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I like the mute button. They don't know that I can't hear them, but I can't hear them.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Patriots - if you are protesting tonight, in Belfast or elsewhere, do NOT give Starmer what he wants.

Stay calm. Keep your heads. Do NOT attack the police.

The state will show you no mercy.

The dangerous ‘far-right’ will be blamed, and your life will be ruined forever.

It will be that brutal. However angry you are feeling now, it is not worth it.

Protest - but do it loudly, do it peacefully.

If the police are being aggressive, record it. Film it. Do not react. Because you will not be shown the same leniency as the officers. You will be charged, you will be sentenced, you will be imprisoned.

We’re all angry.

But you will achieve far more for our cause and country OUTSIDE of prison.

[Nigel Dodds @NigelDoddsDUP]

Newsletter article today

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@DrChrisParry I'm sure you've been thrown out of better places than those in your time 😂

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

What would I do if I were Chancellor?

I was asked this question while debating @realVickyPryce on @Iromg radio show this morning – Mike is on holiday so @russellquirk was standing-in.

I've turned our chat into a When The Facts Change post - where you can read, watch and listen via the link below

Please like and share to support independent journalism that matters.

When The Facts Change: Economics and Politics in a fast-moving world, with Liam Halligan

https://t.co/TJ3RqCTliV

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

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

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

The usual suspects have now jumped on this Ipsos Brexit poll. But if you dig just a little deeper the press release says this...

"as our upcoming research will show, when the public are presented with various trade offs involved concerning the UK-EU relationship, a more complex picture emerges..." 🤔

I bet this will show what almost every other poll has shown: support for rejoining the EU falls away when voters are confronted with the likely costs and conditions!

source: https://t.co/7WHC67xEfg

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These are the things that we all instinctively felt were wrong.

Happy to see the Conservatives are now saying it out loud. But not just that - Kemi's policies actually seem to want to address this and get us back on track 👏

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

The Henry Nowak case has revealed how left-wing ideology has corrupted our police and criminal justice system.

Labour are making the problem far worse - but we must also explain how this ideology was allowed to take root under a Conservative government.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

The Bank of England DELIBERATELY FIXED the fake "public vote" to remove ALL historical figures from bank notes & replace them with nature images

Freedom of Information requests by the Telegraph reveal the decision to remove historical figures was based on a "focus group" of a mere 119 people

The Bank LIED because it previously claimed the decision was based on a "public vote".

In truth, however, even this vote was FIXED. Instead of having HISTORY v NATURE, the bank deliberately split the "history" category into 3 sections: historical events, historical figures, architecture & landmarks.

That was the only way that "nature" could win.

However, of course bank notes always combine at least two of those history categories. For example: Churchill & Parliament or Wellington & Waterloo.

The Bank's actions are indefensible and questions should be asked in the House.

The Bank of England has clearly been captured by progressive woke ideology. A visit to the Bank of England with its permanent exhibition on slavery makes that clear

This is part of the wider war on British history. It's an attempt to create a NEW BRITAIN, based on ridiculous myths that "Diversity Built Britain" and that Britain has always been multicultural.

Remember: the Bank of England issued a 50p coin (held aloft by Rishi Sunak) which was imprinted with the nonsensical statement: "Diversity Built Britain"

Anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain will find all of this eerily and scarily familiar.

The pulling down of statues, the renaming of streets and schools, the rewriting of history, denigrating heroes, changing bank notes etc....these were all tactics of the communists.

Severing the connection between a people and their history is the best way to demoralise a society and prepare them for the imposition of new myths.

Me on @GBNews:

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@Lord_Talbot64 @bedford_colleen Just checked. It is not over yet so no verdict.

https://t.co/FeZEg3EG6L

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Exactly two years ago, @NoaArgamani was carried out of a building in Nuseirat in broad daylight and brought home.

Like millions of people, I first knew her as the woman on the back of the motorcycle, arm stretched for help, as Hamas men abducted her into Gaza. I knew her face before I knew her name.

What I never expected was to know her. To call her a friend. To sit across from someone the whole world had watched at her worst moment and find a person who refused to let her own rescue be the end of the story.

From the day she came home from captivity, she kept fighting for every hostage to be free.

By January, every hostage had been accounted for.

The clip the world remembers is the one where she is being torn away. The image I carry is the second half of that gesture. It’s her extending her hand to help. She never stopped.

She kept that hand extended for two years, and in the end, it was enough. Now I get to sit beside her, smiling, on the other side of that reach. That still undoes me.

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@Hummingbirder @connorstringer Starmer can't wait to give it away.
The rest of Britain is horrified by the idea. Our House of Lords has been doing sterling work to try to stop it happening.

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@Hummingbirder @connorstringer Yes, I've read the article, but we would still have to cede sovereignty in order for the US to then buy it. Maybe it's me, but the first paragraph seems to be all over the place.

[Shrodingers Borderline Normal @JeremyCordite]

Anybody else fed up of being told to shut up for the sake of diversity?

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@Telegraph "Mr Lammy cited as an example police deciding not to ask a Jewish person to turn up at a police station during the Sabbath"

Why not?

I notice they are using the Jewish/antisemitic example a lot. Is that because they think decent people won't push back on that?

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@DavidLammy What contract will people be held to?
How are the terms agreed?
Will it be compulsory after 3 years?
How will you know that both sides have entered into that contract free from coercion, and in full knowledge of the implications?
I actually hate you.

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@DavidLammy This is solely down to sharia marriage performed in the UK not being recognised under law. If this goes through, Sharia law marriages will be treated as legal and binding.

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Thank God for the Lords! (again)

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Good news. My patriotic friend @LordWeirDUP won the Private Members’ Bill ballot, and has just introduced a Bill to prohibit any change in the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands without the consent of both Parliament and the Chagossian people.
We are going to win this thing.
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This country needs to take a stand one way or the other.

As a first principle, do we believe that the Jewish people should keep their homeland Israel? Or don't we?

This government appears to sit on the fence, but is in fact allowing this subversion.

[The Spectator @spectator]

The official representative body for Muslim police officers in Britain has branded Zionism "one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred," described the Israel Defence Force as a "Zionist terrorist group" and defended Hamas against "unverified stories about acts of violence.".

The inflammatory claims are made by the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) in a policy paper on "confronting anti-Muslim hatred," written by its then vice-president, Khaldoun Kabbani, published on its website last year but not publicised until now.

✍️ Andrew Gilligan

Article | https://t.co/uVbA55gib8

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@PolitlcsUK @billcurtis0 Including the Met? 🤔

https://t.co/brPWwHdA4Y

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked the £50m Met Police deal with Palantir, citing a "clear and serious breach" of procurement rules