Colin Dyke

One thirty thousandth of the fortnightly pilgrimage to St Marys Southampton. One 300 thousandth of the annual pilgrimage to the 24 Heures Du Mans France.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I can neither confirm nor deny that Robert Jenrick has asked to defect to the Count Binface Party. I can confirm that the answer's no.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Notice anything?

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

NEW: The Times has established that Nigel Farage and his partner own at least five homes spanning Surrey, Essex and Kent.

All but one were bought with cash since 2000. Farage described himself as "skint" in 2017.

https://t.co/dwVOv9TQvs

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Don't fall for Elon Musk's gaslighting.

There is a massive, life-or-death difference between well-planned budget cuts and a sudden, reckless halt to promised medical aid.

Musk is actively lying about the fatal consequences of his USAID cuts. The US is not obligated to fund healthcare for the entire planet, but if a nation decides to pull back its global aid, it must be done responsibly. Ripping away funding mid-treatment means you are directly responsible for the preventable deaths that follow.

Instead of owning up to the fallout, Musk is flooding X with dishonest spin. He first challenged critics to name even one person whose death he caused. When people actually did, he immediately moved the goalposts, claiming that any spending cut inevitably causes deaths.

He is a dishonest charlatan trying to hide the fact that his chaotic decisions got thousands of vulnerable children and adults killed. That will be his lasting legacy

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm confident nobody will share this.

[Colin Dyke @BaddesleyBill]

@trussliz Put me down for a £10,000 vip ticket please Liz. You're buying yes?

[Brendan May @bmay]

My god this is a car crash. Note also he says no politician has been in more danger than him for over a decade, during which time two MPs have actually been killed, neither of them from his party. He is so tetchy. The idea of this grifter as PM is absurd.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Squirming Farage knows this is now a scandal that could end his chances of being PM.
Everyone, including his own supporters, knows his failure to declare a secret £5m bung from a Thailand-based crypto tycoon absolutely STINKS.

[John Cassidy @JohnCassidy]

Trump claims Starmer has "failed very badly" on immigration. But migration surged under the previous Conservative government and has fallen sharply under Starmer. Here's the National Institute of Economic and Social Research:

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

In one tweet the MAGA on Russia’s side in Ukraine exposed

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

He’s so incompetent, he can’t even make the point he’s trying to make. The U.S. relationship with the UK is closer than any other bilateral relationship and far beyond the U.S. relationship with Israel. It isn’t a partnership, it is a sacrosanct alliance in which almost all intelligence is shared (or was before Trump) and trust is implicit. It’s why chief of London Station is the coveted pre-retirement assignment for CIA officers. We spy on Israel and they spy on us. They are not in Five Eyes and won’t be. Vance just elevated Israel to a level they’ve never attained by way of trying to diminish them. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Ukraine has spent 4 years defending against Russian invasion and terror attacks and refuses to give an inch. Trump conceded everything to Iran and made the US less safe because of slightly higher gas prices hurting his image and GOP in midterms.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Pres Trump will ’bomb the hell’ out of Iran if there’s no final agreement. Does bombing people ever work? in Vietnam? Iraq (that took armies on the ground)? Afghanistan?Libya? Ukraine? Gaza? Lebanon? Thanks to the US, Iran’s regime will now be stronger, richer and nastier.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

JD Vance went to Ohio State then Yale. But clearly not to study history. WW2 did not end ‘with some kind of negotiation’.

[Praise @tufpraise]

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

[Colin Dyke @BaddesleyBill]

@elonmusk @BasilTheGreat Would it be ok if they had their trial first?

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Family of the N Ireland stabbed man say many migrants make valuable contributions to the UK, condemn disorder and don't want to divide people or fuel violence.

And again Hard and Far Right extremists like Musk, Yaxley-Lennon, Farage and Lowe fan flames.

https://t.co/8as7XSm31o

[Ben Harris @btharris93]

Regardless of your feelings towards our current government (and I have an extremely low opinion of it), there is no doubt that Tommy Robinson is a traitor and an enemy of the British people.