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[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

Incredible news. Overnight the Chagossians have returned to their homeland on the Chagos Islands.

They are now British passport holders on British territory. I wish them well.

[Great British PAC Campaigns 🇬🇧 @GBPAC_Campaigns]

IMPORTANT letter to every member of the Lords ahead of #Chagos debate.
“Is our ethnic group not worthy? Is it because we are a small, Black, Christian community with no wealth and no power? Are we not equally entitled to self-determination as other British Overseas Territories?"

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Judge Rinder:

"When every opponent is called a Nazi, history is cheapened, debate is destroyed, and lives are put at risk."

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Talk of raising inheritance tax is INSANE.

It's already FAR too high.

It should be 0%, for everybody.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Today in 1945, George Orwell published a devastating critique of Communism.

Animal Farm reveals why every communist revolution follows the same tragic pattern: liberation to corruption to oppression.

Here are 10 truths from Animal Farm Orwell warned us never to forget 🧵👇🏼

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

As the sun rose over Dunkirk, I called the French police. Ten hours of tracking had established that a group of migrants were hiding in a cemetery just yards from the beach, waiting to cross the Channel.

Surely this was the moment for the authorities to sweep the beach or search the streets to find the migrants and their smugglers? You know, to “smash the gang” I had found.

“I will pass it on,” came the first response. I pressed - this was urgent. “The police will probably not come,” the 112 handler said, dismissively. No further details sought. No interest shown.

I’d come to northern France to see for myself what is really happening as Channel crossings surge and communities back home bear the intolerable consequences of broken borders. Just me and a cameraman - no French minders, no protection.

What I saw in the camps, streets, and beaches was sickening. The reality is worse than I have ever seen. The whole racket is a disgrace, and the French are aiding and abetting it.

Take the camp near Loon-Plage: half a mile from tidy villages sits a lawless, dangerous space. Someone was shot dead there last month; stabbings are common. It is strewn with litter, ramshackle tents, and menace. Almost all the migrants are young men. They sit on the ground, scrolling their smartphones, waiting. No police. No officials.

Those willing to speak were clear: they are coming to the UK for jobs, housing, benefits, and free healthcare. None said they were fleeing persecution - they are already in France. None had a trade or profession to offer. They will be a huge strain on already struggling UK public services.

Some were polite; others threatened violence. One man pressed his face close, telling me to leave. Another began hurling glass bottles - one smashing beside me, another flying past my head.

Do you want men like this in your community? I don’t. For saying this, I’ve been called a “xenophobe” on the BBC. But I doubt those levelling that smear have been to this camp, seen those men, and imagined them outside their children’s school gates. This is a national security emergency.

And the French? We’ve given them £800m and get dismal theatre in return. They could stop this tomorrow. Instead, they stick two fingers up at Britain - and literally bus illegal migrants towards the beaches.

That afternoon, I saw 40–50 migrants with lifejackets, marshalled by smugglers, walking along the railway. They headed to a public bus stop by a supermarket and boarded. Imagine that outside your local shop - lifejackets in hand, plain as day. Authorities know exactly what’s happening, yet facilitate it.

We followed the bus into Dunkirk. The migrants walked towards the beach, one even in a wheelchair with a lifejacket on her lap. By nightfall, they were camped beside the cemetery. We checked on them through the undergrowth. A few hundred yards away, Dunkirk beach was empty of police or patrols, despite all the “special equipment” UK taxpayers fund.

At dawn, they were gone. Their rubbish littered the ground. Binmen arrived to clean the mess up - but not the migrants. I rushed to the beach, convinced a launch was imminent, and called the police again. Still, nobody came.

Sitting there, I felt anger at the French farce and shame at our own weakness. State visits, “landmark deals,” and hundreds of millions wasted. The French stop fewer boats than last year. Two thousand migrants have crossed in the last week alone. It’s all in plain sight.

We are told this is “too complex” to fix. It isn’t. Change the law. Leave failed treaties. Deport illegal migrants. We are an island nation for goodness sake - we can end this. And end it we must.

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

This is madness. Look at how much it took for the British authorities to save this girl from the Pakistani rape gangs.

She went to the police, gave a six hour report, and provided DNA evidence. Still nothing. Just back to being raped five times a day.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Starting and running a business in 2025 Britain - let’s walk through it.

You’ve got a good idea, managed to save a few quid to invest and want to give it a go. Let’s say it’s a cafe.

Generate wealth, create jobs and contribute to your local economy. Great idea. You just picked the wrong country to do it in.

Registering the damn thing is complicated enough, and that’s the easy bit. Next up is the bank account? You’re treated like a criminal and it takes week - opening a cafe, not a terrorist cell.

You manage to find a premise, good location. Oh, it costs a fortune. Rent through the roof and you’re forced to pay thousands to the council. For what? The filthy high street? The rapid customer service? Hmm. Yet another rip off. Inspections are a nightmare, it’s never-ending bureaucracy from people who have never created anything in their lives.

But somehow you get it off the ground and things go well. You need to expand, hire someone.

Ouch. PAYE, national insurance, pensions, HR policies, health and safety risk assessments. One wrong step and you’re facing an employment tribunal. Is it even worth the risk?

It’s becoming more and more expensive, and risky, to hire people? Why bother?

Maybe you try and get independent contracted help. Ah. IR35 puts a stop to that. We wouldn’t want any flexibility now, would we? That would make too much sense.

Your accountants already cost an absolute fortune. They’re bleeding you dry just so you comply with the layers and layers of regulations.

But let’s say it’s gone well, and your hard work is paying off. Turnover hits £90k. The dreaded VAT threshold.

That means if you essentially then have to start charging VAT. That means everything gets 20% more expensive for your customers. Or you are forced to absorb the costs. Or you deliberately make less money to stay below the threshold. Just brilliant.

Maybe you want to keep the cafe open later? Serve some alcohol? Have some music on?

More licences. More costs. More inspections. More bureaucracy. Why bother?

Waste collection even costs a fortune. Remind me, why are you already paying the council? You try and ring the council, you’re on hold for 30 minutes. Brilliant. Customers are waiting. You finally speak to someone. They’re rude, and haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. They promise they’ll get back to you, but they only work four days a week and on Thursday they’re working from home. No answer, you have to chase and chase and chase.

Incompetence reigns.

Right. We’ve got through all of that, now you want to pay yourself? Not unreasonable is it? For working 16 hour days to get the business off the ground?

Corporation tax slices your profit down. Maybe there’s some left. Dividend allowance has been cut, so there’s less to take there. Tax rates are up too. Hmm. Okay, well let’s take a small salary and some dividends. Maybe you’ve got student debt too which takes a large chunk?

It is brutal.

Even making money costs money. It costs to deposit, it costs to accept card payments.

No holiday, no protection, no respect. All risk, and you’re treated like dirt by the Government.

You look at it all and just think, why bother? Why not work for the public sector as some irrelevant bureaucrat obstructing everyone else? Get 60k, 35 days holiday and you can literally never be sacked. What’s the point? Why take the risk? Just do that instead.

We desperately need to back British enterprise. Reward those who take all of the risk. And actually, support local businesses where we all can.

We should be slashing corporation tax, doubling the VAT threshold, increasing personal allowances, abolishing business rates for high street small firms, reducing national insurance contributions, cutting tax on salary/dividends, brutalising red tape and PLENTY more.

If you do these things, you will generate MORE tax revenue. It is really not a complicated principle. Does Reeves understand that? No. The woman is clueless. Absolutely clueless. She does NOT understand what she is forcing on business owners. Let’s see if she can run our cafe for a week. Absolutely NO chance.

I’m with the men and women who build businesses, create wealth, and generate opportunities.

They have my full respect. The politicians running our country certainly do not.

My message to our cafe owner? Keep plugging away, it will get better.

Please know that at least one MP is fighting for you in Westminster.

[Techie_jt @techie_jt]

@matbogus @GT270913 @TharriesYT @TiskTusk Neither my A level or GCSE courses did the British Empire or the abolition of slavery at any point. I wish it did since the topic has become so relevant in recent years.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NAMED AND SHAMED🚨

GBNews has REVEALED the NINE Labour officials who worked behind the scenes to OBSTRUCT a national inquiry into grooming gangs

Any guesses who?

[Thread listing all of them 🧵]

[YouGov @YouGov]

Reform UK record their highest ever poll rating in YouGov's latest Westminster voting intention, while the Tories and Labour are at their lowest since 2019

Ref: 29% (+3 from 27-28 Apr)
Lab: 22% (-1)
Con: 17% (-3)
Lib Dem: 16% (+1)
Green: 10% (+1)
SNP: 3% (=)

[James McMurdock MP @JMcMurdockMP]

Ladies and gentlemen,

The revolution has started.

[Marco Longhi @marcolonghi4dn]

Madness from Miliband and Starmer 👇

They’ve purchased 55,000 tons of coal from Japan.

We have this coal under our feet but these eco nutters refused the mining licence.

How is shipping the coal from Japan helping the environment or UK jobs?

https://t.co/7RSNTEFKIy

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

In a bid to keep the Scunthorpe steel works open, the govt is importing £700 million of coking coal from Japan.

In Cumbira permission was refused to reopen a coal mine by Net Zero Czar @Ed_Miliband, which could have provided the fuel.

https://t.co/1VRLfuSOaS

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

I visited Scunthorpe this week. The situation is desperate.

Reform have been clear that we must save this vital strategic asset and nationalise British Steel.

We are calling on the government to do the right thing tomorrow and bring it back into public ownership.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Thank you President Bukele, of El Salvador, for taking the criminals that were so stupidly allowed, by the Crooked Joe Biden Administration, to enter our Country, and giving them such a wonderful place to live!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨🎥 WATCH: Nigel Farage arrives on stage at Reform UK’s local election launch on a JCB Pothole Pro

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I have been asked to post this statement from my team.

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

"So they should be detained and deported."

@RupertLowe10 might be the most based man alive.

"Maybe you think it's okay for these people to rape young white working-class English girls. I don't."

[Farmers Weekly @FarmersWeekly]

🚜 Another absolutely sensational turnout of tractors, and even tanks, today in London as British farmers continue to pile pressure on Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party government.