This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.
This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.
Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.
What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.
Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.
I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.
2 weeks ago I was stood on the summit of Mount Everest with my 17 year old son Gabriel.
2 days ago I was finishing of a 4 day charity hiking for a veteran charity across the beaches of Normandy for the 82nd anniversary of D-Day to remember and to pay our upmost respects to our fallen heroes from WWII 🫡🎖️
Today I was in Makerfield supporting a fellow veteran, friend and all round good guy @RobKenyonReform not only to help unite the right but also to help prevent at all costs Labour and Andy Burham from winning this all important by-election.
It’s a two horse race (Rob Kenyon and Andy Burham) if Labour lose this seat then they’re done and will be gone in no time. If Burham gets in, he becomes the next PM with months, Labour stabilises and then stick around until the next general election. We need them out NOW!
This is a strategic vote, not a time to play into Labours hands. We are a lot smarter than this. Those on the right I urge you to think this by-election through.
It’s the most important one we’ve had for decades #unitetheright 🫡🇬🇧🏴
Your reminder that the Golders Green attack involving two Jews resulted in an immediate £25 million security fund.
The alarm was sounded loud and clear.
An Irishman nearly gets beheaded in Belfast and we’re all told to remain calm.
Interesting that.
Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.
George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.
Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.
And we all know why.
During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.
They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.
And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.
This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.
This needs to stop.
I'm so fucking angry
Even our deaths, even when they murder us, it's about fucking them and their safety
I'm so fucking sick of these people, this ideology, all of it needs to be purged, Restore isn't good enough if they don't plan on putting these people behind bars too
🚨 NEW: Statistics from the Government's youth unemployment report:
- Mid- and lower-skilled jobs have fallen by around 1.6 million over the past 20 years
- Hospitality vacancies have nearly halved in the last 4 years
- Apprenticeships for 16-24-year-olds have fallen by 35% since the Apprenticeship Levy was introduced in 2017
- The proportion of 16-17-year-olds in paid work has nearly halved from 35% in 2006 to 19% today
- If every current inactive 18-24-year-old was in full-time work, this would contribute an additional £38 billion to UK GDP
- 58% of inactive young people (6 in 10) have never had a job
- Nearly half of all PIP claims among young people are now for autism and ADHD, compared to less than 1 in 10 among all PIP claimants
- 7 in 10 young people claiming a health and disability benefit are still claiming 10 years later
- Of those who first claim aged 16-24, 53% are still not in work after 5 years - dropping to just 48% after 15 years
- The number of 16-24-year-olds receiving DLA or PIP has risen from around 200,000 in 2012 to over 400,000 today, and is projected to reach 700,000 by 2031/32
🚨NEW: Research from the Centre of Social Justice finds mass migration is to blame for high youth unemployment, with migrants getting up to three times as many jobs as young Britons since 2020
You have permitted “offensive banners, slogans, chants & symbols” on the streets week in and week out….
The second the working classes wish to come out, you “issue new legal guidance”.
@lewis_goodall Well that’s just misleading isn’t it…. Minimised political damage, they got rid of boris then truss then lost a huge majority so they absolutely didn’t minimise political damage