Britishly Disappointed

Ding, Dong the bastards gone. Good riddance.

If you’re“middle class” Start doing your sums. You need a plan.

@PolitlcsUK @camtrublue Meanwhile...

The French have surrendered.

@LibDems Vote rigging?

Andy Burnham has a chance to fix our broken political system now, before it is too late. Introduce proportional representation, give everyone an equal vote and an equal voice in our democracy, and make sure no politician or political party can afford to take them for granted ever again.

@SkyNews Summer then?

The UK has now had 25 days this year when temperatures have exceeded 30C as the country experiences its third heatwave of the summer, the Met Office has said trib.al/F2NwIwF

Amnesty has designated Catholics a hate group. In the light of Ann Widdecombe's murder, this is particularly disturbing.

Today Labour’s Gibraltar surrender deal - announced today with no debate - has once again undermined British sovereignty, repeating the mistakes of the Windsor Framework and the Chagos debacle. The terms of the deal are shocking: Spanish officials will now conduct border checks within Gibraltar. Spain can withdraw individuals’ residency in Gibraltar, even if they already live there. Goods sold in Gibraltar must comply with EU regulations. Gibraltar is now subject to a new ‘transaction tax’ to align it with the EU. And Gibraltar must adopt new EU laws or the agreement will automatically be terminated. The practical effect is that foreign officials will decide who and what can enter British territory. British citizens’ fingerprints will be taken and passports checked within our own territory. At the same time, Spain has conceded nothing about its claim to Gibraltar. No self-respecting British government should be willing to accept this. To make matters worse, Parliament and the British public have only seen the final text of this deal today, but it takes effect tomorrow. Labour have shut us out of this process and are avoiding scrutiny. A Reform Government will stand up for our national interest and overturn this one-sided, disgraceful deal. There can be no shared sovereignty between Britain and Spain. Gibraltar is British, not Spanish, and that is how it must remain. This is not up for negotiation or dilution by a thousand individual concessions. And there must be no border between Gibraltar and the United Kingdom. Spanish or EU border and customs officials must not be allowed to operate in Gibraltar, or have a say in who and what can enter our territory. Border security cannot be built on conceding control to a foreign government. gov.uk/government/col…

@PolitlcsUK Work till you die.

BREAKING 🅱️ NY lost $11 billion in tax revenue as millionaires left, and rents in NYC have surged to new all time highs. Seems like communism is going well. LMAO

PAY MORE TAX YOU BIGOT

@andyburnham We need laws to protect us from the police and the state?

The Hillsborough Law will change the way this country thinks about justice.

@GBPolitcs @RCrowcroft @Daily_Express For a murder that according to the police was 100% definitely not political or terrorism, there’s an awful lot of investigation into the political and terror motives of the culprit.

@lucymarionbrown @dislocatedtime We will never find out the true details and motives.

My gut tells me this Ann Widdecombe thing is really, really bad

Convicted criminals at the heart of government.

This is deeply unprofessional. A lot of families have been badly affected by the closure of multiple independent schools, many of whom had SEND children on bursaries.

@FCDOGovUK @FabianPicardo @GibraltarGov Spain now controls our borders.

🇬🇧🤝🇪🇺 A new chapter for Gibraltar. The signing of this agreement provides certainty for people and businesses, supports prosperity across the region, and protects Britain’s sovereignty and way of life. Gibraltar remains an important part of the UK family.

A bit weird, don’t you think? As soon as Muslims started moving to Japan, its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples started burning down, just like the churches in Europe.

@steverichards14 It’s not a Conservative Party if it is full of Lib Dem’s…..

This will end badly… for Kemi Badenoch. Taking on parts of their own party makes a leader look ‘strong’ for around ten seconds…then the trouble begins…especially when a leader disciplines the sensible wing of her party.

@nigelmp The treachery of the Tory party can never be forgiven.

Towards the dying days of the last Conservative Government, with Rishi’s inability to take the right decisions to keep faith with the country on immigration, net zero insanity and eye wateringly high taxation levels , the public had had enough. At the last election the voters decided to put the Conservative Party into special measures and 251 Tory MPs, me included,were fired. Many who returned were elected with wafer thin majorities. Part of the problem was that the Party spoke from the right but governed from the left with the ratchet relentlessly pulling the country further leftwards closer to the miserable abyss we now find ourselves looking into. As Andy Burnham, the easy rider of politics, takes to the helm, his honeymoon could dissipate whilst walking down the aisle if he appoints former convicted fraudsters and tax avoiders to his cabinet and rewards net zero obsessives with plum jobs in order that they can turn their zealotry towards hammering entrepreneurs and those with a bit of money. Kemi is taking the right and difficult decisions to reshaping her Party in her fashion. The Conservative Party will always be a broad church but it should never tolerate those whose ambition is to hold the Party hostage to the ideology of another faith. Some seem to prefer to see the temple doomed to irrevocable collapse. The Party only exists by permission of those who have elected their candidates over centuries but it has no God given right to exist. Winning the trust of old and new voters will be essential and way more difficult in a fractionalised multi party system. Kemi is way more popular than the Party she leads and those who sit around her should take ownership of that. Carping from the sidelines or open rebellion from the hallowed privileged positions of a place on the red benches should not provide immunity from collective responsibility. You have to be full playing members of the team or get off the pitch! Some have forgotten this or have become sneeringly arrogant in their defiance of recognising that if they are not part of the solution then they are most likely part of the problem. The existential threat has been stayed thanks to firm management from the top. Blood, sweat and more than a few tears will be necessary to ensure the Conservative Party has the chance of replacing this shambolic Labour Government whenever Burnham decides to cut and run. The abyss is deep and unforgiving - but there is a route away from it. I ,for one, know which road my Party must take.

@KHarveyProctor You paid a 17 year old boy for sex. Ignorance is not a defence.

Mr Yusuf, For the avoidance of doubt, I pleaded guilty in 1987 to an offence of gross indecency under laws that discriminated against homosexual men. The age of consent was then 21 for gay men & 16 for heterosexuals. Those discriminatory offences no longer exist. Also, the individual who was 17 was ‘wired for sound’ by Robert Maxwell’s paper. He said on the tape he was over 21. Unfortunately, there was a lacuna in the law in 1987 which provided heterosexuals with a defence. If heterosexuals believed those they had sexual relations with were of consensual age, & the jury believed this, then they could find the accused not guilty. No such defence pertained to homosexuals. If the younger person was under 21, the offence was committed. I did not realise this lacuna in the law existed until my lawyer, Sir David Napley, informed me. I then told him immediately I would plead guilty. Parliament has since recognised that these laws were unjust. Under the so-called “Alan Turing law”, people convicted of consensual homosexual offences under repealed legislation can have those convictions disregarded & pardoned as part of righting historic wrongs. Also, what I did was neither gross nor indecent. It was done in private and between consenting adults. I have never hidden any of this. What you are doing is attempting to weaponise a historic conviction under discriminatory laws to discredit me because you disagree with my views, & blind loyalty. That is your choice. My point remains unchanged: politicians should respect the police’s request not to speculate during a live murder investigation. Personal abuse is no answer to a principled argument. You are free to criticise me, & to answer a principled argument with personal abuse & character assassination - however unbecoming - but personal vilification is no substitute for civil debate. Ann Widdecombe believed in decency, free speech & the rule of law - which is why she stood by me and offered me practical, private & public support throughout my ordeals. I rather think she would have expected better.