Excellent thread, this. Something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about…
The British state is run by people who have never been fired, never missed a number, never had a client scream at them, never stayed up until 3am working on a deal, or repricing a book because Tokyo opened badly.
They have never experienced CONSEQUENCE. Ever.
THAT is the single most important fact in British public life.
The pipeline is so uniform and mediocre it scarcely needs describing:
- School
- PPE or adjacent
- Civil Service fast stream or a Think Tank research role
- Spell as local councillor to appear “grounded,”
- Then a safe seat and a red box before 40
At no point has the market ever called them a moron.
At no point has a P&L told them their idea was shit.
The feedback loop that every private sector professional takes for granted simply does not exist in their world.
This matters because policy is NOT an essay. It IS a trade. Every regulation has a cost, every tax has a behavioural response, every intervention has second and third order consequences.
In markets, if you misread convexity you get carried out. In government, you get reshuffled to a different department.
The incentive structure could not be more perfectly designed to retain the incompetent and repel the capable.
Anyone with genuine commercial talent is earning multiples of a ministerial salary by their early thirties. So the applicant pool self selects for people for whom the title is the reward because they could never command that status where performance is measured.
The think tank ecosystem makes it worse.
IPPR, the Resolution Foundation, JRF and the rest function as ideological finishing schools and revolving doors. They produce people fluent in the language of policy who have never implemented anything. They can model a distributional impact assessment in their sleep but could not run a corner shop at profit.
This is NOT intelligence. It is pattern matching within a closed system that never tests its own assumptions because everyone in it shares the same priors.
The civil service compounds it further. The fast stream rewards generalism, rotating you through departments every 18 to 24 months to develop “breadth,” which in practice means you never develop depth.
A Treasury official who helped design a tax policy in 2019 is working on transport by the time it starts distorting behaviour in 2022. Nobody owns the outcome.
The private sector has one thing the state fundamentally lacks: a kill switch.
Bad companies go bust.
Bad traders get sacked.
The state just absorbs failure, reclassifies it as “lessons learned,” and promotes the people responsible.
The compound effect of thirty years of this is a permanent class institutionally incapable of delivering growth or even understanding why the private sector they depend on for revenue keeps shrinking under their stewardship. This is what we have, right now.
You cannot fix this with better people inside the same system. The system selects against competence, insulates against feedback, and rewards survival over performance.
Every parliament is just a fresh rotation of the same profile through the same machine expressing the same surprise when nothing improves.
We need parallel institutions to be built by the guy or gal staying up til 3am repricing the book. The risk taker. The entrepreneur.
Then we gradually phase the existing sclerotic failed structures out.
That’s how we win.
Make Britain Great Again 🇬🇧 💪
🔴 NET ZERO: UP TO £7.6 TRILLION
CCC said £108bn. NESO modelling says up to £7.6tn.
Offshore wind costs double predictions. Heat pumps over budget. EVs not getting cheaper.
Nobody voted for this.
https://t.co/fccDsBq99V
💥Message to Mike Yeadon re the Covid shots manufacturing from 'Nelly' on his Telegram channel. If correct this confirms many fears and raises even more questions. What do you think ?
"Hi Mike, they didn't take under a year. My son works for a company that manufactures security doors. He was sent to Porton Down to work inside. The airlock doors he was installing were for a very dangerous procedure called Covid 19, that they were working on.
The fact that this took place in 2017, tells me that the millions of poison jabs, were already made, and waiting for arms to be injected into. As we know, the whole scam was planned years in advance."
How come none of the British Muslim MPs have condemned the attack on the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and other Muslim countries during an important month such as Ramadan? They will condemn Britain for hitting Iran back I promise you. We know what they’re made of; you don’t.
Now you know it was never about Muslims; it was about Islamism and supporting terrorism through MPs who are now acting as Iran’s proxies in your Parliament.
You see how bad that sounds? Now you know .. it’s sad. This is Britain now.
Muslim countries that support today's U.S strike on Iran: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain
Muslim countries that DO NOT support today's U.S. strike on Iran: France, United Kingdom
🚨 NEW: International election observers recorded 32 cases of illegal family voting in the same polling booth across 15 polling stations in Gorton and Denton
"[These are] the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10 year history of observing elections in the UK"
Two things, Mr Lammy. Firstly, he did not win a 'massive mandate'. He got in with a third of the vote in our ludicrous voting system with most people voting against him. Secondly, the fact that he has chosen you, a man known throughout Westminster as vacuous, to be Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Justice, Lord Chancellor, and Foreign Secretary, reveals that his staggering lack of judgement over Mandelson was not a one-off.
The new U.S. House Judiciary Committee report reveals that the EU interfered in these eight elections:
🇸🇰 Slovakia (2023)
🇳🇱 The Netherlands (2023 and 2025)
🇫🇷 France (2024)
🇷🇴 Romania (2024)
🇲🇩 Moldova (2024)
🇮🇪 Ireland (2024 and 2025)
🚨BREAKING:
🇵🇱 Poland's President Karol Nawrocki CALLS on Europe to Wake Up and Break from the EU Migration Pact.
"Europe must wake up its fallen to Bureaucratic Socialism."
"It is a continent made up of nations its diversity must be respected."
Activist: "Going vegan will save the planet."
Farmer: "Going vegan means importing more food from industrial monocultures."
Activist: "But local beef uses too much land."
Farmer: "That land won't grow anything else."
Activist: "Then leave it wild."
Farmer: "It was grazed by wild ruminants for millennia."
Activist: "Cattle aren't wild."
Farmer: "Cattle are doing what wild aurochs did."
Activist: "The methane though."
Farmer: "Has been part of the ecosystem forever."
Activist: "We need to reduce animal agriculture."
Farmer: "And grow what on this rocky hillside?"
Activist: "Something sustainable."
Farmer: "Grass is sustainable. That's why it's growing here."
Look at this map.
–55 °C in Siberia.
+45 °C in Australia.
At the same time. On the same planet.
And I’m supposed to believe that averaging this into a single number called “global temperature” tells me something physically meaningful?
That’s not climate science... that’s statistical abstraction dressed up as reality.
There is no such thing as a global temperature in the way people intuitively understand temperature. Temperature is local. It depends on latitude, season, altitude, oceans, clouds, circulation, land cover, and time of day. Averaging wildly different thermodynamic regimes into one number erases the very physics that control climate in the first place.
You can calculate a global mean.
You can plot it.
You can build policy around it.
But don’t confuse a mathematical construct with a physical state of the planet.
No ecosystem experiences the global average.
No human lives in the global average.
No storm, drought, heatwave, or cold snap is driven by the global average.
The obsession with a single number exists for one reason: it’s easy to message, easy to scare with, and easy to regulate.
Omg... Just STOP!!!
There are already 20mph limits.
Fewer and fewer people can even afford a car.
Fewer still can afford taxis (as she patronisingly suggests!!).
The reduction in drink driving offences is a huge public health success story of the last 30 years.
Yet i see people literally driving at 70mph reading their phones!
And many with no idea how to drive on UK roads as they've passed a test (apparently) in 3rd world countries where there are no rules!!
As usual, @UKLabour punishing law-abiding brits instead of making any meaningful changes.
It’s not 11-year-old boys who are committing violence against women and girls.
We need to get people who have come from cultures that don’t respect women out of our country! Not all cultures are equally valid.
Labour’s plan to lecture schoolboys to respect women and girls is a complete distraction. This is what a government looks like when they’re completely out of ideas.
Deport all foreign criminals. Put more police on our streets. Conservatives have a funded plan to recruit 10,000 extra officers.
Pretending a few extra lessons in school will fix this is complete nonsense. Labour need to stop watching Adolesence and get real.
But they can’t, because they’re too scared, weak and divided. They have no serious plan to tackle this problem.
Only the @Conservatives do and that’s why we’ll build a stronger Britain.
Starmer has now created clear precedent.
The British Prime Minister can apparently, on a whim:
✔️ Cancel elections in which the governing party will do badly.
✔️ Gerrymander who gets to vote to tilt things in the governing party’s favour
✔️ Weaponise the instruments of state, including the police and MI5, against political opponents, at taxpayer expense, to publish a “report” 5 weeks before elections.
✔️ Have his Attorney General attack the character of his main political opponent.
✔️ Withdraw basic human rights like jury trials.
All without any of this in his manifesto, and no electoral mandate.
All well noted.
I'm sure tens of millions of working Brits waking up to the news that their wages could soon be funding the TV licences for benefit claimants will be absolutely overjoyed. What a brilliant start to our Wednesdays.
Packed lunches not done, children not ready, house not clean. Straight off to work, then rushing around in the evening after the children.
But fear not, working Brits.
The indolent are provided for, and really that's all that matters. Lazy foreigners ARE included, do not worry.
I hope that gives you comfort walking to school in the pissing rain.
We are all not put on this planet to care for our children, but to ensure that the lazy can consume daytime television at no extra cost.
This thought should keep us all motivated during those challenging periods at work.
Labour IS making the country a better place. For the indolent, for the foreigners, for the criminals.
We should all be eternally grateful.
So, please remember who you are working for.
The Somalian family with six children, who can now claim thousands and thousands more pounds in benefits. I hope that provides you a warm feeling. It certainly does me.
And don't dare complain, or you'll be getting a knock at the door from the cops for some hate crime or another.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Britain is BUGGERED.
This is British Judge Andrew Menary.
He has gone viral for his political speech today in sentencing Joey Barton.
This same judge let a paedophile Callum Latimer, 23, avoid prison.
He was found 165 indecent pictures and videos - including 58 category A - the most serious category.
He also had 1,578 prohibited images of children some of which showed young girls aged between three and 10 years old.
He was given a suspended sentence.
This is British Justice.
So sad for New York. It’s like watching your aunty getting scammed. She’s been talking to a 34 year old little huckster with smooth lines and big promises.
You try to warn her “this is a very well known scam”. She doesn’t listen. “He’s going to give me lots of free things and some rich people will pay for it!” She squeals with excitement. It’s too late, she’s already sent everything over to the slimy con artist.
Socialism is a scam. It doesn’t work and never has worked. It makes big promises about dignity and then robs people of their freedom. It promises fairness and then moves power to the top and impoverishes the rest. It arrives with the spark of hope and then burns down everything it touches.
A socialist mayor of New York is a great embarrassment to every person who arrived into Ellis Island searching for the American Dream. People who were happy to start with nothing and build have now been replaced with people who have been given so much and still feel they are owed more free handouts. Their socialist leader - an over educated, trust fund kid who’s never worked a job who feels entitled to run a great city based on his fantasy land ideals.
When the dust settles and New York starts to decay under the influence of this terrible philosophy, at least it will be another warning to the world about the socialism scam.
BREAKING: Danish farmers are despairing after cows are now suddenly COLLAPSING.
This comes after a new mandate forcing farmers to feed Bovaer to their cows.
Farmers are reporting massively reduced milk production, illness and even cows collapsing completely.
Denmark introduced a mandate that farmers must feed Bovaer to cows to help stop climate change as it causes the cows to fart less.
The CO2 Climate Narrative Collapses Under Basic Physics
For years, we’ve been told that CO2—a trace gas at just 0.04% of the atmosphere—controls Earth’s climate. But a new study in Science of Climate Change exposes the flaw: The data doesn’t add up.
- 93% of warming is in the oceans, yet their temperatures jump erratically, ignoring CO2’s steady rise.
- 1963–70: Cooling. 1970–80: Warming. Post-2000: Stability. Why? Natural solar cycles, clouds, and aerosols—not CO2.
- Satellite and ARGO data confirm: Earth warms when solar input increases. Not because of a trace gas.
The IPCC’s models overstate CO2’s role while ignoring the sun’s dominance. Even the remaining 25% of warming is uncertain—cleaner air (fewer aerosols) means fewer clouds, which also warms the planet.
Conclusion: CO2’s impact is minimal. Climate sensitivity is overestimated. No apocalypse—just natural variability.
Yet trillions depend on the myth. Who benefits from the fear?
The science is settled—just not how they claimed.