Phil Sharman

Analogue man in a digital world. Care / Don't care. Really should retire.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I want to place on record a huge thanks to Owen Jones for a fantastic puff piece - I couldn't have penned it better myself.

Here's how he describes Restore Britain...

We 'openly demand the mass deporting of “millions and millions”. They even demand the imprisonment of officials and politicians “who knowingly placed dangerous third-world savages in our communities”, as they put it.'

Yes.

Too right, Owen.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

If they want to free Palestine, why don't they just open their borders?

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

WTF! He’s the al-Qaeda operative who trained with two of the 7/7 bombers and confessed in US custody to being a “mastermind” behind both 9/11 and 7/7.
He finished his US sentence and was deported back to the UK in 2022. Since then he’s been detained under the Mental Health Act at Bethlem Royal Hospital a civil psychiatric detention after being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder.
He is deemed major threat to public safety but is still being released.
This is a catastrophic failure of government. If someone is assessed as a major risk to the public, they shouldn’t be walking our streets!
The people making these decisions won’t live with the consequences. We will.

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

Why do we even pay for them anymore?
What is their actual point?

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

This is the way 😭🤣

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

The police now concede it wasn’t a ‘fight’ but an ‘assault’.

They are finally investigating the men they allowed to flee.

This wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the footage shared on this platform.

One of many such cases.

And to think Government ministers are boycotting the platform and trying to control what appears on people’s social media.

This was clearly a serious failure of policing. Why won’t the Home Secretary summon the Chief Constable to explain themselves and why they tried to cover it up?

It’s another egregious case of two-tier policing and it has gone unchallenged by this rotten government.

This nonsense will end under Nigel Farage and Zia Yusuf when Reform UK re-establishes equality before the law.

I wonder if any of the media will ask me about it this morning…

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

'...merely because dishonesty is present.'

So it's OK for a barrister to 'merely' be dishonest

What else would a barrister have to do to get disbarred

Murder someone ?

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

After Egypt's historic knockout win over Australia, head coach Hossam Hassan walked onto the pitch carrying a PALESTINE flag.

Egypt literally locked Palestinians into Gaza. Built a massive, fortified border wall. Egypt is probably the most anti Palestinian place outside Israel.

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

The UK State Pension: £12,500/year for a lifetime of work

An illegal migrant: £41,000/year to the taxpayer

We are spending over THREE TIMES more on unvetted arrivals than on the seniors who built this country 🇬🇧

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Douglas Murray on how Keir Starmer will be remembered

"If he's remembered at all it will be for him deciding that instead of dealing with bad things in the country, he would instead arrest the people who didn't like the bad things that were happening in the country"

[Benonwine @benonwine]

How on earth does a Green Party councillor have the power to send police out to intimidate normal people?

That’s what’s really worrying me here. It seems like he’s treating officers like his own personal security getting them to track people down, threaten them, and shut them up over the most petty, trivial stuff.

Not proper crime. Not anything dangerous. Just someone having an opinion, filming something, or criticising a daft local rule.

This isn’t right. Police should be dealing with real problems and crimes, not acting as enforcers for councillors who don’t like being challenged.

Who gave them this kind of power? And why are they using it like this?
It’s scary when you stop and think about it. We all need to start asking these questions before it becomes normal because if you ask me this all sounds incredibly sinister and corrupt and that’s on the Local Green Party Councillor and the Police who acted on his direct orders.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

If the racist police press charges against this man please point him in the direction of me or the @BadLawTeam

These police thugs need to be taught a lesson they won’t forget.

[Bearing @bear_ing]

Holy shit they’re doubling down, and asking that people do not share the footage. Insane.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

This is Cllr Rick Rowe, for the Green Party Chiswick Riverside. He proposed to stop outside seating in pubs along the Thames, which was critiallly commented on by Alastair. Rowe sent two police officers to warn him off about X posting on this issue & was threatened with arrest.

Last evening Rowe & his boyfriend visited the pub Alastair was drinking in. He was filmed & Rowe tried to grab his phone.

It appears the @MetCC Police passed on confidential information to Rowe.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Well said @London_W4 Alastair Hilton.
“What I don’t want is to live in a country where police can come and shame and embarrass you when you’ve done nothing unlawful”,

My feelings exactly.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The Chief Constable of Essex Police said it was “madness” - the furore after two officers visited my house on Remembrance Sunday.

He described it as “just a five-minute conversation with a journalist”.

There is no “just” about a visit from the police. It is deliberately intimidating and an attack on free speech.

I was accused of a serious offence under the Public Order Act for posting a tweet, a year earlier. No one thinks the tweet came anywhere near the threshold for criminal investigation.

The CPS threw the case out but the process is the punishment.

In the same week, a 15-year-old boy was robbed at knifepoint a few miles from me. Terrified, he called the police and was told it was no longer a live incident!

Feisty tweet - police visit. Knife crime - you’re on your own, mate.

Police now think it’s their business to advise and to lecture to enforce “values”. Usually on the basis of an allegation by a “protected characteristic”.

They look increasingly sinister and ridiculous. They need to return to policing.

Allister did nothing wrong and I hope he joins me in suing the police.

Innocent, decent people must take a stand against tyranny,

Thank god for @SpeechUnion
Do join today if you haven’t already.

[The Mercian @TheMercianNews]

🚨NEW: KC Anu Mohindru has been allowed to continue being a barrister despite falsely claiming that he studied medicine at Oxford University and for claiming that he was a qualified doctor.

He also claimed that he had played cricket for the Bar, for Lashings Cricket Club and for MCC, and that he was a cricketing blue having represented Oxford in a varsity match against Cambridge.

A tribunal disbarred him for telling his 23 Essex Street interviewers a “reckless, foolish and completely unnecessary lie” about studying at Oxford, and because he “doubled down" on his CV.

On appeal at the High Court, Mr Justice Johnson overturned  Mohindru's expulsion, stating that it "would be wrong to impose the ultimate sanction merely because dishonesty is present".

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

We literally witnessed corruption in broad daylight and there’s nothing we can do about it

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

Taylor Swift, who doesn't support borders, walls, guns, or billionaires, sets up a massive wall around MSG with heavily armed security for her billionaire wedding

[MB @paxangloceltae]

The admins of this account haven’t been inside an A&E waiting room lately, have they?

Immigration is *very much* the reason you can’t get a hospital appointment. It’s also the reason you can’t see a GP, can’t join a dentist, and face 11 hour waits in A&E.