Politically light Blue. Semi retired. Hoping for a good deal on Brexit. Celebrating a great result for British democracy. Want more money for Public services
Denby Pottery has been killed by this government.
The murder weapons are the mad pursuit of net zero and ever-increasing labour costs.
200+ years of Derbyshire history destroyed by Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner, and Keir Starmer. Shame on them.
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Lord Hannan, the Brexit legend, hits the nail on the head with a superb analogy of what went wrong.
We simply did not do Brexit.
The civil service has quietly stopped it more effectively than most people understand.
This is the great betrayal that still haunts Britain today.
@JuliaHB1@DanielJHannan@TalkTV
Never forget that in 2003 Keir Starmer won the case that gave illegal migrants access to UK benefits. Twenty three years later, we’re living in the chaos he created.
How dare you.
I grew up in Telford and was sexually abused for over a decade under a Labour council.
Countless little girls like me were failed by Labour politicians like you.
If you want to know how Labour REALLY treats abuse survivors, here’s my story:
As many other girls in Telford have also testified, I was made to feel as though I was to blame. The system criminalised the victims, rather than going after the perpetrators.
I remember being asked by a detective whether I “consented” at any point to sexual activity, and told by a social worker that “my actions had led me to where I was today”.
All the while, the Labour-led council tried to block an independent inquiry into CSE for years and their Council Leader (now the MP for Telford), along with 10 other powerful local men, even wrote a letter to the Home Secretary saying they felt an inquiry would unnecessary.
Little girls in Telford were branded child prostitutes and p*ki shaggers…
…by West Mercia Police and local Labour councillors, no less.
In Rotherham, Rochdale, Banbury and elsewhere — all Labour-led areas — victims were continually swept aside by those in positions of power, as if they chose this lifestyle. The attitudes that social workers, local services, authorities had towards children was so skewed, and so deeply unprofessional.
My abuse continued for years, at the hands of multiple different men throughout my childhood and teen years.
Eventually, I confided in a social worker and filed a police report detailing the years of abuse that I had experienced.
And my case, like 96.5 per cent of all sex crime cases in the UK, never resulted in prosecution. I was told that there was an unrealistic prospect of conviction against any of my abusers, due to the historic nature of my case.
I spent years in silence because I thought I would somehow be judged or penalised for the abuse I had suffered. Because I had been conditioned to feel like I was somehow responsible for my own victimisation.
The Telford scandal made headlines when it broke in 2015, then again when the Crowther Report was released in 2022.
Yet, the news cycle moved on.
And Labour tried their best to ignore it.
You voted against a national enquiry into CSE. You gutted the local enquires model. You promoted key figures in the scandal to MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
You called victims “far-Right bandwagon jumpers” and grooming gangs a “dog whistle.”
You failed. Deliberately.
On every level.
These are not crimes of the past. Kids are still being exploited, groomed, raped and even murdered in Labour-led areas like mine. It isn’t enough to have empty words and hollow promises.
I even went on national TV to discuss Pakistani grooming gangs in Telford and the continued risk of abuse faced by little girls in my hometown.
The next day, officers banged on my door, demanding I speak to them about my interview. They ignored victims for decades, but tried to intimidate me for speaking about their failings on live TV.
CSE is a national epidemic.
But Labour continues to treat it like a localised issue, choosing to believe that the extent of the abuse is contained to a few bad towns and pockets of bad apples. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Politicians like you, Bridget, refuse to address that fact for fear of being forced to confront your decades-long failure to protect young girls from abuse.
It’s easier to ignore victims, especially when they come from communities, social classes or demographics that are already disenfranchised in Britain.
And for those who do speak out, it feels like you are screaming at a brick wall that would rather label you as the problem than take you seriously.
It was Labour councils.
Labour politicians.
Labour police forces.
Labour MPs.
You all knew. You were all complicit.
How DARE you pretend to care about us now.
You are a disgrace, Bridget.
What a contrast. The King gets the removal of US tariffs on whisky. The government puts a high tariff on US steel. The King helps rebuild the US relationship. The government annoys the US with its poor management of defence and wish to give away Diego Garcia.
There are now some disgruntled local Labour activists in Croydon after Keir Starmer’s niece was parachuted into one of the safest wards in London.
Two longstanding Labour councillors were deselected for Keir Starmer’s niece.
Remember when Labour claimed to be against nepotism?
This is magnificent. A man on BBCQT asks Rachel Millward from the Greens to specify where she thinks racial hatred comes from.
She can't answer.
He tries again
She still can't answer. So nervously waffles on about the cost of living.
He beautifully exposes her stupidity 🔥
Bridget Phillipson’s appalling smear against Rupert Lowe in the House of Commons yesterday, because she didn’t want to answer the question.
When they don’t like what you are saying they just go for ad hominem attacks.
The politics of a country in decline. Not a single word about wealth creation, without which none of this nonsense can be financed. It’s deeply pathetic. If people fall for this left-wing populist drivel we’ve ceased to be a serious country.
@Magician147 What a fantastic win today, some of the best snooker, l have ever seen you play, let's hope it continues into the final. Best of luck as always.