Tim Daffin

#Brexit, Businessman, Professional Engineer, Californian, now living in England and France, love dogs, play jazz guitar badly, gigs, love my Tesla

[Brian Garrigan 🇮🇪 @BrianGarrigan]

Diversity is our Strength we are been told

[BRIT (Lion of Britain) @LionOfBritainUK]

A local DJ in Bournemouth named Tommy Shrewsbury got attacked by a bunch of migrant men, and Police told him not to talk about it due to "potential backlash".

So thank you, Tommy, for talking about it. They CANNOT be allowed to keep hiding all the violence migrant filth brings into our country.

[The Patriots Voice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 @Proudofthisland]

🚨 THIS FACE IS BACK ON OUR STREETS - BABY KILLER SHERWAIN SMITH WALKS FREE! 😡

Remember this mug? Sherwain Smith - the Midlands monster who snatched 6-month-old Baby Troy from his cot, dumped his tiny body in a drain like trash, and still only got manslaughter.

Convicted child sex offender. Multiple offences against kids. Yet the Parole Board just said “job done” and let him loose.

His own victim’s mum is screaming: “He could kill again.”

How many more babies have to die before we stop protecting the predators?

This isn’t “rehabilitation” - it’s Russian roulette with our children.

Share this face. Warn your neighbourhood. Demand answers from the spineless system that keeps releasing these animals.

What the actual f**k is wrong with Britain?

#SherwainSmith #BabyTroy #TwoTierJustice #ProtectOurKids

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

A man is stabbed to death by someone who accuses him of being a racist - and the first thing the police do on arrival is to handcuff the dying man.
https://t.co/AzZXsXRJKo

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

A 62-year-old female Morrison’s worker was sacked after trying to physically apprehend a teenage thief. The store defended the dismissal by arguing that she endangered herself and her colleagues. The world has gone completely mad. https://t.co/mcu3IFlzCB

[Electro Fountain @Electrofountain]

Just got an uber, lovely chap from Bangladesh. Lives in a council flat in zone 1, but he's on a waiting list for a bigger place.

I earn six figures and I grew up in the UK, I can't afford a zone 1 flat with 2 beds like his.

Why can't people comprehend how wrong this is?

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

How dare you.

I grew up in Telford and was sexually abused for over a decade under a Labour council.

Countless little girls like me were failed by Labour politicians like you.

If you want to know how Labour REALLY treats abuse survivors, here’s my story:

As many other girls in Telford have also testified, I was made to feel as though I was to blame. The system criminalised the victims, rather than going after the perpetrators.

I remember being asked by a detective whether I “consented” at any point to sexual activity, and told by a social worker that “my actions had led me to where I was today”.

All the while, the Labour-led council tried to block an independent inquiry into CSE for years and their Council Leader (now the MP for Telford), along with 10 other powerful local men, even wrote a letter to the Home Secretary saying they felt an inquiry would unnecessary.

Little girls in Telford were branded child prostitutes and p*ki shaggers…

…by West Mercia Police and local Labour councillors, no less.

In Rotherham, Rochdale, Banbury and elsewhere — all Labour-led areas — victims were continually swept aside by those in positions of power, as if they chose this lifestyle. The attitudes that social workers, local services, authorities had towards children was so skewed, and so deeply unprofessional.

My abuse continued for years, at the hands of multiple different men throughout my childhood and teen years.

Eventually, I confided in a social worker and filed a police report detailing the years of abuse that I had experienced.

And my case, like 96.5 per cent of all sex crime cases in the UK, never resulted in prosecution. I was told that there was an unrealistic prospect of conviction against any of my abusers, due to the historic nature of my case.

I spent years in silence because I thought I would somehow be judged or penalised for the abuse I had suffered. Because I had been conditioned to feel like I was somehow responsible for my own victimisation.

The Telford scandal made headlines when it broke in 2015, then again when the Crowther Report was released in 2022.

Yet, the news cycle moved on.

And Labour tried their best to ignore it.

You voted against a national enquiry into CSE. You gutted the local enquires model. You promoted key figures in the scandal to MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.

You called victims “far-Right bandwagon jumpers” and grooming gangs a “dog whistle.”

You failed. Deliberately.
On every level.

These are not crimes of the past. Kids are still being exploited, groomed, raped and even murdered in Labour-led areas like mine. It isn’t enough to have empty words and hollow promises.

I even went on national TV to discuss Pakistani grooming gangs in Telford and the continued risk of abuse faced by little girls in my hometown.

The next day, officers banged on my door, demanding I speak to them about my interview. They ignored victims for decades, but tried to intimidate me for speaking about their failings on live TV.

CSE is a national epidemic.

But Labour continues to treat it like a localised issue, choosing to believe that the extent of the abuse is contained to a few bad towns and pockets of bad apples. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Politicians like you, Bridget, refuse to address that fact for fear of being forced to confront your decades-long failure to protect young girls from abuse.

It’s easier to ignore victims, especially when they come from communities, social classes or demographics that are already disenfranchised in Britain.

And for those who do speak out, it feels like you are screaming at a brick wall that would rather label you as the problem than take you seriously.

It was Labour councils.
Labour politicians.
Labour police forces.
Labour MPs.

You all knew. You were all complicit.

How DARE you pretend to care about us now.

You are a disgrace, Bridget.

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

I’m the Mum of Barnaby Webber, one of 3 innocent victims of the Nottingham attacks in 2023.
Where Valdo Calocane was allowed to roam the streets with a lengthy history of violence, assaults, hatred and mental illness because the health services feared the stigma of detaining him for his race and age above safety to the public.
Echoed by their colleagues in the Police and CPS.
……And still they all continue to defend their failures.
@KirstieMAllsopp please use your trusted voice to follow and support the #nottinghaminquiry if you can. Only be forcing this into the public arena and shouting from the rooftops will things ever change.
Even a like and or rt of my posts would help enormously. 🫶🙏

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

If you’re being repeatedly spat at by a vile shoplifter the last thing you will be thinking about as an employee is Morrisons “ deter but don’t detain” policy towards thieves.
The supermarket should rehire store longtime manager Sean Egan who I admire for tackling the scum who, as it emerges, convictions as long as your arm.
Until they do, my advice is to avoid Morrisons ( recognise it’s difficult for some) until their CEO realises if he was obeing spat in the boardroom he too might raise his arms.
Your money is important, do you really want to hand it to a company that wouldn’t support somebody being spat at.
This is much more serious than an HR issue.

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

London is run by @MayorofLondon and his private army of @metpoliceuk.
I was arrested after getting attacked by Pakistanis in London.
I was arrested because I dared to defend myself against Pakistanis.
I was arrested because my name is not “KHAN”.
It has already been a year and there is no update from the Met Police.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated.
RETWEET IF YOU AGREE

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I read in the Telegraph that Morrisons have sacked a manager for tackling a shoplifter.

Honestly, if a shoplifter gets a bit roughed up and takes a kick whilst being stopped by a decent law-abiding citizen?

Oh well. I couldn't care less.

Morrisons should be ashamed.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

On Saturday morning, a woman in her twenties was raped outside Epsom Methodist Church on Ashley Road. She had left a nightclub; she was followed by a group of men; the attack took place between two and four in the morning, in the heart of a market town in Surrey that most of the country thinks of, if it thinks of it at all, as somewhere you go to see the horses run.

The residents of Epsom have asked Surrey Police reasonable questions. "Who are the suspects? What do they look like? Is there CCTV?"

Surrey Police has declined to answer. They have said they do not have "sufficient information" to release descriptions. They have urged the public "not to speculate," because speculation "may lead to additional tensions within local communities." Translated from the institutional dialect, this means: we know what you are likely to conclude from the descriptions, and we would rather you didn't.

On Tuesday evening, hundreds of residents gathered in the town centre to ask the question again. The police response was to deploy public order units, riot shields, and helmets against people standing on the pavement of their own high street demanding to know what the men who raped a woman six doors down from them actually look like. The local Lib Dem MP - who represents these people and the town - told the protesters to "take it elsewhere."

"Take it elsewhere."

This is the settled posture of the modern British state toward its own citizens. When a town asks for the most basic information about a violent sexual offence committed on its streets - information that, thirty years ago, would have been on the front of every regional paper within hours - it is met first with bureaucratic evasion, then with riot police, then with a sitting member of parliament telling them to do one.

Epsom is not an unruly place. It is not a place with a history of disorder. It is a comfortable commuter town in Surrey whose residents have been told, in the space of seventy-two hours, that the police will not tell them who is hunting women on their streets, that asking about it constitutes a threat to community cohesion, and that if they persist in asking they will be treated as a public order problem.

There is a specific and ugly contempt encoded in this response. It is the contempt of an administrative class that has decided the British public cannot be trusted with the truth about anything happening to it, and that the job of the state is no longer to solve the crime but to manage the reaction to it, forcibly.

The people of Epsom have not misbehaved. They have done the thing that citizens of a serious country are supposed to do when something terrible happens where they live: they have turned up and asked questions.

And the answer they have received, delivered in riot gear, is that their questions are the problem.

[Catherine Blaiklock @blaiklockBP]

Somali Mum gets carers' allowance for Granddad.
Somali Kid gets a free taxi to school.
Somali taxi driver takes the kid to school.
Somali Uncle gets a mobility car.
Somali Father gets another house for his second wife.
Somali wife brings in her cousin.
Somali cousin gets all the forms faked.
Somali lawyer friend helps with the passports.
Somali friend in the council gets them a bigger house in the middle of London.
And soon, the whole village is here claiming benefits.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS SPENT £857K PROVING THEY WERE WRONG

Dr Kevin Beatt @drbeatt built Croydon University Hospital's @croydonhealth cardiology unit from nothing. Then he did something the NHS apparently cannot tolerate. He told the truth.

He warned about dangerous equipment, nursing shortages, and bullying. Nobody acted.

In June 2011, a senior nurse was suspended mid-procedure without his knowledge. A 63-year-old man, Gerald Storey, died on the table. The coroner confirmed the suspension contributed to his death. Beatt raised the alarm formally and repeatedly.

The Trust sacked him for gross misconduct. Reported him to the GMC. Issued a press statement the tribunal later found was deliberately designed to destroy his reputation.

Then they spent public money trying to make it stick.

The Employment Tribunal ruled against them. Landmark judgment. No misconduct. No ulterior motive. Unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing.

The Trust appealed. Lost. Appealed again. Lost. Tried the Supreme Court. Refused.

Final bill to taxpayers: £857,110 in compensation. Plus years of legal costs.

Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt, Health Secretary at the time, called it a matter for the trust's board and walked away. The managers responsible faced zero consequences.

This is the template. @NHS trusts have learned that burying a whistleblower in legal processes, exhausting their finances, and waiting long enough means most people give up. Dr Beatt did not give up. He won. And it cost him everything anyway.

If institutions will not protect the people who protect patients, we have to.

Share this.

Because somewhere right now a doctor is deciding whether it is worth the risk to speak up.

Sources:
Employment Tribunal: Beatt v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2014]
Court of Appeal: [2017] EWCA Civ 401
The Guardian / Croydon Guardian / ITV News

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Excellent thread, this. Something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about…

The British state is run by people who have never been fired, never missed a number, never had a client scream at them, never stayed up until 3am working on a deal, or repricing a book because Tokyo opened badly.

They have never experienced CONSEQUENCE. Ever.

THAT is the single most important fact in British public life.

The pipeline is so uniform and mediocre it scarcely needs describing:

- School
- PPE or adjacent
- Civil Service fast stream or a Think Tank research role
- Spell as local councillor to appear “grounded,”
- Then a safe seat and a red box before 40

At no point has the market ever called them a moron.

At no point has a P&L told them their idea was shit.

The feedback loop that every private sector professional takes for granted simply does not exist in their world.

This matters because policy is NOT an essay. It IS a trade. Every regulation has a cost, every tax has a behavioural response, every intervention has second and third order consequences.

In markets, if you misread convexity you get carried out. In government, you get reshuffled to a different department.

The incentive structure could not be more perfectly designed to retain the incompetent and repel the capable.

Anyone with genuine commercial talent is earning multiples of a ministerial salary by their early thirties. So the applicant pool self selects for people for whom the title is the reward because they could never command that status where performance is measured.

The think tank ecosystem makes it worse.
IPPR, the Resolution Foundation, JRF and the rest function as ideological finishing schools and revolving doors. They produce people fluent in the language of policy who have never implemented anything. They can model a distributional impact assessment in their sleep but could not run a corner shop at profit.

This is NOT intelligence. It is pattern matching within a closed system that never tests its own assumptions because everyone in it shares the same priors.

The civil service compounds it further. The fast stream rewards generalism, rotating you through departments every 18 to 24 months to develop “breadth,” which in practice means you never develop depth.

A Treasury official who helped design a tax policy in 2019 is working on transport by the time it starts distorting behaviour in 2022. Nobody owns the outcome.

The private sector has one thing the state fundamentally lacks: a kill switch.

Bad companies go bust.

Bad traders get sacked.

The state just absorbs failure, reclassifies it as “lessons learned,” and promotes the people responsible.

The compound effect of thirty years of this is a permanent class institutionally incapable of delivering growth or even understanding why the private sector they depend on for revenue keeps shrinking under their stewardship. This is what we have, right now.

You cannot fix this with better people inside the same system. The system selects against competence, insulates against feedback, and rewards survival over performance.

Every parliament is just a fresh rotation of the same profile through the same machine expressing the same surprise when nothing improves.

We need parallel institutions to be built by the guy or gal staying up til 3am repricing the book. The risk taker. The entrepreneur.

Then we gradually phase the existing sclerotic failed structures out.

That’s how we win.

Make Britain Great Again 🇬🇧 💪

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

This is clever! 👇

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Islamic Republic of Iran has just been nominated to the UN Committee for Programme and Coordination to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention.
The British government, of course, did not object to Iran’s appointment — even though the Iranian regime has been massacring thousands and thousands of protestors this year.
At least it shows satire is not dead.
NEXT UP> Satan nominated to investigate sin.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

My view on this gender debate is quite simple.

If a grown man wants to dress up as a woman, and pretend that he’s a woman? Fine. I certainly don’t approve, and I will not call him a woman, but that’s his decision. It’s a free country. On the strict condition that others are not negatively affected by his actions - eg, if he decides that he wants to compete in women’s sport or intrude in women-only spaces? The answer is a firm NO. No men in women’s sports or spaces. Not complicated.

When it comes to children? Absolutely not. Pushing this ideology on young boys and girls is sick and twisted.
It should be illegal. To suggest that a young boy has been born in the wrong body, and should receive life-altering surgery to ‘resolve’ that? It’s abuse. It’s disgusting.

I don’t want those vile flags flown anywhere in the public sector - anywhere. DEFINITELY NOT in schools, toddler play areas, hospitals or wherever else.

For the NHS to be conducting trials where children as young as ten are given puberty blockers? It will creep and creep and creep back again. No. The answer is no. It is an unethical experiment.

Anybody in a position of authority forcing this ideology on a young boy and girl, potentially leading to permanent physical changes? They should be prosecuted.

Leave children alone.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Ed Miliband's oil blockade of Britain is a war of attrition against the British public, says Ben Pile. Even communist China has cheap energy and industrialisation. Who needs enemies with a Government like this? https://t.co/y8TTP5dZqY