lemon63 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Keir Starmer: JD Vance should not interfere in UK politics!

Keir Starmer on BLM riots in the US: “I hope that the next time he [Boris] speaks to President Trump he will convey to him the UK’s abhorrence about his response to the events.”

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Nick Ferrari: Would you take the knee for Henry Nowak?

David Lammy: I…I..I…errr…no, I don’t think the family are asking for symbolism.

Nick: So you agree taking the knee is mere symbolism?

Lammy: We were in a pandemic!

David Lammy’s hypocrisy on full view.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things.
I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation.
Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right.
On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating.
I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

What right do the liberal elites have to accuse others of spreading "division" when they have spent the past 30 years imposing an ideology on the British people which itself has been hugely divisive? They don't deserve to be taken seriously.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Well indeed.👇

I hope they sing it from the rooftops! 🥳

To hell with this Labour government.

Keir - these people just want some respect!

[Mog Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏉 🍺 @jones_mog]

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
We wont get fooled again

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again, no no

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

So far Starmer’s efforts to save his skin have been a classic case study in how not to save your skin:
The most unpopular Labour PM in history (Starmer) calls in aid the second most unpopular Labour PM in history (Brown).
With most Labour MPs despising you and willing to grant you, at most, a civilised stepping down over some months, you say you’ll be in power for a decade. Labour MPs’ worst nightmare.
You commission a propaganda film of you, Brown, Rachel Reeves and Harriet Harman looking smug and self-satisfied in the Downing Street garden, complete with meaningful music. How divorced from public opinion can you be?
You signal you’re fresh out of new blood (Brown? Harman?) and new ideas (getting close to the EU is the best you can come up with — hardly a game changer).
You think a ‘reset’ speech (again!) can turn things round? You’re truly delusional.
THE END.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Labour MPs will now spend days & days agonising over the results.

“What just happened?”, they’ll ask.

“What should we do now?”

Let’s cut to the chase.

-Stop flooding Britain with illegal immigrants.

-Stop putting HMOs in the heart of our communities.

-Stop using the British people’s own money to outbid them in their own housing market.

-Stop destroying small businesses with taxes, rates & regulation then wondering why they’re going bust.

-Stop putting welfare scroungers and foreigners ahead of workers.

-Stop spending more on welfare payouts and we generate in tax.

-Stop making shoplifting & petty crime de facto legal.

-Stop treating British farmers, British pensioners, & British workers with utter contempt.

-Stop calling everybody who disagrees with you “far-right”.

-Stop spending £25 billion on foreign aid & welfare for foreigners while saying there’s no money for the NHS & police here in Britain.

-Stop trying to control what we say and think.

-Stop trying to impose things that were never even in your manifesto, from jury trials to digital id.

-Stop trying to dodge and dilute the rape gang inquiry.

-Stop enabling anti-Semitism while ignoring the rise of Islamism.

-And stop your obsession with Net Zero that’s destroying our energy market and economy.

You don’t need to spend the next week agonising over things that don’t really matter.

Do some of this and you might have a chance of reconnecting with the British people.

Ignore it, denounce it all as “far right” or “racist”, and you’ll go the same way as the Tories.

Your call.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Turns out calling the working class 'far right racists' for the last 20 months wasn't the best idea

[lemon63 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 @lemon63]

@MartinMonmouth Plaid's main pre-election message "vote for us to stop Reform'
No real policies, scaremongering to persuade the gullible ex-Labour voters

[Garry Pickles @garrypickles]

@BBCPolitics £4 MILLION for Ugandan tree schemes. Meanwhile Welsh councils crumble, NHS waits soar, roads decay and young people leave for opportunity elsewhere. 25 MILLION trees abroad though. That is the Labour governing model in one sentence.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My monologue from today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil @TimesRadio

ROYAL NAVY RIP

While US destroyers duke it out with Iranian navy fast boats over the Strait of Hormuz, we learned yesterday that the Royal Navy’s HMS Iron Duke, a Type 23 frigate, was being withdrawn from active service, despite a recent £100m five-year refit, which suggests that was largely a waste of money. 

More important, it underlines the stark reality that we no longer have a functioning navy. 

That’s right. The country of Rule Britannia, which once had the most powerful navy in the world, capable of protecting an empire which covered a quarter of the globe, no longer has a navy worthy of the name.  

For the factual basis of what I’m about to say, I am indebted to Britsky, who posts important naval data on X and has become the reliable go-to source for information on our disappearing Navy. 

HMS Iron Duke joins another ageing Type 23, HMS Richmond, in retirement. Leaving the Royal Navy with just five frigates to monitor Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic and other Russian activity in the Channel. 

Even that doesn’t reveal the full, desperate picture. Of the five frigates still supposedly available for service, one, HMS Kent, has been almost 750 days in refit and is not available for service. HMS Portland and HMS St Albans have also been laid up for some time. 

Only HMS Somerset is currently deployed and HMS Sutherland could be, pretty quickly. So the Royal Navy can call on the immediate services of only two of the five frigates we have, all dating from the 1990s. 

What about the more powerful Type 45 destroyers? Sad to relate the picture is even bleaker. There are only six. One, HMS Dragon, has been deployed to the East Mediterranean to protect Cyprus, though that took some time. 

Another, HMS Daring, has been in refit for 3,260 days and still not available for duty. HMS Defender has been out of action for over 1,000 days, HMS Diamond for just under 700 days. HMS Dauntless is in maintenance. Other than Dragon, out of our six destroyers, only HMS Duncan could be deployed quickly. 

What about our hugely expensive, powerful Astute class submarines? Better you don’t ask. We have only five — and only one, HMS Anson, is on active service somewhere in the Indian Ocean. 

The other four — Astute, Ambush, Artful and Audacious — have been laid up for a total of 4,000 days. That’s right 4,000 days. HMS Ambush alone has been inactive for 1,400 days. It’s currently laid up on the River Clyde. 

So the currently deployable, conventional Royal Navy, excluding the ancient, creaking subs carrying our nuclear deterrent, amounts to two frigates, two destroyers and one sub. That’s not a navy for a maritime nation. That’s a joke. 

Yes, we have two big aircraft carriers too. They also seem to spend a lot of time in maintenance, which is where they are at the moment. But both could currently be deployed pretty quickly, which is an improvement. But we don’t have the frigates or destroyers to form a carrier fleet. So they can only be used in concert with better equipped allies. 

We might be short of fighting ships. But we’re not short of admirals. We currently have around 30 rear admirals or above, which works out around four per deployable ship. That’s admirals. Not captains. 

None, of course, of this bloated top brass has been held accountable for the near disappearance of our naval power. Nor have any Tory politicians who for 14 years presided over our navy’s degradation. Nor is the current Labour government in any apparent hurry to put matters right.

Our airforce and army are in no great shapes either. But it is the state of our non-navy, an integral, vital part of our island history, which is the real national scandal. 

And, as is so often the case in modern Britain, nobody is held to account. Nobody forced to carry the can. Nobody making it their mission to put it right. And that is the real national disgrace.

[Agrippa @agrippa_dr]

@BBCWalesNews Modern Welsh nationalism is the belief that sharing a country with the English is intolerable, but sharing a country with unlimited complete foreigners is actually great.

And if those foreigners went to England instead, then they would be just as English as the English you hate.

[Carole Malone @thecarolemalone]

You really do flatter yourself. Farage could eat you for breakfast!!! You need to debate him. He doesn’t need to debate you. He’s not running scared- you’re just an irrevelevance!!!!

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

Kier Starmer was visiting a very small village in the UK, and asked the villagers what the
government could do for them.
"We have two big needs" said the village spokesman. "First, we Have a health centre, but no doctor." Starmer whipped out his mobile
phone, spoke for a while and then said "I've sorted it out, a doctor will arrive here tomorrow.
“What is your other need then?" “We have no mobile phone reception at all in our village”. 😬🤣

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey.
https://t.co/J9nLlYtw59

[Lordster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 @lordster1]

Rhun is a joke

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

I agree.

This is the most dangerous man in Britain.

[lemon63 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 @lemon63]

@TSSLUFC Get at least a point at Bournemouth then we can enjoy the FA semi a bit more 🤞

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Boris Johnson will happily hang the last civil servant out to dry before he takes responsibility or does the right thing.

Fresh from throwing junior staff under the bus, he’s plotting to sacrifice his henchman to save his own skin.

Rotten to the core.

https://t.co/SSMHbsPNpT