Probation Steve

@MatthewStadlen Someone should get prosecuted for misconduct in public office for not having all the data from that phone or any publicly funded electronic device recovered and available on the next device. This is standard now for most normal people in society a should be the case here.

So can we be just be clear? Journalists are alleging that Morgan McSweeney staged the theft of his phone, lied to police, and wasted police time, in order to hide messages to Mandelson? And that the Prime Minister might be implicated in a cover-up? These are extremely serious and defamatory allegations.

@JohnSlinger Democracy ? You’ve curtailed free speech in many ways, free assembly and the right to jury trial plus the failed attempt at election cancelling aka interference. YOU Labour scum are the problem in politics now and you’re that zealous and blinded you don’t even see it. Mays coming

New £100,000 limit on overseas donations to UK political campaigns from today. Our elections should be decided by the people who live with the consequences, not by foreign financial influence. Democracy belongs to the voters it serves.

@DanJarvisMBE @cabinetofficeuk I’m not sure why the @cabinetofficeuk would be retweeting this when they’re supposed to be impartial and politically neutral ???

We’ve taken action to protect our democracy from foreign interference, by banning political donations in cryptocurrency and capping donations from overseas. We won’t allow hostile actors to undermine the UK. gov.uk/government/new…

@SkySports_Keith If by ruffing you mean kicking botman directly in the face … and no card

🐈‍⬛ Sunderland level and the goal had been coming! Newcastle fail to clear a corner and Talbi — the man for the big occasion away goal this season — fires home from close range. Newcastle really struggling to handle Brian Brobbey, who is ruffing the home centre-backs about…

@kateferguson4 There is such a thing as iCloud and all govt issued phones have tracking on so this is utter bollix

EXCL: Morgan McSweeney's mobile phone with texts to Peter Mandelson was stolen. These messages may be lost forever - meaning there there will be gaps in The Mandelson files published by No10. Phone was nicked and reported to police last year. thesun.co.uk/news/38591267/…

@pippip343 Like appointing a pedo sympathiser to our most prominent embassy 🥹

We are lucky to have this man.

@Ed_Miliband @MumsnetTowers The government are the ones making up well over 60% of the pie in taxes on fuel so please do furk off you ediot of epic proportions

We will not allow conflict abroad to be an opportunity to rip families off. My piece for @MumsnetTowers on how we are protecting the British people, including over £50 million to support vulnerable households with heating oil costs 👇 mumsnet.com/talk/guest_pos…

@DavidMcGregorBN Absolute rubbish - both times Labour have come in and strangled the economy with regulation and divisive laws that curtail a free democracy. They need locking up

People say “the 2 party system doesn’t work” as if both parties have been equally useless. One party smashes the country to bits. Labour comes in and has to rebuild it. It was true after Thatcher. And it’s true again after 14 years of Tory decline.

@NadiaWhittomeMP Open dialogue is the bedrock of western democracy - an MP should know that. I’d worry more about your own party that actively suppresses free speech and protest as well as backing a prime minister who supports pedos and their friends - far bigger fish to fry

Within just 48 hours of the Tories refusing to sack Nick Timothy for his Islamophobic comments, the far-right is circulating a list of MPs “of foreign descent” trying to “silence” him. This is what happens when racism is normalised from the top: democratically elected representatives being told that we shouldn't be allowed to make decisions here at all, and even that we should leave the country. It’s a racist attack on our very democracy. Will Nick and his party condemn it?

@RichardM8422 @nickdemarco_ Next they’ll say city cooperated …

@ProbationSteve @nickdemarco_ My thoughts exactly, although City tried to hide their charges and haven't "co-operated" as we're lead to believe Chelsea did.

When it is argued, in various football disputes, that points deductions must be imposed even for inadvertent breaches, in order to vindicate compliant clubs, one has to wonder whether that reflects a genuine commitment to consistent strict enforcement in all cases, or is simply a position adopted for the purposes of a particular case. Consistency is very important in sport - the lack of it can undermine public confidence in the integrity of the whole game. I do not comment on any one individual case, I just hope that those involved in the decision making processes can see the merit in treating each case according to its particular circumstances rather than being inflexible in some, but very flexible in others. That, I am sure, would help restore the confidence in sports arbitration we all wish for.

@RichardM8422 @nickdemarco_ Clubs that do seek to comply with the rules such as Newcastle Utd sell their young promising players to satisfy rules that they should have just ignored based on the Chelsea verdict. This to me feels like a set up for an extraordinary lenient sentence for man city’s 115 charges

@nickdemarco_ Chelsea cheated to the sum of nearly £50 million, allowing them to win trophies they wouldn't otherwise have had the players to do so. A fine seems like a nothing punishment for them literally buying titles.

@s8mb Every time you breathe you emit c02 so you should also leave the uk

There's really no point having a domestic car manufacturing industry in Britain. The price of cars is set on the global market - producing them in the UK doesn't reduce the cost of cars here at all. And cars produce CO2. Why would we want this?

Labour’s attack on jury trials is the biggest assault on English liberty — especially free speech — in over 800 years. It will fundamentally alter our constitution. What Labour is proposing is a sinister betrayal of both its own traditions and centuries of legal heritage. None of Labour’s great leaders — Attlee, Wilson, Callaghan — would have dreamed of such an act of constitutional vandalism. Yet David Lammy appears all too willing to strip away this fundamental right. He plans to press ahead regardless, despite warnings from some of the country’s leading legal minds that these reforms will undermine trust in the criminal justice system — and despite there being no evidence they will work. In fact, the Institute for Government estimates the changes would save just 2% of Crown Court time — not the 20% claimed. The Government is hellbent on rushing this through Parliament. For context, MPs were given as much time to debate this as the Salmon Act 1986 — which made it an offence to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, the real issue is being ignored: more than 64 Crown courtrooms sit empty on working days — around 12% of the total across England and Wales. Read more from Shadow Justice Secretary @NJ_Timothy in @ConHome 👇

Thirty organisations representing victims of violence against women and girls (VAWG) have written to the justice secretary @DavidLammy, urging him to drop plans to significantly reduce the number of jury trials. The groups said that the proposals, which will affect court cases in England and Wales, will deepen mistrust in the justice system among victims and distract from measures designed to reduce offending. The signatories, which include Rights of Women, the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Women for Refugee Women and various branches of Women’s Aid, added that they were “deeply concerned that the curtailment of jury trials risks unfair outcomes that undermine justice for everyone”. The letter, which has also been signed by Fiona Rutherford, the chief executive of the law reform charity @JUSTICEhq, said those working against violence were particularly concerned for women and girls who were “unjustly criminalised” as a result of their abuse, some of whom have faced trial themselves. Another signatory, @centreWJ the Centre for Women’s Justice, has long campaigned on the issue, saying that about 70% of women in prison or under probation supervision are known to be victims of domestic abuse. It argues that some domestic abuse victims charged with criminal offences have acted under duress or in self-defence. theguardian.com/law/2026/mar/1…

@bmay Utter woke nonsense

Starmer will win the next election. Not because he’s loved. Not because he’s a visionary. Not because he’s Labour. But because he is, in the end, a calm head, whose two main challengers are patently unserious ideologues, who show themselves daily to be unsuitable for the role.

@LizWebsterSBF We would need another referendum on that. Given how unpopular Labour are I’m not sure you’d get the vote to rejoin

🥰 Yes 👏 please! “If the UK wants to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union with all rights and obligations, it will be welcomed with open arms.” Jean-Noël Barrot Britain wants to rejoin the EU and France wants us back!

@Davie2311 @Srooney67 @GBPolitcs This is a problem for government to solve without impacting those who have contributed to the system. I don’t care how they do it but it’s their responsibility - if they’ve spaffed the money up the wall then they best undo the damage

@Srooney67 @ProbationSteve @GBPolitcs Wouldn't they need to lower the tax threshold to do that? I agree in principle, but equally, I've paid towards mine and would end up needing to work longer without it, all because I have a private pension.

🚨NEW: The state pension age could be raised to 75 due to UK's birth rate decline

@PoseidonOilRig @BenGrahamUK I paid contributions on the basis specifically that I would get a pension at 65. If the government is that fiscally inept that they now cannot honour that agreement then I should get a full refund of monies paid in. The amount of wastage and freebies is fraudulent

@BenGrahamUK The system is the problem. People should be forced to pay into a private pension with no opt-out. Boomers are irresponsible for not doing so. The state pension should only be for those portfolios do so terrible they'd be in poverty.

The state pension age could be raised to 75. If you’re around my age, the truth is simple: We’re paying for a system we will probably never benefit from.

@Srooney67 @GBPolitcs This boomers bollox pisses me off - you mean contributors

@GBPolitcs Ridiculous….expecting the younger generation to pay for the retirement of boomers (many of whom have assets worth a fortune) while dying in thier jobs. Means test the state pension, increase the payments for those who need it and remove it from those who don’t.

@thomwatson @GBPolitcs Absolute bollox - it’s fiscal mismanagement that’s causing all of this - we need to remove the economy from any govt and had it run by professionals

It makes sense. I’m 35 and I agree. We are spending an absolute fortune on allowing people to live longer, you can’t then expect the state to fund you during the time that they’ve already funded to add onto your life. This is why we’re in the current situation that retirement ages were too early and people living too long.