Ian

Ex brilliant rugby player with very poor hand-eye coordination.
Ex gentleman of the Royal Engineers #sappers.
Member of the hoi pilloi.

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@anon_opin Back in the day, go and buy a Victor Beret

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@cornwall_fraser @TributeToRock @willgkelleher @TimesSport Borthwick’s job on the line. Will play who he wants & f*** the consequences

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@jam_rugby @ealingtfrugby @WorcsWarriors Sort of reminds me when @gloucesterrugby was top of the pile 2002-2003 season and lost the final to wasps. That was frustrating

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@UK_FightNight Well, shit a brick

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@politixintheuk It’s all political bullsh*t. She’s pinning her coat tails to Streeting gambling he’ll be the next PM hoping for a ministerial job

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@RugbyInsideLine Sides that’ve got thumped in the past like Exeter and Gloucester didn’t press the panic button. Gotta reset and move on. It’s all cycles and defence coaches have got to do better.
Also, Bears players with aspirations to play internationally have blown it.

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@TightFive_Rugby Zero defensive. It’s a rubbish watch unless you’re a Saint

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@rugbyontnt
54 points after 38 minutes is not entertaining rugby #saintsbears

[HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris]

@RobertJenrick Its disgusting Robert. I know of one household that gets £5m.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide.

I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud.

Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:

“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.

Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”

It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

The British media is doing everything it can to make this mendacious, corrupt, incompetent, lazy, security risk the PM. Ask yourselves why? Why do they want that so badly, who benefits? It's not going to be the British people.

Follow the money, always follow the money.

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@RugbyInsideLine @TimesRugby It was a no brainier. They didn’t want to sack him like EJ and pay the rest of the contract.

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@18stephenm @HeTalksRugby This ☝️
More investment doesn’t make the game better but imo jeopardy does.

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@aproudamerica @FoxNews There is no god jackass

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

Channel 4 Dispatches went undercover inside the Financial Ombudsman Service @financialombuds. What they filmed should have shut the place down.

Their own staff said this on camera:

"I'm not proud to admit it but I've done it myself. Just taken a chance and just slung stuff through, with any old decision."

"You're more likely to meet your targets if you're not upholding them."

11,000 cases fell into a black hole for two years. Some of those letters said "I am going to lose my house."

@UKParliament demanded answers. Baroness Ros Altmann called it shocking. MPs threatened a full inquiry.

FOS said the footage was "not representative."

Nothing changed.

Fast forward to today. My own complaint against @rsagroup / @IntactInsurance is now being formally handled by Gary Smith @G8GWS of @MeridianLegals.

Gary is the lawyer leading the FOS Litigation Group, a group built on over 1,000 documented FOS failures. He is preparing a judicial review of the FOS.

My case has been submitted by Meridian as my regulated representative because what happened to me fits the same pattern Channel 4 filmed.

If you have had a complaint dismissed by the FOS and you believe it was handled without proper scrutiny, contact Gary directly at Meridian Legal Services.

0121 516 0675
@MeridianLegals

The full transcript of what @C4Dispatches filmed inside the FOS is in the comments.

Read it and tell me this is not exactly what is still happening today.

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@thepaulwilliams Bad decision to yellow Pollock

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@mh379 @ValerieAnne1970 @CadburyUK @UKLabour Didn’t the link answer your question?

[Ian @Tweedle65]

@mh379 @ValerieAnne1970 @CadburyUK @UKLabour Why do you give a fuck when your account is based in Australia but here goes

https://t.co/fOsbSCtEBk

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

🚨 What Has The Labour Government Done?

I didn’t vote for @UKLabour in #GE2024 and have been highly critical of both Labour and Starmer.

Polling shows pretty much everyone is dissapointed, and Labour has faced formidable difficulties in its PR - much of it self-inflicted.

In short, Labour has found it virtually impossible to persuade the public of its achievements and virtually no-one is aware of any of the good things that have happened.

This is partly because of mainstream news media, including a highly critical @BBC, but also because the Government has chosen to foreground measures which indicate that they don’t intend to behave like a Labour Government at all: e.g., abolishing the winter fuel allowance; cutting disability benefits; demonising and taking a hardline on immigration and especially asylum seekers; and reneging on its promises to reinstate welfare payments to couples with more than two children (almost all of them at least partially reversed, but after the damage was done).

So in the interests of balance, here’s a list of things that have been introduced since July 2024 that for some mysterious reason, many voters aren’t even aware of:

1. #NHS and Health

Put an extra £29 billion into the NHS – one of the largest funding boosts in many years.

Delivered over 4–5 million extra NHS appointments in the first year (more than double the original target of 2 million).

NHS waiting lists have fallen by around 230,000–312,000 – the lowest level in two years.

Gave above-inflation pay rises to NHS staff and ended long-running junior doctor strikes.

Recruited around 1,700–2,000 more GPs and introduced the first new GP contract in four years.

Started free breakfast clubs in hundreds of primary schools.

2. Jobs, Wages, and Worker Rights

Raised the National Living Wage – giving over 3 million people a pay rise (a full-time worker aged 21+ gets roughly £900–£1,400 extra per year).

Passed the Employment Rights Act – the biggest upgrade to worker rights in a generation, including:

Day-one protection against unfair dismissal for many workers.

Ending exploitative zero-hour contracts (right to guaranteed hours and notice of shifts).

Sick pay from day one for more low-paid workers.

Better rights to flexible working, paternity leave, and parental leave.

AND attracted £100–120 billion in new private investment, helping create more than 380,000 new jobs.

3. Housing and Renters

Passed the Renters’ Rights Act – banning “no-fault” evictions so tenants have much stronger protection.

Started major planning reforms to help build 1.5 million new homes over this parliament.

4. Energy and Environment

Set up Great British Energy – a new publicly owned company with £8.3 billion to invest in clean sustainable power like wind and solar.

Lifted the ban on new onshore wind farms in England and sped up renewable energy projects.

Aiming to make Britain a “clean energy superpower” with cheaper bills in the long term.

5. Cleaning Up Politics and Tackling Lobbying & Corruption

New Ethics and Integrity Commission launched in October 2025, replacing the old standards committee to oversee ethical behaviour by ministers, MPs, and public officials.

Tightened rules on MPs earning from paid lobbying jobs, removing exemptions that allowed MPs to be paid for giving advice on public policy or how Parliament works.

Stronger rules on political donations: Introduced the Representation of the People Bill (2026) to block foreign interference and hidden donations.

Tackling the “revolving door”: Introduced rules to stop former ministers and officials from immediately taking jobs with companies they used to regulate.

More transparency on lobbying: Reviewing the current lobbying register and publishing more frequent data; the PM asked the Ethics and Integrity Commission to carry out a full review in March 2026.

New Anti-Corruption Strategy (2025): Published December 2025 with 123 commitments to fight bribery and corruption, including appointing a new Anti-Corruption Champion.

Local government reforms: Plans for a mandatory code of conduct for councillors and creation of a Local Audit Office to improve oversight and reduce corruption risks.

6. Tackling Online Harms (including pornography and disinformation)

Rolling out the Online Safety Act: Inherited, but actively implemented and strengthened by Labour.

From March 2025, platforms must remove illegal content, including child sexual abuse material.

From July 2025, new rules to protect children from harmful content (pornography, self-harm, suicide, eating disorder material).

Age verification on major porn sites, ensuring children cannot access adult content.

@Ofcom issued fines (£1 million+) for non-compliant sites.

Extra protections against harmful content include upgraded cyber-flashing and encouragement of serious self-harm to priority offences and rules introduced for non-consensual intimate images, deepfakes, and nudification apps.

Action on disinformation:

Platforms must remove illegal disinformation; Ofcom set up an advisory committee to improve responses.

7. Tackling Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation (including Grooming Gangs)

National Audit by Baroness Casey (June 2025):

Reviewed group-based child sexual exploitation and recommended reforms; all 12 recommendations accepted.

Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (December 2025, started 2026): Chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield with full legal powers; £65 million budget over three years.

Accelerated police action and reopened cases: National operation reopened over 800 cases; Grooming Gangs Taskforce contributed to hundreds of arrests, including 597 in late 2024.

New national taskforce and local support: Specialist taskforce for councils and police; new centre of expertise for best practices.

Updates to the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy (April 2025):

Better victim support, independent review routes, and stronger multi-agency working.

But anyway, APART from improving the NHS and the nation’s health, making more jobs, improving wages for the low-paid and worker rights, taking measures to improve housing and life for renters, cleaning up politics and tackling lobbying and corruption, tackling online harms including pornography and disinformation, tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation, including grooming gangs, stopping widespread train strikes early and starting to bring rail services back into public ownership, setting up a new Border Security Command to tackle small boat crossings, paying compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal, delivering real-terms wage growth and implementing several interest rate cuts, starting work on lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty including changes to benefits, and, excluding the COVID‑related disruption, cutting net migration to its lowest level since before the UK left the EU in 2016 - APART FROM THAT, WHAT HAS THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT EVER DONE FOR US?

https://t.co/ACeyWJ5o8n