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“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
—George Orwell

[Homerj @Si_Homer]

@BasilTheGreat I think the wider issue here is the DEI training these cops will have been through. Even if these cops are found responsible for their actions, the true culprits are those protected in their ivory towers

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Yes, I've played elite level sport where my particular job was running with a ball at feet at around 30kph+ multiple times a half.

6 ft 4, 95kg.

The tactical information given to me through a 7 day, not 3 minute period sufficed, as did the occasional squirt of electrolyte water per half.

My performance would not have been improved at all by a hydration or tactical break.

Pretty much like 99% of players over a 150 year period playing the most popular and most played sport on the planet by far.

So maybe you can tell me. When was the last time you put your fucking dorittos, big gulp and chicken wings down long enough to know what professional sportsmen need rather than advertising executives or couch potatoes who need to be told 6 times in 20 minutes to buy a Jeep Cherokee, Whopper or diabetes medication instead of just enjoying the sport?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Well who wudda thunk it?! The Starmer-Reeves defence spending plan assumes £10 billion in defence ‘efficiencies’/savings — and leaves Andy Burnham to find a further £5 billion for defence in the next Budget for the figures to add up. Starmer-Reeves — shysters til the very end.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Hi @DailyMirror

I hope you’re preparing a similar headline for Andy Burnham’s impending coronation?

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

In June, BBC News ran at least 8 stories featuring criticism of councils for not flying the Pride flag

But no stories even mentioning the at least 8 Pride organisers who have recently been convicted of paedophile offences

[sandieshoes 🇬🇧 @sandieshoes]

Badenoch versus Burnham.

 What a contrast in leadership styles we just witnessed.

An hour apart, two entirely different visions for the country. 

One was clear, direct, and completely accountable. 

The other? Pure Whitehall-style waffle.

First up, Badenoch. 
No hiding behind pre-written essays or scripted soundbites. She stood in front of a full press conference, took questions from the media head-on, and gave straight, laser-focused answers.

Absolute clarity and accountability.

Her core economic vision is a direct rejection of state control.
She argued that government doesn't create wealth - businesses do. 

She outlined a clear roadmap to cut taxes, slash welfare dependency, and dismantle the over-regulated, risk-averse framework that has stifled British productivity. 

Badenoch delivered a serious, substance-heavy warning about the structural problems driving capital out of the UK. 

She focused on the real issues -  the highest energy costs in the developed world, suffocating red tape, and an uncompetitive international tax rate.

Then comes Andy Burnham. 

The big headline? 
Creating an additional “No. 10 North” in Manchester to serve as the “nerve centre of a rewired Britain”.  

Burnham spent his speech talking about “power flows,” “conduits,” and “streamlining” by creating... yet another massive government headquarters. 

Because apparently, what hard-pressed taxpayers are crying out for right now is more bloated bureaucracy and a second Downing Street to fund.

This “No. 10 North” idea is ridiculous, wasteful government expansion. 

We don't need more civil service jobs, extra offices, and new layers of red tape - We need less government meddling, not an expensive brand-new palace of bureaucracy.

He’s also going to build thousands of council houses- he doesn’t tell us how he will pay for them… it’s a secret  🤫 🤫

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

My thoughts on Andy Burnham's speech today...

He's a lot easier to listen to than Keir Starmer, whose voice and judgey too are worse than nails down a chalkboard. That makes it easier to actually hear what Burnham is saying. 

The trouble is that, in 30+ minutes, he didn't really say very much. 

It was a positive, friendly pitch - full of hope and change and calls for unity, a broad church, a collaborative approach and an end to the current broken system. Which all sounds great, doesn't it?

What's not to like about all of that? Except that he doesn't actually suggest anything tangible or practical to achieve any of those things. 

Crucially, while his calls for unity and an end to the "arguing" might sound nice,  they ignore the reality that, in a democracy, we need competing parties (and individuals within those parties) to argue their case for what they want to do and how they plan to do it. The battle of ideas is vital. If you want unity, go and live in a dictatorship.

Andy Burnham is right to say Westminster hasn't been working for the country for years and that our politics is broken. But that's not because power isn't devolved enough - it's because politicians have repeatedly ignored the express will of the people after they are elected on key issues like immigration, Brexit, law and order and even house building, to name but a few. 

If Burnham thinks that the solution to all of Britain's ills is more devolution of power down from Whitehall to local metro mayors and councils then I suggest he pays a visit to Wales and to Scotland to find out how all that devolved power is working out for the benefit of people in those countries - and it's not looking great.

And if Westminster and Whitehall have been so useless at their jobs over the past few decades (which they have indeed been), then why on earth does Burnham think that local mayors and civil servants will miraculously do any better job? 

The plan to set up a Number 10 North in Manchester is nothing but a silly gimmick - met with cheers by his audience in the room because they can't wait to get their hands on those lovely, well paid, secure public sector jobs. 

Spending time, taxpayers' money and Whitehall bandwidth on adding yet another layer of bureaucracy to our already overly heavy public sector won't do a single thing to boost growth. It will just eat up yet more billions and grow the state at the expense of the wealth-generating private sector.

His plans to cut utility prices and reindustrialise also sound like a good plan but both are impossible while Labour is hooked on the Net Zero targets, which push up energy prices. 

A renewed focus on technical education is to be welcomed but, frankly, I've lost count of how many times a politician has pledged to do that. 

And where have we heard that promise to have a "laser-like focus on growth" before? Hmmmm...

And his bid to build tens (even hundreds?) of thousands of council houses a year is pie in the sky stuff. Labour are already way behind their current house building targets - even for market-priced homes - and the high cost of building supplies, energy and a shortage of skilled labour will make Burnham's plan hard to deliver.

All in all, everything he said sounded nice. But there was no flesh on the bones and no evidence that anything he offered was a solution to any of Britain's problems.

Of course a Prime Minister-in-waiting can't cover every major topic in just one short speech. But the fact that Andy Burnham chose not to mention literally ANY of the biggest problems that Britain faces suggests he just isn't serious about solving any of them.

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[Tony Ward @TonyWard867811]

A man you never voted for will run Britain by August.

He was put there by 25,000 people in one town. The country gets no say.

His plan: spend more, borrow more, tax more.

You don't get a vote. You just get the bill.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

The bond market watching Andy Burnham's speech today.

[Andrew Lawrence @andrewlawrence]

An unelected prime minister, with no mandate, brazenly rinsing you for more taxes, every penny you've got. It's not government anymore, it's theft.

[Jack Montgomery @JackBMontgomery]

Trust Labour to look at the rise of foreign begging gangs and tent encampments on Britain's streets and respond by saying "Let's take away the only power the police have to do anything about this."

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

What better audition that his deft handling of the Defence Investment Plan.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Foreign men are disproportionately raping and sexually assaulting women and girls in the UK.

The left attack those that highlight it.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

13 years since the murder of Lee Rigby. This should've been the last straw for England:

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Invader in Ireland tells @nickshirleyy:

"The UN sent me to Ireland.. I get €500 every week from the government"

This is high treason.

[Homerj @Si_Homer]

@tanarainw If you require sexual alignment I can help as I'm a sexual alignment practitioner 🤔😅

[Kevin O'Sullivan @TVKev]

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has worked out how to stop the boats. By simply promising thousands of migrants safe passage to the UK in a new Ukraine-style refugee scheme. Telling them: "Why bother crossing the Channel illegally when Labour will just let you in?" So pathetic!

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: Somalian arrested for attempted murder after he has driven a car into multiple pedestrians in London

The horrors just do not stop

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

@RepNancyMace An illegal immigrant just raped and murdered a 2 year old baby and our Home Secretary wants to import more.

We need help. Our government is out of control

https://t.co/lr0BU1oJ1n

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

The depressing 20-year legacy of An Inconvenient Truth

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

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