Sandyjane

[Ben Leo @Benleo]

An update on something that’s been happening over the past 12 months.

Somebody or some people threatened to kill my children. The offence would certainly carry a custodial sentence because it cited a weapon, vulnerable groups (children) and was done anonymously on social media. My family required 24/7 security and the kids even had someone walking to school with them. Thank you to GB News for all their support with that, we’re very grateful for all their help and concern.

Police located the account to an address in Tower Hamlets but after saying they were about to make arrests, they now say they won’t pursue it because it’s potentially one of three individuals and they can’t pinpoint which one it was. How about you go round and ask them - and you know, investigate?

Police are happy enough to make 12,000 arrests each year for social media posts but when it comes to threatening to kill children of someone who speaks up for the country, it’s apparently not a big issue despite the gravity of the offence.

The problem that arises from this is people start beginning to lose trust in the institutions that are meant to protect them. The institutions we pay for. And when that trust erodes, it’s not good for society.

Ann Widdecombe was slaughtered only months ago and I’m told on my own show by certain guests that words don’t kill people. Well, they do. And they have a huge impact on people’s lives.

Thank you again to GB News for all their support. They have been top class. Shame I can’t say the same about the police.

[Centre for Policy Studies @CPSThinkTank]

Fifty years ago, Britain was in crisis. The music was good, but the economy was a mess. We were forced to go to the International Monetary Fund for a deeply-damaging bailout.

The UK needed a new direction - that's why Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph founded the Centre for Policy Studies. A full half century on, our new Director, the economist and journalist @LiamHalligan, is arguing for another policy revolution now: lower taxes, cheaper energy, affordable welfare, an economy that rewards work and enterprise.

Britain’s problems are urgent – we're on the brink of another bailout. But we changed course fifty years ago - and with the right ideas, we can do so again.

The Centre for Policy Studies - where the fightback begins.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

“I cannot bear to see Britain in decline. I cannot BEAR it.”

So said Margaret Thatcher. Many of us today share her pain.

We have been governed atrociously, negligently, wilfully badly so our people pay high taxes for awful public services and the highest energy bills in the world.

The cost of the weekly shop is deafening. Families have to crowdfund a new hip for a grandparent so long is the queue for an NHS operation.

Maternity services are often atrocious. Many babies die unnecessarily or suffer life-changing injuries.

The repayment on our national debt costs over £110 billion a year. The bond markets who lend us the money will soon stop lending. They think Burnham and co are deluded tax’n’spend Socialists. The choke chain is tightening. Morocco is offered more favourable terms than Britain. We are threadbare, humiliated. Our wealthy flee, taking billions in tax with them.

The United States believes the British military is irrelevant, weak, finished, no longer of any use. But they revere our SAS, a bastion of lethal excellence currently being persecuted by its own feeble excuse for a government.

The invasion on our southern border is horrifying. It endangers women and children but the Home Secretary announces more “safe and legal routes” for Palestinians and Afghans. Why? Nobody wants them.

It is going to take millions of us pulling together to vote the moronocracy out. Our country is in peril.

I cannot bear to see Britain in decline.

[Sandyjane @sandrajaynes682]

@TG_desk69 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[Sandyjane @sandrajaynes682]

@zatzi @jfdta I’m the same - I strangely never burn candles in the Summer. I just thought it was me being odd..!!

[Sandyjane @sandrajaynes682]

@zatzi My Dad was practical so we had paraffin heaters & lamps, a small tv hooked up to a car battery and lots of candles. Generally it was dire - no bin collection no bodies buried and businesses closing at dusk. Never thought I’d see it again.!

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

The farmer who called in the RAF Fairford incident has spoken. And she's not having Wes Streeting's spin.

There were "definitely more than five," she says. Eight to ten. Faces covered. All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to wear."

Five were arrested. All five are now out on bail.

Streeting went on the telly to say she only had a "partial picture." Her reply? Nobody in any official capacity has even been in touch with her.

So: a declared major incident. The one witness from that night says more men were there than were ever arrested. Not one official has picked up the phone to her.

But the Defence Secretary found time to go on the BBC and mark down her account.

Something doesn't add up. 🤔

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

I spent over two decades in counterterrorism and I’m still involved in many ways, so here are my views on what I see has happened over the past 24-36 hours in the UK:

Five British men in their twenties were arrested on Sunday near RAF Fairford on suspicion of explosives offences and the preparation of a terrorist act. On Monday they were released on police bail.

That’s not what the terrorism clock looks like when the investigators are still in charge of it.

Under ordinary UK criminal law a suspect can be held for 24 hours, stretched to 36 by a superintendent, and to 96 hours by a magistrate.

But under section 41 of the Terrorism Act the first hold is 48 hours, not 24 hours. A judge can then extend it, in stages, up to 14 days without a charge. If the case merits it, it can even be pushed to 28 days. That 14-day cap exists for exactly this kind of file of vans, an airbase the United States uses, a possible foreign hand, explosives (if there were any) and interviews that are not finished on the first night.

Counter-terrorism police said the inquiry isn’t over. They said conditions apply. They said a state link has not been ruled out. Those sentences he said only make sense if the evidence trail was still live. A live trail is why Parliament built the two-week window.

But watching the guy read out the statement showed me in his body language, tone and eye movements that releasing those five men was NOT his or his department’s decision.

Walking five men after roughly a day is what you do with a pub fight, not with a suspected terrorist attack on a bomber base.

I’ve sat in enough interrogation rooms to know the difference between a custody clock and a political ceiling. Nobody had to shout an order down a phone. Someone in the political building above the investigators decided that charging British nationals on Monday, with Iran already denying it, Washington watching the runway, and a Labour conference where the main topics of discussion were prioritizing Palestinian and other refugees settling in the UK, was uglier than bail and a holding statement.

The law allowed them to keep the door shut. Yet the door opened anyway in half of the most minimum time.

That’s the story. That for me is the only story here. Not “they were innocent.” Not “the case collapsed.” The statute was not exhausted, but the appetite was.

The real question is who, and most importantly, why?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

FACT.
Asylum caseworkers are not allowed to reject illegal migrants from Afghanistan and Eritrea even if they are on the Sex Offenders’ Register.

Those men’s human rights trump the right of British women and children to feel safe in their own country.

Madness.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

We are 3 trillion pounds in debt, we keep having to raise taxes to pay off the massive interest & our colossal growing welfare bill. Yet yesterday Ed Miliband gave 88 million to Gaza when our armed forces desperately need better funding to keep our service men & women safe.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Hang on!
The Chief Constable of @EssexPoliceUK
said there was no increased risk of crime associated with illegal migrants at former RAF Wethersfield.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

So Andy Burnham has ditched “hope in every heart” and we are now onto “challenges at a difficult time”.

Didn’t take long, did it?

There were signs of growth when the Tories left office. All stamped out by mad Socialist policies.

[ExWren @VoWalesWren]

I’m not passing on a post. This is me. I’m furious. 😡
I worked. They took NI off my wages before I ever saw it. My employer paid in too. For years. That was not a favour. That was money ripped out of work I actually did, on the promise it would be there when I was old.
People paid the same and dropped dead before they collected a penny. That money didn’t vanish. The government spent it. Then they have the cheek to look at the rest of us like we’re scroungers for wanting it back.
They never put their own money in. Not a pound. They took ours, blew it, and when it was our turn they changed the word. “Entitlement.” As if I crawled in begging.
Then they moved the line. Retirement age up. Then up again. Work till you drop. Wait till you’re worn out. Hope you live long enough to see what you already paid for. That’s the con, empty the pot, shove the age back, and let more of us die waiting.
And some of the young ones sneer. Talk as if we stole their lives. As if we sat on our backsides. We paid in when the deal was 60 or 65. We didn’t invent this mess. We grafted and now we’re the villains while they raise the age and spend the money elsewhere! 😤
It was never locked away with my name on it. I know that. They used it like a slush fund and expected us to swallow it.
Look at them. Fat packages. Weeks off. Sick pay. Sorted. Then look at pensioners on a fixed state pension, counting every coin, filling in bloody forms, being told there’s nothing left.
Veterans. People who built this country. Our own. Treated like an inconvenience.
Meanwhile the spongers sit on it fit to work, won’t work, know every loophole, take and take while the rest of us paid in. And still they find money. Hotels. Benefits. Lawyers. Welcome packs for boat after boat coming over. People who never paid a day’s NI here. Never put a pound into the pot I funded for decades.
Don’t tell me we can’t afford our own. Don’t tell me the cupboard is bare for the ones who worked, then fling it open for spongers and arrivals who contributed nothing. Don’t push the retirement age up on people who already paid, then let kids be told we’re the ones draining the country.
Billions abroad. Billions here on people who put nothing in. And the ones who paid get lectured, delayed, and spat on.
Now they want to tax it as well. Take it off you on the way in, spend it, make you wait longer, call it an entitlement then tax what’s left when you finally get it. Steal it twice. Three times if you count the years they added to the retirement age.
Don’t call my pension charity. Don’t call it welfare. Don’t preach at me about kindness while you rob the people who funded the lot.
I paid it. In work. In tax. In years I don’t get back.
They spent what was meant for later on spongers, on foreign aid, on boatloads who never paid in, then shoved retirement further away, told the young to blame us, and now they’re coming back for another cut.
It is my money! I earned it! 🤬
vowaleswren

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Hmmm who should we trust on the UK economy:

Bridget Phillipson who with a brief stint working for a refuge worked most of her adult life in politics.

Or Sir Jim Ratcliffe who spent three decades building businesses including the world’s largest privately owned industrial group that generates £50 billion and employs 26,000 people?

Tough one. 🤔

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Not much shocks me any more.

But Sir Richard Dearlove’s bleak analysis of how net zero has left Britain at the mercy of her enemies is just shattering.

We are in grave danger. Self-inflicted.

Here’s what I wrote 👇💥

https://t.co/npSceFahtL

[Cllr Natalie Oliver @CllrNROliver]

I was making an incredibly important speech today at full council about our most vulnerable children. Yet, regardless of political party, not one of them would allow me to speak and, perhaps more importantly, not one of them were willing to listen.

This is not new.

For far too long, politicians have failed to listen. And for years, the very parties THEY represent have failed our nation and, most tragically of all, failed and continue to fail our children.

One of the most prominent and disturbing examples is the rape gangs scandal. A deeply shameful chapter in our nation’s history. And what did politicians across the political establishment do while vulnerable children were being abused, raped and tortured? They looked the other way, failed to act, and failed to give these children the safety and the voice they so desperately needed.

This cannot continue.

Our children deserve politicians who will listen. Our communities deserve representatives who will put people before politics. And future generations deserve leaders who are prepared to confront difficult truths, stand up for the vulnerable, and put the long-term interests of our country ahead of their own political careers.

Too often, what we see instead is a self-serving establishment more concerned with protecting itself than protecting the people it was elected to serve.

#childrenincare #selfserving #careexperiencedyoungpeople #brokenbritain #toryfailure #establishment #saveourchildren #saveournation #neglect #complexity #exploitation #rapegangs @reformparty_uk

[June Slater @juneslater17]

♦️ IN A NUTSHELL FOR THOSE WHO HATE LONG POSTS ♦️

For 20 years we've been told "Ministers can't do anything, it's the blob, it's the lawyers, it's the quangos."

Danny Kruger's plan says: enough.

♦️ Abolish the Cabinet Office
♦️ Scrap the quangos - give powers back to elected Ministers
♦️ Split the top job - Cabinet Secretary - into 3. No more one person with a stranglehold
♦️ Ministers can hire and fire - reward the good ones, move the bad ones
♦️ Civil Service Code rewritten - you work for the elected government, not for yourself

His quote: "There can be no distinction between elected and permanent government."

Translation: We vote, ministers perform ‼️.

About time. 👌

[Benonwine @benonwine]

The Brilliant and Formidable Conservative MP Katie Lam has said...

"We must ban parties from campaigning in foreign languages. It's both divisive and dishonest.

And it prevents people from understanding what their would-be representatives are saying."

Do you AGREE with her?

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

In 2020, Shami Chakrabarti, a Labour peer, said Black Lives Matter protests were “a movement not a moment”.

She said Extinction Rebellion “is in a noble tradition of peaceful direct action so that ordinary people might be heard”.

She then said Palestine Action “includes criminality” but that banning it was “a step too far”.

Now she wants to designate working-class men and women who are peacefully protesting the invasion of Britain as “terrorists” and have them banned altogether.

Do you see the hypocrisy?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

(Former RAF) Wethersfield has 17 new minibuses to ferry 800 illegal migrants into nearby towns.

The local public bus service to Braintree has been stopped.

The migrants have their own GP surgery and nurses. 20% have TB, a disease eradicated in the UK.

Sometimes, I wonder whether this is an experiment to see how much provocation the British people can take before they finally snap.

What do you think?