David Funnell 🇬🇧

Imagine if the United States had swallowed the Al Gore-style climate gospel back in the day... You don't really have to imagine it. Because there's a natural experiment that took place and that alternative future that the US dodged actually exists. It's called the United Kingdom. I seem to remember there was a sneering attitude from coastal liberal elites hooked on TED talks when Sarah Palin came on the scene and said "drill baby drill." They laughed and dismissed the idea of ramping up domestic fossil fuel production as backward and environmentally reckless. If it was up to them, they would have shut down fracking, choked off new drilling, slapped massive restrictions on oil and gas development, and chased the fantasy of rapid "green" transition at all costs. Instead America did the opposite. The result? UK households today pay 2X more than US households do for energy and their industrial electricity prices are among the highest in Europe. Sure they've lowered emissions (technically they just outsourced it) but at the cost of creating a massive structural economic disadvantage. Energy is the foundational input for everything - steel, chemicals, fertilizers, aluminum, cement, refining. When your electricity and gas bills are 2–6× higher, you just can't even compete. So you end up closing plants, offshoring jobs, and watching your industrial base slowly bleed out. So yeah, the UK's current predicament is exactly where the US would be in if the Green Lobby, Dems and Hollywood suckers had their way: energy-poor, import-dependent, economically hobbled, and geopolitically neutered. The worst part is it's completely ideological. The UK could have had more homegrown energy supply to buffer prices and keep revenue flowing, but Ed Miliband refuses to exploit the UK's own shale or North Sea potential aggressively. Decline really is a choice. Americans should be glad their leaders refused to make it.

You couldn’t make this up. John Ebo, the £85,000 HR boss of Leeds city council, has emailed employees offering counselling in a “safe space” to deal with any stress employees suffer due Nigel Farage visiting the city next week. Ebo said in his mail; “No doubt you will have picked up in the news that Nigel Farage and Reform are holding an event/rally. “ I am mindful such events on colleagues and would ask that we enable safe conversations for colleagues such as Wellbeing network chats.” In turn the email was forwarded to the council’s Race Equality Staff Network who then added; “Be vigilant if you are in the city that day.” Perhaps Mr Ebo should detail to his council taxpayers what he does all day for his money as it’s clear from that email there’s not much going on either between his ears or in his department. The man’s a bloody fool.

So far, including all military casualties, the Iranian death toll from the rather surgical dismantling of its regime, is something around 6% of the civilians that regime mowed down earlier this year, without a peep from you. Don’t pretend you care .

"pride in place 2028"

The Trafalgar Square Iftar was organised by Omar Salha. He backs the extreme UK CAGE. Their research director said Jihadi John was a "beautiful young man." Starmer PULLED OUT of a 2021 Iftar because Salha was there. But he now says it's "utterly appalling" to criticise the Trafalgar event Salha organised?

You forgot to mention that they were murdered by Khalid Masood, an Islamic extremist. You conveniently shy away from mentioning this important fact.

🚨 Labour’s Grooming Gang Inquiry Has Been Deliberately Delayed Until After The Next Election 🚨 I took the time to read through the latest details of this so called national inquiry properly, not headlines, not spin, the actual substance, and here is the reality. On 8 January 2025, the Government rejected calls for a new national grooming gang inquiry, arguing the focus should instead be on implementing previous recommendations. Then on 14 June 2025, Keir Starmer stood there and announced a National Grooming Gang Inquiry. Six months later, on 9 December 2025, Anne Longfield was appointed to lead it. And now, months on from that announcement, this is where we actually are. The Terms of Reference are still not finalised. Still being drafted. Still being negotiated. Anne Longfield herself has admitted the draft is not strong enough and not detailed enough, and she did not even write it. If the person leading the inquiry is telling you it is weak, then it is weak. Even now the wording around one of the most critical issues, ethnicity, race and religion, only says the inquiry “should” look at it. Not will. Not must. That is not a technicality, that is a loophole. It means it can still be watered down. This is being sold as a national inquiry, yet only a single digit number of areas will actually receive full local investigations. The rest of the country, dozens of affected towns and thousands of victims, will be pushed into a general call for evidence. That is not full exposure, that is containment. There is currently no advisory panel in place. The previous one has been disbanded. The legal team is still being hired. This is not a system ready to deliver justice, it is a system still being built behind closed doors. They have also made it clear the Terms of Reference will define what the inquiry does, and only after that will survivors be brought in to shape how it is done. That is completely backwards. Victims should be shaping the scope, not just the process. We are told there will be no no go zones, but there is no explanation of how that is enforced, who decides it, or what happens when it is challenged. Without that, it is just words. And here is the part they do not want you focusing on. The inquiry will start in April 2026, run for three years, and the final report will not be published until after the next General Election. That is not a coincidence. That is a political decision. Labour has structured this so the consequences land after the public have already voted. That is not about justice, that is about control. This inquiry has potential, but right now it is too slow, too limited, too vague, and far too politically convenient to deliver the accountability victims deserve. I am not interested in what they promise. I am interested in what they deliver. Right now, this is not good enough!

Meet Steve Reed. A man so cretinous that even cretins resent the representation…

Keir Starmer told the House of Commons on 10 September "full due process was followed during this [the Mandelson] appointment". If the communication between McSweeney and Mandelson has not been officially recorded centrally then that is a direct abuse of due process.

@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.