Jon Whycer

Lawyer specialising in everything inherfitance, filmmaker, photographer, electric bass player, dog lover.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Badenoch names the real threat to British sovereignty, and it isn't Brussels

The International Court of Justice has issued an advisory ruling on member states' climate obligations, the kind of decision that sounds technical until you notice what it implies: that the Netherlands-based court could, in principle, put Britain on the hook for billions in reparations to developing countries over historic carbon emissions, and constrain domestic decisions like North Sea drilling in the process. Kemi Badenoch's response to that ruling will be dismissed by critics as manufactured outrage over a non-binding opinion. That dismissal misses the point entirely. The ICJ ruling was advisory. So was the ruling on the Chagos Islands. Advisory is not the same as inconsequential. It will cost Britain £35 billion and sovereign territory. Anyone still treating "advisory" as a reassurance hasn't been paying attention.

This is the argument Badenoch is actually making, and it deserves to be taken seriously rather than mocked as climate denial. International courts have discovered a method: issue a non-binding opinion, wait for it to be treated as settled law by lawyers, campaigners and eventually governments too exhausted or too compliant to resist, then watch it harden into precedent nobody voted for. Nobody in Switzerland voted to have their climate targets set by judges in Strasbourg. But in 2024 that is exactly what happened, when the European Court of Human Rights used the right to private and family life to strike down Swiss climate policy as inadequate. A democratic government's economic priorities, overridden by a court applying a treaty article never designed for that purpose.

That is the trajectory Badenoch is pointing to, and it is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition. First a right gets stretched to cover territory it was never meant to reach. Then a court treats that stretch as established. Then elected governments find themselves negotiating not over policy, but over how to comply with a ruling they never agreed to be bound by. Britain has already lived through one version of this with the Chagos settlement. The ICJ's climate opinion is the same mechanism, aimed at a much larger target: national energy policy, drilling licences, and the ability of a government to choose how it powers its own country.

Where the argument gets weaker is the point about Britain being the only permanent Security Council member still accepting the ICJ's compulsory jurisdiction. Framed as "others ignore it, so should we", that's an easy target, and critics will take it. Framed correctly, it's a point about reciprocity rather than lawlessness. A commitment that binds only one side is not really law. It is a unilateral constraint dressed up as a legal obligation, and there is nothing especially principled about being the last country left holding it.

The rule of law argument Badenoch makes is the one worth dwelling on, because it inverts the usual accusation. She is not attacking the rule of law. She is defending it, against a form of judicial activism that invents obligations democratic governments never signed up to. There is a real difference between a court interpreting law and a court expanding its own jurisdiction by increments, daring elected governments to object. Britain's problem is not too little respect for international courts. It is too little willingness to say, clearly, that an advisory opinion is advice, not instruction.

Reviewing the compulsory jurisdiction question, as Badenoch has now asked her Shadow Attorney General Lord Wolfson KC to do, is not radical. It is overdue. A country that keeps discovering, ruling by ruling, that decisions it never agreed to are being enforced against it anyway is a country that has stopped governing itself and started merely hoping the next advisory opinion doesn't cost it another few billion pounds.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 BREAKING: THE MASK HAS COMPLETELY SLIPPED ON LABOUR'S NATIONALISATION PLAN.

Rachel Reeves has just gone on live television to save her own career, refusing to admit that stripping winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners was a mistake. 🤡

But while she was busy warning Andy Burnham that "governing is hard," Burnham's top economic adviser, Miatta Fahnbulleh, let their true agenda slip.

She openly admitted that Labour's plan is to seize "public control" of your housing, your energy, your water, and your transport.

They spent 2 years taxing you to the highest levels in peacetime history and running the country into the ground.

Now, they are going to use the economic crisis they created to nationalise your life’s essentials and build a full-scale socialist state.

They want to empty your pockets, control your home, and completely dictate how you live.

Starmer might be packing his bags, but the uniparty is preparing a far-left takeover of our entire country.

RT to warn the nation and demand a General Election NOW! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 BREAKING: THE EU JUST PASSED "CHAT CONTROL" TO SCAN PRIVATE MESSAGES.

The European Parliament has just pushed through the highly controversial Chat Control 1.0 legislation. 🤡

They deliberately held a surprise vote on the very last day before summer recess, knowing many MEPs had already gone home, meaning a proposal to block the law fell just short of the 361 votes needed!

This new law allows Big Tech companies to scan all of your private messages, with Chat Control 2.0 already being prepped to make message-scanning mandatory for every citizen.

And if you want to know what is coming to Britain next, look directly at the incoming Prime Minister.

This is the exact same digital panopticon Andy Burnham is desperate to align us with.

His secret plans to restrict VPNs and enforce social media bans are designed to perfectly match this European surveillance model.

They want to destroy your basic privacy, monitor your private family chats, and build a synchronized digital prison across the UK and the Continent.

RT to warn the country and demand we stay completely OUT of their globalist surveillance state! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 I TOLD YOU! AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN HIDING THE PLOT ANYMORE.

Good morning to the millions of everyday Brits waking up to the ultimate betrayal of our democracy!

Andy Burnham has not even set foot inside Downing Street yet, and his very first major policy announcement is to beg Brussels for a speedy deal to drag us back under EU rules. 🤡

He literally stood at a podium and declared that his new relationship with the EU is not up for negotiation.

They want to use his incoming premiership to quietly scrap our Brexit red lines, bring back free movement, and hand our laws back to European judges!

We are talking about the complete surrender of our borders to the EU, which means letting the massive Albanian gangs and European mafia syndicates walk straight onto our streets with zero checks.

They want to turn our proud, independent country into a completely passive vassal state of Brussels just to satisfy their own globalist obsessions.

I warned you this was their master plan, and they are now openly admitting it to the foreign press.

RT if you see right through this uniparty scam and demand we stay completely OUT of the EU! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 BREAKING: WESTMINSTER DEMOCRACY HAS OFFICIALLY COLLAPSED.

You do not have to be a fan of Nigel Farage to see how incredibly corrupt our political system has become under Labour.

Farage has just resigned his seat in Parliament to trigger an immediate "people versus the establishment" by-election in Clacton.

The press conference he just gave exposed a terrifying level of state and media corruption.

He revealed how the establishment media literally targeted his family by publishing his daughter's home address, exposing her to targeted harassment.

He faces daily death threats that the police completely ignore, all while the state quietly slashed his security funding by 70%. 💷

Even worse, he exposed how the Labour uniparty keeps changing the election and donation rules just to crush their political rivals.

This is not a democracy. This is a system where the ruling party uses the state, the media, and two-tier policing to intimidate and silence anyone who opposes them.

If they can use these authoritarian tactics against a prominent MP, they can do it to any everyday citizen who dares to speak out.

RT to expose this corrupt Labour regime and demand our country back! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 I TOLD YOU! AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN HIDING THE ALIGNMENT ANYMORE.

I wrote to you just this morning exposing Andy Burnham's secret plans to restrict and ban VPNs across the UK.

And look at the absolute shock. Brussels has just announced the exact same digital prison for Europe. 🤡

The EU Commission has officially unveiled a new age verification system requiring a digital passport just to access the internet.

They explicitly stated that their new system cannot be bypassed using VPNs, with the EU Parliament's own think-tank describing VPNs as a dangerous loophole that must be closed.

They told you the UK's "EU reset" was about lowering your household bills and helping small businesses.

It was a complete and coordinated lie.

It is about quietly aligning our laws with Brussels to build a massive, synchronized digital cage across the UK and the Continent.

Once they control your digital access, they control your speech, your information, and your freedom.

RT to warn the country and demand we stay completely OUT of their globalist prison! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 DID YOU NOTICE THAT EVERY SINGLE ESTABLISHMENT BETRAYAL IS SUDDENLY "FOR THE KIDS"?

Good evening to the millions of everyday, hardworking Brits who are completely sick to the back teeth of being lied to by the establishment!

We all read how former Labour leader Neil Kinnock is now begging you to rejoin the EU, claiming you must "do it for the kids." 🤡

Have you noticed how every single thing they want to force on our country is suddenly wrapped in this pathetic emotional shield?

Banning social media and forcing you onto a mandatory Digital ID? They claim it is for the kids.

Surrendering your laws and borders to unelected Brussels bureaucrats? Kinnock says do it for the kids.

They will use children as human shields to track your phone and crawl back to the EU, but they completely refuse to protect your daughters from actual predators on your streets.

The public sees right through this sick double standard.

RT if you are completely done with their lies and demand a General Election! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Manchester Model is also the Miliband Model

David Miliband joined the advisory board of Giant Ventures in September 2020. Five months earlier, his brother Ed had become Keir Starmer's shadow energy secretary. Giant Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm with a declared focus on green technology. Its portfolio includes Field, a battery storage company, and Beams, a green home renovation platform. Both stand to profit directly from the energy policies Ed Miliband now controls as Secretary of State.

Less than three weeks after Labour's election victory, Ed Miliband personally signed the Capacity Market Amendment Rules 2024. The document is technical. Its effect is not. Battery storage firms, including Field, benefited from rule changes that reduced the performance obligations previously required of contracted operators. Field had been a Giant Ventures investment since 2021. David Miliband was a paid adviser to Giant Ventures when his brother signed that document. Giant Ventures refused to disclose his remuneration. The firm's other advisory board members, including Lord Browne, record the position in their register of interests as remunerated employment.

The Ministerial Code requires newly appointed ministers to declare all interests that give rise to a conflict, including those of close family members. It requires them to avoid not merely actual conflicts but the perception of one. When both the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and the Cabinet Office were asked whether Ed had declared his brother's role at Giant Ventures, both refused to comment. When the department was pressed further, its spokesperson confirmed only that the List of Ministers' Interests would be published "in due course." Giant Ventures declined to comment. David Miliband did not respond. That silence is the story.

Ed Miliband's department has also paid over one million pounds in public contracts to Verian Group, a research and communications firm whose board includes David Miliband, appointed as non-executive director in April 2023. The contracts funded work on public attitudes to Net Zero and secondary heating behaviours. The department's defence is that Verian has provided services to DESNZ for many years and the relationship predates the current Secretary of State. That may be true of the contract history. It does not address why neither department would confirm a declaration had been made, or why a minister whose brother sits on a contractor's board continued to approve payments to that contractor.

The pattern matters because it has a twin.

Andy Burnham governed Greater Manchester for eight years on a platform of clean transport and green infrastructure. His wife, Marie-France van Heel, joined Be.EV as chief marketing officer in July 2023, was promoted to chief customer officer in July 2024, and was appointed to the board of directors in September 2024. Be.EV holds a public contract with Transport for Greater Manchester to operate the city's electric vehicle charging network, a contract awarded in 2019. She holds 252 shares in Iduna Infrastructure, Be.EV's parent company, and is a beneficiary of a long-term incentive plan tied to the firm's commercial growth. Greater Manchester is now tendering a new £166 million EV charging contract. Burnham declares his wife's role. He steps back from relevant decisions. The paperwork is in order, which is precisely the point.

In both cases the politician sets the policy direction. In both cases a family member holds a financial stake in the commercial sector that policy governs. In both cases the defence is procedural. Declaration filed. Recusal noted. Nothing to see.

Britain is being asked to take the Manchester Model national and trust its architect with Downing Street. Before it decides, it should understand what compliance permits. A conflict of interest that has been registered is not a conflict of interest that has been resolved. It is a conflict of interest with a paper trail.

[Jon Whycer @jonwhycer]

#CatalanReferendum The EU's silence = endorsement of violence to control it's citizens. Warning for the future for all.

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