A social media ban isn’t going to make the online harms disappear, the harms will just move elsewhere within the community and there will be a lot of kids with too much spare time on their hands.

I disagree profoundly with a social media ban for under 16s. It’s authoritarian, it’s a parental decision, not a Govt one, kids need experience of social media, it impinges on all of our rights. But, of course, both Labour & Conservatives are in total agreement about it 🤷🏻‍♂️

Indigenous people targeting minorities is the worst ever outcome imaginable. The State has failed disastrously: 1. To educate people on the nuances of migration; and 2. to deal with the abuses to our migration systems. A dramatic change in policy is the only option now.

It’s astounding that those in Government blame others for “incitement” when it is clearly their policies that are leading to atrocities and then there is disorder in response to those atrocities.

Pub campaigners mainly support the left of politics and do not see the connection between their pubs’ troubles and big, interfering, nanny state Govt which generates excessive tax and costly Regulation for everyone.

In other words, Rachel Reeves will continue to take 53p per litre of fuel plus 20% VAT whilst pretending that she’s helping you by not implementing a 5p rise in fuel duty 🤣🤣🤣

Is it a Universal Credit theme park that Labour are building?

When did the Govt make it normal for them to lie?

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions: - welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap - defence spending is too low - the triple lock is unsustainable - without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution - we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea - migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state - any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement - we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable - Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly Blair basically says all that. The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind: - judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast - the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement. Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others

Hard to believe that Labour still thinks that questioning Covid processes and vaccines is a vote loser. I’d never vote for Labour, Tory or the Libdems unless I was convinced that they wouldn’t repeat the Covid fiasco again.

The UK just “smashed” its May temperature record… but here’s the part the Met Office conveniently leaves out: The PREVIOUS record was set in 1922. That’s 104 years ago. Long before SUVs, private jets, or modern CO₂ emissions. Heathrow Airport didn’t even exist yet. The area was literally farmland and small villages. So if a 1922 heatwave could produce nearly identical temperatures in a world with ~130 ppm less CO₂, maybe, just maybe, natural variability plays a much bigger role than the panic merchants admit.

"Well Josh, did your Mum happen to mention that she'll be able to save £1.64 on the family entry to Legoland during the summer"? "Yes Mr Starmer, and she asked me pass on her thanks. She told me to tell you she plans to take us twice in the holidays. That way she'll save over £3 which will be enough to buy a can of coke for us all to share". "That's marvellous Josh. I'm happy to help".

Morrisons just said the quiet part out loud. Around 100 convenience stores are now on the chopping block. Hundreds of jobs are at risk. And the reason given is not “greedy supermarkets”, not “corporate profiteering”, not “Tory austerity”, not any of the slogans Labour spent years throwing around. It is “significant cost increases resulting from Government policy choices”. That is corporate-speak for: Labour made it more expensive to employ people, more expensive to operate, and harder to keep marginal stores alive. This is the basic economic reality the Government pretends does not exist. You can raise employer costs and call it “fairness”. You can increase wage mandates and call it “growth”. You can load more regulation onto businesses and call it “responsibility”. You can demand lower prices at the till while making every input cost higher behind the scenes. But eventually the spreadsheet wins. And when the spreadsheet wins, shops close. Not the imaginary shops in a Treasury forecast. Real ones. Local ones. The ones people use for milk, bread, prescriptions, newspapers, top-up groceries and last-minute essentials. The ones staffed by people who do not have the luxury of working from home while lecturing everyone else about “resilience”. This is the part Labour never wants to own. Their policies are always sold as compassion. But the consequences are brutally practical. A store that was just about viable becomes loss-making. A worker who was just about employed becomes “at risk”. A community that had a local shop now has an empty unit with metal shutters. And then ministers will stand up and blame “global pressures”, “market conditions”, “corporate decisions” or “the legacy we inherited”. NO. Morrisons has named the problem directly: government policy choices. That phrase matters. Because it means this was not inevitable. It was chosen.

I’ve given up smoking after 40 years. Health is a factor, but cost is the main issue. £15 a day, £5,500 a year. 80% of this is tax. Is this the Laffer curve? I’ve also stopped eating out at restaurants because of cost. Is this what Govt want to happen?

Two types of immigration. Two completely different stories. Here are the numbers. 🇮🇳 LEGAL INDIAN IMMIGRANT: 💷 Pays £2,885 — ILR application fee 💷 Pays £1,035/year — Immigration Health Surcharge 💷 Pays full income tax — from day one 💷 Pays full National Insurance — from day one 💷 Pays £3,000-5,000 — visa fees over 5 years ❌ Cannot claim most benefits ❌ Cannot claim Universal Credit ❌ Cannot claim housing benefit ✅ Contributes £6 billion annually to NHS through taxes ✅ Lowest crime rate of ANY community in Britain 🚤 ILLEGAL CHANNEL CROSSER: 💷 Costs taxpayer £677/week in hotel accommodation — more than UK average wage 💷 Receives £47.39/week in cash for food and toiletries 💷 Costs £41,000 per person per year to the taxpayer 💷 1.9 million asylum review cases — costing taxpayer £1.27 billion ❌ Pays zero tax ❌ Pays zero visa fees ❌ Pays zero health surcharge Britain rewards the illegal. Britain burdens the legal. And then wonders why British Indians are angry. Full stop. 🇬🇧🇮🇳 #BritishIndians #UKImmigration

I don’t think people realise that this is the beginning of the end of single sex toilets because, whilst biological gender is the definition, venues are also required to provide a gender neutral space. Fine if you have a disabled toilet, but not if you don’t.

So, reduce VAT on theme parks, but add VAT on education. This Government's priorities are so warped

The children’s meal VAT cut should help MacDonalds maintain its profits. Won’t do much else for anyone else. Pathetic.

Food price freezes - who do Labour think should not get paid? Farm owners, farm workers, distribution owners, distribution workers, supermarket owners, supermarket workers?

Extending the 5p Duty “cut” is the Govt “stepping in” to help us, but fuel has increased several multiples of 5p so it isn’t really helpful at all, the cost remains hugely increased. This absolutely epitomises this Labour Govt.