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Two men adopt a healthy, happy baby. His grandmother, who looks after his sister, objects. She asks for the baby to be fostered for a few months until she is well enough to take him. This is denied. His adoptive "father" abuses him until he dies.

One of those things where you try explaining it to not very political people and you just end up sounding completely mad dailymail.com/news/article-1…

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How did a coroner conclude SAS ambush “unjustified” on an IRA unit that had just attacked a police station with an anti aircraft gun mounted on a stolen lorry? What exactly were the SAS supposed to do. Ask them politely to stop? telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

Fundamentally, the British right has bet that the British public are, for want of a better word, bastards econ.st/4uwTfqx Illustration: Nate Kitch

My pinned tweet explains the background to Healey resignation. We got real numbers in 2020 for first time in ~20 years. Since then everything reverted to fake. Thanks to Trolley & Wally, they let HMT and MoD shovel cash into things they KNEW were broken, like AJAX, and scuppered funding the future (e.g drones, robotics, AI, cloud). The nuclear weapons supply chain is a multi-billion multi-decade fiasco and reinforces fake budgets. MoD & CO used UKR war to prop up the lies and disasters, not to fix them. Trolley, Sunak and Starmer all went along with: classify, punt, spin fake budgets. All these chickens are coming home to roost. The DIP is a disaster because it combines: a/ continuing to fund old things which shd be scrapped but senior people's careers rest on lying about, b/ failure to fund the future, c/ more dodgy accounts, d/ classified nuke shitshow, which forces lies/cannibalisation of conventional, and e/ continued failure to change procurement and long term budgets despite covid and UKR. Ive said this 100 times for years. Also relevant to resignation -- In 2020, I got the PM & CHX to agree to take the next gen fighter AWAY from HMT and MoD. (FOI the doc screenshotted below!) They were using a bogus 'above STRAP 3 study' to claim that AI would be irrelevant to future fighters in 2045. This 'top secret' study was written *before* DeepMind was created!! We agreed to take away the next gen fighter/drones from MoD/HMT and put them into a new civilian project with huge commercial development of drones/robotics/AI, with procurement and budgets done totally outside normal system (like vaccines, ARPA etc). After I left this was u-turned along with shredding all the true budget numbers. The MoD and HMT proceeded with the usual procurement with BaE. This has now blown up *as it was obvious it would SIX YEARS ago'. HMT is refusing to fund it because the MoD is a corrupt shambles. And MoD is knackered by the HMT's insane budget processes and insane procurement. HMT and MoD have reasonable complaints about each other. 'Everyone's right and everyone's unhappy'. The only way out is the Vote Leave plan and No10 smashing heads together with the full authority of the PM, as in the secret process of 2020. It cannot be left to 'normal processes'. Senior people must be forced to tell the truth 'or you're fired'. We did this. It works! The MPs refuse to engage. The MPs on defence committee say they cannot ask officials re the 2020 process because 'they'll just refuse to answer'. But our enemies know everything everything I say is true! It is impossible for dud Starmer to solve these problems. It is good timing that Burnham will soon take over and could draw a line under decades of Tory failure and set out a new path... But there will be HUGE pressure from the old system, in HMT and MoD, to patch everythign up with more lies, spin, fake accounts, and massive classification... Maybe some MPs could finally pay attention to these issues and resolve to stop constant lies, please! Our security, prosperity and critical technologies are at stake and the old parties and old Whitehall are pathological! NB. In 2020 we also bought LEO satellites. SW1 laughed. Starlink has been critical in UKR. Whitehall sold off the satellites! NB. In March 2022 when the UKR disaster started I wrote: 'Prediction: 1) lessons from UKR will overwhelmingly support the arguments of those who in 2020 argued for radical MoD changes (including taking money from old tank projects that everybody privately admitted were a multi-billion pound disaster) and 2) the correct criticism of the review and connected documents will be seen as a) they did not go nearly far enough, b) the collapse of No10 follow through on defence reform in 2021 was — like the collapse of 2020 plans for planning reform, tax cuts, deregulation, Project Speed, intense focus on R&D and skills etc — a disaster for the country (and a political disaster for the Tory Party).' NB. Special Forces who have observed the drone wars in UKR have told the senior MoD repeatedly that the mega expensive things they want to plough cash into in the DIP will get VAPOURISED in a real war by cheap drones! The SF are told to shut up and not give HMT a chance to cut the budgets! I know it's psychologically extremely hard for SW1 but Vote Leave worked with the deep state on this in 2020 and we were right on all the big things. The disastrous old processes have now blown up with unprecedented resignation over these exact issues. 6 years have been wasted. Tens of billions have been wasted. Lives lost. Talent resigned.. Opportunities to lead squandered... All over Whitehall are officials involved in 2020 who know what I say is true, the MPs and hacks should finally get the details into the public... Maybe SW1 could update its mental models?! Ps. if you're a hack still getting Ciaran 'AI is fake, PRC infiltration is overrated' Martin to comment on tech, you're as dud as Starmer

I've explained this ~20 times since 2021. In 2020 in the secret review of the MoD -- conducted in No10 with officials & without the involvement of the SoS because he was seen as a security risk to the process -- the MoD ADMITTED that AJAX was a 'total shitshow and dangerous to troops and would injure/deafen them'. They also agreed to close AJAX. AJAX was one of DOZENS of things the MoD admitted in this process were disasters and shd be closed down. We agreed to: 1/ Close the disasters. 2/ Change procurement and MoD budget processes fundamentally. 3/ Publicly explain the lies of the budget process of the previous 20 years and publish for the first time in 20 years budget numbers agreed by MoD, Cabinet Office, and HMT were TRUE. 4/ Shift new money to new programs done with new procurement. E.g drones - which in 2020 Wally thought were fake and he just wanted, like most of the senior generals, more bigger tanks. (When I pushed through buying LEO satellites with MI6 help, much of senior MoD opposed that too. Until Starlink was used in UKR, conventional wisdom in SW1 dismissed it -- look at all the laughter in 2020 when I forced this through.) 5/ Start honesty on the massive classified scandalous shitshow of the nuclear enterprise, tens and tens of billions hidden. 6/ Stop the MoD doing the new fighter using the old procurement system, partly based on 'above STRAP 3' study proving AI /drones would be irrelevant for advanced manned ('crewed'!) fighters until at least 2045. This 'above STRAP 3' MoD study turned out - when I finally got a copy - to have been conducted in ... 2010. I.e before DeepMind was sold to Google. Ludicrous. Normal. I got PM and CHX agreement to do the new plane project OUTSIDE the MoD with a totally new process. This was all finally agreed a fortnight or so before I left No10. After I left No10, documents were shredded in <24 hours. The true budget numbers were destroyed. Everything shifted back to the fake budget numbers. AJAX and dozens of other disasters were funded MORE. The procurement system continued and continued through UKR war. (Today special forces keep pleading with MoD to do drones differently, MoD continues the pathological system and orders SF not to inform ministers of the truth on drones in UKR.) The nuclear shitshow was classified and punted again. MoD was given the new plane project which, surprise surprise, is the normal process with normal results. And everyone agreed that the 2020 secret process was never to be discussed or even acknowledged to exist (even though it was officially briefed it was happening and you can see it on the internet). Trolley and Wally went along because they're both pure products of the pathological old system: lies and total failure are just another day at the office. They immediately reverted to the Osborne/Heywood/Mcpherson double counting budget lies which are normal in SW1 and wd get you jailed outside it. I've said this repeatedly. The media and MPs will never ever cover it. Just like the official Inquiry on covid in 2020, so the official truth on MoD in 2020 is lies all the way down. Instead we will continue to have these fake 'revelations' and 'experts' will continue to say 'I'm shocked, shocked about the latest MoD shitshow'. One MP on the Defence committee called me earlier this year for advice. I said hold hearings and call Simon Case, Lovegrove and the ~20 who did the secret process to give evidence under oath. MP: 'That's impossible, they always just refuse to talk to MPs on the grounds of national security.' Yes, quite. So MPs should either enforce change or quit and do something else with their lives. What's the point of being an MP in such a corrupt shitshow? Why bother with your Potemkin 'committees'? Ps. If you are a soldier injured in AJAX, then bear in mind that *the MoD KNEW you would be injured and did it anyway rather than admit their failures publicly.* Everyone involved will be given gongs and many a job in BAE. Gongs all round, the system working as intended... This is about the 20th time I've explained all this. Watch how the legacy media just keeps wandering around saying 'Im shocked to see this' and does zero probing of the 2020 secret review. Fixing the MoD is an example of *a regime-complete problem*.

My letter to the Prime Minister

BREAKING: John Healey Resigns order-order.com/2026/06/11/b…

Queen Mary and King George V attending the All-England Tennis' Championships at Wimbledon, c1932. So clear, so vibrant, you'd think this photo had been taken recently.

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