausages”
▪️Fired his chief of staff
▪️Fired his energy minister
▪️gave Peter Mandelson a job
▪️Chancellor isn’t an economist
▪️Gave £millions more to Ukraine
▪️Gave £50 million to Syrian militants
▪️Richest pop star got free police escort
▪️made up some ‘science’ on fly wheels
▪️stopped Rwanda
▪️largest number of illegal migrants ever
▪️Didn’t change his ‘special’ pension
▪️Gave away the Chagos Islands
▪️lost Rosie Duffield
▪️let Ukraine use Storm shadow
▪️revoked land wind farm ban
▪️announced Pylons near houses
▪️Banned Elon from ‘Investment Summit’
▪️misogyny would be classed as terrorism
▪️ investigated by Electoral Commission
▪️ Lord Ali under investigation
▪️Inheritance tax on farmers
▪️Lied to WASPI women
▪️Attempting to bring in blasphemy laws
▪️Gave £500 million to foreign farmers
▪️Chancellor turned out to be unqualified
▪️highest government borrowing in 34 yrs
▪️MP investigated for corruption
▪️Banning parents from seeing curriculum
▪️ Anti Muslim blasphemy law
▪️stabbing up
▪️Called ordinary people far right racists
▪️Rapists allowed out of prison early

Have I missed anything? Apart from taxpayers now funding free school breakfasts?

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Very well stated.

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨UK Police Threaten Arrest for “Future Crime” – Minority Report Comes to Britain

UK police officer threatens to arrest a man for peacefully filming in public, because his presence “might” wind people up and cause someone else to lose their temper.

This is straight-up Minority Report policing.

They’re not arresting him for any actual crime. They’re not even claiming he’s breaking the law. They’re saying: “We can arrest you to prevent a breach of the peace” meaning, we’re going to punish you in case some random person gets angry at your legal activity.

Think about that. If someone gets so wound up by a camera that they want to attack the person holding it, the rational response is to arrest the aggressor, not the person exercising their right to film in a public space.

How on earth can you justify detaining someone for something that hasn’t happened and might never happen? It flips justice on its head: the person minding their own business (and their rights) becomes the problem, while potential troublemakers get their feelings protected by the state.

Officers should be de-escalating and protecting lawful behaviour, not threatening people with arrest for hypothetical future crimes by others.

Absolutely disgraceful.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

The Environment Agency can't find the time to deal with criminals who dump waste into our rivers - but they're perfectly happy to investigate volunteers who clean those rivers.

It's the same story, over and over.

Rule-breakers go free. People who do the right thing get crushed.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

This is excellent from Zia Yusuf. He perfectly captured the farcical and shameful situation now facing honest, hard-working Brits.

In Stoke Heath, Shropshire, brand new £250,000 homes built for local families are being handed to asylum seekers while residents were kept completely in the dark.

Standing in front of the properties, he delivered this devastating mockery of Britain’s broken social contract:

“This is ground zero of the British social contract. The message to the British people now is extraordinary: if you work hard, pay your taxes and play by the rules, one day you’ll get to fund foreign nationals who broke into Britain illegally living in quarter-of-a-million-pound brand new houses. That is now the social contract.”

Brutally accurate. The reward for playing by the rules is now footing the bill for those who don’t. This is the reality for hard-working Brits today.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

His father once told him, “Son, farming is in your blood.” 🌾

He believed it with everything he had.

At 26 he took over the family farm — young, hopeful, and ready to work harder than anyone who came before him.

He kept that promise for fifteen years.
Now he’s 41 and looks a decade older.

His hands are split and calloused from the cold. His back seizes up every morning before the day even starts. He’s missed birthdays, school plays, family dinners and anniversaries that can never be replayed.

Every Sunday night his wife does the accounts at the kitchen table.
Last Sunday she sat there for a long time without speaking.

Then she looked up.

“We’re forty thousand pounds down this year.”

After fifteen years of early mornings and late nights, diesel has doubled, fertiliser is up 60%, electricity has tripled… and the price he receives for his wheat is almost exactly what it was in 2015.

He is not lazy.
He is not incompetent.
He is not failing.

The system is failing him.
And every Sunday night his wife still sits at that same table, staring at numbers that only ever seem to get worse.

How long before Britain loses an entire generation of farmers who simply can’t afford to carry on?

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

“Their instinct was to silence a democratically elected politician and censor her. Rather than being interested in what the truth was, they were more interested in silencing me.”

Shadow Energy Secretary and former Energy Secretary @ClaireCoutinho wrote an article in The Telegraph questioning the costings produced by the Department she once led. The Climate Change Committee — a public body — then lodged a complaint alleging that Claire’s article had breached the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) Editors’ Code.

Rather than engage with the substance of her arguments, they sought to silence her.

Claire fought back, but she is concerned that many others will keep their opinions to themselves when they should feel free to speak out.

Cancel culture is stifling debate on Net Zero and energy policy.

Watch the full episode with @DavidRoseUK and Claire Coutinho on our YouTube channel 👇

[Raja Miah @recusant_raja]

Andy Burnham and his Labour Party did everything possible to prevent a National Inquiry into the Pakistani Rape Gangs. They knew that such a Public Inquiry would would have the power to ask questions that would end careers. Just as they knew, that should the truth emerge, politicians would go to prison for what they did.

So whilst the mainstream media and their political masters want to focus on screaming deportation, I want to focus my attention somewhere more dangerous.

The National Inquiry is coming to Oldham. Shabir Ahmed must be summoned to testify. It is time we all learned just who it was that protected him.

And yes, ask Andy Burnham if he denies it, Shabir Ahmed was protected and allowed to continue raping and trafficking little girls.

Read my latest here;
https://t.co/thMIqEBFW6
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Imagine dragging the Prime Minister in front of a national inquiry, forcing him to testify under oath about his role in covering up the Pakistani grooming gangs scandal.

We can make this a reality. But I need your help.

For 8 years, I've exposed the cover-up of Pakistani rape gangs by police and politicians. Our campaign in Oldham forced a national inquiry. Now, we must compel this inquiry to investigate a place it wants to avoid: Andy Burnham's record.

As Mayor of Greater Manchester, Burnham fronted sham "assurance reviews". They were nothing more than a cover-up of the cover-up. He would have succeeded if not for us. We fought for a national inquiry despite his efforts to bury the truth.

The inquiry won't examine Burnham's actions unless we demand it. The clock is ticking. He's poised to become Prime Minister within weeks. Once he's in Downing Street, the establishment will shield him. Institutions will dodge accountability. The press will look away. Only we can carry the truth.

That's why Red Wall and the Rabble must become more than a one-man operation. To replicate our Oldham success nationwide, we need:

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Raja Miah MBE