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[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: IT HAS BEEN REVEALED THAT DAVID LAMMY LIED REGARDING THE APPOINTMENT OF PETER MANDELSON AS AMBASSADOR

Lammy claimed he warned Starmer NOT to appoint Mandelson

Now it has been revealed on OFFICIAL RECORD he APPROVED of the appointment

Labour always lying

[Steve Jones @Jones787Sj]

When you lift nothing more than a pen.......

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Some lefties didn’t say a word Ricky Jones calling for “throats to be slit.”

Not a word about aggressive, balaclava-clad far-left activists.

Found it funny when Nigel Farage was “milkshaked”.

But draw the line at an AI video of Jeremy Clarkson punching Keir Starmer.

🥴

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

It's not an accident that farmers all across the West are being taxed and regulated out of existence, so BlackRock and Bill Gates can buy up all the farmland.

Control the food, control the people.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

It is only Tuesday, and this Government has already announced an official definition of Islamophobia, an Islamophobia tsar, and plans to push ahead today with restricting our ancient right to trial by jury — all of which will stifle free speech in this country.

This is not governing in the national interest. What we are seeing is an attempt to reintroduce Britain’s blasphemy laws, 18 years after they were abolished by Parliament, and the biggest assault on English liberty — particularly free speech — in over 800 years.

This Government is becoming increasingly authoritarian and more bullish in its open disdain for free speech.

The fight for free speech has never been more important than it is today.

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

Save the planet they said so let’s start charging for plastic carrier bags.

How come a lot of retailers have changed to paper carrier bags but still charge us.

This was always about passing the cost of carrier bags onto the consumer.

They think we are stupid.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

▪️Question the Covid response?
“Covidiot”
“Anti-vaxxer”
“Granny-killer”

▪️Question the Iran war?
“Mullah supporter”

▪️Question the war in Ukraine?
“Putin apologist”

▪️Question the Israeli government?
“Antisemite”

▪️Question US actions in Venezuela?
“Dictator sympathiser”

▪️Question net zero?
“Climate change denier”

▪️Question taxpayer funded hotels for illegal migrants?
“Far-right”
“Racist”

The same pattern of trope gaslighting that is designed to shut down debate and smear those who dare to question. Same pattern every single time.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

We put the land use argument to Keith.

Keith. You are occupying agricultural land that could, theoretically, be used to grow crops. How do you respond?

Keith stopped chewing.

He looked at the field.

The field is on a 30-degree slope in Devon. The topsoil is clay. The drainage is complicated. No tractor has successfully operated in the lower section without becoming a story people tell in the village pub.

Keith looked at us.

Keith, do you believe this field could produce food crops without you on it?

Keith walked to the lower section of the field. He ate a thistle. He stepped on a bramble runner and ate that too. He looked at the clay in the corner where it waterlogged every winter and produced nothing except rushes, which Keith also ate.

Are you saying the field is only productive because you're on it?

Keith looked at us with the expression of an animal that has grasped the argument entirely and found the question slightly beneath him.

He then left through the gate he had opened by himself.

He was in the road for nine minutes.

He ate a passing cyclist's energy bar.

We are not including this in the land use efficiency report.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

"Telling companies that women find the words 'ambitious', 'competitive' or 'entrepreneurial' too masculine is frankly insulting to women."

You don’t say. 🫣😳

This government gets worse by the day. 🙄

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

David Lammy: "... because Cyprus is part of NATO"

erm, Cyprus is not a member of NATO. Maybe its just a slip of the tongue? Except he repeats the claim just a minute later

"... Cyprus is a NATO country"

Does the deputy PM not know that Cyprus isn't a member of a NATO?

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

If Labour’s national inquiry into Pakistani rape gangs won’t:

- Investigate or asses role race and religion played.

- Prosecute those involved in the cover up.

Then what is the point of it? An absolute sham.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The sheer stupidity of the British ruling class at a time of crisis. They make the French aristocracy in 1789 look responsible!!

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

I didn’t really get the problem with gender ideology at first.

I’m liberal-minded about most things. 'Live and let' live has generally been my motto. I believed inclusion mattered. I believed in being kind. In not using language that might upset people unnecessarily.

I knew people who identified as transgender. I knew some adults chose medical treatments or surgery to resemble the opposite sex. That seemed to me a matter of personal autonomy. Adults can do what they wish with their own bodies.

What I hadn’t realised - and I feel slightly embarrassed admitting this - was that I’d misunderstood what was being claimed.

I thought “transgender” meant a form of self-expression. A man who liked wearing women’s clothes. Someone changing their name. Gender non-conformity.

What I hadn’t grasped was that some activists weren’t just asking for tolerance. They were asserting that declaring yourself the opposite sex made you the opposite sex. Not metaphorically. Literally.

And that this wasn’t just cultural. It had legal consequences.

- It meant men who said they were women were demanding access to women’s sports, prisons, domestic violence shelters and hospital wards

- It meant the rewriting of healthcare language - “pregnant people”, “bodies with cervixes” - to avoid saying “women”

- It meant children struggling with identity being affirmed onto medical pathways with lifelong implications

And also redefining same-sex attraction. Lesbians called 'bigoted' for not wanting relationships with men who identify as women. Gay men accused of prejudice for saying they're not attracted to female bodies. None of which made any sense.

But I'd also overlooked how far this had travelled - into HR policies, professional bodies, schools, political parties and public institutions.

And how easily disagreement was framed as cruelty. Speaking up felt risky - because others were being publicly humiliated for doing so.

None of this is abstract.

Because sex is the basis on which safeguarding works. On which data is collected. On which cancer screening programmes run. On which fair sport and single-sex spaces depend. It’s written into law - including the Equality Act - because material differences matter.

If sex becomes a 'feeling' rather than a biological category, those protections become unstable.

And once reality becomes negotiable, everything does.

Once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it.
But I needed to be sure.

So I read. Books, research papers, policy documents. When I finally spoke publicly, there was backlash from all directions.

Many women thanked me - both quietly and publicly.
But some feminists criticised me for speaking too late.

Others were angry about a past interview I’d done with the parent of a transgender person, accusing me of promoting harm.

It takes courage to change your mind publicly.

It takes courage to speak when you know your reputation, friendships or livelihood may be on the line - when you know raising your voice could strain, or even end, relationships you value.

Once I understood what was at stake, staying silent was no longer an option. I lost my livelihood simply for saying I didn’t like the phrase “pregnant people”. That alone tells you something is deeply wrong. It shouldn’t be this way.

I will never judge any woman for when she finds her voice.

Because every voice adds value - whenever it is raised.

And I know how persuasive this ideology can be. I know how easily it bypassed me. And I know how much courage it takes to admit, publicly, that you got something wrong.

[Cody Libolt @CodyLibolt]

"We need to save the planet from those who say they want to save the planet.”

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I’m not just angry. I’m furious with you Elizabeth Warren.

Stop using the suffering of my people as political ammunition against Donald Trump.

You say you are grieving for those killed in this “unnecessary war.”
Really? I checked your social media. More than 20 posts attacking President Trump after he removed a monster terrorist of Iran, Ali Khamenei, but not one post grieving the massacre of more than 32,000 unarmed Iranian people. Why? Shocking.

More than 10,000 protesters were intentionally blinded by security forces. Young women were shot in the eyes. Students were beaten to death. Families were burying their children. Where were you then?

We are not a tool. The pain of us Iranians is not a talking point for your partisan battles.

As a woman, your silence while women in Iran were being shot, jailed, and blinded is more than disappointing. It is insulting. No it is beyond that. It is a slap in the face of Iranian mothers burying their children who have been killed by Islamic Republic.

I cannot ignore this hypocrisy.
Our suffering did not fit your narrative. Our voices were inconvenient. Now that the situation serves your political agenda, you speak loudly.

Very heartbreaking to see, powerful women in the West totally ignoring Iranians being slaughtered. 💔

[Decado @ItsDecado]

As an Iranian living inside my country during war, I will say this plainly.

The chance of me being killed by masked, armed men roaming the streets, or by gunmen standing on mosque rooftops behind machine guns, is far greater than the chance of dying in an airstrike.

That is the truth of life under the Islamic Regime occupying Iran. The real fear here has never come from the sky. It has always come from the men the regime unleashes among its own people.
#Irán #IranIsraelWar

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

ANDREW NEIL: Starmer has picked a fight with our most important ally at a time of grave global peril and a hollowed out British military. It was a stupid thing to do.
https://t.co/fEDe6HyTbR

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🚨 Well this is awkward..

Mauritius is demanding the immediate handover of the Chagos Islands and publicly announces its backing Iran.

So Britain is to hand sovereignty of a strategic military territory to a government siding with the regime threatening Western security.

Another fine mess he’s got us in to 🤡

Credit @GuidoFawkes

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

It shouldn’t have taken an Iranian attack on the world’s largest gas export facility in Qatar for us to realise the benefits of being able to produce our own oil and gas.

As the world gets more dangerous, we must ditch fantasy Net Zero thinking and prioritise our own energy resilience.

All of this has shown up our luxury belief that we in Britain are better off keeping our own oil and gas in the ground while making ourselves more reliant on Qatari LNG imports.

First, let’s get the worst of the climate change lobby’s arguments out of the way.

Destroying our own oil and gas production does not mean we will need any less oil and gas.

Even the captured Climate Change Committee acknowledges that we’ll need oil and gas for decades to come.

If we are going to need it, then of course we should get as much as possible from Britain. That is just common sense.

Instead of maximising our own production, we’ve been sleepwalking into disaster and allowed the powerful green lobby to demonise an industry that is vital for our national resilience.

Yesterday, Rachel Reeves missed an opportunity at the Spring Statement to reverse the damage that has been wrought on the North Sea.

The Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, is a dangerous fantasist who has been hellbent on sacrificing our oil and gas production on the altar of Net Zero.

He’d banned new oil and gas licences and charging effective marginal tax rates of over 100% on some companies.

And for what? So we can increase our imports of higher-emission LNG from the other side of the world by 40% while British production is in freefall.

The green lobby argue that there is no point drilling more in the North Sea, because ‘all of our gas is sold on international markets’. This is nonsense.

Every single molecule of gas we extract from the North Sea goes into our pipes, making up half of our supply.

We are losing 1,000 jobs a month, squandering £50 billion of investment and becoming less secure. Not a single exploration well was drilled in British waters last year – for the first time since 1964.

Labour trumpet that the basin is just in natural decline. But Norway, which shares the exact same basin, tells a different story – last year they drilled 49 exploration wells and made 21 new discoveries.

Admittedly, my own party have not been perfect. Policies like the windfall tax or mandating the electrification of oil rigs have not helped.

When I was Energy Secretary, I signed off Rosebank, legislated to protect oil and gas licences and fought against windfall taxes – all in the face of great opposition.

The Conservatives are clear that the oil and gas industry is a national asset and we must do all we can to maximise economic recovery of our own resources.

So what should Rachel Reeves have done yesterday? First, end the ban on new licences, end the windfall tax, and scrap the Net Zero duties which are hammering our oil and gas sector. Fast-track permissions for Rosebank and Jackdaw.

Downstream, our heavy industry and refineries are in crisis. We lost a third of our refineries last year alone. We have to stop imposing crippling, escalating Carbon Taxes that are killing British industry.

We need to double down on nuclear which has the most secure energy supply chain, streamline regulations and reverse Labour’s decision to cancel my plan for another large nuclear plant at Wylfa.

We must be clear-eyed about the fact that Ed Miliband is making us dangerously exposed to China’s dominance of critical mineral and renewable supply chains.

We need to repeal the Climate Change Act that forces us to subordinate the priorities of energy security and affordability to decarbonisation.

And if we want lower reliance on oil and gas, growth, and better living standards, then we must make electricity cheap.

Our Cheap Power Plan to cut electricity bills by 20% for households and businesses would be a start.

As the world gets more dangerous, we need to prioritise our energy and industrial resilience.

[Kaeley Triller @KaeleyT]

If you still don’t understand what people mean when they say “toxic empathy,” maybe this picture can help.

Here we have a liberal white woman marching down the streets of NYC, carrying a sign mourning the recently slain dictator Ali Khamenei, a man who supported marriage to 9-year-olds, mandated hijab under threat of arrest and flogging, oversaw the punishment of women who removed their headscarves in protest, and imprisoned female activists for decades.

In her other hand, she holds a sign that says “Globalize the intifada,” as in, “Bring these draconian laws to my own backyard.”

The regime she’s defending would imprison or kill her for standing on that street corner with that sign, especially with her head uncovered.

Don’t they make Darwin Awards for this crap?