David Longmate

Married Bluenose rocker who drinks Jack Daniel's to survive. Owner of Subside Bar, Birmingham’s best rock, metal & alternative bar.

[Chris Winter @WintersTale7846]

Here’s a little reminder of what Thatcher actually achieved after the mess left by Labour, this was true leadership:

83% → 40% top-rate income tax
33% → 25% basic-rate tax
29.5m → 1.9m days lost to strikes
55% → 67% home ownership
3m → 11m individual shareholders
1.9m → 3.5m self-employed
49.5% → 28% national debt as a share of GDP

Over 1 million council tenants became homeowners through Right to Buy.

British Steel went from a colossal loss-maker to £733m profit.

BT was privatised. British Airways was transformed from a loss-making nationalised airline into a profitable global carrier.

Nissan came to Sunderland. Toyota to Derby. Honda to Swindon.

Exchange controls were abolished. The City was transformed by the 1986 Big Bang, helping London grow into one of the world’s leading financial centres. Financial services expanded significantly, attracting investment, creating high-value jobs and generating substantial tax revenues that supported the wider UK economy. Even Labour governments recognised the City’s success as an important national asset and built on Britain’s position as a global financial hub.

Britain became a net oil exporter.

And internationally, Thatcher stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Reagan, built a remarkable relationship with Gorbachev and was one of the West’s most formidable opponents of Soviet communism.

Three election victories. 11 years in Downing Street.

Agree with every Thatcher policy or not, @andyburnham, but let’s not rewrite history.

She didn’t just govern Britain — she changed it.

And compared with today’s politicians, she had something increasingly rare:

Conviction. Courage. And the willingness to actually do something about Britain’s problems.

THAT’S WHY WE MUST VOTE FOR NIGEL AND REFORM🤷🩵🇬🇧

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 MARKET PANIC: BURNHAM SPURS LIZ TRUSS STYLE BOND SHOCK AS HIS OWN ADVISER ISSUES STARK WARNING!

The financial markets have delivered their brutal verdict on Andy Burnham's first major speech in Parliament.

Former Goldman Sachs chief economist Lord Jim O'Neill, an informal adviser to the Prime Minister, has warned that Burnham's speech was the absolute last thing investors wanted to hear!

British borrowing costs surged immediately, with ten year gilt yields spiking by a quarter of a percent in a single day, a market shock not seen since the days of Liz Truss!

While Burnham promises endless government spending to take state control of the economy, investors are panicking that Labour has zero credible plan to control national debt.

The mainstream media destroyed previous governments over bond market movements, but when Andy Burnham's socialist rhetoric causes borrowing costs to explode, they look the other way.

They are sleepwalking Great Britain into an economic catastrophe.

RT and SHARE this everywhere to expose Andy Burnham's economic recklessness before he bankrupts Britain! 🇬🇧🔥

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Restore activists were CELEBRATING stopping Reform in Dover last night. Celebrating the fact they helped the Greens win. Now think about the next general election. Now think about what this means for Britain.

You wake up the morning after the next general election and see Restore activists on social media celebrating the fact Reform and the patriotic majority have not won.

Celebrating the fact Restore has put Islamists, the far-left, or Labour into power at the expense of the British people. At the expense of actually saving this country.

Restore VOTERS are decent people who care deeply about their country. But they need to understand what Restore ACTIVISTS are all about.

I don't think those activists genuinely care about Britain. I think they are so obsessed with hating Nigel Farage they would rather hand Britain to the Greens and the far-left, as we saw last night.

How can patriots celebrate the Greens winning next to. the White Cliffs of Dover? That's not patriotism. That's something else.

And it's about time everybody on the Right of British politics realises what is going on.

Because Reform would have beaten the Islamist-left Greens last night and taken back control of another patch of England. Taken back control of another corner of this country we all love and desperately want to save.

But who stopped that from happening?

Restore.
Rupert Lowe & Restore stopped that from happening.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 THE HOTEL SCAM EXPOSED: LABOUR MOVES 73,000 MIGRANTS INTO LOCAL FLATS TO DISAPPEAR INTO BRITAIN!

I warned you months ago what Labour actually meant when they bragged about closing asylum hotels.

Brand new official Home Office data reveals that over 93,000 migrants are now being housed at British taxpayer expense!

Even worse, over 73,000 of them have been quietly moved out of hotels and crammed directly into residential flats, shared houses, and local neighbourhoods.

As Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp exposed today, Labour is not fixing the crisis, they are encouraging illegal arrivals to vanish into local communities without a trace.

The number of migrants dumped into local housing has surged by 12 percent under Prime Minister Andy Burnham!

They lied to the public to grab a cheap PR headline, while forcing working class communities to live alongside thousands of unvetted arrivals placed in their apartment buildings.

They did not end the border crisis. They simply hid it in your street and forced you to pay for it!

[TR @Tony_Royle]

The dumbest thing I did was be a 'good boy' for my entire working life: work hard and pay my taxes. 45 years of being systematically and arbitrarily robbed by criminals, some wearing blue ties, some wearing red, and even some sporting a splash of yellow.

I now struggle to pay my bills in retirement and I am still being fleeced via tax by the same clowns.

Meanwhile, these crooks choose to send cash abroad, squander it on insane initiatives such as 'net zero' and DEI, pay themselves tidy expenses, fund wars, and welcome with open arms anyone illegally entering the country, people they are happy to spend billions of pounds on whilst simultaneously making those of us who paid a fair whack into the system, struggle.

People often ask me why I don't vote any more ... and I think it should be fairly obvious. None of these 'senior politicians', across all parties, have any interest in the wellbeing of the common man or woman. They are only interested in their own self-promotion and pressing ahead with whatever harebrained agendas they support whilst in power.

It's only the window dressing that changes ... what awaits in the shop is always the same bullshit that shafts the good, honest folk of this country.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 EMERGENCY WARNING TO EVERY PENSIONER IN GREAT BRITAIN: LABOUR IS PREPARING THE ULTIMATE WEALTH GRAB!

If you worked hard for 40 years, paid your taxes, and saved for retirement, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has just placed a massive target firmly on your back.

The highly influential IPPR think tank, which is packed with Burnham's own inner circle, just published the exact socialist blueprint Labour plans to use to bail out their bankrupt government. 🤡

Look at the terrifying three step robbery they are demanding for the October Budget.

First, slapping National Insurance directly onto the incomes of 9.6 million British pensioners.

Second, hiking capital gains tax to a staggering 40 percent to crush your investments.

Third, a devastating 0.65 percent annual property wealth tax just for the privilege of living inside your own family home!

They label you "wealthy" to justify stealing the nest egg you spent a lifetime building. Yet they magically find endless billions to house illegal arrivals in catered hotels without blinking an eye.

They treat the generation that built this country like an absolute cash machine while engineering our total national decline. The mask has completely slipped.

RT and SHARE this everywhere to warn every single retiree in Great Britain before Chancellor John Healey raids their bank accounts! 🇬🇧🔥

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;

• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.

Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services.

Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement...

You keep less of what you earn.
You keep less of what you invest.
You leave less to your family.

Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 CABINET MINISTERS' CRIMINAL RECORDS TO BE KEPT SECRET FROM THE BRITISH PUBLIC.

Good morning to the millions of everyday, hardworking Brits waking up on this Monday!

You honestly cannot make this level of establishment cover up up! 🤡

A legal tribunal has just ruled that the British public will be banned from knowing which Cabinet Ministers declared past criminal convictions during their vetting process.

This secret ruling comes after Louise Haigh was forced to resign over a hidden fraud conviction for making a false police report, only for Andy Burnham to bring her straight back into Cabinet as his right hand woman!

Everyday British citizens are subjected to ruthless criminal background checks just to get a basic job in teaching, healthcare, or security.

Yet the politicians wielding immense power over your life get special legal protection to hide their criminal convictions from the very voters who pay their salaries.

They demand total transparency from you while running a secretive two tier system to protect themselves.

RT and SHARE this everywhere to demand full transparency and end state cover ups! 🇬🇧🔥

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

Jack Charlton’s son has given up his father’s World Cup medal over the inheritance tax bill…

John Charlton handed the heirloom to his mother to avoid a £200,000 HMRC demand following his father’s death in 2020.

So Jack Charlton won a medal for his country and our Government wants his family to pay tax on it when he dies.

A World Cup gold medal no less, the most prized possession in all of sports.

Shame, Shame, SHAME.

Our country has warped and our government is anti-British.

[Lee Nallalingham @LNallalingham]

🚨 Auditors found £6.8 BILLION of fraud involving DWP.

That’s according to the National Audit Office’s latest report.

That works out at £18.6 million every single day.

Every day you went to work, paid your taxes and did the right thing…

…almost £19 million was being lost to benefit fraud.

Yet this is the same department that hasn’t passed an audit since 1988.

And instead of fixing the system first, the Government plans to spend another £70 billion on benefits while increasing taxes to pay for it

Surely the priority should be stopping the fraud before asking taxpayers for another penny.

[The Patriots Voice 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 @Proudofthisland]

🚨 Elon just nuked the entire media playbook in under 90 seconds.

Journalist: “You support the far-right!”

Elon: “No. You support the lunatic left.

What was completely normal 10-15 years ago is now called ‘far-right’…

because your side went completely insane.”

Safe cities. Secure borders. Biological reality. Common sense.

None of that is “far-right.”

It’s just not crazy.

The Overton window didn’t shift right.

The left sprinted off a cliff and started calling everyone who didn’t jump “extremists.”

Elon said it out loud.

And the media still can’t cope.

Lunatic left.

He’s 100% right.

@elonmusk 👏🏻

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, Burnham has appointed:

- a Housing Secretary who “resigned” in disgrace from the same job because she couldn’t even pay the correct stamp duty on her 2nd house

- a previously sacked convicted fraudster who will be in charge of ethics in the Cabinet Office

- a Business Secretary that had to apologise to parliament over misleading CV statements

- a Chancellor who couldn’t count how many frigates we had in our fleet when he was defence secretary

- a Defence Secretary with no military experience (despite multiple ex-servicemen available)

So much for the “hope” vibes.

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

Labour’s dream team in action:

Angela Rayner MP, appointed Housing Secretary despite dodging tax on a property.

Louise Haigh, convicted fraudster, appointed First Secretary of State.

Matthew McGregor, Hope Not Hate far-left extremist, appointed Director of Political Strategy.

Lucy Powell MP, who dismissed grooming gang survivors as “dog whistling”, promoted to Education Secretary.

This is who Labour picks to run the country: tax dodgers in housing, fraudsters at the top table, far-left activists steering strategy, and grooming gang downplayers in charge of our children’s education.

A total betrayal of British standards, safety and common sense.

We need a general election right now.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Shabana Mahmood has misled Parliament.

She falsely claimed there was an attempted terror attack on an Islamic event and police arrests “undoubtedly saved lives”.

Now the police say they “found no evidence to support anyone being charged with any offences linked to the alleged threat.”

Where is the condemnation from the BBC and media establishment for “speculating”?

Mahmood is a disgrace and must resign.

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼

•⁠ ⁠Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%

•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)

•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)

•⁠ ⁠Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

•⁠ ⁠Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners

•⁠ ⁠Home ownership: 55% → 67%

•⁠ ⁠Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

•⁠ ⁠Foreign holidays: roughly doubled

•⁠ ⁠Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten

•⁠ ⁠Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Infant mortality: down almost 40%

•⁠ ⁠Real GDP: up by almost a third

•⁠ ⁠GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million

•⁠ ⁠Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon

•⁠ ⁠Britain became a net oil exporter

•⁠ ⁠London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986

•⁠ ⁠Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90

•⁠ ⁠National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%

•⁠ ⁠State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%

•⁠ ⁠The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

•⁠ ⁠Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Higher rates of income tax: nine → one

•⁠ ⁠Death duties: fourteen rates → one

•⁠ ⁠Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

•⁠ ⁠40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector

•⁠ ⁠The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987

•⁠ ⁠British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)

•⁠ ⁠BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen

•⁠ ⁠"Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986

•⁠ ⁠British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"

•⁠ ⁠The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed

•⁠ ⁠The Falklands liberated in 74 days

•⁠ ⁠Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War

•⁠ ⁠Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧

[LaVozGalactica @Lavozgalactica]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Acaban de filtrar un vídeo de 5 minutos sobre todos los robos de Argentina a Inglaterra.

Esto es un escándalo Mundial.

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

Ed Miliband has just pledged £11.6 BILLION in overseas climate aid.

Yes, £11.6 BILLION.

While millions of British families are struggling with soaring energy bills, waiting weeks for a GP appointment, unable to find an NHS dentist and watching public services decline, Labour's Energy Secretary is promising to send billions abroad in the name of "global climate leadership."

As if that wasn't enough, he's also announced another £79 million for clean energy projects in Africa and small island states.

Meanwhile, back in Britain, Net Zero targets keep slipping, major energy projects are delayed, our grid is under increasing pressure and households are still footing the bill.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

A man gets into a car with a stick, drives hundreds of miles to brutally murder the beloved elderly matriarch of Reform UK.

The authorities offer no information, but if you ask questions they admonish you for “speculating”.

Reform MPs demanding security from the state are told to shut up and be grateful that “the police know where their house is” and the “direct telephone number to the police” to call if someone tries to murder them.

Reveal that the Speaker of the House has totally ignored letters from Reform MPs about their safety and he briefs the press that he’s “furious”, while failing to deny this.

If you go to lay flowers in memory of your friend you are “politicising” her murder.

If you push back against any of this, you are hounded to the ends of the earth by the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the Mirror, and hundreds of crazed leftists online.

These, apparently, are the new rules for Nigel, for Reform MPs and all those in our movement.

None of it will deter us.

We will fight on.

For Ann.

For our country. 🇬🇧

[Keith @keith0582456611]

Rachel Reeves Labour MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer failed to declare transfers and cash donations of £30,000 from Alison Wedgwood (Oct 2025), £15,000+ from others like David Sainsbury, and larger sums from figures such as Sir Victor Blank (£175,000 reported in some coverage).
Also “in kind support” from lord Ali £7,500 from donors like Lord Alli), event costs, and more. One source notes ~25 donations declared by Sept 2024, with ~£163k cash and ~£183k in-kind.
All this was final declared mid this year.
She was never investigated by UK’s Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

[Ross Kempsell @RossKempsell]

22 May 2024 - Rishi Sunak called the general election

28 May 2024 - Cayman Islands based hedge fund Quadrature makes a £4m donation to Labour, the largest ever single donation to the party, and one of the biggest in UK political history

30 May 2024 – The “pre-poll reporting period” began, under which all donations over £11,180 had to be declared weekly rather than the usual quarterly schedule

The general election then took place

Labour did not declare the donation until September

Don’t hear much about that do you