Rock Austin

This is the account for Stuart Austin. Yourdriving was a website that I wrote on but is no more. This is all that's left of it.

[arf @arf84648947]

This is what Brexit was all about - so rich people could become much richer.

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@SDreams107 @BladeoftheS The CEO of Tesco is an employee. If he left nothing would change at Tesco in the short term and very possibly the long term too

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Robert Gros made £27m selling useless gowns via the VIP PPE Lane, of course he never paid back a penny, he bought 2 mansions instead.

RT and see if we can make him as famous as Michelle Mone.

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@ZackPolanski The audience too

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@bbcquestiontime does fiona bruce work for Palantir now too?

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@bbcquestiontime is there anyone in the audience in that doesn't work at the Tony Blair institute?

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@britspatriots @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives Bot

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@AllisonPearson The fact you're quoting Blair shows how irrelevant he's become.

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@Jenny_1884 What about the fact that wealth is not taxed and tech titans pay next to no tax? Its not immigrants that deprive HMRC of billions of £.

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@ZiaYusufUK Where has Nigel gone?

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

Where’s Nigel?

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@ZackPolanski Keep going Zack. Maybe one day you can debate with Farage, if he ever shows his face again.

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@ElenaKalashni @Euro_toff @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk A bot that doesn't understand grammar. Wonderful

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Elon Musk: If Kamala wins she'll hide the Epstein files, & be a threat to democracy.
If Trump wins he'll release the Epstein files, & focus on the people.

This idiot has NEVER been right about anything. 👇

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@johnanorth @KathyConWom @DestroyerGort Idiocy disguised as pathos.

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

Don't let scumbags get away with it!!!

Every GBNews presenter, every Reform MP, every Reform supporter celebrated this prick!!!

Now they're desperately scrambling to delete their posts.

[The Receipts UK ♿ @david_hollas]

I've obtained the master contract between the Ministry of Defence and Palantir Technologies UK Ltd.
It covers 2026 to 2029. It was signed on 30 December 2025 — while Parliament was in recess. There was no competitive tender. Here's what's in it. And what they don't want you to see.
The contract is administered through Defence Digital at MoD Corsham, the nerve centre of UK military digital and intelligence infrastructure.
The contract number is redacted. Not the value. Not the scope. The contract number itself is classified.
The entire pricing section is gone. Redacted under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act, commercial interests. So is the IP clause. So are the key liability figures. So are all the contract schedules.
A US company is embedded into UK defence infrastructure for three years. The public cannot see what we are paying for it.
Now here's the clause that should be getting more attention.
Palantir staff working on classified MoD sites must hold Security Check clearance as a minimum, with Developed Vetting available when required. The contract says personnel should be UK nationals where site classification requires.
Should. Not must.
Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel. It grew out of a CIA seed investment. Its largest shareholder base is American. Its founders have direct relationships with US intelligence going back two decades.
The contract does not prohibit non-UK nationals from working on classified UK defence environments. It expresses a preference.
Condition 14. The media clause.
Palantir is contractually prohibited from communicating with press, television, radio or other media about anything in this contract without prior written MoD consent.
That is why Palantir UK has said nothing publicly about this deal. They are legally barred from doing so.
The contract was signed on 30 December 2025. Parliament was in recess. No tender process. No public announcement at signing. The contract number is a state secret. The price is hidden. And the contractor is gagged.
This is how £240 million of public money gets committed to a single American company with no scrutiny whatsoever.
Section 43, commercial interests, is a qualified exemption under FOIA. That means a public interest test applies.
The argument that Palantir's commercial sensitivity outweighs the public's right to know the cost of a no-tender three-year defence contract is not a strong one. I'll be filing for an internal review.
I'll be publishing the full analysis on Substack. If you think Parliament should be able to see what we're paying Palantir and why no other company was given the chance to bid, share this thread.
The document is real. The redactions are real. Draw your own conclusions.

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@C_3C_3 And not true.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Some notes on my work ethic:

-I last voted in Parliament on 18 March, so I haven’t done my job for ten weeks.
-I’ve never held any face-to-face constituency surgeries, despite apparently having £5 million to spend on security.
-I refuse to do interviews or face press scrutiny of any sort.
-when I was in the European Parliament I had the 4th worst attendance record out of 748 MEPs.
-although I did manage to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
-I was on the Fisheries Committee but I only turned up to ONE out of 42 meetings.
-but I will of course be taking my £73,000 EU pension.

Vote Reform, get lazy, grifting, self-serving sacks of shit.

[Rock Austin @yourdriving]

@puddlex129021 @AllisonPearson The Telegraph is little better