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@williamnhutton and in the meantime we're paying for a fully functional fossil fuel powered backup system as well, paying for two systems but only using one of them,and people wonder why energy costs are the highest in the world, utter insanity based on dubious science.

Ed Miliband gets relentless bile from the right for his ‘ideological’ commitment to clean, cheap renewable energy - just as Nye Bevan once did for creating the NHS. Yet on March 25 97.7 % of our electricity was from renewables. A revolution is unfolding. observer.co.uk/news/columnist…

Starmer Has the Intelligence. He's Chosen to Ignore It. Why? Isaac Herzog did not mince his words. The Israeli president looked at Britain's record on Iran and asked, simply: "What is this?" Ten, twenty terror events linked to Iran on British soil in a single year. Jewish ambulances firebombed. Four men arrested surveilling Jewish targets on Tehran's behalf. Ballistic missiles fired at Diego Garcia, a base where British personnel serve. And a Prime Minister who has still not proscribed the organisation responsible for all of it. Herzog's question deserves a straight answer. Britain is the only major western ally that has not designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. The United States has. The European Union has — and the EU spent years resisting precisely because it feared straining relations with Tehran, before being shamed into acting by the IRGC's massacre of its own protesters. Britain has not moved. The question worth asking is not whether Starmer has the information. He does. The question is what he intends to do with it. This matters because the case against Starmer is not one of ignorance. MI5 disclosed 20 disrupted Iran-backed plots against British citizens since 2022. The Walney report documented more than 30 Iran-linked institutions operating inside Britain, eight of them already under Charity Commission investigation. The intelligence picture is not ambiguous. The threat is established, documented, and growing. What is missing is the political will to act on it. The government's stated justification for not proscribing the IRGC is a legal one: the organisation is technically part of the Iranian state and therefore cannot be treated in the same category as Hamas or Hezbollah. This argument, understood to have the fingerprints of Attorney General Lord Hermer on it, would be more persuasive if the IRGC were behaving like a state institution rather than a terror army. It directed assassination plots on British streets. It is suspected of orchestrating the firebombing of a Jewish charity. It fired missiles at British sovereign territory. The legal distinction Hermer is drawing has become a shield for inaction, not a principled limit on it. Former heads of Britain's counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East have now taken the unusual step of writing publicly to say that Starmer's refusal to proscribe the IRGC is leaving Britain strategically exposed. This is not backbench noise. These are people who spent careers inside the threat picture. When they break cover to criticise a sitting prime minister's security posture, the assessment should be taken seriously. Starmer's handling of the broader Iran conflict follows the same pattern. He initially refused to allow American strikes from British bases. He authorised their use only later, for what Downing Street carefully described as defensive operations. HMS Dragon arrived in the Mediterranean four weeks into the conflict. The sequencing is always the same: delay, recalibrate, reposition once the political cost of inaction becomes impossible to absorb. It is not caution. Caution implies a settled judgement. This is drift. The Hatzola firebombing brought 3,700 recorded antisemitic incidents in Britain last year into sharper focus. Herzog spoke to the charity's leadership from the Israeli border and told them the fate of Jews everywhere is bound together. He is right. And it falls to the British government to ensure that Iranian terror networks cannot operate on British streets with the quiet assurance that the state will not move against them. A prime minister who waits for the evidence to be overwhelming before acting has already failed. The evidence is now overwhelming. The assassins are already on our streets. "This matters because the case against Starmer is not one of ignorance. MI5 disclosed 20 disrupted Iran-backed plots against British citizens since 2022."

Starmer's Messages Are in Scope. Who Has the Courage to Compel Them? A report this evening in The Telegraph contains three words that tell you everything you need to know. Cabinet Office officials have requested that Morgan McSweeney hand over relevant messages from his private phone. The three words are: "if he complies". On those three words, the entire question of accountability for the most compromised appointment in modern British political history now turns. That distinction matters more than anything else in this story. A man who may be sitting on messages that implicate the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has been invited to produce whatever he considers relevant. He retains the power to decide what falls within that definition. He retains the power to decline. And he retains, for now, whatever is on that phone. The Cabinet Office has not launched an investigation. It has opened a negotiation. The Cabinet Office's request follows weeks of insistence from Downing Street that the messages surrounding Lord Mandelson's appointment are unrecoverable. The government phone was wiped. The CCTV has been deleted. The evidence is gone. That position has now quietly collapsed. Officials have acknowledged that relevant communications may exist on McSweeney's personal device, on the devices of cabinet ministers, and on the devices of other former members of staff. The messages were never gone. They were simply on phones nobody had thought to ask about. Or had chosen not to. Buried in the third paragraph of this evening's report is the detail that should be dominating every political conversation in the country. If McSweeney complies, any communications he had on his personal phone, either with Lord Mandelson directly, or with others about his appointment, including the Prime Minister himself, could be published. Including the Prime Minister himself. That means Starmer's own words, his own instructions, whatever he privately said to McSweeney about the Mandelson appointment, are potentially sitting on that phone. Starmer's own messages are in scope. The private phone request is not pointed at a resigned chief of staff. It is pointed at Downing Street. There is a further question that the report raises but does not answer. It is not known whether McSweeney uses WhatsApp's disappearing messages function, which automatically deletes communications after 24 hours, seven days, or 90 days. If that function was active, the private phone may be as empty as the wiped one. The question is not difficult to state. Was the disappearing function active on McSweeney's personal phone? When was it activated? And who, if anyone, asked him that question before inviting him to hand over whatever remains? Voluntary disclosure is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency, managed by the people with the most to lose. A genuinely transparent government would have moved immediately to compel production of all relevant devices under legal process, preserving whatever evidence remains before it disappears, deliberately or otherwise. Instead the Cabinet Office has written a polite letter and is waiting to see what comes back. Keir Starmer has spent months telling the country that Mandelson lied to him, that the vetting process failed him, that he bears no personal responsibility for what followed. His own messages may now tell a different story. The question is whether anyone with the power to compel their production has the courage to do so. So far, the answer has been a request. Politely worded. Patiently awaited. Entirely voluntary. "Starmer's own messages are in scope. The private phone request is not pointed at a resigned chief of staff. It is pointed at Downing Street."

@BotFinderUK they aren't a grooming gang and none support Reform, this is blatantly lying,what a surprise.

Somerset's far right supporters' grooming gang. Two are Reform members, one reposts Rupert Lowe. Rupert and Tommy were quiet about this lot, I wonder why

@visegrad24 probably need to get a visit from a few hundred British security guards to discuss their existence.

A “security group” around the Rusholme and Victoria Park area near Manchester Central Mosque has decided to start their own security firm. “Manchester Community Watch” started as a WhatsApp group for reporting “unjust behavior” against minorities. It quickly grew to over 130 verified recruits through a strict ID + selfie verification process to keep out bad actors. The group has now applied for Security Industry Authority licences so they can operate legally as a private security firm.

@floboflo more bullshit, unless they are all supporting Trump and carrying USA flags 😂

At least 6 million people at the anti far -right march in London today. No fighting the police and a friendly atmosphere. That’s how they do it on the left.

Convicted terrorist Shahid Butt, who is currently trying to be a councillor in Birmingham previously said; “Don't take Christians and Jews as your friends; non-believers cannot be trusted. Stick with the Muslims.” The UK is committing suicide How is this terrorist even allowed to run to become a councillor?

@AaronBastani the only problem with solar or wind energy is they're so unreliable because of their weather dependency,that you need to pay for fossil fuel backup power to be available 24/7 in case renewables don't work,so you're paying for 2 energy systems & only using one at any time,madness.

Britain is presently generating 71% of electricity from renewables and is exporting some to boot. Nuclear plus renewables is presently 85% of all electricity being generated. Good things are possible. Ignore the boomer Murdoch press.

@KTHopkins @IpswichTown 😂😂 from Tractor boys to Soy boys in one easy lesson, what a wetwipe.

Bloody hell you soft prick. @IpswichTown You had Farage for a visit! That’s it. Farage visited - at your club’s invitation. Who is paying to get you on your knees like this? Get up man. You are embarrassing yourself.

@MediaSOI stop all aid money, refuse any travel or student visas and refuse entry to any Pakistani passport holders until they agree to accept their criminal citizens back.

I’ve got an idea of what we can do with him

@SkyNews absolute bullshit, the only people scared to leave their houses are jews living in London, thank to people she's supporting.

'Lots of people are really sick of Islamophobic and anti-migrant narratives in our society.' Amnesty International UK's Alba Kapoor speaks to Sky News, as she joins protesters in demonstrating against the far-right in central London trib.al/cHDlCBg

@ImmortanZit why are you there ?

The USA is a bad place and white men run it. White men want to punish all minorities and women. All the laws are racist. Nobody who is poor or addicted has any responsibility ... white men made them into miscreants.

@koshercockney why isn't this leading to arrests for hate speech? if people were preaching telling people to kill Muslims they'd be in court and in jail in days,these double standards need to be stopped now.

Politicians in the UK need to WAKE UP. Why is this still being tolerated ?

@SlyForTheRight what makes you think that's an NHS uniform and not just a nurses uniform?

🚨 REFORM CAN’T EVEN GET THE BASICS RIGHT 🚨 In a rush to push out candidates, Reform UK now has a new NHS worker candidate posting campaign material in uniform — clearly against National Health Service rules on uniform use. Respect to the profession — absolutely. But dragging it into political campaigning like this? Come on Reform… this is low. ⚠️

@Eveless_Adam @Nigel_Farage @RobertJenrick Jenrick actually would've personally been better off staying with the Tories, if they have a poor showing in May,he'd have stood a good chance of replacing Badenhoc as leader,he's never going to replace Farage as leader of Reform,so on a personal level not a good career move.

@qprmicky @Nigel_Farage @RobertJenrick The way I see it, they're both career politicians and saw the ship sinking. Immigration was a huge problem under them while in positions to do something about it in the Tory party.

This monster should be sent back to Afghanistan without delay.

we're about to find out imo,just how politicised the Metropolitan Police actually is,this will be a question that'll be hard for them to answer if they don't want to look complicit in a Labour cover up,Khan's peerage and it's influence will be under the spotlight over this imo.

@Eveless_Adam @Nigel_Farage @RobertJenrick well you're either part of a team & try to not cause problems for your team,or you eventually join another team so you're not bound by team loyalty to them anymore,imo Jenrick & Braverman were both put in the position of not agreeing with their team's tactics,and loyalty,so left

@qprmicky @Nigel_Farage @RobertJenrick Jenrick was the minister for immigration while some of this played out.

@Eveless_Adam @Nigel_Farage @RobertJenrick yes,but had his hand forced by someone else's cock up,and he wasn't cause his party grief by making it public, although it came out anyway,I would expect loyalty from him towards Reform as well now he's a member of that party.

outstanding 👌

@afneil plus of course packing it full of Labour cronies to try to prevent any Reform policies getting through Parliament,or at least delaying them as long as possible,hopefully Reform get a majority large enough to use the Parliament act & bypass them immediately if they stall policies

Reports that Keir Starmer to appoint Sadiq Khan to House of Lords. Why does a socialist PM still make people ‘lords’ in 2026? Why does a socialist Mayor even think of accepting? Labour 2024 manifesto promised to ‘replace’ the Lords with a ‘more representative second chamber.’ What happened to that pledge? Labour has a massive majority and should be able to push through long-overdue radical reform. Or just abolish it. But like every PM before him Starmer has found it convenient to keep the Lords largely as it is (bar getting rid of hereditaries, a modest change). In this case ‘elevating’ Khan to remove him as a leadership threat.