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[Craig @ajp_craig]

@BenGrahamUK I’m guessing the 3 plods failed their bleep tests!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Over 1,300 British farms have joined a new app in about twelve weeks. It is called Only Farmers, it was named deliberately after OnlyFans, and the parallel runs deeper than the joke intends.

Both are platforms where the producer sells direct access to themselves, because the people who used to pay them stopped paying enough to live on.

Lisa Hogan built it with her son Wolfe Bentinck, after five years of farmers coming into the Diddly Squat shop to thank her for the programme and then tell her their own version of it. Her words: this is for smaller farmers who do not have a marketing budget or Amazon.

Look at what is being sold.

Farm stays. Vineyard tours. Cheese-making. Beekeeping. Weddings. Lambing days. Clarkson's own summary this week was that you could walk an alpaca or milk a cow.

Every item on that list is something a farmer does anyway. Unpaid, at four in the morning, in February, as part of a job that a government review found loses money on nearly a third of British farms.

The novelty version pays. The work does not.

A family will hand over real money to stand in a shed for two hours and watch a ewe give birth. That same lamb, reared for months and sold through the proper chain, goes at a price the farmer is not allowed to set.

The second half of the app is grimmer still, because it also runs farmer-to-farmer equipment rental. Farms hiring kit to each other, because too few can justify owning their own.

None of which is a criticism of Hogan. She has built something useful, after listening at a till for five years. Book the alpaca. The money goes where it should.

But 1,300 signups in twelve weeks is not enthusiasm for an app. It is 1,300 farms reaching the same conclusion in the same season, which is that the dependable money is in the experience rather than the food.

We have arrived at a country where a farm earns more reliably from charging strangers to watch it farm.

Nobody thought that was worth remarking on.

[Craig @ajp_craig]

@DonnaLouise1212 Bradford never fails does it!

[John Hannam @JohnHann04]

The Cueta incident was nothing to worry about. They apparently all set back to Morocco. The Spanish dealt with it brilliantly, nothing to see here, move along. But is that true. This video would seem to indicate that’s not the case. And look at who they are, very very few look Moroccan. They all look like young sub Saharan men. So are what we are actually seeing a few thousand non Moroccans, that Morocco refused to take back who Spain now have to deal with and who are being shipped to the mainland. Reports indicate 2-6000 remained in Cueta. Does amnesty await in Spain, then free movement, then a boat on a Calais beach?

[Craig @ajp_craig]

@thenowherephoto @ShabanaMahmood @AndyBurnhamGM Take note @SkyNews @BBCNews @Channel4News @itvnews @UKLabour your gaslighting doesn’t wash anymore.

[Craig @ajp_craig]

@SBarrettBar Sly News for you.

[Craig @ajp_craig]

@thenowherephoto Thank you, and keep up the great work Adrian.

[Raheem J. Kassam @RaheemKassam]

Matthew McGregor, former Director of Campaigns and Communications for Hope Not Hate and current Head of Political Strategy for new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, co-wrote a report downplaying the nationwide grooming gang scandal with a pedophile, @TheNatPulse exclusively revealed last week.

Since then, no UK media outlet, not even those on the right, have followed up on this story.

I’ve even sent it directly to reporters. Crickets.

Why is the establishment covering up for Burnham, McGregor, and Velleman?

https://t.co/MQYOsRIzLZ

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Reeves Lied. Reynolds Lied. Haigh Lied. Now Rayner.

A government's character is not defined by the mistakes of one minister. It is defined by what happens next. Angela Rayner is now the fourth member of this Labour Cabinet to face public questions over an invented or inflated past, and each time the pattern has been the same: deny, minimise, survive, promote.

Rachel Reeves inflated her record at the Bank of England before becoming Chancellor. Jonathan Reynolds allowed the public to believe he was a qualified solicitor, a claim serious enough that his own regulator rebuked him, and he kept his job as Business Secretary regardless. Louise Haigh pleaded guilty to fraud before she ever sat in Cabinet. And now Angela Rayner, reinstated as Housing Secretary within days of settling her stamp duty affair with HMRC, has been caught reshaping her own employment history under direct questioning from the BBC.

Rayner told the public for years that she gave "14 years' service in local government as a home care worker." Stockport council's own records, released under Freedom of Information law, tell a different story. She was a full-time home help for less than five of those years. For six more she split her time between care work and union duties. For the final four she was on full secondment to Unison, doing no council care work at all. Pressed on the discrepancy, she told Radio 4 her roles "kind of get blurred" by journalists. That is not an explanation. It is an admission that the fourteen-year figure was never really about accuracy.

The detail that matters most is not the job title. It is the shift in her own story depending on the audience. When she stood for Parliament in 2014, she described herself as a "trade union official with Unison." Twelve years later, needing a more sympathetic biography, the union years quietly disappear and she becomes a career care worker with over a decade of frontline service. The facts of her working life did not change. The version she found useful did.

Kevin Hollinrake, the Conservative chairman, called this a "credibility crisis" that has run through Labour since it entered government. He is being generous. A single false claim is a mistake. Four ministers, four separate fabrications, and not one meaningful consequence between them, is not a crisis of individuals. It is the operating culture of this government.

Consider what each case shares. Reynolds' regulator rebuke did not end his career. Reeves' inflated CV did not stop her becoming Chancellor. Haigh's fraud conviction did not stop her reaching Cabinet in the first place. And Rayner's exaggerated work history arrives days after Andy Burnham chose to reinstate her despite a resignation forced by a tax scandal only ten months earlier. Each time, the message sent to the next minister tempted to embellish their record is the same: the truth is negotiable, and the cost of being caught is a bad afternoon in the news cycle.

Voters are entitled to assume that the people governing them are who they say they are. That assumption is now four times broken in a single Cabinet. Angela Rayner is not the author of Labour's credibility problem. She is simply its most recent evidence. A government that keeps promoting people whose personal histories do not survive contact with the facts is not asking to be trusted. It is asking to be indulged.

Angela Rayner pictured with Jonathan Reynolds

[𝘚𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘩 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 @sarah__british]

@Ed_Miliband We should all make this post go viral to show the world what a stupid c*nt millibrains really is. How can anyone be as stupid as Milliband. @andyburnham

[Jeff Arnold @JeffArnoldX]

@LeeAndersonMP_

[Craig @ajp_craig]

@ClarksonsFarm1 Chicken tikka masala.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Andy Burnham did a video about social care. The man who buried the Mid Staffs inquiry eighty-one times. The man who sat on a £300,000 grooming gangs report until after his re-election. That man. He promises the "putting off" ends now.

You have to admire the audacity. It's like a pyromaniac joining the fire brigade.

Here's what actually happened. Twelve hundred people died in NHS care on his watch. He refused them a public inquiry eighty-one separate times. Eighty-one. That's not negligence. That's architecture. Meanwhile, two hundred and fifty thousand British children were raped by grooming gangs, and when people spoke about it, Starmer's Britain, locked them up. Not the rapists. The speakers. The fathers trying to save their daughters got arrested. The rapists got taxis and takeaways.

And now Burnham's Prime Minister. His solution? One quid off the bus. The fare cap drops from £3 to £2, and we're supposed to call it progress.

It's perfect, really. The final insult. The country is being deindustrialized, your grandmother freezes while the grid fails, borders erased, children sacrificed to deranged ideology, and your consolation prize is pocket change for public transport. Bread and circuses, except they stopped bothering with the bread.

They think you're stupid. They think you'll see "£2 bus fare" and forget the bodies. Forget the betrayed children. Forget that these same people spent two years criminalizing dissent while the real criminals walked free.

The comments section knows. "Stop the boats." "Deport them all." Six hundred and twenty-three people screaming truths he will never answer.

England doesn't need another manager. It doesn't need another smooth-talking technocrat with a five-point plan and a dead soul. It needs the whole rotten structure pulled down. And three-quarters of England is already waiting with the rope.

We are done with the £1 bribes. Done with the cover-ups. Done with the managed decline.

[John Hannam @JohnHann04]

Who remember Fawlty Towers and the “don’t mention the war” episode? Well this new government for the first 2 weeks was very much in “don’t mention the boats” mode. But events forced their hand. Over 900 arrivals in the last week meant Burnham had to say something. So he expressed confidence in the measures his government were taking and their deal with France…Oh Really?🤔

Well today alone we have 700 more making the crossing already and that was by 9:30am so it could end up many more. Taking off from different beaches, using bigger boats. If those numbers continue for a week or two he has a MASSIVE PR problem….and neither the will not the ideas to do anything about it.

[Craig @ajp_craig]

@SBarrettBar The UK’s Fucked!……then we get Burnham!

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

A 28 Day Journey To Dismantle Your Inner White Supremacy. Sussex Police Called It Leadership Training.

"Me and White Supremacy" by Layla F. Saad describes itself in its own words. It is a 28 day truth telling journey to guide people with white privilege to discover, examine, unpack and dismantle their inner white supremacy. It is a one of a kind resource for people with white privilege to do the internal personal work of anti-racism. Its purpose is to facilitate personal and collective change to dismantle the oppressive system of white supremacy.

This book was the basis for a Senior Officer Book Club within Sussex Police. According to the "It Starts With Me" annual report published on the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner's website, Sussex Police launched the book club to embed anti-racist thinking at the highest levels of leadership. Senior officers described it as one of the most impactful books they had ever read. The programme was supported and signed off by Katy Bourne OBE, the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex.

Read that again. The strategic leadership of Sussex Police, the people responsible for the decisions that shape how the county is policed, were guided through a 28 day programme designed to make them discover, examine and dismantle their inner white supremacy. Not their unconscious bias. Not their cultural assumptions. Their inner white supremacy. Those are the book's own words.

The founding philosophy of British policing could not be more different. Sir Robert Peel established the Metropolitan Police in 1829 on a principle that has guided every officer since. The police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law. Every person. Every community. Every accusation. The same standard. Without exception. That principle has nothing to say about white privilege, inner white supremacy or dismantling oppressive systems. It has everything to say about treating every citizen equally before the law.

The Sussex Police book club is not an isolated initiative. It sits alongside the Metropolitan Police document that informs officers that neutrality is a myth and that their whiteness prevents impartiality. The NPCC guidance telling officers that racial equity does not mean treating everyone the same or being colour blind. The Hampshire Race Action Plan committing to pursue offenders causing harm to ethnic minority communities specifically. The College of Policing practice bank covering white privilege, white fragility and intersectionality. Each produced by the same ideology. Each pointing in the same direction.

The most important detail in the Sussex Police document is not the book club itself. It is who signed off on it. Katy Bourne OBE is a Conservative. She has held the position of Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012 and was re-elected for a fourth term in May 2024. The ideology that produced this book club does not respect party boundaries. It has captured British policing across both parties and across decades.

This week Shabana Mahmood stood at the despatch box and said the police have a sacred duty to act without fear or favour. She is right. A senior officer book club designed to make the strategic leadership of British policing confront their inner white supremacy is not consistent with that duty. It is its precise opposite.

The question Henry Nowak's death demands is not whether individual officers made a mistake. It is whether the ideology embedded in British policing at every level, from the book clubs of senior officers to the diversity training of frontline constables, is compatible with the absolute impartial service to the law that Peel demanded and that every officer still swears to uphold.

The book says dismantle inner white supremacy. The oath says absolute impartial service to the law. Sussex Police called it leadership training. One of these is policing. The others are not.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Burnham Cuts Ribbons While Tehran Cuts Loose

Britain proscribed the IRGC on 13 July, after ambulances in Golders Green were burned in an attack claimed by a group whose branding is nearly identical to Hezbollah's and the IRGC's own. It took the destruction of vehicles that treat everyone, in a targeted assault on a Jewish community, before the government would put the words "terrorist organisation" next to the name of the force already linked to twenty credible plots on British soil.

Eleven days later, Andy Burnham stood in Manchester and called it the best day of his life. He was opening No 10 North, his new satellite office, in his first week as Prime Minister. He said it twice, so no one would think he was joking. On the same day, a single dinghy carrying 165 people crossed the Channel, the highest number ever recorded on one boat. And Iranian officials told The Telegraph they already have "revolutionary people" positioned in London, waiting for instructions. That is the measure of what proscription has actually changed. Nothing in the operation it targets has stopped.

The route described runs through Unit 700, the logistics branch of the Quds Force, the same IRGC division linked to arming Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. An Iranian official was blunt about why it still works: these smuggling routes, he said, are more useful to Tehran than missiles. A law passed in Westminster does not touch a network run from Tehran through Calais. It makes membership a crime for those caught. It does nothing to the route itself.

Nor is this the first sign of operatives already inside Britain. Three Iranian nationals living in London, Mostafa Sepahvand, Farhad Javadi Manesh and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori, were charged last year with engaging in conduct to assist Iranian intelligence, one of them for surveillance intended to enable serious violence against a journalist on British soil. They did not need to cross a border to do it. They were already here.

The Home Office points to drones and AI-fitted watchtowers as proof it is watching the boats. But the Telegraph's own reporting states that Iranian-linked arrivals by small boat are dwarfed by the number of IRGC-affiliated individuals entering Britain legally, on flights from Europe. Proscription changes none of that. The bigger risk was never the dinghy. It was the man who already has a visa and is waiting to be told what to do.

Into this walks the Community Sponsorship Scheme, inviting British families to nominate and house refugees from Sudan and Eritrea, the same nationalities already crossing by boat in the greatest numbers. Proscribing the IRGC does not close that scheme's exposure. Iranian officials have just told a British newspaper that operatives are already positioned in London, moved there through a route Tehran says it partly owns. The sponsorship scheme has no biometric registry for the countries it prioritises, meaning a British family taking someone in cannot verify who they are actually housing. Two admissions. No mechanism connecting them. That is precisely the problem.

Burnham inherited a government that spent two years being warned about exactly this network before finally acting. Eleven days into his premiership, his first major public moment was not a statement on the threat his own MI5 director-general has spent years cataloguing. It was a ribbon-cutting two hundred miles from Westminster, while the network the law was meant to stop kept moving people through Calais unchanged.

Proscription was necessary. It was also not sufficient, and the government appears content to treat it as though it were. A name on a list does not dismantle a network that Tehran itself describes as still operational. The word has been said. The route is still open.

"Andy Burnham stood in Manchester and called it the best day of his life. On the same day, Iranian officials revealed they already have "revolutionary people" positioned in London, waiting for instructions"

[The Nowhere Photographer @thenowherephoto]

The complicity and openness of this invasion of the uk is staggering

Strolling down the lane to the final spot before today’s crossing

Right in front of the gendarmes who stood, watched and counted

Useless

[Craig @ajp_craig]

@JChimirie66677 More smoke and mirrors from Labour.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Gary Lineker says he wants to pay *more* tax.

That’s funny because three years ago he took Government to court to pay *less* tax on his BBC millions.

Massive hypocrite? Surely not.