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Lashings of ginger beer. #filtonfour
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Rudyard Kipling articulated precisely what the problem with 'The Stranger' is for normal British people. @hilarybennmp would do well to take note: The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk— I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock They may do ill or well, But they tell the lies I am wonted to, They are used to the lies I tell. And we do not need interpreters When we go to buy and sell. The Stranger within my gates, He may be evil or good, But I cannot tell what powers control— What reasons sway his mood; Nor when the Gods of his far-off land Shall repossess his blood. The men of my own stock, Bitter bad they may be, But, at least, they hear the things I hear, And see the things I see; And whatever I think of them and their likes They think of the likes of me. This was my father's belief And this is also mine: Let the corn be all one sheaf— And the grapes be all one vine, Ere our children's teeth are set on edge By bitter bread and wine.
‘Are we allowed to feel angry yet?’ My column in this week’s @spectator spectator.com/article/are-we…
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THE DOSSIER #13: Rachel Reeves – The Counterfeit Chancellor Born 13 February 1979 in Lewisham. PPE from Oxford and LSE. The factory that produces frauds who falsify their way to power. You claimed publication in the Journal of Political Economy. Your Who's Who entry. One of the most prestigious economics journals in the world. You lied. Your paper appeared in the European Journal of Political Economy, similarly named, vastly less prestigious. You traded on name confusion. You claimed elite credentials you never earned. You claimed a "decade at the Bank of England." Six years. September 2000 to December 2006. You inflated your experience by 67%. The "decade" that built your credibility was a lie. You called yourself an "economist." Then quietly changed it to "retail banking" when exposed. Administrative support handling complaints. Not an economist. Not a technocrat. A paper-pusher with edited LinkedIn profiles and fabricated journal entries. You claimed you "wrote" a book. "Copy and Paste Chancellor." Plagiarized content from other authors. When caught, your spokesman blamed "administrative errors by her team." The coward's excuse. Blame the staff for your own falsehoods. Labour Together bought your intellect for £31,698.36. "Research and writing services." A think tank paid the Shadow Chancellor to write her speeches. They purchased your thoughts. You sold your mind before you sold your soul. FGS Global gave you £12,929 for a reception. Corporate lobbyists. Private water CEOs. Private equity multimillionaires. Israel lobbyists. Private health investors. Your Chancellor's robes are stitched with their logos. Juliet Rosenfeld bought your wardrobe. £7,500 for clothing. You called her an "old friend" who wanted you to "look smart." The Chancellor took dress money from donors while pensioners froze. You hiked employer National Insurance. 50,000 jobs died. Businesses fled to America. To Europe. You stood there and lied. "The economy is fine." The OBR cut forecasts. The pound fell. You blamed the Tories. You froze winter fuel payments. Pensioners sat in the cold. You created a £22 billion black hole. Let welfare balloon £16 billion more. Broke your own fiscal rules. Twice. Bond markets lost confidence. Capital fled. Skilled workers followed. You spend billions on foreign aid and climate targets while British high streets empty. While businesses board up. Then you call anyone who notices "far-right." The markets see through you. The world sees through you. Britain pays. Open borders. Flooded labour markets. Wages suppressed. While you tax the working class into oblivion. You are the most unpopular Chancellor in history. Net favourability: -59. Seventy-one percent unfavourable. The worst ratings since tracking began in 1976. You beat every Chancellor who ever held the red box. You are the gold standard of failure. You broke down in the Commons. The tearful appearance. The "killjoy demeanour" your advisers thought would build trust. The public saw weakness. The markets saw chaos. You are Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel. You abstained on Palestinian statehood. You support the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation while blocking recognition of Palestinian statehood. The hypocrisy is international. You own a house in South London. While you represent Leeds West and Pudsey. While you tax the North into poverty. The commute from your London home is longer than your commitment to your voters. You are not an economist. You are not a Chancellor. You are a serial fabricator who lied about journals, employment duration, job titles, and book authorship. You are a fraud in a borrowed suit, bought by donors, crying in Parliament while Britain burns. Your CV is ash. Your credibility is gone. Your Chancellorship is a monument to deception. Permanent exile awaits, Rachel Reeves. Congratulations. You are The Dossier. Your betrayal of Britain is now complete.
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HP Sauce: Parliament on the label, star of the full English, as British as it gets. American-owned since 2005, and production shifted from its home in Birmingham to the Netherlands. The English-made swap? Stokes brown sauce, made in Suffolk by a family firm. By all accounts, a cracker.
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Henry could be anyone’s son. Our boys are dying for political correctness and our girls are being raped for diversity. Starmer must go! Labour must go!
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Patrick, make sure everyone realises that this piece of shit Labour government delayed the release of the Mandelson Files until today... because they knew this case result would keep us all distracted. Fucking fuming. They've USED this poor boy's death to avoid scrutiny.
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RT @PolitlcsUK: 🚨 BREAKING: Bodycam footage of the arrest of Henry Nowak, who had been stabbed moments prior by Vickrum Digwa t.co/
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Never forget in 2003 Keir Starmer won the case that gave illegal migrants access to UK benefits. Twenty three years later, we're living in the chaos he created.
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TWO TIER BRITAIN 🇬🇧 Two Tier Government Two Tier Prime Minister Two Tier policing Two Tier justice Two Tier Media
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Le Creuset makes brilliant cookware. It’s also French. Samuel Groves makes superb cast iron in Birmingham. 24cm Britannia pan: £130. Le Creuset equivalent: £149. Same premium cast iron game, but supporting local industry feels better. #MadeInEngland
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The Online Safety Act is being used to censor political debate in this country. This isn't about taking sides - I don't want the Greens censored anymore than Reform. This legislation was never about keeping us "safe". It was always about limiting what people can say and what they can see and hear. Speak out now - before you lose that right altogether.
🚨 Labour is using the “Online Safety Act” to silence political opponents, and TikTok is doing their dirty work. First, TikTok removed my video announcing Reform UK’s new policy to place secure illegal migrant detention centres in non-Reform constituencies, prioritising Green ones.  TikTok explicitly cited the Online Safety Act as the reason for its removal. This is hard evidence of this draconian legislation being weaponised to silence political opponents.  That same video has 6.2 million views on other platforms. Today, the censorship escalated.  TikTok has now removed my video outlining the key policies I would implement as Home Secretary, claiming it is “Hate Speech and Hateful Behaviour.”  They warned me that any further "violations" will result in a strike, potentially leading to being de-platformed altogether. This is all the more staggering given TikTok happily hosts hundreds of videos of people calling for the assassination of Nigel Farage. My TikTok videos had received 18 million views over the previous 28 days. This is a chilling attempt to silence one of the biggest and fastest-growing UK political accounts on the platform. TikTok is engaging in direct political interference in the midst of the most pivotal elections in our country’s history. All under the auspice of the “Online Safety Act” that the Tories and Labour claimed to be about protecting children. It is, and always will be about silencing voices the open-borders political establishment don’t like. @TikTokComms have decided to try and suppress Reform. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
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How can we have the King’s Speech on Wednesday with this Starmer shambles going on? Weak government for years - crazy immigration, huge debt, welfare dependency, net zero madness - has made life miserable for our people. General election NOW!
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The first thing you don't do, is kneecap SMEs that make up 60% of employers. Then, knee capping energy supply, which is the basis of industrialisation, she increases the cost of EVERYTHING ,to reduce carbon by 0.01%. So tell me, what have they done right?
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🚨NEW: Four Labour figures have been charged after a criminal investigation into alleged vote rigging in London [@DailyMail]
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Starmer is a pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister. Only one party can get rid of him and begin to turn this country around. Vote Reform. Get Starmer Out. dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…
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Part 2/2 Trump, a timely and easy scapegoat, gets blamed for “showing how exposed we are”. Bollocks. He’s just holding up the mirror. Starmer’s deflecting and gaslighting instead of owning the mess. Grotesque. Iran exposed the naked emperor: drone on sovereign UK soil at Akrotiri. Shadow fleet tankers sail the Channel while the Navy watches. Starmer’s response? Empty threats, sound bites and victory-lap photo-ops. Paper tiger. I never believed I’d loathe someone more than Blair & Campbell, but there we go! Worse – this has exposed the problems other cultures bring. Namely Islam. It’s muddied the waters. Starmer is appeasing his block voters at the expense of the country. Chamberlain on steroids – he can’t stop a dinghy but he’ll broker Middle East peace while pandering to the pro-Palestine mob. FullKitWanker diplomacy while the real threats grow domestically and globally. The ultimate slap in the fucking face to every veteran: We went to the Middle East to fight the enemy. Yet our own government gave them safe passage home after they fought against us. They now walk freely amongst us. More Muslims born in Britain travelled to the ME to fight against us than stood by us – and it will only get worse. Disgusting betrayal. Proof? Starmer welcomed a mass-murdering terrorist – the new Syrian President – with open arms at 10 Downing Street. Less than 2 years ago he was Al Qaeda with a huge bounty on his head. Starmer has handed the Syrian regime £350 million of British taxpayers’ money. While our military is hollowed out. While the enemy we bled to defeat gets the red carpet. This is what “leadership” looks like now. Fuck off! And we haven’t even mentioned Starmer’s grotesque witch-hunt of veterans. As a barrister he worked for free to reshape human rights law and push for mandatory investigations into our troops in Iraq and Northern Ireland. That opened the floodgates to years of harassment, reinvestigations and court cases against lads who’d already been cleared – some dragged through hell for decades. Johnny Mercer and countless veterans have called it exactly what it is: a witch-hunt. Utterly rancid. And the shameless cunt proves it today. 28 years after the Good Friday Agreement, Starmer posts celebrating it as one of Labour’s “proudest achievements” while he’s the same man relentlessly hunting the very veterans who served in Northern Ireland – the lads who helped deliver that so-called peace. No shame. Zero. He owes every single one of them a public apology and he’ll never give it. Inside RAF units it’s the same cancer. Station Commanders obsessed with DEI targets and woke agendas instead of warfighting. Some elevated on quotas – zero for the mission. Pension-trapped cowards daren’t speak up. The rest are just spineless. No lessons learnt. Munitions gutted. Recruitment in the toilet. Chasing rainbows while the world arms for war. WAR FIGHTER FIRST. Full stop. The fix is brutal: Fire the quota kings and DEI zealots. End the pension-trapped silence. Rebuild the culture around one mission only: winning wars. Slash the bloated MoD/civil service and fund the frontline. Real procurement. Get the right people in for the task. Ones with real expertise & experience. Real stockpiles. Real leadership. MoD and Ministers have failed their duty. Starmer’s gaslighting changes nothing. Hold the lot to account. I served 30 years, 15 overseas, multiple ops, Battlespace Manager. I lived this betrayal and I’m still furious. More whistleblowers needed. The serving lads know the truth. Britain deserves better than a hollow force, spineless politicians, and imported threats. Warfighter first. Always. The Tower awaits the traitors. End. 🇬🇧 Cc. @haynesdeborah @DrChrisParry @COLRICHARDKEMP @antmiddleton @nicholadrummond @RobertClark87 @afneil @RupertLowe10 @Gabriel64869839 @UKDefJournal @_HenryBolton
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UK 🇬🇧 Military 🧵 Part 1. The UK military didn’t “decline”. It was deliberately gutted. The peace dividend was national suicide. Here’s exactly how, when and why it all went to shit – and why the MoD, the civil service, and every single government (especially Blair & Starmer’s) have blood on their hands. 30 year veteran thread. No more bullshit. Early 90s. I’m in 18 Group Maritime Ops (now PJHQ). Real assets – Nimrods, proper RN escort fleet – tracking Soviet subs that never stopped probing us. Russians didn’t take a peace dividend. Our governments did. Scrapping Nimrods, hollowing the fleet, pretending the threat vanished. Cupboard’s been empty ever since. We’re sitting ducks. Literally! What a fkn shambles. Iraq proved it in blood. No body armour. Open-top Snatch Land Rovers – rolling coffins. Labour sent us to war like that. Yanks nicknamed us “the Borrowers”. 457 of our lads died. Would’ve been far more without American kit and fast air. Chilcot laid it bare. Zero lessons learned. When British troops were in contact – whether in Iraq, Helmand or beyond – they’d be praying for American fast air, tankers and enablers to keep them alive. That’s not knocking our own pilots – far from it. Finbar Monahan DFC and countless RAF heroes showed incredible bravery and ingenuity under fire. But the brutal reality is the scale and sustainment gap our hollowed-out force created. I saw it from the Battlespace Manager seat. We leaned on the Yanks because successive governments left us no choice. While the military was shrunk to the bone, the MoD and civil service bloated like a politicians ego. Civil servants multiplied, costing us a fortune, delivering sweet fuck all experience or value. We’ve been properly duped. Every government destroys the original model and swings wildly the other way. The system is broken. Procurement is still a fucking joke. Military: “We need a dog.” MoD: “Meetings.” Years later: “Here’s a cat. Teach it to bark.” 🐶 = 🐱 I lived this shambles. Left in 2021. Same clowns today. Leadership rot everywhere. Gavin Williamson pushed woke ideology and hand-picked Mike Wigston as CAS. Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak – every single one owns a slice. Same applies to every Defence Secretary. Let’s talk about the Afghan schemes another day Ben Wallace. Tories slashed the military with Options for Change. Labour did Iraq on the cheap. Now Starmer’s at the helm making excuses instead of fixing the real problems. End of Part 1/2 – The rot runs deep and cost lives. Part 2 coming straight after: Trump holds up the mirror, Starmer gaslights, the Middle East betrayal, the cancer inside, and the brutal fix we need.
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Honestly, I’ve seen my country in bad times, and lived through them. But I have never experienced decline, surrender and stupidity presided over by a government of the United Kingdom on the scale we currently see. It’s truly unprecedented in my lifetime
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Mr Starmer, The world is watching. And for once, I’m not here to play nice or balance both sides. This is the one shot I get to say what millions already know in their bones. You are not Britain’s Prime Minister. You are a man who won an election and immediately began dismantling the very things the British people voted for in 2016. You are squatting in Downing Street while steering the country back into the arms of the institution it explicitly rejected. If you will not stand down, the British people will make you. Here is every claim you made today, stripped bare, no spin, no mercy: 1. “The Middle East conflict has now entered its second month.” Thank you for the calendar update. While you counted months, the IRGC a group formally designated as terrorists by the United States, Canada, and others, continued running its London operations from 16 Prince’s Gate, Knightsbridge. You did nothing. 2. “The UK is working at pace for de-escalation and peace.” Translation: we issued strongly worded statements. Results: zero. Your “pace” is the speed of a snail on tranquillisers. 3. “The war will affect the future of our country, energy and cost of living.” It already is. Your green ideology and EU realignment have left Britain with some of the highest energy prices in the developed world. Pensioners choose between heating and eating. That’s not “the war.” That’s policy. 4. “We are well-placed with a long-term plan to emerge stronger and more secure.” Record taxes. 7.5 million people on NHS waiting lists. Record small-boat crossings. Energy bills that could bankrupt households. If this is your definition of “stronger and more secure,” the English language just filed for divorce. 5. “I held meetings with business leaders…” Photo opportunities. They warned you. You smiled for the cameras and carried on regardless. 6. “Energy bills will be cut today and fixed until July.” A £117 cap that your own NI increases and green levies have already vaporised. It’s not relief. It’s an insult dressed up as compassion. 7. “The most effective way to support the cost of living is to push for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.” Then why did you help shut down North Sea production and make us dependent on foreign energy? The hypocrisy is so thick you could spread it on toast. 8. “The UK is taking back control of our energy security by investing in clean British energy.” Britain now pays the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe. Blackouts are on the menu. This is not “taking back control.” This is self-sabotage with better PR. 9. “Because the world is volatile, Britain’s long-term national interest now requires closer partnership with the EU.” Let’s be honest for once: you are using a foreign crisis as cover to hand sovereignty, money, and decision-making back to Brussels without asking the British people. That is not statesmanship. That is betrayal by stealth. 10. “I will announce a new summit with the EU later this year…” Re-joining by the back door while an Iranian terror-linked operation sits in one of London’s most expensive postcodes. The sheer gall is almost impressive. You stood at the podium today and spoke of “British interests” while actively working against them. You swore you wouldn’t rejoin the EU. You are doing it anyway. You talk of security while leaving a designated terror network untouched in central London. You lecture about the cost of living while your policies make it worse. The mask is not slipping, Keir. It has fallen off and shattered on the floor. The British people see you clearly now: a politician who values international approval and Brussels goodwill more than the nation that elected him. You are not leading Britain. You are managing its managed decline. The clock is ticking. Not in secret. Not in silence. Out loud, in broad daylight, across every pub, every kitchen table, every X feed and every street in this country. History does not forgive those who sell their own people’s sovereignty for applause. Britain did not vote for this. Britain does not want this. And Britain will not tolerate this forever. The reckoning is coming. And it will not be kind. Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧
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It’s a threat from within - and Britain can’t afford to ignore it. It’s time we ban the Muslim Brotherhood. 🔗 banthebrotherhood.uk/
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