Tim Oates

conservative, Unionist, Royalist, Entrepreneur, Family man, Nationalism is in the interests of nobody

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

🚨NEW: South Wales Police has just SCRAPPED their Islamic blasphemy law.

No religion should be protected from criticism in this country.

Now it's on the Government to repeal their Islamophobia definition and stop this happening again.

[Agent P @AgentP22]

The SNP crucified Douglas Ross for missing parliamentary business to referee football.

Now they're sending FOUR ministers on a taxpayer-funded World Cup jolly while Holyrood is sitting.

Arrogance. Hypocrisy. Entitlement.

That's today's SNP in three words.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

📣🚨 FSU Victory!!

The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on “anti-Muslim hostility”.

The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam.

Under this guidance, criticism of Islam could have been recorded as an anti-social behaviour incident and potentially appeared on DBS checks, affecting someone’s ability to work as a teacher, carer, or in other regulated professions.

South Wales Police has backed down because the Free Speech Union threatened them with a judicial review if it chose to press ahead with the policy.

The force has described this move as a “pause” to the guidance — but we think it is highly unlikely to return.

We must also thank Shadow Equalities Minister @ClaireCoutinho for referring South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after we brought this issue to her attention.

Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament 18 years ago. We must not allow them to return through the back door.

Let this be a warning to any other public body — particularly police forces — considering the adoption of its own blasphemy laws.

Watch Lord Young below 👇

[De Rude Boy @GeoedieBozzy]

@Councillorsuzie Manchester City Council have just awarded a 4.7m contract to a EV company.........

Who is the MD of this EV company......Andy Burnhams wife.....what a coincidence!

Remember Makerfield, Burnham is just the same as all the other inept Labour MPs!

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Sturgeon-gate should prompt SNP voters to question their assumptions about the finances of an independent Scotland, says anyone with an ounce of common sense.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

We should retire the phrase "two-tier policing." Not because it's not true - as per official police materials, it pretty clearly is - but because it goes nowhere near far enough.

When you look at tragedies like the death of Henry Nowak and try to capture it with a term like "two-tier policing", you end up inadvertently masking a vast constitutional catastrophe underneath a complaint about general procedure, something a review and a reworded leaflet can put right.

What happened to Nowak is a single visible outcrop of something far larger and far worse: the capture, one institution at a time, of the British state by the belief-system of a particular class. It is something to which the public are, slowly-but-surely, awakening, but it's well short of the reckoning it requires.

After all, we have a word for people who steal from an institution. We call it corruption - it is endemic in British public life, by the way - and we know what to do about it. But we have no working word for the thing that is worse: an ideology quietly replacing an institution's reason for existing. A virus of the institutional mind, a toxin of the institutional soul.

A police force exists to protect the public. But a captured police force exists to advertise its own virtue, and will leave the public to bleed on a pavement to do it. You needn't take this on faith: they wrote it down. The police's own Race Action Plan states, in black and white, that equal treatment is the very thing it has set itself against. The institution rewrote its purpose and published the confession, though it expects your submission, rather than your forgiveness.

Nowak's death is the product of that inversion. An officer trained to treat the accusation of racism as the most urgent fact in the room met a dying boy and a lying killer and performed exactly as trained. Nothing has malfunctioned here, nothing at all. The system did precisely what it is now built to do.

And it's not one rogue patrol, either, though the truculence of the Hampshire police commissioner in the face of his officers' malfeasance might tempt you to think otherwise. The same disease runs through institutions with nothing else in common.

Consider William Shawcross' review of Prevent, which found a counter-terror system so warped by fear of the word "Islamophobia" that barely a fifth of its referrals concerned Islamism, while four-fifths of live terror investigations did: an apparatus that exists to see the threat, trained not to look at it. Closer to home, we all know how forces now log tens of thousands of "non-crime hate incidents" - speech that broke no law - while most actual thefts end without a suspect even being sought. Captured institutions keep working. They simply pour their effort into whatever the creed rewards.

None of this is mysterious. Robert Conquest's old law holds that any institution not deliberately kept to its purpose drifts, sooner or later, toward the reigning orthodoxy. Bolt onto that a personnel machine - the diversity directorate, the recruitment that quietly screens for the right opinions - that makes careers out of professing the creed and ends them for doubting it, and the capture becomes self-sealing, because the captured now do the hiring.

What turns this from a blunder into a betrayal is who holds the beliefs and who pays for them. These are what Rob Henderson calls luxury beliefs, and beneath them sits the truth Christopher Lasch named thirty years ago in The Revolt of the Elites: a credentialed class that has seceded from the common life and no longer shares the nation's fate. The beliefs are status markers, costless to the people who profess them, because that class is insulated by the good postcode and the private option from every consequence of what it believes. The bill falls entirely on the people without the buffers - the boy stabbed on a night out, the girl in a town the council won't name being pimped around a circuit of cab drivers who may well be flying their cousins in from overseas to join in their activities.

A doctrine experienced as compassion by the people who hold it that is paid for in the blood of the people who don't.

And when one of those victims dies on camera, the same class looks the country in the eye and tells you that the thing you have just watched didn't happen, and that to have noticed it is the real bigotry.

There's no point talking about reviews or inquiries. We're passed that point. If you want this to stop, you need to be thinking about institutional recapture. We need to commit people, means, and time to the task of hauling each institution back to the job it was built for:

- The police to protect
- The courts to judge on the evidence according to law delivered by a mandated parliament
- Local councils devoted to matters of local import, rather than those which spend their times siphoning away procurement funds and pontificating on matters of obscure foreign policy

...and restoring the most unfashionable principle left in British life, that the state is blind to who you are and answerable only to the truth. Equality before the law is part of the great inheritance we have bequeathed the world, and it has been taken from us on purpose, by people convinced they knew better.

It was taken from us because we were too weak. It is our disgrace and a blotch on our history. But we can return it to ourselves, and return it we must.

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Today I have met Lucy, Mark and Katie, Henry Nowak’s mother, father and stepmother. Their courage is extraordinary.

They have endured the most appalling loss, it is a life sentence for them.

They have also faced the agonising decision to release the harrowing body-worn camera footage, knowing how painful it would be and how strongly people would react. They did so because they want truth, accountability and change.

They have asked that we work across political parties and religions to rebuild trust in the police. That trust has been broken because of what happened, and I agree with them on that.

We must also be prepared to examine, carefully and seriously, religious practices or exemptions that permit the carrying of dangerous weapons in public, and other activities that are not conducive to the public good. We also need to examine where the law needs to change.

Henry’s family do not want anger to tear communities apart. They are a family who have friends across faith and race, and so did Henry. His family want his memory to help bring our society together.

Everyone knows I have strong views about how we should deal with equality under the law. What the family agreed with me on is that we need to bring common sense back, and that is what we should all be fighting for.

I promised the family that we will work to ensure there is a positive legacy for Henry out of this tragedy.

That is my focus now.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🚨STARMER’S BLATANT HYPOCRISY EXPOSED! 🤔

Perfect example of Two-Tier Keir.

Video 1 (2020): Starmer viciously attacks Trump for his response to the rioters after George Floyd’s death, calling it an “affront to humanity” and defending the unrest as “peaceful protests” by people “rightly demanding justice”.

“Like you, I was shocked and angered by the killing of George Floyd. And the response of President Trump and US authorities to the peaceful protests, to people rightly demanding justice, has been an affront to humanity.”

Video 2 (Today): Starmer condemns the “disgraceful” rioters in the wake of Henry Nowak’s tragic murder and his shocking treatment by police.

“No matter the pain we feel, there is no justification for violence and disorder. Let me be clear, we will ensure anyone found engaging in disorder meets the full force of the law.”

Why the blatant double standard, Keir?

Either rioting is bad or it isn’t?

You’re “shocked and angered” and label Trump’s crackdown an “affront to humanity”… but now you’re cracking down hard when people “demand justice” after Henry Nowak.

Are you the “affront to humanity” for condemning these rioters?

Two-Tier Keir exposed for the world to see.

[Rt. Hon. Alan B’Stard MP @NoWayWoke]

This is going to run until the next election, isn’t it 😁

[Tim Oates @tim_oates1]

@DavidTaylor85 She isn’t ‘pitting’ one against the other. She is saying business experience is important (like you), and Labour have a shocking lack of it.

[Tim Oates @tim_oates1]

@ShepherdWales Conversation that never happened “Peter, which bank account is the £600K indy fund in. I need to put this story to bed”. Peter- “our Bank of Scotland account” Nicola- “great, give me copies of the statements please”. Peter -“?!?!?!?”

[Baa Ram Ewe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐑🐷🦃🚜 @ShepherdWales]

Errrrr Boris was repeatedly told he had to take full responsibility for every FPN handed out to civil servants partying in Downing St.

Boris attended a lunch with cake and Sturgeon demanded he accept responsibility for a crime that was so heinous that the Downing St photographer took photos for public consumption and The Times reported it the day after and no one had an issue BUT Nicola, as the then leader of the SNP, takes no responsibility for an actual major crime that occurred on her watch??

[Tim Oates @tim_oates1]

This goes to the heart of our economic woes. “Incredibly, 90% of the new Labour MPs at the last election came from a trade union, charity or public-sector background”

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Incredibly, 90% of the new Labour MPs at the last election came from a trade union, charity or public-sector background. Barely 1/5th of the Cabinet has any private-sector experience. In the Shadow Cabinet, 3/4 of us do. That distinction matters.

The skills Labour MPs have acquired are in lobbying for more funding, campaigning for more benefits or more red tape. Britain needs a new generation of politician.

Only the Conservative Party can build a team for the economic war effort required after Burnham/Starmer have finished this catastrophic experiment. We will need to fix every aspect of our system at once. There will be no kicking decisions into the long grass, only rolling our sleeves up and getting to work.

If you've ever thought about a career in politics but decided it was too risky or you wouldn’t fit in, now is your time.…We are looking for people from every walk of life who know how to get stuff done.

In return, I will make politics work for you.

Britain does not lack talent. It lacks a system that draws that talent into public life. Join my team and help us get Britain working again.

My piece in the @Telegraph below👇

[Dean M Thomson @DeanMThomson]

The party that invented the windfall tax is running a by-election against it

Swinney says Scotland's resources must be "in Scotland's hands."
He was cabinet minister for every year Murrell was stealing from it — not noticing

Aberdeen South votes June 18
https://t.co/V6htFoflzr

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

Are you a civil servants with a tale of woe - or thoughts on how to improve the system? Please let us know through our survey on the prepgov website here https://t.co/M37Fo8O0Cb. Strict confidentiality and anonymity guaranteed.

[Tim Oates @tim_oates1]

@Bart_E_Newman @afneil Seriously? If we have to point out to some people to check their heating is off in a heat wave, they have almost certainly already died of something like playing chicken with a train.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

The reason I became a “persistent critic” of the SNP leadership from 2017 onwards was that I became aware of ineptitude & a whiff of corruption behind the scenes. The backlash was very unpleasant but I’m proud to have been vindicated. It was worth it. https://t.co/lME8KZr3yC

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

£700,000 for Migrants. 18,000 Homeless in Manchester. That's the Burnham Method.

Andy Burnham is asking the voters of Makerfield to send him to Westminster. Before they do, they should know what he has been doing with their money in Manchester.

This week it emerged that Burnham's Greater Manchester Combined Authority is spending £722,685 on schemes to help migrants navigate the British welfare system. The Safe Transitions programme will provide guidance in multiple languages helping refugees understand their rights, entitlements and access to housing, benefits and public services. A Refugee Lodging Scheme will match refugees with resident landlords who will support them to access housing, benefits, employment, education and community networks. Greater Manchester already hosts more than 8,500 people in asylum support accommodation. More than 18,000 people across the region have no permanent address. One in every 61 people in Manchester alone is homeless. The £700,000 is not going to them.

This is not a one-off decision. It is the visible expression of a consistent set of political instincts that Burnham has spent years developing and is now quietly concealing ahead of June 18.

Since 2019 he has repeatedly called for the abolition of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy, the rule that prevents migrants from immediately accessing Britain's welfare state and social housing. He called for it on his mayoral website in 2019. He signed a joint letter demanding it in 2023. He launched a pilot programme in Manchester called the Living Income Campaign, designed to top up the incomes of those living under NRPF conditions and build the case for scrapping the rule nationally. He has now quietly dropped that position. Not because he has changed his mind. Because he is campaigning in Makerfield.

His allies have confirmed that as Prime Minister he would tear up the multi-billion pound Home Office contracts with private asylum accommodation providers and hand responsibility to local councils. Dispersal housing rather than hotels. The saving is real. Hotel rooms cost £145 per person per night against £23.25 for dispersal housing. But dispersal housing means more migrants placed directly into communities like Makerfield, Wigan and the surrounding boroughs, without the visibility of a hotel that can be identified and closed. The cost saving comes with a community cost that nobody is discussing.

Meanwhile Makerfield itself tells a different story to the one Burnham is presenting on the doorstep. The constituency sits within a region where Reform won all eight council wards in May's local elections with around fifty percent of the vote. Around two thirds of the constituency voted Leave in 2016. The voters who went to Reform did so because they feel their communities have been transformed without consent, their housing lists lengthened, their public services stretched and their concerns dismissed. Burnham's answer to those concerns is to spend £700,000 helping more migrants access the same overstretched system.

The repositioning on NRPF is the tell. A politician who held a position for six years, built a pilot programme around it and signed letters demanding it nationally does not abandon it because he has been persuaded by the evidence. He abandons it because the polling in Makerfield made it electorally inconvenient. The same thing happened with his position on EU rejoining, held on Saturday and walked back by Sunday when his team realised around two thirds of the constituency voted Leave.

The voters of Makerfield are not being asked to elect a mayor. They are being asked to send a potential Prime Minister to Westminster. The £700,000 tells them more about what that Prime Minister would do than any doorstep conversation. It tells them what he does when nobody in Makerfield is watching.

"One in every 61 people in Manchester alone is homeless. The £700,000 is not going to them."

[Agent P @AgentP22]

It's a fair question!

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