Old Bowler

Just sauntering through the chaos.
#brexit
#RoyalEngineers
Reform UK

[Old Bowler @Old__Bowler]

"What public outrage are you avoiding today Priminister?"

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Always separate the individual from the ideology.

A good man.

[🇺🇸 Jake Hilton 🇮🇱 @TheDemSlayer]

“Israeli flag in name. Opinion discarded.”

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

🚨(1)BREAKING: Christian community police officer wins settlement after being forced out of his role for questioning and criticising Islam during diversity training.

Luke Salmons, who has been supported by the Christian Legal Centre, was suspended for six months, forced to resign and put on a police barring list after he had questioned radical Islam in a training session.

He had been told that the session was a 'safe place' for discussion, but after expressing his beliefs, the consequences were devastating.

After taking legal action, his case has now been settled on confidential terms, however his story raises serious concerns about free speech and religious freedom in UK policing.

See more in this thread 🧵on our website and breaking in the media:
https://t.co/Ed9elAMIKa

https://t.co/sAkxcVf9PW

[Liam Deacon @LiamDeacon]

Finished off in a little Reform-supporting bar/pub.

Landlord wanted our leftover leaflets to hand out to patrons.

Sound.

How many Labour-supporting pubs you got @AndyBurnhamGM ?

[Pat @KhunPat27]

I remember the first question in my interview to become a British police officer:

“What does diversity mean to you?”

It was followed by several more questions about diversity.

Looking back, that probably tells you everything you need to know about why public confidence in policing is where it is today.

Me 15 years ago ⬇️😂

[Joe 🇬🇧 🩵 Reform UK @Verbal_Vortex]

The panellists were laughing and giving Robert a hard time last night just because he is an ordinary bloke. Robert is you and me, he is your son, and he grafts for a living, something these opposing candidates never do. They weren’t just trying to degrade Robert. No, this is exactly what they think of you, the everyday Brit that works hard for a living.

Robert Kenyon fought back and gave as good as he got, Robert is exactly what this country needs, a grafter with passion for his community and country.

[Old Bowler @Old__Bowler]

The first person who will realise how wrong Labour and Starmer have got the Novac travesty, will be this smug.....

[Citizen @Citizenuk1927]

@PolitlcsUK BBC stitch up.
This programme is a hit job on Reform.
A five minute speech at the beginning for BURNHAM.
30 SECONDS FOR REFORM then the whole panel turned on him for posts from 15 years ago
Disgusting BBC.
Shame on them vote Reform to stop this dictatorship
#bbcqt

[Chris Wick @ChrisWickNews]

His job is to engineer civil unrest, delivering a Digital ID mandate for his WEF handlers.

This isn’t about popularity — and it never was.

What’s unfolding feels increasingly calculated, not accidental.

A steady push of policy after policy, each one framed as efficiency, safety, or modernization — yet collectively pointing toward something far more rigid underneath.

Digital identity systems. Centralized verification frameworks. Expanding requirements to access basic services in an increasingly monitored environment.

Supporters call it progress. Critics see something else taking shape: a quiet tightening of control wrapped in the language of convenience.

And the most unsettling part isn’t just the direction — it’s how normal it’s being made to feel while it happens.

Because once these systems are fully embedded, walking them back becomes almost impossible.

At that point, it’s no longer about debate.

It’s about structure.

[Tracy @tracybet]

Just joined my first ever political Party, Britain Needs Change ! Britain Needs Reform! wether you like Farage or not Reform are the only Party of Common Sense Politics & will Right the Wrongs against British People be you Black, white or Yellow .

[Cllr Rob Kenyon @RobKenyonReform]

I would like to thank all these brilliant people for coming to help me.

This battle truly is David Vs Goliath.

[We Stand United @StandUnitedGB]

British actor Geoff Bell says he's heartbroken by what's going on in our country, and states that the government and police force should be ashamed.

[JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974]

STONEHENGE was just analyzed by AI - The results are shocking

[Rikki Doolan @realrikkidoolan]

The evil communist organisation Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay tried to stop my churches family fun day in Lincoln on Saturday.

They tried to do it by desecrating the community building, the WWII memorial, and by harassing the elderly people who manage the centre. Not right!

[Robert Sole @RobertSole9]

I’m a retired Cop I want to write what I think but if I do I’ll end up in Jail again Thankfully you can’t go to jail for what you think - YET

[Paul Rimmer @PDRNHPUK]

It's happening folks! Real momentum on the ground for Rob. Reform signs & posters going up everywhere. Hardly a Labour rag in sight. On the doors there is real enthusiasm for Reform. Burnham is going to get burnt!!

[Trish @TrishHodkinson]

Do the right thing Makerfield and vote the right person in. Not the career politician. Vote the homemade local grafter. The person next door. A man just like us that knows personally our struggles.
Vote @RobKenyonReform 🗳️🙏

[Old Bowler @Old__Bowler]

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@Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner

[The Reformed Media @ReformedMedia_]

BREAKING 🚨: Reform has announced if they are the next government in their first 100 days of office they will release every file, email, memo and record held by central government, local authorities, police forces and the Home Office relating to grooming gangs over the past 40 years.

The identities of victims will be protected, but no official will be allowed to hide.

They will also increase police and National Crime Agency taskforce funding by £300 million, taking it to £400 million, so they can adequately investigate the perpetrators and the complicit police officers, social workers and politicians who enabled them. They will be given every resource they require.
This is our plan to finally deliver justice for our girls.

https://t.co/MHvGSvPila