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@petestick @troovus @Harryslaststand He certainly was!

@troovus @Harryslaststand Starmer's dad was a tool maker apparently!

In 1906, 29 Labour MPs were elected. Among them were: 2 engineers 3 miners 2 shipwrights 1 shoemaker 1 cooper 2 textile workers 2 gas workers 2 railwaymen 3 compositors 1 steel smelter 1 journalist 1 iron moulder What proportion of Labour MPs today are from manual trades? 1/2

You may not agree with me, but you will always know where you stand with me. Today in Billericay, a heckler tried to shout me down as I spoke about the normalisation of hatred towards Jews. I did not back down, because it needs to be said. British Jews are being targeted and too many people are pretending this is the same experience of other minorities. This lady implied Muslims are being similarly targeted. This is simply not true. Let's be honest about what is happening. Certain groups (in particular but not solely Islamic Extremists) are creating a climate of fear and intimidation that is normalising Jew hatred. I will never stand for that. Governments have spent too long hand-wringing, making excuses and hoping it would go away. It is time to call this what it is: a national emergency in our attitude, our urgency and our response. I will always engage with people who disagree with me. That is politics. But there is a difference between argument and intimidation. Shouting does not make a bad case good. It's done to silence others. And it certainly does not change the truth. The truth is that British Jews have been made to feel less safe in their own country. Our country. They are being singled out, threatened and harassed in ways that should shame everyone in public life. If we do not stand up now and stop this rise in antisemitism, then why bother saying "Never Again" at Holocaust Memorial Day? Because this is how it starts. I am not prepared to play along with the pretence that this is normal, or manageable, or just another example of tension between groups. It really is not. It is targeted hatred and it is getting worse. So my message is simple. Not here. Not in Britain. And not on our watch. We need to stop the hand-wringing and start doing the right thing. That means standing with British Jews openly, unapologetically and without fear.

Words are cheap, it’s actions that count. I’m sick to death of certain politicians being shocked & horrified (again) then allowing weekly vile marches

Rupert Lowe TORCHED the woke history revisionists in Parliament!🔥 In a blistering Public Accounts Committee hearing, Reform MP Rupert Lowe went straight for the jugular on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s absurd new priority: pushing an “inclusive national story” with taxpayer cash. “What is an inclusive national story? How do you create an inclusive national story? History is history isn’t it?” The senior civil servant squirmed, fumbled through her papers, and couldn’t give a straight answer. Because there isn’t one. You don’t “create” a national story by airbrushing Britain’s actual history to tick diversity boxes. Our heritage isn’t a Lego set you rebuild to make everyone feel included. People visit the British Museum and Natural History Museum for truth, excellence, and centuries of British achievement, not historically illiterate propaganda. Rupert Lowe doesn’t put up with this nonsense. While others drone on, he cuts through the bureaucratic fog and holds these officials accountable. We need MORE politicians with the spine to push back against this woke revisionism that’s polluting our institutions. Could you ever imagine Nigel Farage grinding through hours of tedious committee hearings, wading through pages of civil service drivel just to expose and correct this rubbish? Not a chance. Rupert’s doing the unglamorous heavy lifting, and doing it brilliantly! Great job, Rupert. Keep going @RupertLowe10 💪

100 years ago, this photo would have ended every newspaper headline on Earth. Today it'll get scrolled past in 2 seconds. This is a photograph of Mars. Taken today. 140 million miles away from us.

What a letter

This is Sean Egan. He joined Morrisons at the age of 17. After 29 years of dedication at supermarket chain, he was dismissed for confronting a shoplifter, which led to a scuffle with thief who spat at him. A shameful decision by @Morrisons. He should be thanked, not sacked.

@CutMyTaxUK @branwen41677029 Well what a surprise given that their union paymasters and their members have lovely DB benefits!

Labour MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the pensions bill that required ministers to look at the affordability of public sector defined benefit schemes, which guarantee an inflation-linked income for life. The cost of these reached £57bn last year. Baroness Neville-Rolfe, who drafted the amendment, said "We are building up a huge debt for the future. And I think it is odd that the government isn’t more open about it, because it is the second biggest public sector liability after gilts.” Labour prefers to pretend that the problem does not exist.

Labour’s plot to raid your retirement for political vanity is pure insanity. Pensions belong to savers, not the state! 🚨 Even a 10% cap is a dangerous step toward state control of private wealth. This betrayal of British savers must end now! Link below for more! 👇

The money you earn belongs to nobody but you. This Government already takes more of it than they should, by raising taxes that they promised not to. And now they're giving themselves the power to direct your pension savings to their pet ideological causes.

@robprogressive Ah yes, but the council workers still have their lovely final salary protected pension schemes which cost the council (ie us) 25% of salary or more.

‼️ WTF? Whilst you were distracted … Labour has just voted through powers to FORCE pension funds to invest your money in UK government ‘priorities’. Meaning Labour effectively takes control of up to 10% of your private pension to invest in bollocks. I call that theft. How dare the government take MY money for their projects. WTF?

Labour just voted themselves the right to reach into £2 TRILLION of private pension savings and direct where it goes – not you, not your fund manager, not your trustees. They call it a “reserve power”, but once a power exists in statute, it exists for real – and it will always be used when a desperate Chancellor needs a quick hit of cash or a headline‑grabbing “investment revolution”. This is not some minor technical tweak, it is the state inserting itself between you and your life savings, turning your pension into a political slush fund for risky vanity projects that no sane investor would touch voluntarily. Hands. Off. Our. Pensions.

This week, Labour MPs voted to give ministers the power to decide how your pension savings are invested. So ministers get pensions with guaranteed payouts, while they direct your savings towards their pet ideological causes, even if that means you lose money. Disgraceful.

You go to work for 40 years (I'm currently at 42). You’re forced into auto‑enrolment. You play by the rules, you save into a pension on the promise it’s yours. Then Labour strolls in, waves through a law that lets ministers tell your scheme where to gamble those savings – not for your benefit, but to prop up their economic “strategy” and vanity infrastructure schemes that the market won’t fund. This isn’t prudence. It isn’t “modernisation”. It is a straightforward transfer of control from the saver to the state. Hands off our pensions. Share this before they pretend nobody noticed.

This weekend has been such a lesson in what the people demonstrating “for Palestine” are actually doing for Britain. Just this weekend: • A factory in Hampshire has been vandalised “for Palestine” • The Ministry of Defence and senior officers have been mobbed “for Palestine” • Police have been tied up arresting over 500 entitled, performative idiots demanding to be allowed to do things like the above “for Palestine” Our defence officials are besieged. Our arms industry is being trashed. Our police are unable to focus on keeping us safe. Britain is already becoming a laughing stock on law and order and defence, as recent events have demonstrated. We cannot afford to fall further behind, but that's what is going to happen. The deranged forever-activist cranks, obsessive media propagandists, and soundbite politicians live in a topsy-turvy world where it is Western democracies like ours that should be lawless and defenceless. When do you hear them speaking out against police states and warlords like the Islamofascist theocracies, pseudo-communist regimes and kleptocratic dictatorships that massacre, brutalise or oppress their own people? Why do they weaken Britain incessantly and never speak out when Iran slaughters tens of thousands of its own or China puts Muslims in concentration camps? When did you last see the Union Jack at a demonstration “for Palestine”? This country is being played in a propaganda war that will weaken us until we find ourselves in a real war that we are ideologically and militarily incapable of fighting.

UK 🇬🇧 Military 🧵 Part 1. The UK military didn’t “decline”. It was deliberately gutted. The peace dividend was national suicide. Here’s exactly how, when and why it all went to shit – and why the MoD, the civil service, and every single government (especially Blair & Starmer’s) have blood on their hands. 30+ year veteran thread. No more bullshit. Early 90s. I’m in 18 Group Maritime Ops (now PJHQ). Real assets – Nimrods, proper RN escort fleet – tracking Soviet subs that never stopped probing us. Russians didn’t take a peace dividend. Our governments did. Scrapping Nimrods, hollowing the fleet, pretending the threat vanished. Cupboard’s been empty ever since. We’re sitting ducks. Literally! What a fkn shambles. Iraq proved it in blood. No body armour. Open-top Snatch Land Rovers – rolling coffins. Labour sent us to war like that. Yanks nicknamed us “the Borrowers”. 457 of our lads died. Would’ve been far more without American kit and fast air. Chilcot laid it bare. Zero lessons learned. When British troops were in contact – whether in Iraq, Helmand or beyond – they’d be praying for American fast air, tankers and enablers to keep them alive. That’s not knocking our own pilots – far from it. Finbar Monahan DFC and countless RAF heroes showed incredible bravery and ingenuity under fire. But the brutal reality is the scale and sustainment gap our hollowed-out force created. I saw it from the Battlespace Manager seat. We leaned on the Yanks because successive governments left us no choice. While the military was shrunk to the bone, the MoD and civil service bloated like a politicians ego. Civil servants multiplied, costing us a fortune, delivering sweet fuck all experience or value. We’ve been properly duped. Every government destroys the original model and swings wildly the other way. The system is broken. Procurement is still a fucking joke. Military: “We need a dog.” MoD: “Meetings.” Years later: “Here’s a cat. Teach it to bark.” 🐶 = 🐱 I lived this shambles. Left in 2021. Same clowns today. Leadership rot everywhere. Gavin Williamson pushed woke ideology and hand-picked Mike Wigston as CAS. Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak – every single one owns a slice. Same applies to every Defence Secretary. Let’s talk about the Afghan schemes another day Ben Wallace. Tories slashed the military with Options for Change. Labour did Iraq on the cheap. Now Starmer’s at the helm making excuses instead of fixing the real problems. End of Part 1/2 – The rot runs deep and cost lives. Part 2 coming straight after: Trump holds up the mirror, Starmer gaslights, the Middle East betrayal, the cancer inside, and the brutal fix we need.

They don’t want you to understand what just happened… An American F-15E goes down deep inside Iran… hostile territory… mountains… IRGC hunting our guy with a bounty on his head. Most nations lose that pilot. America launches a full-spectrum response. Hundreds of special operators Dozens of aircraft Cyber… space… intelligence all synced in real time SEAL Team 6 goes in. Not a movie… not a drill… real combat. The WSO survives over a day on the ground… evading… hiding in rock formations… beacon active… waiting. Then the hammer drops. Extraction under fire Forward base inside enemy territory Aircraft disabled… and destroyed on-site so Iran gets nothing Let that sink in… We flew INTO Iran… fought… recovered our man… and left nothing behind. Zero Americans killed. That’s not luck… That’s capability. That’s training… doctrine… coordination… and absolute refusal to leave our people behind. People love to talk about American decline… Meanwhile… operations like this are happening in real time. Quietly. Precisely. Decisively. You’re watching the difference between a military… And a machine built to win. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

@Matt_Pinner Me, I was 13 and watched avidly with the rest of the family!

Who among us watched man’s first walk on the moon? Sunday, July 20, 1969.

@erikkuna @SuperclusterHQ @MiopsTrigger @CanonUSA @NASAArtemis Simply stunning!!

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center