British Gentleman

@afneil @ZoeJardiniere As mentioned, I don't recall having any interaction with Zoe Gardner, but looking at her tweets today, she appears to be unpleasant @afneil Constantly screaming that Nigel Farage is "far-right and racist" and making wild claims about school shootings under a Farage government.

@afneil Yes. Zoe Gardner doesn't seem to understand that gas comes by pipeline into the UK and is used in the UK. I don't recall having any interaction in the past with @ZoeJardiniere but she has blocked me. Perhaps she is deeply offended by the Union Jack flag or a photo of my cat.

Your mind is clearly blown because you have no idea what you’re talking about. Let’s just take gas. All of it comes by pipeline into the UK and is used in the UK. Oil is a bit more complicated but I’ll let you grapple with the facts about gas before moving on to that. Let me know if you have any questions about gas. Happy to help.

@afneil Thank you @GermanEmbassy for the kind gesture. I would like the UK to continue to have good relations with major European countries like Germany and France, while staying outside of EU / Brussels interference.

A lovely and significant gesture.

@afneil @TimesRadio Shocking that the EU Remain posh boys Cameron / Osborne cut defence spending by 22% in real terms between 2010 - 2016, while at the same time spending many billions of pounds in foreign aid. But now defence spending is Starmer's responsibility and he's failing miserably.

My monologue from today’s The Times at One with Andrew Neil @TimesRadio FAILURE TO INCREASE DEFENCE SPENDING A NATIONAL SCANDAL. The failure of the Starmer government to increase defence spending by anything like enough is becoming a national scandal.  The need has never been greater in peacetime. Wars are raging in Ukraine and the Gulf. A revanchist Russia bears down on Eastern Europe. The Strait of Hormuz is in Iranian hands — and closed.  President Trump has gone from rightly demanding NATO’s European members do more for their own defence to wrongly threatening to pull America out of NATO altogether.  Yet the Starmer government sits on its hands doing next to nothing.  It sensibly commissioned a Strategic Defence Review when it came to power in the summer of 2024. That review reported in June 2025.  The government accepted all 62 of its proposals to reconfigure our military and rearm the country. It promised a Defence Investment Plan by the autumn to show how we’d pay for it.  Almost a year later there’s still no sign of it. Neither the PM nor the Defence Secretary can tell us when we will see it.  Meanwhile defence spending stutters, wholly inadequate to the tasks at hand. Trump’s War in the Gulf has exposed just how hollowed out our armed forces have become  — a diminished Navy, most of which cannot be deployed at sea  — an airforce short of fighter jets — a minuscule army incapable of mounting a major armoured fighting force — a country without its own ballistic missile defence.  Yet none of that can be put right on current or planned levels of defence spending.  Of course Labour’s inheritance was a terrible one. Fourteen years of Tory government were marked by a clear deterioration in our military prowess.  In the Cameron/Osborne years between 2010 and 2016, defence spending was cut in real terms by 22%. A fatal fall. Subsequent upticks did little to fill the hole that cut left.  But blaming the Tories only gets you so far. Rather than making up for lost ground the Starmer is largely standing still.  It inherited defence spending in its first year — 2024/25 — of £60 billion. It increased that by a mere £2 billion for 2025/26 — a pathetic amount in a dangerous world. And that’s in cash terms, without taking inflation into account.  It’s added only £3.5 billion — again in cash terms — for the upcoming financial year 2026/27. It barely takes the defence budget to 2.5% of GDP.  Yes, there are bigger rises in the years after that. But it’s still too little, too late — and barely moves defence above 2.5% of GDP.  Starmer has vaguely committed to 3% in the next Parliament — ie the early 2030s — and to 3.5% by 2035, which would be the next parliament after that. But these are only ambitions. There is no roadmap, no blueprint, no budget plan to get there.  Defence spending needs to be ramped up far more quickly than that. Instead, sleight of hand is exaggerating what small increases there are. Ministers try to slip in the intelligence services when counting defence. The cost of helping Ukraine. Unfunded pay rises for the military.  It all means that in real terms even the small uptick in defence spending is not as big as it seems.  There was a time when, as a share of GDP, Britain spent more on defence than any other NATO member bar America. It is a measure of our military decline that we’re now 12th — and still slipping.  The money is there if only there was the willpower to move it to defence — from the massive profligate expense of net zero, from the ballooning welfare budget, from a new time-limited tax, perhaps on luxuries, if that’s what it takes.  Other countries get the need to rearm — Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, Canada, even the peace-loving Scandinavians. But not Keir Starmer’s Britain.  It is his single biggest dereliction of duty. He needs to put it right. Before it’s too late. Or it will be forever the blackest of marks on his tenure in power.

@iainjwatson Thank you @iainjwatson The right decision for Reform to sack him for his crass comments. Labour are throwing stones, but Starmer was happy to restore the whip to MP Neil Coyle despite Coyle making various offensive comments and being found guilty of bullying and harassment.

Reform housing spokesman sacked over Grenfell remarks bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@AndyGibsonTV @kelvmackenzie @grok "Fake account" ? I'm not fake or a bot. My interests include politics, golf, tennis, football, good food and good music. I agree with Kelvin on some issues, but not every issue. I've given my birth name in a few other tweets. How do I know for certain your name is Andy Gibson?

@Englishgentlem9 @kelvmackenzie @grok If you agree then you wouldn't be hiding behind that fake account of yours.

You couldn’t make this up; Huw Edwards has liked a post on LinkedIn which sympathised with the “stressful” situation that Scott Mills finds himself in. Excuse me while I throw up.

@AndyGibsonTV @kelvmackenzie @grok There's been no fabrication here, Andy. Huw Edwards liked the post. I've never defended The Sun's coverage of Hillsborough. Kelvin (and other journalists) made a big mistake to believe fabricated stories. Kelvin has apologised and I agree with his views on various other issues.

@kelvmackenzie @Grok Kelvin likes to fabricate, please verify these claims.

@LozzaFox I feel deeply sorry for the family of Jill Dando. They lost Jill in horrific circumstances and have never had justice, because the killer is not in jail. There's no evidence to back up conspiracy theories that Jill was killed because of Jimmy Savile or sex offenders at the BBC.

Two words Jill Dando.

@F1foundation1 @RupertLowe10 @AdrianRamsay @F1foundation1 - I don't like fox hunting with packs of dogs or barbaric Halal slaughter. I think both should be illegal in the UK. Is it your view that Halal slaughter is fine, but fox hunting is not?

@RupertLowe10 @AdrianRamsay Oh piss off 🤡

After more than a decade of culling and the deaths of over 230,000 badgers, I welcome reports that the government has committed to ending the cull. I’ve written to the responsible minister asking her to confirm that badger culling in England will end in full.

Hello @BBCDanielS and @DannyShawNews Has Sadiq Khan got any comments about this appalling behaviour in Clapham? Does he agree that it's a terrible reflection on our capital city?

@WHG17 @ZoeJardiniere @afneil I don't recall ever having any interaction with @ZoeJardiniere - but for some reason she has blocked me. Maybe she is deeply offended by the Union Jack flag or my fondness for cats and lovely dogs like Molly @afneil

@ZoeJardiniere @afneil Why say that @ZoeJardiniere ?? This week was a late night show, it was tongue in cheek and actually fair, serious and it's actually a miss in this populist world. Posts like this turn you into the people you despise. The ones who you want to "be kind" and not divide us.

It was a late night political talk show which didn’t take itself too seriously. And aspired to a sense of humour (needed after Question Time). I didn’t aspire to run the country. Or sit in parliament. So your analogy is pathetic. But thanks for reminding us all what a fun show it was.

@JasonBu91456086 @Martin927140689 @raelbrav My experience of EU fanatics and those on the Angry Left is they often lack any good arguments, simply resorting to screaming "racist" and when they eventually become tired of doing that, they block people. No surprise that @JasonBu91456086 has gone down that familiar road.

@JasonBu91456086 @Martin927140689 @raelbrav This black man in the photo doesn't think Nigel is a racist. It often seems to be white liberals and the Angry Left screaming "racist" rather than people of colour who have met him.

@JasonBu91456086 @Martin927140689 @raelbrav Actually there was many more than just one person who said Nigel wasn't racist. Many other former pupils as well as the former headmaster said he wasn't a racist. But of course the EU fanatics believe the accusations of people screaming "racist" to The Guardian 40 years later.

@Englishgentlem9 @Martin927140689 @raelbrav Life according to British Gentleman; - The 27 people who said Fuhrage was racist at school were definitely politically motivated - The 1 person who said he wasn't racist definitely wasn't politically motivated. Life must be so simple when you don't have the think for yourself

@jk_rowling @suzanne_moore Alastair Campbell is a bully who has been increasingly bitter and angry since the 2016 Brexit vote. The vile abuse that you continue to receive @jk_rowling for daring to stand up for women's rights is appalling. @afneil

Absolutely spot on by @suzanne_moore, who eviscerates two men whose classism has never been more in evidence than on this issue. Why listen to Keira Bell, Sandie Peggie or the Darlington nurses when women inside your hyper-privileged bubble agree with you? telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/2…

@Martin927140689 @raelbrav The headmaster of Dulwich College at the time said that Nigel Farage was NOT a racist. But of course, the EU fanatics and Nigel haters will believe the unsubstantiated politically motivated allegations of people screaming to The Guardian that Nigel was racist 40 years ago.

@raelbrav Holy moly Rael.. You’ve got some forgiveness in you regarding Nige. Remember when he attended Dulwich College and spent his time there racially abusing your fellow Jews according to 27 different people. And u sleep at night..

@raelbrav I wholeheartedly agree with you Mr Braverman. Please @danroan and @Natpirks could you inform Ipswich Town's chairman how appalled many people like me are at the fact Mr Ashton felt the need to apologise and appease an angry mob hurling insults at a democratically elected MP.

@lucymanning Thank you @lucymanning for your news reports. Sadly anti-semitic abuse is still rife in the social media cesspit. The account in the screenshot below uses foul-mouthed abuse towards Israelis. Reported to X. Their response: "It doesn't violate our rules" @AngusCrawfordR4

Home Secretary bans the Al Quds march to prevent serious disorder. But a static demonstration could still take place. Home Secretary says that police could apply strict conditions to it.

The BBC understands the Met Police Commissioner has written to the Home Secretary saying the controversial Al Quds Day march set to take place in London at the weekend should not be allowed to take place after concerns about pro Iranian & antisemitic & anti Israel hostility.

@BBCDanielS The amount of litter and graffiti in some parts of London is shameful for one of the world's most important cities. Perhaps Sadiq Khan should spend a little less money on Woke / Diversity schemes and a bit more money on the police and cleaning up the disgusting mess @BBCDanielS

Upper Regent Street having a bad day. Apart from the Mercedes G Wagon, the pile of rubbish and the hire bikes on the pavement, it was all very nice and tidy tonight.

@nigelmp Sir David Amess will always be remembered as a remarkable man. His murder was an act of monstrous evil. I feel deeply sad for David's family and friends, who have been badly let down by Labour's unwillingness to have a full public inquiry into the horrific murder. @KatieAmess

Today I visited the Cathedral where David Amess had his funeral . Yesterday was his birthday. I hadn’t intended to come here today but I was drawn here in David’s memory. Never forgotten my friend in God’s arms.