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@NoStrings_on_Me @DrClownPhD

@DrClownPhD Something like this probably

What does this candle smell like!? 🤨

@bphillipsonMP What friggin change do you think you are talking about? So far it's been total bollocks.

We have delivered good, Labour things – action on child poverty, strengthening workers’ rights, protections for renters. But we can’t and we shouldn’t pretend the status quo is working. To stop Reform, we have to be bolder and we have to deliver change faster.

Myra Hindley appointed as Minister for Children and Families 🥴

I’m delighted to appoint @HarrietHarman as my Adviser on Women and Girls. Harriet is a strong advocate for women and girls and I know she will deliver greater opportunity for women in public life. I’m committed to tackling structural misogyny that is a barrier for too many women and girls. I look forward to working with Harriet to drive forward action on this important issue.

@Keir_Starmer @GordonBrown Can't be too long before the dufus is brought back into play. Your track record is quite something!!

Today I’m pleased to appoint @GordonBrown as my Special Envoy on Global Finance and Cooperation. As Britain’s longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon is well placed to work with our international allies to build a stronger Britain and boost our country’s security and resilience.

@Keir_Starmer The English and others don't want you anymore, but you don't care and spend your time posting useless tweets. What don't you understand?

I want to be really clear about what our aim is following yesterday’s historic victory. Win the next general election, and I have never been more confident we are going to do exactly that. What happening in Great Yarmouth was seismic. Turnout soared. We brought thousands of people to the polling station who have never voted before. We got more votes in this local election than I received in the general election. The implications of it all must not be underestimated. Despite everything Reform threw at us, we decimated them in every single seat. Farage said we wouldn't win one percent. He was right. We won almost fifty. The nine wards across Great Yarmouth are so varied. From Winterton in the rural north, to the urban centre of Great Yarmouth itself. We won the nine seats, and the borough council by election, but within those wider seats we won every single ward by a mile. If we can win in every one of those areas, we can win anywhere. As I promised, we are going to give the British people a genuine alternative - we are going to provide an option to elect people from outside the rotten political establishment. We did that in Great Yarmouth, and we delivered a landslide victory. That was step one. Now, we go national. Great Yarmouth First, then we Restore Britain.

As it turns out, Brits don’t like their citizens being stabbed to death in the street by foreigners.

@uk_ktee7484 @TheNorskaPaul 😂

@TheNorskaPaul Bet those seats have seen some action 🤮

#ZackPolanski is facing calls to answer questions about where he should have been paying council tax as it has been established that he was registered on the electoral roll at a building in a marina in east London, where he kept a narrowboat. He had post delivered to the building & each ‘month’🤢 had laundry collected from the barge he shared with his partner, Richie Bryan. The narrowboat was recently advertised for sale for £100k – but the notice was pulled after Polanski's council tax arrangements were raised. He claims that he only stayed on the boat occasionally, despite Bryan referring to it as their 'amazing home over the past three years’ in the advert. The @greenparty have declined to answer questions on the subject but there is public interest/accountability issues on his council tax arrangements. . . 😏

History made. We won ten out of ten seats, with overwhelming majorities in every single one. Great Yarmouth First, then we Restore Britain. A very special day.

Vote Labour 🌹

A big day tomorrow.

I’ve spoken to a number of people on the doorstep in Great Yarmouth who have told us that Reform canvassers have been stating I want to deport every single foreigner living in the country. This seems to be their campaigning line… These are just flat-out lies, and it perfectly demonstrates the desperation on show. My policy position on immigration is quite straightforward. Every single illegal migrant gets deported - I have been consistent on this for a very long time, far before it was fashionable. We will implement an environment so hostile, that many of the illegals will remove themselves. The rest will be forcibly deported. We have published the most comprehensive deportation policy ever released in Britain. We have done our homework. It can be done, and it will be done. Foreign rapists and sex offenders are obviously all gone, including those who enabled their crimes. This was so controversial to Farage and Reform, they tried to put me in prison because of it. Reform had my home raided by armed police because I wanted to deport Pakistani rape gang savages and their accomplice wives. Farage said it was ‘brutal’, but it had to be done. His words. Grim. Legal immigration. If a migrant is living in Britain and unable to speak English, claims benefits, lives in social housing, hates our way of life, refuses to work? Then they have no reason to be in our country. And they should leave. Under a Restore Britain Government, millions would. Net negative immigration, severe net negative. The overall number is secondary, the principle comes first. We would strip citizenships from Islamist dual nationals who hate us, and send them packing. The revocation of British citizenships from dual nationals who wish to kill us will become entirely normal and very common. If those individuals have surrendered their secondary citizenship in an attempt to remain in Britain, we will take whatever steps necessary to reverse that process. Refugee statuses will be revoked from those who have entered the country illegally, and they will be deported back to where they came from or a third party country - crucially, the Afghans imported by Reform politicians will be removed. With these basic principles in mind, that would mean millions of foreign nationals leaving the country. For ongoing immigration, we would discriminate. We would implement the Red List. If a country is proven to supply us with criminals and freeloaders, we would close off entire visa routes from that country. Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Somalia to name a few... Those ultra-high skilled migrants who live in our communities, integrate, contribute and belong - they are obviously welcome. The spousal visa process should be simplified and made more affordable for foreign spouses of British men and women from non-red list countries. We would put the British people first. Quite simple. Is any of this so controversial? I think not. Reform can tell their lies to the people of Great Yarmouth. It won’t work.

I am not going to apologise for demanding in Parliament that we put British women and girls ahead of the countless third world rapists, conmen and scumbags the rotten British establishment has forcibly imported into our once-safe communities. I want them gone.

Standing up in Parliament today, listening to these pathetic MPs jeer and insult me when I voice serious concerns that millions of British women are feeling across the country, I felt so ashamed to sit in that building with those people. This is not complicated. Countless foreign men from cultures and religions which treat women like shit are now roaming our streets - whether they arrived legally or illegally, the point remains. Wilfully imported by Conservative, Labour and Reform politicians. All of them have blood on their hands. Afghans, Somalians, Albanians, Sudanese, Pakistanis, Eritreans. The importation list goes on and on… They drink, they loiter, they spit, they intimidate, they harass. They make life hell for so many women and girls across Britain. It is NOT normal. Do not accept it as normal. These are our towns, and I want them back. I feel very grateful that there is now a political party with the balls to not only outline the problem, but the determination to actually do something about it. That party is Restore Britain. We are going to take our country back. I have never felt more determined.

Labour MP Diana Johnson has had my video auditing Grimsby town centre, exposing her taken down off YouTube. So I am releasing it all on X in 2 parts, let's see how much power she has over Elon 😂 Part 1 👇🏻 Don't forgot to VOTE LABOUR OUT on 7th MAY 💪🏻

The CPS has just been ordered to pay CAA’s legal costs after falsely prosecuting Mark Birbeck for “assaulting emergency workers” when he held a sign saying “Hamas is Terrorist”. In September 2024, Mark, who is the founder of @OurFightUk, was accused of assaulting two emergency workers at a protest at which he had been holding the sign alongside Niyak Ghorbani. CAA stepped in and has provided Mark with free legal representation, as we have many times before (for Niyak too). Two days before Mark’s trial in October 2025, the CPS revealed that it had been sitting on video footage that exonerated Mark, and discontinued its prosecution. Last week, a Judge ruled that this was one of those “very rare” and “exceptional cases” where the prosecution had made such “clear and stark” errors that the CPS was ordered to pay defence costs related to their “improper” mistakes. The CPS instructed King’s Counsel to oppose the defence costs application, but the Judge found the CPS’s approach to disclosure to have been “shambolic”. In particular, the Judge castigated the CPS for failing to serve the crucial police videographer’s footage, which vindicated Mr Birbeck, until just before the trial. CAA is proud to have assisted Mark, a staunch ally of the Jewish community in the fight against antisemitism, by providing and paying for legal representation. Mark and Niyak have been repeatedly arrested and on occasion charged, only to have bail conditions lifted by courts and cases collapse, with our support. It is obscene that the police and prosecution are wasting time hounding people who are simply pointing out that Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, rather than focusing on the terror sympathisers in the regular hate marches that have transformed our cities and made antisemitic hate crime a daily feature of Jewish life in modern Britain. If it risks public disorder to point out that Hamas are terrorists, that’s because there are too many people on our streets who think they aren’t. That trend is the real menace.

@EpsonUK Hi guys. Having a bit of an issue with my projecter. Contacted your support chat. Filled in the email questionnaire, no reply or feedback about the problem etc. Just seen an email that DPD were picking the projector earlier today from my house! Can you help please?

There's a crisis hiding inside British local government right now that almost nobody is talking about. And it connects to almost everything else that's going wrong. Since 2018, seven councils have effectively gone bankrupt. Northamptonshire. Croydon. Slough. Thurrock. Woking. Birmingham. Nottingham. They issued what's called a Section 114 notice. Local government's way of saying the money has run out. The number of councils needing emergency help from central government is growing every year. In 2025-26, 30 councils needed exceptional financial support. This year it's 35, sharing around £1.5 billion. The government had been warned it could reach 100. The Local Government Association estimates almost 1 in 5 councils are at risk. The LGIU found more than half of senior council figures believe their authority will effectively go bankrupt within five years. Some of this is mismanagement. Woking racked up £2.4 billion in debt, 100 times its annual budget, gambling on hotels and skyscrapers. Thurrock lost hundreds of millions on solar farm investments. Croydon's housing company collapsed. But the deeper story is structural. Between 2009 and 2020, central government funding to councils was cut by 40% in real terms. From £46.5 billion to £28 billion. At the same time, demand for the services councils are legally required to provide has been rising every single year. And while the funding was being slashed, your council tax was going in the opposite direction. In 2011, the average Band D council tax bill was £1,439. Today it's £2,392. Up over 66% in fifteen years. This year, 274 out of 384 councils raised it by the maximum allowed without triggering a referendum. Seven were given special permission to go even higher. You'd think all that extra money would mean better services. It doesn't. Libraries are closing. Bins are collected less often. Roads are falling apart. Social care is being rationed. You're paying more every year and getting less every year. So where is the money going? Social care is the single biggest answer. It's eating local government alive. The adult social care funding gap is now over £1 billion a year just to stand still. The Health Foundation estimates an additional £8.3 billion will be needed by 2032 just to keep up with growing demand. Care England estimates that increases to the National Living Wage and employer National Insurance have added £3.7 billion in extra costs to the sector. The government's response has fallen well short of that. But there's another cost most people don't know about. And I want to be precise here because the numbers are contested and the picture is complicated. Councils fund themselves from multiple sources. Government grants. Business rates. Fees. And council tax. Council tax is the part you pay directly. So when I talk about what follows, I'm talking specifically about how much of your council tax revenue goes to one particular cost. Freedom of Information requests submitted to over 300 councils found that local authorities across England contributed roughly £6.7 billion to staff pension schemes last year. When measured against the council tax those councils collected, that works out at an average of around 23p in every pound of council tax revenue going to staff pensions. Councils will rightly point out that council tax is only one part of their total funding. That's true and it's an important caveat. But council tax is the part that comes directly from you. Council employees are enrolled in the Local Government Pension Scheme. A defined benefit scheme where councils pay an average of roughly 20% of each staff member's salary in employer contributions. In the private sector, the minimum employer contribution under auto-enrolment is 3%. The two aren't directly comparable because defined benefit and defined contribution schemes work very differently. But the gap gives you a sense of the cost pressure. And this isn't an argument against council workers having decent retirements. Many of them are low paid and do vital work. The average LGPS pension in payment is around £4,000 a year. This isn't gold-plated for most people. But when your council tax has gone up over 66% in fifteen years while your services have visibly deteriorated, you deserve to understand what's driving those costs. Pension obligations are one significant part of the picture. Social care is another. And between them, they leave very little room for everything else. Now here's where it connects to the NHS. Care providers are closing. Councils are rationing who qualifies for help. And the knock-on effect is landing directly on hospitals. Every single day in England, somewhere between 13,000 and 14,000 hospital beds are occupied by patients who are medically fit to go home but can't. Because the social care they need to leave hospital doesn't exist. One in eight general and acute beds in the country. Blocked. Not because the patients are sick. Because there's nowhere for them to go. Care England estimates that over 45% of hospital discharge delays are linked to social care. The Royal College of Physicians has called this "a failing system" and said the NHS front door will remain in a state of emergency until it's fixed. This is a doom loop. And nobody in government is treating it as one. Councils can't fund social care. So elderly patients can't leave hospital. So hospital beds are blocked. So waiting lists grow. So people who need treatment can't get it. So they can't work. So economic inactivity rises. So tax receipts fall. So the government has less money. So councils get squeezed further. So social care gets worse. So more beds are blocked. And round it goes. Every part of that chain is supported by data from official sources. The waiting lists. The inactivity figures. The funding gaps. The discharge numbers. The Section 114 notices. They're all published separately by different departments. But nobody is connecting them. The DWP treats inactivity as a welfare problem. The NHS treats waiting lists as a health problem. The Treasury treats both as spending problems. Local government treats social care as a funding problem. They're all looking at their own piece. Nobody is looking at the system. Meanwhile your council tax keeps going up. Your services keep getting worse. The population is ageing. The fertility rate just hit its lowest level on record. And the cost of everything, pensions, healthcare, social care, debt interest, keeps growing faster than the economy that's supposed to pay for it. The councils going bust aren't the crisis. They're the symptom. The crisis is a system that was built for a younger, richer, growing country and is now buckling under the weight of an older, poorer, stagnating one. And nobody in power is willing to say that out loud. Because the honest answer is that this requires a fundamental redesign of how the state works. And nobody wants to be the one to start that conversation.