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The Labour Party have completely abandoned women’s rights. It’s been almost one year since the Supreme Court confirmed that sex means biological sex. And what progress has the government made? Zero. No grip. No interest from Bridget Phillipson.

@zwwnrs @KemiBadenoch Kemi is British - your racist values are not.

@KemiBadenoch Your people contribute to this culture, Kemi. The ones causing this decline are not British, neither are you. You will never British no matter how hard you try and cope. Crime, disorder and welfare dependency will only disappear when British people live in Britain.

Britain is building a culture where people think they can do what they like and nothing will happen. All too often, they’re right. Crime, disorder and welfare dependency all point to the same problem: a country where rules exist, but no consequences follow. We must change this.

You don't get a pay rise when you have a child. You make your money go further. But from this month, your taxes are funding households on benefits an extra £3,560 per child with no limit. Labour scrapped the 2-child benefit cap & put up benefits. People are asking - why work?

@GiftCee Kemi all day every day. She’s amazing.

Hypothetically, the race is between (a) Zack Polanski (b) Kemi Badenoch. Who gets your vote?

@SpeechUnion What happened to the activist - who: 1. Actively undermines and seeks to damage peers 2. Knowingly breaches confidential meetings Are they fired? Made to apologise?

📣🚨Karen Webb, an NHS specialist nurse with 42 years’ experience working with older people, faced losing her honorary Queen’s Nurse title after being reported for gender-critical posts on X. The situation began during what should have been a standard team meeting. In the informal chat before proceedings began, Karen, in response to another colleague, expressed support for the Olympic Committee’s decision to exclude male athletes from women’s sporting categories. Within minutes, she received a private message from the Trust’s Head of Equality and Inclusion, informing her that she had “upset a lot of people”. The following day, she was told that her “attitude” towards transgender individuals needed to be discussed. Three months later, Karen was called to a formal meeting with senior figures at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, where she was questioned about her views on trans people and her ability to provide them with compassionate care. Believing the matter to have been resolved, Karen was then contacted by the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing (QICN), which informed her that it had received a complaint about alleged “transphobia” and “bigotry”. She was instructed to delete her social media posts or risk losing her honorary title. The experience caused her significant and understandable distress. At that point, Karen turned to the Free Speech Union for support. The FSU wrote to QICN on her behalf, setting out her legally protected right to hold and express gender-critical beliefs under the Equality Act 2010. Shortly thereafter, QICN dropped its investigation and issued a full apology, acknowledging that there was “no case to answer” and that Karen had “done nothing wrong”. Following a Subject Access Request (SAR), it emerged that the complaint had been made by a senior activist colleague, who had also disclosed information from a confidential internal process – despite that matter having been closed without any disciplinary action. This disclosure appeared to be a malicious attempt to damage Karen’s professional reputation and facilitate the removal of her honorary title. A subsequent grievance investigation by the NHS Trust upheld Karen’s complaint, finding that confidential information had been improperly shared with QICN. The Trust accepted that Karen had a reasonable expectation that discussions within the internal process would remain private, and confirmed that this expectation had been breached. The Trust has since stated that “appropriate action will be taken” to ensure lessons are learned and similar incidents do not occur again. Although the Free Speech Union was ultimately able to protect Karen’s title and prevent disciplinary action, the experience has left a lasting impact. Now retired, she reflects that the episode has cast a shadow over what should have been the culmination of a long and dedicated career in nursing. This sad episode resulted in Karen deciding it was time to retire. We are proud to have supported Karen during this difficult time. Cases like hers are far from isolated – more than 40 per cent of the Free Speech Union’s casework now involves individuals facing repercussions for expressing gender-critical beliefs, which are protected under the Equality Act 2010. Watch Karen share her story and join the Free Speech Union below 👇

@SusanHayes_ @NewstalkFM @JimPowerEcon @GuyChazan The beauty of compound interest and long term thinking

@SusanHayes_ @NewstalkFM @JimPowerEcon @GuyChazan I’d like to see retirement get ‘spliced’ into life. A year long sabbatical here; maternity leave there… Up to 5 years before 65. What do other people think?

What is Trump’s America like without immigration? How should we redesign retirement or abolish it? How effective is the ECB at dealing with inflation? #TakingStock on @newstalkfm with me on Sunday morning with @vive_work, @JimPowerEcon and @GuyChazan newstalk.com/podcasts/takin…

@BigMarvAgg @opinion_black It is wrong (stupid and lazy) to lump everyone into a generalised group based purely on skin colour. What if I said all white people are obese? You can clearly find examples of white people who are thin. Generalisations are wrong, factually incorrect, divisive and offensive.

@vive_work @opinion_black Explain how it is wrong though 👍

Call this out for what it is: We have all witnessed the quite disturbing scenes of predominantly black school aged children behaving appallingly in Clapham yesterday. There is a combination of factors as to why this took place and I am going to point them out without fear or favour. 1. Parents. This is your failure. The children are an extension of you. You have abdicated responsibility & chose to be ‘friends’ with your children instead of being the architects of authority, discipline & boundary setting. Instead you are weak and your children know you are, thus diluting any respect that they would naturally have for you. 2. Schools. When people like Katharine Birbalsingh & her elite teachers speak about standards, discipline and teaching children in a ‘no excuses environment’ many of you turn your noses up. However, do you really believe that children who attend her school ‘Michaela’ would behave this way in public? Neither do I. Schools and how they operate are a barometer of where this country will be in the near future. This alone should be ringing alarm bells but unfortunately it is not. 3. Parliament. Those that are legislators in this country are way out of sync with what is required to churn out functioning useful youngsters in this society. With Labour MPs seeking to legalise voting for those aged 16+ I am only surprised that they were not in Clapham giving out flyers telling these youngsters that they are only robbing shops because of ‘white people and slavery’. Vote Labour! 4. Police The police were totally useless yesterday. The police on the ground? No. Their bosses? Yes. Scotland Yard and Chief Superintendents are mostly now chosen for their senior roles based on politics, sexuality and wokeness. At least 100 youngsters should have been arrested, publicised widely, hurried through the system and severely punished. A clear message needed to be sent. It wasn’t. This is why it will now be a continual occurrence. 5. Social Media. 99% of these ‘link ups’ are organised via social media platforms. These companies must be subject to criminal injunctions when their platforms are used to promote chaos. Further, if found guilty then the penalties should include eye watering fines and three year imprisonment for their managing directors. Lastly, the age to use Social Media should rise to 18 years. Conclusion. Many of the youngsters will claim they were ‘just having a laugh’. That may well be true. Families who were locked in the stores or staff working in those stores would surely disagree. That behaviour was disgusting and you parents should point that out. There is a time coming where some of these parents should be criminally liable for their actions of their bloody children. We are blessed to be in a country like this despite its many faults. We also have many opportunities and are frittering them away. Do better and stop the damn excuses. Control your children.

@BigMarvAgg @SjBarrister @opinion_black My reply was coherent. You were presented with evidence and facts. The evidence of your replies is that you are happy to ignore data to serve your own need to denigrate others - but for what? Do you think in anyway your behaviour here comes across as superior?

@vive_work @SjBarrister @opinion_black Come up with a coherent response rather than a personal attack. List world changing inventions of black people from the last 500 years. ‘Oh crumbs, don’t you dare!’ 😂 List them out Lucy or stfu 👍

@DawnButlerBrent This fills me with no hope or positivity. The opposite in fact!

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 I'm delighted to announce I have been appointed as Minister for Hope and Positivity in the Cabinet Office. I'll soon be putting forward new rules to ensure people stay kind online. Full statement below.👇🏾

Children smashing up shops in broad daylight, stealing and even filming themselves doing it as if it were a game, is a much bigger problem than is being recognised. This is a total collapse of consequences. To those making snide comments about race or black kids - you do not see scenes like this in Lagos or Nairobi. Not because the children there are different, but because actions have consequences. There are clear boundaries. Parents, communities, and the authorities do not wring their hands or look the other way. Here, we have created a culture where too many young people believe they can do what they like and nothing will happen. That is the problem. And we should be honest about where that leads. If a child loots a shop today, films it for social media, and faces no real consequence, they are going to do much worse tomorrow. This is why under my leadership Conservatives are focusing on ENFORCEMENT, not just making more and more rules. Our Take Back Our Streets Campaign is about getting 10,000 more police officers, immediate justice and immediate punishment. But let’s be honest, this is not just a policing issue. It is a failure of authority at every level. Parents need to know where their children are and what they are doing. Discipline should start at home, not in a courtroom. We have also weakened the system around them. Deterrence is the backbone of criminal justice. Labour have changed the law so anyone receiving a sentence under 12 months will automatically walk free, instead receiving a suspended sentence. When people believe offences like this will not lead to meaningful punishment, we should not be surprised when more of it happens. You get more of what you tolerate. It’s not like we haven’t been here before. In 2011, when riots spread, the Conservative response was swift and visible. People saw consequences. And behaviour rapidly changed. That is what is missing now. This all comes down to fairness. Law-abiding people should not feel like fools while gangs smash and grab without consequence. The sad truth is the communities most damaged by this behaviour are often the very ones these young people come from. Only one approach will fix this: clear rules, real consequences, and the confidence to enforce them. It’s time to Take Back Our Streets and bring back a culture of enforcement.

@UKLabour @DavidLammy Why does that matter? Your performance as a government is dire. Are you trying to virtue signal to try and dig for an excuse for your shocking bad mistakes?

This Labour Government is the most working-class government in the history of the UK.

Rachel Reeves says that she has “the right economic plan”. But her plan seems to be to tax hardworking people more, to pay for those who aren't working. A family on benefits with three children could be getting the equivalent of £71,000 in salary a year. It’s just not fair.

@BigMarvAgg @SjBarrister @opinion_black Don’t you dare speak for other white people. Speak for yourself only. In the face of a dignified and educated reply, you come across as ignorant and antagonistic.

@SjBarrister @opinion_black ‘Racist’ = in group preference. Completely natural human behaviour. ‘They won’t listen, they won’t learn’ White people who spend enough time around blacks find it easy enough to ‘listen and learn’ trust me

@opinion_black @BigMarvAgg It’s so refreshing to come across well articulated and evidence lead discussion. Thank you for your original post - but more importantly, your role model reply. 👏🙏🏻

Well, let’s look a little deeper to what you have stated. 1. Blacks are not a monolith so which blacks do you target for having a ‘low IQ and low impulse control?’ You also mentioned ‘genetics’. If you are using both education and stronger earnings outcomes I hope you realise that according to the ONS white British people are not ranked in the top 3. Do you know who are? I will tell you. It is :- 1Chinese 2Indian 3African (Black African) How do you rationalise black Africans outperforming you if they are ‘low IQ?’ By the way, whites came in at #4. 2. When were ‘blacks’ being ‘indulged by whites?’. How far are you going back? Is it this country you are speaking about? Let me know. Thanks.

@BigMarvAgg @opinion_black Your comment is disgusting and racist.

‘There is a combination of factors as to why this took place and I am going to point them out without fear or favour.’ 1. Their genetics: low iq and low impulse control 2. Being indulged by whites for decades and allowed to live in societies they could never ever come close to creating. Solution? Whites deport all blacks.

@ThomasWillett9 @SexMattersOrg Read the room Thomas. Ditch the virtue signalling veil of ‘advocacy for trans rights’. What rights do you advocate for which don’t require other people (women) to lose theirs? That’s not trans rights. That’s misogyny.

I don’t have strong enough words to describe how cruel, vindictive and abusive @SexMattersOrg is. Not content with banning trans women from professional sport, they also want to ban them from recreational sport too. This goes way beyond their charitable status.

And this is why I've always been Team Kemi: she's intelligent, articulate and fierce 💥 puts the actual leader of this country to shame @KemiBadenoch

‘Boomers sit tight’ - this sort of headline is so irresponsible. It demonizes older people - yet fails to pick up on the huge cost of moving! Stamp duty is off the charts! thetimes.com/life-style/pro…