Tim Boles

Car racer, business builder and lover of Scotland and Isle of Man.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

England is in shock.

Not the shock of surprise. The shock of recognition. That moment when we finally admit what we have been seeing for years but were too polite, too exhausted, too bullied to name.

Our capital city flies foreign flags on New Year's Eve and its mayor jokes about independence. Our Prime Minister appointed a Hamas sympathiser as his chief legal adviser and a convicted fraudster as his deputy. Our police force spent £631 million on diversity training while corruption investigations collapsed by 70% and rape gangs operated with impunity. Our Energy Secretary oversaw £44 million vanishing into fraudulent schemes. Our Chancellor pocketed £54,000 from a woman who accused him of failing 1,400 raped girls. Our Manchester Mayor covered up grooming gangs while taking UAE blood money.

This is not a government. This is a looting party with parliamentary privilege.

Let us be specific, shall we? Let us do what the BBC won't.

Andy Burnham. The "King of the North" who lost his own working class constituency because his own people saw through him. The Health Secretary who buried 1,200 deaths at Mid Staffordshire to protect institutional reputations. The man who voted for an illegal war on fabricated intelligence, then voted eighteen times against inquiries into his own crime. The Mayor who spent £27 million on consultants while children were raped in the streets he controlled. The Prime Minister who, within weeks of taking office, exchanged texts with an imposter posing as Trump's chief of staff because his operational security is a joke. Who appointed Andy Slaughter, photographed shaking hands with Hamas officials in Jerusalem, to decide which groups Britain proscribes as terrorists. Who made Louise Haigh, convicted of fraud against the police, his de facto Deputy Prime Minister. Who made Miatta Fahnbulleh, daughter of a Liberian dictator's minister, Energy Secretary after she lost £44 million to fraud. Who made John Healey, who was "not convinced" an inquiry into 1,400 raped girls in his constituency would help them, his Chancellor. Who made Bev Craig, who covered up Manchester's grooming gangs, Mayor of the city region.

This is not failure upward. This is criminality institutionalised.

And London? London has Sadiq Khan. The human rights lawyer who freed Louis Farrakhan, Louis Farrakhan, to enter Britain. Who consulted on the defence of a 9/11 conspirator. Who visited terror suspects in prison and shared platforms nine times with an imam who called women subservient and gays condemned. Who signed a letter blaming 7/7 on British foreign policy, not on the bombers. Who has presided over a 72% rise in knife crime, was officially rebuked by the statistics watchdog for lying about it, and stripped the Met of AI tools that catch corrupt officers. Who extracted £500 million from drivers through ULEZ while his own assessments admitted it had "negligible effect on air quality." Who bankrupted TfL (£12 billion in debt) and hiked our council tax by 71%. Who lit the London Eye in EU colours on New Year's Eve and "joked" about declaring independence. Who denies grooming gangs exist in his city in 2026, calling survivors "politically motivated."

Our capital is being managed by a man who thinks it is his personal city state. Our country is being run by a cabinet that reads like a criminal indictment. Our police are more concerned with pronouns than burglaries. Our borders are sieves operated by Iranian terror units. Our media, our BBC, our ITV, our Channel 4, maintain a disciplined silence while MI5 stops twenty terrorist plots in a year and says nothing.

They do not serve us. They serve each other. They serve ideologies imported from American campuses and Gulf funded think tanks. They serve the next consultancy contract, the next peerage, the next sinecure in a Brussels bureaucracy or a UN agency.

And we? We pay for it all. We pay the ULEZ charges for air quality that doesn't improve. We pay the council tax hikes for services that don't arrive. We pay the TV licence for news that isn't reported. We pay for the diversity officers while our daughters are raped and our police are overwhelmed and our borders are crossed by people who hate us.

And where do these operatives report? To 16 Princes Gate, Knightsbridge. The Iranian Embassy. A Grade II listed building overlooking Hyde Park in London's most expensive postcode. The IRGC's London headquarters operates in plain sight, untouched, unraided, unclosed. We proscribed the group. We declared them terrorists. We gave ourselves the legal power to act. And then we did nothing. The Union Jack flies at half mast for dead monarchs while the flag of the Islamic Republic flies at full mast in our capital, directing operations against our own people. The building should be shuttered. The diplomats expelled. The networks dismantled. Instead, it remains open for business. A terror hub with a SW1A postcode. This is not diplomacy. This is surrender wearing a tie.

The Iranians know it. The IRGC runs smuggling routes across our Channel with impunity from their Knightsbridge embassy. They send operatives daily via small boats while our navy is deployed to diversity workshops. Trump kills IRGC operatives on Iranian soil. Burnham lets them walk free in London. That is the difference between a leader and a placeholder. Between a nation that survives and one that submits.

This is not incompetence. Incompetence is random. This is systematic. This is the deliberate dismantling of a nation by people who view its history as shameful, its people as obstacles, and its institutions as resources to be strip mined for their own advancement.

We have been told this is diversity. This is inclusion. This is progress.

It is not. It is conquest by administrative procedure. It is the replacement of competence with credentials, of justice with ideology, of truth with narrative.

The game is up. The receipts are filed. The pattern is proven.

England will not save itself. Either we do it, or it dies. Decide.

[Tim Boles @TimCBoles]

@khula_elc Can't remember

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@InTheTrenchesUK Wow that's quite a rap sheet, very well summarised. Do you think Reform has got what it takes to right the ship?

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@0DonaldTrumpJrQ Her life

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@Airaasayss Whoops 20

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@Airaasayss 11

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

Dear HM Government, (UK)

Firstly, congratulations. You’ve managed to discover a brand-new definition of transparency.

Apparently, the people who write the laws can have their criminal records kept secret from the very people expected to obey those laws. That’s an impressive piece of political gymnastics.

The rest of us apply for jobs, volunteer roles, taxi licences, security passes, and all manner of positions where background checks are considered perfectly reasonable. Yet when it comes to those entrusted with running the country… suddenly privacy becomes the highest constitutional principle.

Forgive us if we’re a little confused.

If a criminal record is irrelevant to holding public office, then explain why. If it is relevant, then surely voters deserve to know before they hand over power at the ballot box.

Democracy relies on informed consent. It’s difficult to make an informed choice if important information about elected representatives is deliberately withheld.

This isn’t about conducting witch hunts or judging people for minor mistakes made decades ago. It’s about accountability. Those who expect the public’s trust should be prepared to earn it through openness, not secrecy.
Unlike the government’s pursuit of Veterans 🤔

So, a simple question:

Why should MPs and ministers be held to a lower standard of transparency than many ordinary citizens applying for everyday jobs?

After all, “nothing to hide” seems to apply enthusiastically to taxpayers, but rather less enthusiastically to taxpayers’ employees.

Is transparency now something that’s only expected of the governed, while the governors are exempt?
Abit like the COVID vaccine 🤔 there is a pattern,

Perhaps we’ve misunderstood how equality works. We foolishly assumed the same standards applied to everyone. It would appear they do… right up until someone becomes an MP.

The British public doesn’t expect perfection.

We do, however, expect honesty, accountability, and the same standards from those who make our laws as they expect from those who obey them.

Yours, slightly bewildered,

A Taxpayer 🇬🇧

[Albert Edwards @albertedwards99]

As an economist, I must give a big thank you to the SNP and the Scottish people for proving the Laffer Curve is alive and kicking. Thanks also to @DanNeidle for his analysis.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The SNP runs into the Laffer Curve: its 48% top rate of income tax (NICs on top) results in £22m LESS in tax revenues.
Don’t they teach economics in the land of Adam Smith any more?
Or does left-wing virtue signalling — I’m ‘taxing the rich’ more than you — trump everything?

[Tim Boles @TimCBoles]

@InTheTrenchesUK Wow that's quite a scorecard!: you must do more with this, it needs a public airing

[Tim Boles @TimCBoles]

@JohnCleese We won't have a welfare bill when we are invaded by a foreign power, but there again we won't have any welfare

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

ANDREW NEIL: There's a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller https://t.co/oYdf6g2UZh via @DailyMail

[Nick Smith @mansfieldrv6]

Is Andrew Neil exasperated…
incredulous…
furious…

or simply resigned?

Read today’s column and,
like me, you’ll feel all four.

Because this past week hasn’t just
been another geopolitical flare-up.

It’s been the kind of moment
that separates serious
governments…

from amateur ones.

Arab oil infrastructure destroyed.
The Strait of Hormuz closed.
Energy supplies slashed.
Bond yields spiking.

Neil has covered every
energy crisis since 1973…

His verdict?

This one could be the worst.
I am inclined to agree.

Now here’s the the part that
should make every
reader sit up.

Britain isn’t just facing the storm.

We are uniquely exposed to it.

Why?

Because while the world hardens…

Our incapable leadership softens.

Keir Starmer surrendering to
demands for ever more spending.

Ministers becoming prisoners
of Labour’s Soft Left.

A government oblivious to the
pitfalls of our rising debt and
vanishing fiscal discipline.

The markets have noticed.

They’ve priced it in.

Andrew calls it…
‘A moron premium.’

And then comes the theatre.

Angela Rayner lecturing investors
on economic modelling as if they
can’t see she’s a ‘chav’.

Rachel Reeves praising other
countries for drilling oil
while refusing to sign
off drilling here.

Ed Miliband blocking fields ready
to produce energy because he
once declared drilling…

‘climate vandalism.’

Andrew doesn’t mince words.

‘The hypocrisy, the stupidity,
the brass neck is breathtaking.’

That’s not rhetoric.
That’s diagnosis.

Because at the very moment
we need resilience…

We are borrowing billions just
to pay the interest on the
money we already owe.

Not for schools.
Not for hospitals.
Not for our defence.

Just to stay afloat.

And that’s the image that
lingers after reading this column.

A global storm gathering on the horizon.

A nation already deep in debt.

And a government at the tiller…

No map.
Without a plan.
And now without fuel.

Better read it.

Then, while history says he’s
probably right, just hope
Andrew’s got it wrong.

(And yes. All parties are in this pic🤦‍♂️)

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Dear Sadiq Khan,

I think some of the prejudice to do with 'singling out Muslims' is to to with their stated intention to kill 'infidels', expecially the bit about beheading them

You see, the other religions don't promise that

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Britain was early in banning slavery.
But, unlike other countries, it did not stop there.
It poured blood and treasure into a campaign to stamp out the foul business globally.
It signed treaties with African kings, who were determined to keep the institution alive, and enforced those treaties.
Even while engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Bonaparte, it diverted gunboats to hunt down the slavers.
It closed down the traffic in human beings from East Africa to Arabia.
Abolitionism became a popular cause, with working-class families donating to missions.
Between 1808 and 1867, Britain spent 1.8 per cent of its GDP on anti-slavery operations, the most expensive moral foreign policy in human history.
What recompense does it get today?
What recognition?
Its reward is to be targeted by every shakedown artist, Third Worldist, grifter and halfwit.
It is now seriously proposed that the country that stamped out the slave trade should pay reparations to the African states that took the slaves.
Truly no good deed goes unpunished.
https://t.co/JrymeRmc6V

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The so called Good Law project isn’t very good at law (it keeps losing cases) and it is very bad at energy economics. If renewables are ‘highly competitive’ why have they required — and still require — massive taxpayer subsidies in the tens of billions for over two decades?

[Tim Boles @TimCBoles]

Why doesn't Trump just threaten to obliterate Kharg island unless IRGC open the Hormuz strait to oil exports?

[Tim Boles @TimCBoles]

@Andy_T_ @RobertJenrick Looks like another immigrant ( grey squirrel)!

[Tim Boles @TimCBoles]

@RobertJenrick @DCBMEP I hope it's a red rather than a grey imported squirrel 🐿️

[Tim Boles @TimCBoles]

@Patricia344130 @abbeylinegold "In a wheel rut "