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[Ben Leo @Benleo]

This exchange sums up why Brits are finished with the bollocks they’ve been subject to over decades

Patronising, snarling, contemptuous response to the working class by smug, self righteous nobody

“Look at this fool, ladies and gents, isn’t he an IDIOT?”

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed'

Henry Nowak's father says the 'contrast' in the police's treatment of his son and his murderer is 'unbearable' in a statement after Nowak's killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

The UK just “smashed” its May temperature record… but here’s the part the Met Office conveniently leaves out:
The PREVIOUS record was set in 1922.

That’s 104 years ago.

Long before SUVs, private jets, or modern CO₂ emissions. Heathrow Airport didn’t even exist yet. The area was literally farmland and small villages.

So if a 1922 heatwave could produce nearly identical temperatures in a world with ~130 ppm less CO₂, maybe, just maybe, natural variability plays a much bigger role than the panic merchants admit.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was?

We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality:

The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth.

That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.

[Giles Udy @GilesUdy]

As a Soviet historian who has spent years writing about the extreme, repressive control Soviet Communism exercised over its unfortunate citizens, I find it really hard to bring a similar accusation against the Labour government and Keir Starmer.

But I’m finding it increasingly difficult to avoid that conclusion.

We have no Gulag or death penalty, admittedly, but what Labour and the old Soviet regime do have in common is the arrogant belief that they alone hold the moral high ground and that this entitles them to the total control over all those who do not share their worldview.

And like the Soviets of old their tools of control are the same…

- legislation and co-opted courts and civil service to apply it

- the policing of dissent, by hate crime orders, arrests (@glinner), the long term seizure of electronic appliances (@CF_Farrow) to intimidate even those against whom no charges are finally brought.

- controlling free speech (12,000 arrests annually for social media posts in 2025). George Orwell’s ‘thought crime’ persecution has become a reality under Labour.

- framing dissent (the Unite the Kingdom participants) as racism and far right fascism (Stalin started that in the days when Labour was his captive party, the 1930s, and ‘fascist’ has remained their favoured mantra ever since)

- attacking and weakening the family (because the family is so often a place where small ‘c’ conservative values are transmitted down the generations), including the promotion of trans ideology to confuse children in their understanding of the roles of men and women, mothers and fathers. In their eyes women can have penises and ‘heteronormativity’ must be ‘smashed’.

- education, wrested as Marx decreed, from the middle class (private schools and VAT), and used as a vehicle for the state propagandising of children and youth at their most vulnerable age.

… and much more.

In short, I can reach no other conclusion. Under Labour, Britain is becoming a repressive state which is, incredibly, echoing the very characteristics of repression that any former resident of the Soviet Union or its satellite states would recognise today (and they do and tell us so)

And with every opportunity Keir Starmer has to rein that in, he instead doubles down. Month by month things get worse.

This is 2026. I can’t believe what I am seeing. Or what I’m saying. But, yes, it is going on. And only a majority government of either Tories or Reform (and I do have reservations about both) of a coalition of two can reverse this.

… or we are sunk

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

After 18 months of “standing up to Putin” the Labour govt quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries.

Yesterday Labour MPs voted AGAINST UK oil and gas licences.

We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea.

Insane.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Ireland Deported 205 People. The Story Is the Sausages.

A human rights monitor appointed by the Irish government to oversee a deportation flight from Dublin to Islamabad last year has filed her report. The overall operation, she found, was conducted humanely with respect for the rights and dignity of the returnees. Her one criticism was the food. Pork sausages had been served as part of a full Irish breakfast. The aviation company changed its menu. That is the headline. That is what the story is about.

Here is what the story is not about, though it probably should be. Ireland deported 205 illegal immigrants and criminals on chartered flights in 2025. The flights went to Pakistan, Georgia, Nigeria and Romania. They cost the Irish taxpayer approximately €1.1 million in total. The operation was independently monitored, found to be humane, and the only actionable finding was that someone needs to order different sausages. Ireland has a functioning deportation programme. It works. The human rights monitor confirmed it.

Britain, with a population thirteen times larger and a Channel crisis Ireland does not face, cannot get people on planes at all. The legal architecture surrounding removal is so tangled, so comprehensively colonised by activist lawyers and expansive human rights interpretations, that the government which promised to smash the gangs has instead watched more than 200,000 people cross the Channel illegally since 2018. Around 46,000 crossed last year alone. This week a BBC undercover team found an established payment system for illegal crossings operating out of a phone shop in Woolwich. The shop offered a refund policy.

The comparison with Ireland is not flattering. Ireland offers unsuccessful asylum seekers up to €10,000 to return home voluntarily. If they refuse and a deportation order is issued, they are removed, including by chartered flight, independently monitored, with a full Irish breakfast. Britain offers hotel accommodation, legal aid, welfare support and access to a court system that takes years to exhaust. The incentive structures point in opposite directions and the results reflect that.

The cost argument is made for itself. Ireland spent €473,000 on a single flight carrying 24 men to Islamabad. That sounds significant until you calculate what keeping 24 people in Ireland costs over months or years of accommodation, legal proceedings, healthcare and administration while appeals work their way through the system. Britain spends over £8 million a day housing asylum seekers in hotels. The deportation flight is not the expensive option. It is the cheaper one. The human rights industry has successfully inverted the perception of where the cost lies.

Ireland's justice minister has said he would be open to processing unsuccessful asylum seekers in hubs outside the EU, watching Italy's Albanian processing centres with interest. Italy is moving closer to making that model legally viable despite years of court challenges. Britain is watching both and doing neither, bound by a government that has ruled out leaving the ECHR and an Attorney General whose instinct is deference to international legal frameworks over domestic democratic mandate.

The pork sausages story is a gift to everyone who wants to make removal seem cruel, chaotic and culturally insensitive. A menu change has been ordered. The human rights monitor is satisfied. Twenty-four men are back in Pakistan. Two hundred and five people were removed from Ireland in 2025 without a single legal challenge succeeding in preventing it. Britain cannot manage that.

And the reason Britain cannot manage it has nothing to do with sausages.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I can't help thinking that if the British Government brought the energy it has to prevent the "far right" from entering the country to preventing illegal immigrants from entering the country there might not be a "far right" in the first place.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

If you’re wondering what is going on in the UK right now, the state is having a complete meltdown about the working-classes of this country daring to mobilise on the streets.

Until now, the political class and the state have been absolutely fine with people protesting.

Islamist sympathisers? Fine.
Antisemites? Fine.
Pro-Iran stooges? Fine.
BLM revolutionaries who protest while breaking Covid laws? Fine.

The prime minister will even ‘Take the Knee’ to show he is with you.

If you’re a ‘former’ Islamist and ally of al-Qaeda he’ll even invite you into Number 10 Downing Street for a cup of tea.

And if you’re an antisemite who calls for violence against white people and the West, such as Alaa Abd El-Fattah? He’ll welcome you with open arms.

But if you happen to belong to the decent majority of hardworking, tax-paying and patriotic Brits whose ancestors actually built this country then you must be treated very differently.

You are considered a threat.
You are considered dangerous.
You are considered divisive.
You are considered evil.

The very same state that has pushed people to the very edge - by refusing to fix the borders, by flooding the country with 200,000 illegals, by unleashing mass sexual assaults, by entrenching two-tier justice - now demands that the people who have to live with this do not say anything about it at all.

And if they do protest, then they must feel the full force of the law in a way that others do not.

The majority must be policed while minorities are protected.

Facial Recognition technology.
Revised CPS guidance.
Countless more police.
Warnings from politicians.

The only silver lining is that now, today, everybody can see it.

Everybody can see what is happening. It’s out in the open.

The bias is unavoidable.

And everybody has had enough.

Keir Starmer and the British state clearly hate many of their fellow citizens.

They clearly do not view people who happen to hold different views as legitimate.

But by treating them in this way they are only ensuring that the numbers of those who do choose to protest tomorrow spiral to levels they can no longer contain, silence, ignore, or dismiss.

[Simon @sojodrell]

@Keir_Starmer Is this parody or AI?

[Department of State @StateDept]

While the United Kingdom faced unprecedented illegal boat crossings, UN agencies condemned plans for deportations.

UN officials lobbied aviation regulators to prevent the deportation of migrants – an appalling violation of the UK’s national sovereignty.

[Department of State @StateDept]

UN agencies systematically facilitated mass migration into America and Europe, even as citizens of these nations called for restrictions on migration.

Now the Global Compact’s latest report urges nations to expand migration pathways and pursue “regularization” of migrants.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Fifteen Percent. Fifteen Hundred Seats. A Ten Year Plan. One Word Covers It. Delusion.

Keir Starmer's response to the worst local election result in Labour history is to announce that he intends to govern for a decade. Let that land for a moment.

Fifteen percent of the national vote. Fifteen hundred councillors lost. Wales gone to Plaid Cymru for the first time since devolution. Sunderland fallen after fifty years. Gateshead, Blackburn, Tameside. Josh Simons, the former director of Labour Together, the organisation that put Starmer in Downing Street, writing in the Sunday Times that he has lost the country. Forty of his own MPs calling for his resignation. The general secretary of Unite demanding a timetable for his departure. And Starmer's answer to all of it is that he plans to be in Downing Street until 2034. One word covers it. Delusion. A man who has lost the country does not get to decide he will govern it for another decade.

Starmer's interview in the Observer contains something even more revealing than the ten year claim. After the most emphatic rejection of Labour's agenda in modern electoral history, driven in significant part by public fury over immigration and the loss of border control, Starmer's bold response is to announce a new youth mobility scheme with the European Union that will allow tens of thousands of young Europeans to come to Britain annually. He describes this as being full-throated and bold. The voters who handed Reform those fifty year Labour strongholds on Thursday will have a different description.

Moreover, the Catherine West stalking horse challenge raises a question that deserves to be asked plainly. Is this orchestrated? Under Labour's rules a leadership challenge can only be triggered once per year before conference. If West fails to reach the 81 nomination threshold the challenge collapses and Starmer gains a year of protection. If she reaches 81 and triggers a full membership ballot, Starmer goes on the ballot paper automatically and Labour's membership, which historically skews left, decides. The serious candidates, Burnham, Rayner, Streeting, have all scrambled to distance themselves from West's move. They may have calculated that a failed stalking horse challenge now locks Starmer in and removes the pressure for an orderly transition. The beneficiary of a botched challenge is Starmer himself.

Meanwhile the Mandelson files have not yet been fully released. Parliament returns after the King's Speech. Ian Collard's written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee is still outstanding. The privileges committee referral remains in play. Whatever Cat Little would not discuss in open committee is still sitting in that vetting file. Starmer's ten year project depends on none of that reaching critical mass. It is a considerable bet.

Starmer's attack on Nigel Farage's funding is the most transparent deflection in the interview. A Prime Minister facing forty resignation demands from his own MPs, a stalking horse leadership challenge, historic local election losses and unresolved national security questions about his most controversial appointment reaches for a story about cryptocurrency donations to his political opponent. The country is not fooled and neither is the press.

Josh Simons, until this weekend one of Starmer's most loyal allies, wrote that Starmer has lost the country and cannot rise to this moment. That is not a verdict from an enemy. It is a verdict from someone who built the machine that put him in Downing Street.

A Prime Minister who responds to that verdict by announcing a ten year project has not heard it. A Prime Minister who responds to the worst immigration driven electoral revolt in Labour history by announcing new immigration routes from Europe has not heard it. A Prime Minister who calls a stalking horse challenge a distraction has not heard it. The country spoke on Thursday. This man cannot hear it. And that, more than anything else, is why he has to go.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

They Still Don't Get It. And They Never Will.

The local election results are barely counted and the Labour messaging machine has already told you what to think. Chris Bryant says Labour must deliver the change the country desperately wants. Heidi Alexander says people voted for change in 2024 and want it delivered faster. David Lammy says the last thing Britain needs is Labour turning inward. They have misread the results so completely that the misreading itself is the story.

Sunderland fell to Reform after fifty years. Gateshead fell. Blackburn fell. Tameside fell after forty seven years. Wales, governed by Labour since devolution began in 1999, now has a Plaid Cymru administration for the first time. These communities and this nation did not vote the way they did because Labour was delivering its agenda too slowly. They rejected that agenda entirely. The small boats still coming. The dispersal of unvetted men into communities that were never consulted. The energy bills driven up by net zero dogma. The two-tier policing that jailed people for expressing views on immigration while sectarian marches went unchallenged. The grooming gang inquiry that victims say has been managed to minimise accountability rather than deliver it. The taxation of working people and family farms while billions flow in foreign aid to Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan, regimes that stone women, ban girls from education and sentence apostates to death. The country that funds gender apartheid abroad while failing to protect its own women and girls at home has now delivered its verdict at the ballot box.

These are not policies the country wants faster. These are policies the country has rejected. The distinction is fundamental and Labour's entire leadership class has missed it. Starmer's response to the worst local election result in Labour's history is to bring back Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman.

Gordon Brown was Chancellor when he sold 395 tonnes of Britain's gold reserves between 1999 and 2002 at near a twenty year low, a decision that cost the Treasury an estimated £7 billion at subsequent prices. He became Prime Minister and presided over the worst financial crisis since the 1930s before losing the 2010 general election. He is now being brought back as Special Envoy on Global Finance to advise a government that has just suffered its worst ever local election defeat. Nigel Farage's assessment was characteristically blunt. An unpopular Prime Minister who lost a general election is now seen by Starmer as the saviour. He meant Labour are doomed.

Harriet Harman has been appointed adviser on violence against women and girls. Between 1978 and 1982 Harman served as legal officer of the National Council for Civil Liberties at a time when the Paedophile Information Exchange held affiliated status within the organisation. In 2014 Harman expressed regret after this connection was reported. She denied supporting PIE or campaigning to lower the age of consent below sixteen. Those denials are on the record. What is also on the record is that a Prime Minister whose government lost the local elections in part because of failures to protect vulnerable girls from organised sexual exploitation has chosen as his safeguarding adviser someone whose name has been permanently associated with that controversy. The optics alone represent a judgment so poor it defies explanation.

This is the reset. Two figures from Labour's past, one associated with one of the most costly financial decisions in modern British history, one with one of the most toxic controversies in the party's recent record, brought back the morning after the worst local election result in the party's history.

The ministers and the Prime Minister are operating in the same closed loop. Same assumptions. Same conclusions. More of the same, delivered faster, by older faces with worse records. The country was clear on Thursday. This government cannot hear it.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

Jeremy Clarkson’s column on Zack Polanski in The Sun is pure gold! 😅😂

He said:

"I do wish people would stop touting Zack Polanski as a serious contender in the next election. He isn’t. My donkey is more likely to get elected."

He then brings attention to the awkward way in which Polanski was seen running through conference hall:

"The man isn’t even built properly - a point that becomes clear if you watch that social media gif of him running through a conference hall. Tom Cruise he is not. It’s like his arms are where his legs should be and vice versa and as a result, he has the stupidest running style I’ve ever seen."

Clarkson then comments on Polanski's desperate attempt to try a point the finger at the methods police officers used to apprehend the Golders Green terrorist:

"And then there’s what he says. This week, he castigated those policemen who tackled the knife-wielding thug in London, saying he’d seen them 'repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head',"

Finally closing with:

"And he thinks that normal people with fully formed adult brains will vote for him. Not a chance,"

Jeremy Clarkson is a national treasure and speaks with common sense. Neither of those qualities will ever be attributed to Zack Polanski.

Well done Jezza! 💯👏

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

This @TrevorPTweets interview with @ZackPolanski needs to be shared and viewed as widely as possible.
I've never before seen an interviewer give a proper focus to Polanski's dissembling and refuse to let him get away with his usual evasions.
It's a masterclass in the importance of serious scrutiny, which is now so lacking in broadcast journalism (with the exception of @TrevorPTweets)

https://t.co/mTCi7izVVD

[Object Zero @Object_Zero_]

The Forties Pipeline System (FPS)

This is the pipeline system that carries most of the oil from the North Sea to the UK.

It collects the oil from 85 different North Sea oilfields, and flows around 550,000 barrels of oil per day back to the UK mainland. For context, in total the North Sea has around 400 offshore platforms between the UK and Norway, producing and exporting both oil and gas.

FPS is a British oil pipeline system.

Exploration drilling for North Sea oil is currently banned on the UK Continental Shelf. It has been since the current government came to power.

As a result of the drilling ban, the Forties Pipeline System is currently uninvestable according to its owner INEOS. They haven’t invested in its upkeep for 2 years.

INEOS have said the pipeline will close by 2035, but without investment maybe as early as 2030, which is now just 3.5 years away.

550,000 barrels / day is equivalent to 38.96 GW of primary energy.

This is 10x more energy than the UK’s new Hinkley Point C nuclear power project, which is projected to cost £48 billion for 3.2GW of electrical power.

Electrical energy is joule for joule more valuable than chemical energy, but the comparison of scale is real.

38.9 GW is more energy than the entire National Grid carries. The largest energy system in the UK is not the grid it is this underwater pipeline system.

With drilling banned, and the North Sea entering a period of forced closure, the Forties Pipeline System is going to close in the not too distant future.

Once the pipeline is no longer economical, the entire Central North Sea oil production will collapse with it. This isn’t something that closes down gracefully, the entire Central North Sea basin reaches market through a single pipe.

BP recently announced they are selling up their remaining assets and getting out, Exxon, Chevron, etc are all already long gone. Nobody wants their brand near this collapse.

The tax rate is 78%, the government wants this national infrastructure to shut down. It will.

The German Chancellor recently called their nuclear fleet closure a “Strategic Blunder”, interesting choice of words. But I think it was obviously a blunder to anyone outside their propaganda bubble.

Likewise the UK’s North Sea.

The German nuclear fleet averaged 10.3 GW of primary energy output over its operational life, which is around 1/4 the primary energy of the Forties Pipeline System.

The UK has a few other pipeline systems but this one is by far the largest and the most critical. Now this infrastructure, isn’t supposed to last forever. But when it goes you should have a plan.

In the UK nobody talks about this. It’s taboo.

A lot of people think “yeah but they won’t let that happen”… well it happened in Germany, and it happened in Japan.

A lot of people want it to happen, and a lot of those people are in politics.

So what replaces this? Nothing?
Is the UK just going to go silently into the night?

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

"There are people in this nation now hunting Jews, for no other reason than they are Jews. Everything else is just a way of justifying their persecution."

MUST WATCH monologue by @TrevorPTweets on Sky News, as he reflects on the unrelenting explosion of Jew-hatred in Britain.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

We don't need more Houses, we need fewer Tenants
We don't need more Police, we need fewer Criminals
We don't need more Doctors, we need fewer Patients
We don't need more Taxes, we need less on Benefits

Mass deportations literally helps every single problem we face

[Jonathan Sacerdoti @jonsac]

After the Golders Green Jew stabbings, BBC radio invited me on to discuss the alarming levels of Jew hatred in the UK. As usual, they muted my mic near the end. As usual, I recorded it myself and restored the sound. Here’s what they tried to silence as soon as I mentioned the Green party…