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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.

A group of entitled champagne socialists went to Cuba to “deliver aid.” The group included Hasan Piker (wearing $1,380 Cartier glasses) and pro-CCP, pro-Kremlin Code Pink activists. They flew in first class, stayed at a five-star hotel, and partied all night while most Cubans had no electricity. They probably ate more food than they delivered.

The Green Party. I have a friend who's a councillor for the Green Party. She's a wonderful hard working woman. She helped householders whose houses were flooded a couple of years ago, stayed up all night helping them pump their houses out and move furniture; helped volunteers clear the river of debris; got all new planters and bins for the village square; attends all village events; opposes all development applications on farmland and green belt; gives immediate attention to any problems people are having; got new road signage. I could go on and on. She'd actually make a great MP. She cares about her village, her people and the environment. Unfortunately, she's not standing for re-election because her party, she says, has been infiltrated by lunatics and anti-Semites. Isn't that sad. ☹️

Leftist-Islamist coalition closes in on Timothy Nick Timothy said that mass ritual prayer in a shared civic space is an act of domination. He was not suggesting every Muslim at Trafalgar Square is an Islamist. He was identifying a strategy. Within twenty four hours, thirty six Labour MPs and peers had written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards demanding he be investigated. The letter, signed by Afzal Khan MP and backed by Naz Shah, Apsana Begum, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Zarah Sultana among others, accuses Timothy of Islamophobia, invokes the Great Replacement theory, and demands his removal from the front bench. Read that list of names carefully. Naz Shah was suspended from Labour in 2016 for sharing antisemitic social media posts. Rebecca Long-Bailey was removed from the shadow cabinet for sharing an article containing antisemitic conspiracy theories. Afzal Khan was himself the subject of a Campaign Against Antisemitism complaint. And Zarah Sultana, who co-signed a letter accusing Timothy of spreading hostility and hatred, is herself the subject of a complaint to the same Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for posting that Zionism is one of the greatest threats to humanity and that Israelis love killing kids. The complaint describes her language as a modern iteration of the medieval blood libel. The commissioner has not yet decided whether to investigate. That is the Leftist-Islamist coalition that has mobilised to silence Nick Timothy. A group of MPs, several with documented histories of antisemitic language or associations, using the parliamentary standards machinery to shut down a man who pointed out that declaring there is no god but Allah in the middle of Trafalgar Square is not equivalent to lighting a Chanukah menorah. The letter does not answer Timothy's theological point. It does not explain why the Adhan, which is by definition a declaration of exclusive religious truth, is equivalent to a celebration. It simply asserts that raising the question is Islamophobia and demands investigation. That is not a rebuttal. That is a demonstration of exactly what Timothy was describing. The domination of public discourse by a coalition that treats any scrutiny of Islamist strategy as racism, any observation about religious assertion in shared spaces as hatred, and any politician who names what is happening as a legitimate target for destruction. The grievance shield, deployed on cue. At parliamentary level. In a formal letter. With thirty six signatories. Meanwhile the teacher remains in hiding in Batley. The IHRC leads death chants on the Embankment. Iranian linked charities operate under Gift Aid while the Charity Commission files cases as resolved. And the parliamentary machinery is being used not to hold any of that to account but to investigate the man who said out loud what the evidence plainly shows. Nick Timothy was right. The letter proves it. And every MP who signed it has told us, more clearly than any opinion piece could, exactly whose side they are on. "Naz Shah was suspended from Labour in 2016 for sharing antisemitic social media posts. [...]. Afzal Khan was himself the subject of a Campaign Against Antisemitism complaint."

Sad days when the Editor of @itvnews is so partial in his reporting he is community noted

It's another banger from this government telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

How has Starmer’s net worth increased by £25 million in two years then?🤔 What if any payments did he receive from Mauritius for the Chagos sell out or from anywhere else then?🤔

Can anyone explain why Iranians are trying to get into Britain’s most sensitive nuclear installation? And whether there comes a time when we realise allowing thousands of young men from Iran into Britain on small boats might be a threat to our security? thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

The best case against Labour’s proposed “Islamophobia” definition is how their MPs reacted to Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage. They’ll claim free speech won’t be threatened whilst calling for Nick to be sacked.

Dear Sadiq Khan, I think some of the prejudice to do with 'singling out Muslims' is to to with their stated intention to kill 'infidels', expecially the bit about beheading them You see, the other religions don't promise that

Check out the ten-year gilt yield this morning - after the UK's likely next Prime Minister tried to lecture international investors about the intricacies of fiscal policy and the UK's national accounts. A subject about which she clearly knows absolutely nothing. Nice one @AngelaRayner !!! Markets now demanding 4.9% per annum to lend money to the British government. In Morocco, it's 3.4%. And get this. In February 2026, the UK government a massive £14.3 billion - according to figures released this morning. No less than £13 billion of that money borrowed last month went on interest payments on existing debt. Think about that for one second - it's utterly insane. The UK's national accounts are now akin to a Ponzi scheme. And yet still, lunatic MPs and potential Prime Ministers call for ever more borrowing and spending - "because it's the right thing to do" Labour's chronic economic illiteracy and internal party-political posturing is driving the UK economy off a cliff ... ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Starmer stopped Mandelson being scrutinised by the ethics chief because he knew the Lord was an intimate friend of a paedophile, and it would have stopped him appointing him US Ambassador. Our Prime Minister has been caught lying to us and he needs to go. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

Lol @Keir_Starmer. Do you wonder why everything you touch seems to turn to shit?

@EdwardJDavey, you have misread the argument so comprehensively that one has to wonder whether it is deliberate. Nobody is objecting to freedom of worship. Nick Timothy did not say Muslims should not be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon. The Adhan, the call to prayer, declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. That is by definition a theological repudiation of every other faith. When projected into Trafalgar Square, a national memorial to British sovereignty and independence, it is not equivalent to a celebration. It is a declaration. The distinction is theological, not political, and it is precise. You invoke freedom of worship as though Timothy had called for mosques to be closed. He did not. You invoke British values as though observing that the domination of public spaces is straight from the Islamist playbook is somehow un-British. It is not. It is documented, sourced and supported by scholars who have spent decades inside Islamist movements. This week, thousands of people gathered on the Embankment chanting death to America and death to Israel. Bobby Vylan led chants of death death death to the IDF, cleared by the CPS last year and back on a London stage doing it again. The Islamic Human Rights Commission, named in a Lords report as part of Iran's soft power network in Britain, addressed the crowd. Thirty six Labour MPs wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding the investigation of a man for pointing out what every serious student of Islamism already knows. The Attorney General deployed his Jewish identity to defend a declaration that, by its own theological logic, repudiates Judaism. And your contribution to all of it is a tweet accusing people who raise these questions of stoking fear, hatred and division. You lead a party that voted consistently to keep Britain in the European Union against the democratic will of the British people. A party that has positioned itself as the political home of progressive appeasement, that has never met an Islamist grievance it would not accommodate, and whose response to every act of cultural intimidation is to accuse those who name it of bigotry. The Liberal Democrats have no record of defending British values under pressure. They have a record of redefining British values to mean whatever is least likely to cause offence to the most vocal pressure group in the room. Freedom of worship is indeed a fundamental British value. So is freedom of speech. So is the freedom to observe, without being accused of racism, that a theological declaration of exclusive truth projected into a national monument is not the same as lighting a menorah or performing a Passion play. Nick Timothy exercised that freedom. The full weight of the parliamentary and political establishment descended on him within twenty four hours. That is the state of British politics today, Ed. And you are part of the problem, not the solution. "Nick Timothy didn't say Muslims shouldn't be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon."

It’s worth remembering that UK doesn’t have bases in the country of Cyprus - they’re located on British territory, which means this is once again an attack on our sovereignty by the EU.

For a number of years, more than 20 years ago, I worked for a Pakistani owned business and lived in a Muslim dominated area of Manchester. I understand why Nick feels this way, and those railing against it in the name of diversity are ignoring that Islam is aggressively intolerant of other religions. I have many years of personal experience with both immigrant and British born Pakistanis. There was no real difference. Islam is the one true faith and all others are "kafir". It's a far more exclusive religion than others, there is no interest in diversity of faith. You are Muslim, or you are "kafir". This was highlighted to me on the day of 9/11. It was early in the morning, around 9am, and cheers started echoing down the corridors. Word started to spread and they were all grinning and clapping each other on the backs. These were men and women born and raised here for the most part. The owner wheeled in a big CRT TV and 30-40 of them gathered around BBC news laughing and cheering like Pakistan were in the cricket world cup final. It is not hard to see why large public prayers by followers of a religion perceived as hostile to your very existence can feel less like worship and more like an assertion of dominance. I'm sure there are many good, tolerant Muslim people in this country who mix Western ideals with the muslim faith. People that consider themselves British among all else. But I learned that day that there are less than you think.

Unelected, unsackable, and yet responsible for policies that destroyed EU competitiveness. Worse still, she paid NGOs millions to push her eco-maniacal narrative. She forced the many valid industrial concerns to be silenced and ignored, but reality can’t be silenced for long.

John Simpson blocked me so he won’t see this but you might enjoy it - giftlink below 👇🏼