Ben Wisson

Local LegEnd, Friend of The Blues , Cricket lover and FECCer! If you don't like my views, go somewhere else.

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

This witch is the biggest dimwit in the UK.

How is such an awful ‘economist’ in No11 and not in Halifax’s back office where she started her career?

She’s still in office despite lying on her CV.

The UK is a laughing stock with her as Chancellor.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Britain is no longer a democracy. A UK woman claims she was repeatedly harassed outside her own home by a group of migrants. Despite multiple complaints, police allegedly took no action.

When she threatened to go to the media, officers reportedly warned her she could be arrested for “inciting racial hatred.”

The situation worsened when a man who helped expose the case was reportedly arrested and handcuffed. This is classic two-tier policing, protecting the perpetrators while silencing British citizens.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

The scale of what the Telegraph has uncovered requires the country to stop and process it methodically.

Between 2015 and 2021, more than £28 billion of British taxpayer money — through foreign aid payments and Covid emergency loans — was appropriated by terrorists, hostile foreign states and organised criminal networks.

The money is described as “beyond reach.”
Those who took it are “unpunished.”

Russia received grants via state-linked companies.

Islamic State received Covid loans.
Chinese military-linked firms received research investment.

And behind all of this sits a Cabinet Office report — the first government assessment ever to quantify this catastrophic leakage — that was deliberately suppressed to spare ministers embarrassment.

Now consider the timeline.

This covers six years spanning three Prime Ministers — Cameron, May, and Boris Johnson — and into the early Starmer era.

It covers the 2015-2019 Conservative governments, the pandemic response, and the transition to Labour.

Multiple Cabinets.
Multiple Chancellors. Multiple foreign secretaries.

All of them operating a foreign aid and emergency lending apparatus that — by the government’s own secret reckoning — channelled tens of billions to Britain’s worst enemies.

None of the money recovered.
None of the recipients punished.

And the report — rather than triggering urgent cross-party accountability — was quietly buried.

The public paid for this report.

They paid for the £28 billion it documents.

They were then deliberately denied the right to know either existed.

If there is a cleaner definition of contempt for the electorate, it is hard to imagine.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Ireland 🇮🇪

“Ireland's data centre energy drain. How Big Tech added €1.4bn to household electricity bills.”

Tech giants are hoovering up massive energy and water supplies to power their data centres and the public are paying for it. No one voted for this.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

We are having community fire stations closed in Wiltshire which I presume is happening country wide while money is spent on this. Lives will be lost. The fire service needs to concentrate on fighting fires. Police- apply the law; equality. Stop all of this ���🏼

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

This is wrong on every level Smith is a failed politician, disgraced by her actions & families actions regarding expenses, voted out by the public then brought back into Government undemocraticlly despite being rejected so she can now make people unemployed in the middle of rising unemployment she claims she wants solve. The Labour Party is a degraded, corrupted & failed institution. The British working class whose bodies the Labour Party was born from needs to now take away its life. Dont vote Labour they are not for us.

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

Protecting EU Suppliers, not UK Consumers

Adding a CBAM to imported products when there is no alternative domestic supplier, such as ammonia for fertiliser production, will necessarily increase agricultural production prices.

The UK produces less than 30% of the fertiliser it uses each year, but even this production relies on imported ingredients, most importantly, ammonia. CF Fertilisers’ Billingham plant ceased ammonia production in July 2023. This was the UK’s last major ammonia producer.

In 2024, the UK imported 3.22 million tonnes of the fertiliser products that will be covered by the UK’s proposed CBAM. Almost all of which will be charged for both CO2 and nitrous oxide emissions - making the CBAM doubly expensive. Increased costs for UK fertiliser mixers will be passed on to farmers, eventually raising the price of domestically produced food.

Most of the UK’s ammonia now comes from the US, but it is not cheaper due to differences in carbon taxes that a CBAM is meant to levelize. The price differential when the UK still made ammonia was due to the difference in natural gas prices between the US and the UK.

US natural gas prices are a third to a quarter of those in the UK.

Instead of adding a CBAM to imported fertiliser that the UK doesn’t make any more, the UK should encourage UK gas production and exploration in the North Sea; allow hydraulic fracturing for gas; and remove the additional 38% ‘Windfall’ tax on North Sea gas production, thereby lowering the cost of the UK’s domestic natural gas feedstock for fertiliser production.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Some 90.4% of Essex is white Britons.

Yet Essex police describe we, their white citizens, as a “non-protected group”.

Remind me, what do we pay our taxes for?

Two-tier policing is no longer arguable.

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

This is all on Labour. They can’t blame anybody else.

Sadly, we all have to suffer with more tax rises under Labour.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This is what I explained in my OpEd yesterday. I repeatedly warned the police not to bring in race action plans that treat groups differently.

Senior police chiefs ignored my advice preferring to get it from activists who I warned them wanted to DEFUND the police, telling me they were operationally independent.

I’ll be speaking tomorrow about how we sweep away this rubbish and bring back common sense.

[Right over Left Everytime @RightSide_Uk]

Why is there total media silence on a trial involving:
Keir Starmer’s house
Keir Starmer’s car
A fire
Three foreigners
And rent boys?
The Prime Minister’s property. A fire. Foreigners. Male prostitutes.
And not a single mainstream outlet is touching it.
This is not normal.
This is a blackout.
When the most powerful man in Britain has his home and car at the centre of a case involving fire, foreigners and rent boys, the public has a right to know.
The media’s job is to report — not to protect.
Why the silence? What are they hiding?
The British people deserve answers. Now.

[Katie @katie74RT]

How is an Education Secretary publicly identifying with one group of pupils over another supposed to be unifying?

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Up to four of the six trans prisoners in Downview are sex offenders.

Ministers this is the safe way to house them.

But what about the safety of women?

[𝗣 𝗦 @Reciprocity5904]

Quote: "𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗺'𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 £𝟱𝟳𝟴 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿, 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿."

@AndyBurnhamGM @UKLabour #Makerfield

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

A secret Cabinet Office report — commissioned by the government, buried by the government — has revealed that more than £28 BILLION of British taxpayers’ money ended up in the hands of terrorists, hostile states and organised crime gangs between 2015 and 2021.

Twenty-eight billion pounds.
Funding Britain’s enemies.

Funded by British workers.

The dossier — believed to be the first official assessment of how much taxpayer money has actively funded national security threats — documents grants given to companies linked to the Russian state, Covid loans sent to Islamic State terrorists, and investment in research for companies linked to the Chinese military.

And it was buried.
Deliberately.

Sources told the Telegraph it was never published specifically to save the government from the political embarrassment of revealing the scale of the disaster.

This is not incompetence. Incompetence is losing the odd contract to a dubious supplier.

What this report describes is a systemic, multi-year failure — spanning foreign aid and pandemic emergency spending — that allowed Britain’s geopolitical adversaries to hoover up public money on an industrial scale.

Russia.
Islamic State.
Chinese military-linked firms.
Organised crime networks.

The people who buried this report made a political calculation: that their own comfort mattered more than the public’s right to know that £28 billion of their money had funded those who wish them harm.

That calculation held — until now.

Someone in government knew.
Someone signed off on keeping it quiet.

That person must now be identified and held to account.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🚨WARNING the bit Starmer isnt telling you is... this sort of device technology is called Client-Side Scanning.

It is already built into the Ofcom regulated Online Safety Act through “accredited technology” notices. The EU has been pushing similar rules through its Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, known as “Chat Control”.

It basically means phone companies and platforms can be pushed to scan messages, images and content BEFORE you send them, then either allowing them to be sent or blocking/reporting them.

Once the precedent is set, "to protect children", it can easily be widened to block whatever government decides is “harmful”.

And that's how you go from child safety to state approved speech.

TA DAAAA 🚨

[Jorge Liboreiro @JorgeLiboreiro]

Ireland is battling a PR nightmare over its continued sales of alumina to Russia.

The scandal comes as Dublin prepares to take the reins of the EU Council presidency.

Here's what's happening.
https://t.co/vNYJBlwq27

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Energy requirements for data centres currently in the Scottish planning system is between 4450 MW and 4950 MW, which is larger than the winter peak electricity demand for the whole of Scotland.

The Scottish government is putting power for the tech giants before people.

[Helen Whately MP @Helen_Whately]

1 million NEETs is an urgent problem. But where's Labour's urgency? After 6 months of inactivity, young people are far less likely to EVER work.

Milburn *actually* said Labour's piecemeal programmes won't work. We need proper jobs which requires the government to back businesses - not punish them.

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

He’s dating Kim Kardashian, who has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion. He's worth nearly $500 million and lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK.

Remarkable lack of self-awareness.