Nick P

Private and very amateur investor.. but focus somewhat changed after diagnosis of Myeloma. Let’s get through that and then optimise the family retirement plan.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

South Wales Police has instructed officers to log comments they feel are beyond "legitimate" criticism of Islam.

This is, exactly as I warned, a blasphemy law through the back door.

Nobody voted for this.

My letter to the Chief Constable👇🏾

[Cristo @cristo_radio]

You are without a doubt the most hypocritical opportunist with absolutely no consistency, no backbone, and no morals @Keir_Starmer

You will exploit or ignore any tragedy- your reaction is completely dependent on what benefits you politically with no thought of what’s best for the uk

The worst possible leader at the worst possible time

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’

I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine.

I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

The new Danish government is cutting the corporation tax rate from 22% to 19% over three years, and eliminating income tax bands for the highest earners.

“It is crucial that Denmark remains competitive,” Prime Minister Frederiksen said.

It's sad that the British government does not have a similar attitude.

[Penny Mordaunt @PennyMordaunt]

This is illuminating.

“..oversaw..” that is an interesting choice of word. 

Because as Suella knows I did not draft that bill. I did not see it prior to its introduction. I was, as she knows, only asked to take it through the Commons hours before it was heard. Nor was I given any authority to alter it- but I did make asks to do so to the Cabinet Office- to change the gender-neutral language wording to female wording. 

All this is a matter of record. As are the names of those that drafted it. As are the members of the PLB Committee which would have cleared it, a Committee which included Suella as the Attorney General. Given that the Bill was about her maternity leave I assumed she would have taken an interest. 

Perhaps I was wrong to make such assumptions. And to take her thanks and delight at it being introduced that she expressed to me at the time- in writing- as her genuine feelings. 

As I say, illuminating.

[Alex Burghart @alexburghart]

@JAHeale How come they are firing cannon? It’s meant to be 1206

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Very good from @CPhilpOfficial. A cool & powerful dissection of a rot at the core of policing caused, partly at least, by activism polluting policy

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

Reform’s attack on @KemiBadenoch is a straightforward lie, and everyone can see it.

Here’s what Kemi actually said this morning ⬇️

[Nick P @PacificoNick]

@JohnRosier Ngex,fwz,lunr

[Sly U @SlyForTheRight]

🚨 REFORM HITS A NEW LOW 🚨

You see this nonsense from Reform UK? They’re twisting Kemi Badenoch’s words to claim she said “white lives don’t matter.”

That is NOT what she said.

What she actually said was: “It’s not about black lives matter or white lives matter — it’s about every life matters.”

There’s a world of difference.

This is exactly why I keep saying the Conservatives and Reform cannot work together, whether nationally or locally. Politics can be rough. Parties attack each other, challenge each other and sometimes spin each other’s arguments. That’s the game.

But when you start deliberately distorting comments on race and the tragic death of Henry Nowak to score political points, you’ve crossed a line.

This isn’t campaigning. It’s cynical, divisive and disgusting.

Reform should be ashamed of itself.

[Donald Pond @DonaldPond6]

South Korea's 2026 government budget is $557bn. #Samsung and #Hynex between them are expected to pay $435bn in taxes.
In the UK, the government announces apprentice schemes to train NEETs to become barbers.
We are not a serious country.

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

Obviously I don't want to pick a fight with Al Carns, but this is nonsense... 🙄

The train operating companies made tiny profits (2% margins), rail infrastructure is already publicly owned (Network Rail), and the more profitable firms that own the trains are still private.

[Nick P @PacificoNick]

@DonaldPond6 An excellent idea

[Joseph Boam @Joseph_Boam]

🚨 “Stand Up To Racism” stuck this on my car this morning.

I had gone out for breakfast with my grandad and came back to find this stuck to my vehicle.

Did it damage my car? No.

Do I particularly care about the sticker itself? Also no.

What interests me is what it says about the state of politics in Britain today.

Because no matter how strongly I disagree with someone politically, it would never occur to me to walk onto their property and stick political material onto their vehicle.

That is not normal behaviour.

I’ve had leaflets put under windscreen wipers before. Fair enough. It’s a bit daft, but no harm done.

This is different.

Someone had these stickers ready to go, saw my car, walked onto private property and attached it.

Why?

What exactly are they trying to achieve?

The irony is that these people don’t even seem to understand what they’re protesting against.

Reform UK is not racist.

Wanting controlled borders is not racist.

Wanting safe communities is not racist.

Wanting British taxpayers to come first is not racist.

Wanting to preserve British culture, traditions and identity is not racist.

Yet organisations like this spend their entire existence labelling anyone they disagree with as racist because they have no serious argument left to make.

And that’s the deeper point.

Modern left-wing activism has become less about persuasion and more about intimidation.

Less about debate and more about smears.

Less about winning arguments and more about trying to silence opponents.

If I went around sticking political material on other people’s cars, there would be outrage.

But when it comes from groups on the left, we’re apparently expected to shrug and accept it.

Well I won’t.

Not because of the sticker itself, but because of what it represents.

A politics built on division, hostility and contempt for anyone who thinks differently.

The funny thing is that I actually take it as a compliment.

I’m 23 years old.

I’ve had official complaints made about me, accusations thrown at me, endless attacks online and even police investigations triggered by political opponents.

And yet here I am.

And despite all the usual attempts to smear me with every “ism” and every “phobia” imaginable, people can see through it.

“Racism.”
“Fascism.”
“Extremism.”
“Islamophobia.”
“Transphobia.”

The labels change. The tactic stays exactly the same.

When they cannot win the argument, they try to shut down the person making it.

The problem for them is that ordinary people have heard these accusations so many times now that they simply roll their eyes and move on.

Being called names by activists who think putting stickers on people’s cars is acceptable behaviour isn’t exactly something that keeps me awake at night.

If people are this desperate to stop you, you’re probably over the target.

Maybe they wanted me to be upset. Who know…

Instead they’ve just reminded me why I got involved in politics in the first place.

Because there are a lot of people in this country who are fed up with being bullied into silence.

And I am certainly not going anywhere.

In fact, I quite enjoy being under fire.

It means you’re making a difference. 😉

[Richard Holden MP @RicHolden]

So weak. If he spent more time in Parliament he’d see we’re beyond ‘conversations’

Nigel should catch up with @KemiBadenoch & @Conservatives who’ve already tabled laws & amendments to ban 1st cousin marriage.

It’s time for action with Conservatives not words from @ReformUK

[Nick P @PacificoNick]

@chatswithem @RebelHQ Agree… it was quite a shock to me that I agreed with his statement!

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

There is a history lesson that the British Museum might usefully teach, were it still in the business of teaching history rather than surrendering it to the heckler’s veto.

It goes like this: when a society can no longer protect its Jews in the public square, cannot guarantee that a talk about ancient archaeology will not be shut down by a mob, it has already lost something foundational. The Jews are not the only ones who should be alarmed. They are simply the first.

Yesterday the British Museum, founded in 1753, repository of civilisation's deepest memory, cancelled a Jewish Culture Month event on the kingdoms of Ancient Israel and Judah. Not because the content was controversial. Not because the speaker, Dr Paul Collins, was provocative. But because a "significant number" of registered attendees had pre-planned to disrupt it. The bullies, in other words, didn't even need to show up. The threat alone was sufficient. The institution folded. A talk about archaeology, about pottery and inscriptions from a civilisation nearly three thousand years old, was considered too dangerous to host.

Let that sink in. This is Britain in 2026.

The museum's statement was a masterpiece of institutional euphemism. It spoke of its “responsibility to ensure that events hosted within the Museum can proceed safely.” It noted, with some delicacy, its commitment to "freedom of expression in a democratic society." What it did not say - what it could not quite bring itself to say - is that a group of activists committed to the erasure of any Jewish connection to the land of Israel decided that even academic archaeology was an affront, and that rather than face them down, Britain's foremost cultural institution chose to stand aside.

This is not a security decision. It is a political one. And it carries a clear message: that organised intimidation works.

Worse still, it is not even an isolated incident. Last year, the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth postponed an exhibition on Jewish life in the town, citing “security concerns” and what it called a “sensitive time.” The exhibition, funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, celebrating a century and a half of Jewish community life, was quietly shelved. It came after a Jewish man had been shot with an air rifle in Bournemouth's East Cliff neighbourhood and swastika graffiti had been painted on a local rabbi's home.

Then there was Edinburgh. Last summer, two Jewish comedians had their shows cancelled from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after staff members raised "safety concerns". One of them, Philip Simon, said afterwards: "I am still processing the concept that in 2025 I can be cancelled just for being Jewish."

This is a story that Jews in this country have grown sickeningly familiar with. The language changes slightly each time - "security concerns," "sensitive period," "logistical challenges" - but the outcome is always the same: Jewish culture retreats and the mob advances.

And now the British Museum. The pattern is not coincidental. It is the incremental, bureaucratically managed exclusion of Jews from British public life - achieved not through legislation, not through violence, but through the quiet, cowardly calculation that accommodating the mob is less trouble than standing with the minority it targets.

"London is for everyone" - except, it appears, for Jewish Londoners who wish to attend a talk about ancient history without requiring a security cordon and police guard. "Antisemitism has no place here" - except, it seems, at public galleries, comedy and theatre venues, university campuses across London, and now the British Museum. When a city's most celebrated cultural institution cannot guarantee the safety of a lecture on ancient pottery, the mayor's solemn pledges ring not as reassurance but as insult.

The British Museum's statement said the decision was taken "to protect the event, not to diminish it." This is precisely the kind of sentence that tells you everything while appearing to say nothing. What the museum was actually protecting was not the event - which it cancelled - but itself: its staff, its management, its desire not to be in the newspapers for the wrong reasons. The result, of course, is that it is in the newspapers for the worst possible reason. The protesters won without stepping through the door. And the institution that holds the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles, that has survived the Blitz and two world wars and three centuries of global upheaval, has demonstrated that it cannot survive a vocal mob with bad intentions.

Public money flows generously to these institutions. If they cannot maintain a basic standard of intellectual courage in exchange for it - if they will cancel Jewish history at the first whiff of organised hostility - then serious questions about that compact are not only legitimate but urgent.

What is needed is not sympathy but spine. The British Museum should have taken the measures necessary - whatever they were - to allow the event to go ahead on the planned date. If it lacked the resources, it should have asked for them. If it lacked the legal tools, the Government should long since have provided them. The Director should have stood at the door, personally if necessary, and said: this institution does not negotiate with intimidation. Instead, it issued a statement of regret, rescheduled to a date yet to be confirmed and hoped the story would blow over.

My great-grandmother, Lily Ebert, survived Auschwitz. She spent the remainder of her long life trying to understand how a continent of supposedly civilised nations - with their museums, their universities, their cultural institutions - had permitted the systematic exclusion, humiliation, and ultimately murder of its Jews: one bureaucratic decision at a time, each supposedly reasonable in isolation, each contributing to a logic that ended in catastrophe. She did not ask future generations to simply remember. She asked them to act.

The British Museum will, no doubt, host the talk eventually. It will be rescheduled for a quieter moment, with more security, with fewer registered protestors, with a smaller Jewish audience too. It will be, in all the ways that matter, a diminished thing. And the people who believe that Jewish culture has no place in British public life will note that their tactics worked. And they will use them again.

[Nick P @PacificoNick]

@JamesMelville Yep… but I’m struggling since I actually agree with much of what he says. The country needs politicians with policies to grow the country

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

Whilst I hate agreeing with Tony Blair, he’s right on this one.

It isn’t just Labour though. Every political party with a chance of winning significant seat numbers has the same problem.

They can’t put what needs to be done in a manifesto, because they’d be unelectable. They can’t say out loud what the real problems are, because the electoral arithmetic would destroy them. And that’s if they even know what the real problems are in the first place. It seems to me that they don’t have the people capable of delivering the meaningful change that would put the UK back on course. This much is likely becoming clear to a lot of us by now.

I actually sympathise with the politicians in these parties. They’re inheriting an impossible set of circumstances, and for the most part, they don’t have the financial or economic understanding of what they’re facing (anyone who has read about the views of certain Labour MPs regarding the gilt markets will know what I’m talking about). In fairness, few people do.

So we continue on this path of make-believe. Policy that sounds good and in line with the ideology of whichever electoral cohort fits best… and will deliver maximum seats. But won’t lead to the outcomes the country badly needs.

It’s also why I believe the massive fiscal crisis I’ve been warning about is inevitable. I can’t see any change of approach other than how certain parties treat the various symptoms… rather than acknowledge the core issues and design the state around them. It requires an overhaul I don’t believe any of the parties are capable of delivering.

We’ll get there eventually. But sadly, in my view, it will happen following a crisis, with the country kicking and screaming, rather than by design in an attempt to rebuild national resilience.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Under a Labour government we would freeze energy bills. We wouldn’t allow them to go up.”

~ Keir Starmer

Yet another lie.

A typical energy bill will rise by £221 a year from July.