Kipling and Christ

Former Tory now Reform

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

NEW: Reform are announcing an overhaul of ridiculous government contract rules to cut waste and back British jobs 🇬🇧

Under rules created by the Tories in 2012 and kept by Labour, companies must show how they:

-create positive action programmes to promote diversity
-work towards net zero emissions and influence their customers to do so too
-develop ‘inclusive’ hiring practices
-provide help with English language proficiency
-raise awareness of modern slavery, including by running online campaigns and working with NGOs.

And much, much more nonsense…

These rules influence how hundreds of billions of pounds of YOUR money is spent.

Since David Cameron’s Social Value Public Services Act was introduced in 2012, eyewatering amounts will have been wasted on nonsense that doesn’t benefit the British people.

A Reform Government will scrap the social value test and focus on two things:

-creating jobs and investment in Britain
-delivering value for money for you, the taxpayer

We will unashamedly back British firms, buying British wherever possible.

And our plan to simplify procurement will cut out the distractions so that companies are focussed on the things that matter.

This will make it a level playing field for smaller companies to compete against big corporations again.

There will be plenty more reforms to come in this place from @danny__kruger as we ramp up our plan for government.

[Xavier MacDuff @xvrmdf]

We're literally building tunnels across fields in open countryside because officials in Whitehall spent too much time listening to "the people whose areas it will effect".

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

JD Vance: Britain is amazing but it’s been failed by its leadership https://t.co/COQiv8qBPU

[Arka Serezh @ArkaSerezh]

In 1962 Harold Macmillan personally approved the demolition of Euston’s Great Hall and its Doric Arch, the largest Greek propylaeum ever built.

The stones were dumped into a canal off the River Lea like rubbish.

The RIBA called it one of the greatest acts of post-war architectural vandalism in Britain.

The replacement station is now one of the most hated in London.

One man signed it off.
And we're still living with it.

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

First time I've seen this. I was reliably informed that the man had attacked a police officer. But the man was attacked and punched to the ground by some enrichers, and then the police officer immediately attacks the man. Obviously the man doesn't know it's a police officer attacking him so he tries to defend himself, and gets arrested.

Maybe the video is missing something at the start where he does something illegal like installing air conditioning, but he looks like the victim of an assault here. What the fuck is wrong with the police in Britain?

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

"The more homogenous our citizens can be made in these particulars [principles, opinions, values and manners], the greater will be our prospect of permanent union."

General George Washington
1st President of the United States

[john sturgis @sturgios]

Depressing to visit Selly Oak, the student area of Birmingham, and see in its heart this beautiful Edwardian library boarded up and derelict
Surely we can do better than this?!

[Christopher Howarth @CJCHowarth]

Did Birmingham Police think of looking at this statement again at any point between it having Zero and 10 million views? Do they really intend to press charges? Should the sweary Police woman and the system that trained her not also be looked at? https://t.co/Ogg5PoSHng

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

Agree. Absurd levels of hair-shirtedness about things like providing tea and coffee in civil service. Just makes it seem like a bad employer.

[Freddy Gray @Freddygray31]

‘The west is history’

[Confirma Cetera @ConfirmaCetera]

Marking 250 years of immortal fidelity and honour.

[Kipling and Christ @KiplingChrist]

@andrew_lilico Expansion was good though.

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

If X didn’t exist we would never see how the police treat white natives in Britain. It is partly why the government wishes to ban the site.

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

It's curious that in modern Britain people seem to have concluded that the rebels were the Good Guys in the American Revolutionary War. In Canada...not so much.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Reminder that the Founding Fathers also drank excessively.

Today you can do that too.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Dim grifter Gary Stevenson has made an idiot of himself in a Times interview, declaring that “I’ll be totally honest with you, I think I am one of the best, if not the best, inequality economists in the world."

Further evidence that dopey Gary is self-obsessed & divorced from reality is his claim that his Youtube programme is "the biggest political show in the country." He claims that in his third year at the LSE "I didn’t even have to study and I still got a straight first,” and describes himself as the "most famous" person in the far-left so-called patriotic millionaires group.

Gary says that threats to leave the country if a wealth tax is introduced are "just scaremongering.”

The Times pointed out that "Statistics from the recent Sunday Times Rich List suggest they’re not: one in six people on the Rich List just two years ago do not appear in the 2026 list; almost a third (111) of the UK citizens who appear in the main list of 350 individuals no longer live on the British mainland, and at least 15 foreign nationals who appeared in last year’s Rich List have been removed because they now live elsewhere".

Asked if he gives away some of his wealth, Gary admits “I don’t, no".

He argues that his contribution to humanity is producing videos calling for the state to confiscate other people's money.

So sad.

[Kipling and Christ @KiplingChrist]

They should denaturalise Mehdi and they can but we don’t want him back.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I became a citizen just six years ago and I’m happy to lecture and educate you on what it means to be an American and why your party is undermining American values.

[Joo @JoosyJew]

Listen to what the police officer says is the reason for this man’s arrest. Did I mishear?

“Because you called Muhammed a r*pist and a kïller”

What is the specific law this man has allegedly broken, if that’s the reason for his arrest?

[Bob Seely @IoWBobSeely]

@HeidiBachram If they can't behave, deport them.