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@spha45841818 @ThatTimWalker Japan

@ThatTimWalker Even though Trumps words & behaviour were appalling, as per usual. The Japanese prime minister, has thus far not made this statement. Stop trolling everyone for clicks. Your fake a.i. is not helpful.

When you have no dignity, you cannot treat others with dignity. This man demeans his office and his country.

@ThatTimWalker Except when it’s Zelenskyy!

And, needless to say with Trump, it’s always a woman.

@bb_media_uk @EpicureanCat @TRobinsonNewEra @FreespeechShell @DaveAtherton20 @EssexPR @benonwine @RealDonKeith @BasilTheGreat @GBNEWS @liamtuffs1 @RestoreBritain_ What would you have preferred? Train journey would have cost about the same. The migrants wouldn’t be supervised and might get lost or decide to go elsewhere, the cost of finding them could be considerable. Bus costs less but greater chance of something going wrong.

230 MILES. YOUR MONEY. A taxi driver travelled from Slough to Braintree to collect four migrants, before transporting them to the Skylark Hotel in Preston, Lancashire — a journey of approximately 215–230 miles, taking around 3.5 to 4 hours. I personally spoke to the driver, who confirmed the job. This journey — including transport and accommodation — is funded by the taxpayer, with an estimated cost of £600–£800. This shows the scale of movement currently taking place across the UK. 🎥 Filmed and documented by @bb_media_uk and @FreespeechShell

@KathyParr101 @JanetEmmett7 @JChimirie66677 On what basis?

@JanetEmmett7 @COOKIETSC @JChimirie66677 Agree! Complete nonsense!

The scrapping of an Eton-backed free sixth form in Middlesbrough tells us more about Labour than any manifesto ever could. A project designed to educate the brightest children from one of the poorest parts of the country was not stopped because it failed, cost too much, or lacked need. It was stopped because it threatened to succeed. And success, when it cannot be controlled, is intolerable to this government. This was not a fee-paying outpost or a vanity scheme. It was a free school, approved under the last government, partnered with a proven academy trust, aimed squarely at deprived pupils with high academic ability. The offer was simple: take children who show promise and give them an education equal to the best in the country. That should have been uncontroversial. Instead it triggered hostility, suspicion, and finally cancellation. Not because of what it would have done, but because of what it symbolised. The real offence was a four-letter word: Eton College. That name short-circuited reason. Local Labour figures spoke of "elitism" while opposing a free school for poor children. Ministers talked about surplus places and SEND funding while quietly abandoning a project already designed to address a regional attainment gap that everyone admits exists. None of it holds up. The explanations came after the decision, not before it. Look at the facts Labour prefers not to dwell on. The North East lags badly behind London on A-level results and university entry. That gap has widened, not narrowed. This school was explicitly designed to deal with the A-level drop-off that has trapped bright pupils in the region for years. Its location was central, its funding secure, its academic model tested. Scrapping it did nothing to help SEND pupils and nothing to raise standards elsewhere. It simply removed an option that would have worked. What happened in Middlesbrough fits a pattern we have already seen. When schools succeed by insisting on discipline, knowledge, and high expectations, the response from Labour is not curiosity but suspicion. Not imitation but obstruction. Katharine Birbalsingh and Michaela showed what happens when deprived children are taken seriously. Instead of being celebrated, that success is treated as a problem to be managed. The lesson is the same here: excellence outside the approved model must be neutralised. The Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality. Identical Eton-Star colleges have been approved in other Labour-run areas. The money exists. The model is acceptable. What differed in Middlesbrough was not need, but politics. Local ideological resistance was indulged, and bright children paid the price. This is the quiet cruelty of modern Labour education policy. It speaks endlessly about disadvantage while dismantling the very ladders that allow people to climb out of it. It treats aspiration as a threat and excellence as exclusion. It would rather keep everyone inside a failing system than allow some to rise beyond it, because rising exposes the lie that background is destiny. We are told this is about fairness. It is not. Fairness would mean expanding opportunity wherever it appears. What Labour practices instead is levelling by denial. If not everyone can have something, no one should. If a school might allow working-class children to outperform expectations, it must be stopped in case it embarrasses the system. Middlesbrough did not lose a school. It lost permission to excel. A message was sent to its brightest children: know your place. That is not compassion. It is control. And until Labour grasps the difference, it will keep dressing envy up as justice and calling restraint care. Ministers will feel nothing. Children will pay the price. "Bridget Phillipson, claims the money could be better spent elsewhere. That argument collapses on contact with reality."

@rtsrichard @EdConwaySky Fair enough. reliance on fossil fuels in the UK has declined significantly during this century but is still relatively high,

@COOKIETSC @EdConwaySky Sure - but as renewables are only 5.4% of our energy mix, gas and oil are 75%, the idea of "rapidly declining" is a bit of a stretch, even for the UK.

📽️ From Donald Trump to Britain's wind power trade body, there's a growing coalition calling for more drilling in the North Sea. Raising the question: if we DID encourage more exploration, how much oil & gas could we actually get? Our MEGA primer on the North Sea👇 Ps it's longer than usual, but it turns out this topic has SO MANY misconceptions. Time to put some of them right. Let me know what you think

@Dias_Builds @RobertJenrick The price is the same whether the oil or gas is supplied from UK or Norwegian North Sea fields, or from any other oil fields. UK doesn’t get any concessions from the international companies who hold the licences. Thatcher could have negotiated a better deal.

@RobertJenrick paying a neighbour full price for the same resource sitting underneath your half of the sea is a policy outcome that would be hard to defend in any framework, left or right.

Britain has paid Norway over £100 billion for gas since 2021. For gas they’re drilling in the North Sea, the same sea Ed Miliband has banned new drilling in on the British side. Madness.

@DevonianGunner @EnergyMix_UK @realmrsthatcher Hinckley Point C under construction. Sizewell C at planning stage, Development of SMNRs well advanced due to come on line before current North Sea Oil fields are depleted. share.google/aimode/i2vsim1…

@EnergyMix_UK @realmrsthatcher 2/2 To shut it down without a proper replacement eg nuclear is crass stupidity

Freedom can also be lost little by little, by what the Fabians call the doctrine of gradualness. A little more taxation here, a little more government expenditure there, year after year until the people are no longer the masters of the state but its servants. There are always, it seems, good reasons advanced for the state to have more power. But rarely for the state to divest itself of power. Each new problem becomes an excuse for more government intervention and less individual responsibility.

@PJCP54 @SamanthaTaghoy Evidence?

@COOKIETSC @SamanthaTaghoy There is nothing else to find out about Islam - it’s an evil cult and honest radicalised cult members admit it !!

My mother is an immigrant. But she integrated. She came to Britain for a better life and spends every day repaying this country for all it has given her. She speaks English, works, pays taxes, got her citizenship, and is proud to be British. She hates the hoards of Islamists and illegal migrants who come to Britain with no intention of contributing to society. She loathes the displays of cultural domination. She abhors the idea of demanding that native society alter its culture and practices for the sake of “inclusivity” while those who demand it refuse to do the same. It isn’t “inclusive” when 30,000 Muslims take over the streets to hold a public prayer demonstration. They aren’t including. They are dominating. And it is foolish to suggest that their intention is anything besides domination. If they truly wanted inclusivity, they would not be calling the police on Christian preachers and demanding they be removed from “their communities”. If they truly wanted to co-exist, their leaders wouldn’t be holding rallies telling their followers that they will take over Britain and enforce the singular rule of Allah. If they truly wanted peace, they wouldn’t chant “Death to Britain!” and burn our flags while threatening to rape and kill our wives and daughters. My mother followed the law. My mother loves Britain. They don’t. They don’t want to speak English. They don’t want to get a job. They don’t want to integrate. They don’t want to contribute to our economy. They don’t want to follow British customs and rules. It isn’t racist to call out the blatant danger of radical Islam. It isn’t far-Right to want to protect our girls from child marriage and grooming gangs. It isn’t wrong to call a spade a spade. My immigrant mother taught me many things, most importantly: If you emigrate, you integrate. Radical Islam has no place in civilised society, and we are allowed to call out the people who seek to destroy and dominate us.

@DevonianGunner @EnergyMix_UK @realmrsthatcher Currently well paid jobs: Manufacturing, installing, maintaining wind turbines. Developing and running biomass production, battery storage and carbon capture systems. Building nuclear power stations. Developing, manufacturing and installing small modular nuclear reactors.

@EnergyMix_UK @realmrsthatcher I can only think you are a bit thick or Ed Milliband or both. Selling off licences generates revenue, creates actual well paid jobs unlike the wind and solar farms, delivers tax on profits and provides energy security while we develop a replacement for when it runs out. 1/2

@Lynn06783085 @EnergyMix_UK @realmrsthatcher The UK has no control of the supply or cost of oil and gas extracted in our territorial waters. The UK competes in the international fossil fuel market on the same terms as countries that don’t ‘own’ the products.

@EnergyMix_UK @realmrsthatcher No we still own it, all we do is sell off the licenses, which we could certainly do with selling right now!

@salowa87 @EnergyMix_UK @realmrsthatcher At the time sustainable energy was in its infancy and oil and gas was the ‘clean energy’ in contrast to ‘dirty energy, coal. In fact that was one of the more acceptable reasons for Thatcher’s mine closures. Plus ca change?

Clean energy advocate complains about 'dirty fuel' being sold off. That's the first bit of irony. They weren't sold off. The licence to extract them was sold off to Norway to pay off debts run up by a commie fukwit government we had at the time - when you were very unlikely to have been born. The result is we pay a fortune to buy oil and gas extracted from our OWN FIELDS back from socialist shithole Norway. The hatred among leftist circles for Maggie isn't substantiated, it's all ideological. Hate for the sake of hate.

@Worldweeps @oldishbird1 @Alexarmstrong @rospay15 Not sure why you think that description fits someone who has ‘done their research’ and provided links to relevant evidence. Perhaps you should provide the evidence that proves your claim that only ‘locals’ are qualified to comment?

@oldishbird1 @Alexarmstrong @rospay15 I'm guessing you aren't local old. There's a word I recently learned that fits. Ultracrepidarian, look it up

Today, I’m heading up to Wigan to speak to residents, who claim not to have had a public consultation about THIS monstrosity built literally on their back gardens.

@mw1234500 @SamanthaTaghoy More to the point, did John Cleese before posting, did you before reposting? If you had you would be able to answer my questions.

@COOKIETSC @SamanthaTaghoy Do some research, it's not hard to find 👍

@rtsrichard @EdConwaySky My comments refer to the UK as do the statistics.

Rapidly declining? This 👇 is the way the world is at the moment. And that 14.3% of ours includes the con on biomass - details above. That they are declining in the UK as part of the electricity generation mix - fine, but the way this is happening is one of the major factors in our piss-poor economic performance of the last 15-20 years, because it is being done by the bonkers push for unreliable wind and solar, and we ditched the nuclear while relegating gas to a backup.

@mw1234500 @SamanthaTaghoy Which. Islamic leaders? What have they said? Is the threat credible?

@COOKIETSC @SamanthaTaghoy

@White_rabbit85 @DreyfusJames My reply was addressed to a claim made in this tweet. It was reasonable ask why Dreyfus chose such this example. when there are a plethora of other examples. some of which might have been more convincing. (You could test your hypothesis by posting another example.)

@COOKIETSC @DreyfusJames Many videos out there that demonstrate he has acted in the ways listed. People are not required to place these under your nose. Do your research but I guess judging by this tweet, even if you saw them you’d deny them. So a lost cause, waste of energy and futile activity.

Narinder… He left the comments on for 7 replies… all positive… before he switched them off, as per usual. As you can see below. Those who RT’d him are rightly frustrated, angry & fed up with him. NOT because he’s “having a coffee”, but for the plethora of examples of his rudeness, hypocrisy, double-standards, lies & malicious division. He’s an elected official who should be answerable to the public, yet consistently trolls us by arrogantly refusing to answer or be held accountable for anything. He’s been Mayor for nearly 10 years now. If you truly believe the only people who are sick to the back teeth with him are the “radicalised far-right”, then I have a live pterodactyl to sell you. But to suggest this is simply to do with him “having a coffee” is patently absurd.

@NJ_Timothy In what sense is the Muslim declaration of faith, the adhan, different in intent, from Christian equivalent. the Apostles Creed? churchofengland.org/prayer-and-wor…

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.

@ScottishSuffra1 The study of world religions was formally added to the England and Wales statutory curriculum by the Education Reform Act 1988. I am suprised that your daughter missed the lessons or had she left school by 1988?

My grandson came home yesterday and told his mum that they had a lesson on muslims, and their religion in school that day. Today, my family decided that as Christians, catholics, and with Jewish relatives as well as women's rights activists aplenty within our family, this was not appropriate, needed, or wanted. Monday, the head teacher will have a complaint she never imagined, she will never forget and will never wish repeated.

@FreedomMatty @Andy_T_ Sorry to break the news but Labour win in 1945!

I just did 4 hours non-stop leafleting to try and save my country with Reform UK. I’m knackered. I will be able to look my kids and their kids in the eye and tell them - I tried. I just hope others are doing their bit, in whatever way they can. Don’t leave it to others.