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Any dickhead that calls me a flagshagger will be directed to this pinned tweet.🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽

@RhonddaBryant Supply & demand mean fugk all to you?

Maybe, just maybe, we could get more uk businesses to export into the EU. Which would make them more b prosperous and resilient. Just a thought.

Depressing 😢 our words are disappearing and only 5026 care enough to sign 🛑 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7486…

Today the Southport Inquiry published its findings. I’m not talking about the agencies right now. I’m talking about his parents. Because somebody fucking has to. I’m a former detective. 21 yrs in the force, I know what I’m looking at🧵👇

Excellent thread, this. Something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about… The British state is run by people who have never been fired, never missed a number, never had a client scream at them, never stayed up until 3am working on a deal, or repricing a book because Tokyo opened badly. They have never experienced CONSEQUENCE. Ever. THAT is the single most important fact in British public life. The pipeline is so uniform and mediocre it scarcely needs describing: - School - PPE or adjacent - Civil Service fast stream or a Think Tank research role - Spell as local councillor to appear “grounded,” - Then a safe seat and a red box before 40 At no point has the market ever called them a moron. At no point has a P&L told them their idea was shit. The feedback loop that every private sector professional takes for granted simply does not exist in their world. This matters because policy is NOT an essay. It IS a trade. Every regulation has a cost, every tax has a behavioural response, every intervention has second and third order consequences. In markets, if you misread convexity you get carried out. In government, you get reshuffled to a different department. The incentive structure could not be more perfectly designed to retain the incompetent and repel the capable. Anyone with genuine commercial talent is earning multiples of a ministerial salary by their early thirties. So the applicant pool self selects for people for whom the title is the reward because they could never command that status where performance is measured. The think tank ecosystem makes it worse. IPPR, the Resolution Foundation, JRF and the rest function as ideological finishing schools and revolving doors. They produce people fluent in the language of policy who have never implemented anything. They can model a distributional impact assessment in their sleep but could not run a corner shop at profit. This is NOT intelligence. It is pattern matching within a closed system that never tests its own assumptions because everyone in it shares the same priors. The civil service compounds it further. The fast stream rewards generalism, rotating you through departments every 18 to 24 months to develop “breadth,” which in practice means you never develop depth. A Treasury official who helped design a tax policy in 2019 is working on transport by the time it starts distorting behaviour in 2022. Nobody owns the outcome. The private sector has one thing the state fundamentally lacks: a kill switch. Bad companies go bust. Bad traders get sacked. The state just absorbs failure, reclassifies it as “lessons learned,” and promotes the people responsible. The compound effect of thirty years of this is a permanent class institutionally incapable of delivering growth or even understanding why the private sector they depend on for revenue keeps shrinking under their stewardship. This is what we have, right now. You cannot fix this with better people inside the same system. The system selects against competence, insulates against feedback, and rewards survival over performance. Every parliament is just a fresh rotation of the same profile through the same machine expressing the same surprise when nothing improves. We need parallel institutions to be built by the guy or gal staying up til 3am repricing the book. The risk taker. The entrepreneur. Then we gradually phase the existing sclerotic failed structures out. That’s how we win. Make Britain Great Again 🇬🇧 💪

Why do you think they put electrical tape on the handle?

@vonnylc @WilsonC75HT @waitrose Yep.

@WilsonC75HT @waitrose There is no tannoy in Waitrose Byres Road that I’ve ever heard and I’m in there a few times a week . Nor is there a ‘beauty’ aisle - a small half section with shampoo and strepsils etc but hardly a beauty aisle …..

I was in @waitrose Byres Road this evening with my lovely 17 yo niece who was taking a bit of time choosing a present for her granny in the beauty aisle. All of a sudden there was an announcement over the tannoy instructing security staff to go to the health and beauty aisle MF

It is only because halfwits & nincompoops make the assertion that "there is no evidence" that men are stronger and faster than women that proper scientists have to waste their time getting down low & dirty & going mano a mano with pseudo "scientists" who propagate this nonsense.

@theRealEnzoMac Lads like him at goose green, would have been terrifying.

😂😂😂😂 he gave me lip so someone pointed out id smash him he replied with a pic of his tren body to ss how I won’t What a cockwomble

@TheNorfolkLion Goat snagging isn't technically sex, I think.

Jonny claims that in Islam, sex outside of marriage is prohibited. If this is the case, why do so many rape our young girls? Why do so many cheat on their women? Why are Afghans more likely to rape our women?

Almost 80% of UK Met Office stations have error margins of up to 2C, with many as bad as 5C. Yet the same agency claims new records down to a hundredth of a degree. Of the UK's 380 stations, only 14% meet World Meteorological Organization standards. The rest sit beside roads, buildings or runways, places like Heathrow and St James' Park. According to the WMO, almost half of UK stations are rated Class 4, unreliable, with a third rated Class 5, effectively junk. These distorted readings feed climate emergency headlines and Net Zero policies. Meanwhile, satellite and high-grade US datasets show only slight warming - a continuation of the post-Little Ice Age temperature rise. But those don't serve the narrative, so they're routinely ignored.

@NiallFraser8 I lived above the pennyfarthing pub 20 odd years ago, it was a shithole then, but my god, it went south of rock bottom.

5 years ago now - nothing changes.

@GamewithDave Red Alert

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why?

@MothinAli You know, there is a way around not getting executed.

This ends any debate over the reality of Israel's apartheid regime. The death penalty for one race only, enforced through military courts with a 99.7% conviction rate. Shame on those who deny apartheid. Shame on those who deny that West Bank settler terrorism and ethnic cleansing is Israeli government policy. Shame on the Labour government for not ending the sale of weapons to Israel 2.5 years into a genocide in Gaza.

@AyoubKhanMP What do you actually do for your constituents? I'm going with the resemblance of the middle of a donught.

The audacity of this plonker…you commit a genocide killing thousands of children…sniper them in their head and genitalia for fun!

The 'work' phone isn't the burner, except when peadophiles and labour officials have private phones.

@SkyNews @BethRigby All you need to view is 1.00-1.09 beff the stooge

"I hate the fact that I made that mistake and I dwell on it. I beat myself up about it." Sir Keir Starmer speaks to @BethRigby about his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as U.S. ambassador. Listen to the interview on #ElectoralDysfunction on Friday👉 podfollow.com/electoraldysfu…

@VallaNils13872 @griffitha You support paedophiles?

@griffitha Nice bit of racism to start you cunt unfortunately the conservatives backed Boris when he lied about his phone they set the precedent

This smells as fishy as a Somalia trawler. There is a whole dedicated IT security team in the rear basement of 10 Downing Street who constantly ensure that staff phones and IT kit are secure. Inconceivable they were not rapidly made aware of the alleged phone theft by the CoS private office. Logs would exist of this. And when new device issued, 10DS security team would liaise with Met and OGD to assess whether opportunistic thief or targeted foreign agent operation with the potential to compromise some of the most senior figures in government. This McSweeney equivalent of ‘the dog ate my homework’ is going to need a bit more work.

@Rekt57v What difference does it make?

@_rubbaduck I think you'll find another age within the Sexual Offences Act, and I don't mean 18.

🚨 A 12-year-old boy has been charged with sexual assault and wounding after a woman in her 60s was found seriously injured in Duddeston. He also faces charges for a separate theft and intentional strangulation from last month. Birmingham, we don’t even need to ask if it’s the usual suspects. He’s 12… let that sink in, disgusting.

@Rekt57v @TheNorfolkLion Sexual consent is 16(as protection), age of responsibility is 10. Simple as that.

@TheNorfolkLion How can a 12 year old be charged with sexual assault if they are legally incapable of consenting to sexual activity.

Star Trek was cancelled 😂 Turns out homosexual space exploration wasn’t a hit.