Kev Simmonds 👌🏻🏴‍☠️

Vocal, ex RAF, Patriotic, political Libertarian, economic pragmatist, Football, Rugby League, MMA, Outdoors, Animals...Devil's Advocate, views my own

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Let’s nail this state lie once and for all. The government is NOT increasing defence spending by £270 billion during this parliament. It is a ludicrous claim.
Yet one Keir Starmer made to Parliament’s Liaison Committee in March: Labour, he said, will “spend £270 billion MORE (my emphasis) than we would otherwise have done on defence” in this Parliament.
Starmer has always been weak on facts and figures but even by his standards this is a massive porkie.
This is the truth: £270 billion is the total cumulative projected defence spending for the four financial years from 2025/26 up to and including 2028/29 lumped together.
It is NOT even the cumulative increase in defence spending during these years.
Nobody (except perhaps Gordon Brown) speaks about public spending in this way, unless the intention is massively to mislead.
By 28/29 defence spending is projected to be £13 billion a year more than at the start of the period. So not exactly £270 billion. But I guess if you’re going to lie you might as well make it a whopper.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

The muted response by Satvir Kaur, the nation’s first Sikh MP, to the shocking case of a young white murder victim handcuffed by police who believed a Sikh’s lies, means hopefully the voters of Southampton Test will chuck her out at the Election.
This is what she said at the end of her statement; “ Everyone deserves to feel safe within our community.” Is that it?
She didn’t deal with the issue that a member of her religious community was carrying an 8inch ceremonial knife which may have been okay in medieval times in India but not today Southampton high street.
As a junior member of Starmer’s government I presume she was told not to get involved.
Same with Home Secretary, Lammy and the rest of the creeps who would have been first on the airwaves if a young man of colour had died while in handcuffs.
Kaur has a majority of 9,000+.
That can be easily be overturned. I know you won’t forget.

[Institute of Economic Affairs @iealondon]

📉 "People used to draw a big contrast between youth unemployment in southern Europe and the United Kingdom. We had a flexible labour market and a booming hospitality sector. And now we're hitting double digits."

@doktor_val warns Britain is becoming the thing we used to criticise about Spain.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Muhammed Amaad has not been acquitted.

That distinction matters enormously and the media coverage is blurring it almost completely.

Two juries failed to reach a verdict.
That is not the same as innocence.

It means twelve people — twice — could not unanimously agree on what happened.

The CPS has now declined a third trial, citing the cost and difficulty of achieving a verdict after two hung juries.

PC Lydia Ward had her nose broken.
That is a fact that cannot be litigated away.

Amaaz was convicted — of assaulting Ward and another female officer, and a member of the public.

He faces sentencing on June 26.

His brother walks with no conviction against his name.

Meanwhile the judge referred Farage — a man who forced this case to trial in the first place — to the Attorney General for calling it what it was.

We are being asked to accept a justice system where the man who broke a policewoman’s nose gets sentenced, his brother walks on a technicality of jury disagreement, and the politician who made the prosecution happen faces scrutiny for saying the words “two-tier justice.”

Does anyone still wonder why public trust in institutions is collapsing?

[Professor Dr King Mike 🤴 @MikeSouthWestUK]

Dear @HantsPolice, I have a quiz for you:

Of the two, which one is more important to investigate first?

1: “he’s a racist”

2: “I have been stabbed”

Take all the time you need….

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

You have to ask why successive governments have given work visas to low skilled jobs that British young people should have.

Labour’s claims that they are only giving immigration visas to high skilled people but they aren’t … demand they tell you why!!

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

STARMER - " I'll cut Government waste" and then he created 27 pointless new QUANGOS

Here's the list of 27 bollocks departments created by Starmer in 9 months to funnel £ BILLIONS of your tax into private consultants.

▪️Regulatory Innovation Office - To erm... "streamline regulations and promote economic growth by reducing bureaucratic hurdles for businesses". ​ HAHAHAHA😂

▪️National Infrastructure & Service Transformation Authority - This merges the National Infrastructure Commission with the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Apparently to speed up infrastructure by adding MORE red tape 🤡

▪️Great British Energy - Not an energy company but a risky investment vehicle spending $8.4BILLION of tax payers money, on erm... experimental energy ideas 🤡

▪️Mission Control - (seriously it's embarrassing) to oversee and coordinate the government's Clean Power 2030 Action Plan. Which the previous 2 above should be doing🤡

▪️National Energy System Operator - Created to manage the transition to a fully decarbonized and efficient energy system. Shouldn't the 3 above all be doing this? 🤡

▪️Solar Taskforce - Set up to accelerate the deployment of solar energy across the country & destroy farmland 🤡 ​

▪️Border Security Command - focusing on tackling smuggling gangs facilitating illegal migrant crossings over the English Channel. ​Abject failure already, with more boats landing than before it was established 😂

▪️Jet Zero Taskforce - Created to advise on the development of sustainable aviation fuels and strategies to reduce aviation emissions. ​Also means, interfering in the private sector that they know nothing about.🤡

▪️British Infrastructure Taskforce - Formed to build business confidence in UK infrastructure investments and develop a 10 year infrastructure strategy. ​er... 4 OTHERS similar, no idea why this group exist at all 😂🤡

▪️Creative Industries Taskforce - Established to support and promote growth within the creative sectors. Centralised control of the creative industries by the civil service? 😂🤡

▪️Circular Economy Taskforce: Set up to drive initiatives that promote recycling and sustainable resource use. ​Also known as Non Job eco grifting 🤡

▪️Tree Planting Taskforce - Created to oversee national tree-planting, as part of environmental conservation efforts. ​Utterly pointless! we already have the forestry commission, which by the way is behind schedule on planting trees... which is its remit 🤡

▪️Child Poverty Taskforce - Formed to reduce child poverty across the nation. ​There would be less child poverty if we spent more money on children and less on bollocks QUANGOS.🤡

▪️Flooding Resilience Taskforce - Established to enhance the country's preparedness and response to flooding incidents. ​Pointless non jobs, we already had this within the environment department.🤡

▪️Motor Insurance Taskforce - Private industry central government control. Created to tackle issues within the motor insurance industry and protect consumers. ​(we already have this function within government)🤡

▪️New Towns Taskforce - Set up to plan and develop new towns to address housing shortages. ​Which we wouldn't need had the Border QUANGO stopped the boats.🤡

▪️Onshore Wind Industry Taskforce - Established to promote and expand the onshore wind energy sector. ​Which is what 4 of the above QUANGOS were set up to do.🤡

▪️Skills England - Created to oversee and enhance skills development and vocational training. ​Non Jobs, we already have this covered by DfE.🤡

▪️Industrial Strategy Council - Formed to provide independent advice on the government's industrial strategy. What? advisors advising advisors?😂🤡

▪️Passenger Standards Authority - Established to monitor and improve standards in public transportation. Non Jobs for pen pushers. 😂🤡
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▪️National Jobs and Careers - Created to provide guidance and support for job seekers and career development. Total non jobs,could be done by the Skills England above & should be done under DWP anyway.

▪️Ethics and Integrity Commissioner - Appointed to oversee ethical standards within public institutions. ​NON Jobs, that's what HR is for 🤡😂

▪️House of Commons Modernisation Committee - Formed to propose and implement reforms within the House of Commons. ​Not an entirely shit idea.✔️

▪️School Support Staff Negotiating Body - Established to negotiate terms and conditions for school support staff. ​ What? 🤡

▪️Independent Football Regulator - Set up to oversee the governance of football, aiming to ensure transparency and fairness within the sport. Total Non Jobs to interfere & centrally control a private industry🤡

▪️Fair Work Agency - Created to promote fair work practices across various sectors, ensuring equitable treatment and conditions for workers. Non Jobs for no reason. See above point about HR. 🤡

▪️Defence Innovation Agency - Established to drive innovation within the defense sector. ​What then is the point of the department of defence? isn't that literally its job?🤡

No private organisation would EVER run in such a wasteful and pointless way, over centralising and creating competing departments of bollocks, within the same sector. We don't need a chainsaw we need a bulldozer.

All of the above need closing immediately 💣

[Kev Simmonds 👌🏻🏴‍☠️ @KevSimmonds]

Imagine this is the business I work for, we’d employ another 100 people to oversee the work we do.

Bureaucratic incompetence

[Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones]

Each department in government will now have its own delivery unit, led by a senior civil servant. And every Secretary of State and Minister of State will be given a new “delivery advisor” in their private office to support this work.

These new delivery functions will be accountable to both their Secretary of State and to my team.

This builds on my recent work setting up the new joint No10 and Cabinet Office Delivery Unit.

Read more: https://t.co/Y1KiM7kuvf

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

Let’s hope the Veterans Minister sees this very sad interview. Why would any young person want to join up when they see how veterans serving as far back as 1970s are being treated by this Government

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Police say today's 'Unite the Kingdom' rally passed 'largely without any signficant incident'. Probably worth noting that at the 2025 Notting Hill carnival, 528 people were arrested, four people were stabbed, and 55 police officers were assaulted.

[Kev Simmonds 👌🏻🏴‍☠️ @KevSimmonds]

He’s going all out…

Quiet now, it’ll soon be over

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Today the voices of division will be loud.

They don't speak for the country I know, one that belongs to all of us.

That's our Britain. A Britain worth fighting for.

https://t.co/hjMYNOJYHP

[Kev Simmonds 👌🏻🏴‍☠️ @KevSimmonds]

Why does it take 5 days? Assaulted someone in a coffee shop and then kicked off with the coppers, video evidence.

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

BREAKING NEWS; After a 5 Week Trial & FIVE days of Deliberations the Jury in the trial of these👇two brothers could Not reach a Unanimous verdict; SO? Have been sent home for the weekend & it will extend into a SIXTH day with the Judge now prepared to accept a Majority verdict👇

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

It's not vegan leather. It's plastic.

It's not oat milk. It's a beverage made by enzymatically processing oat starch and emulsifying it with rapeseed oil.

It's not vegan cheese. It's coconut oil, modified starch, and titanium dioxide pressed into a slice.

It's not plant-based meat. It's pea-protein isolate, seed oils, and methylcellulose extruded into a patty.

It's not a butter alternative. It's an industrial spread invented by a soap company.

It's not a milk alternative. It's water with oats and additives, sold for double the price of milk.

Every product on the plant-based shelf has been linguistically rebranded to borrow the legitimacy of the food it replaced.

The cow has not been consulted on the use of her name.

The sheep has not consented to the term vegan wool.

The marketing department in London has consented to all of it.

The animals predate the marketing department by ten thousand years.

The marketing department will be gone before the animals will.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

He was Russel group university student. He had his whole life ahead of him.

But he was stabbed to death by a foreigner. He could have survived, but died in handcuffs, arrested, after his attacker falsely claimed he was "racist" to him.

The media is silent on this story.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Just a reminder for left wing politicians who are demonstrating unabashed bigotry toward one political protest over others.

“One rule for them and one rule for everyone else”

[Kev Simmonds 👌🏻🏴‍☠️ @KevSimmonds]

@NormanBrennan Do you think they’ll poke and prod to provoke?

[Bev Turner @beverleyturner]

Last year's Unite the Kingdom rally = 23 arrests

Notting Hill carnival = 443 arrests

Palestinian marches = >500 arrests.

I'm not making a point about race. I'm looking at the facts about the threat level.

This is @Keir_Starmer trying to hate-bait you into violence. RISE ABOVE his attempts to divide the country.

Wave your flags. Drink your flasks of tea. Hug strangers - just like last year.

And celebrate our history, our shared culture and our potentially great nation.

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[Peter Bleksley @PeterBleksley]

The @metpoliceuk is nearly 200 years old, yet tomorrow it faces its biggest test. Will it deliver policing fairly, even-handedly, consistently, and without fear or favour across both marches? If not, then both the organisation and its head, Sir Mark Rowley, will be finished.

[Rachael @ShameOnLibs]

Ezra Levant received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for his contributions to "advancing freedom of expression". And gets banned from entering the UK to freely express his views! Labour liars think hes the far right 🙄 cant make this shit up anymore

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

We have, at this hour, disturbing reports of a Hereford cross operating, with apparent impunity, on a sixteen-hectare site in Herefordshire. The animal is named Gerald. The following is a reconstruction of his activities, hour by hour, compiled from witness statements and the kitchen window.

5.45am. Gerald wakes up. He is, by every published account, ruining the climate. He addresses this by standing in a field that is currently sequestering carbon. He is unaware of his complicity.

6.10am. Gerald scratches his shoulder against the gatepost. He has been doing this on the same gatepost for two and a half years. The gatepost has, by long use, achieved a particular polish that the farmer's wife has, twice, considered photographing.

6.30am. Gerald begins his daily assault on the atmosphere. The assault consists of eating grass. The grass, six months ago, pulled the carbon directly out of the air. Gerald is removing the carbon from the grass that removed it from the sky.

8.30am. Gerald exhales. The exhalation contains methane. The methane will, over the next nine years, break down into water vapour and CO2. The CO2 will be absorbed by next year's grass. Gerald will eat next year's grass. The cycle has completed itself before any spreadsheet has noticed.

10.45am. Gerald produces a pat. The dung beetles, by Friday, will have buried it. The soil under Gerald's hooves is building, year by year. He has not invoiced for this.

12.00pm. Gerald lies down. He chews. The rumen is converting cellulose (which no human can digest) into protein (which every human depends on). He is performing alchemy. He is doing it lying down.

1.30pm. Gerald stares at a magpie for forty seconds. The magpie leaves first. Gerald has, by quiet agreement, won.

3.00pm. Gerald drinks 30 litres at the trough. The water is rain. The other 14,970 litres in the "15,000 litres per kilogram" headline are also rain.

The grass would, in his absence, die in autumn and rot in the field. The carbon would return to the atmosphere either way. Gerald is the optional middle of a process that was going to happen regardless.

The optional middle is, however, the part that feeds people.

The optional middle is also the part that builds the soil.

Gerald has, by close of business, ruined nothing.

The accusations will, in the morning, be repeated.

Gerald will, in the morning, fail those too.