Mark Collard

Archaeologist. PNEFC fan. Views are mine.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm confident nobody will share this.

[Mark Collard @rubiconmark]

@johnauldwebster They are embarrassing.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

If people genuinely believe Burnham won’t receive the exact same media onslaught, they’ve not been paying attention.

Starmer is not, objectively, bad. This idea that he is somehow the worst PM in British history is frankly laughable.

Liz truss lasted 49 days, crashed the pound and was laughed out of Downing Street.

Since Labour took office, Keir Starmer’s government has:

• Scrapped the two-child benefit limit, lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and putting money back into some of the hardest-pressed households in the country.

• Expanded free school meals, cutting costs for families and making sure more children get a proper meal during the school day.

• Expanded funded childcare, reducing one of the biggest monthly costs facing working parents and making it easier for people to stay in work.

• Raised the National Living Wage, increasing pay for millions of low-paid workers.

• Strengthened workers’ rights, giving people greater protection against insecure work and bad employers.

• Introduced statutory sick pay from the first day of illness, so workers are less likely to choose between their health and their wages.

• Ended no-fault evictions, giving renters more security in their homes.

• Brought rail operators back into public ownership, taking key services out of failed private hands and giving the public a stronger stake in how they are run.

• Cut NHS waiting lists from their post-pandemic peak, meaning more patients are being seen sooner.

• Raised the state pension through the triple lock, protecting pensioners’ incomes against rising costs.

• Scrapped the old non-dom tax regime, making some of the wealthiest people in the country pay more fairly.

• Added VAT to private school fees, raising money from those most able to contribute.

• Removed business rates relief from private schools, ending an unjustified tax break.

• Increased neighbourhood policing, putting more officers and PCSOs back into communities.

• Helped bring knife crime down, meaning fewer families face the devastation of serious violence.

• Recorded the lowest homicide rate since the 1970s, a material improvement in public safety.

• Created Great British Energy, giving Britain a publicly owned clean energy company.

• Created the National Wealth Fund, backing investment in industry, infrastructure and clean energy.

• Passed planning reforms aimed at getting homes and major projects built faster.

• Improved relations with the EU, reducing diplomatic hostility and rebuilding practical cooperation.

• Agreed a UK-EU security partnership, strengthening cooperation on defence and European security.

• Signed a long-term partnership with Ukraine, reinforcing Britain’s support against Putin’s invasion.

• Secured new trade agreements, opening up markets for British businesses.

• Helped restore seriousness to government after years of scandal, chaos and decline.

People do not have to like Starmer. They do not have to vote Labour. But pretending this is the record of the worst Prime Minister in British history is absurd.

[Mark Collard @rubiconmark]

@flipflop1209 @Wwfcwolf1 Bless. We charge overnight - £3.50 at 7p a unit for a full charge. 220 miles. We have saved £1200 a year in petrol costs.

[Mark Collard @rubiconmark]

@dharford79 Beautiful now here in sunny #Malvern

[Mark Collard @rubiconmark]

@lukejcr @miffythegamer @TiceRichard Do these fools eat the shell? What does it matter what colour it is? Each day they sink further into idiocy.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

What’s going on in Southampton isn’t about injustice, it’s about male violence.

It’s knuckle dragging scum being incited into angry mobs by multimillionaires.

They’re bored, racist radicalised idiots.

[Mark Collard @rubiconmark]

@danielmgmoylan You are so wrong. Own it, you fool.

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Ryan Bridge finally emerged from his self‑imposed vow of silence over the Billy Allison ‘situation’ choosing, naturally, to break it on Ben Harnwell’s podcast on Bannon's War YouTube Channel. In a performance that was allegedly meant to convey remorse to the bereaved, he instead delivered his usual party piece: a long, whining monologue about how the real victim here is, astonishingly, Ryan Bridge. And of course, it’s all the fault of the “ultra far left”, I mean who else?
True to form, Bridge tries to wriggle out of any responsibility by claiming he barely even knows Allison and he’s “just a guy who came to help out now and again”. Those of us who follow their nonsense haven’t spent months watching the low‑budget soap opera of intimidation he’s been livestreaming, not to know the truth. We saw Allison take over the stream when Bridge got himself arrested, Bridge even thanked him!
In words borrowed from the Birmingham Antifascist FB page, ‘The 'men' of Raise the Colours are fucking losers. Lost, inadequate, pitiful overgrown crybullies, incapable of responding to any situation without violence, or the threat of violence. And that's precisely why Bridge wanted them on board, slimy, manipulative narcissist that the is.’
Listen for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

[Mark Collard @rubiconmark]

@benjacksnn It was lively- this was from our hotel balcony last night!

[amancalledbuck @rambling1diot]

If you want some colour in your life, check out Gail’s work.

[Mark Dixon @PrestonWalrus]

@BBCMOTD Who'd have thought it possible to find a more deplorable character than Sepp Blatter to run football, but somehow FIFA have....

[Mark Collard @rubiconmark]

@Pnejacko You've seen Snakes on a Plane, now watch...

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Nobody has done more to undermine British values than Nigel Farage.

[Mark Collard @rubiconmark]

@implausibleblog 37 in Sevilla

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

Who do we all want relegated today?🤔

[Home Office @ukhomeoffice]

Asylum decisions have quadrupled.

The asylum backlog is now down from its peak of 175,000 to 49,000 people awaiting a decision - the lowest level since 2019.

More decisions mean more asylum hotel closures and more illegal migrants removed or deported.

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Net migration down (48%)
Immigration down (20%)
Emigration down (6%)
Asylum applications down (12%)
Returns and deportations up (7%)
Arrivals by small boat down (41%) - 1st Jan - 20th May

Labour delivering

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Urgent message.