🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧

THEN: #RAF #ColdWarWarrior #IntelligenceAnalyst #Comint #Sigint
NOW: Retired, with a head full of great memories.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

#Immigration I'm sick of saying it: TENTS, TENTS, TENTS. we have 1000s of islands where a refugee camp could be erected in a month. Later, Portacabins. No mobiles or luxuries. Basic food and medicine. Stay there till you beg to go home, or to #Rwanda

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

@InTheTrenchesUK Great post, but there's another important point re Jack Dromey. He was selected despite Labour's strictly enforced All Women Shortlist for safe seats. They made an exception for him.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

HARRIET HARMAN: THE MOTHER OF ALL HYPOCRISY

Let me tell you about Harriet Ruth Harman, the woman who spent forty years lecturing Britain about equality, feminism, and progressive values while her entire career is built on a foundation so rotten it would make Jimmy Savile's PR team blush.

THE PAEDOPHILE PROTECTION RACKET (1978 to 1982)

This is where Harman's house of cards collapses. While working as legal officer for the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), Harman was on the payroll when the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a vile organisation campaigning to legalise sex with children, was an affiliated member. But it gets worse. Much worse.

In 1978, Harman signed her name to an NCCL briefing paper on the Protection of Children Bill that sought to BAN child pornography. Her contribution? She argued that "images of naked children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven that the subject had suffered."

Read that again. Harriet Harman, the woman who now advises Starmer on women and girls, wanted to make it LEGAL to possess child abuse images unless prosecutors could prove the child victim suffered. She tried to water down child protection laws to protect paedophiles' civil liberties.

When exposed in 2014, she expressed "regret" but refused to apologise. Because in Harriet's world, saying sorry for helping paedophiles might damage the brand. Her husband Jack Dromey and Patricia Hewitt were right there with her; three senior Labour figures, all neck-deep in the NCCL/PIE swamp.

THE HOLOCAUST JOKE (2017)

Fast forward to 2017. BBC's This Week. Harman decides to tell an ANTISEMITIC HOLOCAUST JOKE live on television. Not a slip. Not a misstatement. She deliberately recounted this vile joke to make a point about "offensive humour."

Andrew Neil, a man who had just spoken at the Holocaust Education Trust about fighting antisemitism, was so disgusted he turned his back on her and told her to "BE QUIET."

The Jewish Leadership Council's Simon Johnson said: "I cannot recall being so disappointed in a politician." This was 2017, while Labour was already drowning in antisemitism scandals under Corbyn, and Harman thought broadcasting Holocaust jokes was appropriate.

THE PRIVILEGED ELITE MASK SLIPS

Here is the punchline: Harriet Harman, champion of the working class, scourge of privilege, was born into a family so posh it makes the Royal Family look like council estate roughs.

- Father: John Bishop Harman, Harley Street physician (private practice for the wealthy)
- Grandfather: Nathaniel Bishop Harman, surgeon and prominent Unitarian elitist
- Uncle: LORD LONGFORD, the Labour peer who became obsessed with child killer Myra Hindley and campaigned for her release
- Cousins: Related to NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN (Prime Minister) and Austen Chamberlain (Foreign Secretary)
- Education: St Paul's Girls' School, one of Britain's most elite private schools

She is not just posh. She is aristocracy-adjacent. The "Mother of the House" is the product of exactly the establishment privilege she pretends to oppose.

"GINGER RODENT": THE EQUALITIES MINISTER WHO HATES MINORITIES

As Labour's Equalities Minister, Harman called Lib Dem minister Danny Alexander a "GINGER RODENT" at the Scottish Labour conference. This was not private banter. This was a senior minister attacking someone for their hair colour, in Scotland, where red hair is common.

Ed Miliband forced her to apologise. But the mask had slipped. Harriet Harman, guardian of minority rights, thinks it is acceptable to dehumanise people based on physical characteristics when it suits her.

THE PINK "BARBIE BUS": PATRONISING WOMEN SINCE 2015

In 2015, Harman launched Labour's "Woman to Woman" campaign: a PINK MINIBUS touring the country to attract female voters. It was universally condemned as "sexist," "patronising," and "demeaning," a "Barbie Bus" treating women like children who need pink packaging to engage with politics.

Tory MP Caroline Dinenage called it "as patronising as it gets." Mumsnet users, actual women, branded it "sexist codswallop." But Harriet knew best. Because nothing says "female empowerment" like assuming women are too stupid to care about politics unless it is wrapped in pink plastic.

THE HUSBAND PLOT: NEPOTISM AND CORRUPTION

While we are on hypocrisy, let us talk about Jack Dromey. In 2009, Labour insiders branded Dromey "lazy and stupid" during a donations scandal. But that did not stop Harriet allegedly missing a key meeting to pave the way for her husband to inherit a safe Labour seat after the sitting MP quit over, wait for it, EXPENSES SCANDALS.

The "golden couple" of Labour, plotting safe seats while preaching about democracy and equality.

THE LORD LONGFORD CONNECTION

Remember Harriet's uncle, Lord Longford? While Harriet was at NCCL trying to water down child porn laws, her uncle was campaigning to FREE MYRA HINDLEY, the paedophile child killer. The family obsession with protecting paedophiles and child murderers runs deep.

THE VERDICT

Harriet Harman is not a feminist icon. She is not a progressive champion. She is a PRIVILEGED HYPOCRITE who:

- Tried to legalise child abuse images
- Told Holocaust jokes on live TV
- Dehumanised gingers while Equalities Minister
- Patronised women with pink buses
- Plotted seats for her "lazy and stupid" husband
- Hides her aristocratic background while attacking privilege

She advised Starmer on women and girls in 2026. Let that sink in. The woman who signed papers protecting paedophiles, who told Holocaust jokes, who thinks women need pink packaging to understand politics, is advising the Labour leader on protecting women and girls.

Career ending? This should be legacy destroying. Harriet Harman belongs in the dustbin of political history, not the House of Lords.

In a staggering display of political desperation, Harriet Harman has now taken to X to enthusiastically endorse Andy Burnham's leaked email to Labour MPs, gushing "This is excellent!!" over his bureaucratic reshuffle plans. The same woman who spent decades demanding women be heard in politics is now cheering on a backroom email that treats elected representatives like corporate employees to be managed by HR. The hypocrisy never ends with Harman.
Burnham's email in replies.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

Looks like #Trump means what he said today. #Iran

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

Why must we 'celebrate' a sexual preference? Normal people don't do this. Normal, decent people consider this to be a private matter.

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

This is London - a global beacon for equality, progressive values and diversity.

Pride is one of the moments our city shines brightest - with millions coming together to celebrate our LGBTQIA+ communities and the values that define our city.

Happy Pride! 💙💚💛🧡🩷❤️💜

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

These grifters should pay US for allowing them to settle in OUR country, with the limitless improvements in their lives that that brought. Maybe they could also pay a share of the cost in the British Empire's lengthy anti-slavery campaign.

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

Later this year, Jamaica will take the case for reparations directly to King Charles, lodging a formal petition.

It is getting harder and harder for British institutions to maintain their favoured tactic of simply ignoring calls for repair.
https://t.co/zJJGqCYpze

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 THE OFFICIAL DATA THEY ARE DESPERATELY HIDING FROM YOU.

Good morning to the millions of everyday, hardworking Brits. Waking up this Friday morning, it is time to completely expose the greatest economic lie of the last decade.

Andy Burnham is preparing to walk into Number 10, claiming Brexit destroyed our economy and demanding we get closer to the EU. 🤡

Facts over slogans. Let us look at the actual, official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)!

Since the Brexit referendum, UK GDP has surged by 12.9%. We have outgrown the EU’s top three economies, rising more than twice as fast as Germany!

George Osborne promised us 820,000 job losses if we voted Leave. Instead, UK jobs are up by a massive 2.4 MILLION.

Burnham claims our trade collapsed. The official data proves UK global exports are up 17.6% since 2016.

Business investment? Up nearly 17%.

The establishment's entire "Project Fear" was a complete and utter fraud, yet Andy Burnham is still using it to justify dragging us straight back under the thumb of Brussels.

He wants to completely erase the democratic vote of 17.4 million people using a fake economic crisis that never actually happened!

RT to completely expose this massive uniparty scam and demand we stay OUT! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

Burnham has just found a devious way to get himself in on the WFH scam.

[Kay Burley @KayBurley]

Interesting poll this.

Britain is pretty much split down the middle on whether Andy Burnham should continue living in Greater Manchester rather than moving into No.10 if he became Prime Minister.

My first thought wasn’t political. It was practical.

What happens if there’s a COBRA emergency at 3am?

No.10 isn’t just a home. It’s the operational centre of government. In a national crisis like a terror or cyberattack, military action or a major civil emergency does the Prime Minister needs to be where ministers, officials and the security services can gather within minutes, not hours?

Perhaps there’s an answer I’m missing, but it does make me wonder whether the symbolism of staying rooted in God’s own country would outweigh the practical realities of running the nation.

Genuinely interested in your thoughts.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

Yeah, close your eyes to science!

[Eric Idle @EricIdle]

Sadly it’s climate change. Look at the highest temperatures ever in the UK and in France this week. But hey, close your eyes to science and follow the leader.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

Lots of US tankers airborne right now in #Hormuz area. That's support for dozens of armed aircraft.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Ceasefire? What ceasefire?
Iran launched missile strikes against US military bases as renewed fighting between the two sides entered a third day.
Tehran said it had targeted the Ali al-Salem Air Base in Kuwait and the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain.
The Iranian attacks follow US strikes inside Iran on Saturday, launched after an interim peace deal between the two countries broke down on Friday.
Washington said its operation was a response to an Iranian attack on a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

[OyvayMaria 💚🤍💜 #WomenWontWheesht @OyvayM]

Credit to @ramonagusta

(in no particular order)
Lying to Healey about defence budgets
Effective silence on beheading attempts in NI
Using disappearing messages with Mandelson (why?)
Digital ID without it being in manifesto
Withholding messages between himself/Mandy under Humble Address (cover-up)
Not a word about Henry Novak until forced by Speaker
Attempted to cancel local elections
Fibbing to the house over Mandelson
Buying votes lifting 2-child benefit cap (90% Muslim)
Freezing pensioners as they don't vote Labour
Employers NI hike
Letting 438 prisoners out by accident (Lammy)
Lied about Durham party (COVID)
McSweeney's convenient mobile phone theft
Flippant "To us, he's just Peter" comment
Imprisoned mother for tweet
Sue Gray debacle
Lord Alli buying his wife's clothes
Taxing pension contributions
Private schools closing due to VAT attack
Rayner tax fiddling probe
Most expensive electricity in world
Killing babies/abortion law
Damage USA relationship/idiotic ban on use of bases
Assisted suicide (pensioners don’t vote Labour)
Reeves blubbing in commons
Frightening Open AI £34bn investment off
Cabinet £22k Taylor Swift tickets
Reeves rental breach
Labour together cronyism/strange funding
Smearing journalists
Donors fast-tracked to jobs
Nick Brown see no evil hear no evil
Labour MP cavorting with TWO sub captains
Louise "fingers" Haigh, the mobile thief
Dan Norris, rape charges
Killing off hospitality/pubs
Shovelling £billions to Ukraine (not in NATO)
Secret republican/anti-monarchist
Halting Chagossian food supplies (boats he will stop)
Lammy taxi-ride lies/leaving trash
£22bn "black hole" lie
Tulip Siddiq on run from Interpol
Andrew Gwynne, "pensioner die" rant
Homeless minister evicting tenants
Needed a court to tell him what a woman is
Reeves lying on CV
Mike Amesbury punching voters
Benefits exceeding income tax (£330bn)
Killing farmers with IHT
300,000 more unemployed
CCP spy embassy
Chagos scam/treason
IRGC not proscribed
Treating pension costs as defence %
Southport 'far-right' disgraceful comments
Recognising Palestine terrorist state
72,000 channel invaders just walking in
Muslim two-tier justice
Removing jury trials
Lawfare on NI veterans (for free!)
No navy in middle east
Faking military spending/dragging feet
Strange Czech work camp as young man
Very odd firebombing male models
Nobbling CCP spy case
Islamophobia law
Handing Gibraltar sovereignty to EU
Removing HM from Gov
Pandering to EU
Economy flatlining
Exports crashing
Highest taxes ever
£120bn fiscal deficit
Highest gilts costs of any G7
£500m for pointless Erasmus
Given away fishing rights again
Watering down MP responsibilities
Ignored antisemites marching

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

If #Burnham is smart, he'll hang on to power as long as possible. A General Election doesn't meet that requirement.

[Morgan Thomas @MorganThomas32]

If Burnham is smart, he’ll call an election to ride this wave. I’d say it’s fairly evident that this wasn’t a support for Labour, but Burnham as an individual.

And this will drop in the coming weeks and months when of course, nothing really changes. Lessons from Gordon Brown need to be learnt there…

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

In an era when all faith and trust in MPs lie in tatters, it shouldn't surprise us that the people of #Makerfield have effectively voted NOT to be properly represented in parliament.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

#Trump currently talking at #Evian #G7 event. He doesn't sound well. Breathless. I've just had a bad spell myself, so recognise the symptoms.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

But hey, kids ... never mind the social media ban and the curfew, here's your ticket to vote for us!

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

"We've decided that you plebs being online, sharing news and exchanging your thoughts is a threat to our stranglehold on power, so we're going to close down your access to information and take away your right to anonymity in the name of protecting children, while also assuming total control over what your children are subjected to"

You cannot hate these people enough.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

Don't forget the social media ban and the curfew. Curfew!

[Roadrash @Roadras91467253]

@TalkTV @JuliaHB1 @AlistairCarns "we're going to restrict what you can see online. We're going to call you racist and far right if you don't agree with our views. We're going to severely restrict you job opportunities in favour of migrants. But we want you to show loyalty to the State that hates you"

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

He's in the wrong party, as is any ex-Forces person who joins Labour.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

When people ask me for advice on standing for election, the first thing I say is “Don’t do it unless you have a purpose. If you think being an MP will be fun, you’ll soon be disabused. But if are working towards a goal, you’ll be able to shrug off all the insults and inconveniences.”
Al Carns is a good example of someone who has gone into politics with a purpose. You don’t lightly step away from commanding the SBS or turn down a senior one-star field appointment. His purpose is plain enough: he wants to reverse the decades-long downgrading of our Armed Forces.
Some MPs will respect his integrity; others will resent the mirror that he holds up to their own motives. We’ll find out soon enough which response is more common.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

At most, Starmer put his signature to a piece of paper authorising the action. He probably donned a camouflage jacket while doing so. The man is a joke.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Keir, you "directed" it? At 3am? From your donor-funded flat? Please. You were asleep. A civil servant texted you at 7am and you replied "good, keep me briefed" between bites of avocado toast.

"Shadow fleet" listen to you. One oil tanker. One. Russia has 4,000. You've delivered a blow like a mosquito delivers a blow to a rhinoceros. The rhino hasn't noticed. The mosquito is taking credit on Twitter.

14K likes from people who think you're Churchill in pyjamas. Meanwhile the tanker crew is already on a flight home and Putin's oil revenue hasn't dipped enough to cancel his Tuesday massage.

Stick to directing things you understand. Like which donor's sofa to crash on next. The Armed Forces work while you tweet.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

Shocking ... but not surprising.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The BBC Has Ruled. Brexit Damaged The Economy. No Further Debate Required.

The BBC's editorial complaints unit has decided that the negative economic impact of Brexit is now a settled fact. Not a contested judgement. Not one side of a live debate. A fact, in the same category as man-made climate change, requiring no balancing view.

The ruling followed a Radio 4 Today programme segment featuring Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, alongside Liam Byrne and Sir John Gieve, both long-standing advocates of closer EU alignment. All three agreed Brexit had damaged growth. The presenter, Katya Adler, did not challenge the premise or introduce a dissenting voice. A complaint followed.

The ECU's response is the revealing part. It acknowledged the segment failed to "acknowledge the alternative case" for pursuing opportunities outside the EU rather than realignment with it. That part of the complaint was upheld. But the central complaint, that three pro-EU voices agreeing with each other on air is not balance, was dismissed. The reasoning given was that this reflected "the consensus among economists" and there was no "significant body of economic opinion" on the other side.

This is worth pausing on. The BBC is not claiming it found balance. It is claiming balance was unnecessary because one side of the argument does not meaningfully exist. The institution that is legally required to be impartial has ruled itself the arbiter of which questions are still open and which are closed, and Brexit has just been moved into the closed file.

The economics itself does not support the certainty on display. The headline figure driving much of this narrative, an 8 per cent hit to GDP since 2016, comes from an NBER paper built on a "synthetic control" model that constructs a hypothetical non-Brexit Britain from a basket of comparator countries. The largest weighting in that basket, over 60 per cent, is the United States, a country currently riding an AI investment boom and a separate fiscal stimulus. The model also weights Estonia and Greece more heavily than France or Germany. On a straightforward per capita basis against France and Germany, the actual comparators, Britain's performance since 2016 sits roughly in line with both. An 8 per cent gap simply isn't visible. This is a model producing a number that then gets reported as "the consensus," which the BBC then cites as the reason no alternative view is required.

That loop, model produces number, number becomes consensus, consensus becomes fact, fact requires no balance, is the mechanism. It does not require a conspiracy. It requires an institution that has decided which conclusions are respectable and which are not, and which then treats its own prior decision as evidence.

The same posture has been on display all week. A government department can decide its diversity targets are lawful without seeking legal advice to check. A police force can decide a book about dismantling "inner white supremacy" is leadership training. A broadcaster can decide an economic question is closed and that deciding so does not breach its own impartiality rules. In each case, the institution marks its own homework, and the mark is always a pass.

None of this requires Brexit to have been a triumph. Britain's economy has genuine problems, most of them unrelated to single market membership. But a state broadcaster, funded by compulsory licence fee under threat of prosecution, has now formally placed one of the most consequential political decisions in modern British history beyond the reach of its own impartiality obligations. Reform's Lee Anderson called it being "blinkered by groupthink." The more precise description is an institution that has stopped being able to tell the difference between its own assumptions and the facts.

"The BBC is not claiming it found balance. It is claiming balance was unnecessary because one side of the argument does not meaningfully exist."

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

There's another option. Voters could ignore the Reform/Restore ego trip, and give ALL their votes to the one most likely to defeat Burnham. That's Reform at the moment. A vote for any other party is a vote for Burnham.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Joanna the polling tells its own story and it's not a happy one for anyone hoping to see Burnham defeated.

Across the published polls, Burnham leads Kenyon by margins ranging from 3 to 12 points. In every single one of those polls, Restore's vote share, between 5 and 13 percent, exceeds or comes close to matching Burnham's lead. Add Restore's vote to Reform's and the right would be ahead in Makerfield. Split as it currently stands, Labour wins comfortably.

This is not a Makerfield problem. It is the structural problem facing the right in Britain at every level, from council wards to parliamentary seats to, eventually, a general election. The combined vote for parties opposed to Labour's record on immigration, borders and integration is consistently larger than Labour's own vote. But it arrives at the ballot box split between Reform and Restore, and first past the post does not reward split votes. It rewards whichever single party crosses the line first, regardless of how the remainder is divided.

The frustrating part is that this is entirely avoidable. The voters splitting between Reform and Restore in Makerfield are not voting for different things. They are voting for the same thing, delivered by two different brands competing for the same electorate. Every seat where that happens is a seat handed to Labour by default, not because Labour's position commands majority support, but because opposition to it cannot agree on a single vehicle.

Until Reform and Restore resolve this, either through merger, electoral pact, or one absorbing the other, this will keep happening. Makerfield on June 18 will likely be the latest example.

And the picture is more complicated nationally still. The Conservatives remain at 18 to 20 percent in national polling, a third strand of the right of centre vote that barely registers in Makerfield but cannot be ignored in a general election. Reform and Restore uniting would solve the immediate problem visible here. It would not by itself solve the wider fragmentation. That is a harder conversation, and it needs to start well before the next general election, not after another seat.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

There's certainly something devious behind the timing, but it'll take much more than a commando attack on unarmed sailors to persuade us that Britain can defend itself!

[Lorraine @LSW1957]

@David90shaw This charade about the oil tanker is all about showing @JohnHealey_MP up to be a liar. Starmer is trying to prove that Healey lied about the UK not being able to defend itself, very convenient timing, don't you think.

[🇬🇧 Romeo Bravo 🇬🇧 @Cybeeria]

It also needs those 19 year old to be patriotic and brave enough to fight for their country. A recent poll showed 50% are not. That's a more insurmountable barrier than budgets and kit.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.