Mark Neal 🔆

Optimist. Wanderer.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

The Bank of England says British heros are too “divisive” and “elitist” for Britain’s banknotes?

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
George Orwell

Reject this 💣

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Nicola Sturgeon has updated her pronouns to him/not me.

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

Health Secretary,Wes Streeting, said his top priority is to get NHS waiting lists down but it seems he’s got a rather novel way of doing that.
Last week it was reported that hospitals are being paid £3m a month to delete patients from waiting lists via a process known as ‘list cleansing’. This week I heard that 140,000 operations are being cancelled until the new financial new year in order to save £445million from the NHS budget.
I guess that wasn’t what the public was expecting when they voted for Labour to get waiting lists down. Perhaps he’s too busy campaigning to replace Starmer to be able to focus on real improvements to the NHS.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

The Government plans to delete records that could uncover the truth about grooming gangs.

They say that the data isn't being stored safely.

So with @OPENJ_UK and Conservative colleagues, I've asked David Lammy to store the data in-house. There is no excuse for deleting it.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

‘We are a Government whose central purpose is to stand up for the powerless and not the powerful,’ says Red Ed Miliband, as he stuffs the pockets of rich and powerful providers of wind farms with yet more public gold. The hypocrisy is astounding.

[Mark Neal 🔆 @migrant_press]

@Keir_Starmer @TomHayesBmouth Nothing on migration then?

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

New blog: results from a deep research project on swing voter attitudes to KS, Kemi, Farage, immigration, NHS, net zero, benefits etc…
Want to know what swing voters think?
* They hate Westminster and both parties more than ever. 'It's like they hate us' is a common view.
*The cost of living and immigration dominate discussion much more than SW1 realises.
* Voters greatly UNDER-estimate the scale of immigration by ~5-30X, contrary to the conventional wisdom. They are already angry about the immigration farce of Tories and Labour before they are given the real numbers. So there is huge scope for *much greater hatred for the old parties* and much more support for *much tougher action*. Millions of LAB voters want much tougher action on immigration than Tories like Gawke and Barwell.
*The fact that the millions are mainly legal not illegal is further terrible news for both old parties and makes voters hate them more. Voters want MUCH tougher rules on 'can they support themselves financially', use of NHS, and blocking/deporting of violent criminals. Dinghy farce stopped.
* Voters are much more sceptical of Net Zero than 5 years ago. Showing them PRC emissions helps win the argument for a shift of policy they support.
*Voters are much more sceptical that more money will help the NHS than in decades - maybe since the start of the NHS. They want to hear new ideas but hear nothing from the old system.
*They HATE HATE HATE the utility companies - the hate is the same across CON/LAB/REF etc. This is an open goal for all political entrepreneurs.
*Voters are much more angry about benefit scams than MPs of any party. This issue seems less polarised than immigration.
*Voters were deeply hostile to Starmer BEFORE the Epstein debacle. There is zero prospect of this turning around given KS's skills and temperament. (The conventional wisdom from the likes of the Institute for Govt and FT was KS is ‘a serious person’ who will ‘bring stability’. The system is now disowning KS but he was their boy.)
*Voters have few views on Kemi because they ignore the Tories because ‘they’re just not relevant any more’. They know nothing she's said or done. 'Useless but irrelevant'.
* Voters want ‘a team and a plan’ from Farage but fear he won’t give them it and fear another bout of chaos making the cost of living nightmare even worse.
*The aesthetics of right wing videos tend to be bad for persuasion. Aesthetics polarise emotionally even when people agree on facts/arguments re immigration etc.
*A big chunk of the SW1 NPC class has radicalised so much on immigration they can’t see sense and will keep sabotaging themselves. E.g Sam Freedman says that it’s HARDER for Britain to stop the dinghies crossing the Channel than for America to control the 2,000 mile southern land border! 🤣🤡 The NPCs will generate any degree of nonsense necessary to avoid confronting reality on immigration. They have radicalised even more since 2016 when their delusions sank them in the referendum.
*This should not surprise you — this network decided they understand managing tech companies better than the guy who built SpaceX and spent 3 years saying X was about to collapse before self-cancelling to Bluesky where they've driven themselves mental.
*This is not a network that will update accurately in response to voters. Much of SW1 will continue radicalising Left and supporting the continuation of how SW1 works as the voters hate it, and them, more and more and more.
*Like the Democrats doing things which gave Trump the White House, this NPC network is making it much easier for Farage to become PM, even though that is the thing they want to avoid most.
*The left who think they should copy Mamdani will also self-sabotage.
*The elite fragmentation, radicalisation, OODA-loop-as-denial-of-service attack, and pathological politics will continue.
*Chances of financial crisis and blood on the streets go up every month.
*What LAB MPs should do is pick the person with sensible priorities who is the best suited to controlling a pathological Whitehall and getting things done. They shd optimise for good government, a No10 which is NOT Media Entertainment Service. They shd not think first of polls and 'communication' (which the old parties can't do). The only path to partly averting the debacle of Starmer is to orient towards the voters and *change Whitehall to deliver those priorities*. But this won't happen! Labour like Tories *prefer to lose* than to have rows at dinner parties about firing officials and improving the management. More likely is the Trolley>Truss show -- meltdown then double meltdown with Miliband/Rayner.
*Voters want 'a new team and a detailed plan' and a leader who can stick to core priorities particularly cost of living, immigration, and NHS. Neither LAB nor CON can do this. Farage says he will but will he? If Reform is essentially just NF + Tory dregs, then we're heading for either a Reform clownshow or a red-green-yellow-troon-loon-ScotNat-Hamas coalition clownshow... Or entrepreneurs create the thing voters want and take votes from everybody!
*Everybody Reform is asking for money from shd ask: 'what's your recruitment plan for actual serious people who represent the best of the country and have a record of building things?'
*If you want to get a sense of voters, rather than what the usually wrong ‘experts’ tell you about voters, check out the link in next tweet…

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I agree with Jacqui Hames that British newspapers
cannot be trusted, as IPSO allows them to mark their own homework

I now add the BBC to that group

[Royalists @theroyalistsuk]

The Government governs in the name of The King. This so-called simplification does nothing more than diminish and dislocate the monarchy from national life, whilst muddying long-established constitutional principles.

We call on His Majesty’s Government to reverse this change.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Why is Ed Miliband hiding the secret energy deal he signed with China?

I just asked him to publish the full text of the deal he signed with the Chinese Communist Party last year.

His response? To call it a 'wacky conspiracy theory'.

So here are the facts👇🏾

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Labour has surrendered Britain's precious fishing grounds for 12 more years in exchange for access to an EU defence fund that has delivered nothing.

At this point it looks like wilful destruction of Britain and not just incompetence.

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

Transparency is essential to rule of law. Democracies should not order court records purged. This is basic, and obvious.

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

The Vice Chancellor of Bangor University is paid £287,000 a year, and the university employs 32 people on more than £100k.

All to indoctrinate their students so much they ban an MP from the party leading national polls from speaking at a debate.

Why should taxpayers fund this?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Absolutely disgraceful

Why should we be denied this important information ?

Does anyone know why they are acting contrary to the best instincts of the British people ?

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

A debating society that refuses to debate with a party which has representatives sitting in parliament and may well form the next government. Utterly mental! What is going on in our universities?

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

Open justice is one of the fundamental pillars of the British justice system.

Yet the @MoJGovUK is ordering the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive.

That act will only serve to undermine transparency and justice in Great Britain.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The UK has become Orwell’s worst nightmare

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The main way the legacy media lies is by choosing the narrative and simply ignoring that which doesn’t match far-left politics

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

I have written to the Vice Chancellor of Bangor University informing him that barring Reform from speaking at his university is unlawful.

They must apologise to Sarah Pochin MP and ensure she is able to speak there. 👇