Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Retired after 32yrs (SWP, JFU, AFO, FTA, OFC, CPO, NFI, CFI, TFC, PIM, TRiM. I love a TLA🤣). Best job in the world👮‍♂️. Protect the Protectors.

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

Indecisive leadership in action.
Shocking.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Key thing to note. It wasn't just that Starmer asked Reeves to find the money for defence, and she told him to do one. He then went cap in hand to the cabinet, asking if they could find savings. And they told him to do one as well.

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

Faced with a choice between a Defence Secretary who wanted to spend more on our armed forces, a Chancellor who wouldn’t, and an Attorney General who enjoys suing them, the Prime Minister decided he could do without … the Defence Secretary.

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@history99917180 Still childish, this was just a momentary restraint, still thought it……

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Kaz, thank you. Agenda 2030 sounds like a conspiracy theory. It's not. It's a publicly available document adopted at a UN summit in September 2015 and signed by every member state including Britain, Australia and Canada.

It contains 17 goals and 169 targets committing signatory nations to net zero, facilitating migration, eliminating inequality and embedding inclusive institutions across public life. No British parliament voted on it. No British public was consulted. It's been implemented ever since through regulatory frameworks, public sector guidance and institutional capture.

The Race Action Plans. The DEI training. The asylum accommodation contracts. The net zero commitments that Ed Miliband refused to cut even when the Defence Secretary was asking for the money to defend the country. All of it flows from the same framework adopted without democratic consent at a UN summit eleven years ago.

Healey's resignation is the moment that framework's cost became impossible to ignore. Britain cannot afford Agenda 2030 and its own defence simultaneously. Starmer has made his choice. The question is whether enough people now understand what that choice actually means.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Respect Henry Nowak's family’s wishes and don’t exploit his death, intoned Starmer. But when murdered Rhiannon Whyte's mother demanded an end to illegal immigration, Starmer didn't want to know, says Steven Tucker. https://t.co/9V8zo8BVqe

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

‘Are we allowed to feel angry yet?’ My column in this week’s @spectator https://t.co/ihCQHb71Ii

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@DavidLammy What action are you taking over the causes?

The same cycle every time. Attack.
Outrage.
Disorder.
Calls for calm.
Nothing.
The next incident.
Repeat.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Breaking. John Healey Resigns. Starmer Told NATO Russia Could Attack By 2030. His Own Defence Secretary Says The Funding Does Not Match The Threat.

John Healey is not a rebel. He is not a troublemaker. He is one of Starmer's most loyal and trusted allies. A man who spent four years in opposition preparing for the job of Defence Secretary. He has resigned this morning because Rachel Reeves refused to fund the defence of this country adequately at the most dangerous moment in Europe since the Second World War.

His resignation letter says the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs. The Defence Investment Plan falls well short of what is required. It rises to just 2.68 percent of GDP in 2030. He says that without a plan that meets the moment he is being forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our forces, increase the risk to personnel on operations and could make the country less safe. He had no other option but to resign.

Starmer told NATO last week that Russia could attack by 2030. That is not a political statement. That is the British government's own intelligence assessment shared with our allies. Healey has resigned because the money allocated does not match the threat his own Prime Minister publicly named to our NATO partners just seven days ago.

Rachel Reeves has chosen the fiscal rules over the defence of the realm. Starmer has allowed her to. And the man responsible for our armed forces has concluded he cannot in good conscience continue.

In the most dangerous security environment since the Cold War a Labour government has just lost its Defence Secretary over money. That is not a governing party. That is a liability.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Border Stays Open. The State Will Close the Conversation.

Before the fires in Belfast had been extinguished, the government had identified the threat. Not the border. Not the system that granted Hadi Alodid legal residency in seven months without a verifiable European asylum history. Not the Albanian gangs advertising guaranteed passage to England on TikTok this morning. The threat, as defined by this government, was the conversation.

Liz Kendall announced on Wednesday that social media firms would face new legal curbs during times of crisis. Platforms would be required to remove incendiary content more quickly when tensions were heightened. The definition of crisis and the definition of incendiary would be set by ministers. On the same day, Jonathan Hall, the government's own terror watchdog, said he had raised the national security dimension of mass migration with the government and received no reply. One question got legislation within forty-eight hours. The other got silence. Stephen Ogilvie lost an eye on a Belfast street. The government's legislative response targets the people describing what happened.

This is not new. After the summer 2024 riots the same reflex operated. People were jailed for social media posts within days of the disorder. The sentences handed to those who wrote the posts sat in the same range as those who burned the buildings. The machinery of the state was directed at speech about disorder rather than the conditions producing it. Belfast is the same pattern at higher intensity. The border stays open. Discussion of what happens at the border will be suppressed more quickly next time.

The British asylum system did not malfunction in the case of Hadi Alodid. It performed. Sudan to Paris. Paris to Dublin. Dublin to Belfast by bus. Asylum claimed in February 2023. Refugee status granted by September. Legal right to remain until 2028. There is no French record of him as an asylum seeker. The Irish government will not say how he entered Ireland. None of that prevented the system from processing him correctly by its own rules. The rules are the problem. The government has no intention of changing them.

Albanian gangs are advertising the same route on TikTok today. Filmed inside Dublin airport. Guaranteed passage. Seven thousand pounds payable on arrival. Operation Gull has arrested more than 900 people using it in a year and the advertisements continue. Enforcement is cataloguing this. It is not closing it.

Jonathan Hall, the government's own independent reviewer of terror legislation, said immigration must be treated as a national security issue. He said he had raised whether migrants from certain countries presented elevated risks of serious violence. The government responded with silence. The terror watchdog, a King's Counsel appointed to scrutinise national security law, is recording not a political failure but an institutional one. The question was asked through proper channels. Nobody answered.

The pattern is coherent even if the government will not name it. The terror watchdog raises the national security dimension of mass migration and hears nothing. The gangs film themselves inside Dublin airport and advertise openly. The border operates as it always has. And ministers announce that posts about the consequences will be removed more quickly next time. That is not an oversight. That is a set of priorities.

A government that cannot close a border it knows is being exploited, cannot answer its own terror watchdog, and cannot explain how a man with no verifiable asylum history acquired British residency in seven months has chosen a fourth option. Control the account. Leave the causes intact.

"Liz Kendall announced on Wednesday that social media firms would face new legal curbs during times of crisis."

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.

But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.

That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.

There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.

The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”

Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.

That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@PaulEmbery @The_Morningstar The same cycle every time. Attack.
Outrage.
Disorder.
Calls for calm.
Nothing.
The next incident.
Repeat.

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@Partisan_12 It’s pre WW2🤷‍♂️
There is a saying..

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Replace fool with:
stupid/retard/twat, I’ll let you decide

[Gammonzilla @TheGAMMONZILLA]

It was an ATTEMPTED beheading, not a successful one

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@Heccles94 No mention of arresting the people who commit these atrocities in the first place.
Beheadings
Rape gangs etc.

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@ZackPolanski Nothing to do with the man trying to chop someone’s head off
Shockingly that’s not normal in our culture 🤷‍♂️

And what are you doing to stop the cause?

The same cycle every time. Attack.
Outrage.
Disorder.
Calls for calm.
Nothing.
The next incident.
Repeat.

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@Keir_Starmer And what are you doing to stop the cause?

The same cycle every time. Attack.
Outrage.
Disorder.
Calls for calm.
Nothing.
The next incident.
Repeat.

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@darrenpjones And what are you doing to stop the cause?

The same cycle every time. Attack.
Outrage.
Disorder.
Calls for calm.
Nothing.
The next incident.
Repeat.

[Gareth Jones🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @gareth774]

@history99917180 Her loss🤷‍♂️

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

If a white person posted this about Muslims they would be arrested

Two Tier Policing

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

We came close to a truly colourblind culture - and the woke left screwed it up, on purpose.