Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧

I cook. Fan of quality British everything. Falconry. Sporting Dog & Horse lover - & the odd human! All things country.

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

This should be common knowledge - this has apparently been a long running lie to the British people!

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

You gave them your money.

You believed they were saving British lives.

You were lied to.

Tonight 6PM: The documents that prove the RNLI is a state-run border operation taking orders from HM Coastguard, funded by civil service payroll, and coordinated with 160 international NGOs to facilitate mass migration across the Channel.

The "volunteers" are paid.
The "charity" is state-tasked.
The "rescue" is transport.

I have the MOU. I have the financial records. I have the names.

Thread 1/4 drops 6PM.

You deserve the truth.

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

Ooh Dear - our new PM again! 😳

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Burnham Handed the Hamas File to a Hamas Sympathiser

In March 2010, Andy Slaughter wrote in The Guardian that Britain should negotiate "without preconditions" with Hamas. He had just returned from an undeclared trip to Gaza, where he says he met Faraj al-Ghoul, then Hamas's justice minister, and Dr Ahmed Yousef, deputy foreign minister and right-hand man to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. No entry for that trip appears in his register of members' interests, despite parliamentary rules at the time requiring declaration of benefits over £660.

Eight months later he was in Jerusalem with Jeremy Corbyn, photographed alongside three men with documented Hamas affiliations, on a £927 trip funded by Friends of Al-Aqsa and Middle East Monitor. One of the trip's sponsors, Ismail Patel, had told a rally the year before that Hamas was "no terrorist organisation" and that he saluted it for standing up to Israel.

None of this is a single embarrassing photograph. It is a documented, repeated position, held over years, argued in Slaughter's own byline, and never retracted.

In November 2023, Slaughter resigned as Shadow Solicitor General, voting for an SNP amendment demanding an immediate Gaza ceasefire against Starmer's explicit instruction. That is the same portfolio, in shadow form, that Andy Burnham has now handed him in government. He is one of two law officers with statutory input into prosecution decisions and proscription advice, in a country where Hamas has been a proscribed organisation since 2001 and supporting it carries up to fourteen years in prison.

Nick Timothy has called the appointment a disgrace. He is right, but the word undersells the structure of the problem. This is not a man who once held an unfashionable opinion. It is a man promoted by into the single office where that opinion has legal consequence, over the very organisation his opinion concerned.

The pattern is not new. Jonathan Powell ran a secret backchannel to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham while it was still proscribed, and was never required to disclose it before becoming Starmer's national security adviser. Lord Alli held personal talks with Assad at the height of the Syrian civil war and was given the run of Downing Street from day one, the access itself never properly explained. In each case the sequence is identical. A relationship with a hostile or proscribed actor precedes the appointment. The appointment follows without the relationship being weighed against the role. The explanation, when one comes, is always that the individual's judgement should be trusted regardless of the record.

The Attorney General's office says Slaughter has been "consistent in condemning the actions of Hamas" and supports a two-state solution. That form of words does not address the specific claim under scrutiny, which is not whether he condemns Hamas's actions in the abstract, but whether a man who argued for negotiating with it without preconditions should hold the pen on decisions about prosecuting people connected to it.

Governments are entitled to appoint MPs with a range of views on the Middle East. What they are not entitled to do is place someone with a public, years-long, undeclared-travel-supported record of sympathy for a proscribed organisation into the one office built to decide how the law treats that organisation, and then describe the appointment as a matter of impartiality. Burnham did not inherit this decision. He made it, in his first week, with the full history available to read.

"Andy Burnham and Andy Slaughter, the Solicitor General he chose to hand the Hamas file to."

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@InvictaRegina A mouth like a cat’s broken sixpence!

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@caniaffoirdit @TheBritLad Top solution Chad! 😜

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@lbrewer190 @UKLabour @Conservatives @LibDems @reformparty_uk Top post Lozza!

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

This is all so very simple - and true!

[Lozza @lbrewer190]

To all @UKLabour and @Conservatives @Libdems who have had enough of your parties gaslighting you and misleading you come join @reformparty_uk

Ask yourself. Was it #Farage or reform that left the country a £3.5 trillion debt.
It wasn’t #Farage that destroyed our economy our industrial base or manufacturing base.
It wasn’t #Farage that ruined the NHS despite £185 billion annual budget.
It wasn’t #Farage that opened our borders, wrecked the Brexit negotiations.
it wasn’t #Farage that ruined education so much so universities are lowering entrance levels.
It wasn’t #Farage that cut the police and Armed Forces to the bone.
It wasn’t #Farage that caused the banking crisis,
it wasn’t #Farage that caused Covid & wasted billions,
it wasn’t #Farage that sold off all the social housing stock and didn’t replace them.
It wasn’t #Farage that destroyed our infrastructure.
It wasn’t #Farage that brought about the cost of living crisis or privatised our utilities.

You all know the establishment parties and the press want uou to believe it was Nigel Farage that broke Britain.

When it was the @UKLabour party. It was the @Conservatives and it was the @Libdems

So come join us and let’s get this country back on track. #VoteReformUK

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@jakelchambers @PolitlcsUK I know what a ? signifies!
Do you know a capital letter usually starts a name?

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@jakelchambers @PolitlcsUK Absolute rubbish - division and fraud - lies!
No wonder most Conservative voters have got sick of you Liberal liars.

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@CurlySpanner007 Absolutely Unbefuckinglievable!
When we pay out billions to illegal immigrants!

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@jakelchambers @PolitlcsUK Nothing fraudulent jake - it was unfrozen after the payments were cleared.
Surprised you’re a Tory - your spiteful lies in this tweet are very Left leaning!

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@TimScottUK Maybe it’s a simple case that there’s nothing untoward going on?

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@ESmithz21277 Skin.

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@DarrenT68260724 @BuckleyWells You’re absolutely right Darren - they have to have a far-right incident to throw back at the public!

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@BenGrahamUK @The_real_M_V_P My teeth are grinding at the thought!

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@CurlySpanner007 That’s ridiculous - you should have told him to put it back up!

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@ukJ0N @SBarrettBar I’d like to see them try that one with Steven Barrett!

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

This is one queue!

[The Nowhere Photographer @thenowherephoto]

Illegal migrant boat happening right now!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE SHARE as this is actually happening now

Crossing over the UK shortly the largest amount of people I’ve ever seen waiting for a boat

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@AvonandsomerRob GB News. 😜

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@InTheTrenchesUK Fantastic, very revealing post Christian.
Thank you for sharing this.

[Tony Borthwick 🇬🇧 @TonyBorthwick]

@SartorialThug Took the piss a really - being left alone with a cat is serious stuff!
A colleague is currently baby-sitting on for a relative.
He’s a decent chap, profanity free - he calls it an evil cu*t!