Gareth Shaw

Former Air Traffic Controller, HTFC. Opinions are my own, or those of others I’ve shared!

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 THE SECRET LABOUR SELLOUT HAS JUST LEAKED.

Brussels has just arrogantly postponed our UK-EU summit because they are waiting to deal directly with Andy Burnham. 🤡

They are already publicly demanding the new Labour leader be "bold" and surrender even more of our independence.

And look at the absolute scam the establishment was quietly preparing to sign behind your back.

Labour was planning to slash university tuition fees for EU students, heavily subsidising them with your taxpayer cash while British kids drown in massive student debt! 💷

Foreign bureaucrats are now openly mocking Brexit as a "con job" and promising to "reward" Burnham if he brings us back under their control.

Starmer started the betrayal, but Burnham is the slick, pro-EU puppet they actually want.

They are treating our country like a vassal state to be bought and sold.

RT if you demand we stay completely OUT of the EU and put British students FIRST! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Pete Sanford @PeteSanford]

ANDY BURNHAM: FRAUDSTER?

Mr Burnham didn’t Leave Manchester.

Mr Burnham FLED Manchester

There are Two Very Suspicious Arrangements Burnham is Involved in:

1/ His Dealings with his friend, the Manchester Property Developer, Daren Whitaker, who received nearly £800 Million from Greater Manchester while Burnham headed the Finance Committee.

Whitaker refused to Build the Affordable Housing agreed in the Contract, building Skyscrapers and Luxury Apartments.

Whitaker took £40 Million in Personal Dividends and Decamped to the Tax Haven Monaco.

This would be Illegal.

Unless the Chairman of the Finance Committee agreed to the Dividend.

Mr Burnham had to agree.

But now refuses to discuss the matter.

OR RELEASE THE OFFICIAL MINUTES.

Is Andy Burnham Corrupt??

He is about to become the PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN.

I Think It’s Time We Find Out Before The Coronation.

2/ Burnham’s dealings with his Wife.

Although She Never Took His Name.

Confused? Me Too…

“Marie-France van Heel, she is a director of Be.EV & Iduna Infrastructure, she is also Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Octopus Energy.

In these rolls she secured a contract to supply EV infrastructure and energy to Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the famous “Bus” project the now ex mayor of Manchester boasts about. The only matter Andy B fails to boast about is the lady who got the contracts is, in fact.

MR BURNHAM’S WIFE…

For the UK Media now kissing Burnham’s Ring and the Labour Party members hoping to get the Cabinet positions they crave:

BURNHAM IS A SAINT

BUT THE REALITY SEEMS VERY, VERY DIFFERENT

Perhaps @KemiBadenoch and @RupertLowe10 Should Take a Look.

TODAY…

[Ben Habib @BackBrexitBen]

Britain does not need another Prime Minister. It needs a completely different political philosophy.

The government borrowed £23.3 billion in May and the political class still thinks the answer is more borrowing, more tax and more state control. Just read that again, in one month, the Labour government borrowed £23.3 BILLION, which is almost as much as was borrowed during the entire 18/19 fiscal year (£23.5 billion).

Britain will not last another 3 years of Socialism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The politicians imprison people to hide their crimes

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

[Smash Baals @smashbaals]

Funny how only one of them works

[Gareth Shaw @GarethLShaw]

@LNER 0840 Leeds to London Kings Cross

[Gareth Shaw @GarethLShaw]

@lner first class travel and breakfast included… go for the “hot” bacon roll on “soft” white roll and this cold monstrosity arrives?! Burnt, dry, so hard it will damage your teeth. Who is cooking this?!

[Gareth Shaw @GarethLShaw]

@kaithrine7 Americans may I introduce you to the stalwart of English cricket... the beer snake!! Zoom in... That's a stack of beer cups!

[Gareth Shaw @GarethLShaw]

@krucam @BLackgold_5 No wake here as smaller aircraft is in front. Also they’re not “following” so no distance applied. Normal procedure here for atc to start the clearance to land as previous is approaching rotate. The words “cleared to land” are not spoken until the previous aircraft is airborne.

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

There is no way of knowing how often Parliament votes against what the public actually wants. Until now.

https://t.co/QpJCcn3FBH tracks every bill going through Parliament. You vote. We compare it to how your MP voted. The gap speaks for itself.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Let’s flip the scenario for a moment.

Imagine Iran killed Trump in the first 5 minutes of the war, established air superiority over the US mainland, wiped out the entire US Air Force, US Navy, killed half the Cabinet, flattened the US military industrial complex, then started building runways in Missouri to land Iranian troops without losing any casualties.

Would you say it was a US victory if the US managed to keep the Panama Canal closed throughout this all?

[Gareth Shaw @GarethLShaw]

@muscleforlife @HakureiRyan @grok @timmur_ You literally undermine your initial post by agreeing with this. “Most” therefore not all. So not the same as just eating less as you implied in the OP.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy.

That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks.

She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed.

She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed.

The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality.

It doesn’t add up.

Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication.

Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Mr Starmer,

The world is watching. And for once, I’m not here to play nice or balance both sides. This is the one shot I get to say what millions already know in their bones.

You are not Britain’s Prime Minister.
You are a man who won an election and immediately began dismantling the very things the British people voted for in 2016. You are squatting in Downing Street while steering the country back into the arms of the institution it explicitly rejected.

If you will not stand down, the British people will make you.

Here is every claim you made today, stripped bare, no spin, no mercy:

1. “The Middle East conflict has now entered its second month.”
Thank you for the calendar update. While you counted months, the IRGC a group formally designated as terrorists by the United States, Canada, and others, continued running its London operations from 16 Prince’s Gate, Knightsbridge. You did nothing.

2. “The UK is working at pace for de-escalation and peace.”
Translation: we issued strongly worded statements. Results: zero. Your “pace” is the speed of a snail on tranquillisers.

3. “The war will affect the future of our country, energy and cost of living.”
It already is. Your green ideology and EU realignment have left Britain with some of the highest energy prices in the developed world. Pensioners choose between heating and eating. That’s not “the war.” That’s policy.

4. “We are well-placed with a long-term plan to emerge stronger and more secure.”
Record taxes. 7.5 million people on NHS waiting lists. Record small-boat crossings. Energy bills that could bankrupt households. If this is your definition of “stronger and more secure,” the English language just filed for divorce.

5. “I held meetings with business leaders…”
Photo opportunities. They warned you. You smiled for the cameras and carried on regardless.

6. “Energy bills will be cut today and fixed until July.”
A £117 cap that your own NI increases and green levies have already vaporised. It’s not relief. It’s an insult dressed up as compassion.

7. “The most effective way to support the cost of living is to push for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.”
Then why did you help shut down North Sea production and make us dependent on foreign energy? The hypocrisy is so thick you could spread it on toast.

8. “The UK is taking back control of our energy security by investing in clean British energy.”
Britain now pays the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe. Blackouts are on the menu. This is not “taking back control.” This is self-sabotage with better PR.

9. “Because the world is volatile, Britain’s long-term national interest now requires closer partnership with the EU.”
Let’s be honest for once: you are using a foreign crisis as cover to hand sovereignty, money, and decision-making back to Brussels without asking the British people. That is not statesmanship. That is betrayal by stealth.

10. “I will announce a new summit with the EU later this year…”
Re-joining by the back door while an Iranian terror-linked operation sits in one of London’s most expensive postcodes. The sheer gall is almost impressive.

You stood at the podium today and spoke of “British interests” while actively working against them. You swore you wouldn’t rejoin the EU. You are doing it anyway. You talk of security while leaving a designated terror network untouched in central London. You lecture about the cost of living while your policies make it worse.

The mask is not slipping, Keir. It has fallen off and shattered on the floor.

The British people see you clearly now: a politician who values international approval and Brussels goodwill more than the nation that elected him. You are not leading Britain. You are managing its managed decline.

The clock is ticking. Not in secret. Not in silence. Out loud, in broad daylight, across every pub, every kitchen table, every X feed and every street in this country.

History does not forgive those who sell their own people’s sovereignty for applause.

Britain did not vote for this.
Britain does not want this.
And Britain will not tolerate this forever.

The reckoning is coming.
And it will not be kind.

Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧

[Norm @normAL219]

We asked a 100 people if you spoke directly with Peter Mandelson prior to appointing him after you found out his best mate was a nonce

You said

“Muslims Praying”

[It's a lawyer's life @itsalawyerslife]

It’s a lengthy but this is magnificent from @Geoffrey_cox on the importance of jury trials.

A true orator among giggling simpletons

[Peter Bleksley @PeterBleksley]

The thing that hurts me most about the decline of this once-great nation, is how it’s lost its bottle.
Once upon a time we stood alone against the Nazis. With some very welcome help from our great friends, we sorted those wankers out.
Some years later, the Argentinians thought that they could take the piss out of us. Our heroes taught them otherwise, and many sacrificed their lives in the process. May they rest in peace. They will never be forgotten.
Naughty kids got detention.
Thieves and vagabonds got sent to prison.
Rough men caused aggravation in pubs at weekends. Rough Police officers turned up to sort them out. That included brilliant WPCs, who we were proud to call WPCs, and work alongside. Somewhere down the line, because of liberals, intellectuals and progressives, some people became too afraid to tell a bloke in a frock to fuck off out of the ladies toilets.
People in positions of authority became so timid, that they allowed people from lands far, far away, to besiege parts of our once green and pleasant land, to murder and rape our English roses, and to impose their barbaric ideology upon swathes of people too weak to resist.
We invented human rights laws, only for leaders who professed to advance such laws, to bottle out of helping a nation that wanted to irrevocably damage a regime that had no regard whatsoever for human rights laws. Oh the irony.
Fear not my friends, this nation is beginning to reconnect with the simple concept of having some bottle. The autocrats, the globalists, the spineless and the liars, together with all their acolytes, will one day soon be taught a very stern lesson.
Don’t say I don’t warn you…

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

The removal of historical figures such as Winston Churchill from English banknotes may appear trivial to some.

But it isn’t.

It matters far more than many people realise.

Because what we are witnessing is not an isolated decision about banknote design.

It is part of something much larger: a slow but relentless erosion of our national culture, identity, and collective memory.

As Professor Frank Furedi has observed, we are living through what he calls “the War Against the Past.”

Across the Western world, an assortment of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucrats, radical activists, and increasingly compliant public institutions are engaged in a cultural project that seeks to delegitimise our national histories and strip away the symbols that once anchored our collective identity and memory.

The pattern is now familiar.

Statues are toppled.

Historical figures are reframed as morally suspect or “divisive”.

Public institutions rename buildings, spaces, Tube lines.

School and university reading lists are “decolonised”.

The past itself is rewritten to emphasise only its sins while ignoring its achievements.

Even the quiet symbolism of everyday life — the images on our currency, the names of our streets, the monuments in our squares — is steadily edited and sanitised.

What replaces these symbols is rarely anything meaningful.

Instead of historically significant figures who helped shape the nation, we are offered neutral, universal imagery that stands for almost nothing at all — landscapes, wildlife, abstractions.

On the surface this seems harmless.

But symbolism matters.

For centuries, historical figures served as cultural signposts, reminders of the history, struggles and achievements that shaped the nation and its people.

Remove those signposts, and something subtle but important begins to change.

The past becomes distant. Then contested. And then disposable.

Gradually, the story of a nation — its triumphs, failures, and defining moments — is hollowed out.

In its place emerges a new idea of national identity that is deliberately thin: one that defines Britain not through its history or traditions but through the abstract celebration of diversity itself.

In other words, the only thing that is meant to define us is that we have no defining identity at all.

The endpoint of this cultural project is not inclusion but historical amnesia, or cultural erasure.

A society that is detached from its past, uncertain of its traditions, and unsure of what binds it together.

This is what Sir Roger Scruton meant when he wrote: “A society that loses its memory loses its identity.”

And that loss happens gradually, through thousands of seemingly small decisions — a statue removed here, a curriculum altered there, a historical figure quietly replaced on a banknote.

Each individual change may appear insignificant.

But taken together they represent something far more profound: the slow disconnection of a people from their own history and collective memory.

A people who no longer really know who “we” are.

I doubt the bureaucrats who made this decision at the Bank of England fully grasp the cultural significance of what they are doing.

But intention is not the point. The effect is what matters.

When we remove the symbols of our past, we further weaken the very foundations of our identity.

Or Orwell warned: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

This is what is happening and accelerating around us.

This is what Furedi meant by the “War Against Our Past”.

And this is why it really matters.

Not because of one banknote.

But because of the much larger cultural story it represents.