Jenny Cosh

just a regular old gal

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

Devolution is calamitous, as the SNP have shown.

It creates satellite governments who have no incentive to do their jobs properly, as they can blame Westminster and shake it down for money.

It encourages corruption as there is less oversight and more cronyism when government is dispersed.

It contributes to national disharmony as devolved parliaments fight back against central government and politicians use their "difference" as a rallying call to voters.

You'd think politicians would know this by now after the calamity of Tony Blair's devolution, until you realise that politicians benefit and profit from disaster, corruption and disharmony.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A key element that Keir Starmer and the Labour government have quietly added to the social media ban for under 16s:

▪️Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards.

Basically, a digital ID check on all adults on social media. The government are using the virtue smokescreen of online safety for children as a guise for wider digital ID verification for adults. As always with Starmer…smoke and mirrors to mask the real agenda.

[Jenny Cosh @JennyCosh]

@Sarah6168285824 @Artemisfornow @theSNP And it’s an unmitigated disaster and unfathomable.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud.

Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block.

Hundreds of jobs are at risk.

And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around.

It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”.

That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive.

This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist.

You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”.
You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”.

You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”.

You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes.

But eventually the spreadsheet wins.

And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close.

Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast.

Real ones.
Local ones.
The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials.
The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”.

This is the part Labour never wants to own.

Their policies are always sold as compassion.

But the consequences are brutally practical.

A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making.

A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”.

A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters.

And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”.

NO.

Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices.

That phrase matters.

Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I can't help thinking that if the British Government brought the energy it has to prevent the "far right" from entering the country to preventing illegal immigrants from entering the country there might not be a "far right" in the first place.

[Jenny Cosh @JennyCosh]

Great questions that really need to be answered

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

@AngelaRayner, a few questions your statement does not answer.

Tax Policy Associates, one of the most respected independent tax bodies in the country, states it cannot understand why HMRC decided not to charge a penalty. Both of your advisers explicitly told you to obtain specialist tax advice before completing the transaction. You did not obtain it. Independent experts say a penalty of approximately 20 percent was the likely and legally correct outcome under Schedule 24 of the Finance Act 2007. HMRC reached a different conclusion without explaining why. Do you believe HMRC reached the correct conclusion and if so can you explain why two independent expert bodies disagree?

You state you had no personal financial interest in the trust set up for your son. The trust was funded in part by NHS compensation money awarded for your son's care. You sold your remaining stake in your Ashton constituency home to that trust for £162,500 in January 2025 and used those proceeds as a deposit on an £800,000 flat in Hove. How do you define no personal financial interest in that transaction?

A £50,000 donation to the Office of Angela Rayner Limited from Refrigeration House Limited arrived on 24 March 2026, described as towards staffing costs and declared on the parliamentary register. Weeks later you paid the £40,000 stamp duty bill. Who owns Refrigeration House Limited, what is their connection to you, and was any part of that donation used directly or indirectly to meet the stamp duty liability?

You say politicians should be held to high standards. The questions above are what high standards look like in practice. They deserve answers.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🚨Always watch out for the word ‘framework’

The King’s Speech includes an Energy Framework Bill. (There will be others)

This is how so much new law is being made now in the UK

Parliament passes a broad framework, without specifics … and then the real rules come later through Statutory Instruments, with no proper debate or real scrutiny and rarely a vote in Parliament.

The rules on targets, standards and obligations are added later and made by Quangos like the Climate Change Committee and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

So once this passes, it’s not just a law! It’s a mechanism to keep changing the rules quietly. …

You know, so you dont kick up a fuss. Very democratic 💣

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🤡 WTAF … The DWP has confirmed that taxpayers have funded an increase in benefits for ‘additional spouses’ in ‘polygamous marriages’

… an increase of 4.8% boost to their benefits from April, for husbands with multiple wives.

Even though Polygamy is ILLEGAL in the UK 🤡

[Jenny Cosh @JennyCosh]

This should be illegal.surely you have to at least be a British citizen

[Gerry @GerryKeogh_]

This is not democracy at work it’s a complete erosion of national sovereignty and accountability.

I genuinely thought it was a joke at first. A guy who only arrived in the country in 2021, on a temporary student/graduate visa, with no long-term commitment to Scotland , no roots here, and apparently fundraising for his next visa just to stay… has now been elected as an MSP for the Scottish Greens in Edinburgh & Lothians East.

He can now help shape laws, spending, and policy that affect Scottish taxpayers, communities, housing, services, and culture for years while his own right to be here could be temporary.

This isn’t “diversity” or “inclusion.” This is fucking lunacy.

[Douglas Robinson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @DouglasRob0]

This video is making SNP voters apoplectic

[Donna Louise @DonnaLouise1212]

Kriss Donaldson was stabbed to death & set on fire 20 years ago in a racist attack by a bunch of asian men. No statue, no special remembrance day & certainly no Dameship for his poor mother. Just forgotten why? Because he was white!

[Jenny Cosh @JennyCosh]

With all the Starmer/Mandelson distraction, this thread is one of the most important on here

[Glenn Meder @GlennMeder]

🧵 THREAD

1/ Your daughter posts something online.

She is 19. In college. Trying to figure out what she believes. She shares a political opinion that an algorithm flags as problematic.

You do not see it happen. No one notifies you. No one tells her.

But 72 hours later, her bank account is frozen. Her student loans are suspended. Her digital ID shows a compliance violation.

And there is nothing you can do to protect her.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

It's amazing that the entire British media and political establishment will spend weeks obsessing over how exactly a paedophile's best friend was appointed by our government, while completely ignoring the fact that the government is destroying our economy through Net Zero, bankrupting the country through welfarism and punitive taxation and disarming the country by failing to fund the military despite repeated warnings from senior military figures.

This obsession with trivia is partly human nature, of course. But it's also a dereliction of duty and a reflection of just how unserious our entire political class has become.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

There are only 2 options…

1️⃣ Starmer lied to Parliament and the nation because getting Mandelson into the most important diplomatic position in the country was more important than the risk. Ask why?

OR

2️⃣ Starmer was not told and didn’t know. Which means an elected PM is not in control of the country and a deep state decides what actions Britain takes and THEY decided Mandelson must be installed in the most important diplomatic position in the country.
Ask why?

That’s it …. There are no other options.

[Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC @BishopDewar]

It is truly a grave disappointment to learn that His Majesty, King Charles III, will not issue an Easter message this year, especially when, in a previous year, he did so with clarity and conviction, yet without a singular focus on the Christian Faith and Church, of which he is Supreme Governor in the Church of England.

At such a pivotal moment in our nation, when many across this United Kingdom feel that our Christian identity is being rapidly stripped away, this silence from the Crown is not neutrality, it is absence.

Let us not forget that Easter is not merely a footnote in our national story. It is its very foundation!

A nation that is untethered from the Resurrection of Christ risks forgetting not only who it is, but why it stands at all!

#CharlesIII #Easter #Christian #Christ

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨 Douglas Murray DESTROYS BBC Newsnight Presenter

Douglas Murray calmly dismantles the BBC on his “less Islam” comment:

Nick Watt: “We should have less Islam in this country. Was that a wise phrase?”

Murray: “Perfectly wise phrase… This country had a wildly stupid and lax immigration policy for decades.”

On the bomber Salman Abedi: “One of the sons they gave this country was Salman Abedi who at 22 killed 22 young girls… one for every year of life this country gave him.”

Then the key logic: “Jihadist extremism, jihadism comes from Islam. Therefore, if it’s 1%, 5%, 15% of people of the Muslim faith who follow that version of it, you’ve got a hell of a problem.

And the more people, this is simple math, the larger the number of people who are followers of a faith that has not solved the extremism problem in its midst… the more extremism you will have.

You don’t get that from the Catholic Church… or the Anglican church.”

Murray closes powerfully: “Nobody else is as incredibly slow in learning as the British media and political class when it comes to this problem.

Why is it the case that Saturday after Saturday we have thousands of people going through major British cities who support the death cults who would murder Jews and the rest of us next?

That’s a question you and Newsnight should answer.”

Countries with less Islam have less Islamic terrorism. Straight talk the BBC clearly struggles with.

[Jenny Cosh @JennyCosh]

@Suffragent_ @Louise_katz I just ordered more heating oil! DOUBLED in price. I live in Scotland it’s very rarely warm. Hopefully the government will be manipulating the weather to give us a hot summer

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Have I just heard this correctly? Starmer has stated the UK is effectively going back into the EU?

Using “not our war” as an excuse? … it’s an emergency so we don’t get a say?

Speechless 💣