BlackpoolDave

A grumpy anti social ageing individual currently enjoying the sunset of life doing the absolute minimum possible.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

January, 2025. Keir Starmer is asked why he and his "Safeguarding Minister" Jess Phillips do not support a national inquiry into grooming gangs.

Starmer claimed that the "basic problem" was already well known and then immediately pivoted to attacking the people who were calling for the national inquiry.

Starmer: They're spreading misinformation. They're jumping on the far right bandwagon. They're trying to incite violence. They're looking for attention.

Everything Starmer said in this video was in direct response to being asked why he doesn't want a national inquiry into grooming gangs.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

@Keir_Starmer I’m sure Henry’s family have the same contempt for you as the rest of us.
A boy is dead due to woke ideology and your obsession to appease any other culture, other than our own.

Get on your knees, like you did for George Floyd.

Children’s lives matter!!

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

This is called "dupers delight".

When a psychopath gets away with something they know they did, they physically can't help but smile.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇬🇧 The Brothers who went viral for smashing up English Police Officers face at Manchester Airport have gotten away with it - there is no re-trial.

Why?

Because in England, a Jury, needs to reach consensus and now in England many of the Jurors maybe Muslim, some perhaps might find it culturally acceptable, to break the noses of Female Police in Airports.

The UK is totally cooked.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The SNP and Nicola Sturgeon will be breathing huge sighs of relief. Just think what we might have learned of their dark arts if there had been a trial. I wonder what’s been going on behind closed doors in the run up to this plea. And what’s in it for Murrell?

[BlackpoolDave @NoTrapsGolf]

“Clowns to the left of me jokers to the right” How prophetic were Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan ?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Usual SNP lies. Scottish taxpayers don’t contribute a penny to HS2. Indeed Scotland gets more public money to spend via the Barnet consequential formula because HS2 is deemed an England-only spending project. Doh!

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

‼️I am staggered at this post from a PM who has watched hate filled matches on our streets every week for 2 years. And has never spoken like this.

Today, he labels every single person in this country, black, white and all shades in between, who are concerned about social cohesion and cultural erosion, as Racist and thugs.

It is unforgivable 🚨

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election:
Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister.
Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour.
We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run.
We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I agree 100%. I am and have always been very proud to be Scottish. That will never change. But I am not proud of what the SNP has done to Scotland (or Labour for that matter), what it has become and I fear we are now in relentless decline, in stark contradistinction to our glorious past. But the Scots have nobody to blame but themselves. Nobody forced this dire mediocrity on them. They voted for it. Again and again and again. Devolution has only made it worse. The politics and ambition of the kailyard.

[Sorcha Eastwood MP @SorchaEastwood]

Will the real Keir Starmer please stand up? Is it the man who said that his govt would tread lightly on the lives of people? The man that said he'd have a decade of national renewal? The man who said we'd get better and then engulfed us all in this while the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. We deserve better 👏

[Rupert Myers @RupertMyers]

What a letter

[David Maddox @DavidPBMaddox]

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense.

https://t.co/9Zp14BGCoD

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Islamic Republic of Iran has just been nominated to the UN Committee for Programme and Coordination to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention.
The British government, of course, did not object to Iran’s appointment — even though the Iranian regime has been massacring thousands and thousands of protestors this year.
At least it shows satire is not dead.
NEXT UP> Satan nominated to investigate sin.

[Ross Kempsell @RossKempsell]

Starmer has immediately flown to the Middle East to emphasise his crucial role in the US-Iran ceasefire, which he didn’t broker, didn’t know was coming, didn’t participate in shaping and had absolutely no part in whatsoever

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Scottish government’s Glen Sannox ferry, built and owned by the state, began serving the busy Troon-Isle of Arran route in January 2025. 
It was seven years late and four times over budget. 
It is now out of action with engine problems.
It only returned to service last week following previous repairs to its exhaust system.
It also needs new propellers as part of £3.2m repair costs, along with its equally troubled sister ship Glen Rosa.

[Higgy @higgyboson]

Yesterday I was advised by my optician to go to A&E about an eye condition that I'd developed.

This morning I drove to Torbay Hospital, parked up, walked into the A&E department past about 6 ambulances waiting to offload patients, saw a sea of people in the waiting room with absolutely no idea when their ailment might be looked at and immediately decided to turn around, walk out the door and go home.

The UK is becoming more of a third World country than some of the third World crap holes we send money to.

Meanwhile I'm having to work longer hours just to stand still.

You have to wonder EXACTLY how this will all end. If basic services are ALL declining while the amount of money we pay in taxes is forever increasing it surely won't be long before the whole system completely collapses.

I give it 5 years.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Every measure you list involves spending wealth.
You don’t list one measure that creates wealth.
And if you don’t create wealth you will soon run out of it to spend, which is already happening (hence all your extra taxes and borrowing).

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

French TV tonight -

"C'est une honte nationale": dépassée par la France, suppléée par l'Allemagne, qualifiée de "jouet" par Trump... Le déclin de la marine britannique embarrasse les Anglais