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[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

This should be illegal to do when there is a deficit. In fact, deficits should be illegal in general. Politicians should not be able to put debt upon our children.

It should also be illegal to increase taxes greater than say 35% of GDP.

[Tim CB @balmer_tim]

There is not a single country that has not regretted taking Palestinians in. Whether it is those with cultural, ethnic and religious connections or those without any. They have been a blight everywhere.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Well, that was sneaky wasn’t it? … Labours budget will mean MORE migration not less, as they promised!

Remember they said last year in their immigration paper “Salary thresholds will rise,”?

And also promised to reduce the Graduate visa from two years to 18 months?

Er … in the budget they have lowered the salary threshold and raised the graduate visa back to 2 years.

So we’re not reducing immigration or dependence on cheap foreign workers. They changed their minds and hoped you wouldn’t notice.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The Gherkins Budget had nothing for ordinary, hard-working families.
Labour bunged £100 energy “breathing space” to those on benefits and “poorer people”.
Thanks to Labour, middle earners increasingly are the poorer people!
Cost of living is hammering homes where both parents work.
Life in the UK should be much better than this - it’s a struggle.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

And don’t forget all the unelected civil servant quangos run by left leaning activists who are in situ regardless of which government is in power. Making ministers unaccountable. But also impossible to make radical changes. Just like deferring to the EU. Its the organised, long term, well planned, erosion of uk democracy

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Agree. I'm in a rural area with 2 broadband services and today my signal was dropping all the time

Cell signal is worse

If you need a phone for safety ie you have medical needs or are vulnerable in some way you need reliable comms without having to fork out for Starlink

[Frank Wright @frankwrighter]

Our liberal-consumer economy relies on the supply of unlimited migrants. Other policies of the permanent liberal state have made it nigh impossible to buy a home, raise a family or build your own business, and the presence of these New Europeans drives wages down and social costs up.

Liberal interventionist foreign policy has delivered profit to the ruling elites and a domestic cost of living crisis to the ruled, to which its own insane ideology permits no solution but deeper debts, propaganda headlines and all out war.

To rescue Britain and the rest of the West from this death machine of monetised destruction, degradation, dependency and replacement requires a rebalancing of the economy and the politics it produces - so that they are for and not against the long term interests of our people, who are the nation.

This cannot be done by refusing to tell the truth about the state we are in. The ship of liberal globalism is sinking. We do not have to go down with it. The time for real change is now, and with the political will to make it, we will @RestoreBritain

[sandieshoes 🇬🇧 @sandieshoes]

The OBR Destroys the Growth Narrative.

The independent budget watchdog the OBR  - just dropped its official verdict. 

It’s a total disaster for John Healey.

The OBR says the big hikes to the National Living Wage and the new Employment Rights Act will actively hit British jobs.

Here are their exact warnings..
The new worker laws will have a direct “negative economic impact.”

Businesses face “increased uncertainty, lost flexibility, and higher labour costs.”

The OBR states these heavy new burdens will “more than offset”any rise in productivity.

The Chancellor can talk about growth all day long, but his own watchdog said the maths fails. 

They are piling costs onto local businesses, making it harder to hire, and slowing down the country.

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

This idea was, of course, never a runner... 👇

There is no provision for "associate membership" in the EU Treaties, and the earlier suggestions from both Carney and von der Leyen bemused most EU officials... 🤷‍♂️

(But of course, that didn't stop the usual suspects in the UK from jumping all over this 😉)

[Irene 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇲👑🚜🚜🚜 @HakunaMatata26C]

This is suicide for Labour. Gazans hate the Jews, they've been brought up to think that way.... this will not end well.
We don't want them here!

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

🌹LABOUR'S BREXIT BENEFIT BUDGET🌹

In the #Budget2026 yesterday, Labour announced lots of changes that they said would provide breathing room for the British people, against the global headwinds hitting the pound in their pockets.

But how many were thanks to Brexit? ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Have they tried taxing them more?

[June Slater @juneslater17]

Wes Streeting — our let's-get-you-to accept war minister — is against sovereignty. He's pro EU.

After Uni, he's worked in the charity sector.
He is against Sovereignty he is pro EU.
A career politician. Never lifted anything heavier than a kettle and now he's talking war.

War goes hand in hand with death, but it's a death he will never face. He'll be suited and booted, served tea in a china cup, he'll wear a crisp suit, and he'll be smell of cologne, whilst mothers potentially open letters about their sons who died on some unpronounceable battlefield in a land they have no allegiance to and will never see.

As the body count rises because our inept political class have neither the skill nor the decency to talk about peace, more taxes will disappear and the industrial military complex will see rising profits, as Wes stays immaculately groomed telling the nation how proud he is from some warm TV studio, being interviewed by some anchor with zero skin in the game except their salary and bonuses.

Gone are the days of John Wayne propaganda movies glamourising fake heroes.

Are we really picking a fight with a superpower with a defunct navy a depleted army and an air force so diminished it looks like it's been shrink wrapped, whilst simultaneously giving our best defence, the US, the cold shoulder?

Does this party in government who have denounced our sovereignty expect you to risk death for it?

Prosecuting veterans who were following orders whilst expecting them to be ready to be called up again. Many suspect they'd even go to these lengths to stop a general election.

How do mortgages get paid whilst the breadwinners are away fighting for someone else's country? Are we sitting ducks in the face of one of two things? Enormous incompetence or deliberate destruction, financially and structurally?

It's my belief these morally bankrupt individuals who sit out of harm's way are devoid of the intelligence to bring about peace.

They're right to a degree about the threat of invasion. It happens most days on our beaches and in our ports
Our only defence is the weather.

Soaring taxes fuel and energy prices, but money for war.
I think we have the technology, we have the structure for a better life than this. We just don't have the political will to implement it .

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

What's racist today? Today, a poster depicting a bald white man as a terrorist on London's public transport is racist, because people thought it was a hijabi.

The history of terror attacks on London's public transport features more Muslims than bald white men. Telling the truth is a hate crime because reality is racist.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

For a Labour Chancellor to declare during a Scrooge Budget in which a painful year is promised to his own people that he had “made the day” of a foreign leader by handing him an EXTRA £10 Billion desperately needed at home is such a cognitive dissonance as to be scarcely believable. That NOBODY in the House protested renders it a rubber-stamp assembly of a kind simply unrecognisable to a long-standing parliamentarian like me.

[Rebecca Butler @rebeccabutlerm2]

Oh purrrleeease.
Women with penises?
We don’t forget.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Probably the truest words spoken in Westminster today.

Britain is close to collapse “under the weight of welfare”.

So said Kemi Badenoch.

How true.

The public gets it.

Taxpayers get it.

The bond markets get it.

Snake Oil "Pandy" Burnham and Two Faced Healey don't.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The United Nations bureaucracy and it's global media echo chamber have manufactured a permanent state of climate weather alarm.

This climate narrative did not emerge in a vacuum; it was driven by a massive, self-perpetuating global apparatus. The World Meteorological Organization is often seen as a neutral referee, but it is far from impartial. The WMO became a specialised UN agency in 1951, and it operates on an annual budget of roughly $138.7 million with a staff of 350 to 400.

Rather than serving as a passive or reliable coordinator of daily weather data, it is the central public relations engine for a global strategy rooted in alarmism. This institution sits within an even broader framework: the United Nations itself, with an annual budget of $3.45 billion and a workforce of approximately 190,000.

Arguably the biggest non-governmental network in the world, the UN spent decades laying the groundwork for an environmental emergency before officially launching the narrative in 1988. That same year, the WMO and the UN Environment Programme co-founded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - the institutional core tasked with synthesising meteorological observations into an ongoing, bubbling crisis.

Together, this triad forms an unbroken line of influence:
The WMO bridges meteorological data with international political agendas. The IPCC relies on selective, distorted frameworks to shape the scientific consensus. The UN leverages the resulting narratives to push global policy and economic centralisation.

We see the output of this institutional framework every day on our screens and in our feeds. A global PR machine continuously feeds the public worst-case scenarios packaged in dramatic rhetoric: 'heat domes', 'bomb cyclones' and 'code red emergencies'.

The daily weather cycle has devolved into advertising junk that systematically ignores counter-balancing observations. Isobars on TV weather maps now glow in increasingly alarming shades of crimson to visually reinforce danger.

Meteorologists routinely overhype routine weather events by sticking to WMO and IPCC guidelines. Local news outlets and national meteorological agencies are thoroughly embedded in this UN ecosystem, steeped in high-alarm daily targets that prioritise speculative, worst-case computer models over real-world data.

[James Holland @James7Holland]

Astounding claim from this EU bubble journalist who believes it is EU’s “democratic values” that attracts Canada to it.

EU’s democratic deficit is infamous. Von der Leyen governs the EU executive for 7 years already, without anyone voting for her.

She passed suicidal environnemental policies during her first term that are decimating Europe’s competitiveness.

Her disastrous diplomatic record means war and bankruptcy now plagues many European nations.

When the voters responded accordingly and chose politicians critical of her reign in the 2024 EU elections, her political and media allies in Brussels tried to immediately place many of these politicians outside a “sanitary cordon”, entrenching the deeply undemocratic notion that some representatives of the people were somehow “unclean” and should therefore never be engaged with, despite them receiving millions of votes from EU citizens!

I could go on, but my point is hopefully made. The EU is so very far from being a healthy democracy, and media propaganda attempting to hide this dire situation does the EU no favours. The project will collapse if this isn’t addressed soon.

[Stephen Phillips 💻 @uk_sf_writer]

There's a reason why this Labour party is more dangerous to the economy that most:
🚨It's stuffed full of far-left activists, who've never had a real job and don't understand economics; &
🚨They hide behind a plausible, but totally out-of-his-depth, leader.
https://t.co/AX9g87S5YZ