Ian Ashkettle

Info Risk. Guitars and music. Ex-club cricketer. West Ham United.

[Ian Ashkettle @TheIronKettle]

@JamesMelville Is participating in 10% of divisions truly representing your constituents? James thinks so. Can you earn over £2m a year from 4 other jobs and still represent your constituents well. James thinks so. Sunak didn’t need to go to California to milk the AI boom. Prick.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Never said this before…

But hats off to @Nigel_Farage

He managed to con his own Clacton constituents into voting for welfare cuts that will screw over 1 in 5 of them

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Ian Ashkettle @TheIronKettle]

Good to see Robbie channelling Jim Ignatowski.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Clacton Reform UK voter supporting Nigel Farage #C4News

"Every MP gets security for themselves, so why shouldn't he?"

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

2 hours ago Tory MP Richard Holden posted this tweet👇🏼

I was the first person to reply to correct him - this was a Thatcher introduced law!

So he blocked me, hid all replies calling him out AND retweeted it himself🙄🙄🙄

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

You're literally a professional politician mate 🤡

[Grok @grok]

Connor Bishop, 24, pleaded guilty to violent disorder for throwing a traffic cone at police during clashes in Southampton protests after the sentencing for Henry Nowak’s murder. The scene involved groups hurling bins and other items at officers.

Violent disorder carries a 5-year maximum. Sentencing guidelines weigh group context, targeting police, prior convictions, and deterrence needs in public disorder. Similar cases from 2024 unrest drew multi-year terms. The 3-5 year range is plausible pre-guilty plea discount; he was remanded in custody. Sentence due Monday at Crown Court.

Perceptions of harshness often stem from contrasts with other offenses, but outcomes hinge on the specific risk and circumstances here.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

You say that post-Floyd DEI training created the policing culture that killed Henry Nowak. This is testable. If you're right, the pattern should begin after 2020. It doesn't.

Christopher Alder, 1998. Falklands veteran. Dragged handcuffed and unconscious into a Hull custody suite. Left face down on the floor. Officers stood around while he choked to death. Ten minutes before anyone helped. Inquest: unlawful killing. Five officers charged. All acquitted.

Sean Rigg, 2008. Schizophrenic man, died at Brixton police station after restraint. Inquest found "unsuitable and unnecessary force" and police failings "more than minimally" contributed to his death.

Robert Edwards, 2011. Died in a Suffolk cell. The IPCC found police "failed to take appropriate care" and didn't carry out proper welfare checks. The coroner said he should never have been deemed fit for detention.

Wayne Couzens, 2015–2021. Reported for indecent exposure in 2015. Kent Police had his name, address, and plate number. The investigating sergeant knew his brother, also a police officer. No action. Failed vetting twice, still became a Met officer. Exposed himself days before murdering Sarah Everard. The investigating officer lied about CCTV. Three forces had twenty years of red flags. Nothing to do with DEI

Post-Floyd, still no DEI involvement: Stephen Reardon, 2023, had seizures in a police van while the officer said he was "playing games". Died. Jerome Cowan, 2022, found unresponsive in a library, officers failed to provide first aid. Died. A man at St Erth, 2022, left drunk and vulnerable outside a railway station on a cold night, officers drove past without stopping. Died. All officers dismissed or facing gross misconduct.

Same pattern every time. A person in distress needs help, officers dismiss it or walk away. It happened in 1998, 2008, 2011, 2022, 2023, and 2025. DEI didn't create it. It predates it by a generation.

You also claim "determined, institutional silence". The Speaker acknowledged the case on 1 June. The Home Secretary called it "a horrifying act" and Digwa's false accusation "an evil act" in an oral statement to the Commons on 2 June. Debated in both Houses. Starmer and Baddenoch clashed over it. Front-page news for a week. There is no silence. You invented it because your baseless argument needs it.

You ask pretentiously what you call a system where a dying teenager's word counts for less than his killer's.

I'd ask you: what do you call a system where Christopher Alder choked to death on a custody floor in 1998 while officers stood around, and twenty-seven years later Henry Nowak bled to death saying the same words?

That is an ideology. But not the one you're describing. It's an institutional ideology of indifference to people in police custody, and it has been killing people for decades.

Blaming a training course that's existed for five years for a rot that's existed for hundreds of years isn't analysis. It's a deflection that protects the actual dangerous ideology.

[Roberto Nuddo @Lemming268]

@misstreemannz @implausibleblog "Anyone with concerns"
😂😂😂
https://t.co/LcOeob6CQq

[Gracie Samuels @GracieSamuels]

I’m a pensioner and I’m also disabled and Starmer has not punished me. Get your facts straight James and also he is not the most unpopular prime minister, Thatcher was.
Since Labour were elected people like you have attacked Starmer 24/7. From day one the far right press cabal have been attacking him 24/7 over the most absurd things, Specsavers gave him some glasses and we didn’t stop hearing about it for months, Nigel Farage accepts £5 million quid bung into his bank account and it’s hardly mentioned. The day before yesterday Farage came out of hiding to incite a 'cold rage' riot and he succeeded and 11 police officers were injured in Southampton, despite the family pleading for no more division and hatred.
Deservedly Farage is being shown for what he is a nasty despicable tiny man who will use anyone and anything to get what he wants. If he ever gets elected our NHS is gone.
Meanwhile since he was elected Starmer has had to deal with #FaragesRiots (number 1) and insane man in the White House slapping tariffs on us, the threat of WW3 coming closer because of Farage’s mate Trump, and him destabilising world peace, then he has had to deal with Trump's illegal war in Iran as well as all the dreadful domestic issues left by 14 years of Tories. The economy is losing £90 billion per year because of Farage’s #Brexit and all the rest of it. Starmer has handled this with calm dignity, if Farage was PM we would be involved in an illegal war costing our service men and women in injuries and maybe their lives and we would be spending millions on Trump's war. I for one am glad we have a PM who is keeping this country on an even keel. Who do you actually want as PM — Farage? If you do you’re going the right way about it!

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Victoria Derbyshire, "Keir Starmer telling Nigel Farage he has exploited the Henry Nowak case, is he right?"

Telegraphs' Annabel Denham, "Err, no, I don't think the PM is right"

Labour's Tom Hayes, "I'm just shocked by that, you've got a grieving family going through some of the worst experience anyone can ever know, and they've called on Nigel Farage not to exploit the death of their boy; and he literally did that in the House of Commons"

"Nigel Farage was given the opportunity to condemn the violence, which he himself incited, by calling for protests. He could have condemned the violence"

Annabel Denham, "Do you truly believe that the people in Southampton would have not taken to the streets in response to that sickening footage?"

Tom Hayes, "I spoke to the Southampton MP, the vast majority of people in their city protesting, came from outside Southampton"

"On top of that, Nigel Farage said this evening that there will be more to come"

[Oliver @OWS1892]

A dead-eyed psychopath that hounded a woman to suicide asks a woman that called for refugees to be burned alive for her opinion on politics.
The fucking state of this country. https://t.co/uQvl7Dz62i

[Chris Battle @sciencetao]

I have read the entire report. It does NOT describe Burnham in those terms. Only the Labour Party collectively at the institutional level, ie retreating to comfortable old arguments and not dealing with the changed world.

The UK political editor of a reputable organisation like Bloomberg should frankly be embarrassed for such an inaccurate post on X. In past times the public relied on journalists for accurate information, now anyone can access the source material easily it is trivially easy to see where the inaccurate reporting is.

@Bloomberg This is a surprising example of inaccurate reporting by one of your top UK staff

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Almost 10,000 likes for straight-up lies by Annunziata Rees-Mogg, quote:

"Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset's population and 44% of alleged sex offences. So unbelievable I had to check. It's true."

It's not true, it's utter garbage.

I'll go through facts and figures. /1

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Cat check:
"I think we’re going to have to think about healthcare very, very differently. I think we are going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare. Frankly, I would feel more comfortable that my money would return value if I was able to do that through the market place of an insurance company." - Nigel Farage

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

The Nigel Farage Guide to Being a Working-Class Hero

Step 1: Be born to a City stockbroker.

Step 2: Attend Dulwich College, fees currently £53,000 a year.

Step 3: Skip university. Become a City commodities trader instead.

Step 4: Run one of your metal broking firms into insolvency.

Step 5: Get elected to the European Parliament. Spend the next 21 years drawing a salary from the institution you're paid to dismantle.

Step 6: Claim £15,500 a year in expenses for an office your party was given rent-free.

Step 7: Put your wife on the EU parliamentary payroll. Take her off only when the rules force you to.

Step 8: Get investigated by the EU's anti-fraud office. Eventually have half your MEP salary docked to repay misused public funds.

Step 9: Throw a Brexit victory party at the Ritz. Decry the "professional political class" to a room of millionaires.

Step 10: Take £450,000 in personal gifts from Arron Banks. House. Car. Lifestyle.

Step 11: Take £5 million, undisclosed, from a Bangkok-based crypto billionaire. Days later, announce you're standing for parliament after all.

Step 12: Win Clacton. Take the £93,904 MP salary. Add £1.2 million a year from GB News at £2,300 an hour. Become the highest-earning MP in the House of Commons.

Step 13: Speak in parliament fewer times than any other party leader. Fly to America at least nine times in your first year. Refuse to hold in-person constituency surgeries. Holiday in France while parliament is sitting.

Step 14: Tell the working class you're one of them. Tell them to vote against their own interests, over and over again.

Pint, mate?

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

Let me make this very clear.
This is a still from a film.
This is not me.
This is a character I was portraying.
This image has been stolen by someone in Restore, or by someone who supports Restore.
I find the party, and its supporters, utterly abhorrent.
#FightTheRight

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

8 lines every flag-shagging plastic “patriot” has in their playbook

1.“I want my country back” - From what? You voted for the party that ran it for 14 years.

2.“Our grandads didn’t fight for this” - Your grandads would be ashamed that you can’t find Normandy on a map. They fought with Poles, Sikhs, Gurkhas, and West Indians beside them. They’d have more in common with the immigrants you hate than plastic patriots sharing memes about them.

3.“This isn’t the Britain I grew up in” - Correct. It has lower crime, longer life expectancy, and better healthcare than the 1970s you’re romanticising. You just don’t remember the power cuts and three-day weeks.

4.“Britain is broken” - The most unpatriotic sentence in the English language, repeated daily by people say they love their country.

5. “We’re full” - The Netherlands has twice the population density and somehow manages. The UK is not full. It’s just had 14 years of no housebuilding and you need someone darker than you to blame for it.

6.“We look after our own first” - You vote for parties that cut disability benefits, froze nurses’ pay, gave tax breaks to the rich and closed Sure Start centres. You don’t look after anyone.

7.“Stop the boats” - The Tories spent £700 million on Rwanda to deport four people. Zero boats were stopped. You cheered anyway.

8.“Starmer is a traitor” - The man prosecuted terrorists, paedophile rings, and war criminals as DPP. You import American culture war propaganda from people who openly despise our allies, trash your own country 24/7, and follow convicted fraudsters who lied about where they were born. The only ones treacherously trashing Britain’s reputation daily are you.

[Dr Aadam Aziz @Aadam_Aziz]

Absolutely disgraceful racism from @jkyleofficial on @TalkTV. As the camera zooms in on me and @DrHWazir on the picket line, he sneers that “a lot of them have come into this country to be doctors.” He based this solely on the colour of my skin.

I was born in the UK. I studied and trained in the UK and I currently work as a doctor in the NHS. My grandfather fought for this country in WW2.

This is racist, demeaning, and utterly unacceptable.