My thanks to those who supported me. The work starts now.

The Daily Mail, in its article of 12th of June 2026 states under the Headline of ‘Fury at councils for telling residents not to hang England flags 'because it intimidates migrants' during World Cup’ that Wiltshire is among those Councils that wish to impose this ban. For those of us who are lucky enough to live in the finest county in the UK but are currently living under the temporary yoke of a Liberal Democrat administration, this will come as no great surprise to hear this is their view. I am writing this piece in the heart of the Garrison town of Bulford. The soldiers I see on a daily basis carry the flag of this nation proudly on their arms – not all of them are British, but yet they understand its significance. During my own service I wore my flag with pride, and in darker days whilst deployed on foreign soil I witnessed the coffins of my slain comrades carried, draped in the flag, at repatriation services. This is what the flags of my nation mean to me, unity, loyalty and national pride. Sadly, to my fellow Liberal Democrat colleagues, national flags mean something else. They apparently engender fear in anyone who isn’t British, they are a symbol of colonialism and are flown to ‘intimidate’ or mark territory where anyone who isn’t British isn’t welcome. This is the same Liberal Democrat administration who want to fly 8.5ft wide Pride Progress flags outside the County Council HQ’s – because declaring your support for certain groups whilst excluding others is (apparently) always a copper-bottomed way of uniting people. The claim made by the Council is that ‘placing items such as banners, bunting or flags on or near the public highway – including lampposts, road signs and roundabouts - without permission, can pose safety risks to road users and pedestrians. It can also obstruct visibility’. It’s a flag, a piece of cloth, not a claymore anti-personnel mine. They are hung high on lampposts to the side, not at neck height on cheese-cutter wires across the road. They will be up for a few weeks, not until they begin to weather, degrade and become tatty after numerous winters out in the elements. This is a nonsense argument, designed to do one thing only – to stop any kind of display of patriotism on the streets of Wiltshire. This ban on flying flags is ideological, not practical – political not pragmatic and I oppose it. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Having been a Wiltshire Unitary Councillor for a year.. everything Lee says resonates with me.

Lee Anderson has a chat with Rob Kenyon about what being an MP means to him. 👇

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on. But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there. That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified. There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory. The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.” Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t. That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

Mad how this guy went from "IRELAND FOR THE IRISH!" to "IRELAND FOR THE SUDANESE!" without skipping a beat.

Kemi Badenoch on Belfast: “People have a right to be angry. I am angry. But no-one has a right to burn families out of their homes.” #PMQs

He dealt with her with the same efficiency he probably uses to clear a soil pipe of an oversize jobbie.

Notice how folk on the left always want to represent or help the working class.. right up until that same working class want to represent themselves. Then they treat them like dog puke on the carpet.

British police are legally and ethically bound to a strict duty of impartiality. This requires them to enforce the law and treat all members of the public equally, without bias, political prejudice, or unlawful discrimination. How does this fit in with the 'Police Race Action Plan' which calls for exactly the opposite, different treatment for different groups?

100% concur with Sara.

Bang on the money.

RT @TiceRichard: Superb by Brendan O’Neill - must read

There are two houses of Parliament... the Lords and the Commons. It appears, according to the BBC, that the working class folk of Makerfield are not allowed to have a common man representing them in the Commons. Only a Cambridge educated, full time politician is good enough.

Robert Kenyon was an apprentice plumber and received £50 a week from the college where he was training so he got a job in a bar on a Friday night and worked in a bookmakers on a Saturday to supplement his earnings. He was a reservist for our national forces and was prepared to leave his family and go and fight for his country if needed. He is a councillor in his area and at the weekend while reform campaigners were out chatting to residents they gave positive feedback about him. Some chose to speak on camera and Rob was not instructive in any of it. Emma Barnett would do a lot better to focus on the above. A few undignified comments on a social media site before he campaigned in his area do not make him a bad person. I am sure that Rob finds the comments regrettable. Male banter isn’t always eloquent. Robert Kenyon’s work ethic, attitude and responsibility to his family, country (he was prepared to fight for us) and his community (he’s prepared to fight for them in parliament) is nothing less than commendable.

The height of local Council affairs.. a broken bench. Reported to the Parish Council!

Front and back gardens.. who needs lawn?

Heartbreakingly sad.. and yet also uplifting.

As MPs consider whether to bring back the Bill for Assisted Dying that fell in the last session - spare a thought for the people who actually care for the dying. Prospect Hospice near Swindon in my constituency is running at half its potential capacity, with 6 beds open rather than 12, meaning they turn away 6 dying people per week. Patients are ending their lives in corridors in Great Western Hospital, 4 miles away, because of a failure to fund end of life care. Meanwhile over in Devizes Julia’s House, a hospice for the most seriously ill children - including terminally - is scrabbling for money to keep open. The most moving visit I’ve paid as an MP was to Julia’s House: a truly wonderful place, full of sadness and goodness. Yet they only get 8% of their income from the government. Hospices (a British invention) are the best institutions in the world. It’s great they attract so much philanthropy - long may it continue - but they deliver a service that is clearly healthcare, and the NHS is legally obliged to fund it; but it doesn’t, because there is no definition of what ‘it’ is. The government urgently needs to bring forward minimum standards that local health commissioners must follow in meeting their obligations to fund palliative care.