Lord Benham (Lord / Sir)

Self titled Lord. Wasps and Chelsea. Apparently “far-right”.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

This needs to be posted every day from now on...

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

As soon as Keir Starmer appears on the TV & opens his mouth I automatically say F*** Off.

I can’t help myself.

Is anyone doing this?

I’ve never sworn so much in my life until Labour came into power 🙀

[Lord Benham (Lord / Sir) @LordBenham]

@FlashForFreedom Completely agree and am worried for mine too.
Wonderful to see you back as well, sir.

[🔞British & Irish wives and girlfriends @BritishRW_GF]

I would like to apologise to everyone one. Over the last few weeks I had stopped taking my medication and wrnt off the rails. If I upset or offended any of you I am truly sorry. Now back on he mend.

Please repost this post this and make it my biggest post ever...

men, as well as women mental health issues, affect us all, and there is help out there.
Never think your alone i am always here love Sue @BritishRW_GF

[SOI media 🇬🇧 @MediaSOI]

A large hovercraft like this could carry around 400 illegal migrants back to France in 25 minutes. It doesn’t need to dock, it could drop them right back on the French beach they embarked from.
To hell with French opinion.

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

If the problem is you're borrowing too much, that arises because you're spending too much. If you're spending too much, you must reduce your spending...It's a very silly person that says, "I'm going bankrupt the way I am but I can't afford to cut so don't ask me."

[...]

You know 30% of the people in council houses have higher household incomes than 45% of the people in owner-occupied homes. And yet, the people in the owner-occupied homes are having to subsidise some of that 30%.

You don't cut subsidies to those people who need them. The trouble now is they're right across the board.

And where do subsidies come from? Not from the government, but out of the taxpayers' pocket.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

https://t.co/Z8V6lXyjLZ

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

A country that votes for Andy Burnham deserves the bankruptcy that will ensue. Learn some lessons about economics in real time.

[Mr_Speaker @pinkgreyblu]

Ill just leave that there.

[Keir Wrong Un @keirwrong]

Rachel Reeves after meeting an actual working class person

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

"UK Government confirms ban on new North Sea drilling licences"

"UK waters down Russian oil sanctions amid fuel crisis brought on by Strait of Hormuz closure"

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Congratulations Arsenal.

[Rab @Rab62567608]

🫣

[Conn @ConnCFC]

Manchester City’s man of the match today

[Lord Benham (Lord / Sir) @LordBenham]

@RupertLowe10 @Ferdinand641 Congratulations and a very happy anniversary to you both 🥳

[Lord Benham (Lord / Sir) @LordBenham]

One of the best analysis I’ve read.

[Will Self @wself]

https://t.co/AJCrWLS9Kb

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

Burnham losing the by-election and Labour losing Manchester would be so funny, I don't even care if the Tit Wizard's headbangers do it

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

I couldn’t care less about the King’s Speech, Kier Starmer’s fate, or who takes over the helm in No 10 next. It’s low theatre at this point because none of them can, or show any sign of wishing, to steer the ship away from violent collision with reality.

Britain was decisively and obviously off course from anything functionally democratic or economically viable long before Gordon Brown snuck the Lisbon Treaty through Parliament in the dead of night.

By then the rot was already advanced, but that act of constitutional sleight-of-hand crystallised it: sovereignty quietly auctioned off to Brussels while the public was told to look the other way.

The 2008 crash slammed a lid on real wage growth for anyone not already in the asset-owning class; the military, hollowed out by endless expeditionary wars and procurement disasters, was in a shit state fifteen years ago and has only atrophied further.

By 2012 the writing was on the wall with mass migration—its demographic, cultural and economic effects plain to anyone not paid to ignore them.

Police quality has been systematically trashed by Theresa May’s reforms and the deliberate evisceration of Special Branch, turning what was once a recognisably British constabulary into something closer to a politically compliant and social-work bureaucracy, parts of which played a vile and still unpunished role in the rape gangs

The 2016 Brexit referendum was not some xenophobic spasm; it was a national demand for a government that would finally put the interests of the people of these islands first.

Instead the political establishment and the permanent bureaucracy launched a decade-long campaign of sabotage and rearguard action, determined that nothing fundamental would change.

Keir Starmer is not a good man and he is certainly not a good Prime Minister, but the brutal truth is that none of them will be better. The system cannot fix itself. It is too incompetent, too captured, and too corrupt.

The local election results last week confirmed precisely the political and social dynamics I have been diagnosing for years.

Voters in traditional Labour and Conservative heartlands delivered a stinging rebuke to the establishment parties that presided over high migration, cultural displacement and stagnant living standards.

Reform UK became the vehicle for native discontent, its gains in working-class northern and Midlands seats signalling exactly the cross-class, regional backlash I have described: a tripartite divide between those who still believe in the nation and those who do not.

Polarisation, fragmentation, the splintering of the old two-party cartel, all of it illustrates the breakdown of democratic consent and the rise of identity-driven politics that are the classic preconditions for deeper conflict.

One could pretend this is healthy democratic pressure relief. It is not. Electoral revolt is an early symptom, not a cure.

The structural drivers, including mass migration, elite refusal to acknowledge cultural incompatibility, economic decline, are too deeply embedded for conventional politics to address.

Reform may win seats, but the unelected bureaucracy, the courts, the media and the NGOs will obstruct, delay and dilute any real change.

The establishment’s preferred candidate is now the one-time “controlled opposition” because the system is that desperate. Meanwhile the problems metastasise faster than any promised reform can catch up.

Hard to get excited, then, about whatever announcements limp out of the King’s Speech. They will not survive contact with reality if we ever get an actually British government staffed by competent, responsible people accountable to the country and to duty rather than to supranational ideology or personal advancement. If we do not get that government, the country will not survive in any recognisable form.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Here are 4 things that happened to the UK in the last 24 hours:

1. The Labour government confirmed it will remove the right to a jury trial. Cases will be tried by a judge alone.

2. The Labour gvt confirmed it will impose Digital ID despite it never being included in Labour's manifesto and nearly 3 million Brits signing a petition against it.

3. The Labour gvt confirmed we will "align" with the European Union, directly going against the 2016 democratic vote for Brexit & forcing the British people to pay billions for laws they'll never be able to influence.

4. The Labour gvt confirmed that while Islamist sympathisers & antisemites are free to march on the streets of our capital city, & while it welcomes former allies of al-Qaeda into Downing Street, it has banned conservative activists from joining a peaceful protest against mass immigration in London.

Put all these things together and you get a sense - just a sense - of how hideously authoritarian and illiberal this Labour government really is.