Callum Banthorpe

God Save the King

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

The opposite of the problem. HS2 consulted and listened too much to NIMBYs and anti-growthers

[Oscar 🌐 @Tweets_of_Oscar]

Jesus Christ what a diagnosis

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

Department accounts should not be posting party political and partisan material

[Department for Energy Security and Net Zero @energygovuk]

This story is pure nonsense.

The Telegraph was repeatedly told these claims are categorically untrue, yet published it anyway.

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

We can’t go on like this.

#GeneralElectionNow

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

#GeneralElectionNow

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

16 and 17 year olds nightly curfew?

They’ve got the right to vote but not the right to doomscroll at night?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027:

- "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s

- WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt

- Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages

- 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month

- AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s

- Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

@Ichi_Batt @AyoCaesar Because you likely have indefinite leave to remain.

I was very specific, there is no automatic citizenship on birth. It depends on the status of the parents.

However in the US, no matter the parents status, there is automatic citizenship on birth in the US

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

@Ichi_Batt @AyoCaesar You do not get automatic citizenship by birth as you do in America

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

@RichardBurgon They fractured a police officers spine. How is the sentence disproportionate?

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

News to me that fracturing a police officers spine is part of the right to protest

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.

Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.

A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

Providing Starlink WiFi to wartime Ukraine to fight against Russia is not conductive to the national good?

Bold statement…

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Musk is not conducive to the national good. Any nation.

[Loïc @Fremond_]

We did it. We've gone full circle. The left is now unironically saying "all lives matter". Only 6 years on from George Floyd.

10/10.

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

@largacty3 It’s not turning on anyone. The mother was convicted of assisting the offender by hiding the murder weapon, and the brother lied to the police about the incident.

The apology is empty and the family showed their true thoughts with their actions

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions:

- welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap
- defence spending is too low
- the triple lock is unsustainable
- without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution
- we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea
- migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state
- any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement
- we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable
- Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly

Blair basically says all that.

The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind:

- judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast
- the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs

None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it

Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement.

Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

@BladeoftheS Deliberately disingenuous and misleading. You know full well there are other health insurance systems that are not profit driven

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

@Keir_Starmer I don’t think you’re on my side

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

Lesson in how to destroy the soul of a country

[Mathew Hulbert 🔶️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 ✝️ @MathewHulbert]

One good thing Labour has done.
Now let's go the full way and make it a fully elected second chamber.
Oh and let's start electing our Head of State too.

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

Since 1776?…

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

🚨 🚨 BRAKING 🚨 🚨

It is difficult to even type this because I am shaking with rage. I never thought I would see the day when a president allowed British REDCOATS on the White House lawn. The British haven’t been in DC since 1776

This is treason. Jesus was a great American who literally wrote the Bible, and he would be disgusted if we was around to see this

Trump must be immediately impeached

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

🚨 BREAKING: Your Party has found the magic money tree!

[Your Party @thisisyourparty]

Counterpoint: no it doesn't

[Callum Banthorpe @CallumBanthorpe]

@cem_uk_ Or, they just outsource all minimum wage jobs to agencies which will make employment less secure for workers