Charlton Athletic supporter. Views expressed are purely my own altho RTs may not be!
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 14
Totally out of her depth when it comes to matters of geopolitical importance. The Kremlin must be shaking its head in disbelief that she’s allowed out to address such issues.
Jun 14
Savvy Trevor Phillips takes the day off and leaves Wilfred Frost to hand village idiot Lisa Nandy her arse on a plate, he asks her if there are 700 vessels in the Russian Shadow Fleet how come the UK has stopped an awe-inspiring ONE of them in four years.
She says that shows how serious Keir Starmer's Government is on the matter....
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 14
Ugh. This is DISGUSTING @LushLtd. Teenage girls love to shop in your stores and here you are happily encouraging them to CUT OFF THEIR HEALTHY BREASTS in the name of trans pride.
This is beyond repulsive. It's dangerous and sick. No parent should allow their child near your stores.
Please share: #BoycottLushNow
Jun 14
Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 13
She couldn't have known. There were no signs. Nothing out of the ordinary happened right in front of her. What husband wouldn't shell out £4k for a pair of his wife's old shoes? Happens every day.
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 13
🚨 WHEN FORMER SPY CHIEFS MI6 START WARNING THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE LISTEN
Sir Richard Dearlove did not mince his words.
Britain, he says, is being governed by a "bunch of students" who fail to grasp the dangers facing the world.
His concern is not party politics.
It is national security.
And when a former head of MI6 openly questions whether the government understands the scale of the threats ahead, that should concern everyone.
Because intelligence chiefs rarely speak this bluntly unless they believe something has gone badly wrong.
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 12
So the ministers who haven’t seen the Defence Investment Plan thinks it’s great.
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The ministers who have seen the Defence investment Plan thought it was so bad they resigned! x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/…
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 13
I speak regularly to senior ministers and ambassadors from our key allies and partners, and since Labour came to office our standing in the world has fallen off a cliff.
From Labour’s £35bn Chagos Surrender to their kowtowing to China, granting them their super embassy spy-hub in the heart of London, we are becoming a laughing stock.
These resignations and the proof Labour won’t commit the funding needing to defence show we are letting down our country and our allies.
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 13
ANDREW NEIL: Andy Burnham is not Labour's new messiah — and he might not even be much of an improvement on Starmer.
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 12
Sometimes you can only shake your head in disbelief at how unserious this government is.
Peter Kyle: the plan is great
Naga Munchetty: have you seen the plan?
Kyle: no
Munchetty: So how do you know its great?
Peter Kyle: "Because I have faith in a PM.. to fund the plan & design a plan & lead a plan, of course & he is the PM that is fit for the moment we're in"
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 11
Well done, @JohnHealey_MP. We prioritise disability benefits over drones. The MoD can’t get the £28 billion which it needs to keep us safe, yet the welfare budget is set to rise by £42 billion.
We spend more than 5️⃣ times as much on social security as on actual security.
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 11
The first duty of any government is to protect the defence and security of our country.
But not under this Labour government.
Keir Starmer and his Chancellor have put welfare spending over the defence of our country.
In these dangerous times, this is a gross dereliction of duty by an ideological left wing government that is not fit to govern Britain.
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 11
Perhaps the grimmest part of John Healey’s brutal resignation letter is that defence spending, projected to be 2.6% GDP by 2027, will only reach 2.68% in 2030. A pathetic 0.08% increase over three years after all that Starmer rhetoric about the dangerous times we live in and how UK would lead the way stepping up to the crease. A real leader would have told Reeves to cough up the dosh and ordered Miliband to hand over a big chunk of his net zero budget. But he’s probably too weak to do either.
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Jun 11
Labour Quickly Removes Evidence of John Healey’s Existence order-order.com/2026/06/11/l… via @guidofawkes
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Philip Read retweeted
Good Lord, surely this can’t be correct 👇
Jun 9
Manchester City Council have just awarded a 4.7m contract to a EV company.........
Who is the MD of this EV company......Andy Burnhams wife.....what a coincidence!
Remember Makerfield, Burnham is just the same as all the other inept Labour MPs!
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 10
The Justice Committee has given its verdict on Labour’s plans to restrict our ancient right to a jury trial.
It’s utterly damning.
It says there is NO evidence for David Lammy’s claim that judge only trials will take 20% less time than jury trials. 🧵
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Reeves Says She Will Hike Taxes Again to Pay for Defence Boost order-order.com/2026/06/10/r… via @guidofawkes
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 10
A more dangerous world demands serious leadership. But Keir Starmer is paralysed.
We must cut welfare spending to fund our defence.
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 10
While we still wait on Labour government defence spending plans (the Defence Investment Plan — DIP) to finance last year’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR), let’s keep in mind these salient points when it eventually appears:
1. The current £28 billion shortfall in defence spending over the next four years has nothing to do with implementing the SDR. The £28 billion is simply what’s needed to meet current defence commitments/plans.
2. So funding for SDR would have to be on top of the £28 billion — which would mean tens of billions more over the next five or so years into the early 2030s.
3. The extra money now being floated as what the government is likely to announce — £13.5 billion over four years — wouldn’t even cover half the shortfall never mind produce a penny for the SDR. It’s a pittance compared with what’s required.
4. We currently spend 2.4% GDP on defence (and even that is boosted by some statistical sleights of hand). The only current concrete plan is to go to 2.5/6% in the next financial year. Now the Treasury is saying it doesn’t even want to set 3% as a target before 2034/35 — by which time if Reeves-Starmer-Treasury have their way we will be a minor player in military matters.
5 This government is dishonest the best of times. I fear we’re about to discover that when it comes to the defence of the realm — its primary duty as a government — it is a serial liar.
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Philip Read retweeted
Jun 9
Whitehall takes on 2,000 more human resources workers while making cuts to staff working on defence improvements.
This move has lead to accusations of prioritising “pen-pushers” over national security 👇
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Jun 9
UK Defence Plan Not Mentioned Once at Cabinet order-order.com/2026/06/09/u… via @guidofawkes
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Jun 8
Yet more Labour hypocrisy. 🤬
Jun 7
This was brilliant. Trevor Phillips played a clip of what Keir Starmer said about George Floyd and displayed how Labour MPs expressed their “anger”.
David Lammy said it was fine because they were in opposition.
But not fine for Nigel Farage to use the term “rage” like they did.
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