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[Andrew Neil @afneil]

ANDREW NEIL: Andy Burnham is not the holy grail Labour thinks he is https://t.co/2wvapc2A5M

[James Powers 🇬🇧 @ItsJamesPowers]

So it’s clear that @AndyBurnhamGM as promised Louise Haigh one of the top 4 roles. So we could have a Home Secretary that left government for lying to the police.

Angela Rayner likely to given her housing for immigrants role back as well.

Tulip Siddiq likely to be made chief Secretary to the treasury.

Ed Miliband likely the chancellor so 80-90 Billion of extra tax increases and more crazy net zero madness

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

A welcoming present just out this morning for a Mr A Burnham to underline just how limited his latitude as PM will be:
The UK government borrowed £23.3 billion last month, 30 per cent or £5.4 billion higher than a year earlier.
It was also more than the £18.8 billion expected by most economists and the £17.7 billion forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility, the UK’s independent fiscal watchdog.
 The interest payable on government debt rose to £11.7 billion, the highest ever recorded in any May.

[chimera @chimeraxmachina]

This is how you push through universally unpopular legislation. You start with attacks on groups most people don't care about (sex workers), under the guise of something many support (protecting kids). Then you keep increasing the heat until the frog sits in boiling water.

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨Labour confirms ID requirement at device level - VPNs useless.🚨

By forcing Apple and Google to verify age at the device level during phone setup…

Keir Starmer’s government isn’t protecting kids — it’s building a surveillance infrastructure.

The OS itself will restrict platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X, making VPNs largely useless because the block happens before any traffic leaves your phone.

🚨Once every device carries a verified age profile, authorities gain an easy route to identify users through legal requests to tech firms.

This is digital ID by the back door, sold as child safety.

Classic Labour: expand state control first, ask questions later.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://t.co/Ca4aMkAZqw

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).

So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.

The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.

This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.

Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.

[Bev Turner @beverleyturner]

Nobody voted for this.

Normalising facial recognition, surveillance and zero privacy for the next generation.

I hate this government (and the last) for their weakness in buying all of these controlling measures, sold to them by vested interests @UN &
@wef under the guise of "keeping kids safe. "

A chosen few will make perverse amounts of profit during this process.

But what can you do...? They have weaponised our children to turn against their parents. And @Keir_Starmer couldn't care less. It really is that serious.

https://t.co/gLtqZcKW28

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 THE MASK HAS COMPLETELY SLIPPED.

Keir Starmer is banning social media for teenagers, but guess which app is magically exempt?

Bluesky. 🤡

They are blocking every platform that allows independent free speech, while leaving the ultimate left wing echo chamber wide open.

This was never about child safety. It is a highly coordinated plot to trap your kids in a digital bubble and brainwash them with pure establishment propaganda.

They want total control over what the next generation is allowed to think.

RT if you refuse to let the Labour elite indoctrinate our children! 🇬🇧🔥

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

What starts as child protection never ends with child protection. First it’s the children. Then it’s “misinformation”. Then it’s “harmful content”. Then it’s whatever the government decides you shouldn’t be allowed to see. Every restriction on freedom is sold as protection.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

@GBPolitcs This is essentially a two tier political social media ban.

Blue sky is left wing and much more pro government so Labour will let kids on it.

Naturally with no other choice children will flood onto Bluesky.

This is a disgrace.

[Tom @Tompost28]

Absolutely terrifying level of control over people’s personal lives.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban

[@thetimes]

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

Around 184 UK-sanctioned Russian shadow fleet vessels made 238 journeys through UK waters (mostly the English Channel) from late March to mid-May 2026 - according to BBC Verify analysis

Starmer decides to have special forces board one after his authority on Defence is brought into question and just before he has to face his NATO counterparts…

Nothing to see here..

No panic in no10

None 😉

[Gabriele Molinelli @Gabriel64869839]

Defence is getting 10 billion over 4 years because "there is no money".

Meanwhile, over the same years, 4.5 billion "just" for cycling routes & crossings.

Clearly there is nothing that can be done without cutting "growth" or "hospitals".

No compromise at all to be devised.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.

[John Galt @BristolGalt]

If a British government passed a law so that only Native British people had access to welfare, free healthcare, etc, we’d save around £350 billion per year

We could pay off the national debt in 10 years

By 2037, including debt interest savings, we’d have a surplus of around half a £trillion

Just to put that into perspective, we could literally give every single young Brit £1million on their 18th birthday

Or we could abolish income tax and still have £170,000,000,000 left over to spend on our people every year

We could live in paradise, debt-free, if we simply weren’t giving free stuff to foreigners.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.

Watch the whole thing with the sound on

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

SUPERB! Trevor Phillip's BEAUTIFULLY exposes David Lammy and Labour's sickening hypocrisy.

He shows him the receipts of them ALL saying it's ok to feel "fury" and "anger" over George Floyd, while they criticise Farage for saying the same about Henry Nowak.

Satisfying to watch.

[PoolieMags @Pooliemags1Ttv]

David James on some of them goals was pathetic looking back

[Tom @Tompost28]

Oisin Murphy top drawer there 👏🏻

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"I'm not going to go through... an exam on the fiscal rules."

Andy Burnham, Labour candidate in the Makerfield by-election, refuses two times to tell @vicderbyshire what the fiscal rules are, but confirms he'd stick to them if he became prime minister.

#Newsnight