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Apparently I’m too old for all this.

[Gunner @markommj]

@TweeterReynolds @RidgeandFrost @metpoliceuk It’s an illness. The antisemitism. The obsession with Palestine. Get help.

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@alanvibe They never check your passports from Ireland at Stansted. You get transported straight to luggage reclaim through a side door.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.

A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.

This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.

In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.

But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”

British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?

We genuinely do not understand this.

[Gunner @markommj]

Shit. No sorry. I found someone.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

Since Blair - 30 years ago - people voted against mass immigration.

Every election, they got up, got dressed, found a pilling station and voted to end mass immigration.

30 years they did that.

Nothing changed. In fact, it got worse.

So they organised marches and protests, and events and petitions and wrote to their MPs and tried every single thing they could legally, to tell the powers that be, that they wanted an end to mass immigration.

The state has deliberately ignored and removed all legal options from the British and Irish people to legally, peacefully, have their demands answered.

THEY, and nobody else, have created and caused division and riots and fury.

The toothpaste can not go back in the tube. We are where we are because, and only because, of 30 years of failed government.

[Gunner @markommj]

Not sure there is anyone else as thick as Owen Jones on this whole platform.

[Gunner @markommj]

@michaelwhite Glad I saw this. Gives me a chance to go back like Paul’s post.
Oh, and remind you what an absolute wanker you are.

[Gunner @markommj]

@KingBobIIV I don’t even recognise this country any more.

[Paul Cox @PaulCoxComedy]

Play this to your children
Open the eyes that the education system is trying to close 🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️

[Gunner @markommj]

@rocknrollofall Kid Charlemagne

[Gunner @markommj]

@ArchRose90 The problem is Lammy and indeed all of the of the Labour front bench talk such continuous bollocks that no one gives a toss what they say anymore. It sort of works in their favour.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

This is going to run and run

[Gunner @markommj]

@rorysutherland I grew up in Covent Garden. When I moved to North London it took me ages to get used to going to sleep without the sound of drunks shouting at each other in the street and not stepping over dossers in the doorway on my way to school in the morning.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

[Gunner @markommj]

@Footysm @Vicster82 Now seen this same quote from about six managers 🙄

[Gunner @markommj]

@DPJHodges I think there is some nuance needed here. If, hypothetically, the suggestion was voting for Vance over Starmer then I suspect you’re right. If we’re talking about a public tiff then I suspect right now most people would back the devil himself over Starmer.

[Gunner @markommj]

@DreyfusJames @CharlotteCGill That should solve it. Well done Harry. 1400 years they’ve been throwing gays off of roofs and all they needed was a nice cuppa. Any advice on how to stop them killing Jews?

[Gunner @markommj]

@DPJHodges @LoftusSteve This government has normalised lying and the more they do it the easier it gets. Starmer is a lawyer not a politician and if he can see a legal way of deceiving the public he will not hesitate in doing so.

[Gunner @markommj]

Blimey. They really are bad.