⚒andy cross ⚒️

“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people”.

[⚒andy cross ⚒️ @andycross1966]

It's been emotional. ⚒😔

[⚒andy cross ⚒️ @andycross1966]

And while ‘Rome burns’ ?Starmer declares war on the mythical far right, singling this out as the country’s main threat… what a total utter helmet ⛑️

[⚒andy cross ⚒️ @andycross1966]

2 defence ministers gone in one afternoon. Not reshuffled. Not “spending more time with family.” Resigned. Because Starmer who promised “war-fighting readiness” wouldn’t pay for war-fighting anything.

[⚒andy cross ⚒️ @andycross1966]

Carns put it best: “These two failures are the same failure.” A government that talks like Churchill and budgets like an actuary. Soldiers asked to fight for a country whose PM won’t fight for them. The deal is broken — and now everyone with medals has left the building.😔

[Rick Prior @mpfchairman]

🚨 😱 😱 😱 🚨

I've just uncovered some quite shocking statistics showing @metpoliceuk to be institutionally sexist.

Only around 10% of stop and searches in London involve females, despite females comprising 51% of the demographic of England and Wales.

This *obviously* means that @metpoliceuk are disproportionatly stopping and searching males.

I demand an immediate end to this outrageous institutional sexism and some equality of outcome (equity) measures implemented to counter this disproportionality 😡

@TitaniaMcGrath @PoliceChiefs
#StatisticalFallacy

[ledbymorons @LordCharles111]

My colleagues were murdered by you at the Harrod's bombing.
I had a phone call on my weekend off, bussed to Hyde park after you murdered British soldiers, i remember when the sun came up looking at the flesh and blood hanging from the trees not knowing if it were horse or man

[⚒andy cross ⚒️ @andycross1966]

@ZackPolanski What’s that you’re whispering Dave? You can make my Bristols bigger?!?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.

A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.

This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.

In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.

But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”

British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?

We genuinely do not understand this.

[Oberon @OberonOfTheWood]

@leicesterliz The Online Safety Act threatens the integrity of investigative journalism, whistleblowing, and political debate. It needs repealing, not updating.
https://t.co/XOciAPDFuw

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Border Stays Open. The State Will Close the Conversation.

Before the fires in Belfast had been extinguished, the government had identified the threat. Not the border. Not the system that granted Hadi Alodid legal residency in seven months without a verifiable European asylum history. Not the Albanian gangs advertising guaranteed passage to England on TikTok this morning. The threat, as defined by this government, was the conversation.

Liz Kendall announced on Wednesday that social media firms would face new legal curbs during times of crisis. Platforms would be required to remove incendiary content more quickly when tensions were heightened. The definition of crisis and the definition of incendiary would be set by ministers. On the same day, Jonathan Hall, the government's own terror watchdog, said he had raised the national security dimension of mass migration with the government and received no reply. One question got legislation within forty-eight hours. The other got silence. Stephen Ogilvie lost an eye on a Belfast street. The government's legislative response targets the people describing what happened.

This is not new. After the summer 2024 riots the same reflex operated. People were jailed for social media posts within days of the disorder. The sentences handed to those who wrote the posts sat in the same range as those who burned the buildings. The machinery of the state was directed at speech about disorder rather than the conditions producing it. Belfast is the same pattern at higher intensity. The border stays open. Discussion of what happens at the border will be suppressed more quickly next time.

The British asylum system did not malfunction in the case of Hadi Alodid. It performed. Sudan to Paris. Paris to Dublin. Dublin to Belfast by bus. Asylum claimed in February 2023. Refugee status granted by September. Legal right to remain until 2028. There is no French record of him as an asylum seeker. The Irish government will not say how he entered Ireland. None of that prevented the system from processing him correctly by its own rules. The rules are the problem. The government has no intention of changing them.

Albanian gangs are advertising the same route on TikTok today. Filmed inside Dublin airport. Guaranteed passage. Seven thousand pounds payable on arrival. Operation Gull has arrested more than 900 people using it in a year and the advertisements continue. Enforcement is cataloguing this. It is not closing it.

Jonathan Hall, the government's own independent reviewer of terror legislation, said immigration must be treated as a national security issue. He said he had raised whether migrants from certain countries presented elevated risks of serious violence. The government responded with silence. The terror watchdog, a King's Counsel appointed to scrutinise national security law, is recording not a political failure but an institutional one. The question was asked through proper channels. Nobody answered.

The pattern is coherent even if the government will not name it. The terror watchdog raises the national security dimension of mass migration and hears nothing. The gangs film themselves inside Dublin airport and advertise openly. The border operates as it always has. And ministers announce that posts about the consequences will be removed more quickly next time. That is not an oversight. That is a set of priorities.

A government that cannot close a border it knows is being exploited, cannot answer its own terror watchdog, and cannot explain how a man with no verifiable asylum history acquired British residency in seven months has chosen a fourth option. Control the account. Leave the causes intact.

"Liz Kendall announced on Wednesday that social media firms would face new legal curbs during times of crisis."

[Hornchurch FC @HornchurchFC]

Hornchurch FC is thrilled to announce the appointment of Rob Lee as our new Director of Football.

It’s a homecoming in the truest sense. Rob’s professional journey began right here at Hornchurch FC before he went on to become one of the most celebrated midfielders of his generation. Over a glittering career spanning more than two decades, he made 298 appearances for Charlton Athletic — helping them win promotion to the First Division — before joining Newcastle United in 1992, where he went on to score 56 goals in 381 appearances for the Magpies, cementing his status as a true club icon and fan favourite. He also represented Derby County, West Ham United, Oldham Athletic, and Wycombe Wanderers before hanging up his boots in 2006. He earned 21 caps for England, competing at the highest level international football has to offer.

Welcome home, Rob ❤️

🔗 https://t.co/koq96xdcmb

[⚒andy cross ⚒️ @andycross1966]

@writethewrongs2 @SarahForRuncorn ‘I wasn't there so don't know how short your skirt was but I think, pot, kettle and black. You dress provocatively but don't like being sexually assaulted by men? As an MP it is your role to dress modestly and not arouse men!’

[Phil Coates 🇬🇧 🚜 @PhilCoates9]

And yet Ian never got the chance to collect his pension..... there's absolutely no parity, equality or justice in the UK for victims.

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

This man is Valdo Calocane who murdered Grace, Barnaby and Ian Coates by stabbing them to death in Nottingham. I have just heard Barnabys Mum on the radio - this animal is currently a patient in a secure mental health unit and is receiving up to £800 in BENEFITS a month as technically he’s not a prisoner! I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. What an absolute insult to the victims families 💔@RestoreBritain

[⚒andy cross ⚒️ @andycross1966]

@corey_bolton016 @GBPolitcs mate. you’re 12 years old, repost porn tweets and can’t spell ‘hell’. Leave this to the adults.