NICK BOTTERILL

@afneil Of course Canada, Australia and New Zealand weren’t colonies. South Africa (same status) took several more weeks in 1939 to declare war and Eire (technically also the same) remained neutral throughout the war.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand were not colonies by 1940. Next time you try to correct me, do your homework. There’s a reason you have six followers.

@joerichlaw They don’t know how anything works - utterly hopeless.

Maybe new 2024 MPs - like Morgan McSweeney’s wife Imogen Walker, who has already progressed from Labour’s Treasury Team to being a Party Whip - don’t know how the system works?

@DPJHodges Incapable of managing their party. No wonder they can’t manage the country.

This is bonkers. If you're suspending someone from the Labour Party, or any other political party, you speak to them first before providing written confirmation.

@danielmgmoylan @Keir_Starmer Trident shaped failure! Such utter utter incompetence on this scale is surely exceptional in our history?

A political, diplomatic and ecological disaster entirely due to Sir ⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ and his friends. EU plot to seize Chagos fishing rights after Starmer’s surrender telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

@doctorshaib Sorry you are a professional person by training and yet you instinctively reached for the bonkers conspiracy button like a total twit @LibDems

@WiltsAnnabelle There must be something in @LibDems DNA which leads to them making an unholy mess of anything to do with parking.

🚘💷When Labour and the Lib Dems unite… Melksham Parking Charges Risk Quadrupling Under Lib Dem Plans wiltshireconservatives.org.uk/news/melksham-…

@HeathrowAirport @markaizatt Interesting that the original layout had more than 2 runways!

Some moments stay with you forever. Since 1946, Heathrow has welcomed home loved ones, marked historic milestones and been the backdrop to some of the most iconic moments in our nation’s story 🇬🇧 As we celebrate our 80th birthday, we’re proud of the part Heathrow has played in people’s lives and the stories still to come. Find out more about our historic milestones at mediacentre.heathrow.com/pressrelease/d…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Hands has called for government action to support oil and gas investment. Hands warn the UK must remain an attractive destination for business while balancing its clean energy ambitions. Watch the full interview here: eu1.hubs.ly/H0sSHTm0

@ProudofusUK @ARNJ47 I remember learning about this in primary school in Yorkshire in the 1960s.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 The last time a foreign army invaded Britain, a Welsh cobbler sent them home. With a pitchfork. 🍴 Her name was Jemima Nicholas. Born in Mathry, Pembrokeshire. 1755. A cobbler. Not a soldier. Not a general. On the 22nd of February 1797, four French warships anchored off the Welsh coast. 🚢 1,400 soldiers came ashore at Carreg Wastad Point. Many of them were convicts and deserters. Their plan was to march on Bristol, start a revolution and inspire the British poor to rise up. It did not go to plan. A ship had recently wrecked nearby. Its cargo was Portuguese wine. 🍷 The French found it. Within hours, the invasion force was drunk. Jemima heard what was happening. She reached for her pitchfork. And walked out to meet them. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 She found twelve French soldiers. They were drunk. She rounded them up, marched them to the church, and locked the door. She wasn't the only one. Hundreds of Welsh women came out of their homes in their traditional red shawls and tall black hats. 🟥 From a distance, after a glass or two of Portuguese wine, they looked exactly like British Redcoats. On the 24th of February, two days after they landed, 1,400 French soldiers surrendered. ⚖️ Unconditionally. The surrender was signed in a pub. It was the last time a foreign army set foot on British soil. 🇬🇧 Jemima Nicholas was awarded a pension of £50 a year for the rest of her life. She died in 1832. Her gravestone reads: "The Welsh heroine who boldly marched to meet the French invaders who landed on our shores." Did they teach you her name? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Jemima Nicholas was almost forgotten forever. So were thousands of others. Every time you support this channel, more of them survive. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 proudofus.co.uk

@JohnGlenUK And what is the solution of the people who axed this - I suspect they have not even thought about it.

Disgraceful

Why is a civil service department of the British Government celebrating the end of a 700-year-old system of governance? Nobody hates Britain as much as the bureaucratic managerial class. When we win, every single civil servant who supports this must go.

@afneil As a society we have presided over the creation of a bureaucratic state of mind boggling complexity. Endless legal challenge, endless impact reports and endless experts. Expensive, time consuming and nothing gets built.

Just an everyday tale of infrastructure in the UK — how to spend £179m on not building a tunnel.

@MirrorPolitics Can @Keir_Starmer really have said this? There may be strategic reasons for keeping some steel production in the UK but even if it weren’t saddled with the highest energy prices it simply cannot be a material driver of the overall UK economy. Simply delusional!

KEIR STARMER: 'British steel can help fire up country's economy' mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

@WiltsAnnabelle YouGov errr could that be the pollster founded by @ReformUK MP @nadhimzahawi ?

Perhaps they should get some of their untraceable crypto bungs and set up a polling company called YesGuv which constantly has them on 150%?

The party of Gladstone and David Lloyd George.

Never were truer words said @WilliamJHague

What is the global price of gas? Is it NBP or Henry Hub? When you discover the answer you will also discover there is no global gas price, unlike oil. Also, the more oil/gas we extract ourselves, the better for our balance of payments = able to run economy at faster rate. Also, the better for government revenues = more public spending or tax cuts. Also, creates more high-paid jobs = more tax revenues. Also, extracting oil/gas from North Sea a lot cheaper than shipping in from abroad. Also, a lot fewer emissions. Now, what is about the benefits of more North Sea drilling you still don’t understand? If still puzzled just ask the Norwegians, who are fellow social democrats but unlike Starmer-Reeves-Miliband Labour have a firm grasp of energy economics.

As well as celebrating the Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Labour are celebrating an Anniversary of their own. It’s 50 years since one of the party’s proudest moments - the IMF bailout in 1976 - with another cap-in-hand moment well on the way.

@boys_nicholas @davidmolloyuk I suggest speak to @danielmgmoylan as when he was responsible for @RBKC street scene the borough was a paragon of good practices.

@NickHF1 @davidmolloyuk I have not served as a cllr but that's certainly my very strong impression. With more new councillors from outside the traditional main parties recently (and presumably more to come) we seem to be getting more street design fails suddenly with, I worry, more to come...

There’s a wider point here. My observation of councils with inexperienced councillors (be that independent, Reform, Green or just inexperienced councillors) is that officials & functionalism take over: “cost of everything, value of nothing”. Places get trashed. See also …