Rodney McMahon

Conservative Values, Art, Aston Martin

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

My Benefits Bill.

You can find out yours by sticking your postcode in this new gizmo from the Taxpayers' Alliance https://t.co/DO4LAklF1K

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

FACT.
Asylum caseworkers are not allowed to reject illegal migrants from Afghanistan and Eritrea even if they are on the Sex Offenders’ Register.

Those men’s human rights trump the right of British women and children to feel safe in their own country.

Madness.

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

I’m now at £312,046,239, having added 10 asylum and migration charities to my list

So that’s 44 asylum and migration charities that received over £312 MILLION over the last five tax years.

https://t.co/RN53aXCBzV

[TaxPayers' Alliance @the_tpa]

Our response to the news that half of Labour MPs represent seats where disability benefit claimants outnumber their majority

Responding to the news that more than half of Labour MPs have electoral majorities smaller than the number of disability benefit claimants in their constituency, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:

“Ministers cannot allow electoral self-interest to become a veto on fixing a welfare system.

“With millions now claiming PIP, ducking difficult reform because MPs fear for their majorities would be an abdication of responsibility.

“Welfare policy should be set by what is sustainable and fair for taxpayers, not by the size of MPs’ majorities.”

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Church of England and its pathetic Archbishop now so useless it can’t even manage to do due diligence BEFORE it hands out its award to a bin Laden supporter.
Which it did on the very anniversary of 9/11 as part of its efforts to turn its back on liberal western values and cosy up to medieval reactionaries.
I expect Hamas will be invited to Lambeth Palace for tea and cucumber sandwiches on Oct 7.

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

Please don't say another incoming Labour Chancellor is going to claim "things are much worse than we thought"... 🙄

Don't these people know anybody in the markets? or economics? or business? or the financial press? or... 🤷‍♂️

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Breaking News:
The Economist to be renamed The Echo Chamber.
A new approach to journalism.
Every week the editor will consult colleagues she’s appointed.
She will ask them if they agree with her.
We agree with you, they will (unsurprisingly) reply.
Cue ponderous editorial on why I was right all along.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I see that Stella Creasy is accusing me of leading a pitchfork mob against her, because I opined that she is less likeable and more hypocritical than the wild parakeet she mistook for an escaped pet.

For those who don’t know, Creasy is an elected politician and self-proclaimed ‘old-fashioned feminist’ who is ‘still fighting the patriarchy’. She’s more than once publicly defined herself against me (and my reaction was not to accuse her of leading a mob, even though I was probably averaging a dozen death threats a day at the point when the article below appeared.)

I thought it might be instructive for those of us who don’t share Creasy’s brand of ‘feminism’ to examine her campaigning record, so we can learn to do better.

Creasy wants women admitted to the male-only, exclusive, London-based private members Garrick Club, a change that would benefit rather privileged women like Creasy. Creasy is a mother who wants better accommodations for working mothers, a change that would benefit Creasy. Creasy takes selfies at a men-only Muslim march because that reminds everyone how non-racist she is, which benefits Creasy. Creasy asserts that ‘trans women are women’, which keeps her in good odour with her party’s most aggressive activists, and benefits Creasy.

However, keeping cross-dressing heterosexual men out of nurses’ changing rooms doesn’t benefit Creasy, because Creasy has never had to mop up other people’s piss, blood and vomit at work. Challenging the notion that a male basketball player becomes a girl if he says he is doesn’t benefit Creasy, who has no sporting ambitions. Speaking up against the patriarchy as practised by non-white men doesn’t benefit Creasy, who wants those selfie-opportunities. Criticising an ideological movement that persecutes, harasses and openly threatens women who don’t believe some women have penises wouldn't benefit Creasy, because she's already fully-signed up to self-id, where any man who says he's a woman must be taken at his word.

As the late Gloria Steinem said: ‘“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere.’

Creasy the patriarchy-challenger is provably more than happy to cosy up to men and misogynist movements when it suits her public profile and career advancement, no matter the harms those men might be causing less privileged women. By Steinem’s definition, what Stella espouses is not feminism, but Creasyism, and I suggest the emblem for this brave new rights movement should be an indignant parakeet with severely ruffled feathers.

https://t.co/8lvktG2vI6

[Institute of Economic Affairs @iealondon]

IEA response to @JohnHealey_MP's speech

Responding, @DanielJHannan, Director General, Institute of Economic Affairs said:

"The Chancellor is right about two things. Britain needs more wealth creation and the cost of welfare needs to come down. But identifying the problem is the easy part. Britain will not become richer by having the state direct more investment.

“If John Healey genuinely wants businesses to invest, grow and make profits, he should remove the obstacles government puts in their way - high taxes, expensive energy, planning restrictions and excessive regulation.

“Above all, he cannot talk about wealth creation while leaving the door open to yet more tax rises. The test of next month’s Budget is whether he is prepared to control spending and remove barriers to growth, rather than once again asking taxpayers to pick up the bill.”

[Migration Watch @MigrationWatch]

Immigrants from just four countries (Somalia, Jamaica, Bangladesh and Nigeria) head a combined 104,567 social homes in London.

Why are immigrants subsidised to live in London, one of Europe's most expensive cities?

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) is advertising for a summer intern. If you’re 'White British', however, please don’t think about applying. You are expressly prohibited. (Hell, even persons who identity as 'White Other' are eligible!)

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more blatant example of racism against a specific ethnicity by a state institution. Utterly indefensible.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Burnham has dished out a big pay rise for Aslef train drivers on the London to Manchester line in order to avert strikes & enable him and his staff to carry on travelling up & down to the so-called No. 10 North.

Those drivers are now going to get at taxpayers' expense time-&-a-half pay on Sundays, a single-year wage rise of 3.6% – 0.7% higher than inflation – and up to £720 for turning up to work on a fifth day of the working week.

Aslef gave Labour more than £300,000 in 2024 and subsequently got a 15% pay rise from convicted fraudster Louise Haigh, who was transport secretary at the time before she was kicked out.

Our taxes are too high and going higher because of this type of largesse.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

A reminder UK Muslims are 6.5% of our population but are responsible for

97% of terror deaths since 2000
75% on MI5's terror watch list
75% of terror threats
84% of child gang rapes
18% of prisoners
6000 FGMs a year
2.0x birth defect rate
48.6% of 16-64 not employed
27% in social housing

Is this tolerable?

Hat tip @GarethDavies007

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 EMERGENCY WARNING TO EVERY PENSIONER IN GREAT BRITAIN: LABOUR IS PREPARING THE ULTIMATE WEALTH GRAB!

If you worked hard for 40 years, paid your taxes, and saved for retirement, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has just placed a massive target firmly on your back.

The highly influential IPPR think tank, which is packed with Burnham's own inner circle, just published the exact socialist blueprint Labour plans to use to bail out their bankrupt government. 🤡

Look at the terrifying three step robbery they are demanding for the October Budget.

First, slapping National Insurance directly onto the incomes of 9.6 million British pensioners.

Second, hiking capital gains tax to a staggering 40 percent to crush your investments.

Third, a devastating 0.65 percent annual property wealth tax just for the privilege of living inside your own family home!

They label you "wealthy" to justify stealing the nest egg you spent a lifetime building. Yet they magically find endless billions to house illegal arrivals in catered hotels without blinking an eye.

They treat the generation that built this country like an absolute cash machine while engineering our total national decline. The mask has completely slipped.

RT and SHARE this everywhere to warn every single retiree in Great Britain before Chancellor John Healey raids their bank accounts! 🇬🇧🔥

[The Spectator @spectator]

In a post on X last night, which was hastily deleted this morning, the Hartlepool MP declared: "Public sector workers use their income to pay FOR the private sector. The state is one of the biggest procurers of the private sector.

"It wouldn't exist without taxpayers. People creating the divide between public and private genuinely don't understand how an economy works."

There we have it. In Brashonomics, the private sector owes its existence to a state funded by taxes levied on the private sector. Answers on a postcard if anyone can decipher that word salad…

✍️ Steerpike

Article | https://t.co/YgsLZooVQy | @MrSteerpike

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Salute Katharine Birbalsingh, the UK’s strictest head teacher, who saw 70% of her N London pupils get A and A* grades - more than double the national average, making an idiot of Education Sec Lucy Powell who said forcing schools to prioritise leaning damaged the disadvantaged.

[Rodney McMahon @RodneyMcMahon2]

@ArchbishopSarah You’re a gullible idiot. Why not do your job and encourage people to believe in God?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

A pantomine horse isn’t a horse.
An open secret isn’t a secret.
A hot dog isn’t a dog.
A shrinking violet isn’t a violet.
Crow’s feet aren’t feet.
Fair game’s not a game.
Trans women aren’t women.

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

Last night in London… This is the reality under Sadiq Khan. We’ve allowed our streets to be taken over by foreign mobs who think it’s funny to intimidate women.

I wouldn’t put up with this.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: A message from YouTube to its content creators has been verified

It warns the UK government will force them to push legacy media outlets, like the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, over independent commentators and journalists