Danny Hayes

[Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 @Ben_Scallan]

Not one liberal politician or journalist argued that the George Floyd "I can't breathe" clip shouldn't have been shared. They only want to stop you seeing the Belfast clip because it's massively, massively inconvenient to them - 'sensitivity for victims' has zilch to do with it.

[ezika ايزيكا @ezikagorlalt]

circumcision advocates be like

HPV vaccine? nahhh

cutting part of your dick off? omg science

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

It should surely be a matter of consent? If an adult wishes it fair enough. But since it’s both irreversible (and unnecessary) it should not be imposed on a child.

[Ally Fogg @AllyFogg]

While this is up for discussion, something you might not know about. 🧵

In Dec. 2025 a coroner at the inquest into the tragic death of a 6 month old baby was so horrified by his case that he issued a rare Prevention of Future Deaths notice to the Govt. https://t.co/awalknwNMN

[Matthew Warwick @mpwarwick]

Perhaps I am old fashioned, but if the SoS for Defence and the Armed Forces Minister resign on the basis that No. 10 and the Treasury are either unwilling or unable to fund the defence of the state appropriately, then that should be a resignation for both the PM and Chancellor.

[Brodo Faggins @Squ1rtKobain]

religion is a plague upon this earth

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

The suggestion that the only way to fund defence is to cut spending on schools and hospitals is a) clearly complete nonsense and b) says far more about the total lack of serious thinking, ambition and boldness that has defined Rachel Reeves’ time as Chancellor than it does about anything else

[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

@AlistairCarns had a distinguished military career. It is damning that Benn, Starmer, Hermer, Reeves and others would not listen to him on lawfare, the Northern Ireland Bill, on defence transformation or on financial resources; and all credit to this RM veteran for stepping into the breach and his resignation on principle.

His dynamite resignation, on the back of the Healey exit represents the necessary detonation of a political bomb under UK defence; highlighting how screwed up it all really is, how badly Starmer is lying to the country, and how totally irresponsible is this @UKLabour government.

Carns is very right on the big things, the MoD and the “centre” are not facing reality on the changing technologies of war, they are not getting the resources they need and they are not defending veterans from lawfare. On this latter and vital point, this is led and encouraged by the UK’s own Attorney General as chief back-stabber.

For this, Hermer should be the next to go. And by the way, don’t expect much from the Starmer-loyalist, ex-Para Jarvis….not every Politician has the guts to do what Carns and Healey have just done…

[Susan Dalgety @DalgetySusan]

Marginalised identity? He’s a hugely privileged young man who has post grad degrees from two leading universities (Trinity College Dublin and St Andrews) and is now a parliamentarian in a country where he is not (yet) a permanent resident. How many working class women are hidden in the “quiet corners” with no voice?

[Adam Wren @aswren]

1) We are an aging country, crime SHOULD be dropping. The average age is now 42. The question is - is it dropping as fast as we would expect. Given that we have imported vast numbers of disproportionately criminal people, the answer is obviously, no.

2) The types of crimes have changed. Serious violence, beheadings, stranger rape, gang rape. Things that would have been national news for weeks when I was a child are now weekly occurrences, even if overall headline figures for things like assault are down.

3) People modify their behaviour to deal with crime. You keep a grip on your phone in your pocket rather than walking around with it. You let your friends know where you are and turn tracking on when you’re out. Your meat at the supermarket is now locked away in a cage. The visible degradation of daily life can’t always be captured in statistics, and this is without even getting into the obvious methodology problems with the datasets that he’s using

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

At root, Healey has resigned because he believes the PM and Chancellor are endangering national security.
There could be no worse an accusation. This should be climactic.

[TheVikingDane @TheVikingDane]

Surely banning circumcision for babies is a positive? The baby has absolutely no say in this procedure. Why is this proposal bonkers?

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Just checking I’ve understood:

Men underrepresented by 9 percentage points - good.

Those from ethnic minorities underrepresented by 5 percentage points - unacceptable.

What does any of this have to do with justice?!

This obsession with group-based grievances is a poison.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This should be a wake-up call for the UK…

(Note that this is a per-capita chart)

[Penny Mordaunt @PennyMordaunt]

I’d thought there was a small chance Downing Street was trying to do the right thing, but struggling against a Labour Parliamentary Party that would not do the necessary, including cutting welfare. Guess this disgraceful quote has flattened that theory. They really don’t get the peril they are putting nation in.

[Windy Beaver @WindyBeaver]

I dislike hearing British people calling one another ‘bro’. It doesn’t suit us, pack it in

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

The Home Office (with a sense of suicidal empathy) set up a fast track migration pathway for people from some of the most violent and war torn parts of the world.

This allowed the Sudanese Belfast stabbing suspect to be granted right to stay without an interview.

We somehow constructed a migration system making it incredibly hard for productive people from peaceful developed parts of the world to come here, while incredibly easy for non-contributing people from undeveloped violent parts of the world to be granted leave to remain.

This is insanity.

[Jack Montgomery @JackBMontgomery]

A man loses an eye to a deranged migrant knifeman, allowed to claim asylum despite passing through two safe EU countries, and the family puts out a statement saying it's worth it because the "hospitality sector" needs mass migration? I find this almost literally unbelievable.

[James Glancy @jaglancy]

The uncomfortable truth is this. If, at election after election, for decade after decade, people keep voting for proper control of their country’s borders, and politicians keep ignoring or belittling them, it’s inevitable that some of those people will think: “Voting doesn’t work. And peaceful protest doesn’t seem to have much effect, either. So we need to find an alternative way to make politicians listen to us.” And that alternative, I’m afraid, is what we’ve seen in Belfast.

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