MinistryOfCommonSense

Oh mate, here we go again with the classic Labour blame-the-Tories-while-we-make-it-worse routine. 80,000 cases backlog, you say? Projected to 200,000 by 2035 if we do nothing?? Brilliant scare stat, except you've been in charge since mid-2024 and it's still climbing!!!! September last year it was already 79,619 and rising. Your own MoJ figures show it ballooning under your watch, not shrinking. You lot inherited a mess, fair enough, but 20 months in and you're still flogging the same dead horse: "Tory mismanagement!" while quietly binning jury trials for anything that might get three years or less. Not in the manifesto, was it? Funny that. Thousands of barristers, retired judges, even your own backbenchers advising you to drop it because it risks miscarriages and erodes an 800-year right... but nah, victims need "swift justice", so let's have judge-only courts for three-quarters of trials. That'll fix it, apparently..... Except your own projections admit even with this bulldozer reform the backlog won't drop substantially till the 2030s. Might still be near current levels by the next election. So victims wait years longer anyway, defendants lose everything in limbo, and you get to look "bold" while chipping away at jury trials for mid-level stuff. Real progressive realist stuff there, Dave. And the cheek of calling it "fixing a failed system" when your "unlimited sitting days" and AI gimmicks were announced months ago and... the backlog's still growing. Courts sitting empty some days, staff shortages, buildings falling apart - same problems, new wrapping paper. This isn't modernisation. It's desperation dressed up as compassion. Victims deserve better than your half-arsed power grab. We all do. Come and follow us for more daily doses of common sense!

After 14 years of Tory mismanagement, the Criminal Justice System is on the brink of collapse. Around 80,000 cases are stuck in the backlog - expecting to rise to over 200,000 by 2035. These aren’t just statistics, these are people’s lives on hold. Victims waiting months, if not years for justice. Survivors waiting for closure. Families stuck in limbo. Defendants losing their jobs, homes and security. This Labour government will not stand by while working people pay the price of a failed system. The Courts Bill is about fixing a system that has been left to fail for far too long.

Right, let's get this straight. You're chucking £2 million at a shiny new squad of keyboard warriors to chase "sophisticated" online creeps while actual girls are still getting groomed, raped and trafficked on the streets by gangs the police have known about for decades. Priorities, eh? Your own timeline is a masterclass in deflection. Planes taking off with deportations, tough talk on illegal migrants, fraud crackdowns, settlement as a "privilege"… yet when it comes to the physical rape gangs that have blighted entire towns, suddenly it's all digital deepfakes and covert online ops. Funny how the street-level horror that left thousands of working-class girls failed by the system gets quietly sidelined for this cyber stuff. We’ve got fresh convictions in Rochdale, Rotherham echoes still rumbling, 287 more historic cases flagged for review last year alone, and group-based child exploitation still barely scratching 700 recorded offences a year because data collection is a joke and ethnicity stats are treated like radioactive waste. Meanwhile rape and sexual assault numbers keep climbing, underreporting is rife, and the CPS conviction rate for child sex offences hovers around 50-60% depending on the quarter. But sure, let's prioritise the blokes making AI nudes in their bedrooms over the ones running actual grooming networks. £2 million is peanuts anyway. Police budgets are flatlining in real terms, specialist VAWG services frozen or cut, refuges stretched to breaking point, and you're spaffing cash on undercover avatars while neighbourhood coppers are pulled off the beat to plug immigration holes or fraud hotlines. This isn't "keeping pace with evolving threats". It's a press release designed to sound busy while avoiding the harder, messier conversations about why certain patterns of street-level abuse have been allowed to fester for so long. No one with two brain cells buys the line that online harms are the urgent national emergency when kids are still being cycled through perpetrators in takeaway shops and taxis up and down the country. FFS, GET A GRIP! Come and follow us for more daily doses of common sense!

Online violence against women and girls is rapidly evolving – and policing must keep pace. We’re investing nearly £2 million in a new team of online operatives. Covert and intelligence-led techniques will be used to target the most technologically sophisticated offenders.

Oh look, Ed's back on his high horse, tut-tutting about "price gouging" in heating oil like he's the only adult in the room. Written a stern letter, has he? How terribly brave. Meanwhile the actual cause of this sudden spike stares everyone in the face: the bloody Middle East has gone off again, Iran getting hammered, Strait of Hormuz threats, wholesale kerosene shooting up overnight. Prices doubling in days for off-grid punters isn't suppliers suddenly turning evil, it's global geopolitics doing what it always does. But sure, blame the industry for reacting to the same market shock that's hitting every tanker from here to Houston. Funny how Ed never writes quite such punchy letters when North Sea output keeps getting choked by his own net zero fetish. Remember all those cheery posts last year banging on about "clean energy superpower" and "economic opportunity of the century"? Jobs! Growth! Fusion dreams! Yet here we are in March 2026, rural households suddenly staring at £600 extra for 500 litres because we're still hooked on imported fossil kerosene while domestic production gets regulated into the ground 🤡 Grid-connected folks? Their bills just dropped another 7% under the cap to £1,641 typical, cheers for that small mercy. But the 1.5 million off-grid? No cap, no mercy, just whatever the spot market decides after the latest war flare-up. And Ed's solution is… threaten the CMA? As if competition watchdogs can magic away a tanker war in the Gulf. This isn't gouging, mate. This is what happens when you spend years prioritising windmills over actual energy security, then act shocked when the world reminds you oil still runs the show. Pretending a letter fixes it is just performative bollocks for the timeline. Come and follow us for more daily doses of common sense!

I've written to the heating oil industry @UKIFDA regarding price increases for households and businesses. It is vital that customers are treated fairly. Price gouging will not be tolerated. The @CMAgovUK will take any action necessary to protect families.

Oh mate, here we go again with the classic Labour sleight-of-hand. "Initial £20 million across 300 deprived communities" sounds generous until you realise it's up to £20m per place over ten bloody years, not a quick cash drop. That's £2m a year max if you're lucky, spread across high streets, parks, whatever the locals fancy. Meanwhile the grand total gets puffed up to £5 billion or £5.8 billion depending on which press release you're reading this week, because they've tacked on expansions, impact funds, and 40 more areas announced in February like it's all new money. It's literally a rebadged Tory Long-Term Plan for Towns – same places in many cases, same pot basically, just slapped with a fresh slogan because "Pride in Place" polls better than admitting you're recycling the last government's homework. Reed bangs on about empowering locals and neighbourhood boards calling the shots, yet every plan has to get Whitehall approval anyway. Real control, that. And the timing? Launched September 2025 as a direct "fightback" against Reform eating into Red Wall seats. Nothing says "we hear you" like hurling millions at the exact spots where people feel ignored, while pretending it's not blatant electoral bunting. Half the replies on that post are already calling it what it is: either a rainbow-washing exercise or straight-up vote-buying with taxpayer cash. No hypocrisy from Labour's own timeline needed as the numbers do the demolishing. It's not renewal. It's repackaging decline and hoping nobody notices the price tag still comes out of our pockets. Come and follow us for more daily doses of common sense!

Government shouldn’t stand by while communities are pulled apart. The Pride in Place Programme will invest up to £20m in 300 of the most held-back communities, putting local people in charge of strengthening their neighbourhoods and bringing people together.

@southlondonjohn @GBNEWS served in the police, have you?

@MOCS_Gov @GBNEWS You obviously have no idea what you are talking about

Petition for Sadiq Khan to resign over 'grooming gangs denial' to be presented at City Hall gbnews.com/news/grooming-…

Absolutely….Just last Friday, 6 March, counterterrorism police arrested four men, including one Iranian national, on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service by carrying out surveillance on Jewish community locations and individuals in north London. Yet here we are, still putting up illegal arrivals from high-risk countries in hotels or flats with zero proper checks or detention. It's beyond reckless @ukhomeoffice @ShabanaMahmood it's asking for trouble when the evidence re the risks arr sitting right there in plain sight. Come and follow us for more common sense

All Iranians who entered Britain illegally should be securely detained, urgently. Not in hotels. Or HMOs. Or luxury flats. In detention facilities. Guarded detention facilities. Until deportation can be arranged. We cannot take the risk. The danger is too great.

@reformparty_uk if only….

Suella Braverman MP: “When you come to Britain you respect this country, otherwise you’re out.”

Quite right. Labour promised to safeguard free speech, yet here we are with their shiny new non-statutory definition of anti-Muslim hostility rolled out just today on gov.uk, explicitly covering "prejudicial stereotyping" of Muslims or anyone perceived to be, with the intent of encouraging hatred against them regardless of their individual beliefs or actions. That bit about stereotyping is the killer. It doesn't just target actual violence or abuse – which nobody defends – it sweeps in broad criticism or patterns people notice in public debate. We've already seen how vague "hostility" wording chills discussion; look at how the old APPG definition got weaponised against perfectly reasonable questions on grooming gangs or integration. It's the same old trick: wrap up protection from real hate in language loose enough to shut down anything awkward. Madness when religious hate crimes are already covered under existing law, and this just adds another layer to police what we say. Come and follow us for more common sense!!

Labour said they would protect free speech. But the whole point of this definition is to attack our freedom to criticise, satirise and scrutinise ideas. It confuses racial and religious identities. Is a primary school free to say no hijabs? Is a secondary school able to say no ritual prayer on the premises? Is a newspaper able to report that a terrorist shouted Islamic slogans? Are we free to identify entryism in public institutions? Can we assert the relevance of racial and religious identity in the crimes of the rape gangs? How will this definition affect the law? Will the police, CPS and judiciary use it? Should Christians and Sikhs have their own definitions? This is a betrayal from Labour - a very predictable betrayal.

The main point in Tice's post is spot on: Britain already controls massive pension assets through local government schemes – around £500 billion – that are fragmented across dozens of funds with no proper national strategy to back British growth and energy security. The official stats back it up. According to the latest government release from October 2025, the market value of LGPS funds in England and Wales stood at £402.3 billion at the end of March 2025. That's straight from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government data, and it's climbed steadily. Tice rounds it to £500bn including Scotland or projections, but the core figure is real and huge. It's daft that we've got all this money sitting there, split into 85-odd pots, mostly invested overseas while our own infrastructure and energy setup creaks. Consolidating it sensibly could actually do something useful instead of just paying fund managers' bonuses. We've watched Norway build real wealth from oil; why can't we use what we've already got? Come and follow us for more common sense

Britain needs economic & energy security – and a British sovereign wealth fund telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

Right, let's cut through the soothing syrup you're ladling out here, shall we?? You're worried about people fretting over Middle East chaos hitting the cost of living, so you wheel out your Labour government as the great protector, all focused on families and the national interest. Nice try, but it doesn't land when the oil price has spiked, gas wholesale has nearly doubled in days, and everyone's staring at potential £500 extra on annual bills if this drags on. Those six interest rate cuts you love banging on about? They happened between mid-2024 and late 2025, before this war kicked off. The Bank of England delivered them because inflation was cooling and growth was limp; you didn't magic them into existence. Now, with energy markets in meltdown from the Iran strikes, the Bank's slashed its 2026 growth outlook, held rates steady at 3.75% in February, and the chatter is about pausing cuts altogether while they watch how long this surge lasts. Your timeline of triumphs is already ancient history in this new reality. On the energy side, you keep pointing to that £150 or £117 drop in the price cap coming in April, plus shifting some levies to tax. But suppliers are yanking fixed deals left, right and centre because wholesale prices have gone berserk; the number of options has halved, and the remaining ones are pricier. Martin Lewis is telling people to lock in fast before the July cap inevitably reflects the mess. Your "safeguards" are like putting a plaster on a broken leg when the fracture's fresh and getting worse by the hour. Nobody with a shred of common sense is swallowing this calm reassurance act. The bases in Cyprus are exposed, evacuation efforts are frantic, and households face another energy shock while you talk about being "on our side". It's the same old pattern: promise protection, deliver platitudes, watch the bills climb anyway. Come and follow us for more daily doses of common sense!

I know many people across our country are worried about the impact of the Middle East conflict on the cost of living. My Labour government is on your side, focused on protecting your families and acting in the national interest. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Absolutely spot on. We've just seen UK wholesale gas prices nearly double this week alone rocketing up by 93% since the weekend because of the mess in the Middle East, hitting peaks not seen since 2023 according to reports from City AM and Sky News. One minute it's calm, next thing suppliers are scrambling and talking about bills potentially climbing back towards £2,500 a year if this drags on. And yet here we are, still shutting down our own North Sea fields and faffing about with net zero targets while families stare at bills they can't pay!!! Energy UK warned back in February that household energy debts are already heading for £7 billion by the end of the year – that's real money ordinary people owe because prices won't behave. It's absolute madness relying on volatile foreign supplies when we've got our own resources sitting there. Time to wake up and drill, build nuclear, anything that gives us control instead of crossing our fingers every time the news mentions the Gulf. Get rid of Milibands vanity project!!!! Come and follow us for more common sense

Britain must urgently boost its domestic energy production.

@iAnonPatriot So does climate change only affect fighting age males you absolute clown @Keir_Starmer

Keir Starmer says illegal immigrants are travelling from Africa and the Middle East to Britain because of “climate change” This dudes a JOKE. lol

Yeah, Paul, this one's been staring us in the face for years and nobody wants to fix it apart from @RupertLowe10 The House of Commons Library briefing from February this year lays it out plain: for UK Parliament elections you still only need to be a British citizen, a qualifying Commonwealth citizen, or Irish – no change there. But that "qualifying Commonwealth" bit means loads of folk from places like India, Pakistan, Nigeria and so on can register if they've got leave to remain or don't need it. Estimates floating around put the number eligible somewhere near 2M, mostly from those old Empire ties that somehow never got updated. It's daft when you think about it. We let people vote in our national elections who aren't citizens here, yet Brits abroad get nothing reciprocal in most of those same countries. No wonder citizenship feels meaningless these days. Come and follow us for more common sense

Up to two million non-British citizens are routinely voting in British elections. This perverse arrangement must end. My latest piece.⬇️ paulembery.com/p/scrap-foreig…

Yeah, it's the same old story. Another load of young blokes dumped at a taxpayer funded hotel like the Ibis in Luton, all getting their bail papers sorted while the rest of us pick up the tab. The inept @ukhomeoffice run by @ShabanaMahmood own figures from December 2025 show 30,657 people still in asylum hotels, costing an average of £53,000 a year each according to their latest briefing. That's millions every week straight out of taxpayers' pockets, even as they claim to be cutting back. It's bloody madness keeping this going when the backlog's barely shifting and we've got our own folk struggling. When are they actually going to sort it instead of just talking about it? Come and follow us for more common sense

Over 30 invaders delivered to luton Ibis! @TRobinsonNewEra

Right, let's cut through the sanctimonious fog here. The idea that this little tweak to asylum support somehow represents tough love or a principled stand on protecting taxpayers is pure theatre. It's window dressing on a system that's still hemorrhaging money and common sense in equal measure. Look at what the Home Office has actually been pumping out lately. They've been banging on about making refugee status temporary, slapping 30-month reviews on new claims so people can theoretically be sent packing if their home country magically becomes safe overnight. They've introduced visa brakes on certain nationalities after claims trebled via legal routes, and they're dangling £10,000 incentives of OUR money for failed claimants to sod off voluntarily rather than enforce proper removals. Yet in the same breath, the annual asylum bill was still running into billions, with hotel costs alone previously clocking up eyewatering nightly rates before they finally started clawing some of it back. The backlog for initial decisions has come down a tiny bit to around 64,000 by late 2025, but appeals have ballooned to near 70,000 because refusals shot up and grant rates slumped to 42%. Faster decisions just shifted the mess from one pile to another, while the overall number of people in the system barely budged. The reality is this discretionary power change isn't some revolutionary safeguard. It's conditional on people not working illegally or breaking laws, which sounds sensible until you remember the vast majority already aren't allowed to work legally anyway, so the exploitation angle is baked in from the start. Genuine refugees still get housed and fed if they play nice, but the optics are all about looking stern while the structural incentives for channel crossings and bogus claims remain untouched. Taxpayers are still footing enormous bills for a setup that processes claims at glacial speed relative to arrivals, and the public aren't daft enough to believe a few rule tweaks will magically restore order. Nobody with a shred of common sense is swallowing this as meaningful reform. It's tinkering at the edges while the fundamentals stay broken, costs stay astronomical, and public trust erodes further. Come and follow us for more daily doses of common sense!

Britain proudly protects those fleeing danger. But we have rules and they must be followed. Taxpayers cannot be expected to fund the lives of those who exploit the system or break our laws.

This is exactly what we've been missing. People aren't apathetic, they're just sick of having no proper say, and the numbers show it. Over 5,000 votes on actual bills in a single day isn't some flash in the pan, it's proof there's real hunger for something beyond the usual polling nonsense. The turnout tells its own story i.e official figures from the 2024 general election had turnout at just 59.7%, the lowest since 2001, and that's with people still bothering to drag themselves to a booth every few years. When you give them a direct way to register an opinion on legislation without the faff, thousands jump at it overnight. It's madness we've let it get this far with MPs basically guessing what the public thinks half the time. No wonder trust in politics is in the gutter. Come and follow us for more common sense

In 24 hours, House of the People has become one of the biggest platforms for democracy in the UK. 11k followers on here. Over 5,000 votes recorded on real legislation. We've been building this for just under a year. The response in the last day tells us people have been waiting for something like this. We're still building. The platform is being improved every day, the app launches later this month. If you have any problems or ideas we want to hear them. To every one of you who has signed up, thank you. For the first time, public opinion on legislation isn't a guess, it's data, and that's because of every one of you. It's 6am so I'm going to bed. Thank you all so much.

@Keir_Starmer @UKLabour nobody with any common sense believes you

Protecting British lives is, and always will be, my number one priority.

@ShabanaMahmood @ukhomeoffice why wasn’t this stopped as soon as you Labour took office? And what about the ones which have already been approved?!?!

Britain will always provide refuge to people fleeing war and persecution, but our visa system must not be abused. That is why I am taking the unprecedented decision to refuse visas for those nationals seeking to exploit our generosity.

The Casey national audit from last June showed that ethnicity data is missing for two out of three perpetrators in these cases. We've been here before with all the previous scandals. Ignoring those patterns is what allowed the abuse to go on unchecked for so long in places we all know about. Putting politics before the evidence is just going to let it happen again to another generation of kids. It's complete madness. Come and follow us for more common sense

Apparently the grooming gang inquiry will not look into the role of race or religion, won’t look into all cases and looks like they won’t deal with anyone that covered things up. If this is true it’s an utter disgrace!