Neil Cox

@JChimirie66677 @jimmytwhu And how many of them have ever been in business or are entrepreneurs? The lack of real diversity is staggering given their ‘diversity is our strength’ mantra! More women and BAME is not as important as diverse life experience!

A Parliament of Charity Workers and Lobbyists. In a Time of War. Of 238 new Labour MPs elected in July 2024, 72 worked in the charitable sector, 72 were political employees and 70 worked in communications or lobbying. Roughly ninety percent have never worked in defence, manufacturing, engineering, medicine or law enforcement. A parliamentary source quoted in the Sunday Times put it plainly. If only we had the same number with defence or military experience, maybe we'd be in a different place. Maybe. But the problem runs deeper than defence spending. It runs to the question of what kind of person ends up in parliament, what professional formation shapes their instincts, and whose interests they are constitutionally equipped to represent. Charity sector workers are trained to see the world through the lens of vulnerable groups, international obligations and institutional compassion. Political employees are trained to manage narratives and avoid uncomfortable truths. Communications and lobbying professionals are trained to advance the interests of whoever is paying them. Not one of those professional backgrounds prepares you for the question of how to defend a sovereign nation, manage a border, hold a foreign state accountable or protect a citizen from an Iranian proxy group that is firebombing Jewish ambulances on British streets. The parliament that responded to the Golders Green firebombing by debating the language used to describe it is a parliament staffed by people whose entire professional lives have trained them to manage perception rather than confront reality. The government that rolled out an anti-Muslim hostility definition while twenty Iranian backed terrorist plots were being planned on British streets is a government whose instinct is accommodation rather than accountability. The thirty six MPs who wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding Nick Timothy's investigation were not all acting from professional instinct. Several have documented histories of antisemitic language or associations. Others represent constituencies where the Muslim vote is the primary electoral consideration. The Sunday Times source suggests the problem is defence spending priorities. It is that. But it is also the Trafalgar Square response, where Keir Starmer reached for Tommy Robinson rather than engaging with a theological argument he knew he could not answer. It is the Attorney General deploying his Jewish identity to provide cover for a false equivalence he knew to be false. It is the parliamentary machinery mobilised to silence the people naming what is happening while the people doing it operate without consequence. All of it flows from the same source. A political class whose professional formation is compassion, accommodation and message management, governing in a moment that requires clarity, resolve and the willingness to say plainly what the evidence shows. Britain is not short of intelligence assessments. MI5 has thwarted twenty Iranian plots. The Walney report documented Iranian influence operations in the charitable sector. The security services know what is happening. The problem is not knowledge. It is the absence of the professional formation, the instincts, the language and the willingness that would allow the people in power to act on what they know. Ninety percent of the new Labour intake came from charities, political offices and communications agencies. They were never going to see it coming. And even now that it has arrived, on the streets of Golders Green, in the WhatsApp groups of the Green Party, on the Embankment where death to America was chanted on a Sunday afternoon, they are still reaching for the tools their professional lives gave them. Compassion. Accommodation. Message management. And the instruction not to take the bait. "Ninety percent of the new Labour intake came from charities, political offices and communications agencies."

@LeaderofKCC They wanted ‘diversity’ but ended up with uniformity. More women and BAME but all drawn from the same circles and in the process became divorced from the people they were meant to serve.

It certainly explains a lot. There’s so much wrong with the current state of Westminster politics, a lot of it stems from the fact that MPs should be drawn from all walks of life and ideally should have lived and worked in the real world. Coming up via the university - intern - special adviser route is disastrous for setting policies that actually work.

@JohnCleese Are you really saying the EU is a democracy John?

He's just not used to being in a democracy

@FUDdaily I keep wondering exactly when they will have their epiphany. What exactly has to happen to wake them from their Liberal delusions?

I don't think anything in Britain is too broken to fix except for our political class - whose narcissism, ignorance and stupidity will drive everything to breaking point and beyond.

@BretWeinstein How very reassuring Bret!

Doctors have a tremendous capacity to maim you and/or shorten your life, and not much insight on how to avoid doing so.

@GadSaad Well, those 72 virgins aren’t going to f—k themselves are they?

These heroes are going to fare well in the new Islamic State of Britain.

@GadSaad Look, they are simply choir boys that love their Mums. This is how we roll now in the UK. If it’s good enough for the Prophet…..

Where are these "British" men from? They look Welsh.

@LeeHurstComic You are in good company. He’s blocked @elonmusk and @LozzaFox too.

And people wonder why I block Restore supporters.

@SirSimonClarke Here in Kent (Tonbridge & Malling) an application for 1000s of new builds is running into opposition from our water company who say they can't supply these new homes.

Britain last built a major reservoir in 1992. Our population has risen 13 million since then. The result…

@JChimirie66677 And he makes Neville Chamberlain look like a war hawk. This is not smart governance. Would another Labour PM improve matters?

Starmer Has the Intelligence. He's Chosen to Ignore It. Why? Isaac Herzog did not mince his words. The Israeli president looked at Britain's record on Iran and asked, simply: "What is this?" Ten, twenty terror events linked to Iran on British soil in a single year. Jewish ambulances firebombed. Four men arrested surveilling Jewish targets on Tehran's behalf. Ballistic missiles fired at Diego Garcia, a base where British personnel serve. And a Prime Minister who has still not proscribed the organisation responsible for all of it. Herzog's question deserves a straight answer. Britain is the only major western ally that has not designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. The United States has. The European Union has — and the EU spent years resisting precisely because it feared straining relations with Tehran, before being shamed into acting by the IRGC's massacre of its own protesters. Britain has not moved. The question worth asking is not whether Starmer has the information. He does. The question is what he intends to do with it. This matters because the case against Starmer is not one of ignorance. MI5 disclosed 20 disrupted Iran-backed plots against British citizens since 2022. The Walney report documented more than 30 Iran-linked institutions operating inside Britain, eight of them already under Charity Commission investigation. The intelligence picture is not ambiguous. The threat is established, documented, and growing. What is missing is the political will to act on it. The government's stated justification for not proscribing the IRGC is a legal one: the organisation is technically part of the Iranian state and therefore cannot be treated in the same category as Hamas or Hezbollah. This argument, understood to have the fingerprints of Attorney General Lord Hermer on it, would be more persuasive if the IRGC were behaving like a state institution rather than a terror army. It directed assassination plots on British streets. It is suspected of orchestrating the firebombing of a Jewish charity. It fired missiles at British sovereign territory. The legal distinction Hermer is drawing has become a shield for inaction, not a principled limit on it. Former heads of Britain's counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East have now taken the unusual step of writing publicly to say that Starmer's refusal to proscribe the IRGC is leaving Britain strategically exposed. This is not backbench noise. These are people who spent careers inside the threat picture. When they break cover to criticise a sitting prime minister's security posture, the assessment should be taken seriously. Starmer's handling of the broader Iran conflict follows the same pattern. He initially refused to allow American strikes from British bases. He authorised their use only later, for what Downing Street carefully described as defensive operations. HMS Dragon arrived in the Mediterranean four weeks into the conflict. The sequencing is always the same: delay, recalibrate, reposition once the political cost of inaction becomes impossible to absorb. It is not caution. Caution implies a settled judgement. This is drift. The Hatzola firebombing brought 3,700 recorded antisemitic incidents in Britain last year into sharper focus. Herzog spoke to the charity's leadership from the Israeli border and told them the fate of Jews everywhere is bound together. He is right. And it falls to the British government to ensure that Iranian terror networks cannot operate on British streets with the quiet assurance that the state will not move against them. A prime minister who waits for the evidence to be overwhelming before acting has already failed. The evidence is now overwhelming. The assassins are already on our streets. "This matters because the case against Starmer is not one of ignorance. MI5 disclosed 20 disrupted Iran-backed plots against British citizens since 2022."

@LeaderofKCC And it's thanks to him and his war in Iraq that we now get to live amongst people and cultures from the Middle East. Perhaps we should rub his nose in diversity and render his arguments outdated.

The penny is finally dropping for one of the main instigators of the Left’s unholy alliance with Islamists. The damage and destruction caused by New Labour and Blair is off the scale.

@LeoKearse @DeborahMeaden I've never seen so many white people as I did yesterday in London. WTF?

@DeborahMeaden One can only wonder at the psychosexual motives of people who knowingly want to import child rapists.

This is what the best looks like… ( and sounds of course…)

@Fox_Claire We've all been there. Unfortunately we live in interesting times and discerning truth from fiction is often problematic!

I am being rightly lampooned for not noticing this was a parody. Serves me right.

@NickDixon There is a parallel though isn't there? Whatever you think of Farage he's on the same page as Rupert and millions of us who can feel the danger.

Everything is always 1940 forever.

@BurnsideWasTosh He's Indian apparently.

It is clearly being suppressed, not even in top 10 stories on Telegraph or Times. Like 20 people being hit by a car is just a commonplace incident.

Grim news to wake up to. The police only saying it is a "man" tells its own story.

@LozzaFox They think that by being seen to be 'compassionate' that that makes them good people. They compete for ultimate virtue and fail to see the 2nd, 3rd and 4th order consequences of this approach to life.

They are the exact thing they accuse you of. Like all socialists he hates individual people more than their ideas. Makes sense as to why the “far right” prefer to debate ideas, whilst socialists have such a strong record of murdering those they disagree with. Because they have no ideas that make sense in the real world.

@LeeHurstComic It seems to me Lee that you could supply some good lines for Nigel in these situations.

Superb trolling by Reform.

@Martina @SumTingWong008 Yes they are and they don’t see the irony either!

Is the British left this stupid? I sure hope not… nothing is less progressive than guys like this

@DanielJHannan They know a sucker when they see one!

Britain abolished slavery in Ghana, in the teeth of resistance by the Ashanti. Britain, indeed, stamped out slavery worldwide. This is the thanks we get. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

@JamesMelville They were quite happy to crush freedom when their dementia ridden guy was in charge!

USA today: 7 million Americans in the streets today protesting for freedom. 3,000 cities and towns. Every single state. “No Kings” protests against the authoritarianism of the Trump. This is one of the largest demonstrations in American history.