Many thousands of young girls were raped and abused in the grooming gangs scandal, crimes that were then shamefully covered up by authorities. But the 250,000 victim statistic was invented and according to this independent report, massively exaggerated. https://t.co/ZEhA1W4Aq8
Fascinating that Starmer is widely regarded as doomed when so many key metrics are going his way: channel crossings, migration more generally, NHS waiting lists, and today’s inflation numbers
Madam G is Ghislaine Maxwell.
According to this email, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell personally ordered the disposal of the bodies of two children who "both died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex."
Trump has reportedly offered Maxwell a pardon in exchange for her silence. 💀
The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths.
I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools.
No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.
Hydration breaks are three minutes. Why?
Because that's the length of a US ad break.
How long does it take to have a glug of water and get back out there? Thirty seconds?
Sharing this sort of overt racism is now horrifically common on this site, but worth calling out that Hannan is a member of the House of Lords, appointed by the Conservatives.
"Just grow crops on that land instead of raising cattle."
Lovely idea. Have you ever actually stood on it?
I mean the hard country, the two-thirds of British farmland that can grow nothing else. The land the postcards leave out. Go and look at what it actually is.
It is a Cumbrian fell at four hundred metres, where the soil is shallower than your hand is long and the rain comes in sideways for most of the year.
It is a Welsh hillside so steep that a tractor on it becomes a cautionary tale, retold in the pub for a generation.
It is the high Pennines, where the frost hangs on into June and the wind has strong opinions about anything that dares to grow upright.
It is Dartmoor, the Highlands, and the moor above your nearest market town: peat, bracken and acid grass, where the closest thing to an arable field is wishful thinking.
Nobody is hoarding these places. No farmer is sitting on prime wheat country out of spite, running cattle on it for a laugh. On this ground, the grazing animal is the entire harvest. There is no better crop for it to be blocking.
Sow wheat on a fell and it will sprout, shiver, take one look at the weather, and give up. Scatter quinoa across mid-Wales and the sheep will watch it fail with the calm of creatures who have seen this film before.
The people demanding crops have mistaken a relief map for a menu. They are ordering dishes the land was never able to serve. Strip the animals off these hills and you free up nothing for vegetables. You simply switch the food production off and hand the rain back to the bracken.
Grass grows there because nothing else will. The cow eats it because nothing else can. That is the entire arrangement, and it is the only one on the table.
So before you redraw British farming from a laptop, go and stand on the land you mean to convert. Wear good boots. It will not have changed its mind by the time you arrive.
A country that cannot stop talking about food security has found a way to tax it at the graveside.
From this April, the unlimited relief that let a farm pass whole from one generation to the next is gone. Ministers will tell you the threshold is generous. The first £2.5 million of agricultural property is spared, £5 million for a couple, and they recite those figures like a defence. Then go and value a real farm. A few hundred acres, before the sheds and the machinery are even counted, clears the first threshold on the land alone. A working arable farm of five hundred acres or more sails past the couple's five million without trying. The number was built to sound like a mansion. It describes a medium family farm.
That is the part they would rather you missed. The tax scales with the land, and the land is how you grow the food. The more a farm feeds the country, the more acreage it needs, and the harder this falls on it. They sold it as a levy on wealthy men sheltering money in fields they never walk. It lands instead on the family that has walked those fields for a century, rich on paper and skint in the bank, clearing barely a wage from millions they cannot eat.
So when the farmer dies, the heirs meet a bill they can only pay by selling the very ground that grew the food. The asset is the farm. The income is a rounding error. Whatever sits above the threshold is taxed at twenty percent, half the normal rate, offered up as though a smaller knife were a kindness.
It got darker during the protests. A shadow minister said families had begun openly discussing whether they could afford for elderly relatives to live past April, because surviving into the new tax year might hand the next generation a bill that ended the farm. Believe it or not as you like. The fact it could be said out loud at all tells you exactly where we have arrived.
Tractors in Whitehall. Pensioners doing inheritance arithmetic against their own heartbeat. Banners reading no farmers, no food.
But food security is the priority. They say so in every speech.
.@RupertLowe10 says 250,000 white girls were raped by "primarily Pakistani Muslim men".
Here are the official numbers:
Casey's national audit (2025): 700 recorded group-based CSE offences in 2023.
Police chiefs (NPCC): Pakistani suspects 13.7% of group gangs, white suspects 63%.
Run his claim. 700 a year, 13.7% Pakistani, is about 96. Over 25 years, 2,400.
The data is under-reported, so I will be generous and multiply it by 10. That's 24,000. And I will double it again to 48,000. Still a fifth of his number, with every assumption stacked in his favour.
So either the figure is wrong.
Or it is real. And if it is real, it cuts the other way too.
White suspects are 63% of group gangs, four and a half times the Pakistani share. On his own number that is more than a million white-gang victims. Lowe says nothing about.
And Casey records 500,000 children sexually abused every year in total. The largest group of perpetrators are white men.
Either way the headline collapses on its own arithmetic.
And more importantly, he appears to be weaponising victims and survivors for political gain.
Pathetic.
"It's not our money, it's their [Iranian] money," Trump tells a Fox (!) reporter.
Literally what Obama and co said in 2015 and got savaged by Trump, the GOP and, yes, Fox for saying so.