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@PolitlcsUK From a party that has absolutely hollowed out our defence spending and not tackled welfare and immigration.

🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch has proposed three "tests" for the Defence Investment Plan - The military must be given at least £28bn - It must also be upfront - The plan must be "transformative" for the armed forces

@Bingerz123 @KemiBadenoch @LauraTrottMP Education is the only way which works and sometimes harsh lessons.

@Bingerz123 @KemiBadenoch @LauraTrottMP It doesn’t work and won’t work. I have 2 adults grown up - restrictions don’t work.

It is fantastic news that the Government has finally woken up to the dangers of social media for young people. This is an important step in helping parents protect childhood for children. Huge credit goes to @LauraTrottMP and my Shadow Cabinet for relentlessly fighting for this. Conservatives welcome this latest Labour U-turn, and will continue to work for the best implementation of the policy.

@Bingerz123 @KemiBadenoch @LauraTrottMP Disagree it will die. Generally speaking young people don’t use FB. It didn’t die because it evolved the ecosystem. Thats how tech and business works. We need to be teaching youngsters not banning them.

@ValeParkLife @KemiBadenoch @LauraTrottMP Young people drive all trends. Social media dies without new young people using it.

@Bingerz123 @KemiBadenoch @LauraTrottMP It can be negative, it’s also positive but you have to learn how to use it. Thats the point. It’s a strong marketing tool, all businesses engage with social media. This generation will be disadvantaged and taken advantage of by not understanding it or the pitfuls.

@ValeParkLife @KemiBadenoch @LauraTrottMP After 16 they can do whatever they want. You know deep down how negative social media is for society, bombarded with ads, self esteem issues, procrastination, negative rage bait, ai slop. I hope the new generations never get hooked on it

@SophyRidgeSky If this was really about children’s safety why are not all platforms banned? This is the 1st step to enforce digital ID. Starmer is a liar.

Keir Starmer has said there "could be a fight" with the social media companies and "it has been a fight" already But "I am not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children and this is why this ban must happen"

Elon Musk: “The reason I felt that it was important to acquire Twitter was because I could feel the walls closing in. It was outrageous that they suspended the account of a sitting president And I think it was only a matter of time before they suspended my account. Twitter and, well, pretty much all the social media companies, and Google and everyone, are controlled by far-left activists. That’s the truth of it. How do you know what’s real when it’s all filtered through a far-left San Francisco Berkeley lens? They just manipulate the truth constantly."

Apple built this exact tool in 2021. Within weeks, security researchers showed it could flag innocent people's content. Apple killed it 16 months later. The UK just gave tech companies three months to build it anyway, threatening prison for executives who refuse. The proposal is for something called client-side scanning. End-to-end encryption (the technology that protects your WhatsApp or Signal messages) works by scrambling your messages on your phone before they leave it. Nobody intercepting them can read them. Client-side scanning changes that sequence: your phone checks every image and message against a database of prohibited content before encrypting it. The lock stays in place, but the inspection happens first. When the government says "scan for nude images," technically they mean "scan everything." The people who invented internet security have already ruled on this. Ronald Rivest helped create RSA encryption, the system behind every padlock icon you see in a browser. Whitfield Diffie invented public-key cryptography, the math that all web security is built on. In October 2021, both co-signed a paper with twelve other leading cryptographers, concluding that device-level scanning undermines security for everyone while giving law enforcement only unreliable gains. Once that infrastructure is on every phone, any government can point it at whatever they decide to ban next. The EU spent three years trying to pass something identical. Germany blocked a Council vote in October 2025. On March 26, 2026, the European Parliament voted 307 to 306 to reject it. One vote. German federal police data from those debates showed roughly 48% of the 300,000 chats reported annually under existing scanning rules were false positives, innocent people's messages treated as criminal evidence. There is one more consequence the announcement left out. The government wants to block nude images on children's devices but not adults'. Enforcing that line means every device in the UK needs to know whether its owner is a child. The only way to do that is mandatory age verification. Signal pointed out where this lands: every UK resident would need to prove their identity just to communicate privately. That means 67 million people submitting identification to use software they already own. The EU rejected this by one vote two and a half months ago. The UK is now attempting it alone.

@SophyRidgeSky Where does it end Sophy? Social media is a key tool of work.This will completely disadvantage under 16’s entering the world of work. As parents it’s up to us to monitor our children and put measures in. Not the state. They have absolutely no place for this.

Keir Starmer says the ban will be in place by next Spring

Massive moment Keir Starmer: "Today I can announce this government will ban access to social media for all children under the age of 16"

'Absurd!' More than 150 kebab shops given Home Office licenses to hire migrants from overseas gbnews.com/news/migrant-c…

💼 A range of employment support programmes offered by local authorities to benefit claimants are open only to ethnic minorities Read more about the controversial pathways to work programmes ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/1…

Andy Burnham could give vulnerable people a 'basic income' that's five times what they receive on benefits if he becomes PM trib.al/pjzM8EB

@bolton_baz12039 @GBPolitcs An MP posing in military uniform to look like he served when he didn’t. It’s shameful behaviour. Didn’t an old fella get jailed for this during the remembrance at the Cenatpah? Why should it be a different standard for an MP?

@ValeParkLife @GBPolitcs Why, it's a legit thing all parties participate in it.

@TheHolmesFront @reformparty_uk @RestoreBritain You would need to write off major cities like London, Leeds, Bradford, Birmingham, Bristol and Scotland due to demographics in those locations. The numbers don’t add up to be anything or than a protest in 1st past the post. What Restore offer isn’t practical in my view.

@ValeParkLife @reformparty_uk @RestoreBritain I don't believe we do. The more people I talk about Restore the more I discover that people want exactly what Restore are offering.

Dear Reform @reformparty_uk supporters, We get it. You don’t like Restore. You think we’re traitors. You think we’re splitting the vote. You think only Reform can save Britain. Message received but we don't care. You enjoy your meltdowns. We’ll keep building. @RestoreBritain @RupertLowe10

💰 The Government has signed off £800,000 to support Vietnam’s net zero targets. Seriously, what are we doing? Energy bills have now gone up six times under this government. Millions of British households are struggling with the cost of living. Yet somehow we have nearly £800,000 available to help another country pursue its Net Zero ambitions. I like Vietnam. It’s a fantastic country. But if Vietnam wants to invest in its energy transition, surely Vietnam should pay for it. British taxpayers have enough bills of their own.

@pvfcprogs Was on Tv as well?

Season 12/13, Game 15 League 2 PORT VALE 3, OXFORD 0 Pope, Vincent, Morsy Goals from Tom Pope, Ashley Vincent & Sam Morsy earned Vale all 3pts v Oxford at Vale Park. It kept Vale riding high in the table in 2nd place. Att 4,596 #pvfc

@EssexPR Good fight that. I was with the judges and thought you won it clearly. #Knivesdown

The crowd at the Manchester arena started singing “ Keir Starmer’s a w****** “ during my fight 😂 I heard it and it lifted me up !

Coming to the UK soon.

BREAKING: The Netherlands just told its citizens to go to hell. 36% tax on unrealized gains. Approved. You didn't sell anything. You didn't make a single euro in cash. Your portfolio went up on paper. The government sends you a bill anyway. 61,000 citizens petitioned against it. Parliament approved it anyway. No cash to pay the tax? Not their problem. Asset crashes after you paid? Not their problem. This is not tax policy. This is the government treating your paper gains as their income. Before you've made a single euro. The most talented Dutch investors are already leaving. Capital goes where it is treated best. 2028 is coming. Plan accordingly.