This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).
So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.
The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.
This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.
Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.
I have been married for 40 years now - four children, two grandchildren. The best decision was ever made was building our family. It is an appalling shame that so many British men and women feel unable to do the same for reasons outside of their control. My generation has spectacularly failed them all. We need to own up to that, and we need to fix it.
There is finally a pro-family political party that will reverse so much of the damage done - Restore Britain.
How?
Tax breaks for parents. Let working men and women keep more of what they earn to spend how they choose. This is THE most important policy above all else. Merge tax allowances for married couples. Trust families to spend their money, not the Government.
A Restore Britain Government will front-load child benefit. Pay more in the earlier years when the help is needed. Wouldnât cost a penny, but would mean that parents get help when they really need it buying prams, cots, nappies etc.
This would be exclusively for British children with one or two British parents.
Widen VAT exemptions for child-related items, and expand tax-deductible childcare costs.
Reducing tax obviously helps, but we need more - Restore Britain would make childcare fully tax deductible. All hours.
Regulation should be eased so that ratios arenât so strict, with more children per adult allowed. Encourage youngsters into childcare with proper bursaries, apprenticeships and so on. Tax incentives for more nurseries/pre-schools.
Foreign children with foreign parents would not be eligible for free childcare paid for by the taxpayer.
If a healthy Brit is on benefits and refuses to work? They will not receive free childcare. Youâve got the time, look after your child. Working parents should be given the help. Not the healthy indolent.
The two-child cap would be reinstated.
If you want more children but canât be bothered to work? Thatâs your problem, not the taxpayer.
Restore Britain will abolish stamp duty for British families (full policy coming soon). Priority on social housing lists. No foreign national families in social housing would free up an enormous amount of space for British men and women to build their family.
Restore Britain would overhaul spousal visas - British citizens should be able to raise their families in Britain with a foreign spouse, without being treated like criminals by the Home Office. This would be alongside the âred listâ to crush fraud. That is positive immigration, and should be welcomed. Restore Britain will welcome it.
IVF and fertility treatment. There should be proper investment in helping those who struggle to have children naturally. Not brutally rationed as it currently is. More rounds, more chances. This would not be offered to the entire third world as it is now - it would all be funded by simply not doing that.
A Restore Britain Government would allow parents to take their children out of school for a limited number of term-time days per year, as the parents see fit. If the child is developing well, that is a decision for the parents. A small change that will save families thousands...
Restore Britain stands with the young British men and women who want to build a family.
Most importantly, our wider plan of restoration will give them the confidence they need to have children, to bring them into the world. On tax, deportations, crime. Everything. It all needs to change to restore belief. That is our objective.
Our plan will make a family possible for millions more British men and women - this is how we Restore Britain.
For those mainly Pakistani men who have inflicted the very worst pain imaginable on innocent British children, please know this.
There will come a day when the power of the British state that concealed your atrocious crimes for so very long is turned against you.
It will be swift. It will be brutal. It will be severe.
Because if Restore Britain gets a sniff of power, there will be a reckoning. I promise you that.
We will show you the same mercy you showed our girls.
Your race or religion will not protect you any longer.
A message will be sent that is heard right across the world.
If you rape our children, you will pay for it - and you will pay for it with everything.
That is what Restore Britain will do.
How dare you.
I grew up in Telford and was sexually abused for over a decade under a Labour council.
Countless little girls like me were failed by Labour politicians like you.
If you want to know how Labour REALLY treats abuse survivors, hereâs my story:
As many other girls in Telford have also testified, I was made to feel as though I was to blame. The system criminalised the victims, rather than going after the perpetrators.
I remember being asked by a detective whether I âconsentedâ at any point to sexual activity, and told by a social worker that âmy actions had led me to where I was todayâ.
All the while, the Labour-led council tried to block an independent inquiry into CSE for years and their Council Leader (now the MP for Telford), along with 10 other powerful local men, even wrote a letter to the Home Secretary saying they felt an inquiry would unnecessary.
Little girls in Telford were branded child prostitutes and p*ki shaggersâŚ
âŚby West Mercia Police and local Labour councillors, no less.
In Rotherham, Rochdale, Banbury and elsewhere â all Labour-led areas â victims were continually swept aside by those in positions of power, as if they chose this lifestyle. The attitudes that social workers, local services, authorities had towards children was so skewed, and so deeply unprofessional.
My abuse continued for years, at the hands of multiple different men throughout my childhood and teen years.
Eventually, I confided in a social worker and filed a police report detailing the years of abuse that I had experienced.
And my case, like 96.5 per cent of all sex crime cases in the UK, never resulted in prosecution. I was told that there was an unrealistic prospect of conviction against any of my abusers, due to the historic nature of my case.
I spent years in silence because I thought I would somehow be judged or penalised for the abuse I had suffered. Because I had been conditioned to feel like I was somehow responsible for my own victimisation.
The Telford scandal made headlines when it broke in 2015, then again when the Crowther Report was released in 2022.
Yet, the news cycle moved on.
And Labour tried their best to ignore it.
You voted against a national enquiry into CSE. You gutted the local enquires model. You promoted key figures in the scandal to MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
You called victims âfar-Right bandwagon jumpersâ and grooming gangs a âdog whistle.â
You failed. Deliberately.
On every level.
These are not crimes of the past. Kids are still being exploited, groomed, raped and even murdered in Labour-led areas like mine. It isnât enough to have empty words and hollow promises.
I even went on national TV to discuss Pakistani grooming gangs in Telford and the continued risk of abuse faced by little girls in my hometown.
The next day, officers banged on my door, demanding I speak to them about my interview. They ignored victims for decades, but tried to intimidate me for speaking about their failings on live TV.
CSE is a national epidemic.
But Labour continues to treat it like a localised issue, choosing to believe that the extent of the abuse is contained to a few bad towns and pockets of bad apples. That couldnât be further from the truth.
Politicians like you, Bridget, refuse to address that fact for fear of being forced to confront your decades-long failure to protect young girls from abuse.
Itâs easier to ignore victims, especially when they come from communities, social classes or demographics that are already disenfranchised in Britain.
And for those who do speak out, it feels like you are screaming at a brick wall that would rather label you as the problem than take you seriously.
It was Labour councils.
Labour politicians.
Labour police forces.
Labour MPs.
You all knew. You were all complicit.
How DARE you pretend to care about us now.
You are a disgrace, Bridget.
đ¨ HORRIFYING: "HELP ME! PLEASE HELP ME! THEY ARE GOING TO RAPE ME!"
15-year-old British girl screams for help as two Muslim men drag her away to rape her in Leamington Spa park.
She recorded the entire attack on her phone.
The Muslim attackers were Afghan asylum seekers.
Lawyers warned: "If the footage is released, there would be riots across the country."
I see today is going to be âBlame the Rockets!â day rather than maybe a little introspection from folks who at various times this year said with absolute and total convictionâŚ
â˘LeBronâs contract is an albatross/Lakers should be desperate to move off him.
â˘The Lakers are better without LeBron on the court.
â˘KD & Steph are clearly better than LeBron at this point.
â˘LeBron was a primary problem with the Lakers defense.
â˘This offseason any serious team shouldnât offer LeBron more than the mid-level exception.
â˘The Rockets had 5 of the 6 best players in the series & should sweep the Lakers.
These takes were EVERYWHERE all year long. You were considered delusional/fanboy if you pushed back at all.
And this morning, instead of recognizing that folks are somehow STILL wildly underrating/underestimating the đ, theyâre just yelling at Durant & Udoka. đđđ
Miss Gomez, we are not really interested in this kind of confrontational slop-right political posturing here. It doesn't work, it doesn't persuade, it just gets you banned from things.
I can't help but notice that you have failed to take the measure of what is actually happening in Britain. It is not merely that there are Muslims here that is the problem, and if you were going to pick a Muslim to insult, Shabana Mahmood is actually a pretty poor choice as she's currently deporting a lot of foreigners.
The hysterical tone of your response belies the incredibly feminine nature of your worldview. You seem to have no self-control and no theory of mind for people other than yourself. I'm sure being fat is a real concern for an unmarried 26-year-old woman, but as a 46-year-old married father of 4, it really doesn't bother me.
Instead of considering that perhaps I have a point, you attempted to engage in some bizarre cat-fight with me through hyper-masculine posturing as if you were some transgender chihuahua. Needless to say, I'm not impressed.
It's almost impossible to overlook the irony of your activism. You feel like a South Park parody come to life, like their Jennifer Lopez character saying "I'm heer to sayve the Weest!" when you are literally a Columbian immigrant, and upon being banned from a white country your first thought is to literally break in. Must be in the blood.
Put simply, I'm glad you're banned from Britain, and if I were the home secretary, I would ban you myself. Not only are you an offensive foreigner, which is grounds enough to have you banned, but you are also incapable of following the rules, or even engaging with your fellow man through the lens of Christian good-will.
We are on a mission from God to save England from the ravaging hordes of barbarians, you are on a mission from your uterus to monopolise as much attention as humanly possible.
We are not the same and you are no use to us.
I have received an incredible amount of abuse for holding our rape gang inquiry, the whole team have - we came under vast pressure to cancel it when Labour announced their âeffortâ.
I have never been more convinced that we made the right decision.
What we have released, particularly through our statement yesterday, is just scratching the surface.
More women have come forward. There are so many more stories to tell.
I can say that as a team, we are feeling more determined than ever.
This is a national network of evil.
No other word.
I hope that the British people are starting to understand just how deep the poison runs.
A comprehensive report is being published, and then we aim to put people in prison. Thatâs our plan.
The establishment doesnât like it, but we are just getting started.
@reformparty_uk A rebellious Reform staffer unblocked my account, and I have waited for the right moment to strike. This is it.
You tried to put me in prison for backing mass deportations, Farage admitted it.
There is one party that will send the third world criminals home.
Restore Britain.
We won. Starmer abandons plans for compulsory Digital ID.
This is a HUGE win. Well done to EVERYONE who has been fighting - from all political parties and none.
A team effort. It proves that we can make progress when we come together to fight this appalling Labour Government.
Tax. Weâve all become so used to it, we forget how much weâre actually paying. It is relentless, even beyond death. And for what? If we had a semblance of functioning public services, I could maybe stomach it. But we donât, so what are we actually paying all of this money for?
We are subject to Scandinavian levels of tax for third-world levels of competence - what a toilet deal.
Earn a salary. Income tax, a fifth gone before weâve even started. National insurance, more on top of that. What for? A âworld-classâ health service? The NHS? Ha. Good luck.
Even getting to work costs - taxes on buying a car, running a car, insuring a car. Vast amount of road tax. Is that being well spent? Unless you want potholes you can paddle in, the answer is no. A road network built for half the amount of cars. Howâs that going? It takes twice as long to get anywhere. Fuel duty and tax on insurance - whack that on top too. Congestion charges, tolls, fines and more. It goes on and on and on.
Forget getting the train, thatâll cost twice as much and never runs on time - a season ticket into London costs thousands. Unaffordable. Yet the trains so often run empty? Maybe that system isnât workingâŚ
VAT on anything that moves - getting taxed to buy products/services, from already taxed money.
Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Then more tax.
Did you go to university? Your âloanâ isnât loan, itâs a tax. Interest is so sharp, youâre just paying that off each month. Hundreds gone, to pay for a sociology degree a decade ago. Ouch. Why are we saddling our youngsters with so much debt, with so much interest on top of that? Madness.
Manage to put a few quid away to save? That gets taxed too - ISAs will be under attack in the budget. Profit made on successful investments, what happens? You guessed it. Tax.
Somehow youâve scrabbled a deposit together for a property. Well done.
Paying half a million quid for a semi-detached? Not cheap. Stamp duty means you get slapped for thousands. Obviously first time buyer exemptions mean less and less as house prices soar.
Youâre in the house. Great news. Or so you thought. Council tax. Going up seemingly by 5% every year. Thousands of pounds a year. For what? To collect the bins? Really? Donât forget the extra costs to have your garden waste removed. Brilliant.
More insurance taxes, and of course VAT on any improvements you want to make. Bills soaring, with tax slapped onto every corner of it - green levies and the rest.
How depressing. Time for a pint.
Alcohol duty. Because of course. Why wouldnât they throw extra tax on it? Iâm not a smoker, but the same applies. Even holidays. Air passenger duty to put a few extra quid onto the price of a trip away. Just for good measure.
Youâre limping on through. Maybe you decide that starting your own business is the way to go?
You get it up and running, starting to make a reasonable profit. Take a small salary - to pay for such luxuries as food and heating. As we know, that gets taxed.
Alongside the costs. National Insurance. Business rates. Fees and licences. It is endless.
Whatâs left after all that? A profit? Surely good news?
Bang. Corporation tax. A big slice gone. After that, we can enjoy a handsome profit. Right?
Nope. Dividend tax. With its brutal thresholds. What slivers you do take get taxed all over again when you want to actually buy something. Obviously.
And the final kick in teeth.
Inheritance tax.
After everything, somehow, youâve managed to put a reasonable amount of money away. After all that tax, youâve succeeded in building a financial legacy to pass to your children - your business, and your own savings.
Money you were taxed on the day you earned it, taxed when you saved it, taxed when you invested it, taxed to build your business. It gets taxed one final time. On both your personal savings, and also the value of your company.
Even after death, it continues.
What are we paying all this money for?
Are our schools world-class? Borders secure? Police visible? NHS efficient? Economy thriving? Roads operational?
No. No. No. No. No. No. NOTHING WORKS.
Britain has the highest tax burden in most of our lifetimes, yet the worst services many of us have ever seen. If everything worked perfectly, there could maybe be an argument for such suffocating levels of tax. But it doesnât, and hasnât for decades, so there isnât.
When the taxpayers fail to fund this state monster of inefficiency and unaccountability, what do they do?
QE. Print money. Creating inflation, devaluing our earnings and our savings. Yet one more tax.
The people creating all of this, implementing all of this? ÂŁ100k plus on the public sector, living in London. Comfortable salary, great pension, no job risk. Clueless about the real world.
Maybe, just maybe, the current approach isnât working.
We need to urgently cut tax. Shrink government. Reward hard work.
You just canât tax a nation into prosperity. It never has worked, and it never will work.
LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE.
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.