john monaghan

very proud dad and granddad, average golfer and season ticket follower of the mighty whites leeds! leeds! leeds! MOT

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

🔴Day 1,741 of Afghan women being denied the right to an education.

2.2 million women and girls have been affected and the world remains silent.

#Afghanistan #Letwomenlearn

[Progressive Misogyny @JustMisogyny]

BREAKING: Scottish Parliament unveils new signage for approximately one third of staff

[Annabel Denham @AnnabelDenham1]

Bridget Phillipson's record as education secretary:

1) Over 100 private schools have closed, needlessly disrupting the education of thousands of children.
2) Universities are on the brink of a funding crisis.
3) So is the early years sector, after the Government expanded "free" childcare with no clue how to pay for it.
4) The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act undermines freedoms that have been pivotal to many schools' success. Academies must now adhere to the national curriculum. New free schools discouraged.
5) Latin funding was cut halfway through the academic year.
6) £300m of taxpayer money has been committed, annually, towards "free" universal breakfast clubs instead of targeted support for pupils who need it most.
7) She once backed teachers working from home.
8) She tried to dump free speech protections for universities.
9) Claimed the government is recruiting more teachers when the total number fell by nearly 2,000 year on year.
10) Cried "sexism" when it was suggested that, because of her abysmal performance, she might lose her portfolio in a reshuffle.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

It is clearly no coincidence that the draft Conversion Practices Bill has been published almost simultaneously with the plan to press ahead with the puberty blockers trial. The expectation is presumably that opponents will be overstretched and unable to fight both effectively.

Gender identity activists always underestimate our strength and determination.

Big mistake!

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

In winter, the eco loons want us cold and poor.

In summer, they want us hot and poor.👇

Even if the U.K. gave up using energy entirely, lived in the dark, with no cars, computers or comfort, it would still make zero* difference to global warming…

…It would just kill a lot of people.

* estimated as 0.01C - ie negligible and unnoticeable

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

It’s a bit rich of the water companies in England threatening hosepipe bans after just a few warm days.

3 billion litres of water every single day is lost through neglected and leaking pipes — that’s roughly one-fifth of the water supply disappearing before it reaches taps.

Since privatisation in 1989, they’ve sold off at least 35 reservoirs for a £26 million profit, while building barely any new ones.

They lecture the public on “saving water” while their own crumbling network haemorrhages billions of litres daily and they asset-strip the very infrastructure needed for water security during dry weather spells.

Fix your leaks. Build new reservoirs. Then come back and talk about hosepipe bans.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Let me try to work out Phillipson and Labour logic:

✔️erroneously calling someone racist is absolutely fine because they’re a Tory.
❌ accurately calling out spite is nasty hurty words because they grew up on a council estate.

That’s how it works right?

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇺🇸🇬🇧 Bev Turner to President Trump:-

“Do you know about Andy Burnham (New UK PM)?”

Trump:- “I hear he’s Liberal - The UK is DYING”

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

🔴Day 1,740 of Afghan women being denied the right to education.

The Taliban regime continues to forbid girls an education beyond primary school level. Afghanistan is the only country in the world with strict bans on higher education for women. This has left women in the region with very few options.

You are not forgotten ❤️

#Afghanistan #Letwomenlearn

[Roger Mitchell @RPMComo]

I know the Tories over the last years have been an utter disgrace but I’d give this lady my vote.

I don’t trust Farage, and Rupert Lowe may be right but doesn’t transmit compassion to me. The Greens are commies and sharia law. Labour is utterly lost.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 WHAT THEY ARE DELIBERATELY HIDING FROM YOU.

The Labour establishment and the BBC are desperately trying to spin the economy, but look at the brutal reality they refuse to put on the evening news. 🤡

They brag about their "clean energy" revolution, but they do not tell you that foreign investment into Britain has just collapsed to a record low.

Inbound investment projects have plunged by a staggering 26% in a single year under Rachel Reeves's business tax raid. 💷

They do not tell you that Britain now has the fastest-rising unemployment rate in the entire G7 because companies are fleeing our shores.

They do not tell you that global investors are calling the UK completely uninvestable, with the owner of the Channel Tunnel scrapping all UK investment after a hostile 200% business rates hike.

While you pay record peacetime taxes to fund their bloated welfare state, they are actively driving away the private capital needed to keep our economy alive.

They are destroying our country's future and laughing at you on television.

RT to expose the true, hidden cost of Labour's tax disaster! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

The more I think about this the angrier I get - work your arse off to give loads of it away in tax. Do the responsible thing, save up - just to give loads of it away in tax. And what do you get to show for it? Just more people with their hand out, demanding more money from you.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨The government just voted down an attempt by the Conservative Party to cancel the puberty blockers trial.

Make no mistake about it, Labour are putting virtue signalling and ideology before the wellbeing of our most vulnerable children.

They bring shame upon our nation.

[Neil Clark @NeilClark66]

He seems to want the state pension to be means-tested. So we pay our NI contributions all our working lives only to be told ‘you don’t get a state pension because you own a house’.
We have to defeat these people who would have pensioners living in poverty simply because they own a property.

[Neil Clark @NeilClark66]

If @AndyBurnhamGM listens to his ‘advisers’ and starts his Premiership by axing the state pension triple lock it will show he has learnt nothing from the demise of Keir Starmer. Starmer never recovered from axing the Winter Fuel Payment for 10m pensioners in July 2024. Public outcry forced him and Reeves to reinstate but the damage was done. Politicians target pensioners at their peril.

[john monaghan @jusdowit]

He looked a good footballer at Leeds, but lazy. Give and go as Tuchel shouts! Spence doesn’t do the go bit unless he has the ball.

[Victoria 💙🤍💛 @MissVJFxx]

Barely picked for Leeds and was sent home and now he's at the World Cup .... fuck off. This team is shocking

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

NEW - MPs say Bridget Phillipson and Liz Kendall confronted Kemi Badenoch about her language at PMQs today where she called Phillipson "spiteful" which Kendall said was outrageous.
Badenoch reported to have said “I’m never going to stop talking about how spiteful you are”

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

Just heard this bloke @matthewsyed talking to Ian Collins on @TalkTV saying the triple lock is unaffordable and, he says, all politicians agree. Well Matthew, old chap, Nigel Farage doesn't agree. Reform have pledged to keep the triple lock and they'll save money by ditching a whole host of other things, inter alia:
Housing for migrants.
Benefits for migrants.
Net zero.
Foreign aid.

And we'll become a richer country by drilling in the North Sea and getting benefits claimants into work.

I swear to God all you so called journalists, political commentators and lefties won't rest until all pensioners are forced to live on 50 quid a week or have shuffled off this mortal coil.

Nasty bastards, the lot of you.

[Sandy Tregent @SandyofSuffolk]

They're out to get us. They really are.

Angry Andy Burnham's advisors have already told him to scrap the triple lock.

Are we surprised? No, not really. Because it seems all I've been hearing for months is lefty journalists, political commentators and the 'want everything for nothing' younger generation calling for the triple lock to be scrapped because, somehow, they mistakenly perceive everyone from the Silent and Boomer generations are living a champagne lifestyle.🙄

I don't know how they think £965 a month state pension is going to fund this champagne lifestyle when food inflation is so high and the UK's energy bills are the highest in Europe. But these people who appear to resent pensioners aren't very bright. They're just bitter and entitled. But why do they resent pensioners so much?

It's not our fault the country is in a mess. It's the fault of decades of inept politicians.

It's not our fault you young ones can't afford a house. What you don't realise is we went without meals to afford our mortgages when the interest rates were at 14%. We worked 70 hours doing two jobs. You're not unique.

It's not our fault the pension age is rising because of unaffordability. It's because politicians prefer to give our taxes away to the workshy, immigrants, net zero scams and to foreign lands.

The Silent Generation and the Boomers did their best. They scrimped and scraped to give their kids better than they had. They mended and darned clothes and let down hems rather than buying new. They made do with hand me down furniture. They only went out to dinner on birthdays and anniversaries. They only had one holiday a year. If they were lucky. They slept with ice inside their windows and only bathed once a week. They were grateful for one toy and an annual at Christmas. They didn't have washing machines and food delivered.

And for that life that was anything but luxurious, they're now the subject of vitriol from across the spectrum. They want the lives of pensioners to be miserable. And I don't know why.

To my American followers 🇺🇸 how are old people treated and regarded in your country? Because here in the UK, the Silent Generation and Boomers are treated abysmally. In mainland Europe it seems the elderly are looked after and respected. So what's gone wrong here in the UK?

It seems here 🇬🇧 they're out to get us. They really are. 😠

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Last night, of 487 “rainbow coalition” MPs just 4 voted against using children as Guinea pigs.

Well done to the 3 Labour and 1 Lib Dem who put children’s safety above trans ideology.

For the rest of the Labour, Lib, Green and SNP, you have betrayed our duty of care to minors. You have failed the most vulnerable.

Shame on you.