David Funnell 🇬🇧

@UKLabour You just borrowed £14.3 billion in February, £13b of which went to pay interest on money already borrowed. The kids in your dishonest “free” playgrounds are going to have to pay all that money back through their taxes. Sad but true.

To those saying it will take years to get new oil & gas out the North Sea… It won’t. 👉 Jackdaw - can be producing gas in 3 months. 👉 Rosebank - can be producing oil in the autumn. Miliband just needs to approve them. Everyday he waits, the further away this supply gets.

Either produce evidence that I was part of the Brexit campaign or advocated it or have ever ‘gone on about sovereignty’ — or simply STFU. And you seem to know even less abut defence than you do about me. The UK nuclear deterrent is operationally independent. France, which you think so much of, has a keen sense of sovereignty. But, like the UK, it has no shield against long-range ballistic missiles. On this key military issue Brexit is irrelevant.

@ZackPolanski, Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, the joint US-UK base in the Indian Ocean. Neither hit their target but the significance goes far beyond this engagement. Diego Garcia is a 4,000 kilometres from Iran. Iran's foreign minister said last month that Iran had limited its missile range to 2,000 kilometres. That was a lie. And the implications of that lie are ones that every European leader, every Green Party politician and every opponent of this operation needs to confront. Missiles that can reach Diego Garcia can reach virtually every capital city in Europe. London. Paris. Berlin. Rome. The threat you are demanding Britain appease just revealed it can hit further than anyone publicly acknowledged. Now let's address who started this war since you seem confused. Iran built, funded and directed Hezbollah for thirty years. Iran built, funded and directed Hamas, which carried out the October 7th massacres. Iran built, funded and directed the Houthis, who have been attacking international shipping for over a year. Iran supplied the drones and ballistic missiles Russia has been using to kill Ukrainian civilians. Iran plotted twenty assassinations on British soil in two years, every one of them thwarted by British security services. Iran hit RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Iran has been blockading the Strait of Hormuz, collapsing Gulf oil exports by sixty per cent and driving up the energy bills of the British households you claim to represent. And lest we forget what this regime does to its own people: it has massacred over thirty thousand of its own citizens who dared to protest against it, hanged dissidents in public, executed gay people and imprisoned women for removing their hijabs. This is not a government that deserves the benefit of the doubt. It is a theocratic killing machine that has been at war with its own people and the wider world simultaneously. Iran started this. It has been starting it, in one form or another, since 1979. On the promise of a parliamentary vote: Starmer made that commitment as Labour leader running for his own party's leadership in 2020. He was not Prime Minister. He had no constitutional authority to bind future governments. The convention, as he has explained, is that votes apply to offensive deployments of troops, not defensive operations conducted at speed. You know this. You are citing it anyway because it is the only procedural argument left when the substantive ones have collapsed. You lead a party that has never condemned Hamas. Never condemned Hezbollah. Never condemned the Iranian regime that funds both and has just fired ballistic missiles at a British base. Your concern for British military personnel and civilians rings hollow this morning. The regime you have consistently refused to condemn just tried to hit a base housing British forces. That is the context in which your statement lands. And it lands very badly indeed. "This is not a government that deserves the benefit of the doubt. It is a theocratic killing machine that has been at war with its own people and the wider world simultaneously."

That's a serious accusation to make, @SteveReedMP. To which racial group do you believe I was racist? If you can't answer, we'll be free to conclude you're a liar. x.com/ArchRose90/sta…

Like so many ministers in the Starmer government (maybe most) this minister — Steve Reed — has no idea what he’s talking about and is totally out of his depth. Which, when the matter is national security, is rather serious.

First picture. A Jewish kindergarten in Michigan, USA destroyed by terrorists. Second picture. A kindergarten in Rishon Lezion, Israel destroyed by terrorists.

This is called "terrorism"

Me: "Iran have attempted over 20 terrorist attacks on the UK in the past few years" Starmer: "That's fine" Me: "Iran are trying to destabilise our country, posing online as Scottish Independence activists to stir up tension" Starmer: "That's fine" Me: "Iran attacked the UK sovereign military base, RAF Akrotiri, with suicide drones" Starmer: "That's fine" Me: "Iran just launched two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, the UK-US military base in the Chagos Islands" Starmer: "That's fine" Me: "Iran tried to infiltrate the UK military base where our nuclear submarine fleet is based" Starmer: "That's fine" What in the hell does Iran have to do, in order for the UK to respond and defend its damn self?

I have some Sunday questions. 1. What did Nick Brown do to be sacked as a Labour MP? Someone in Labour knows. 2. Those two violent British Pakistani men who attacked female police officer at the airport breaking her nose, what’s happened with them? 3. Given a certain former Labour MP was arrested after being caught by paedophile hunters in Brighton why does he keep getting bailed multiple times? Will he ever face prosecution or is he being lined up to be Nick Browned? 4. How can a serving Somerset MP accused of multiple serious sexual offences against children continue serving his constituents? 5. If an MP lies on general election leaflets about her husband being a Royal Marine and then she subsequently wins the election based on lies on those election leaflets should she now resign as the MP for Wolverhampton North East. Her Labour Party husband Walter Mitty liar Stolen Valour councillor has resigned after he lied about being a Royal Marine his wife used this leaflet below to get elected. I’ll be back later the evening to review any replies. Meanwhile have a marvellous Sunday Kind regards Craig

🚨 Why is the Ministry of Justice spending £170 MILLION organising staff travel… …While the justice system struggles to do its job?! I’ve broken down 15 stats from last week you need to know in my latest Substack. Link in bio.

Any country that strikes oil, has trillions of m3 of gas under their feet, along with hundreds of years of coal reserves and ends up with a population of people living in border line fuel poverty, it's government that has failed them .....

Dear Iranian temporary Supreme leader. Please don't fire another missile towards UK sovereign territory or I will be forced to hold another press conference talking about how wonderful Islam is. Regards @Keir_Starmer

This is not the Israeli flag. This is the Jewish Star of David with blood flowing from it. That’s gross antisemitism and if it’s in this exhibition in Margate then it’s a racist display. @kent_police

You f*****g liars @UKLabour , do you think we are stupid ?!! Resign @Keir_Starmer

Not to worry, we have international law to keep us safe. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

We’re at the point where ⁦@UKLabour and the ⁦@RoyalNavy⁩ can no longer talk their way out this failure of leadership and basic dereliction of duty. Dozens of sailors caught doing hard drugs on Britain’s nuclear submarines telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

How humiliating Utterly useless government

One could assume someone like Morgan McSweeney would have a lot of phone contacts. Journalists who'll recall whether their calls didn't connect around the time it was lost?

So far only 31 documents and messages relating to Mandelson's appointment and his dismissal nine months later have been made public – all from official email addresses and none involving Mr McSweeney. Downing Street officials have now been ordered to hand over private messages on WhatsApp groups involving Peter Mandelson. No one has any faith that these messages will be shared if they still exist. Normally when we have a scandal someone breaks ranks and spills the beans. Who is it going to be? Or will it be another Nick Brown conspiracy.