Calling it out

@PolitlcsUK @serenelyjoyful Was he far right?

🚨 NEW: Omar Majed, 19, has been charged over the bomb hoax at Peter Kay’s gig last night

@NicholasOShaug1 @HookArron76532 In 1940, the British had 1st Cavalry Division in Palestine which had atleast 9 Regiments of Cavalry mounted on horses. By the Syrian campaign, 3 regiments were still on horses, the other 6 had been converted to trucks. The horse could go places trucks couldn’t &faster than inf.

@HookArron76532 Not even the British Army was – they still had two mounted regiment in 1939.

What has Irish cavalry to do with British officers? The Red Army for example had a massive cavalry wing. Stalin felt you needed an aristocracy to have a cavalry, but Trotsky thought otherwise. Red cavalry is Trotskyite.

@joerichlaw @thetimes What’s the point of having an ex service Minister of they won’t be there for their people when it counts. @AlistairCarns you need to step up and be counted.

BREAKING: Labour’s Minister for the Armed Forces Al Carns announces his intention to ‘miss’ key vote on Troubles prosecutions of British veteran soldiers (via @TheTimes) thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@Mr_Andrew_Fox Tbh it’s just classist. Compare a rugby match to football and what you can do?

The “no drinking in sight of the pitch” law for football is ridiculous. It just encourages people to binge drink before the game and scrum for multiple pints in the 15 minute half-time break.

@afneil @Goosey30111568 Potentially £80k per year for booking in each day. They know what it’s like to be on the dole- they are, just at another rate.

I know. It’s a weakness 😂. I just can’t shake off a soft spot for quotidien Establishment politicians of no known achievements who are nevertheless given a well-remunerated sinecure in the Lords for the rest of their lives. It shows just how compassionate a nation we are.

@BethRigby @GordonMurdie @joshglancy Really it comes down to his judgement as a person. Not political, just human. Why select a known friend of a peodophile? Why let them into the inner sanctum of the @UKLabour- why support them after being found out? There is much more depth to this story.

Via @joshglancy: Starmer acknowledges the Mandelson appointment was a mistake that needs looking at, but he is also deeply frustrated by Westminster’s obsession with it. He views a political-media class that only wants to talk about vetting forms and not about the Strait of Hormuz as fundamentally unserious. “I understand why there are questions,” he says. “I’ve answered I don’t know how many of them. But at the same time, I’ve got a huge amount of work to do on the war on two fronts.”

@afneil @Stanhope2011VJ European help was to sell Exocet missiles to Argentina- thank you France.

On what do you base that claim? And, while you’re at it, remind me of European military help in 1982.

@Mr_Andrew_Fox @MatNuclear @koshercockney Singapore? Tobruk? Crete? Churchill dropped plenty of clangers, but his vision allowed him to press the war to a successful conclusion.

@MatNuclear @koshercockney Ah yes, I remember the time Churchill’s failed policy enabled 1,500 Brits to be slaughtered by terrorists and 253 to be taken hostage.

I’ll say it: Benjamin Netanyahu is a modern day Churchill.

@afneil Starmer announced Mandelson as ambassador on 20 Dec 24, and it is expected the US agrément was prior to this. Robbins became PUS from 08 Jan, this is some time after the announcement and after Starmer had announced Mandelson.

The appointment was announced before Robbins was appointed. The formal appointment letter wasn’t sent out til Jan 30 2025, the moment the vetting issue had been ‘resolved’. Robbins was appointed January 8th.

@ForcesNews @LukePollard How many working tanks do we have? How many artillery pieces do we have? Why are the army putting so many vehicles off the road for the next 12 months? It’s because there is no money. The govt is responsible.

"I'm sick and tired of armchair generals"🗣️ Defence Minister Luke Pollard hits back at critics after a poll showed 86% of personnel say "underprepared" claims hurt morale🔗forcesnews.com/politics/defen…

@newstart_2024 The UKs population was under 40m in 1917. Now it’s nearer 70m. That’s why your 2 up, 2 down costs so much more. Demand and supply.

“You’re spending 50% of your disposable income on a house a postman owned in 1917.” Rory Sutherland just delivered a brutally funny takedown of London property madness. He pointed out that people with good jobs are now paying enormous sums for a three-bedroom house in Fulham that’s essentially a boring, low-quality building — the real value is almost entirely in the land and planning permission (about 90% of the price). Meanwhile, we live in an incredible technological age where you can buy jet skis, hot tubs, and amazing consumer goods — but most of our money goes into owning a “shit house” in a good postcode. Rory’s friend has a flat in the Barbican and he gets that — it’s actually an amazing place to live. But most London housing? Dross. Rory’s friend has a flat in the Barbican and he gets that — it’s actually an amazing place to live. But most London housing? Dross. It’s like paying £60,000 a year for the parking space while driving a 1970s Ford Cortina. What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve seen people spend huge money on just for location?

@aestheticsguyy Rondha - wales…

I would like to immediately know where this is

@DeTahmineh Iran is a fabulous country, so Why has the govt taken it back to the Stone Age?

Iran during the Stone Age:

@moizali Grimsby, it’s just lovely in the summer drizzle.

Any suggestions for underrated vacation spots in Europe? Looking for: - Not filled with just tourists - Great food - Beach that you can swim in - Locals friendly to out of towners

@Jenny_1884 Nothing creepy about a gay Jewish man leading a fundimentalist islamic party who wish all Jews dead and gays should be throw off high buildings all the while keeping young boys for ’personal time’.

Does anyone else find Zack Polanski a bit creepy?

@Mr_Andrew_Fox The Nazis had 18% voter support in 32, 40% in 34. It grows - we know where it ends up. We have seen them left revolutionise a country only to be taken over by the extreamist- Russia 1916, iran 1979. Uk 2027?

I had the honour of speaking to a group of Holocaust survivors last year and they said the atmosphere in London was like 1930s Germany. You look at the Greens’ rhetoric, and you look at the pro-Iranian regime march in London this weekend… We're there. What do we do now?

@higgyboson @ElspethMacpher7 Does anyone have any idea what happened to the leftist who were supported by the Islamist in Iran on 79? Did they get their leftist utopia or were they hung and thrown of tall buildings? @GreenpartyukRBX

So let's get this straight. This is the deputy leader of the Green Party with his fully veiled wife, right? And the leader of the Green Party is the gay Jewish bloke who yesterday gyrated on stage with a load of men dressed in bondage gear. Which of these two loons is actually representative of the Green Party because it seems to me that, even at the top, they have absolutely no idea what they're about.

@Bounce_BackLoan @ElspethMacpher7 Starting to think of him as the Huw Edwards of the @UKLabour

Breaking: As his reputation now sits firmly in the gutter, and his days in Number 10 are coming to an end, Keir Starmer once again takes to addressing a room full of little children, as most adults can't stand him.

@Mr_Andrew_Fox @MilitaryBanter Errr, op teamwork anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Seems pretty toxic going after people for expressing their opinion - particularly when they are on the button.

The British Army fully embracing the Streisand Effect. You can find both songs on @MilitaryBanter should you be so inclined. They are quite witty.

@Bounce_BackLoan If we want opersition questions we will need to change the standing order - @LindsayHoyle_MP

Right at the end of PMQs as everyone was darting out of the door, the Rt Hon Sir Edward Leigh MP (Gainsborough, Conservative) raised a Point of Order, on the subject of numbnuts Keir Starmer never answering a fucking question. The Speaker admits there is nowt he can do.