Mike Prendergast

Successful Manchester born entrepreneur. Built and sold three businesses. Common sense, no left wing/woke or DEI nonsense. MCFC and MAGA/DOGE/MEGA. NO DM’s.

[Mike Prendergast @prende34734]

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@thespafixer Or some div getting creative with the badges.

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@PaulCowland_ That was a great episode!

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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Agenda 2030 Or The Defence Of The Realm. Starmer Has Made His Choice. John Healey Has Resigned Over It.

This morning Britain woke up without a Defence Secretary. By lunchtime it knew why.

The numbers tell the story precisely. The Ministry of Defence faces a £28 billion funding shortfall over four years. Healey wanted £18 billion. He was offered £13.5 billion of which defence chiefs regarded only £10 billion as real money. The remaining £3.5 billion was, in the words of the Telegraph, invented through magical accounting tricks. The Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Richard Knighton, took the unusual step of writing directly to Starmer to warn that the money was not enough. The head of the British armed forces writing directly to the Prime Minister is not a routine communication. It is a signal of desperation.

Starmer told NATO last week that it is our intelligence assessment that there could be an attack by Russia on NATO as soon as 2030. Those are his words. His government's assessment. Shared with our allies. Four years away. And his Treasury offered the man responsible for defending against that threat an accounting trick and a two page summary instead of a funded plan. Why. Because the money was needed elsewhere.

In 2015 every United Nations member state including Britain signed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Its 17 goals and 169 targets commit signatory nations to facilitating migration, eliminating inequality, achieving net zero and embedding inclusive institutions. No British parliament voted on it. No British public was consulted. It was adopted at a UN summit and has been implemented ever since through regulatory frameworks, public sector guidance and institutional capture rather than democratic mandate. It is not a conspiracy. It is a publicly available document on the UN website. And its priorities, net zero, welfare, migration, DEI, are precisely the budgets this government has protected while offering the defence of the realm an accounting trick.

Ed Miliband refused to cut his net zero budget to fund defence. The Labour Party refused to cut welfare spending that would have freed up billions. The £10 billion in asylum accommodation contracts continues. The DEI infrastructure embedded across British policing, the NHS, the civil service and the education system continues to be funded. Every one of these is a commitment that takes precedence over the defence of the realm in this government's spending decisions.

The hierarchy of priorities is now visible. A government that has spent two years embedding progressive transformation across British institutions, protecting the net zero agenda from cuts and managing mass migration has discovered that it cannot simultaneously do all of that and defend the country. When the moment of decision arrived the progressive agenda was protected and the armed forces were handed a two page summary and told to make do.

Lord Robertson, the former Labour Defence Secretary and NATO Secretary General, warned in April that Britain was underprepared, underinsured and under attack. He said there was a corrosive complacency in Britain's political leadership. The army has been reduced to its smallest size in 200 years. Seven warships have been axed. The Defence Investment Plan was due last autumn, delayed through winter, missed its spring deadline and has now produced the resignation of the Defence Secretary on the day it was finally meant to be published.

Healey's letter says without a plan that meets the moment he is being forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our forces, increase the risk to personnel on operations and could make the country less safe. He had no other option but to resign.

In the most dangerous security environment since the Cold War a Labour government has chosen the globalist agenda over the defence of the realm. That choice has now cost it its Defence Secretary. The question is what it will cost the country.

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@jen_moxon Never made a 3 litre though

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@UKFootyBible He’s German so I’m cool with that so long as he joins in with our second anthem about our incompetent PM.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

UK GOVERNMENT SACKED ITS OWN BORDER WATCHDOG

David Neal was the man the government hired to inspect UK borders and make sure they actually worked. He did exactly that. What he found was not good. He wrote it all up in official reports. The Home Office locked those reports in a drawer.

When he finally went to a newspaper to warn the public that private planes were landing in the UK with almost nobody checking who was on them, the Home Secretary James Cleverly @JamesCleverly fired him.

Here is what Neal actually found.

At London City Airport, only 21% of flights flagged as high risk were checked by immigration officers.

Not some of the time. As a yearly average.

He said it was a scandal and dangerous for the country.

The Home Office said he had the numbers wrong. Then they fired him.

At the moment he was sacked, the @HomeOffice was holding back 15 of his finished inspection reports. Some had been sitting there for 18 months without being shown to the public.

The agreed deadline for publishing them was eight weeks. Not one report met that deadline across his entire three years in the job.

When they finally released 13 of the reports, they chose to do it on the same afternoon that a separate major inquiry published its findings... Draw your own conclusions.

What was actually in those reports? Border control posts left with nobody manning them. Officers at e-passport gates described as distracted and without basic radios. The whole airport border operation rated as neither effective nor efficient.

Neal told MPs directly: I have been sacked for doing my job.

He also told @BBC the Home Office is dysfunctional and described senior officials rolling their eyes when he brought them his findings.

He said the government contacted him three separate times warning him not to speak publicly about the unpublished reports.

He had almost no other way to get the information out.

The people who fired him for raising border security concerns were the same people who spent years promising the public they had taken back control of the borders.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @DailyMail @CommonsHomeAffs

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

The woman David Lammy wants to choose our judges says they should NOT be appointed on merit alone.

She thinks diversity should determine appointments.

She must not be allowed to run the Judicial Appointments Commission.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: The UK Government are contacting JOURNALISTS covering the event in Northern Ireland to INSTRUCT their REPORTING

Attributed to an unspecified and anonymous 'GOVERNMENT SOURCE'

We live in dangerous times
Keir Starmer is a tyrant

[Mike Prendergast @prende34734]

@David__Osland Idiot

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@HoodedClaw1974 Well the numbers wouldn’t bother her for sure.

[Andy on X 🎸✈️🇬🇧 @andyw8924]

£35bn to give away the Chagos - perfectly fine.
£13bn on Foreign aid, ditto.
£10bn to welcome illegal migrants- all good.
Unspeakable billions on Ed Miliband's madcap schemes - a priority.
£28bn to defend the country properly- oh no we can't afford that. Healey is right to go.

[Mike Prendergast @prende34734]

@owenjonesjourno @Keir_Starmer Give it a rest with the new word you’ve recently seen someone intellectually superior to you use.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

This Government has all the money in the world for Ed Milliband’s mad plans, foreign aid, and benefits for foreigners. But nothing for our armed forces.

Good on John Healey. Shame on them. Reeves and Starmer should go too. And with them this wretched Labour Government.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Breaking. John Healey Resigns. Starmer Told NATO Russia Could Attack By 2030. His Own Defence Secretary Says The Funding Does Not Match The Threat.

John Healey is not a rebel. He is not a troublemaker. He is one of Starmer's most loyal and trusted allies. A man who spent four years in opposition preparing for the job of Defence Secretary. He has resigned this morning because Rachel Reeves refused to fund the defence of this country adequately at the most dangerous moment in Europe since the Second World War.

His resignation letter says the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs. The Defence Investment Plan falls well short of what is required. It rises to just 2.68 percent of GDP in 2030. He says that without a plan that meets the moment he is being forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our forces, increase the risk to personnel on operations and could make the country less safe. He had no other option but to resign.

Starmer told NATO last week that Russia could attack by 2030. That is not a political statement. That is the British government's own intelligence assessment shared with our allies. Healey has resigned because the money allocated does not match the threat his own Prime Minister publicly named to our NATO partners just seven days ago.

Rachel Reeves has chosen the fiscal rules over the defence of the realm. Starmer has allowed her to. And the man responsible for our armed forces has concluded he cannot in good conscience continue.

In the most dangerous security environment since the Cold War a Labour government has just lost its Defence Secretary over money. That is not a governing party. That is a liability.

[JRF @JRFBoy]

Alright, fine, deport the immigrants. Just don’t complain when you need a security guard to stand near the entrance of a supermarket FaceTiming their uncle in Chittagong for 8 hours and there’s no one left to do it.

[Mike Prendergast @prende34734]

@Helen_Whately @KemiBadenoch And yet Minibrain is spending like a drunken sailor

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

This is how faith in the justice system dies👇

[Damian Pudner @DamianPudner]

Worst Chancellor in living memory. She came in promising credibility, growth & fiscal discipline. She's delivered a large employer NICs raid, higher borrowing, weak growth, a damaged relationship with business, zero fiscal headroom, and a tax burden heading towards record highs.