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‘Taxpayers would be horrified to know how many charities they are funding that perpetuate the open borders we have effectively got in the UK.’
Founder of ‘Woke Waste’, Charlotte Gill, says she’s calculated that £660 million of taxpayers’ money is going to migration charities.
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Makerfield taxi driver, 63, faces life on benefits due to Labour's Andy Burnham’s Clean Air Zone madness!
John from Wigan has a 17-year-old taxi that’s immaculate and passes every emissions and MOT test.
But from 31 Dec 2026, Burnham’s policy bans any car over 12 years old, regardless of emissions.
John can’t afford a new £20k taxi and at 63 he’ll be forced out of work and onto benefits!
‼️This is the real cost of net zero virtue-signalling on working people.
Vote @RestoreBritain to end this assault on hardworking British people!🇬🇧
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Jun 12
The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years.
Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped.
Why?
State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers.
The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage.
If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes.
Leave pensioners alone.
They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.
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Jun 12
This is horrific. 👇
But sadly we all know of similar situations.
And @KathrynPorter26 is spot on when she says no matter how capable you are, in an emergency you become vulnerable and far less able to communicate your symptoms, needs or wants, let alone being able to type.
In examples I can think of, so does the loved one who has called the ambulance / taken you to A&E.
It is only the professionals - medics - who are able to be both knowledgeable and dispassionate enough to triage emergency patients.
I wish Katherine a full and swift recovery and hope she does not find herself in such a situation again.
But this could be any of us, and an iPad won’t recognise the danger we are in.
Often until it’s too late.
Jun 11
This really worries me
A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood
But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one
I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x
One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency
Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home
He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E
He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor
As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit
If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't
I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system
This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal
My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption
A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus
It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad
Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention
Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do
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Jun 11
Imagine rocking up to a country and being given a house.
It’s fucking insane
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Jun 11
Net Zero is eating everything - economy, defence, grid security, food security. @TiceRichard @ClaireCoutinho
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Jun 10
This is not child protection. It is the end of free, private communication in Britain and digital ID by the back door.
This government can’t police the streets, can’t deport foreign criminals, can’t stop the boats, so instead it surveils you.
I have prosecuted child abusers. They’re stopped by policing, prosecution, and prison the three things this government has gutted.
Not by North Korea-style mass surveillance.
Jun 9
This is what the UK spyware proposal means.
There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.
When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).
The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.
Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.
Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.
The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.
The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.
@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2053…
Statement from @signalapp
x.com/signalapp/status/20640…
@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
reclaimthenet.org/starmer-ca…
The government announcement:
gov.uk/government/news/new-p…
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Jun 6
Does anyone understand why all these data centre applications are being made when electricity in the UK is so expensive?
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Imagine living in a society where government has to permit these things
Jun 6
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says the Government will allow pubs to serve outdoor pints and screen matches in their beer gardens for the World Cup
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Jun 1
Conventional wisdom says that leaving the European Union has harmed the British economy.
Listen to almost any Brexit debate – over the airwaves or on the professional conference circuit – and it’s invariably taken for granted being outside the EU has done serious economic damage.
Now we're in June, and as the 23rd approaches – the ten-year anniversary of that hotly-contested, era-defining referendum – this message will be rammed home again and again.
But it simply isn’t true.
My latest "Economic Agenda" column in @Telegraph
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May 31
At this point prices in The UK are just made up:
What do you mean a return train to London is £140?
How is a weekend away in England £600? I can go abroad for a week for that!
Why is a house that was £700 a month a few years ago now £1500 a month?
How is a full tank of fuel now costing more than £100?
Why is my car insurance going up every year on the same car with no claims?
How is 2 carrier bags of shopping costing me nearly £100?
We're honestly done aren't we.
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Time to say it out loud. The “Brexit was a disaster” narrative beloved of Remainers & Rejoiners is a downright lie. We’re doing better than comparable economies who stayed in the EU.
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May 30
Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester authority is spending £722k of public money helping migrants claim benefits and access housing. Is this one of the Manchester policies he would like to roll out across the entire country? dailysceptic.org/2026/05/30/…
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May 30
Oh how very clever. Tempt us with a ‘I’ll call a general election’ and everyone will vote for him in order to vote these idiots out. Then true to form they won’t do it! Don’t be fooled.
May 30
EXCL: Andy Burnham is considering holding a snap general election if he becomes PM.
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Britain is not “tightening its belt.”
Britain has sold the belt, borrowed another one on Klarna, and is now being lectured about financial responsibility by people billing duck houses to the taxpayer.
The weekly shop now requires a small bank loan.
You walk into Tesco for bread and milk and leave having accidentally financed a Mediterranean yacht.
Heating goes on like a military operation.
“One hour only, Margaret. We’re not made of money.”
Petrol prices rise every time somebody sneezes near a shipping lane most of us couldn’t point to on a globe if David Attenborough himself was helping.
The NHS waiting list is so long your appendix now has a better chance of seeing a doctor than you do.
Young people cannot afford houses.
Parents cannot afford food.
Pensioners cannot afford to die because funerals are apparently platinum-tier experiences now.
Meanwhile the Government — regardless of colour rosette — stares proudly into the middle distance and announces another “bold package of measures” that somehow never includes fixing anything you actually use.
You notice:
£8 million a day on asylum hotels.
£15 billion on foreign aid.
£24 billion borrowed in a single month.
And if you politely ask whether this is sustainable, the national conversation immediately transforms into:
“Ah. So you’re literally Hitler then.”
Ask once: bigot.
Ask twice: racist.
Ask three times: far-right extremist and possible threat to democracy itself.
At this point you half expect Ofcom to cut into Coronation Street with:
“We apologise for Russ from Doncaster asking where his taxes went.”
The reality is millions of ordinary British people are not angry because they are hateful.
They are angry because for thirty years they have been told:
Wait your turn.
Pay more.
Expect less.
Shut up.
And if possible, feel guilty while doing it.
Under Labour.
Under Conservatives.
Under coalitions.
Under whichever assortment of beige management consultants happened to win the election that year.
The British public are essentially the bloke at the pub who keeps buying rounds while being told he’s selfish for wondering why his own pint never arrives.
This is not racism.
It is national exhaustion.
And frankly, after this long, you would struggle to find a country on Earth that would not feel exactly the same.
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May 26
At some point, Europe's establishment began to portray hot weather as scary and wrong. Climate hysteria has to be injected, because nobody really buys into it.
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May 24
Labour has created the highest UK youth unemployment rate in more than a decade.
And now Sir Keir is paying for hoards of EU youngsters to enter the mix.
Genuinely astonishing.
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May 21
Retarded Rachael Reeves has joined TikTok to tell 12-15 year olds that they will get free bus travel this summer.
At the same time retarded Rachael & her retarded government are trying to ban social media for guess what, under 16's.....🤔🤔
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May 17
For those suggesting Labour should just put #rejoinEU in their next manifesto and get a mandate that way... 🤔
A General Election which might be won with just a third of the votes cast simply cannot trump a (single issue) Referendum where more than half wanted to leave the EU!
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May 17
It's reported that Sinn Féin intends to work with the SNP and Plaid Cymru to "break up the UK". Our instinct is to oppose this. But what if the best thing for England would be to bid farewell to Britain, asks Clive Pinder. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/17/…
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