David Hall

11 years ago today, I laid my first ever concrete, on a sloping field on the ‘lobber’ above #portisaac with help from my amazing brother Will and good friend, weather guru Simon Rowell

@sappholives83 @Glinner Is that John McEnroe??!

If nothing else, it is incredibly insulting, as a woman, to be lumped in with this grotesque imitation of womanhood.

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"You didn't have to kill the dog." Useful idiots get shown what they're supporting.

This image hits hard. Two children, both live in Britain. One raised with love and pride. The other filled with imported hatred.

Yesterday's march was peaceful, patriotic and filled with decent Brits who are concerned about the direction of our country. Starmer should apologise for how he smeared many, many thousands of ordinary patriots. Incredibly, I think less of that man every single day.

So here we have 2 children, one is a racist, violent, far right thug, the other, well I’ll let you decide.

At last, some national scrutiny of A Burnham. And it’s already clear that in a number of areas he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about, which explains the stumbling.

Two children, two protests. One was taught to love their country. The other was taught to hate.

That is Lieutenant Colonel Or Ben Yehuda, commander of the CARACAL unit near Gaza. On the morning of October 7th, she opened her eyes and saw Hamas in front of her. “I look up at the sky, then lower my head again, glance to the side, and there are maybe five pickup trucks coming toward me, full of motorcycle riders. There are terrorists leaping between the sand dunes and the trees, all of them wearing vests and uniforms, moving in our direction, and I can’t even count them properly with my eyes. It’s hundreds. Hundreds. And farther back, on the distant road, I see columns of Gazan civilians simply walking toward us, some armed, some not. And I say to myself: ‘That’s it. This is where I die. Right here, exactly where I’m standing now. This is where I die.’ Then I said to myself: Fine. If this is the end, then I’ll end it well. I’ll die with honor. I’ll do the best I can. And I’ll fight until my very last drop of blood. So I turn to my soldiers, a group of twelve heroic fighters waiting for me to tell them what to do. I turn to them with half a smile. Later, they told me I smiled; I didn’t remember it. And I tell them: ‘Come on, let’s tear them apart!’ And they all shout back: ‘Yalla!!!’ They come to the embankment with machine guns, with everything they can carry, and we position ourselves there and start firing at everyone approaching the outpost. We’re shooting like mad. At some point, we had a LAU missile with us, so we fired it at one of the Hamas pickup trucks. The truck exploded in a massive blast, something unbelievable. There must have been huge amounts of explosives inside, and the explosion took several of the motorcycle riders with it. And little by little, I suddenly realize many of them are beginning to retreat, turn around, and flee back the way they came. And suddenly I understood: yes, we’re doing something significant here. We were there for about half an hour, and then, in the middle of all the chaos, I suddenly hear the tracks of a tank behind me. It was an unbelievable sigh of relief. I told my deputy company commander: ‘Stay here! I don’t know whose tank this is — I’m going to get it!’ It was already around eleven o’clock. I start moving backward, advancing toward the tank through the concrete barriers, and suddenly I realize a terrorist is jumping at me from point-blank range, and in another second, he would’ve been hugging me. And my luck was that I already had a round in the chamber and my finger on the trigger. It was literally a question of who shoots first, and I shot first. The terrorist collapsed in front of me. And I froze for a moment, like, what was that? What just happened? Then I hear my deputy commander yelling from behind me: ‘Commander! Commander! Are you okay?’ I look at myself, I’m okay. I turn back toward him and signal with my hand: everything’s under control. He runs up after me, looks at me, and says, ‘What… what just happened between you two?’ And I tell him: ‘Exactly what’s going through your head right now.’ But the tank! I remember — I can’t let it leave. We need it. I ran quickly toward it, and because I’m used to working with my tank crews, I started signaling to them in tank hand signals: ‘Terrorists there, behind me, do this, shell over there!’ And he’s with us, he understands immediately. And for the first time, I suddenly have additional force joining me. We make some kind of flanking maneuver, take up a strong position, and simply fire toward wherever the terrorists are coming from. We keep firing and firing, and they start pulling back. And I understand — all of us understand — that if we don’t continue fighting right now, those terrorists will get past us and reach all the communities behind us. At a certain point, my deputy commander and his radio operator are hit by an RPG and collapse to the ground. So we pull them out of there. Then I call friends of mine who are pilots flying Yasur and Yanshuf helicopters, and I ask them to come land at the helipad near the outpost, because I’ve evacuated wounded soldiers there and I need them to clear our casualties out. And it actually happens. They arrive, they land, and they evacuate the wounded for me. Meanwhile, my medical unit is there the entire time treating casualties, loading them up, evacuating them to the helipad. We managed to bring there the wounded from the APC we had seen, the wounded from our battalion, and several civilians we picked up along the way — people who escaped from Kibbutz Sufa, from Pri Gan, and from other places. They all received treatment from my incredible medical team — those angels — and the helicopters I called in evacuated them to Soroka Hospital, where they finally received proper care. There were also many dead in that battle. There were dead. And I remember one moment at the end, when everything was over, just minutes before they came to evacuate the bodies. There was a moment when they were lying there side by side, and I walked between them, gently touching their faces, stroking them softly, telling them I was sorry, and closing their eyes. And I remember telling myself in that moment that those people, who were now making their final journey, were unbelievable heroes. They fought there like lions to save Kibbutz Sufa. They fought until their last drop of blood." From Or's book 'book One Day in October'.

Just like Andy Burnham, when I go for a jog I invariably find there’s a TV crew in the vicinity. It is SO annoying. 🤣😂

British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election: Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister. Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour. We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run. We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.

@Keir_Starmer is apparently blocking 11 ‘extremists’ from entering the 🇬🇧 for the ‘Patriots’ Rally on Saturday..🤔 At the same time he’s stood by for 2 years and allowed thousands of ‘Islamic’ extremists’ to take over London weekly scream for jihad .. wave Nazi placards .. dress as Hamas terrorists waving thier flags accommodate Hizb-ut Tehrir and other terrorist groups .. calling for the annihilation of our Jewish community. Harass Jewish children and families going to school or the synagogue.. Attack their shops & restaurants and murder and stab others then feigned surprise that we had an ‘antisemitism’ problem.. It was just astonishing… Those of us who’d continually raised this have been called racists and far right -by him .. It is the ultimate hypocrisy and the sooner he’s gone .. along with his @UKLabour MPs the better !!

‼️I am staggered at this post from a PM who has watched hate filled matches on our streets every week for 2 years. And has never spoken like this. Today, he labels every single person in this country, black, white and all shades in between, who are concerned about social cohesion and cultural erosion, as Racist and thugs. It is unforgivable 🚨

A Cabinet minister has resigned today and a quarter of Labour MPs are calling on the Prime Minister to go. Less than two years ago the party won one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern history, despite only winning 33.7% of the popular vote. The next Prime Minister will govern on a mandate that the public never directly granted them. What is unfolding today is a reminder that in the current system, the public does not really choose who governs them at all. The problem is not the people at the top. It is the architecture that put them there and keeps them there regardless of what the country actually wants.

Japan’s PM Sanae Takaichi: “It’s better for the population to shrink than to fill the country with low-skilled immigrants from alien cultures. Preserving Japan’s way of life matters more than cheap labour. We can fix the birth rate crisis without relying on incompatible foreigners. You no longer have a country when you become the minority.” She’s absolutely right.

2021 Rayner just called the opposition SCUM ! Can you imagine 👀

Under Labour we are losing 1000 jobs per month in the North Sea because of their terrible Net Zero policies.  We are calling on the government to end their ridiculous ban on new exploration & drilling licences in the North Sea, to unlock billions more barrels of oil & gas for extraction, safeguarding our energy security & to create new jobs. telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

Look what UK Secretary of State for Health & Social Care @wesstreeting wrote about me in 2009. He wanted to push me - a Dutch MP - under a train. Maybe look at your own crowd first before stopping others entering the UK, @Keir_Starmer, as Labour did with me in 2009 (which decision was later overruled by a UK Court). Good luck Saturday @TRobinsonNewEra!

My views on Angela Rayner.

Basically what people must conclude from this HMRC decision, if it indeed is an HMRC decision, is that if you're confused about how much tax to pay, you shouldn't seek professional advice. You should just pay the lowest amount and hope that it all works out OK, knowing that if it doesn't then you won't have to pay any penalty.