RaspBerry

Disgruntled, down to earth ordinary person, trying to stay cheerful in the face of adversity 🇬🇧

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

England will be remembered for the legendary victory against Mexico at the Azteca, and the best game of the competition against France.

Spain will be remembered for winning the competition.

Argentina will be remembered for being violent unsportsmanlike cheats.

[gript @griptmedia]

KEVIN MYERS: The absence of any immediate public outrage at the brutal murder of Ann Widdecombe - including the apparent silence of King Charles and the failure of House of Commons to suspend business - indicates that England is in dire trouble.

https://t.co/0esYfdydTW

[Higgy @higgyboson]

The more you look at this the worse it gets.

Here's the Home Secretary actually saying the 12 people arrested last week, (and now released without charge), were going to KILL people.

She labelled them as determined terrorists and murderers with absolutely no evidence whatsoever to back up her claim.

It's absolutely disgusting.

She should not only lose her job, she should be arrested for stirring up hatred and falsely accusing citizens of being dangerous criminals.

Can it get any worse than this?

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

Burnham’s Labour govt borrows money to give away to other countries in Overseas Aid.
You, the taxpayer, then has to pay it back.
IDEA
Why not just tell the countries we give the money to to go and borrow it themselves?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Suspect in alleged murder of dear Ann Widdecombe had newspaper clippings about Nigel Farage and Reform pinned on his wall.

I wonder which hate-filled articles they were.

#https://mol.im/a/15989201

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

“We need a few more Ann Widdecombes in politics – she was one of a kind.”
I like @Matt_VickersMP, but I'm not going to let a Conservative vice-chair get away with that. @CamillaTominey will know that Cameron turned his back on her, believing she tarnished the Tory brand. The party wanted absolutely no more Ann Widdecombes, and the Approved List of Candidates was curated to ensure that. On her retirement, Cameron didn't elevate her to the Lords (of which she was most worthy), and nor did any Tory leader thereafter. When @KemiBadenoch at #PMQs said Ann “always remained part of the Conservative family”, I think she'd balk at that, insisting that her political family became the Brexit/Reform party because the Conservative Party ceased to be sufficiently conservative to recognise her qualities. The only party where you'll find any future Ann Widdecombes is Reform.

[Pippilongstocking @Wishitwasthewa1]

One Login is Digital ID. Proving your age via biometrics is Digital ID. Getting your Driving Licence via One Login is Digital ID. If he scraps One Login then he’s scrapping Digital ID. If he’s not then he’s not scrapping Digital ID. I’ll believe it when I see it.

[Dr Jennine Morgan @jemmm85517813]

Burn em is not scrapping digital id…Do not be conned into believing this!

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

The “far right terror threat” story that was clearly misleading looks like another example of what I call the Narrative State

We are constantly being gaslit
https://t.co/uyJgX01Nal

[June Slater @juneslater17]

Agreed 💯💯

[latsot @latsot]

"How will you enforce single-sex toilets and changing rooms?????"

Well I'm glad you asked. The same way we've enforced them all along.

First, the women using those spaces will protect each other and tell any men to get out.

Second, if men won't get out, those women will complain to the service provider. If the service provider can't or won't do anything about it, the police will be contacted.

Exactly as it has always been done.

But nobody ever needed to ask before because everyone used to know that men have to respect women's boundaries.

Until very recently, nobody had been hoodwinked into thinking that women having boundaries that exclude men is bad.

It will be enforced by women not taking this shit any more.

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

The laws in the UK now only apply to Brits.
Everyone else can do what they like.
Vote Labour.

[Simon Danczuk @SimonDanczuk]

UK opinion poll shows, because of the Burnham coronation, people want a general election. A majority also don’t want further tax rises. Labour’s ‘messiah’ doesn’t have a mandate…

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Thor Björgólfsson didn’t just move his tax status; he moved an entire investment platform from London to Zurich.

Italy offers him a competitive regime, Britain offers lectures about “fairness”.

The Labour government isn’t levelling up – it’s levelling out anyone who creates wealth.

[Fiona Rose Diamond @CoviLeaks]

The Digital Driving Licence will be one token in the UK Gov Wallet...

UK Gov Wallet = Digital ID

Stop minimising what 'Digital ID' really is...

Digital ID is NOT just a digital version of your Identity. It IS the UK Gov Wallet and that = a centralised state ledger designed to track, log, and permission your existence. It is the technical foundation for a total compliance society, giving the government a digital kill switch over your life.

Once your identity is linked to your bank account, medical records, social media, internet use, benefits and a personal carbon score, the state gains the absolute power to ration your food, restrict your travel, or freeze your money the moment you step out of line. It transforms a free citizen into a conditional user of society, where survival depends entirely on state approved compliance.

NOTHING WAS SCRAPPED!

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Governments should stick to governing.

Let business managers manage businesses.

[David Starkey @DrDStarkeyCBE]

And there we have it. Tomorrow Andy Burnham will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, having blazed a singular trail to No. 10 that avoided ever having to defend, let alone stand on the Labour manifesto of the 2024 general election.

Already, the total unfitness of the man for high office is beginning to be noticed, with a particularly striking online meme comparing his cringe-Dad antics to those of David Brent. Just how quickly his twee and cloying bonhomie falls apart on contact with the realities of political power we'll find out from next week.

For my guest this week, @michaelmurph_y , Burnham is an even more dangerous figure to put in charge of the country than Sir Keir Starmer. The two represent either side of the same coin: while Starmer's dour legalism represented the underlying mechanics of the British state in all its brute force (the man was never more at home than when clamping down furiously on dissenting speech), Burnham is the smiling, matey facade that that state presents to the public; the tie-less, "call me Andy" school teacher who sits on a chair backwards to explain how he "gets it".

But while Starmer included in his team some people who did recognise the priorities of the British working class, for example Morgan McSweeney, Burnham has swept to power on the back of the worst instincts of the already spectacularly inept Parliamentary Labour Party; a gang of charity-sector charlatans so clueless about the real world that they'd be more at home in a playschool.

We must prepare for a very rough couple of years with this man at the helm. The world is rapidly becoming more dangerous, Britain is exposed and our enemies know it. The one possible silver lining we can take is that when Andy Burnham fails, perhaps the public will finally realise that that failure will not just be his own, but the failure of the entire Labour Party.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

As Andy Burnham enters Downing Street determined to be “distinctively Labour” and “unashamedly Labour”, it is clear that taxes – despite a tax burden now at 38pc and on course to reach around 41pc of GDP by 2029 – will increase further still.

The UK economy is locked in a high-debt, high-tax, low-growth doom loop, with the debt interest bill spiralling as the national debt rises ever higher.

Inflation is coming – the producer price index rose a staggering 8.7pc during the year to May, up from 7.9pc the previous month – and there will be little respite from a lower oil price.

And that inflation will push up immediate borrowing costs and debt interest payments even more.

“From here, we do it differently,” said Burnham on Friday. “We win by being us.”

But by “us”, Burnham means Labour. And for the country, Labour spells economic ruin.

My latest weekly “Economic Agenda” column in @Telegraph

https://t.co/kGGNJi0b2r

[FreeByTheSea @Free_ByTheSea]

Does he have a Christian advisor?
Or a Jewish advisor? ��

[Ross Kempsell @RossKempsell]

Burnham chooses to spend at least £23bn on foreign aid. That is:

- More than the entire policing budget in England & Wales

- The cost of 10+ large new hospitals

- The budget for all NHS dentistry 7 times over

- 100k affordable homes

- The entire roads repair backlog

Choices