Ten years today since the Battle of the Thames

Your steam engine is British. Your Industrial Revolution is British. Your railway is British. Your underground railway is British. Your modern railway timetable is British. Your suspension bridge is British. Your iron bridge is British. Your modern lighthouse is British. Your marine chronometer is British. Your global time standard is British. Your time zone starts at Greenwich. Your telephone is Scottish. Your television is Scottish. Your radar is British. Your jet engine is British. Your tank is British. Your programmable computer is British. Your World Wide Web is British. Your fibre-optic communications were pioneered by a Briton. Your modern telecommunications network was transformed by British inventors. Your antibiotics are Scottish. Your vaccination programme was pioneered by an Englishman. Your modern nursing profession is British. Your public sanitation system is British. Your modern sewerage system is British. Your clean drinking water infrastructure was pioneered by Victorian Britain. Your weather forecast is British. Your life boat service is British. Your modern fire service was pioneered in Britain. Your parliamentary democracy is British. Your constitutional monarchy is British. Your common law is British. Your independent judiciary is British. Your trial by jury is British. Your presumption of innocence is British. Your habeas corpus is British. Your rule of law is British. Your modern police force is British. Your modern civil service is British. Your modern banking system was shaped in Britain. Your central banking model was shaped by the Bank of England. Your stock exchange model was pioneered in London. Your global insurance market was built at Lloyd's of London. Your international maritime law was shaped by Britain. Your global trade routes were mapped by Britain. Your anti-slavery patrols were British. Your modern university model was influenced by Oxford and Cambridge. Your scientific societies were pioneered by Britain. Your peer-reviewed science was advanced by British institutions. Your laws of motion are English. Your theory of evolution is English. Your economics is Scottish. Your electromagnetism was transformed by a Scot. Your geology was pioneered by Scots. Your thermodynamics was advanced by Britons. Your stainless steel is British. Your carbon fibre is British. Your steam turbine is British. Your hovercraft is British. Your ATM is British. Your cash machine is Scottish. Your postage stamp is British. Your modern postal system is British. Your football is English. Your rugby is British. Your golf is Scottish. Your tennis was codified in Britain. Your badminton was codified in Britain. Your cricket is English. Your worldwide language is English. Your newspapers were shaped by Britain. Your global news agencies were pioneered by Britain. Your public broadcasting model is British. Your music charts are British. Your modern popular music owes a great deal to Britain. Your neighbour may be an immigrant. But a fair chunk of the modern world is British. Pull yourself together.

Please play to your kids, and those so wrapped up in bashing Britain they can’t see the wood for the trees 🇬🇧

You must be gutted it’s too late to prosecute them.

The Mandy Files — 2. May 2025 Another zinger from Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden to Mandelson: ‘Every meeting I have is “who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others”. They’re asking the wrong questions.’ Wow! Just wow!!

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

A perfect symbol of what happens when a country is run by human rights lawyers. The rules are applied, however perverse the outcome. We are importing Russian oil while banning British oil. Why? Because Miliband and Greta and something and mimblewimble.

'If I cut tax on visting Alton Towers, more people will go. If I increase the tax on employing people...no, hold on...'

What right do the liberal elites have to accuse others of spreading "division" when they have spent the past 30 years imposing an ideology on the British people which itself has been hugely divisive? They don't deserve to be taken seriously.

Sprinting away would also be acceptable.

Bravo, @Keir_Starmer, for getting in an Adviser on Women and Girls who thinks the definition of women and girls includes men and boys. That'll definitely win back people who believe Labour's a party for smug, lanyard-wearing, luxury-belief-espousing cultural elitists. 1/2

"You don't change pilot mid-flight", says Lammy of Starmer... 🤔 It depends, surely?

RT @HackneyAbbott: There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer. In fact we…

Back in the day a man could afford to live here with his 6 wives on one income.

right back at ya

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense. independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…

BREAKING 🚨 I understand that the Prime Minister, has just had his phone stolen. More on this as it develops

So apart from trying to give away the Chagos islands. Recognising Palestine. 13 ministerial resignations. Showing full confidence in Morgan McSweeney, Peter Mandelson, Sue Gray and Lord Ali. Blaming the far right for an island of strangers. 16 Policy U turns and rising. Having no operable warships. Not smashing the gangs. Approving a huge Chinese embassy in London. Spending 23 seconds laying a wreath in Southport only to rush back to a drinks party. Appointing an anti Muslim hostility tsar. Raising income tax. Raising inheritance tax. Raising national insurance. Raising capital gains tax, Raising council tax. Raising value added tax. Raising mansion tax. Increasing welfare spending and the minimum wage whilst freezing tax allowances. Scrapping jury trials. The only boat he has stopped is HMS dragon from crossing the channel. What has Starmer really achieved apart from breakfast clubs and the decay of our country?