Alex

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A major part of fixing a decaying Britain should be a national push to clean up the country and create civic pride. Even the basics aren’t being done. Britain is rotting from within. And it affects people’s mood when all they see is dirty streets, rubbish everywhere, potholes, filthy buildings, boarded up shops and weeds growing from the pavements. Over to you @andyburnham…

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

I want the world to hear what we heard.

Rupert Lowe spoke these words in Parliament. You, Burnham, were not listening. You were posing on a bus.

Three weeks. Three weeks of bus fares and beer taxes while children testify to Parliament about being penetrated with broken bottles.

Here is what you have not mentioned, Burnham. Here is what your £2 bus fare cannot distract from.

The girl of twelve. The bottle. The glass shattering inside her.

The child held down. Arms pinned. Legs spread. Raped orally and vaginally. Beaten. Told she would be killed if she spoke.

The testimony that white Christian girls were morally worthless. Muslim girls protected with "dignity." The racial hierarchy that justified industrial rape.

The Imam who knew. Who covered. Who arranged marriage to hide the crime. Who looked after "their own community."

The police officers who raped victims across multiple forces.

The baby. The cigarette. The face.

The thirteen-year-old. Six hundred men. Three years.

You posed on a bus while this was read into the record.

THE OBITUARY

Andy Burnham - Mayor of Cover-Up. Prime Minister of Distraction. You had eight years in Manchester. Rough sleeping doubled. You had three weeks in Downing Street. The boats kept coming. You are not a leader. You are a liability in a red tie.

Keir Starmer - Director of Public Prosecutions 2008-2013. The years the gangs peaked. You slow-walked cases. You dropped prosecutions. You appointed Nazir Afzal while the industrial rape continued. Now you resist the inquiry you never ordered. Your fingerprints are on every failure.

Jess Phillips - The Sanitiser. Who rejected Oldham's plea for inquiry. Who scrubbed a year of digital history. Whose resignation is not mercy but the beginning of accountability. The erasure proves guilt. Your absence will not erase your silence.

Harriet Harman - NCCL legal officer. Your organization submitted documents arguing to lower the age of consent to ten. To legalize incest. You stood affiliated with the Paedophile Information Exchange. Your terror of being called racist manifested as silence while children were passed between predators. The ideological rot runs deep.

Lucy Powell - "Blowing that little trumpet." "Getting the dog whistle out." Your sneer when speaking of raped children is recorded. Your contempt is eternal.

Denis MacShane - 1,400 girls in Rotherham. Your seat. Your watch. "Not wanting to rock the multicultural boat." Police warned you. Parents begged you. You chose the boat.

Jack Straw - 2011. Decades too late. Thousands too few.

This is not failure. This is architecture. Deliberate. Systematic. The protection of voting blocs above children. The institutionalisation of two-tier policing. The granting of impunity to the unspeakable.

You have bankrupted the treasury. You have abandoned the people. You have broken the daughters. And you offer cheaper buses.

Listen to Rupert. Every word. There is nothing more important.

Three weeks of silence while the testimonies echoed. Three weeks of distraction while the truth demanded action.

The reckoning is here. It cannot be buried. It will not be distracted.

The truth is coming for every name on this list. File by file. Scream by scream.

You will not be remembered as leaders. You will be remembered as sentinels who stood guard at the gates and waved the devils through.

Act. Or be entombed.

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

Apparently probation are warning they don’t have the capacity to cope with the early release scheme.

They have the capacity to see me every 2 weeks. They have the capacity to visit Alex Belfield in prison.

Similarly, the police are so understaffed and overworked but have the capacity to knock on doors over social media posts.

The whole system is warped.

[Neil McCoy-Ward @NeilMcCoyWard]

In three weeks, tax becomes more than half of what a litre of petrol costs you

Right now you're paying 159.9p, and 79.6p of that goes to the government

Fuel duty takes 52.95p, then VAT adds 26.6p on top of everything including the duty, so you're taxed on the tax. That works out at 49.8%. Just under half

On 1 September the duty climbs a penny, which on today's prices tips it to 50.2%. Two more pennies in December, another two in March, and the government's share reaches 51.6%

Fill a 55 litre tank today and £43.78 of that £88 is tax. By March it's £47

That's the 5p cut from 2022 gone. From April 2027 it rises every year on its own

From September, you're buying tax with a bit of petrol attached.....

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨INSANITY: The average British worker works 40 hours a week, year after year, watching taxes climb while the cost of living crushes them and still barely make ends meet.

Meanwhile, the government is spending your money like this:

Aid across the world:

• World Health Organisation: £310M
• Ukraine: £237M
• Ethiopia: £217M
• Afghanistan: £171M
• Syria: £146M
• Yemen: £144M
• Somalia: £143M
• Sudan: £140M
• South Sudan: £134M
• Palestine: £129M
• Nigeria: £117M
• Congo (DRC): £107M
• Pakistan: £99M
• Overseas Territories: £98M
• Kenya: £79M
• Jordan: £68M
• Myanmar: £65M
• Bangladesh: £61M
• Nepal: £60M
• Lebanon: £56M
• Tanzania: £56M
• Malawi: £50M
• Mozambique: £49M
• Uganda: £46M
• Indonesia: £45M
• Zambia: £42M
• Rwanda: £31M
• Zimbabwe: £31M
• Sierra Leone: £30M
• Turkey: £19M
• Ghana and Liberia: £16M
• South Africa: £14M
• Eastern Neighbourhood: £14M
• Central Asia: £13M
• Western Balkans: £13M

Illegal immigration:

Housing and benefits: £5/6billion
Translation fees: £150M

Foreign criminals in British prisons: £600M​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

NET STUPID ZERO 6.7 BILLION.

Just in this list alone it exceeds:
£15.5 BILLION!!!

YET, there’s no money to fix pot holes, the NHS, police on the streets, schools falling apart, social care for the elderly, housing the homeless, or support for veterans.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.. amongst other things,

Absolutely disgraceful.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Proof that a Labour government couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery.

Welcome to British Steel. It lost £254 MILLION in 2024.

The blast furnaces are old and decrepit so production fell by nearly 25% and some steel produced was so crap it couldn’t even be used.

So naturally Labour decided taxpayers should own it. Since then

▪️£555 MILLION of working capital has already gone in.

▪️It needs another £275–£330 MILLION over the next 12 months.

▪️Government spent £15 MILLION on advisers in just nine months.(don’t even start me on that)

▪️Keeping it running was costing around £1.3 MILLION A DAY.

▪️owes about £960 MILLION to its former Chinese owner, which they now want paying.

And then there’s the bit only a deeply stupid government could come up with.

British steel has higher electricity prices than major European competitors plus massive carbon/environmental costs.

So the Net Zero grand plan is to replace blast furnaces with ELECTRIC arc furnaces, which will massively increase their electricity costs …

So
Taxpayers will subsidise the electricity.
Taxpayers will fund the carbon cost.
Taxpayers will compensate industry for the carbon costs.
Taxpayers subsidises decarbonisation.

Government introduces a carbon border tax because foreign steel can undercut ours. (Hahaha)

And when the business STILL can’t make profit…. the Government uses taxpayers money to buy the bloody business.

You literally couldn’t make it up, might have a little cry 🤡

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Andy Burnham claims that he has listened to the British public about small boat crossings.

His solution is to create "safe and legal routes.” So he hasn’t listened.

We don’t want that. We want to detain and deport every single one.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The level of gaslighting we've had in the last 24 hours is absolutely off the charts. You can fuck off with this shit:

- "Cueta is in Africa so it's not really Spain"

Pearl Harbor is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean so it's not really the US then?

- "A lot of them have gone home"

If 60,000 people break into your home and then leave that is better than them all squatting in your home permanently, but they still broke into your house.

- "They're refugees fleeing the climate crisis" (James O'Brien came up with this gem)

No, they're not. If I was fleeing the climate crisis, I'd bring my wife and kids, not 59,999 other men. They want a better life. They can apply for a visa and if they meet our rules, we'll decide which ones we want to accept and which we do not. Otherwise they're queue-barging and can fuck off.

- They can't get from to Cueta to mainland Europe because there's a stretch of water and a border there.

Uhh, we're letting boatloads of illegal immigrants into Britain on the daily. There is absolute no evidence European countries have any desire to enforce their borders.

- It's not a migrant invasion, it's just Morocco doing it on purpose

Oh, it's an *organised* invasion. What a relief.

Fuck my life.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

My full speech at the @OxfordUnion debating whether the west is right to be suspicious of Islam.

I needed a security team to attend and we were spat at, bullied and heckled by a baying mob.

But I will not give up on free speech.

I will not submit.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson feel like the last two adults left in the room.

For years they’ve been saying the quiet part out loud: free speech matters, humour is not a crime, and a society that cannot laugh at itself is already sick.

And for that simple, decent stance they have been dragged through the cancellation machine.

These are not angry ideologues.

They are two men who just wanted to make people laugh and tell the truth.
Instead they have been treated like heretics smeared, isolated, and told to sit down and shut up by people who once claimed to love satire.

The British humour they helped create the kind that was razor sharp, fearless, and never cruel for the sake of it has almost disappeared.

That humour didn’t just entertain us.
It made us stronger. It taught us not to take ourselves so seriously. It gave us thicker skin.

Now that skin is being deliberately stripped away, and the only ones still trying to protect it are the ones the culture keeps trying to cancel.
Cleese and Atkinson never asked to be heroes.

They just refused to pretend.
And in an age of mass pretending, that alone makes them extraordinary.

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

You have to salute Burnham's ambition. He wants to fix homelessness, get NEETs into work, get energy bills down, fix social care, and tackle the cost of living, but none of these issues can be tackled long term without addressing the faulty assumptions underpinning the current settlement.

Homelessness isn't going to resolve without securing the border. You can't get NEETs into work when benefits pay more than working and nobody is hiring, and when immigrant labour will do the job cheaper. You can't fix social care when you're adding more dependents all the time. You can't raise taxes when there's nothing left to tax. You can't fix the cost of living while ramping up energy costs. If you're not willing to look at the fundamentals then all you have to work with are sticking plasters until you run out of money.

We are all bored of saying this and that's why we're angry.

[Lukas Fuhrmann @kryptoedgeyt]

Schau dir diese Grafik genau an. Sie erklärt, warum sich in Deutschland Leistung nicht mehr lohnt.

Ein Paar, zwei Kinder, beide arbeiten.

Bei 4.000 Euro brutto bleiben rund 2.700 Euro.

Bei 5.000 Euro brutto bleiben rund 2.650 Euro.

Du liest richtig. Tausend Euro mehr verdient. Weniger im Portemonnaie.

Und jetzt der Teil, der wirklich weh tut: Bei 2.000 Euro brutto stehen dieser Familie etwa 2.350 Euro zur Verfügung.

Bei 5.000 Euro brutto sind es 2.650 Euro.

3.000 Euro mehr erarbeiten. 300 Euro mehr haben.

Das ist kein Rechenfehler. Jeder zusätzlich verdiente Euro zieht Wohngeld, Kinderzuschlag und Freibeträge mit sich in den Abgrund, während Steuern und Sozialabgaben gleichzeitig steigen.

Man nennt es Transferentzugsrate. Ökonomen kennen das Problem seit Jahren. Die Bundesregierung hat Gutachten dazu bestellt.

Passiert ist nichts.

Und dann wundert sich die Politik, warum niemand mehr die Stunden aufstockt. Warum die Zweitverdienerin in Teilzeit bleibt. Warum der Facharbeiter die Beförderung ablehnt.

Die Leute sind nicht faul. Sie rechnen.

Ein System, das Anstrengung und Fleiß nicht belohnt, bekommt am Ende genau das: keine Anstrengung.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is very worth reading because it beautifully lays out the faulty thinking that has given us suicidal economic policy that has also made no impact on climate change whatsoever.

Characteristically, it pretends that those who oppose Net Zero do so because they deny that the climate is changing (no one sensible does), that outsourcing our emissions to poor countries, an accounting trick, is somehow green (it's not) and, most importantly, challenges the argument that the overwhelming majority of carbon emissions produced in the world today are emitted by countries that care about economic growth way more than they care about "saving the planet" (China, India etc) by citing Kenya whose entire annual emissions are roughly equivalent to what China emits in about 8 hours.

The hoax is not climate change. The hoax is that we can stop it by making ourselves poorer.

[Stop Common Purpose 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stopcpdotcom]

@timothy_stanley

[Ameer Kotecha @Ameer_Kotecha]

We saw this same phenomenon with the recent case of a man cleaning rubbish from a local river, whose good deed earned him an investigation by the Environment Agency for operating without a permit,

We saw it when volunteers scrubbing graffiti off Tube carriages were accused by TfL’s chief of vandalism.

As the state continues to fail it will increasingly see these Good Samaritans as a threat. For they expose the state’s own incompetence

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson made £144 farming a thousand acres in his first year.

In year six he lost five thousand.

His own words to his land agent: dispiriting enough to clear a hundred and forty-four quid at the start, and here we are six years on, down five grand. The harvest had been projected at thirty-seven thousand profit. Weather and prices took it.

Now look at what that thousand acres has behind it that yours does not.

One of the best land agents in the country. A farm manager who has worked that ground since he was a teenager. A farm shop with a queue down the lane, a pub, bestselling books, more than a quarter of a million in subsidy across three years, and a television production paying for the entire thing to be filmed.

It is the most commercially advantaged thousand acres in Britain, and the farming still loses money.

That figure should end every conversation about British agriculture, and it is the one number that never makes it onto a campaign graphic. Not the glyphosate. Not the pig housing. The margin.

Because everything people object to on a farm grows straight out of it. The field pushed to the very edge. The hedge that came out because the government paid to have it removed. The shed instead of the yard. The supermarket contract signed below cost because the alternative was no contract. Nobody intensified out of malice. They were priced into it over sixty years by a policy that decided cheap groceries mattered more than a countryside, and by a retail sector that kept the difference.

Britain now grows around sixty per cent of its own food. More than a third of British farmers are past sixty-five.

The man with the Amazon cheque cannot make a thousand acres pay.

The seventy-year-old with three hundred and no film crew is doing it anyway, and being told by people who have never sold a tonne of anything that he is the problem.

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

🚨 Elon just nuked the entire media playbook in under 90 seconds.

Journalist: “You support the far-right!”

Elon: “No. You support the lunatic left.

What was completely normal 10-15 years ago is now called ‘far-right’…

because your side went completely insane.”

Safe cities. Secure borders. Biological reality. Common sense.

None of that is “far-right.”

It’s just not crazy.

The Overton window didn’t shift right.

The left sprinted off a cliff and started calling everyone who didn’t jump “extremists.”

Elon said it out loud.

And the media still can’t cope.

Lunatic left.

He’s 100% right.

@elonmusk 👏🏻

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Chris Packham went on Gogglebox last week, watched the cartoon at the start of Clarkson's Farm, and announced that most farms are horrible monocultures sprayed with deadly chemicals, the ground pumped full of fertiliser, the animals indoors in crates being crushed and kept in the dark.

A cartoon. Not a farm, not a documentary. The little illustrated title sequence.

Clarkson replied in his Sun column and it is the best two hundred words he has written in years. He called Packham endlessly angry. He noted that the man had erupted in blind fury at the Winnie the Pooh-ish opening credits of a television programme. He pointed out, patiently, that it was a drawing.

Then he dropped the actual grenade.

Packham has been to Diddly Squat. In 2012. He drove there, on purpose, to look at the birds and do a bit of foraging.

Sit with that one.

The naturalist who tells a primetime audience that British farms are lifeless, poisoned industrial monocultures once picked a British farm as the place to go and enjoy the wildlife. And to gather food off the ground. Voluntarily. For pleasure.

If the fields are sprayed dead, what were the birds doing there.

And if the animals were indoors in crates in the dark, you would think he might have raised it at the time, rather than waiting fourteen years and bringing it up on a sofa while looking at a cartoon.

He has doubled down on Instagram since, with a graphic about glyphosate and pig housing, asking whether it is really all happy smiley down on the farm. Which is a fair question to put to a farm. It is a strange question to put to an illustration.

Here is the part that should genuinely annoy people.

Clarkson's Farm has explained British agriculture to the British public better than every campaign, report and documentary of the last twenty years put together. Subsidies, weather, supermarket margins, the lot.

Packham had the platform to join that conversation.

He used it to lose an argument with the title sequence.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Do you want a Season 7 of Clarkson’s Farm?

[Jen k 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Jenny_1884]

Who agrees that if you’ve paid into your state pension all your working life you should receive a much higher amount than those who’ve not paid a penny?