Lee Eagleson

Three teenagers avoid jail after raping two girls in Hampshire. Two girls were raped in two separate incidents in Fordingbridge, with the first attack taking place on 26 November 2024 and the second on 17 January 2025. Judge Nicholas Rowland explained his sentence, stating "I should avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily and understand the effects of their behaviour and support their reintegration into society." He added that "peer pressure played a large part in what went on". One of the victims, who was 15 when she was raped, read her victim impact statement at the sentencing. "I will never get that innocence back again… All I want to do is die, I no longer have fear for when that comes,” she said. Two of the rapists were sentence to three years in a youth rehabilitation order, while the third received 18 months.

Whenever I read about the history of chattel slavery, I've never really thought, "Man, they sure did have it better than I do now"

Something is clearly out of balance when someone earning £10k and someone earning £140k take home the same net amount. No wonder so many hard-working people and entrepreneurs are leaving the UK. Would you want to live in a country that punishes hard work and jobs creation?

My plan in 2022 was to lower the cost of domestic energy in Britain (relative to the international market) by: - abolishing windfall tax on North Sea - licensing new North Sea production - allowing fracking - abolishing green taxes and subsidies This would have lowered Britain's domestic energy costs relative to the international market. At the same time we would guarantee that energy bills would not go above £2,500 - recognising the prior state failure in ensuring security of energy and the necessity of energy for the economy. Because this only paid out when energy prices were high- its cost would be quickly reduced/eliminated by falling domestic energy prices thanks to supply side policy. Needless to say the Treasury was unable/unwilling to model this and the policy was missrepresented by the media who simply don't understand this stuff. My successors continued with the price guarantee but failed to implement the supply side measures. Thus we are back to square one. It's still the right policy.