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Tweets about anything that catches my eye, mostly politics & cats. Occasionally a bit of humour thrown in.

[Johann @LookAtMyMeat1]

>massive influx on Indians into the US in recent years
>these same people get hired at fast food chains
>they're incredibly unhygenic
>handle food with dirty hands
>normal person eats said food
>they get sick

there solved your mystery

[Cat Therapy 😸 @dailycatsclips]

I don’t understand how these animals survived in the wild😭😭😭😭

[RareGem 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💎✨️🇬🇧 @RareGem_26]

390 years ago, England had a treasonous king. Nothing has changed.

We now have a king who's more interested in virtue signalling and a being a defender of all faiths, when no one asked him to be that.

He's forsaken the God of his father's, the God of this nation and no longer stands up for the very constitution that made him king.

The irony is that without the church, without Christianity, there can be no monarch because it's the church that annoints the monarchs to rule over this nation.

[Grifty @TheGriftReport]

Andy Burnham is told that his plan for a No10 North hub in Manchester will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions in extra security staff travel and bureaucracy

MPs have branded the idea a vanity project and gesture politics saying it will create a duplicate Downing Street and an expensive white elephant office while doing little to change how the country is actually run

Thoughts?

[Bookshelf Q. Battler @bookshelfbattle]

For all the talk of misogyny ruining female led comic book movies, I can tell you Buffy was popular with every young person male and female in the late 90s and early 2000s.

It helps to have a good story.

[Chris Wick @ChrisWickNews]

Sweden just tried to drag itself back from the abyss.

Cousin marriage — that ancient engine of genetic rot and tribal loyalty — is now officially banned as of yesterday.

The response from parts of Sweden’s parallel society?

“We’ll just take it to Britain.”

They don’t adapt.

They shop for weaker nations.

One country attempts the bare minimum to protect its future children from centuries of inbreeding depression — higher rates of birth defects, low IQ clusters, closed clans that treat the state as prey.

The reply is immediate relocation to the next soft target.

This isn’t integration.

This is colonization with suitcases.

Europe isn’t facing “diversity.”

It’s importing entire medieval blood systems that view modern laws as optional suggestions.

And when one nation finally pushes back, the network simply flows to the nearest undefended border.

Britain is next.

Then the next.

Until the whole continent is dotted with cousin-married enclaves that grow faster, stay poorer, and remain forever foreign.

The darkness isn’t the ban.

It’s how normal it now feels that large communities openly reject the host society’s most basic civilizational norms — and simply move on to the next host to bleed dry.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Call it what it is: Labour has created a “green” tax that actively incentivises a switch from glass to plastic.

Because the levy is pegged to weight, every gram of glass is punished more harshly than lighter, less recyclable materials.

Ministers pretend this is about polluters paying, but the scheme will make a recyclable wine or beer bottle cost 4–9p more per unit, while plastic and metal packaging sail through largely untouched.

Producers are already doing the obvious maths.

Tiptree’s jam maker, Wilkin & Sons, has raised “great concern” that the rules will drive them out of glass and into inferior packaging just to stop prices exploding. Brewers are warning that the extra 3–9p on a bottle of beer will make traditional glass uneconomic, especially in a sector already battered by energy costs and business rates.

So the net effect of Labour’s “net zero” policy is: more plastic, more waste, higher prices, and a slow death for one of Britain’s few remaining high‑skill, high‑energy industries.

It is hard to think of a cleaner own goal – economically and environmentally.

[Steve Perkins @Perky_43]

There's an image doing the rounds of a very petite, young female Met officer.

Firstly, we have to remember that this is a person & decent human doing a tough job - personally ridiculing her really isn't on or necessary.

It does raise a valid debate though - the job used to have height requirements for a reason.

Whilst size in the job isn't everything, you need to have the ability, strength and presence to gain control where necessary.

The image of policing has fallen so far since recruiting standards were dropped.

I'm not just talking about size either - I regularly see appallingly dressed officers, loads of tattoos on show, inappropriate hair styles, heavily overweight, too much makeup, earrings (I specifically don't like seeing male officers with an earring). Nail polish, fake nails etc

You need standards in order to be taken seriously.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

After the Second World War, anthropologists found islanders in the Pacific building airstrips out of nothing. They had watched American servicemen clear runways, put on headphones and wave paddles, and watched the cargo planes come down out of the sky with riches in their holds. So when the Americans left, the islanders built their own runways of packed earth, their own control towers of bamboo, headphones carved from wood, and waited for the planes to come. They had copied everything about the miracle except the part that made it work.

We call it a cargo cult, and this week the British state built one out of the Royal Navy.

The Defence Investment Plan cancels the Type 83, the destroyer that was meant to replace our ageing handful of Type 45s and give the fleet a serious air and missile defence for the 2030s. In its place we are promised six "Common Combat Vessels": smaller, cheaper ships that will serve as motherships for swarms of drones, on the surface, in the air and under the water. Drones are the cargo these planners have watched descend from the sky elsewhere. So they have started building the runway, and they are waiting.

Drones are a real revolution in the places where the expensive, vulnerable thing is the human being - the pilot in the cockpit, the man walking the minefield. Take the person out and the whole arithmetic changes. But a destroyer is expensive because of its radar, its missiles, and the magazine of vertical-launch cells that fire them; the crew is close to the cheapest thing aboard. Swap the ship for a budget mothership and a cloud of drones, and you have saved your money in the one place there was never much to save, while throwing away the very thing the ship existed to carry: a deep magazine of high-end interceptors, and a radar strong enough to see the threat coming. It is innovation aimed with perfect precision at the spot where it does the most damage.

And the timing is the part that ought to make a serious person despair. We are doing this in the same year a real missile war has been running in the Middle East, and the clearest lesson of that war is that air and missile defence is now the capability everything else depends on - and that the scarce resource in it is magazine depth. Israel, with some of the finest air defence on Earth, has been burning through its interceptors faster than the factories can replace them; the Americans' stocks are badly drawn down; and the people who know will tell you it takes years, not months, to build more.

Our own Type 45s already carry one of the smallest magazines afloat - 48 launch cells, against 96 on an American destroyer and 112 on a Chinese one. The Type 83 was our chance to fix that. We have cancelled it. You cannot play this game with cheap drones; magazine depth and high-end interceptors are the one thing a drone swarm cannot give you, and it is the thing we have picked this exact moment to stop building.

We have McNamarred ourselves again - can't afford the real ship in annual budgeting terms, so the real ship was dressed up as obsolete, and a fashionable word, autonomy, was wheeled in to make the retreat sound like a leap forward. At the end of it Britain, an island that once ruled the sea, will not have a proper navy. It will have a flotilla of motherships and a slide deck full of drone designations - the bamboo control tower of a country that remembers greatness as a set of costless gestures.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Labour’s new “bottle tax” is a masterclass in how not to do climate policy.

They’ve designed a weight‑based levy that hammers glass – the infinitely recyclable, genuinely sustainable option – while giving cheaper plastic a relative free pass.

The result?

Up to 10–12p slapped on basic glass packaging, with fees on glass beverage containers reportedly around 49 times higher than for some less recyclable materials.

Unions and industry are spelling it out in words of one syllable: this isn’t a green transition, it’s a de‑industrialisation plan. British Glass and GMB warn tens of thousands of jobs in a 120,000‑strong supply chain are now in the firing line, with investors stalling “billions” in planned UK projects because ministers have just made domestic production uncompetitive overnight.

Labour dresses this up as “extended producer responsibility”. In reality it’s extended unemployment responsibility: loading costs onto UK manufacturers until production migrates to lower‑regulation economies, and Britain ends up importing the same bottles, with higher transport emissions, and fewer decent jobs at home.

If you wanted a policy designed in a spreadsheet by someone who has never visited a factory but loves a COP photo‑op, this is it.

[Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 @TPointUK]

Two Hampshire Police officers are under investigation for gross misconduct, following their handcuffing of Henry Nowak.

The IOPC have stated that the evidence indicates that both officers – who were the first to arrive at the scene - may have potentially breached the professional behaviour standards of duties and responsibilities, use of force, and discreditable conduct. Largely around failing to acknowledge Henry needed urgent medical attention and the decision to arrest and handcuff Henry rather than provide immediate first aid.

There’s also an indication one of the officers may have breached the standard relating to authority, respect and courtesy, for dismissing Henry after he said he had been stabbed.

Thanks to online pressure we are securing justice for Henry and his family!

[Noel Willcox Reformuk @noel_willcox]

So this veteran, who these police officers so badly assaulted, has been found not guilty. I came under so much abuse for showing my support for, in my view, such a violent attack. Officers using their shields as weapons, driving the edge into a person's head, is only a last resort if there is a risk to life. I now hope all of these officers are held to account, but probably not.

[Anatolij Sharij @anatoliisharii]

Among others, today I spoke with a Ukrainian oligarch.

This man has stayed at the very top for many decades.

His opinion about Yermolayev was this: “We never considered him to be in the first tier.”

That is, in the first tier in Dnipro there were Kolomoisky and others.

But what interested me the most was: why use an explosion?

In Monaco, it would have made more sense to use a pistol.

A pistol with a suppressor.

Ideally, they could have simply waited until Yermolayev left Monaco.

The answer was exactly what I had thought.

This is a message.

It was done in the most brutal and loud way possible so that everyone else would understand: Zelensky is not joking.

And anyone who tries to act tough will be torn to pieces.

And it doesn’t matter where. In Monaco, at the Paris Opera, or in the Colosseum.

Do you understand what complete impunity leads to?

I very much hope that Europeans will stop shielding these bandits and scumbags.

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

This is the same Rochdale rape gang ringleader who disrupted his own trial by tearing his shirt off and accusing the court of a racist conspiracy against conspiracy against Pakistanis — "the supreme race, not these white bastards."

He denied all charges, then smiled when he was sentenced.

These people believe any punishment for abusing our children is unjust. They only care about the collective advantage conferred to Pakistani clans.

He will not be a pariah. He will be welcomed back into his community when released.

He should never have been here in the first place.

He should have been deported in 2018, under Home Secretary Sajid Javid, a Pakistani man born in Rochdale. But he decided not to strip the four perpetrators of their British citizenship and arrange for their removal to Pakistan, despite a court ruling it lawful.

We shouldn't have to live like this.

End all immigration from Pakistan. Deport the communities who produce these predators, know about their crimes, and cover them up.

Deportation is too good for perpetrators like Ahmed. Whole life sentences should be the minimum, if not the death penalty.

[John Hannam @JohnHann04]

This is guaranteed to make you laugh. After George Floyd and BLM a government department in the U.K. decided it wanted to make more diverse hires and fully implement DEI. But they found that their Numerical reasoning (maths) test was getting in the way as not enough were passing it…..so they scraped the test to enable them to hire more diverse employees. Guess which departed bit was?….The Treasury🤣🤣 The department than relies on mathematical modelling, economics, statistics probably more than any other decided it was a great idea not to bother checking if their employees could do basic adding up 😳 Total madness. DEI/Woke mind virus gone insane…

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

So let’s get this straight, as it’s hard to take in such lunacy.

21 new‑build houses in Stoke Heath, worth around £250,000 each, are being handed over to accommodate 83 asylum seekers – on an estate villagers say they were told would be for local social housing.

Locals waited, no one moved in for a year, and only then were they told the plan had quietly changed.

Hard‑working families in Shropshire, priced out and stuck on waiting lists, are now watching “Migrant Street” being filled by a Home Office contractor acting under orders from Whitehall.

The message from this Labour government is brutally simple: if you’re a local taxpayer, you get lectures; if you arrive via the asylum system, you get the keys.

All of this is being spun as a “cost‑saving” move to get people out of hotels by 2029 – yet there’s zero transparency on how much is being paid to Serco and other contractors, and no honest comparison with actually building council homes for British families.

This isn’t about compassion; it’s about priorities – and once again, local communities come last.

[Russian Garbage Human @RusGarbageHuman]

The Pakistani community is one where you can announce in the family group chat that you have a girl to r*pe.

You will get a dozen cousins and uncles at your door within the hour.

[DoryGenderAtheist 🦕🦖 @NewFifeRight14]

So sick of this. The reason black women and babies have a worse outcome are-
More likely to be overweight
More likely to have diabetes
More likely to miss appointments
More likely to have experienced FGM
More likely not to be able to communicate in English
More likely not to be vaccinated
More likely to have HIV or other serious health conditions
More likely to be on benefits

They have BETTER OUTCOMES than in their country of origin.

In the meantime healthy white British mother and babies who attend all appointments, are more likely to die than French women.

You need to compare like with like or your study is pointless.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

The UK Treasury quietly scrapped its numeracy test because basic math was a "hurdle" for minority candidates.

Let that sink in.

The people in charge of the nation’s money, debt, taxes, and economic policy decided that competence in numbers was problematic.

This isn’t diversity.

This is institutional self-sabotage.