Michael Cole

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@vivamjm @danny__kruger I am for God and the King, Sir. Who was your man for?

@mdjcole @danny__kruger You are against democracy? x.com/vivamjm/status…

Today Labour’s Gibraltar surrender deal - announced today with no debate - has once again undermined British sovereignty, repeating the mistakes of the Windsor Framework and the Chagos debacle. The terms of the deal are shocking: Spanish officials will now conduct border checks within Gibraltar. Spain can withdraw individuals’ residency in Gibraltar, even if they already live there. Goods sold in Gibraltar must comply with EU regulations. Gibraltar is now subject to a new ‘transaction tax’ to align it with the EU. And Gibraltar must adopt new EU laws or the agreement will automatically be terminated. The practical effect is that foreign officials will decide who and what can enter British territory. British citizens’ fingerprints will be taken and passports checked within our own territory. At the same time, Spain has conceded nothing about its claim to Gibraltar. No self-respecting British government should be willing to accept this. To make matters worse, Parliament and the British public have only seen the final text of this deal today, but it takes effect tomorrow. Labour have shut us out of this process and are avoiding scrutiny. A Reform Government will stand up for our national interest and overturn this one-sided, disgraceful deal. There can be no shared sovereignty between Britain and Spain. Gibraltar is British, not Spanish, and that is how it must remain. This is not up for negotiation or dilution by a thousand individual concessions. And there must be no border between Gibraltar and the United Kingdom. Spanish or EU border and customs officials must not be allowed to operate in Gibraltar, or have a say in who and what can enter our territory. Border security cannot be built on conceding control to a foreign government. gov.uk/government/col…

@AlistairCarns Ann Widdecombe was not an MP this year. The right is facing deadly left-wing political violence. You are free to resign from the Labour Party at any time.

Spoke in the House today about Ann Widdecombe and the wider threat MPs face. Social media is being shaped by people who want us divided and colleagues across every party are dealing with the consequences. My door is always open to anyone who wants to talk this through.

@yuanyi_z The French seem pretty willing to openly label their agents of influence in Britain (e.g. Dominic Grieve) and that is very useful information to have.

I don't mind Starmer receiving the Légion d'honneur, but the Ministerial Code makes it clear that ministers shouldn't accept foreign honours unless it would be “difficult or embarrassing to decline”. As ministers almost never accept French decorations, I doubt this is met.

@IbrahimMal74532 @JohnSimpsonNews The outlook of BBC employees certainly seems pro-Palestine on the whole.

@mdjcole @JohnSimpsonNews You need to understand how the BBC is effectively run by Israel Israel armed and funded Argentina during the Falklands

Argentina v England is important way beyond football. If Argentina wins tomorrow night, it’ll put real fire behind the demand for the Falklands. If England wins, that should put the lid on it — for now.

@ikeijeh It took them 4 days to decide that a publicly prominent elderly woman killed in her own home in a country where home invasion murders are very rare was "targeted".

The police said Widdecombe's murder wasn't terror-related, politically motivated or targeted. All 3 claims have now been proven false. Suspects not speculation should be the police's key concern & they should spend less time trying to censor the latter by grooming public opinion.

@andrew_lilico The long range benefit of getting these people fired is they cannot use their professional status as a weapon against you in the future. That is their logic in doing it to others.

We shouldn't be trying to get ordinary people fired for having posted gleefully about Widdecombe's death. I don't think that's kind or generous at all. And that's true even if the people in question would not show the same charity or mercy to us.

The 'single market' is not exempt, despite often being called 'free trade'. USSR also maintained a trade area with its neighbours: the Comecon. Exactly the same concept, and the 'same' regulations don't make a heavily controlled market 'free trade'. #Comecon_versus_the_European_Economic_Community" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comecon#C…

But seriously - the structure of committees, regulations, commissioners (still "Kommissar" in German as in Russian) is literally the same. It *is* the USSR but without the unintended personality cult leader who can force action - for good as well as ill.

@MrTCHarris It's likely - left wing politics does spread online!

Is there any evidence that Ann's death was in any way related to "online" hate? Or is her death just being used as a convenient excuse to do what the government had already decided to do?

@Robbie_Reasons Not sure anyone ever thought the third world has expertise "we don't have". Expertise that "we might like more of" perhaps. But indeed these people are disingenuous. The actual staff involved need to be removed at all levels of the state.

A corner shop in Leven, Fife is now a Home Office-licensed Skilled Worker visa sponsor. Nearly 250 corner stores in Kent alone hold the same licence. Takeaways, subway franchises, vape shops. All approved visa sponsors. All approved to import skilled workers.

@Babygravy9 It's not even that sophisticated. She was never married, no children, no living siblings, one nephew who actually appeared with Farage. It is just a 'lie'. Of course carefully hedged so it can be claimed later it wasn't technically a lie.

It would be a supreme irony if the British government is using its homegrown Community Relations Service to pressure the family of a murdered ex-politician who was almost certainly murdered for political reasons, to say her death should “not be politicised.”

@LeeHarris These videos show a growing culture of official lawlessness. Even if the flag could be removed by some process, simply taking it when you encounter it is almost certainly theft. But then, people don't seem to take legal action, ever?

This is absolutely outrageous. It looks like Lib Dem led Portsmouth City Council are removing England flags from people who are putting them up for the World Cup. If that's not bad enough, they just walk off with it. That's theft! Absolute disgrace!

@AndrewOrlowski Pretty important allegations, not only of isolated official vandalism but the implication this industry is also built on pay-offs. Should also be a large paper trail. Future Telegraph piece?

This story rings true

@genesian61 @AvonandsomerRob Your claims are speculation - the police themselves explicitly only commented on an absence of any evidence. They never claimed there was evidence suggesting any other motive. Their statements were also clearly intended to be misinterpreted as you have misinterpreted them.

@AvonandsomerRob It's incompetence as gaslighting apart from anything else. For a regime built on propaganda, why isn't it any good at propaganda?

So sad that the Devon & Cornwall Police gaslighted the public over Anne Widdecombe and it turned out to be exactly what they told us it wouldn't be. Incompetence.

@DanielKral1 It's not a "bubble" when it actually produces competitive physical products. China actually has millions of cars, as do its customers. Your country has a "housing bubble" in the sense houses get older and worse but more paper-costly. Difference?

China avoided a recession after its property market bubble burst by fuelling a bubble in manufacturing, hence externalizing the cost of adjustment (domestic sales plunged). A question for the EU is how will its hundreds of thousands of laid off auto workers vote as it watches on.

@BasilTheGreat The UK is a small fraction of the global English-speaking market. It won't destroy the independent publishers, but it will further endumbify what remains of YooKay intellectual culture.

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@GuffyNicola @grok Compare to the prime minister's commentary just three weeks ago which strongly implied guilt and even made a direct accusation of a specific aggravating factor in sentencing. And Kier Starmer is a barrister! x.com/Keir_Starmer/s…

@mdjcole @grok Yes I don’t see how anything Peter Hitchens might say about this investigation risks improperly influencing the trier of fact.

@grok please explain sub judice and how it applies to public discussions of the circumstances of Ann Widdecombe’s death.

@GuffyNicola @grok Arrest is a step beyond investigation. Contempt of court can apply, but specifically to comments that bear on the guilt of the suspect at a later trial. Commentary on this case concerned police motives and competence, not the guilt or innocence of the particular arrestee.

@mdjcole @grok There’s something in what you say but arrest of a suspect is invocation of legal process subject to judicial review is it not?