Martin Entwisle🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@Barnesy62 @ghost_wales 🤣🤣

@MartinEntwisle @ghost_wales Close, but no cigar. CAS not CDS and advised someone might have to fall on their sword in the future. Think they stopped issuing swords after that 😜😂

He had a brief but quite impressive military career. It surprises me he’s accepted the job as Defence of Secretary considering the devastating impact on the military due to lack of funding from the Labour Government he supports. However, I suppose in the short term he’ll have draw on his previous military career to caretaker our Armed Forces until we get a decent Government in power.

@Barnesy62 @ghost_wales Think the closest was Sir M G and if I remember he was shafted by the other Chiefs

@MartinEntwisle @ghost_wales Would love to think they might - but not holding my breath. No CDS has ever resigned on principle 🤔

@BenObeseJecty @timdavies_uk We may disagree on much but not this 👍

@timdavies_uk And then doubled down on it when I challenged him. Apparently the country I’ve lived in all my life, served on operations and now represent in Parliament isn’t “naturally at the forefront of [our] hearts and minds”

Ant Middleton is an unrepentant racist who doesn’t think I should be allowed to serve in Government because of my heritage, despite having been born here. He doesn’t think Zia Yusuf should be allowed to either. He’s also a violent thug who served a prison sentence after being convicted of assaulting two police officers. Hardly a surprise then to see Rob Kenyon endorsed by one of his “heroes” in Makerfield, so desperate are Reform to stop haemorrhaging support to Restore Britain.

@louderry Sorry the cuts started under Blair and Brown, Labour aren’t innocent bystanders

Reminder this is the 1st government to increase defence spending after 14 years of the tories cutting it.

@notMrFarmer @ToryWipeout Think you’re wrong there Mark, that’s what NI is all about and why you have to have so many years contributing to gain a full pension 🤷‍♂️

@MartinEntwisle @ToryWipeout No one has paid in, they've paid tax like everyone else

Scrap the triple lock to fund the military, people whinge. Keep the triple lock at the expense of a lower military budget, people whinge.

@Hepworthclare Sorry Clare but MOD are well past that, it’s defence of the Nation you’re talking about 🤦‍♂️

Government is no place for Prima Donnas who throw a hissy fit when they can't get their own way. It's passing strange other Cabinet members comply with the ethic of collective responsibility. They gritted their teeth & found the required savings out of previously agreed budgets.

@UKCDS_MOD @DanJarvisMBE Speak to your Boss and ask him to dissolve the Govt, they seem unable to keep the country safe.

Pleased to welcome the Defence Secretary @DanJarvisMBE to the MOD this morning. I look forward to working closely with him, continuing the unceasing work of supporting our Armed Forces and keeping our country safe.

@scottiebateman @BigJetTVLIVE @mattsimmonds320 Depends how old the bus is and what the temp is.

@BigJetTVLIVE I think it may be an Airbus procedure in hot weather on the A320 family. But @mattsimmonds320 is the expert here.

All in good time, pretty standard procedure right 🤷🏼‍♂️

@hol40900 The rot started way before the Tories were in post

Kemi Badenoch: "Starmer is too weak to fund defence." Her party spent 14 years gutting the armed forces. Troop numbers cut. Housing sold. Morale destroyed. And she lied about Stanford pre-med. Weak? Look in the mirror. 💀🎯

@helen_spirit1 Please 🙌

More Ministerial resignations rumoured to be incoming… Could today be the day when the most despised PM in UK history is finally defenestrated?

@LaindonFEMINIST @PeterStefanovi2 @TwiggDean You’re a loony he’s the most inept PM ever, he’s destroying the country and you’re crazy enough to defend him 🤦‍♂️

@PeterStefanovi2 @TwiggDean Finally a politician that understands their duty. Fairly novel in today’s world. Gets the trust of voters. Earns his role serving the public. And regards it as his duty to do his job. Hurray for Starmer. Lessons should be learned

Keir Starmer says it's his "duty" to remain as PM and will fight any leadership challenge "It's not vanity. It's not stubbornness. It's duty"

@LaindonFEMINIST @KevinASchofield Sorry he’s a cretin who is putting the safety of every citizen at risk - he needs to go

@KevinASchofield Sorry. I find that a complete and utter fantasy. There isn’t a single indicator that shows Starmer as a man who walks away when the going gets tough. Not one. Look at Carns, Streeting, Burnham, Healey. They have nothing in common with Starmer.

SCOOP: Former No.10 aide James Lyons tells our Commons People podcast that despite what Starmer is saying now, he is unlikely to fight on if Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield. "The prime minister can survive, the question is ‘will he’, and I think if Andy Burnham is elected next Thursday, I don’t think he will. “I think there’s every chance that what we will see is a coronation and we will see a significant number of MPs nominating Andy in a way that makes it very difficult for the prime minister to fight on." huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/burnham-…

Here's your arse!

@Hepworthclare You are deluded 🤷‍♂️

I wish you well in the role Dan &I'm confident your resilience will carry through the stormy political weather you're going to have to deal with in the weeks ahead.

@chrismullinexmp Cut welfare and bin net zero - simples

Short of military government, it is hard to see how any of those seeking to replace Starmer could find the resources that the MoD says it needs. Could it be that John Healey is planning a leadership bid?

@HeatherJLpals @DanJarvisMBE No he won’t, not whilst the Govt refuse to fund our security and safety of the country 🤦‍♂️

What an excellent choice. I had forgotten about Dan Jarvis. He will be superb. Well done @DanJarvisMBE

THE DOSSIER #15: Keir Rodney Starmer – The Blueprint A Palestinian ambassador stroked your arm on live television. Nuzzled close. Whispered into your ear. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom stood paralysed while the world watched a foreign agent handle him like a marionette. That was not an incident. That was a portrait. The defining image of your premiership. The single frame that explained everything. Because you have always been someone else's instrument. Born 2 September 1962. Southwark. A toolmaker father. A nurse mother. Named after Keir Hardie because your parents wrote your career before you drew breath. Reigate Grammar. Leeds. Oxford. Harvard. LSE. The working-class costume tailored on Savile Row. You are not a self-made man. You are a manufactured one. The Fabian Society shaped you. The Trilateral Commission claimed you that secretive CIA-linked global elite network you joined while serving in Corbyn's shadow cabinet, off-the-record, accountable to no British voter. The networks you serve have never been British. The interests you protect never were. The Original Sin .......... You became Director of Public Prosecutions. Five years. The power to act. The duty to act. The evidence in front of you. You looked away. Rochdale, 2009. The CPS dropped charges against grooming gang suspects citing "victim credibility concerns." Twelve-year-old girls. Drugged. Raped. Trafficked. The institution you led called them unreliable witnesses to their own destruction. Jimmy Savile, same year. Case closed on your watch. "I wasn't told," you said. The Director of Public Prosecutions wasn't informed about Britain's most prolific paedophile. Either you lie or you were asleep. Both are disqualifying. Maggie Oliver, the whistleblower, the detective who saw the bodies, named your CPS as bearing "great responsibility" for the failures. She was there. She knew. She named you. You learned the technique that defines you in that decade: look away when looking away serves the careerist. Protect predators when prosecuting them is inconvenient. Choose institutional comfort over child safety. Every day since has been an application of that lesson. The Pattern Becomes Policy .......... December 2024. You appointed Peter Mandelson United States Ambassador. The official vetting warned you in writing of "general reputational risk" because of his Epstein ties. You knew Mandelson stayed at Epstein's property after Epstein served jail time for soliciting a minor for prostitution. You read every warning. You appointed him anyway. The man who shielded grooming gangs as DPP elevated a paedophile's friend to the highest diplomatic rank in the Atlantic alliance. This was not error. It was continuity. The same instinct, larger scale. September 2024. Ten million pensioners stripped of winter fuel payments. Up to £300 each. You sat in Number 10 while the elderly chose between food and heat. "We are fixing the foundations," you said. "It's the right thing to do." Then you took £100,000 from Lord Alli. Suits. Glasses. Concert tickets. A flat for your son. The Prime Minister who froze pensioners dressed in donated tailoring. "Let me be crystal clear," you said. You were never clear. You were calculated. February 2025. Chagos. British sovereign territory surrendered to Mauritius. £100 million per year for the privilege of being humiliated. You called it international law. The British people called it treason. March 2026. One hundred pages of files released. The New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, the Guardian, AP every serious newsroom on earth confirmed the receipts. You were warned. You proceeded. Mandelson now under police investigation for allegedly leaking government documents to a dead paedophile. April 20, 2026. You stood in the Commons and admitted you "inadvertently misled Parliament." Inadvertently. The barrister who built a career on precision. The man who wrote the 900-page Human Rights Act manual word by word. "Inadvertently." The weasel grammar of a guilty man hoping no one parses the verb. The Domestic Record .......... You ran two-tier policing and called the people who noticed it "far-right." You arrested grandmothers for tweets while gangs raped children in plain sight. You called working-class grief "thuggery." You called legitimate fear "Islamophobia." You called concern about borders "racism." You hiked employer National Insurance and killed fifty thousand jobs. You broke your own fiscal rules twice. Bond markets fled. Capital fled. Skilled workers fled. The economy you inherited at 1.5% growth you handed to recession. Your children attend private school. You live in grace-and-favour residences. You holiday in donor villas. You preach sacrifice from luxury you neither earned nor declared. You are the champagne socialist made flesh and the toolmaker's son is the costume you wear to the gala. The Verdict of Your Own Side .......... By May 2026, one hundred Labour MPs had publicly called for your resignation. The New York Times: "viscerally disliked." The Lowy Institute: "conclusively sapped of his authority." The party you led to landslide victory writes your obituary in public, in real time, before you have left the building. You are not betrayed by enemies. You are buried by allies. There is no clearer verdict in democratic politics. The Blueprint .......... You did one good thing for Britain, and you did it by accident. You gave us the manual. Every appointment must be reversed. Every policy must be unwound. Every institution you touched must be rebuilt. Your premiership is the instruction text for national destruction, and reading it backwards is the path home. You are not a Prime Minister. You are a warning carved into our recent history. The cautionary tale every future leader will be measured against. The negative reference point. The example of what one man can do to a nation when he serves Davos before Doncaster, donors before pensioners, ideology before instinct. The toolmaker's son who learned only to dismantle. The prosecutor who protected predators. The barrister who broke a country with words. The Prime Minister who stood paralysed while a foreign ambassador whispered orders into his ear, and the British people understood, in a single frozen frame, exactly what had happened to their country. We saw you, Sir Keir. The world saw you. History has seen you. And history does not forgive what it has seen. Your betrayal of Britain is now complete. Permanent exile awaits. Congratulations. You are The Dossier.

@JamesMacCleary Alternatively you cut welfare and net zero 🤷‍♂️

Labour ministers are pointing fingers at each other over funding when they could just take up our plan to issue Defence Bonds which would inject a desperately-needed £20bn and ease financial pressures on defence immediately.

@CHazelgroveMP Utterly irrelevant if you don’t equip HMF, your Govt are failing to protect our country 🤷‍♂️

I am sorry to see John Healey leave this role today. He has been a fantastic Defence Secretary, and I thank him for his dedicated work. I know his successor Dan Jarvis will do an excellent job, with his experience and perspective. We are fortunate to have them both in our party