Neil Straw 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇱

Right wing, Brexit, Hates Woke.
Likes Rush, Iron Maiden and DCFC.

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

Ofcom now wants every British adult to prove their age with photo ID, banking details, facial scans or digital ID just to use social media.

Protecting children is the pretence. A surveillance state is the result.

As a grown adult, I shouldn’t have to prove my age and identity to use the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee made it free for all to use!

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

A £10bn injection to cut fuel duty in the budget could have reduced petrol and diesel prices by 21p a litre for 12 months, reduced inflation and stimulated economic growth in the UK.
But the Government sent it to Zelensky instead, who is reported to be ‘delighted’ to receive our money.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Local piemaker explains how Burnham's first Budget will make things much worse:

"I don’t qualify for the business rates relief because I’m multi-site… I’ve got two shops, so I don’t qualify. The minimum wage has increased. I’m not saying we shouldn’t pay staff. I’m saying we can’t afford to pay them…

All my staff have been with us for years. So I’m going to have approximately a £700 a week increase. My suppliers are having an increase too. My supply bills are around £20,000 to £30,000 a week. That’ll go up 10%, so £2,000 to £3,000 a week. So that’s £4,000 a week I’ve got to find…

That’s about 20,000 to 30,000 pies a week. So my costs have gone up. I’ve got no business rates relief. The National Insurance is crippling me. The energy crisis is crippling me. I’m going to have to put my prices up,
Customers are going to get mad. I’m going to get less profit. As a family, as a director, I’ve got to take a 2% cut. So my family, my one-year-old girl. I’m taking a pay cut. The business is taking a pay cut.

How is that breathing room for me? Where’s my breathing space? John Healey, if you’re listening, where’s my breathing space? You promised me. You promised the UK breathing space. Where is it?"

[Dan Lane @lane_d12]

The Cost of Britain 🇬🇧

Here is the single MADDEST number in today’s Budget - and the Chancellor didn’t mention it once in his speech 👀

From April, the National Living Wage rises to £13.21 an hour.
For a full-time 40-hour week, that is £27,477 a year.

That’s GREAT right?? 🤔

At the same time, today’s Budget leaves the 40% Higher Rate tax threshold FROZEN at £50,270 right through until April 2031.

Do the maths on that:

In Britain today, earning just 1.8x the minimum wage now classes you as a Higher Rate taxpayer.

When the 40% tax band was created, it was meant for the top 3.5% of earners - bank directors and senior executives.

Today, a skilled tradesperson, experienced nurse, police sergeant or salaried worker earning 1.8x the legal minimum wage hands over:
❌ 42p of every extra pound to HMRC (40% Income Tax + 2% NI)
❌ 51p of every extra pound if they have a student loan

That single threshold freeze is quietly pulling an extra £34 billion a year out of working people’s pay packets - without the government ever having to announce a headline tax rise.

Pushing minimum wage up from the bottom
Whilst freezing the 40% tax trap at the top

How can earning 1.8x minimum wage possibly be classed as a “higher earner” in 2026?

[Faze @Southsealad]

Tommy Robinson will now go to prison. Step by step @ShabanaMahmood is having anyone high profile who can order street movements against illegal immigration jailed. We are living under a left wing regime. Antifa is in government

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Unbelievable.

Britain is ALREADY holding talks with the EU about a return to free movement, The Times reports.

Only 16 weeks after Burnham told Makerfield he wouldn’t “re-open” Brexit.

There is absolutely no democratic mandate for this.

[Chris @IrritableChris]

Here we go again. Above inflation rise to the minimum wage which will cause even more pressure on businesses and feed into inflation. It will make life even less affordable for the lowest paid.

Cue the usual "your business isn't viable if you cant afford to pay a living wage" posts from the terminally thick that would struggle to run a bath, never mind a business or employ people.

Here, for anyone that can be bothered to educate themselves even in the slightest, is why the circa 50% rise in minimum wage in the last 6 years has made life less affordable and contributed to the cost of living crisis.

Minimum wage employee 2020:

Total cost to employer (wages + NI + pension): £18,460
Employee can make 18,460 widgets in a year.
Cost per widget (ignoring any other cost or profit): £1
Take-home pay: £15,202
Widgets the employee can afford: 15,202

2027 min wage of of £13.20:

Total cost to employer (wages + NI + pension): £29,436
Widgets made in a year (same productivity): 18,460
Cost per widget: £1.59
Take-home pay: £22,050
Widgets the employee can afford: 13,868

They’ve had a 45% increase in take-home pay but can afford 9% fewer widgets.

This is why you are worse off. Now factor in other business costs, higher corporation tax, higher energy costs, higher risk from new legislation, maintaining pay differential, etc. etc. etc..

Yet the thick "yOuR bUsInEsS iSnT ViAbLe iF yOu cAnT aFfoRd AnOtHeR 50p" brigade are out in force championing this.

Just increase the tax free allowance and reduce spending, for f***s sake. They are just driving businesses off a cliff in the UK.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

The Government receives ten times as much from a pint of beer as the pub landlord.

How is that fair?

How is that sustainable?

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@andyburnham | @Sacha_Lord

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

The problem with EU free movement is almost everyone in the UK just thinks it will allow them to travel in the EU more easily.
What it also means is that all EU citizens including those rioting ‘students’ will be able to come here.
And every illegal migrant given a passport anywhere in the EU will be able to settle in the UK on the taxpayers expense.
And Burnham is fully aware of this.
Is that what you want ?

https://t.co/D5CG3Uy737

[Dovey Marr 🕊️ @doveyymargeauxx]

🚨 LIB DEM COUNCILLOR CHARGED WITH THREATS TO KILL

Tim Caswell, 66.. a Bedford Borough councillor and speaker of the council has been charged with:

🚨 Making threats to kill.
🚨 Possessing an offensive weapon.
🚨 Threatening to damage or destroy property.

Armed police responded to the incident in Bedford.

Caswell has pleaded not guilty to all three charges, but has been remanded in custody.

Remind me not to get vetting advice from the Lib Dems. 🥴

[Justice @LawAndFraud]

What an outstanding news reporter. If we had done what is shown in that video, we would have been arrested and jailed. Thank God there is no racism in this post.
I hope people are beginning to understand that the justice system is no longer protecting the citizens of our countries. I am under no illusion that our countries have been taken over.

[Kel Mansfield @tedkel]

Why were Jonathan Powell, Peter Mandelson and Lord Hermer appointed without vetting?

The answer is that Chagos was a deal Starmer couldn't refuse to make.

Here's a timeline of the key stages of the Chagos treachery.

In 1982, after it became known that the Chagos seabed may contain vast mineral wealth, Mauritius set up a select committee to examine the matter.
However, sea-mining technology was in its infancy, and it was too expensive to be commercially viable at that time.

In 2003, as underwater mining technologies advanced and the value of minerals and rare earth elements soared, mining the Chagos seabed became an exciting possibility again; Mauritius appointed the eminent international barrister Sir Ian Brownlie as advisor for the Chagos Archipelago.

A former member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Brownlie was a good friend of Sir Satcam Boolell, a former Labour deputy prime minister of Mauritius, and High Commissioner in London.

In 2009, Brownlie led the first Mauritius delegation to the Foreign Office in London seeking a Chagos deal.
Among the delegation was Sir Satcam Boolell's son Satyajit, who became Mauritius Director of Public Prosecutions the same year.

In 2010, after Brownlie died in a motor accident in Egypt, Sir Keir Starmer’s “great mate”, Philippe Sands, a leading human-rights lawyer who has publicly boasted of humiliating the UK in international courts, took over as counsel to Mauritius for Chagos.

In 2013, Satyajit Boolell invited Keir Starmer, whom he had become friendly with during Starmer's time as the UK's DPP, to a legal conference at the 5-star Balaclava resort in Mauritius.

During the trip, Starmer discussed the future of the Chagos Archipelago with then Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam.

After Starmer’s 2013 visit, Ramgoolam wrote that he and Starmer were aligned over Chagos.

In 2015, Ramgoolam was arrested on money-laundering charges when large sums of cash in foreign currencies, suitcases full of brand-new luxury watches, and blank British visas were found in his home.

Also in 2015, Starmer was elected to the British Parliament.

In 2019, Philippe Sands, after a campaign of lobbying the UN, obtained an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only, and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius.

Sands used the ICJ ruling as leverage in the following years in his efforts to persuade the Conservative government to give Chagos to Mauritius.

In 2020, Starmer became leader of the Labour Party.

In 2021, Sands received Mauritius' top honour, The Most Distinguished Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean.

In 2022, Sands made an unauthorized entry into the Chagos Archipelago for a flag-raising ceremony. Sands tweets at the time, “It’s morning on Chagos, where the flag of Mauritius flies."

In 2023, Sands became a Mauritius citizen, but retains his British and French citizenships.

🧧In November 2023, David Cameron replaced James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary and, with the support of other senior Tories, stopped a Chagos deal saying, it’s not in the national interest, as reported in Hansard.

In July 2024, Starmer became UK Prime Minister and just ten weeks after entering Downing Street, he agreed a deal with Mauritius, despite there having been no mention of Chagos during the election campaign, and the Labour manifesto pledging to protect the BOT.

in November of 2024, Ramgoolam was elected Mauritius prime minister again after a snap general election, and took over from the incumbent PM, Pravind Jugnauth, to lead the Chagos negotiations with the UK.

In December 2024, after 14 years in the role, Philippe Sands steps down as Mauritius counsel for Chagos.

In January 2025, Attorney General Lord Hermer recused himself from signing off on the Chagos deal, and declined to say why.

In February 2025, Jugnauth was arrested on money-laundering charges after large sums of cash in foreign currencies and suitcases full of brand-new luxury watches were found in his home.

In May 2025, twelve years after discussing the future of Chagos in Mauritius, Starmer and Ramgoolam sat down in London to sign the treaty that transfers the archipelago's sovereignty to Mauritius.

The Fall Out.

The Chagos deal does🟥NOT secure the joint UK/US military base on Diego Garcia.

The deal operationally hobbles the base, and increases the dangers to the British and American military personnel, and the civilians who work there, and in the wider Central Indian Ocean region.

Diego Garcia's remoteness made it easy to defend in the past. This deal leaves the base horribly vulnerable to the growing threats posed by the new longer-range missiles, and more sophisticated and lethal drones.

When Keir Starmer, Lord Hermer and Vijay Rangarajan, the Director General at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, made the deal it was fully understood that the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago were by far the best locations to deploy early warning, and air-defense systems, to protect the main base from missile and drone attacks.
Yet they still decided to lease only Diego Garcia.

Andy Burnham, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, and Defense Minister Wes Streeting, know the deal increases the dangers to the lives of British service personnel, and our NATO allies personnel, in the strategically important Central Indian Ocean region.
To double down and push the deal with that knowledge is a shameful act of betrayal.

While the deal leaves Diego Garcia vulnerable to attack, it also renders the base itself ineffective and operationally hobbled.

Mauritius is a signatory of the Pelindaba African Weapon-Free Zone Treaty which bans all nuclear weapons from treaty members' territory.

Pelindaba gives each of the more the 40 countries who have signed it the right to inspect the facilities on Diego Garcia if they suspect nuclear arms are being stored there.

The UK's nuclear-armed Trident submarines will no longer be able to enter Chagos waters, or visit Diego Garcia which is the only island in the region which has suitable anchorage and facilities for maintenance and restocking provisions, etc.

The US's nuclear-armed submarines, ships, and planes will also be banned from Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelago's waters.

Mauritius gets complete sovereignty over everything, including control of the airspace above the Chagos Archipelago, which at 250,000 square miles is the same size as France.

The implications of controlling such a vast area of airspace in a strategically vital region are huge.

Mauritius has shown it will ban planes entering its current airspace when China asks.

The Chagos Deal does not ‘secure the base’. It methodically destroys every element required for operations. The text and annexes state it will:
❌Constrain future Ops and use of the base
❌Prevent the placing of sensors and other maritime installations
❌Require us to sight our foes on defence planning
❌Mean we’re unable to use our preferred contractors
❌See us lose of control over electromagnetic spectrum.

[Porcupine Pete 🏴‍☠️ @pete_porcupine]

HORRIFIC: What happened in Paris yesterday was horrific. A man is dead. Others are fighting for their lives. A 12-year-old girl was shot eight times.
And before the blood was even dry, Macron was on camera declaring it a “racist terrorist attack.” Declaring that victims were selected for the colour of their skin and their religion.
He called it a “turning point.”
Then he said this:
“It is the first time we have had a terrorist act that was planned to kill our compatriots, our children, based on the colour of their skin or their religion.”
The FIRST time.
Let that sink in.
The first time?
That single sentence should make every French citizen furious.
So Toulouse wasn’t a turning point? When Mohamed Merah walked into a Jewish school and executed a rabbi and three small children point-blank, one of them just three years old?
Charlie Hebdo wasn’t a turning point? When Islamists massacred journalists for drawing cartoons?
Hyper Cacher wasn’t a turning point? When four Jews were murdered simply for being Jews while shopping for Shabbat?
The Bataclan wasn’t a turning point? When 90 young people were slaughtered like animals inside a concert hall?
Nice wasn’t a turning point? When a truck was driven through families and 86 people were crushed to death, children included?
Father Jacques Hamel wasn’t a turning point? When his throat was slit at the altar of his own church?
Samuel Paty wasn’t a turning point? When a teacher was beheaded in the street for showing his class free speech?
Dominique Bernard wasn’t a turning point?
How many corpses did France have to bury before it counted? How many Jewish children, journalists, shoppers, concertgoers, priests and teachers had to die?
And let’s be clear about something else: the investigation into yesterday’s horror is still establishing motive. The facts are still being gathered.
Yet Macron already has the narrative, the motive, the moral, and the political lesson ready to go.
If the evidence proves racist intent, then condemn it to the fullest extent of the law. Call it what it is. No one will defend it.
But do not rewrite French history to do it.
Do not insult the memory of the dead to serve today’s narrative.
France changed long ago. The French people know it because they lived it. They bled through it.
They remember the little girl in Toulouse. They remember the editors slumped over their desks. They remember the hostages in the kosher store. They remember the bodies on the floor of the Bataclan. They remember the strollers shattered on the promenade in Nice. They remember the priest. They remember the teacher.
You can try to push those atrocities into the background because they are inconvenient to your politics.
But you cannot make a nation forget what it saw with its own eyes.
Politicians can rewrite the narrative.
They will never rewrite people’s memories.
And they will never make France forget its dead

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Just remember this.

When Labour say "free movement" we're not talking about hardworking Polish plumbers anymore.

We're talking about the 1 million illegals who Spain's Pedro Sánchez just put on a fast-track to citizenship.

They will head straight to the UK.

[Restore The Empire @empire_res66190]

In solidarity with the young 15 year old lad arrested for sharing this image of a politician.

You know what to do people. Let’s flood X with this.

[June Slater @juneslater17]

No big headline for this 👇

Labour fined £14,250. Reform fined £2,187. Guess which one the left-wing press shouted about?

In 2023 Labour was fined £14,250 by the Electoral Commission for failing to declare donations properly. 20 separate breaches. Big money, real reporting failures.

No big headlines on The London Economic. No pile-on.

This week Reform was fined £1,750 for missing small print on three social media pages and an advert. Paid it a month late so it went to £2,187.

That's it. Admin.

But that one is everywhere. Screenshots, outrage, "Reform in trouble."

Same regulator. Same type of mistake. One fine seven times bigger than the other.

Only one gets turned into a scandal - and it's the one for Farage.

Tell you everything you need to know about the left-wing press. 🤦

[🇬🇧 Rachel @RachelD1892]

Peter Mandelson appointed Ambassador to the US without vetting.
Jonathan Powell appointed National Security advisor without vetting.
Andy Burnham installed as PM without a leadership election or scrutiny.
That's quasi-communism, Labour style.

[The Reform Army @patriots777888]

A Labour councillor sexually abused a minor for over six months. A Conservative candidate was jailed for three years for being a neo-Nazi. The media turns a blind eye. It is a witch hunt against Reform, and we’re not falling for it.😡

[Andrew Bowie MP @AndrewBowie_MP]

🚨Sneaked out by OFGEM this morning, a warning for the first time EVER they cannot guarantee that demand will be met on a peak day in winter.

Let’s be clear what that means. They cannot guarantee that homes will be warm, lights come on or industry function on a peak day this winter.

And why? Because of an accelerated decline in domestic gas supply from the North Sea.

So what is the solution? For British bill payers to pay more, to IMPORT more from Europe (specifically Belgium) to keep the lights on in Britain.

Britain. A country with vast supplies of gas, untapped, deliberately due to Labour policy now going cap in hand to Europe and paying vast sums to import foreign gas.

It is utterly outrageous. You couldn’t make it up.

https://t.co/saKKnc8gOq