Robin Travis

MD of family SME. Enjoy reasoned discussion to find the truth. love the countryside and outdoors

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Why did the police and Keir Starmer tell Nigel Farage that Ann Widdecombe was murdered in a burglary gone wrong ?

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

An interesting idea on how to stop dangerous offenders being released under the early release scheme in September from former Conservative minister @EdwardGarnier a few weeks ago in the House of Lords: "There are 3,650 women in prison in England and Wales. There are 12 women’s prisons and, as it happens, all 12 of them are in England. Of that 3,650, 2,500—that is about 70% of the women’s prison population—are in custody for non-violent offences.
"Why do the Government not release them, or at least some of them, and redesignate some of the women’s prisons to house the rapists and child molesters that seem to be about to be released?"

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

If Andy Burnham wants to win genuine public support and strengthen the UK’s public finances - thereby creating real scope for lower taxes - he should launch a thorough, root-and-branch overhaul of wasteful government spending. A clear starting point would be to scrap net zero, which is already imposing enormous costs on taxpayers.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

The Church of England is taking £100 million away from parish churches, to spend on slavery reparations.

But their plan was based on false history - and is illegal under charities law.

It's time for the Church to abandon its disastrous 'Project Spire'.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

They are determined to destroy private schools. Each child that goes to private school allows more funds to be spent on children in state schools. It’s the nasty politics of greed & envy.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

The Arabs colonised vast territories across the world, and wiped out entire native civilisations.

Where are the reparations?

Why aren't they told to feel guilty?

Why is Arab colonialism somehow less bad than European colonialism?

Should we not have this discussion?

[Paul Golding @PaulGolding]

Ann Widdecombe lost her life to a politically-motivated left-wing activist who hit her over the head with a hammer 21 times.
Why did this happen?
Because the left-wing media are repeatedly using inflammatory language against anyone who disagrees with their globalism.

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

I’m done with allowing people to insult my ancestors like this.

No other group of people on Earth would allow their forebears to be insulted like this.

🇬🇧 My ancestors were the first people in history to fight to end slavery.

🇬🇧 They spread the common law across the world.

🇬🇧 They stopped Indians from burning widows alive so that they wouldn’t have to pay to feed them after their husbands had died.

🇬🇧 They stood alone against the Nazis.

🇬🇧 They invented and built the modern world with technology and medicine that started to defeat death and disease.

🇬🇧 They invented economics and democracy as we know it.

My ancestors were great people. Without them, the world would be an immeasurably darker, more wicked place.

Never again let entitled actors who known nothing about anything browbeat you into feeling shame for your ancestors.

Britain, and Western civilisation, are the greatest expressions of human flourishing in the history of the world.

Be proud of the ancestors who fought and toiled and sacrificed for that.

Don’t ever be ashamed of the greatness of our inheritance.

Live up to it.

[Simon Fox @SimonFoxWriter]

If a 78-year-old Left Wing politician had been brutally murdered in their own home by a Far Right nutcase, the Establishment would have immediately told us EVERYTHING about the alleged murderer, and he would be headline news EVERY DAY. FOR WEEKS.

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

Somebody ought to tell Benedict Spence on @TalkTV with @JuliaHB1 that 75% of pensioners are still paying income tax, funding the education of kids of people like him and their 'free' breakfasts.
And those pensioners who aren't paying income tax are still paying VAT, council tax, stamp duty when they move and Inheritance Tax when they die.

To fund his generation of lazy sods on benefits.

[Sir Liam Fox @LiamFox]

Cutting VAT on electricity bills is a Brexit bonus. This would have been illegal if we had stayed in the EU. Good to see Remainer PM Burnham making use of the freedoms the British people won for him.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Andy Burnham managed to do in 48 hours what most governments take months to achieve: promise a tax cut, then quietly row back when the cost lands on the desk.

That’s not “bold leadership”; that’s policy by headline, followed by retreat by spreadsheet.

If your tax plan collapses before it reaches Cabinet, it wasn’t a plan.

It was a press release.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Horrific.

Why is this assassination being ignored?

Once again, if this was someone who held differing values and morals, we would never hear the end of it.

A grandmother of politics massacred and all the media talks about is Andy’s new cabinet.

Shameful disrespect.

[Liz Kershaw @LizKershawDJ]

Britain forced to rely on EU to avoid power shortages
The National Energy System Operator, which manages the grid, issued an emergency power supply warning for the first time in summer months on Tuesday (June 23rd) after soaring temperatures triggered a slump in SOLAR ENERGY, with panels struggling to work in the hot conditions.
SOLAR PANEL efficiency  typically drops by 0.3pc to 0.5pc for every degree that a panel’s temperature rises above 25C.
Low WIND GENERATION also compounding Britain’s energy shortage
With wind generating around 12pc and solar less than 10pc more than half of Britain’s power needs were being supplied by gas by Wednesday (June 24th) morning
Britain had been facing 1.9-gigawatt shortfall in its “margin” for Wednesday night – the buffer between available power generation and total consumer demand.
An industry consultant said Neso had “begged the EU” to lift import trading limits which cap the amount of energy Britain could import
https://t.co/NWeJOGiQbq

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

In wartime, countries throw up prisoner of war camps in the space of weeks.

If Labour genuinely prioritised keeping violent criminals behind bars to serve their full sentences, they could have constructed nightingale prisons by now.

They've had more than two years.

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

Let me get this straight.
An unelected PM with no mandate.
A Deputy PM convicted of fraud.
A Housing Secretary who failed to pay tax.
An Education Secretary who called child exploitation a “dog whistle”.
And a Defence Secretary with no military experience !

Hold Tight ! 🤨

[sandieshoes 🇬🇧 @sandieshoes]

“Rayner urged to return £17k exit payment after getting old job back.

Tories call on Housing Secretary to repay money received when she quit following Telegraph expose.

Angela Rayner is facing calls to return a £16,876 exit payment after she was reappointed to her old job as Housing Secretary.

The Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne received the money following her resignation in September, which came after a Telegraph investigation into her tax affairs.

But Ms Rayner was given her previous job back by Andy Burnham in Monday’s Cabinet reshuffle, leading to calls for her to return the sum.

James Cleverly, the shadow housing secretary, told The Daily Mail: “She pocketed a £17,000 reward courtesy of the taxpayer, and now she’s got her old job back courtesy of her mate Andy Burnham, who wants to hike taxes on the family home for everyone else”

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Sweden And Denmark Published Their Numbers. Britain Still Won't

Sweden did not hide what was happening to it. A Lund University study tracking two decades of rape convictions found that of 4,032 people convicted of rape or attempted rape between 2000 and 2020, only 36.9 per cent were Swedish-born with two Swedish-born parents, against 69.5 per cent of the matched general population. The link held even after researchers adjusted for poverty, substance abuse and prior criminal history. None of this was concealed. It was published by the country's own university researchers, in a peer-reviewed journal, for anyone to read.

A separate analysis found that municipalities where a majority of residents have foreign background recorded 14,843 reported crimes per 100,000 people in 2025, more than double the 7,013 recorded in municipalities that are over ninety per cent Swedish background. Every ten-point rise in the Swedish-background population share tracked with roughly 1,630 fewer crimes per 100,000. The correlation held across the whole country, not a handful of unlucky suburbs.

Denmark tells a related story, with one important difference. Danish Ministry of Justice figures, reported by the broadsheet Berlingske, show non-Western immigrants and their descendants, 10.6 per cent of the population, convicted of 29.6 per cent of violent crimes and 32.4 per cent of rapes. Second-generation immigrants alone, just 2.2 per cent of the population, account for 15.6 per cent of violent crime convictions.

The difference is what happened next. Peter Hummelgaard, Denmark's justice minister at the time, did not dispute his own department's numbers or ask a tribunal to bury them. He called them "deeply disturbing" and said it made him "indescribably angry that individuals we have invited into our country repay us by committing rape and severe violence." He announced tougher sentencing for violent crime and rape in direct response. Whatever one thinks of the adequacy of that response, a minister was compelled to give one, because the numbers were public and available to be asked about.

That is the mechanism Britain has removed. The Ministry of Justice is fighting an Information Commissioner's ruling that it must publish conviction data broken down by nationality, the same category of figures Denmark releases as a matter of routine and Swedish researchers and statisticians track in detail. No British minister has had to respond to what those numbers show, because no British minister has been made to see them.

Publishing the data does not, on its own, solve anything. Sweden's own crime figures have kept climbing even as its researchers documented the pattern in exhaustive detail. But transparency is still the precondition for accountability, not a substitute for it. Denmark shows what a government does when it cannot avoid its own evidence. Hummelgaard's fury was not comfortable politics. It was a minister forced to answer for a reality his department could no longer conceal.

Britain has arranged things so that reckoning need never arrive. There is no equivalent of Hummelgaard's statement here, because there is no equivalent of Berlingske's numbers or Lund University's study. The Ministry of Justice is not managing a crisis, it is managing exposure to one. Denmark and Sweden, for all their difficulties, have at least allowed their citizens the numbers to argue over. Britain is still deciding whether its citizens are permitted to see them at all.

"Peter Hummelgaard said it made him "indescribably angry that individuals we have invited into our country repay us by committing rape and severe violence.""

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Since Labour took office, Britain has quietly lost almost 168,000 payrolled employees, including 71,500 in just the past 12 months – and another 3,900 gone in June alone, according to HMRC payroll data.

The biggest casualties?

Retail, wholesale, motor repair, hospitality, information and communication, and manufacturing – core productive sectors that have seen employment plunge by well over 300,000 combined under Starmer.

At the same time, health and social care has swelled to 4.5 million employees, up around 91,600 since July 2024 – meaning Labour is presiding over an economy where the state payroll grows while private‑sector jobs are stripped out.

This is not a “strong economy”; it’s a slow‑motion structural jobs crisis in which Reeves hikes employment costs, then congratulates herself as businesses cut staff, scrap openings and retreat from investment.

If a right‑wing government had overseen these job losses in retail and hospitality, the commentariat would be calling it a national scandal – under Labour, it’s quietly waved through as the price of “fairness”.

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

This is spot on. The failure to stand up to Asad - for which Miliband bears much guilt - led directly to Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine. An appalling choice for foreign secretary. The Kremlin will be delighted.

https://t.co/Z6tkp9gM4a