Is anyone else sick of ministers not answering questions in Parliament? By allowing them to make irrelevant statements in response to questions, the Speaker risks making Parliament itself redundant - if ministers are not required to answer questions asked in the House then one of the main functions of Parliament is lost
So today I have written to @CommonsSpeaker to express my concerns, referencing Energy questions last week
@ClaireCoutinho asked @Ed_Miliband who is responsible if there is a blackout in the UK and what would happen to them if there was one
He accused her of scaremongering, expressed sorrow that she no longer supports net zero and made some totally unconnected comment about green jobs
What he did not do is answer any part of her question and the Speaker said nothing. No requirement to answer the question. No reprimand for talking irrelevant waffle. Nothing
Week in and week out we see the same at PMQs - @KemiBadenoch asks a question and @Keir_Starmer lurches through some pre-prepared answer often on another topic, or complaining about the record of the previous government or Liz Truss or whatever his pet peeve of the day is
So what's the point? If ministers and the PM are allowed to simply say any old rubbish when asked a question and not even pretend to answer it, why bother with the whole charade? Why bother with Parliament? Why not just have a few committees drafting legislation and taking evidence from third parties?
By allowing this, the Speaker's Office is reducing the House of Commons into meaningless spectacle. It's simple theatre without substance and without purpose
If Sir Lindsay Hoyle wants to play a supporting role on the stage, London's West End has plenty of opportunities for this. The Palace of Westminster is not one of them
@HouseofCommons
@stuey_beef@Brackens1 I’ve said it before. We need an Elon Doge-like project to go through govt depts like a dose of salts. Like in the US, politicians always resist. Stops the kickbacks. How else does a politician on a civil service salary become a millionaire? The system is rotten to the core.
The scale of what the Telegraph has uncovered requires the country to stop and process it methodically.
Between 2015 and 2021, more than £28 billion of British taxpayer money — through foreign aid payments and Covid emergency loans — was appropriated by terrorists, hostile foreign states and organised criminal networks.
The money is described as “beyond reach.”
Those who took it are “unpunished.”
Russia received grants via state-linked companies.
Islamic State received Covid loans.
Chinese military-linked firms received research investment.
And behind all of this sits a Cabinet Office report — the first government assessment ever to quantify this catastrophic leakage — that was deliberately suppressed to spare ministers embarrassment.
Now consider the timeline.
This covers six years spanning three Prime Ministers — Cameron, May, and Boris Johnson — and into the early Starmer era.
It covers the 2015-2019 Conservative governments, the pandemic response, and the transition to Labour.
Multiple Cabinets.
Multiple Chancellors. Multiple foreign secretaries.
All of them operating a foreign aid and emergency lending apparatus that — by the government’s own secret reckoning — channelled tens of billions to Britain’s worst enemies.
None of the money recovered.
None of the recipients punished.
And the report — rather than triggering urgent cross-party accountability — was quietly buried.
The public paid for this report.
They paid for the £28 billion it documents.
They were then deliberately denied the right to know either existed.
If there is a cleaner definition of contempt for the electorate, it is hard to imagine.
Sturgeon and Murrell, had to ensure Salmond never returned to office, at any cost. They were advised that they would lose in court, but proceeded anyway, with the Moorov doctrine strategy, known in Scotland as throw enough shite and hope some of it sticks. They went to extraordinary lengths to damage Salmond, not for any other reason than to keep him out. The alphabetties, pawns in the game. Sturgeon didn't give a fuck about them. What else is there to uncover ?
🚨 Starmer is about to ban under 16s from social media. And the establishment is already pushing to extend it to under 18s.
They want you to believe this is about protecting children. It is not. To enforce an age limit on social media every single user in Britain will be forced to upload their passport to a government approved database just to prove they are allowed to speak online.
They are not building a child safety net. They are building a national ID database through the back door and using your children as the excuse to do it.
First they arrested people for tweets. Then they monitored legal posts. Now they want your passport before you are allowed to have an opinion. RT if you see exactly what they are building. 🇬🇧
And so it continues in California today. It’s really very simple - Democrats are against the Save Act because it stops them from cheating their way to power.
Here is:
the single most shocking piece of evidence in the entirety of the November 3, 2020 election:
Statistically impossible:
“They were all in sequence. These are absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. They cannot be in sequence—2232 cannot have 2233 next to it—because they are mailed in and come in all different numbers.”
There’s been so much commentary on Henry Nowak’s murder but I really do think @ColinBrazierTV has produced the very best around. Humane, profound, unflinching and true. A must-watch.
I must have watched hours and read reams on the murder of Henry Nowak, but few (just two) came anywhere near to touching the depths. I didn't really want to read or hear anything else, but this is the finest dissection of a profound tragedy you'll hear, informed by history, steeped in contextual analysis and cultural philosophy. Nobody does this kind of monologue better. Thank you, @ColinBrazierTV (and your @OutpostStudios producer). And thank you for supporting the essential integrity and defending the rights of Sikhs.
A long watch, but well worth it. Undoubtedly, one of the most important & informative pieces you’ll hear about the Henry Nowack tragedy. Clear, concise, calm, reasoned. If you do anything today, watch it.
Scotland’s political establishment is chumocracy rather than meritocracy. In governmental life, if you don’t support “the cause”, you don’t serve. Accordingly, we draw from less than a third of the talent pool. This means we will always suffer at the hands of gross incompetence.
The man who grew up with Peter Murrell, went through the Boy's Brigade and school with Peter Murrell, joined the SNP with Peter Murrell, appointed Peter Murrell as CEO of the SNP, however, claims he didn't know Peter Murrell well enough to know he was an embezzler!
Given her level of income, it's likely that Nicola Sturgeon will save over £6,000 per annum in tax by living in England.
SNP - creaming money off hard working Scots living in Scotland.
A one minute silence for Henry Nowak from the English football team in LA later this month is being admirably proposed by fashion designer @jeffbanks_uk. What a wonderful man Jeff so surely is. Please re-post this far and wide. Copy in @Keir_Starmer!!
🚨WOW: Hundreds gather in Scarborough, Perth, Australia, to honour murdered British teen Henry Nowak.
They take the knee in tribute and proudly wave British flags high.
Australian patriots stand strong with Henry Nowak. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Absolutely. He is so bad as PM & such a total embarrassment on the World stage, for sake of the U.K.’ dignity, two-tier Keir must be lambasted at every opportunity.
@001Oxygen Oh yes, by some margin. Watched some of 70 without much comprehension, as a 6 year old. First WC watched in earnest was 74. If I include 70, that makes 14!! 2026 will be my 15th.
'Anyone who says we don't have two-tier policing, I think, is gaslighting us.'
@PatrickChristys provides numerous examples that demonstrate 'two-tier policing' in Britain.