LibertarianPolemicist

Christopher Ecclestone - Policy Wonk & Polemicist

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

Pushing into the podcast world with a look at the floundering Starmer regime...
https://t.co/mpeug2yq1V

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

Bi-partisanship! Or no ship, as the case may be...

[Agent P @AgentP22]

A generation of politicians who left Britain's defences in a perilous state

And they wonder why people are angry.

[Modern Royal Navy @ModernNavy]

The number of Royal Navy ships and submarines has decreased by 85% over the past 75 years. Many of the 'warships' making up the numbers now are patrol or training ships unsuitable for modern combat operations. The @RoyalNavy only has 13 destroyers and frigates @ModernNavy

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

Royal Navy Fleet readiness - a lesson:

Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, convinced war was coming, ordered a fleet mobilisation test.

After that test, on the night of 29–30 July 1914 - WITHOUT WAITING FOR CABINET APPROVAL - Churchill, ordered the Grand Fleet to remain at war stations and directed the First Sea Lord (Prince Louis of Battenberg) to send it from its base in Portland to Scapa Flow in Scotland, to avoid a potential surprise attack.

This meant that upon the declaration of war on August 4, 1914, the fleet was fully prepared and in place, leading Field Marshal Kitchener to remark, "There is one thing... they cannot take away from you: the Fleet was ready".

Donald Trump was quite right. Keir Starmer is no Churchill.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

The war may last days, but replenishment of the American arsenal will take months.

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

Thatcher organised a fleet of 127 warships and cruise ships within 48hrs ready to sail to the Falkland Islands after Argentina invaded 🇬🇧

Starmer organised 1 ship to sail to Cyprus to protect the island but it won't be ready to sail until next week 🚣🏼‍♂️

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

No, @DavidLammy, Cyprus is NOT a NATO country.

This is really basic stuff, David. Just do everyone a favor and resign. This is all too embarrassing

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

Which of this trio betrayed the dream of Proportional Representation?

[Proud Somalilander💚Hawd&Reserve area @DeryFoundation]

This is very positive going forward. We had a very productive meeting with Cllr Steve Radford and his leader of the Liberal Party & his colleague Alan Steele from Scottish Liberal who also wrote to David Cameron last week that urged the UK Government to Re-recognizes Somaliland

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

Only been on the drawing board since 1930, while cult of the London bus is still worshipped frenziedly.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

We used to build trains. Now we schedule buses.

A real Bakerloo Line extension could be entirely self funded through capturing land value uplift.

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

NIMBYs will die in a ditch for the crappiest bungalow or ugliest 1960s monstrosity. As i once said "Embrace the bulldozer, it is your friend"

[Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 @DuncanStott]

The existing building is ghastly and the site is less than five minutes walk to the station.

NIMBYs will be our death.

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

@EmilyTesterLD Jokes on you!

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

@jk_rowling has been a standard bearer in this #liberal cause. Civil disobedience from a Gandhi for our times.

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

@Jebadoo2 🙄

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

@LiberalParty_UK

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

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[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

Good to see @LiberalParty_UK leading the charge in Scotland against the odious #HateCrimeAct while the other parties, including the pseudo-liberals, shiver their timbers before the #SNP tyranny

[Chríss @Chriss_m]

JK Rowling pulls the proverbial trigger. It’ll be interesting to see how Police Scotland react.

[Roddy Dunlop KC @RoddyQC]

You see, it’s very easy to say “just don’t be hateful”. I always try not to. But in a world where incidents are recorded based on perception and some have enabled “perma-offended” mode, the injunction to be “nice” is a call for vanilla banality. Is that what we want?

[LibertarianPolemicist @LIBerateEngland]

Replace the Service Complaints process with a #Military Employment Tribunal..... sign now...
https://t.co/T3DuVWjNPq
@LiberalParty_UK @AllanRMSteele1