Mark

50, happily partnered part time train guard, part time undertaker, UK based. Views are my own. RT/likes not endorsements, just for discussion.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 There is a highly coordinated gaslighting campaign happening in this country right now.
Westminster keeps telling us that we are just living through "difficult times" and that we must accept higher taxes, broken borders, and falling living standards as the new normal. It is an absolute lie.
They are deliberately managing the decline of our nation. While everyday people work longer hours and watch their local communities decay, the political elite only care about protecting their own salaries, bickering over power, and serving globalist interests.
We are being treated like ATM machines for a system that actively despises us. Do not let them normalize this.

[The Nativist @TheNativist_]

I have refrained from talking about Henry Nowak so far because I was too angry. I remain too angry.

I'm angry at the scumbag who stabbed an 18-year-old boy to death. Who drove a blade into the back of his legs to stop him from running, then finished him by skewering him through the chest with an 8-inch blade. All while that poor boy tried desperately to escape.

I'm angry that the same scumbag then cried "racism" to cover his tracks, claiming self-defence after pursuing and butchering an innocent boy who just wanted to get home.

I'm angry at the parents who tried to hide the murder weapon and shield their killer son from justice, putting blood loyalty above any sense of right and wrong.

I'm angry at the police who handcuffed a bleeding teenager while he cried "I'm dying" and "I can't breathe," and let him bleed out in the street. All because his attacker cried racism.

I'm angry at the judge who has introduced manslaughter as an alternative verdict before the jury even had a chance to decide. Robbing Henry's family of the proper verdict on what was clearly cold-blooded murder.

I'm angry at a nation that grants religious exemptions so minorities can carry deadly blades in public while locking up natives for far less. A nation that has opened the floodgates to migrants who want us dead and now watches its own young bleed out in the name of "diversity."

I'm angry that we've allowed it to happen.

I'm angry.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

The most honest summary of Labour’s Britain:

Go to work. Pay more tax.

Watch your council tax go up. Watch your energy bill go up.

Then watch the Government take that money and hand £6,000 a year to a family where nobody works.
This is what happened today.

Rachel Reeves froze income tax thresholds — a stealth tax dragging millions into higher bands, costing basic rate taxpayers up to £700 extra this year alone.

Council tax rises land Monday. Energy bill increases land Monday.

And on Monday, 186,000 workless households get a £6,000 annual boost — funded directly by those tax hikes.

Labour calls it “lifting children out of poverty.”

What it actually is: a £3.5 billion transfer from working families to non-working households, paid for by Starmer collapsing under backbench pressure.

If you’re wondering why you feel poorer under Labour — this is why.

[The Black Opinion @opinion_black]

Call this out for what it is:

We have all witnessed the quite disturbing scenes of predominantly black school aged children behaving appallingly in Clapham yesterday.

There is a combination of factors as to why this took place and I am going to point them out without fear or favour.

1. Parents.
This is your failure. The children are an extension of you. You have abdicated responsibility & chose to be ‘friends’ with your children instead of being the architects of authority, discipline & boundary setting. Instead you are weak and your children know you are, thus diluting any respect that they would naturally have for you.

2. Schools.
When people like Katharine Birbalsingh & her elite teachers speak about standards, discipline and teaching children in a ‘no excuses environment’ many of you turn your noses up. However, do you really believe that children who attend her school ‘Michaela’ would behave this way in public? Neither do I. Schools and how they operate are a barometer of where this country will be in the near future. This alone should be ringing alarm bells but unfortunately it is not.

3. Parliament.
Those that are legislators in this country are way out of sync with what is required to churn out functioning useful youngsters in this society. With Labour MPs seeking to legalise voting for those aged 16+ I am only surprised that they were not in Clapham giving out flyers telling these youngsters that they are only robbing shops because of ‘white people and slavery’. Vote Labour!

4. Police
The police were totally useless yesterday. The police on the ground? No. Their bosses? Yes. Scotland Yard and Chief Superintendents are mostly now chosen for their senior roles based on politics, sexuality and wokeness. At least 100 youngsters should have been arrested, publicised widely, hurried through the system and severely punished. A clear message needed to be sent. It wasn’t. This is why it will now be a continual occurrence.

5. Social Media.
99% of these ‘link ups’ are organised via social media platforms. These companies must be subject to criminal injunctions when their platforms are used to promote chaos. Further, if found guilty then the penalties should include eye watering fines and three year imprisonment for their managing directors.
Lastly, the age to use Social Media should rise to 18 years.

Conclusion.
Many of the youngsters will claim they were ‘just having a laugh’. That may well be true. Families who were locked in the stores or staff working in those stores would surely disagree. That behaviour was disgusting and you parents should point that out. There is a time coming where some of these parents should be criminally liable for their actions of their bloody children.

We are blessed to be in a country like this despite its many faults. We also have many opportunities and are frittering them away. Do better and stop the damn excuses. Control your children.

[Neil McCoy-Ward @NeilMcCoyWard]

So the minimum wage just went up and the government is very proud of itself.

Here is what they are not telling you.

Your wage goes up. Your tax goes up. Your National Insurance goes up. HMRC takes its cut before you see a penny of that £1,500.

Now your employer is paying more for every single person on their books. They are not absorbing that. Nobody absorbs that. So prices go up.

The coffee you buy on the way to work costs more. The lunch you grab costs more. The haircut costs more. All of it costs more because the people serving you are now on higher wages too, and their employers did exactly the same thing.

So you got a pay rise, and everything got more expensive at the same time. Almost like it cancelled out.

If they actually wanted workers to keep more money they would cut their tax. That's it. That's the whole idea.

But that would mean the government collecting less. So instead they raise the minimum wage, taking a cut on the way in and benefit from the price rises on the way out through VAT, and call it a historic day for working people.

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

Excellent article. Here are a few builds.

First, it must be pointed out that Islam - not some extreme variant, but bog-standard orthodox Islam as preached and practised in Britain - rejects any notion of integration or ideological compromise with other religions or cultural norms that contradict its edicts. The doctrine of al-wala' wal-bara' commands loyalty to the faith and disavowal of non-Muslim ways.

The Prophet's own hadith warns that "whoever imitates a people is one of them." Muslims are expected to reject man-made structures and "innovation," and to accept the barbarities of the Quran and the Hadith as divinely sanctioned prescriptions for how life must be lived. No radical fringe is required to reach these conclusions. The mainstream canon gets you there on its own.

Second, when Muslims form a majority in a territory, they are divinely instructed to impose Islamic rule on everyone. If you belong to the "people of the book" - another Abrahamic faith - you may be permitted to live, provided you pay a poll tax (jizya) to the Muslim rulers in a state of, as the Quran specifies, humiliation. Ibn Kathir's commentary on this verse is unambiguous: the jizya exists to demonstrate the subjugation of non-Muslims to Islamic authority.

If you are a Hindu, Islam considers you a pagan, and even under the most lenient schools of jurisprudence, your status under Islamic rule is one of codified subjugation - discriminatory taxation, legal inequality, prohibition on building temples, inability to testify against a Muslim in court, and periodic persecution.

The "tolerant" version of Islam is tolerance in the sense of "we will permit you to exist under conditions we dictate," not tolerance in the sense of equal standing before the law. As for leaving Islam, the Prophet's instruction is plain: "whoever changes his religion, kill him." All four Sunni schools of jurisprudence agree. Abu Bakr's wars against apostates were fought within a year of the Prophet's death.

The only reason we are not all living under these arrangements is that Muslims are - for now - a minority in Britain.

Third, public Islamic prayer is, as Nick says, political - and has been since the Prophet's time. Islam does not recognise a distinction between religious and political life. The Friday sermon was historically the platform from which caliphs proclaimed authority and issued edicts. The call to prayer is prescribed to be heard by the community. The separation of church and state is a uniquely Reformation-driven Western achievement, and Islam explicitly repudiates it. Communal public prayer in a non-Muslim land is therefore an assertion of presence, of dominance, and of rejection of the norms of the host nation - whether every individual participant intends it as such or not.

Fourth, we owe precisely zero explanations for why we resent this. Zero. We do not have to be rational about it. We do not have to draw comparisons with other religions. Any explanation we give is the right one, because it is our land, and we govern it as we see fit.

But I will give you my reasons.

While I am an atheist and regard all religion as a collection of mostly rubbish - and religious belief as a species of derangement - Britain's culture and values have been steeped in Christianity. This includes our laws, which are inseparable from our culture. We may not be as Christian as we were fifty years ago, but anyone born in this country who was not shielded from it (as a great many Muslims are, thanks to their parents) will have absorbed some of Christianity's gifts into their cultural DNA.

Islam is the antithesis of all of this. Its canonical texts prescribe the striking of disobedient wives, value a woman's testimony at half a man's, mandate amputation for theft, flogging for fornication, and stoning for adultery. Its most authenticated hadith collections contain explicit antisemitism - including a prophecy that Muslims will hunt and kill Jews at the end of times, with even the stones and trees calling out to betray those in hiding. It is violently hostile to other faiths, to non-belief, and to apostasy. It rejects secular democratic rule as a matter of doctrine. It has resisted reformation for fourteen centuries. And it has produced decades of relentless terrorism - against us and, by an even greater margin, against fellow Muslims. From the Algerian civil war to the sectarian slaughter in Iraq, from Boko Haram to the Taliban, from the Peshawar school massacre to the Manchester Arena bombing, the body count is staggering, and the majority of the dead are Muslim. The violence is structural. It is doctrinal. Western foreign policy did not create it.

Islam is foreign to us. It is completely and utterly repulsive as an ideology.

And the reason I happen to have Muslim friends, and have got on exceptionally well with Muslim colleagues, is that they were never hugely religious.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Mass dominating Islamic prayer in Trafalgar Square is not acceptable, and we should all have the courage to say it.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Too many are too polite to say this.

But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination.

The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination.

Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions.

And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals.

I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook.

Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation.

Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration.

It was an act of domination and therefore division.

It shouldn’t happen again.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

Stay in your fucking lane.

We are the LGB...nothing more, nothing less.

A cold, hard line drawn in immutable biology:

same-sex attraction. Lesbians who want women. Gay men who want men. Bisexuals who navigate both without rewriting reality to accommodate ideology.

The rest? They can take their expansionist agenda and get the hell out of our spaces.

We built this on shared, material truth...not on subjective internal sense of self, not on compelled speech, not on the endless demand that everyone else erase their own boundaries to affirm someone else's beliefs.

Decades of real blood, real arrests, real AIDS graves, real bar raids, real suicides from being told our orientation was a sin...all that sacrifice, only for gender ideology activists to colonize the acronym, turn "homosexual" into a slur in our own house, and brand lesbians bigots for refusing male anatomy no matter how it's hormonally or surgically repackaged.

This isn't alliance.

This is appropriation.

It's textbook exploitation: hijack the empathy and moral framework of a historically oppressed group, then shame and guilt them into submission when they refuse to serve as validation props for an ideological agenda.

The gaslighting is relentless...frame refusal as violence, frame boundaries as hate, frame basic sexual dimorphism as erasure.

No.

We owe you nothing.

Our orientation is not a social construct to be deconstructed at your convenience.

It is evolutionary wiring, limbic truth, hard limits etched in flesh and neurons.

You do not get to demonize our "no" because it inconveniences your narrative.

Men are not women.
Women are not men.

Hormones, surgery, pronouns, and tears do not rewrite chromosomes, skeletal structure, or the visceral revulsion most lesbians feel toward male anatomy...no matter how artfully repackaged or how viciously you shame us for stating the obvious.

Stay. In. Your. Fucking. Lane.

The sane among us...the ones who still remember what actual same-sex love looks like without ideological asterisks...are done playing nice.

Done pretending this expansion is progress instead of erasure.

Done letting our flag be used as camouflage for an agenda that sterilizes gay kids, invades women's spaces, and demands we applaud our own obsolescence.

We want nothing to do with your ideological quicksand.

Cut the cord.
Drop the letters.

Take your dogma, your coercion, and your endless demands for affirmation and get the fuck out of our lane.

We built this road.
We bled for it.

And we will defend it...with ferocity, with precision, with zero apology.

🗡️💀⚖️

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

We’re in the UK.
We didn’t start a war.
We don’t want a war.
Most of us can’t even point to the Strait of Hormuz on a map without Google.

So why does every global flare-up land straight in the British taxpayer’s wallet?

Here’s what grates.

The minute instability hits an oil route, markets twitch.
Oil jumps.
Traders hedge.
Insurance rises.

Fine. That’s how global commodities work.

But explain this to me like I’m five:

Why does the petrol station down the road hike prices the same afternoon the headline drops…
when the fuel in their underground tanks was bought at yesterday’s price?

Did the petrol in the forecourt suddenly watch the news and panic too?

Funny how prices rise like a SpaceX launch — immediate, vertical, no hesitation.
But when oil falls?

We descend gently.
Gracefully.
Like a feather.
Over several weeks.

We’re constantly told “it’s the market.”

No.
It’s pricing on expectation.
And expectation always seems to land in one direction — up.

Meanwhile, the taxpayer becomes the shock absorber for the entire global system.

Energy spikes? You pay.
Inflation creeps? You pay.
Interest rate cuts delayed? You pay.

And we’re told to be grateful for the privilege.

Here’s the human bit:

Ordinary families are not geopolitical chess pieces.
We’re not a revolving credit facility for global instability.
We’re not the cash cow every time traders get nervous.

We’re the ones trying to heat homes.
Run vans.
Commute to work.
Buy food without needing a spreadsheet.

Nobody sane wants war.
But we absolutely have the right to ask:

Why are we this exposed?
Where’s the resilience?
Where’s the buffer that stops a conflict 3,000 miles away from emptying UK wallets overnight?

And maybe — just maybe — if garages can raise prices instantly on “future cost expectations,” they could show the same enthusiasm when markets cool.

That’s not rage.
That’s fairness.

We don’t want conflict.
We just don’t want to be the automatic bill-payer every time the world sneezes.

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

Earlier today, I posted about overhearing someone in a café - enjoying a full English breakfast while complaining to the owner that their housing association wasn't fixing problems in their social housing fast enough. I implied that someone on benefits shouldn't be dining out. I want to clarify my position.

I fully and completely stand by it.

If you are getting paid not to work, I am paying for you. You are reaching into my pocket and taking money I earned and made available to the government as part of my obligation as a taxpayer. That creates an obligation on your end - to spend as little of that money as possible.

This is exactly the same standard I apply to government itself. Every public body, from the NHS to the council fixing potholes, owes the taxpayer the same duty: extract maximum value from the budget you're given. I see no reason why individuals receiving benefits should be held to a lower standard. They are spending someone else's money.

If you can afford to dine out, you should not be on benefits. You should not be in social housing. To me, that is a clear signal that you are receiving too much and abusing the system. I am not willing to fund someone's restaurant meals while also housing them.

Benefits and social housing are meant to be a bridge, not a destination. They exist to carry people through hardship until they can stand on their own. Social housing is temporary accommodation - it is not a home. At least, it shouldn’t be. The moment it stops being treated as temporary, the entire logic of the safety net collapses.

This brings me to the part people will call draconian. The moment public funds begin flowing into your bank account, you should expect zero privacy into your family's finances. That should be the deal - stated plainly, signed away upfront. You get the money. We, the taxpayers whose money you are spending, get full visibility into how it is spent.

Cash withdrawals should be disabled by default from any account receiving benefits. If cash is needed, invoices and receipts should be uploaded promptly. If they don't reconcile, if dates are wrong, if there is any suspicion of luxury spending or wrongdoing - benefits stop. Simple as that.

I know people will invoke human rights and privacy. My answer is equally simple. You take my money, I take your privacy. If you spend that money without taking the mickey, you have nothing to worry about. And I think a great many people would think twice about abusing the system if this contract were real.

Because here is the truth: if you are in genuine hardship and you know the money you are receiving belongs to someone else, you are not dining out. You are not buying luxuries. You are spending the bare minimum to keep yourself going until you find the next job and get off the benefits. That is what genuine hardship looks like.

There are plenty of countries in the world where this safety net does not exist at all - where individual families bear the entire burden, and where those without family simply fall. We should never become one of those countries. We should always help those facing hardship through no fault of their own. But the point of a safety net is that you bounce back. If you cling to it indefinitely, it becomes impossible for those of us maintaining it through our taxes to keep it standing.

For anyone facing genuine hardship, this system - this social contract - will work just fine. It is only a problem if you are abusing it. And that is exactly the point.

[Sovrn.Place @Sovrnplace]

UK fiscal reality check:
£329B income tax collected £333B welfare spending = £4B deficit before other spending even starts
Then add:
NHS: £192B
Defense: £50B

Interest on debt: £100B+
Total budget: £1.2T+ Income tax covers: 27%
The math broke years ago. People leaving aren't fleeing responsibility, they're escaping unsustainable systems

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Breaking news for anyone who hasn't worked this out yet:

Cows are vegan.

No, stay with me.

The cow eats the grass. The clover. The herbs. The wildflowers. The diverse, mineral-rich, organically grown plant matter from the field.

The cow then, and this is where it gets interesting, converts all of that plant material into complete protein, bioavailable heme iron, zinc, B12, fat-soluble vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids, creatine, and carnosine.

Using its four stomachs. Which are considerably better at this than yours.

So technically, the most efficient way to eat a plant-based diet is to let a cow do it first.

The cow is the blender.

The cow is doing the processing you cannot do yourself.

When you eat beef, you are eating a hyperconcentrated, biologically optimised, grass-powered superfood that a vegan has been assembling for you in a field for eighteen months.

You're welcome.

[James Harvey @JamesHarvey2503]

George Orwell: It began unobtrusively, almost politely. A post here and there disappeared—quietly, without explanation or ceremony. An article was removed from circulation, then another. Each absence was small enough to be dismissed, each deletion subtle enough to avoid resistance. Nothing was announced; nothing was debated. Silence, after all, rarely provokes outrage.

In time, the pattern became more ambitious. A full news outlet vanished from the public sphere. Care was taken, of course. This particular outlet had permitted voices that questioned authority, and that alone made it dangerous. Yet its removal could not appear ideological. It had to be justified, reframed as a protective measure—necessary for public order, for social harmony, for the safety of children. History had shown that the public rarely resists when restrictions are presented as safeguards. People will surrender almost anything if they are told it is for their own good.

And so they did.

Freedom of expression was not seized in a single, dramatic act. It was eroded incrementally, diluted until it no longer resembled the right it once was. The public did not protest because they did not perceive the loss. What is taken slowly, invisibly, is rarely mourned. By the time the absence is felt, the language to describe it has already been censored.

What remained was a carefully managed narrative—one that served not the public, but the authority itself. Safety became the justification; control, the objective. And those who might have spoken out found that the space to do so had quietly, efficiently, and irrevocably disappeared.

[Lukas Ekwueme @ekwufinance]

The UK is regulating itself into irrelevance.

The plan was to build 531 km of high-speed rail.

Before laying track, contractors had to:

- Complete a 350-page “social value” assessment
- Guarantee 30% female representation
- Guarantee 20% ethnic-minority representation

The outcome was predictable.

- Original timeline: 2010-2026
- After years of delays and overruns, ~50% of the project was cancelled
- Remaining construction now stretches beyond 2033
- Cost: ~£70B for just 40% of the route (~£311M per km)

Meanwhile, China:

- Built ~50,000 km of high-speed rail in 17 years
- Averaging ~3,000 km per year
- At a cost of ~£14M per km

China builds high-speed rail ~200x faster and ~22x cheaper.

Now apply the same regulatory mindset to the energy transition....
and the scale of waste becomes obvious.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

President Trump at the UN: "When your prisons are filled with so-called asylum seekers who repaid kindness with crime, it's time to end the failed experiment of open borders"

"According to the Council of Europe in 2024, almost 50% of inmates in German prisons were foreign nationals or migrants."

"In Austria the number was 53% of the people in prisons."

"In Greece the number was 54%."

"In Switzerland, beautiful Switzerland, 72% of the people in prisons are from outside of Switzerland."

[No to Digital ID @NoToDigitalID]

🚨 We’ve launched our campaign against Digital ID cards – a Blairite plan.

We say NO to:
• Privacy & surveillance
• Hacking
• Threat to freedom & civil liberties
• Excluding older generations
• Function creep

Freedom lost = freedom gone. RT & share! 🔀

[JT @BritainisCool]

If you don't think it's democratic that 33.7% of votes should give a party nearly 64% of the seats in Parliament, then please, sign and share as much as you can. Currently, your vote can be wasted, it can be ignored. Get your voice heard. Equality for all. https://t.co/GlQkzZdYcX

[Mark @mark29uk]

@iamjamesss_ Beautiful 😍