BarbaraJ

🇬🇧 Love the UK 🇬🇧
Mum to 2 but unfortunately no sign of Grandchildren yet! Love the British countryside - no DMs. Retweets are not endorsements

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

This is Usama Ghanem looking delighted to be protesting near a synagogue today. He lost his student visa MONTHS ago. Why is he still in this country able to harass Jewish ppl? @ShabanaMahmood

[Dr David Bull @drdavidbull]

Vote Reform. Stop Labour.

Labour has betrayed the trust of ordinary people. This Thursday, send them a message.

The polls show this is a straight fight between Reform and Labour. 🚨

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

I don’t care about being called Racist

I don’t care about being called Far-Right

I care about this country so that’s all I care about.

These words mean nothing nowadays because it’s just sad people who can’t think for themselves & think by saying these words it offends us.

It doesn’t offend me in the slightest.

I know I’m right & they aren’t.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A frightened little dog, unsure whether to approach or not… Until a kind hand shows him that not everyone is harmful.

Sometimes, compassion is all they need.

[King David @Aaron710David]

Josef Lewinsohn was a Latvian-Jewish boy who was born in Riga on the 10th of December 1935 to Lithuanian-Jewish mother Slata Lewinsohn and a Jewish father Schmuel Lewinsohn (nationality unknown but probably Latvian) Josef was marched from Riga ghetto and shot to death in the Rumbula forest on the 30th of November 1941. He was just one month away from his 6th birthday Remember Josef Lewinsohn. One of 25,000 German and Latvian Jews who were shot to death on the 30th of November and 8th of December in 1941 in the Rumbula forest. May Hashem avenge his blood✡

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

What is it with Labour MPs wanting the state to have the right to kill people?

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

The left don't want a society based on merit

Because they haven't got any.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Is this guy a racist ?

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Jews were attacked by a mob of angry “Palestine” supporters, outside Edward United Synagogue today in London.

The Pro-Pallies showed support for Hamas and the Ayatollah

This is how the Jews fought back against the hate.

Our love is stronger their hate.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Navy That Could All Along. It Just Needed A By-Election.

On Sunday morning, Royal Marine Commandos and National Crime Agency officers boarded the Smyrtos, a Cameroon-flagged Russian oil tanker, in the English Channel. The operation took six hours, supported by Chinook, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters, an RAF P-8 Poseidon, and the warships HMS Sutherland and HMS Ledbury. Keir Starmer ordered it personally and called it "yet another blow to Russia." It was the first UK-led boarding of a Russian shadow fleet vessel in British waters.

The authority for this operation has existed since March. That month, Starmer agreed that British armed forces and law enforcement could stop, board and detain sanctioned shadow fleet vessels in accordance with international law. That is the legal framework. It has sat in place for eleven weeks.

In those eleven weeks, more than two hundred sanctioned tankers sailed through Britain's exclusive economic zone. Checked. Unchallenged. Three days ago, Britain's role in shadow fleet enforcement was still limited to supporting others, while France carried out its fourth such boarding, commandos rappelling onto a tanker four hundred nautical miles off Brittany.

Two weeks ago, a former Royal Marine MP told the Defence Secretary that France had again demonstrated seizing these vessels was "both legal and achievable," and that the gap between Britain's permissions and Britain's actions came down to the Attorney General's hesitation. Finland, Sweden, Estonia, France and the United States, he said, have no such hesitation.

In April, the explanation on offer was that the constraint was never legal capability. Lord Hermer's framework required an individual legal case for each boarding, and the government used that requirement to explain months of watching sanctioned vessels pass through British waters. A Russian frigate escorted tankers through twenty-one miles of Channel while Iran closed a strait of similar width with a single announcement. The Navy was ready. The law, we were told, was not.

The law was ready in March. What changed on Sunday was not the framework. It was the decision to use it.

Makerfield votes on Thursday. Reform holds every council ward in the constituency. A government that spent eleven weeks explaining why two hundred tankers could not be touched found, four days before a by-election it cannot afford to lose badly, that the first one could be.

This is not really a story about Russia, or about the Channel. It is the same story as Britain's asylum backlog. 87,450 people. A four percent removal rate. Years of unused levers. It is the same story as Hungary, which received 47 asylum applications in the same six months Britain received roughly 50,000, and as America, where border crossings fell from 1.6 million to under 240,000 within months of a government choosing to act. The tools existed throughout, in every case. The decision to use them was the only variable that was ever missing. On Sunday, for four days' worth of reasons, it stopped being missing.

"Agency officers boarded the Smyrtos, a Cameroon-flagged Russian oil tanker, in the English Channel. The operation took six hours, supported by Chinook, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters"

[Dr Sanjoy Kumar @drsanjoykumar]

A very very sad anniversary for us. Losing Grace leaves an enormous gap in my little family. we were 4 we are now 3.
James my son brings enormous comfort he misses his big sister Grace so much.@greatesthitsuk @BBCNews @ITVCentral @nottsinquiry

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Why is Sir Keir Starmer’s Government set to ban under-16s from accessing 10 major social media platforms — including X — but not left-wing platforms like Bluesky?

Since coming to power, this Government has been openly hostile to X, a forum for debate that prides itself on free speech. Ministers have even floated the idea of blocking UK citizens’ access to the platform altogether.

Starmer can no longer pretend this is solely about protecting children.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

These people are so obsessed with hating on Nigel Farage they would happily keep Labour in power for another decade, destroying our country. They are jumping up & down about 5% while our country burns. Utterly pathetic.

Vote Reform. Save Britain.

[Ms Panther @150G512XD]

Guardsman James Boyle Curran Reynolds DCM, aged 19, from Paisley, and of the Scots Guards, was killed in action in The Battle of Tumbledown Mountain on 14th June 1982.

Thank you for your service James ❤️

Lest we forget 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

Kebab Shops, Vape Shops & Car Washes are being allowed to sponsor overseas workers under the skilled worker’s scheme.

You don’t need to be skilled to do these jobs.

Yet another scam in order to replace UK Citizens.

I thought the government recently said they were going to investigate these businesses 🤔

More lies.

[KeyserSosse @KeyserSosse]

15th June, 2012

Norwich born Corporal Alex William Guy, aged 37, lived in St Neots,Cambridgeshire, and of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, was shot and killed by insurgents, in Nad 'Ali, Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Lest we Forget this brave man who gave his all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[KeyserSosse @KeyserSosse]

15th June, 2010

Kingsman Ponipate Tagitaginimoce, aged 29 from Nausori, Fiji, of 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, was shot and killed in an exchange of fire with insurgents in Nad 'Ali, Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Lest we Forget this brave Fijian Warrior 🇫🇯 🇬🇧

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Yes

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

14 June 1885 | Dutch Jewish woman, Rebecka Bloemendal-Zilverberg, was born in Coevorden.

In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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📖 Jews deported to Auschwitz from the German-occupied Netherlands: https://t.co/v74LIFydjU

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The goat gets left out of every serious conversation about sustainable food, which is a shame, because it does a job no other farm animal will touch.

A cow is a grazer. A sheep is a grazer. Both want grass, on ground that is at least walkable. The goat is a browser, and its tastes run somewhere else entirely:

- It eats scrub, bramble, gorse and thistle, the spiky stuff everything else avoids.
- It strips the woody growth and lower branches that choke a neglected hillside.
- It works terrain too steep, too rough, and too overgrown for cattle or sheep to bother with.
- It thrives on exactly the marginal, reverting, abandoned land that grows nothing anyone wants.

This makes the goat the pioneer of the whole system. Put goats onto a bramble-choked hillside and they browse it back, season by season, until grass can establish again. Once the grass comes, the sheep and cattle can follow. The goat opens ground the others could never use.

And at the end of it you get milk that many people who cannot tolerate cow dairy digest perfectly well, meat that more of the world's population eats than any other, and a cleared hillside that was an impenetrable thicket the year before.

The goat asks for the worst land on the farm and quietly makes it useful. It has been doing humanity's roughest groundwork for ten thousand years, and we still treat it as an afterthought with a comedy reputation.