judy welch

[@saveoldmaltoncountryside 🍃💚🍃 @saveoldmaltonc1]

Our last harvest from these fields.@AngelaRayner accepted this scheme would cause “irreversible detriment” to our farming business and a significant impact on our family.
Permission was granted nonetheless.
Our last harvest. The consequence of a policy decision. 😢

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

While Andy Burhnham distracts you with Tiktoks about crisps, to a fawning media establishment, he is quietly briefing the Guardian that he will U-turn on the retrospective reforms to Indefinite Leave to Remain.

This will mean the WHOLE Boriswave of 4 million non-EU unskilled migrants will get to stay and get lifetime access to our welfare state in the next few years.

Do you understand what’s happening?

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Why are Labour ministers not asked *every single day* about the boat migrants?

Why is it not the sole focus of our media???

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary.

This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing a ministerial red box. Miatta Fahnbulleh has failed upward through every level of British public life, leaving wreckage at each step, and now she holds your energy security in her hands while the Serious Fraud Office investigates the last scheme she touched.

Stop calling it governance. Start seeing it for what it is: a protection racket where the connected destroy, confess, and climb.

THE ARRESTS

April 2026. The Serious Fraud Office raided offices across England. Four arrests. Three companies Warmfront, JJ Crump, South Coast Insulation Services accused of stealing £44 million from the ECO4 scheme. Falsified claims. Ghost installations. Vulnerable families left with damaged homes while contractors pocketed taxpayer cash.

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown called it what it was: a "charlatan's charter."

Fahnbulleh didn't inherit this mess. She owned it. As Energy Consumer Minister, she was responsible for oversight. She admitted to Parliament it was "systemic failure" her own words after 30,000 homes had already been botched. After thousands of fraudulent claims had already been processed. After the damage was done.

She promised monitoring. She promised repair. She promised Ofgem would contact victims.

Then the SFO moved in.

In any functioning society, a minister whose scheme triggered a £44 million fraud investigation would be finished. In Britain 2026, she gets promoted.

THE PEDIGREE

To understand how we got here, follow the bloodline.

Miatta Fahnbulleh was born in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1979. Her father, Henry Boimah Fahnbulleh Jr., served as Foreign Minister to Samuel Doe the military dictator who seized power in a 1980 coup, executed the sitting president, and presided over mass killings and torture. Dad wasn't a prisoner. He was the regime's top diplomat for three years.

Her brother? Named Gamal after Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian revolutionary who overthrew a monarchy and nationalized industries.

Her grandfather? Convicted of treason in 1968 for plotting to overthrow the Liberian government.

The pattern is not subtle. This is a family that serves regimes, plots revolutions, and names its children after insurrectionists. When the Doe regime turned on them in 1986, they fled to England and claimed asylum. The British state saved them. Forty years later, the daughter of a dictator's minister controls Britain's energy supply.

She attended Beechwood Sacred Heart School fee-paying, Catholic, elite. Then Oxford. Then LSE. The socialist who demands wealth taxes enjoyed private education while prescribing comprehensive schooling for your children.

But the credentials aren't the point. The ideology is.

She calls herself a "heterodox economist." This is not modesty. It is a warning. She explicitly rejects free market economics. She embraces state intervention, public ownership, and radical redistribution. In 2019, she wrote in Foreign Affairs that Britain should hit Net Zero by 2034 eleven years to decarbonize an entire economy funded by "wealth taxes and extra borrowing."

The Spectator was kind. They called it "posturing." It was delusion.

As CEO of the New Economics Foundation described by critics as "far Left" and "anti-growth" she proposed a "rising block tariff" that would punish larger families and people with bigger homes. Industry sources called it "a truly, truly dreadful idea." Claire Coutinho, Shadow Energy Secretary, said Fahnbulleh had "drunk even more of the green lobby Kool-Aid than Ed Miliband."

This is the woman now setting your energy bills.

THE PATTERN

Everywhere Fahnbulleh goes, systems collapse.

The Constituency Ghost. Elected MP for Peckham in July 2024. Failed to open a constituency office for over a year. No surgeries. No face-to-face access. She blamed her £39,560 IPSA budget and "security prerequisites." Every other MP manages these constraints. She was too busy being a minister. Too busy plotting. The people of Peckham were an afterthought.

The Winter Fuel Betrayal. September 2024. She voted to end universal winter fuel payments for pensioners. Previously, all elderly households received £200–£300 for energy bills. The new policy restricted payments to those on Pension Credit anyone earning over £218.15 per week was cut off.

She voted for this in Peckham. One of London's most deprived areas. Sixty-four thousand elderly people in fuel poverty, represented by an MP who called the cut "tough" while drawing her ministerial salary.

The Company. FAHNBULLEH LIMITED. Company number 07906000. Dissolved. She was director of a private company that vanished into the registry with no transparency, no explanation, no accountability. Just another shell in the portfolio of a woman who demands public ownership while obscuring her own financial interests.

The Hypocrisy. January 2026. Nigel Farage raised concerns about illegal working in Turkish barbershops businesses that were literally being raided by immigration enforcement. Fahnbulleh accused him of "dog-whistle racism." The facts didn't matter. The optics did. This is her method: cry racism, ignore reality, advance the career.

THE BLADE

May 12, 2025. The day she showed her truest self.

Fahnbulleh resigned from the government. Not over policy. Not over principle. She resigned to trigger a leadership crisis.

She stood before cameras and demanded Starmer set a timetable for an "orderly transition." She said Labour had not governed with the "vision, pace and ambition that our mandate for change demands of us." She criticized the Prime Minister for "decisions that have eroded public trust."

The statement was devastating because it was public. Calculated. Premeditated. Politico reported she "kick-started the rebellion that eventually brought him down." She fired the starting gun on Starmer's collapse.

Then came the rehabilitation. Six weeks later, Andy Burnham her ally, her patron appointed her Housing Minister. July 2026, she was promoted to Energy Secretary. The woman who destroyed the last leader was rewarded with one of the great offices of state.

This is not loyalty. This is not conviction. This is careerism so naked it should be indecent.

THE NETWORK

She is not alone. She is the product of a machine.

The New Economics Foundation is part of the Fabian ecosystem. She contributed to Fabian Society publications, co-writing "The economic alternative" with Alfie Stirling in 2019. It called for transforming institutions to deliver a Green New Deal. It demanded state intervention in markets.

The Fabian method is "permeation" inserting socialist ideas into every institution until they become the unquestioned default. She is the permeation made flesh.

She is also the protégé of Ed Miliband. She served as his economics adviser during his failed leadership. Described as the "brains" behind his agenda. Now she serves under him again two failures propping each other up while the country pays the price.

Guido Fawkes compiled her actual policy demands: wealth taxes, mass nationalisation of land/transport/energy, extending national insurance to investment income, caps on interest rates. This is not regulation. This is confiscation.

The Scottish Tories know it. In July 2026, they wrote demanding she scrap the windfall tax and ditch Net Zero 2034, calling it "strategically mad." Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce demanded a "fresh approach" and approval for Jackdaw and Rosebank oil projects.

She refused. She will always refuse. Because she does not serve the national interest. She serves an ideology.

THE CONVERGENCE

Now the threads meet.

The daughter of a dictator's minister whose brother is named after a revolutionary, whose grandfather was convicted of treason now controls Britain's energy security.

The "heterodox economist" who rejects markets now sets market policy.

The minister who admitted "systemic failure" while 30,000 families lived with botched insulation now oversees the entire sector.

The woman whose scheme triggered a £44 million SFO investigation now holds the red box.

The MP who voted to strip winter fuel from pensioners in one of London's poorest constituencies now decides your winter heating costs.

The traitor who triggered Starmer's downfall now sits in Cabinet.

This is not coincidence. This is design. The British state is being captured by a network of ideologues who failed upward through institutional decay, who mistake their credentials for competence and their connections for mandate.

THE QUESTION

The father served a dictator who executed his predecessor.

The daughter serves an ideology that would dismantle the economy that rescued her.

Both are dangerous. Both leave wreckage.

The SFO investigation is ongoing. The £44 million is gone. The botched insulation remains in 30,000 homes. The pensioners still shiver.

And Miatta Fahnbulleh dissolved company director, constituency ghost, heterodox zealot, regicide now controls your energy security.

The question is not who she is.

The question is: how much more does she have to destroy before the system stops rewarding her?

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

African bushmeat is being increasingly smuggled into Britain.

Wild animals like monkeys, sharks, antelopes, and goats.

Retailers find their customers through social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. They do home delivery to postcodes in London.

The meat is often brought in on passenger flights in suitcases. 

More than 11 kg of illegal bushmeat was recently seized in South-East London. 

Much of the meat comes from critically endangered species, slaughtered with no restrictions whatsoever. 

And with no health checks, it carries high risks of diseases like Ebola, tuberculosis, and anthrax. 

British farmers have warned that the trade presents a biosecurity threat with “the potential to devastate the livestock farming sector and destroy the wider rural economy". 

I’m not sure when monkey became a delicacy in this country.

This is the Britain the Tories and Labour have created.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged roughly 300,000 years ago during the Pleistocene, when CO₂ cycled between 180 and 300 ppm (recorded in ice cores).

Yet our broader ancestral tree traces back 25 million years to the warm Miocene, when Old World Monkeys and early hominids diverged in an atmosphere hovering around 400–500 ppm.

Today’s level of 426 ppm is not an unprecedented planetary ceiling; it's a return to an atmospheric baseline where complex primate life originally flourished. Human biology handles these levels effortlessly.

Commercial greenhouses regularly enrich air to 1,200 ppm to accelerate crop yields, while US Navy submarines maintain safety limits up to 5,000 ppm.

Furthermore, Earth’s biosphere is still recovering from glacial cycles so severe they carved out North America's Great Lakes. Geologically, we remain in an ice age, enjoying a warm holiday-style interglacial — the Holocene.

During the Last Glacial Maximum, CO₂ plunged to 190 ppm — perilously close to the 150 ppm threshold where many plants face photosynthetic shutdown.

CO₂ is not a pollutant and it's life-giving role in the biosphere has been cruelly exaggerated. It's the fundamental building block of the global food chain, and the historical data proves it's a catalyst for life, not a pollutant.

At 426 ppm, the planet has rebounded from that ecological bottleneck, evidenced by NASA satellites documenting a sustained global expansion of green foliage.

The world isn't choking; it's breathing a sigh of relief.

IMAGE: Rainforest thriving in far north Queensland.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

There was no word for what this woman did. So Britain had to make one. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

Mary Somerville's whole schooling was 1 year, at a girls' boarding school in Musselburgh. She left it feeling, in her own words, like a wild animal escaped out of a cage.

After that she taught herself, from the family shelves, by candles they tried to take away. The spark was a puzzle on the back page of a friend's fashion magazine, numbers mixed in with letters. Nobody she asked could explain it. It was algebra, and she wanted more. Custom stopped a woman buying such books, so her brother's tutor bought her Euclid. She worked through it alone, line by line. By 1811 she had taught herself enough to win a silver medal for mathematics.

Then she took on Laplace's Mecanique Celeste, the mathematics of the heavens, in French. Asked to translate it for British readers she did far more. She rebuilt the mathematics inside it, and in 1831 The Mechanism of the Heavens went to print. Cambridge set it in front of its own students. 📜

In 1834 she joined the sciences together. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, light, tides and magnetism, in one book anyone could read. It sold and sold. And it broke open the English language.

The Cambridge professor William Whewell sat down to review it, and no single word covered what she did. Man of science would not do. One had been floated, half in jest, at a science meeting the year before. His review of her book put it into print for the first time. 🔥

Scientist.

The first person the word ever described in print was a Scotswoman with 1 year of school.

A year on, she and Caroline Herschel became the Royal Astronomical Society's first women Honorary Members. 🏛️ Her pages on the wobble in Uranus's orbit helped point John Couch Adams at the hunt that found Neptune in 1846. She mentored a young Ada Lovelace and introduced her to Charles Babbage. In 1866 John Stuart Mill put her name first on his petition to Parliament for women's votes. Oxford named a college for her. And since 2017 her face has sat on the Royal Bank of Scotland's £10 note, printed beside a line from the book that needed a new word.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

1 year of school. A puzzle in a magazine. And a word the whole world uses.

Her word is still in your mouth. Stand a little taller when you say it.

We are the home of British heroes.
There is a place for you with them.

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Chris Packham went on Gogglebox last week, watched the cartoon at the start of Clarkson's Farm, and announced that most farms are horrible monocultures sprayed with deadly chemicals, the ground pumped full of fertiliser, the animals indoors in crates being crushed and kept in the dark.

A cartoon. Not a farm, not a documentary. The little illustrated title sequence.

Clarkson replied in his Sun column and it is the best two hundred words he has written in years. He called Packham endlessly angry. He noted that the man had erupted in blind fury at the Winnie the Pooh-ish opening credits of a television programme. He pointed out, patiently, that it was a drawing.

Then he dropped the actual grenade.

Packham has been to Diddly Squat. In 2012. He drove there, on purpose, to look at the birds and do a bit of foraging.

Sit with that one.

The naturalist who tells a primetime audience that British farms are lifeless, poisoned industrial monocultures once picked a British farm as the place to go and enjoy the wildlife. And to gather food off the ground. Voluntarily. For pleasure.

If the fields are sprayed dead, what were the birds doing there.

And if the animals were indoors in crates in the dark, you would think he might have raised it at the time, rather than waiting fourteen years and bringing it up on a sofa while looking at a cartoon.

He has doubled down on Instagram since, with a graphic about glyphosate and pig housing, asking whether it is really all happy smiley down on the farm. Which is a fair question to put to a farm. It is a strange question to put to an illustration.

Here is the part that should genuinely annoy people.

Clarkson's Farm has explained British agriculture to the British public better than every campaign, report and documentary of the last twenty years put together. Subsidies, weather, supermarket margins, the lot.

Packham had the platform to join that conversation.

He used it to lose an argument with the title sequence.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Someone explain this to me slowly, because I'm clearly the idiot here.

We plant a Mediterranean nut in a Californian desert. It doesn't rain there, so we drain a ten-thousand-year-old aquifer until the ground itself sinks a foot a year and whole towns get shorter. The trees can't fight off fungus, so we spray the lot. They can't pollinate themselves, so every February we truck thirty billion bees across a continent and let a fair share of them die in the crush. Then we chill the harvest and sail it six thousand miles to Britain, where it rains constantly and always has, to be blitzed with water and gums and sold to you at £2.40 a carton with a green leaf on the side.

That is the environmentally friendly option.

Twelve miles down the road there's a bloke with cattle in a field. Rain falls on the hill. Grass drinks it. Cow eats grass. Nothing pumped, sprayed, chilled or shipped. No bees died. Her entire supply chain is weather.

That is the planetary emergency.

And it'll be explained to you by someone holding a carton of desert water, wearing a fleece made of crude oil.

Asking for the cow. She's been very patient about it.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

MEET JONATHAN REYNOLDS. THE MAN NOW IN CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE BRITISH ECONOMY.

This is the UK's new Business Secretary. He has never run a business. He has never even worked for one. 🤡

He knows absolutely nothing about risk taking, entrepreneurship, or meeting a payroll.

He has never had to hire staff, remortgage his house to provide working capital, or skip his own salary so his employees could have theirs!

In fact, he could not even manage to finish his basic training to become a solicitor. Yet the Westminster elite think he is qualified to dictate how British businesses are run!

How can we expect our economy to grow when the people running it have never spent a single day in the private sector? They are career politicians who have spent their entire lives living off the taxpayer.

RT if you are completely sick of clueless career politicians running our country into the ground! 🇬🇧🔥

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Over the past three decades, Labour and the Tories have imported tens of millions of people to Britain.

They told us it was necessary for economic growth. 

To pay for our pensions. 

To do the jobs ‘Brits wouldn't do’.

But the data tells a completely different story.

48% of social housing in London is headed by someone born overseas.

This costs the taxpayer £3.6 BILLION a year in rent discounts alone.

What's more, 35% of working age social housing tenants born overseas are unemployed - and yet still receive free accommodation in some of the most desirable postcodes on earth.

Almost a quarter of housing in London is social housing. That includes 28% in Westminster, and 42% in Islington.

Think of what we’ve lost.

The careers, relationships, and families that never got off the ground, all because our political elite took housing that should have been available to Brits and handed it to foreign nationals instead.

The British people have been made second-tier citizens in their own country.

ENOUGH.

Under a Reform government, foreign nationals living in social housing will fail our economic test and will be deported.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The Government has committed £21.7 billion to early stage “carbon capture”.

Catching unicorns level of insanity. We are led by madmen.

Let’s redirect some of that vast sum to reducing energy bills.

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

"I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."

— J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[Robert Abel @rj_abel]

Let me get this straight.
An unelected PM with no mandate.
A Deputy PM convicted of fraud.
A Housing Secretary who failed to pay tax.
An Education Secretary who called child exploitation a “dog whistle”.
And a Defence Secretary with no military experience !

Hold Tight ! 🤨

[Will Kingston @WillKingston]

There are 28 ministers in the new Cabinet. This is the sum total of their private sector experience:
- Louise Haigh: Three years in a middle management role at Aviva. Ended in a fraud conviction.
- Andy Burnham: Three years in a small publishing business after university.

That’s it… A team with no business, finance or management experience is running a £3 trillion economy. I’ll explain just how screwed we are on @PatrickChristys Tonight. 9pm @GBNEWS.

[Andrew Lawrence @andrewlawrence]

A fraud convict, a tax dodger, a Liberian communist and mad Ed Miliband. Burnham has assembled not a cabinet, but a rogues' gallery. Couldn't be much worse if someone had just emptied an asylum into Downing Street.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, Burnham has appointed:

- a Housing Secretary who “resigned” in disgrace from the same job because she couldn’t even pay the correct stamp duty on her 2nd house

- a previously sacked convicted fraudster who will be in charge of ethics in the Cabinet Office

- a Business Secretary that had to apologise to parliament over misleading CV statements

- a Chancellor who couldn’t count how many frigates we had in our fleet when he was defence secretary

- a Defence Secretary with no military experience (despite multiple ex-servicemen available)

So much for the “hope” vibes.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed our dear friend Ann Widdecombe was eating lunch when Joshua Kerry allegedly arrived at her house and entered through the front door.

He then allegedly hit her on the head with a hammer 21 times.

Before allegedly driving off.

Why did the police and Keir Starmer tell Nigel Farage it was a “burglary gone wrong”?

The authorities had better preserve all files and records.

As Home Secretary in a Reform government I will take a keen interest in all communications in those initial hours.

I will ensure the public learns the truth.

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

The details of Ann Widdecombe’s murder revealed in court are horrific.

Why will no one report on Joshua Kerry’s political views?

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Andy Burnham’s rules:

Boris receiving a Fixed Penalty Notice = Resign!

Rishi receiving a Fixed Penalty Notice = Resign!

Louise Haigh with a conviction for fraud = Welcome back to the cabinet!

Different leader. Same hypocrisy.