Katherine Regan

Benefits were sold to the public as a last‑resort safety net: you pay in through your taxes and National Insurance so that if the worst happens, nobody is left with nothing. That social contract depends on one thing – the people funding it believing it is tightly focused on essentials, not optional extras. Yet we now have a system where being on benefits is increasingly tied to “perks” and “discounts” for non‑essentials – days out, attractions, “experiences” – at the exact same time as working families, taxed to the hilt, are cutting back on those very things for their own children. The basic question writes itself: how is it remotely fair that the people financing the system can’t afford these outings, but the system is being used to subsidise them for others? This isn’t an argument against a safety net. It’s an argument against a political class that has quietly rebranded welfare from emergency support into a parallel lifestyle infrastructure, while telling workers there is “no money” to ease their tax burden or improve their own living standards. That should not be happening in any serious, responsible country.

The standard British breakfast in 1970 went roughly as follows. Bacon. Two or three rashers, fried in lard or in its own fat. Eggs. Two, fried in the bacon fat. Black pudding. A thick disc, fried alongside. Sausage. Pork, from the butcher up the road, with a fat content the modern food regulations would now find concerning. Fried bread. White bread, dropped into the pan after everything else came out, soaking up what was left. A grilled tomato. A handful of mushrooms. Baked beans, occasionally, on a slice of toast. Tea. Strong. With whole milk delivered that morning by the milkman in a glass bottle, the cream still on top. This was the meal a man ate before doing eight hours of shift work in a factory, a mine, a foundry, a mill, or a building site. The same breakfast appeared in transport cafés from Glasgow to Plymouth. It was on the table of every B&B in the country. It was what a child got on a Saturday morning if his father was home. The British adult obesity rate in 1970 was approximately 6%. Type 2 diabetes affected around 1% of the adult population. Cardiovascular disease was a leading cause of death, but the population dying of it was, on average, in their seventies. The standard British breakfast in 2026 goes roughly as follows. A bowl of cereal made from extruded wheat, sugar, and rapeseed oil. Skimmed milk poured over it. Or oat milk containing rapeseed oil, calcium carbonate, and gellan gum. A slice of toast from a Chorleywood loaf containing 21 ingredients, spread with a tub of "buttery" containing palm oil. A coffee with semi-skimmed milk on the way to the train. Eaten standing up. In nine minutes. Often half of it consumed in the car. The British adult obesity rate is now 30%. Type 2 diabetes affects approximately 7% of adults and is the fastest-growing chronic condition in the country. Cardiovascular disease still kills more people than anything else, and it is killing them, on average, in their sixties. The bacon did not do it. The bacon was on the plate the whole time.

The evidence from Olly Robbins is devastating to Keir Starmer. It is clear that No10 not only made the appointment before vetting was completed, but that Mandelson was already acting as the Ambassador before the vetting - even seeing highly classified documents. With this, and the 'constant pressure' No10 applied to the appointment and their 'dismissive attitude' to vetting Mandelson, it is now absolutely clear that 'full due process' was not followed. Keir Starmer has misled the House.

Labour... 5 year olds can choose their sex 15 year olds cannot use facebook 16 year olds can vote More taxes will make the country richer Banning North Sea drilling will give us energy security Giving £millions to France will stop the boats Never vote Labour-they are idiots.

This week the National Education Union has vowed to stop a Reform government- by urging its 500,000 teacher members to campaign against Reform in the classroom. This is not education. It’s indoctrination. And it’s against the law.

🚨 Myth Buster: We keep hearing that if foreigners left, the NHS would collapse and the economy would shrink. I’ve checked the government’s own data. If every Pakistani & Bangladeshi person in the UK vanished tomorrow — here’s exactly what would happen. Population: ~2.3 million (3.4% of the UK). Working-age: ~1.3 million. Employment rate: 61% (lowest among major groups), with full-time workers among the economically active at just 19.8% (vs national 34.9%). Real full-time job loss: max ~300,000 — under 1% of the entire UK workforce. NHS impact: ~20,000 staff lost (including ~3% of doctors) — locally disruptive in some areas, but nationally just another staffing gap that gets filled. On the flip side, this group accounts for 5–7% of preventable admissions (1.5–2× higher rates of diabetes, CVD and anaemia despite being 3.4% of the population). Beds would free up quickly. Welfare: Bangladeshis claim child benefit at 34%, Pakistanis at 30–33% (national ~18–19%). Disability Living Allowance rates are similar or higher. Net annual saving: £4–5 billion. (Conservative estimates). Prisons: ~2,600 inmates gone (~3% of total). Overcrowding drops from 102% to ~99%. £150–200 million saved yearly. (Note: Muslim inmates already disproportionately influence many prisons.) Grooming gangs: Operation Stovewood (Rotherham) — 64% of suspects Pakistani heritage. Greater Manchester audits — 52–54% Asian/Pakistani. Casey National Audit 2025: “Men of Asian and Pakistani ethnicity are disproportionately represented” in local data from key forces. Overnight, 30–65% of known perpetrators in those investigations disappear — and thousands of white working-class victims face no further risk from those networks. Timeline - First 24–48 hours: Almost nothing noticeable except emptier A&E chairs in places like Peterborough and Birmingham Heartlands. - 1 week–1 month: NHS waits in certain cities rise 5–10% (quickly absorbed), prisons get breathing room, Treasury notices £300–400 million a month no longer leaving the country. - 3–12 months: Permanent net fiscal saving of £4–5 billion/year (welfare +£4.5 bn, prisons +£0.4 bn, preventable NHS +£0.7 bn, minus ~£1 bn lost taxes). Northern towns lose 20–40% of residents; thousands of takeaways and corner shops close. The country does not collapse. Lights stay on. The NHS does not fall apart. This isn’t a proposal — it’s simply what the State’s own spreadsheets show (ONS 2021 Census & LFS 2024, DWP Stat-Xplore, NHS HES 2023-24, MoJ prison stats June 2025, Casey Audit 2025, NCA Operation Stovewood) when you stop lumping entire continents together. The operational hit is tiny. The fiscal relief and social relief are massive. A decades-long national stain lifts. Draw your own conclusions. (For historical perspective on how civilisations have handled similar patterns, the Christopher Hitchens clip on the Barbary slave trade and Jefferson’s response — from the original thread — is worth watching.) @RupertLowe10 @Con_Tomlinson

Rachel Reeves blaming forecourts is pure deflection. At 160p per litre: Tax: 80p Forecourt profit: 7p The government takes over 50%, which is around 10x more than forecourts. But somehow it’s the petrol stations fault? The public can see straight through this.

This image says it all. Top image: what you actually pay. Bottom image: what fuel could cost without tax and VAT. Unleaded shown at 143.9p becomes 67.0p. Diesel shown at 166.8p becomes 86.1p. That tells you exactly how much of the pain at the pump is government-loaded cost. And then they wonder why people feel like they’re being robbed.

The sun was free. They sold you SPF 50 and a vitamin D deficiency. Sleep was free. They sold you an app, a pill, and a wearable that tells you your sleep was bad. Walking was free. They sold you a treadmill, a fitness tracker, and a £180 pair of trainers. Fasting was free. They sold you meal replacement shakes and the anxiety that skipping breakfast would wreck your metabolism. Cold water was free. They sold you a £3,000 plunge barrel and a podcast episode about it. Silence was free. They sold you a meditation app with a premium tier. Animal fat was cheap. They sold you seed oils, then supplements to replace what the animal fat contained. Tallow was cheap. They sold you a seventeen-step skincare routine and a clinical trial proving your face needs ceramides. Meat was cheap. They are currently selling you the idea that you shouldn't eat it. The 20th century removed access to everything the body needs to function. The 21st century is selling it back, one subscription at a time. Your great-grandmother had none of the products. She had all of the things.

🇬🇧 PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS VIDEO AND SHARE 🇬🇧 This is hard to hear and even harder to ignore. Women in Braintree are speaking out about the illegal unvetted men invading our town. One of them is 79. These are real women who feel let down and silenced. How did we get to a point where women are afraid to speak and even more afraid of being ignored when they do? Watch, Listen and Share 🙏 Because when women say they don’t feel safe, the answer should never be silence.

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Lets fail to improve gas storage facilities, Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

You won’t believe this. I didn’t. But it is true. In Aarhus, Denmark a 37 year old woman met a migrant in a bar and ended up imprisoned in a flat where she was subjected to a gang rape by three men for 6 hours. One of the men (an Eritrean national) was caught and deported. The other two Eritrean nationals were being actively hunted and Denmark put out an international appeal with their names and photos. The men (Awedin Fikak and Henok Tekleab) fled to France and then took small boats to the UK. They gave their real names and were given food, accommodation and support by the UK government. No checks were done against an international database which would have shown their status as suspected rapists wanted in Denmark. They lived off taxpayer money in the UK for 18 months until it was brought to light that they were wanted criminals. They have now been deported to Denmark to face the justice system. The whole system is farcical. Nobody thought that Eritreans, a nation where 65% of women say they are raped, would be suitable for European integration.

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ChatGPT made this graphic for me to illustrate the pump price of petrol... The fuel duty is higher than the crude oil component And then we pay VAT including on the fuel duty!! When @RachelReevesMP talks about fuel profiteering she needs to look in the mirror @griffitha @ClaireCoutinho

Subway made their choice, and now we have to make ours.

Slave reparations! I’m all in! I’ve decided to personally gift £1 million Sterling to every single person my family ever enslaved. Please form an orderly queue and bring: • Ironclad documents proving my family personally enslaved you (bonus points if they include my great-great-grandpa’s signature and a Polaroid). • Your birth certificate proving you were born before Britain abolished slavery on 1 August 1834. • Proof you’re still alive (the gift can only be claimed in person, no ghosts, no estates, no “my ancestor told me so”). Oh, and while you’re at it, maybe swing by the local cemetery with a shovel. I’m sure those poor souls buried since the 1800s would appreciate being dug up for their cheque. They’ve waited long enough, right? Look, if we’re doing “reparations” for historical slavery, let’s do it properly: only to the actual victims. Not their great-great-great-grandchildren who were born free in the 20th or 21st century, sipping oat milk lattes while tweeting about “trauma.” This isn’t justice, it’s a cosmic-level grift. It’s like demanding the Roman Empire pay for the roads they built because some distant ancestor got conquered by Caesar. Or billing modern Italians for every Gaul who got turned into a slave 2,000 years ago. Newsflash: No living person in Britain today was a slave under British law, and no living person in Britain today owned slaves under British law. The people who suffered are dead. The people who profited are dead. Their descendants, Black, White, Asian, mixed, whatever had zero say in it. Chasing “reparations” from random taxpayers (including the descendants of abolitionists, coal miners, and people who arrived after 1834) isn’t healing historical wounds. It’s creating new ones while opening the most hilarious Pandora’s box in human history: • Should Ireland demand reparations from Britain for the Potato Famine? • Should Britain demand reparations from Denmark for the Viking slave raids? • Should Italians bill Mongols for the sack of Baghdad? • Should every African nation start invoicing each other for the centuries of tribal warfare and slave-trading that predated (and supplied) the transatlantic trade? Where does the grievance chain end? 1066? The Bronze Age? Lucy the Australopithecus getting stiffed on her cave rent? Slavery was a universal human horror, practised by every civilisation from the Egyptians to the Aztecs to the Arabs to the Africans themselves (who sold millions into the trade). Britain didn’t invent it. Britain ended it, at massive cost, with the Royal Navy spending decades hunting slave ships while other empires kept right on going. Demanding cash from people who never owned slaves, to give to people who were never slaves, isn’t “reparations.” It’s retroactive time-travel cosplay with other people’s money. It’s the ultimate participation trophy for historical victimhood: “My ancestor suffered, therefore I deserve a payout… even though I live in a free society with more opportunity than 99.9% of humans who ever lived.” If you want actual justice, how about this radical idea: Stop obsessing over who owes whom from 200 years ago, and start judging people by what they do today. Work hard. Build. Create. Don’t inherit grievances like their family heirlooms. The desire for slavery reparations isn’t righteous anger. It’s lazy, entitled, historically illiterate greed dressed up as moral superiority, demanding a lottery win for a suffering you never endured, from people who never caused it. My £1 million offer stands. Just bring the paperwork. And a time machine. #Reparations #Slavery Oh, and fcuk you Lenny Henry.

Trump has shared it 😂 Keir Starmer is a laughing stock. What an embarrassment he has become.

I found it. The perfect representation in a way everyone can understand and couldn’t possible disagree with.