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Grumpy old man

@simonpt64

Family first. Nottingham rugby. Rugby fan. Love good food, wine and Gin. Motorcycles. Real music stopped around 1980. Swansong. Love Cornwall. Jedi.

West Bridgford, England 가입일 Nisan 2013
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I Am British 🇬🇧
I Am British 🇬🇧@IAmBritishReal·
Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan says the British people love diversity. Not at the expense of our own culture we don’t!
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Benonwine
Benonwine@benonwine·
Comic Relief just hit its lowest ever viewing figures. 2 million in 2026… down from over 10 million a decade ago. 2026 - 2m 2025 - 2.6m 2024 - 3.7m 2023 - 2.9m 2022 - 3.5m 2021 - 4.5m 2019 - 5.8m 2017 - 6.3m 2015 - 8.4m 2013 - 10.3m 2011 - 10.2m WHY the sudden Collapse?
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Grumpy old man@simonpt64·
@revoltinghippie @TiceRichard @KathrynPorter26 Please provide evidence for your x9 claim. If renewables are so great then they shouldn’t need subsidies which have been there since the 90s and Red Ed wouldn’t have agreed 30 year contract prices in the last offshore wind auction that are higher than the average gas prices.
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Rangzen@revoltinghippie·
@TiceRichard @KathrynPorter26 This is like blaming the train for the rails on which it travels. All energy is put in a basket and we pay the highest price which is usually gas. Renewable are x9 cheaper.
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Claire Adams
Claire Adams@claire_adams694·
🚨 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!
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David Vance
David Vance@DVATW·
Watching this will hurt your brain. The stupidity is so painful. Also, the way her voice ticks up at the end of every sentence!
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Peter Lloyd
Peter Lloyd@Suffragent_·
Meet Robert Homans of Birmingham. He served in Afghanistan from the age of 19. After returning to the UK, he struggled with PTSD and lost his home. He applied for social housing, but was denied because he wasn't a migrant. He killed himself soon after, in August 2025.🇬🇧
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Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer·
I’m proud of our tolerant and diverse country. I’m proud that in Trafalgar Square we celebrate all faiths. That’s British values. The comments from Nick Timothy are shameful. Kemi Badenoch should do the right thing and sack him.
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Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP·
This government has the right economic plan for Britain. Stability in the public finances, investment in infrastructure, and reform to our economy. We’re changing Britain and our economy for the better. gov.uk/government/new…
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Mike Tapp MP
Mike Tapp MP@MikeTappTweets·
I’m continuously proud to serve under the calm, serious leadership of our Prime Minister. He is absolutely committed to service and duty with a steely eyed focus on turning our great country around, whilst the Westminster bubble seeks drama. We are focussed. 🇬🇧
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Grumpy old man@simonpt64·
@ShehabKhan He is right though isn’t he. There are hundreds of Mosques in London so why do this in a public place.
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Grumpy old man@simonpt64·
@DavidDavisMP @stugoo17 I think we know why you won’t get an answer. From the documents released so far it appears Starmer never actually spoke to Mandelson in person.
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David Davis MP
David Davis MP@DavidDavisMP·
The Government has withheld the questions the Prime Minister put to Peter Mandelson, and his answers, prior to him being appointed as our ambassador to the United States. Today, I asked the Government to release that document, given there appear to be no statutory bars to release the document.
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Peter Stefanovic
Peter Stefanovic@PeterStefanovi2·
On 1 October 2025 Keir Starmer promised on @BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans to discuss the commitment Labour made to them for justice & compensation in opposition. That was almost six months ago and still no date. 30 of the veterans have died since Christmas. They have now waited twenty months since Labour came to office. This is no way to treat national heroes Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer @JohnHealey_MP @BBCBreakfast @fleetstreetfox @atomiclabrats
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Grumpy old man@simonpt64·
@john4brexit Red Ed is the biggest threat to the prosperity of the UK. It’s amazing that no one in government sees this.
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Grumpy old man@simonpt64·
@DPJHodges Shouldn’t the fact he lies so much give cause for concern for his judgement when he was head of the CPS? I wonder how many innocent people were pursued.
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(((Dan Hodges)))
(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges·
A couple of months ago a senior No.10 advisor told me to "reflect" after calling Keir Starmer a liar. After the past week, I have reflected. Keir Starmer is the worst Prime Ministerial liar of my adult lifetime > Mail on Sunday > dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
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John Longworth
John Longworth@john4brexit·
Labour MPs tweet support and claim respect, but few will do anything more than obey the whips’ office. Sadly, however, this form of governance, the ill-intentioned leading the ill-informed, seems to be the future. spectator.com/article/david-…
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Latimer Alder
Latimer Alder@latimeralder·
'Ed Miliband’s £125bn Net Zero drive will see 30% energy bill surge, researchers say' That's over £4,000 per household! Would getting to NetZero really be worth £4,000 to you and yours? And if the answer is 'NO', then why are we doing it at all? gbnews.com/money/ed-milib…
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Grumpy old man@simonpt64·
@TorstenBell @John_Stepek Why don’t you sort the civil service and government pensions first. Defined benefit was killed by Gordon Brown (Liebour) and doesn’t exist in the private sector, so sort that first.
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Torsten Bell
Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
@John_Stepek I’m afraid that isn’t right. If you only get pensions tax relief for investing in certain assets that is functionally identical to saying a pension can only invest in those assets - because the tax relief is the central feature of investing via a pensions wrapper
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John Stepek
John Stepek@John_Stepek·
This is disingenuous. Restricting tax relief to UK-listed assets was a key element of PEP (ISA precursor) when they launched and also part of many nations' pension regimes. Very different to what's proposed (currently - presumably will be tweaked) in the pensions bill.
Torsten Bell@TorstenBell

This is hilarious. Whose is the peer who has most persistently lobbied me and other ministers to “dictate your pension investments” (by withdrawing tax relief if you don’t invest as she would like)? Ros Altmann. And I told her we weren’t interested

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Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy·
How about she reads the names of the thousands of little girls she turned a blind eye to? Let’s start with: Lucy Lowe was 14. Sarah Wilson was 11 Fiona Goddard was 14. Charlene Downes was 11 or 12. Sammy Woodhouse was 14. Victoria Agoglia was 13. And there are countless more. They were children. Many barely out of primary school, so young and in no way responsible for the atrocities committed against them. These are the little girls that Jess Phillips voted to deny a national grooming gangs inquiry. When she accused whistleblowers of politicising child rape and being far-Right racists — these are the little girls she was accusing. When she ignored local councils’ requests to meet with her as Safeguarding Minister, when she refused their pleas for local inquiries, voted against a national Grooming Gangs inquiry, then stripped down the government’s local enquiries until they were cancelled altogether. She had to be dragged kicking and screaming into an inquiry, and is now trying to claim that she cares. Think about what gangs of Pakistani-Muslim men put those little girls through. Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs plied them with alcohol and drugs, they raped them in graveyards, they put them into the back of taxis and drove them to be gang-raped by 20+ of their friends, they dismembered them and sold them as kebab meat, they inserted a pump into their anal cavity and had multiple men sodomise them at once, they raped them on filthy mattresses above takeaway shops, they forced panties down their throat to muffle the screams, they threatened to murder them if they told anyone, they brutally beat them, they killed them and torched their houses with their family inside, they picked them up from local authority care homes to be raped, they forced them to take crack cocaine and heroin, they convinced them they loved them so they could abuse them, they killed their unborn children, they targeted the most vulnerable and marginalised, they told them no one would believe them, they forced them to get abortions, they passed them round like a piece of meat, they threatened to kill their families, they gaslit and manipulated them. Now think about the people that were meant to protect them. Who comes to mind? Police, local councils, social services, sexual health clinics, schools, care homes. People like Jess Phillips. People like Keir Starmer. But they didn’t. Powerful people turned a blind eye for decades while little girls were being raped, tortured, and murdered. Every party failed. Every party played their part. But Labour were the worst by a landslide. It was Labour-led towns, Labour councillors, Labour politicians, and Labour local authorities. They branded them “white slags”, “child prostitutes”, and “paki shaggers”. They walked in on victims naked and drugged with 20+ adult men and only arrested the child, they arrested girls for prostitution and handed them back to the same men that were exploiting them, they added the victims to dockets as co-defendants in their own abuse, they downplayed the scale of abuse, they refused to investigate reports, they paid for the taxi rides the girls got raped during, they silenced whistleblowers, they blamed the girls for their own abuse, they tried to block inquiries, and more. Now think again about how young they were, how vulnerable, how innocent. And understand the true evil of politicians like Jess. They are trying to rewrite history, but we will not forget.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 WATCH: Jess Phillips reads the names of the 107 women allegedly killed by men over the past year

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