gary dunbar

dog loving father of 4, like old cars and 80s music, unhealthy liking of JJ Adams art!

[TheMoustacheCop @CopMoustache]

This is absolutely disgusting, quite literally overnight around 5% of your pension is gone, your money !!!

And before the “yes but it’s a good pension” brigade chime up, stick over £400 a month into a savings account for 30 years and you’ll have a good one too

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Dr Manivannan may be a nice young person.

But I don’t want to live in a country where people on student visas can become elected representatives to national parliaments.

He’s crowdfunding from Green Party members for his graduate visa for pete’s sake. https://t.co/dj5lc0Ht9Y

[Highwayman1 @Highwayman114]

This is going to be an interesting dilemma for honest John Swinney, Trans "woman" elected to Holyrood, the rules are that toilets in parliament must be used according to your biological sex as per the supreme court ruling 🍿

[🦖Obsolesence @Obsolesence]

Surely there has to be a electoral rule that you have to have a right to remain in Scotland before you can become a MSP? Surely??? And yet here we are, a new Green, trans MSP with an expiring visa.

[Craig Houston @CraigHouston_]

It will be interesting to see what happens when he turns up at Holyrood and is asked “what’s your National Insurance number?”

If you don’t have the right to work in UK how can you be a MSP?

[Gerry @GerryKeogh_]

The SNP have ruined the Scottish Parliament.

A student with a Temporary Visa can now decide the laws for the Scottish People.

Ha holds no Passport or Citizenship for the UK or Scotland and he is now a MSP!

It’s a joke a fucking Joke!!

[Robbie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @McRobScot]

Still can't believe someone on a student Visa was elected to the Scottish Parliament.

What country allows non-citizens in it own legislature to make and pass laws?

Scotland deserves better than that.

[Heather McLean @HeatherMc1960]

My question is how is he even allowed to vote in Scotland when he doesn’t have a right to remain? And even more worrying how many more like him were voting to decide our future government 🤷‍♀️

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

The UK full new state pension is £11,973 a year. The poverty line for a single adult is around £14,500.

You'll work 50 years paying into a system that, by its own definition, retires you straight into poverty.

[Restore Australia 🇦🇺 @RestoreAussies]

Someone hire this man. Clearly has a great moral compass and unbelievable loyalty, giving 29 years to his job.

He deserves better than Morrisons. Rather than getting them to reinstate him, there has to be some good work out there for him, which is more deserving of his character.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer, 30th March 2022:

"Either he's trashing the ministerial code or he's claiming he was repeatedly lied to by his own advisers, that he didn't know what was going on in his own house and his own office.”

Keir Starmer, now: I didn’t know, nobody told me.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Hi @AngelaRayner

Is Keir Starmer “rotten to the core” now?

Asking for a nation.

[David Maddox @DavidPBMaddox]

Tomorrow's @Independent front page
https://t.co/reWWwOkcjT

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

David Maddox, The Independent, says that he knew Mandelson had failed security vetting, published an article, and contacted the head of communications at Downing Street in September

So the idea that Labour's Downing Street only just found out is not true

[Andy Tyson @Tysemon101]

As an ex Glasgow Firey I’m not going to comment on the fire last night. I wasn’t there and don’t know any of the details. All I will say is that it is another travisty. Another iconic Glasgow building gone.
I retired in 2014. I took an option that meant due to my age I could retire after 25 years service. Now, you may ask why I would do that, considering I was only five years off my full lump sum and pension?
Well, in those 25 years the job that I loved changed dramatically and not for the better.
The turning point was the 2002 dispute, a career low, led by radical union reps that destroyed the structure of the British Fire Service as it existed.
We went from a service led, performance rewarding professional organisation to an HR dominated, chronyistic, risk averse organisation almost over night. By 2014 I could not stand going into work. As a watch commander my days were dominated in box ticking exercises and petty disputes all fuelled by WOKE agenda. Worse than that, I was regularly attending shouts where over promoted senior officers with little actual firefighting experience would turn up, countermand firefighting tactics already in place only to watch a building burn to the ground.
Whenever I confronted these frankly negligent decisions I was overridden and on more than one occasion reprimanded.
At that time, SFRS still had 1000’s of superb firefighters, but most had been by passed for promotion by the ‘New’ firefighters, who were great on computers, female, gay, other, didn’t rock the boat and could write a blinding CV.
When I joined in 1989 there were just 5 people in Personal. One senior officer and four civilians. By the time I left there was one HR staff for every 5 firefighters out of 2500!
In the end, I couldn’t justify staying. Guys were dying of heart attacks on night shift, dozens off with ilness and work related stress and every other e mail was a funeral notification for a recently retired colleague. More importantly the bullshit was effecting my mental health.
At the time I handed in my resignation no one else (to my knowledge) in Strathclyde had ever done it before. Suddenly I start getting visits from the head shed asking why! Why would I go now? I just laughed and told them I was going before I got sacked.
I have never felt relief like I did the day I left, not even when I left Afghan with all my bits still attached!
It’s the best decision I have ever made, proving that quality of life is more important than money. You cannot take it with you!
I feel sorry for the guys and girls on the ground now, I know a lot of great people still serving and morale is rock bottom.
In the end and I’m talking specifically about Scotland now, the SNP have ruined the Fire Service. Amalgamating all the regions into the Scottish FireandRescue Service gave them all the power. You get one person in charge and make sure they are your guy. The Union are less than useless
Preferring to focus on gay- trans rights in the place of conditions and manning, I’m just glad I’m out of it all.
I get that I probably come across like a bitter, un pc old dinosaur, but no one can tell me we are in a better place than we were 20 years ago, a time when courage and skill was more important than computers and skin colour.
Thanks for reading and have lovely , safe day. 🙏🇬🇧

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Let’s take a look at just some Restore Britain policies, and you tell me if these make us nazi monsters…

- The largest deportation programme ever seen in Britain to remove those migrants living in our country illegally. The entire asylum system will be abolished. The boats will stop.
- Net negative immigration. Far more must leave than arrive.
- If a foreign national can’t speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, doesn’t work, hates our way of life - they go too. If millions go, millions go.
- Close entire visa routes from countries proven to supply us with illegals, criminals and sex pests. The immigration ‘Red List’. We will discriminate.
- Fairer spouse visas - so that British men and women can bring their spouses to Britain without the endless bureaucracy and cost currently inflicted on them.
- An overhaul of British agriculture that puts growing and farming at the heart of any policy for rural Britain. Food security is national security. Slash red tape, simplify payments, ease planning laws, encourage farm diversification and more. Crucially, help youngsters into agriculture. We will ensure a level playing field for British farmers.
- Restore Britain will force the British public sector will buy British - it will support British farmers, producers and small businesses.
- We will encourage and fund youngsters to take up apprenticeships and learn a proper skill instead of some bullshit university degree. Teach children at school the life skills they will actually need in modern Britain.
- An education system that teaches, respects and celebrates British history and the triumphant contribution our little island has made to the world.
- Businesses freed from crushing regulation, red tape and tax. Reward hard work. Let entrepreneurs enjoy their success.
- Lowest corporation tax in Europe. IR35 scrapped. VAT threshold doubled. HMRC brutally slashed back. Dividend thresholds raised.
- High streets restored. Safe, secure and welcoming. Business rates for small businesses abolished. Turkish barbers, vape shops and other suspicious businesses investigated. Graffiti cleaned, litter picked. Pavements fixed. We will make Britain clean again, and we will take pride in our communities again.
- We will implement free parking in select areas to drive back footfall from the retail parks and back into our town centres. Councils will be forced to accept common sense.
- Fly-tippers will be crushed under the law. It will not be tolerated. Foreigners indulging in the destruction of our countryside will be deported.
- Personal tax slashed. Trust families to spend their money, not the bureaucrats.
- Put pro-family policy at the heart of everything we do. If British families want to have more children, let’s use the power of the state to enable that. Make childcare more accessible and more affordable.
- Reform family courts - so that good, decent fathers, and mothers, are not kept away from their children for malicious reasons. This is important.
- Trust parents to make the best decisions for their families. A limited number of days for a term-time holiday for well-developed children. This is just common sense.
- Restore Britain will make Britain safe again. No-nonsense policing that does what it needs to do. Widespread stop and search back - accusations of racism will stop nothing. Brutal sentences for carrying a knife. Foreign criminals deported, third world sex pests removed before their feet can touch the ground.
- Welfare radically slashed back. Those who can work, will work. Litter picking, graffiti cleaning, whatever else. Don’t like it? No benefits. That simple.
- Support those Brits who genuinely need the help, particularly children, but under a Restore Britain Government the piss-take will end.
- A foreign policy that puts the British interest above all else - proudly and unapologetically. We won’t participate in never-ending foreign wars. We will act when, and only when, the British interest is served.
- Rebuild and rearm Britain. We will have a big stick, and we will wave it when we want.
- A comprehensive support system for British veterans - including fast tracked recruitment into immigration enforcement field roles.
- Arbitrary foreign aid targets that serve no British interests, gone.
- Restore Britain will reverse the creeping islamification of Britain - no burqas, sharia courts, halal slaughter and so on. Cousin marriage will be banned. If you want to sleep with your family, this is not the country for you. This is Britain, we do things our way.
- Anti-white racism, eradicated. No more DEI. The woke bullshit will end.
- Self-defence rights restored. If an intruder tries to kill you in your home, and they end up dead? So be it. That’s their problem. Pepper spray legalised.
- End the war on motorists. Cut fuel duty, no more 20mph zones. Sort out our decaying road network.
- Biological reality respected. Men are men. Women are women. No amount of surgery will ever change that.
- Inheritance tax abolished - for farms, for small businesses, for everyone. The scam will end. Death will no longer be taxed under a Restore Britain Government.
- An infrastructure first housing policy. Developers forced to fund proper infrastructure before a shovel goes in the ground. British homes for British families.
- A Government that prioritises building roads, bridges and projects HERE in Britain. Can you even imagine it?!
- We will purse a British first energy strategy. Net zero will be scrapped. Domestic energy production will be ruthlessly prioritised.
- End the lockdown legacy. Inquiry into COVID vaccine harms, lockdown convictions quashed, a truly independent look at how that was all allowed to happen.
- No Digital ID, ever. Repeal the Online Safety Act. Protect free speech.
- Defund the rotten BBC. Make it a subscription service and let it wither on the vine.
- A binding referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty for the most evil criminals. One of my favourites.
- A national strategy, working from the findings of the rape gang inquiry, to ruthlessly tackle and decapitate the national crime network of primarily Pakistani muslim sexual slavery, torture and murder.
- Restore Britain will end political Islam. Abolish postal voting except for those in genuine need. Remove voting rights for foreign nationals.
- Foreign language translation ended, in the NHS and beyond. You live in England, you speak English.
- The NHS will be restored as the NATIONAL health service. Serving British people as its first and only priority. It will accept ultra-high skilled migrants to work, it will not support millions of low-skilled migrants who contribute nothing, yet take so much.
- Free car parking for NHS staff, patients and visitors on tight permits. We all pay for the NHS, we shouldn’t be ripped off for the sodding parking too. Especially medical staff.
- Medical school caps will be demolished. We will allow talented young British men and women to train in medicine - the NHS will then be forced to employ them over foreign staff. We will prioritise our own people.
- Reclaim our fisheries - take back our seas and take back our fish. We will take back control. Finally.
- The quangocracy will end. Power will be returned to the people through their MPs. Parliament will be empowered.
- Restore Britain will crush the parasitic state. It will all be hacked back in the most spectacular fashion. Unlike anything Britain has seen before.

I cannot wait.

A Restore Britain Government will protect our people, protect our interests, protect our borders.

We will leave you alone to build a business, work hard, raise a family and enjoy your success in a safe and secure Britain.

Finally, a political party that will put the British people first.

Restore Britain.

[Politi_Cal @politi_cal95]

Labour parking their campaign bus right outside a polling station in Levenshulme. Pretty sure this is illegal under @ElectoralCommUK rules about not putting campaign material within 100m of a polling station!

[gary dunbar @GaryGazles]

@RupertLowe10 Prime Minister, we have asked the great British public to accept cuts to benefits & allowances, do you agree that WE should set an example by reducing & reviewing our allowances to show that we are all in this together? After all, our shoulders are broader than most!

[Fiona goddard @fionagoddarduk]

People seam to have no idea how hard it was for me to walk away from this inquiry.
I have fought for this my whole adult life.
I had my children removed from me for 54 weeks by Bradford council 2 years ago to stop me fighting for this and try to silence me. I stood my ground and they returned them but the trauma from that will never leave me and my family.
I have put my heart and soul into fighting for this. Been on every single news chanel and news paper since 2019 calling out the grooming gang scandal amd cover up.
I spend every day trying to help other survivors off my own back just to try and make a difference.
Realising this inquiry still wasnt going to give us the truth and was set up to fail from the get go was heart breaking.
16 years of my life this scandal has stole from me. I thought this inquiry finally would be the the moment that we all got proper justice and answers and could finally move on with our life's.
Instead, left to run in the direction it was, it would of just been another white wash and another failing to add to the long list of failings.
16 years ive held strong in this fight against every system that tried to stop me and ive stayed hopeful. Sunday night that hope was finally killed in me.
So no this wasnt politically motivated. Or what ever else im being accused of. This was a devastating and extremely difficult decision that I would of never of made unless I absolutely had to.

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

Benefits in kind and expenses should be stopped for MPs of all parties . Only basics allowed.
Seems fair. They want to cut everyone’s else standards of living