We owe those who serve the UK the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both. I’ve spent my whole time in government making that case. Number 10 will not listen, so I am resigning as Minister for the Armed Forces. Letter to the PM below.🫡🫡🫡⬇️⬇️

So the police turn up in riot gear to a peaceful protest in Epsom, following the rape of a young woman outside a church. They never did this for the Clapham looting. Never for the pro-Palestine/IRGC marches where people wear face masks. Two-tier policing once again.

Today marks the end of the survivor participation for our rape gang inquiry hearings. I simply have no words that describe the bravery and courage of these women who have come forward. No words. What they have been through is indescribable. It has been a life-changing experience for me. I never thought such evil was possible. Never. Not here, in Britain. In our towns, in our communities. It is pure evil. These men are so utterly depraved. If it were up to me, thousands of them would receive the death penalty. To do what they did, on such an industrial scale, to innocent young girls - many of whom were already in such an incredibly vulnerable place? There is no redemption possible. The world is a better place without them in it. I started this inquiry because so many others failed. Speaking honestly, I did not understand how deep this evil is rooted in our society. Police, politicians, council officials, the NHS, social workers, children’s homes - it is everywhere. IS everywhere. Not was. IS. Meeting these women, and men, listening to how severely they were failed by those tasked to protect them? My views have changed forever. I knew it was bad. I never knew how bad it was. Every single one who has come forward is a hero in my view. The courage and grace in how they have conducted themselves is unlike anything I have seen in my life. All because they don’t want others to suffer the same fate. That is an extraordinary sacrifice. They could have just moved on with their lives. Tried to forget. But no, they chose to do this. I am in awe of all of them. Our hearings will finish tomorrow, following the contribution of three more expert witnesses. Then the next stage begins. We will produce a report, and then we will seek to put people in prison. There are FAR more testimonies and evidence to release - this will keep coming and coming and coming. Even with a media blackout, we have reached tens of millions. We have made real progress. And following such immense demand, we will reopen the portal so that more women can tell their stories. This is just the beginning. Politicians from all parties have failed these girls, again and again and again. I do not intend to join that list. To everyone who donated, thank you. To our team, thank you. And especially to the survivors, thank you. I believe that together we can start to make Britain understand what is happening, and then finally do something about it.

What Reeves should announce today, but obviously won’t. Everything costs more. Food, rent, mortgages, insurance, childcare, energy, basic goods, services, the weekly shop, a pint. Britain is getting poorer, faster. People feel it, and they’re right. Inflation has eaten us alive. Wages wiped out. Savings eroded. Families poorer. Britain weaker. We are getting ripped off. Why? Because Britain is addicted to the size of its own state. Here’s what Reeves should say. Tax cuts. Lots of tax cuts. - Raise the personal allowance dramatically - let people keep the first £20,000 they earn, minimum. No tax. It will cost, but the savings it will produce from encouraging people back into work will be vast, - Slash Income Tax/National Insurance, especially on middle-earners who’ve been squeezed the hardest. This is uncomplicated, Rachel. REWARD HARD WORK. - Remove the stealth taxes they all pretend don’t exist - fiscal drag and frozen thresholds which quietly rob the British people every year. - Give overseas skilled British workers vast tax benefits to relocate their tax revenue and skills back to Britain. Bring them home. - Cut back VAT, reduce fuel duty, cut alcohol duty, none of this sugar tax bullshit. - Stamp duty, gone for British families. Let’s get the property market moving. - Licence fee, scrapped. On the bonfire. Day one. More cash in the pocket for families. Unleash British business - Cut Corporation Tax to the lowest rate in Europe. Undercut them. Compete. Win. - Push back dividend thresholds and taxes. If people are successful, ENCOURAGE IT. - Abolish Business Rates for small firms. Bring our high streets back. Turkish barber/vape shop fraud crackdown too - let's root out the criminals. - Slash Employers’ National Insurance - the single biggest reason small firms won’t hire more staff. OBVIOUSLY. We need to get that right down. Non-negotiable. - Supercharge deregulation, especially for small businesses. A redtape bonfire visible from space. Let it burn. - End the HR-ification of Britain. Bosses should be able to sack people, and they’ll end up actually hiring more because of that. - Scrap IR35, immediately. Leave people to interface between themselves. - Double the VAT threshold, possibly more. Overnight, vast growth will be unleashed from businesses hovering just under £90k. The figures show it already! - Super-deductions for investment, including capital allowances and R&D incentives. Encourage people to invest and they will! - Get police policing, and restoring some confidence for investment. Make Britain safer, and that will make Britain richer. A brutal restructuring of the welfare state. And I mean brutal. - No benefits for foreign nationals. If you arrive here, you contribute. If you’re here and you don’t? You leave. Billions saved, with one stroke. - Mandatory work requirements for all those able to work. If you want support from taxpayers, you must give something back. A fair time to search for a job, but then you’re put to work. Picking litter or whatever else. - Full disability fraud crackdown using data-matching and HMRC-style enforcement. Weed out the piss-takers. - A cap on total household benefit claims - it should never pay more to stay home than to work. Never. Drive for self-sufficiency. - Domestic energy production on a huge scale, like we’ve never seen before. Drive that cost of energy down. Fracking. North Sea extraction. New nuclear. Gas storage. Cheap dependable energy = lower prices for everything. It’s that simple. - Food security, with domestic output boosted and less reliance on foreign supply chains. - Support British farming. Scrap the family farming tax. Use the public sector’s purchasing power to BUY BRITISH from our farmers. End dependency. Boost farming apprenticeships. - A national infrastructure plan focused on logistics, ports, roads, and freight efficiency. The cheaper it is to produce and transport things, the lower prices fall. Places like Great Yarmouth with our fantastic port will boom. Stop building roads in Guyana, and use that money in Britain. A robust plan to deal with the cancer of inflation. - Immediate ban on money-printing (QE) without explicit Parliamentary approval. No more splurges by the Bank of England and that toad Bailey. - Slash public spending - genuine far-reaching cuts. Nobody is safe. All departments. - Foreign aid. Gone. Entirely. Billions saved overnight. - Freeze all non-essential recruitment across the entire public sector (excluding front-line staff). A workforce pause, until inflation is under control. Then follows strict limits. - A structured debt-repayment schedule, legally binding, to get those vast billion debt-interest payments falling. If you want some awful perspective - we now spend more on debt interest than on defence. No serious country on earth behaves like this. Britain does. It’s like some third world African tinpot dictatorship approach to economic affairs. - We need to cut the debt, not just the deficit. - Public sector pension liability - all off balance sheet. Needs a total overhaul as state employees are radically cut. Stop importing poverty, crime and sex pests. - Shut down all illegal migration with mass deportations, rapid removals, third-country processing, and no exceptions. Billions saved on abolishing asylum and related costs. - Cut legal migration to net-negative, especially low-wage migration that undercuts British workers. - Remove those who are a drain. If they’re claiming benefits, living in social housing, unable to speak English, refusing to contribute? Thanks, but your presence is no longer required. Bye. - Deport foreign sex pests and criminals. Make our towns safe again. Watch how investment flows back into our dying high streets. We must urgently cut back the bankrupt British state. Growth only comes from the following things. A smaller state. Lower taxes. More people working. Fewer people scrounging. Cheaper energy. Stronger borders. Mass deportations. Actual production. That is it. Reeves sadly does not have the balls to do what is necessary. Britain needs an economic revolution.

Julia blasts Keir Starmer for "not doing enough" to protect Jews in the UK, amid an attack at a Synagogue in Manchester. "This is on you Prime Minister! Don't you bloody dare say you want to keep them safe - when you're part of the reason they're not. Shame on you!" @JuliaHB1

Warning... Some taxpayers may find this offensive. 👇👇 This data was all taken from the GOV.UK Development Tracker (devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/). All the figures refer to the amount of money budgeted to each scheme, not necessarily the amount already spent. Almost all these aid programmes are currently ongoing so haven’t yet reached the total budgeted figure. Some were given the go ahead under Conservative Governments, and some under this Labour Government. I have rounded the figures to make easier to read numbers. £349.2 million on creating critical economic infrastructure such as bridges, renewable energy, ports and sea defences in the Caribbean. £558.6 million on increasing provision of and access to impartial news and information (BBC World Service) in English and local languages across the developing world. £127.6 million on building refugee resilience and inclusion in Turkey. £212.8 million on support for health and £42.7 million on a partnership for Agile Governance and Climate Engagement in Nigeria. £34.9 million on strengthening the ability of Pakistan’s health system to recover from COVID-19 and build future resilience. £120.4 million on improving local Government ability to deliver local infrastructure services in Nepal. £95 million on strengthening societal and economic resilience in Jordan, including expanding contributory social insurance schemes and supporting expansion of tax-financed social-assistance schemes. £149.7 million on pioneering climate investment in India, £120 million on a Climate and Environment programme for Bangladesh and £108 million on a Climate Investment Fund for Pakistan. £23.8 million on a Freedom and Resilience Programme in the Western Balkans to address structural issues including ethno-nationalist division, government transparency and accountability. £26.7 million on improving the effectiveness, accountability and transparency of economic policies in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. £38.1 million on a climate smart jobs programme in Uganda. £5 million on a Rights, Inclusion, Voice and Agency programme to empower women, girls and excluded groups in Nepal. £99 million on transforming education and £20.6 million on accelerating economic transformation in Ethiopia. £40.8 million on stabilising the deforestation frontier in Colombia. £3.2 million on reducing inequality and exclusion experienced by LGBTI people in the Caribbean. £9 million on supporting resilience, governance and economic reform in Moldova. £4.8 million on a Roads Development Programme in Liberia. £2.6 million on deepening democracy in Mozambique. £320,922 on arts-based approaches to tackling gender based and racialised violence in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. £184,611 on documenting femicide through research, film and participatory ceramic art in Vietnam. £181,345 on developing art based public engagement and advocacy model for transforming social norms on gender-based violence in the Andean region. £36,941 on supporting parliamentary reform, health for girls and environmental waste management in Mbabane, Eswatini.

Isn't it interesting how lukewarm so many of the pro-Palestinian crowd are about this Trump peace plan for Gaza? You'd have thought they'd be thrilled at the prospect of a deal for the immediate end to the war, the ousting of Hamas and the rebuilding of Gaza would be exactly what they want for the people they claim to care so much about. Or could it be that what their real motive isn't the plight of the Palestinian people but their hatred of Israel (and Trump too) so a peace deal brokered by the US President and Netanyahu is WORSE than the "genocide" and "mass starvation" they claim is being inflicted on Gaza? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

"London mayor, you're a disgrace, you're disgusting, you do not deserve to be in that position." Alex Phillips calls for Sadiq Khan to resign after a poor response to a question about child grooming during Mayor's question time. @ThatAlexWoman

INSANE: Gov't figures show that a WHOPPING 40% of @Deliveroo riders stopped during random checks in *2023* were working illegally. The only logical conclusion is the Home Office know this is happening and they are allowing it. Absolute disgrace. We need to drain the swamp!

So those who speak out about children been raped are deemed 'far-right' by our Prime Minister. And this is causing his Minister to be in danger. Remember Starmer's election propaganda about Rishi. -Or when the now Labour Health Secretary called for someone he disagreed with to be thrown under a train. -Or when the former Labour Shadow Chancellor called for a Conservative Minister to be lynched. -Or when a Labour MP retweeted a post that called for abuse victims to "shut their mouths for diversity." Labour Hypocrisy, these are all still MPs.

If the law doesn't allow for mass deportations of foreign rapists, and their accomplices, then change the law. Place whatever pressure necessary on foreign governments so that these monsters spend the rest of their days rotting in some Pakistani prison. Publicly do it - show these savages that if you commit mass rape against vulnerable British girls, you WILL suffer the brutal consequences. Tell the world. This vile episode sums up how far we have fallen. Our great country, our once-great country, sacrificing tens of thousands of white working class girls to mainly Pakistani rapists all in order to protect 'community cohesion'. Cowards in positions of authority were so scared of being called racist, they allowed eleven year old girls to be drugged, abused and raped - on an industrial scale. I look at the Labour Government's response, and it's clear they have no intention of doing what needs to be done. We will not let this go. We will fight for answers in Parliament, one step at a time. If Labour won't do what's necessary now, we will do it in 2029.

We need to slash back the size of the state, urgently - it is too big, too powerful, too far-reaching. I always thought it was a mess, but since being elected an MP? Far, far worse than any of us realise. Never underestimate the damage a do-gooding arrogant bureaucrat can inflict on productive Britain. There is an army of these people now, building their own little empires in councils, quangos, hospitals and public sector institutions all across the country. Entirely untouchable, accountable to nobody. Constructing this self-sustaining industry, which contributes nothing, but obstructs everything. Anyone who has dealt with the state, or those decent people working within it, will know exactly the type of individual I am referring to… Cosy work environments, zero accountability, great pensions, job security, no targets. The out of office reply in regular use... It’s a scam. These bureaucrats have embedded themselves into the system, building it so that their own little role seems irreplaceable. An overly complicated form for this, diversity training for that - who can solve it? The do-gooding bureaucrat. So wonderfully encapsulated by the thousands of diversity officers now roaming the corridors of hospitals, departments and local councils - searching for racial wrongs to right. We need to root these people out. They wouldn’t last a fortnight in the private sector, but are protected in their own cosy little bubble. All funded by the men and women doing actual work. The bureaucratic monster state must be challenged. I detest how these freeloaders are gliding through life on the back of productive Britain. Brutal cuts are required to the management class. As the great Javier Milei so eloquently says - AFUERA!

I sit in Westminster, listening to politicians bang on about these 'desperate' asylum seekers and I just think - am I losing my mind? Look at the pictures, look at the facts. These are not women and children fleeing war and persecution. The overwhelming majority of these individuals are men. Young foreign men. Most of whom are from alien cultures which hold no respect for our way of life or British values. They are not genuine asylum seekers, they are illegal migrants. How can anyone in the right mind look at these boats packed full of blokes and sincerely believe that these are people we should be welcoming into our country, no questions asked? We have NO idea who they are - as few as one in 50 have passports when they are picked up. How many are criminals? How many are terrorists? We do NOT know. Inserting these men into communities around the UK is total and utter INSANITY. Can you imagine what these people think of us? Free accommodation, food, upkeep, healthcare, recreational activities. Is it a surprise thousands and thousands more want to follow in their footsteps? The boats should be turned around. Those who do arrive should be securely detained and deported as swiftly as possible. Nobody who comes illegally stays, nobody here illegally stays. I do not want these men in our country.

NET ZERO - If the UK hits its NET ZERO target, the contribution to reducing CO2 in the atmosphere will be 0.00012% of the 0.04% CO2 of Earth's atmosphere A 4K TV has 8.3 million pixels. The UK hitting net zero would be like turning off just 1 PIXEL on the entire screen See? 🤡

I don't think that deporting foreign criminals should even be up for any debate. Between April 2018 - March 2022, there were 38,868 reoffences from foreign national offenders. That included the following... Sexual - 555 Theft - 11,852 Violence against the person - 4,418 If they weren't in the country, these crimes would not have occurred - simple as that. Rapes, assaults, murders, thefts. All could have been prevented. Instead, the yearly cost of holding foreign criminals in British prisons is at least £533,311,980 - 10,423 foreign nationals in our prisons! Why are we caring for these criminals? Send them back. Whole prisons are dedicated to foreign prisoners. The prison in Maidstone holds exclusively foreign male prisoners - a well equipped facility for 600 individuals! A taster of life at Maidstone prison, according to the Government... "Prisoners have access to a broad range of education courses and vocational workshops, including bricklaying and decorating." "Work opportunities include a printing workshop, waste management, horticulture, tailoring and contract workshops." "Facilities include a weights and fitness suite and an artificial turf sports pitch." "other support (sometimes called ‘interventions’), such as managing difficult emotions" What the hell are we playing at?! Instead of releasing violent offenders, and failing to jail paedophiles, here is a ready-built prison. We just need to first deport the current residents. If you're a foreign national, in our country, and you commit a crime? You're gone.

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THIS IS INSANE! @elonmusk, the richest man in the world, WANTS to invest in the UK. But because this thin-skinned, childish Labour gov't didn’t like a sodding social media post, they've snubbed him. This is what happens when student politics meets reality. Absolute madness!

'Get in your cars and flee! Budget Reeves is heading towards us and nobody is safe' My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com