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@MikeJPretzel Oh bless… x.com/julianhjessop/…

King's College and the University of Nottingham study says Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8% compared to what it would have been, and double that predicted. Investment fell between 12% and 18%. Employment dropped 3% to 4%, and productivity by the same margin. Let’s #RejoinEU

Barnier has “remained convinced that the UK had made the wrong choice in leaving the EU and that the evidence for that was becoming clearer “every day”. @TheGuardian theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@LibDems Why would we want to join the SM? Even the EU said we benefited the least from being part of it facts4eu.org/news/2019_jul_…

The world has changed. So too must our approach. It's time for a bold new deal with the European Union - including joining the single market.

@Heccles94 @albieamankona But when you focus on Group based child sex abuse the facts are plain for all to see. This kind of deflection & denial is why the abuse has gone on for so long spiked-online.com/2021/01/04/no-…

If you think that the worst part of a grooming scandal is race or religion then yes you are racist. 88% of UK sexual offences are committed by White British men (despite white British men being 83% of total men) This isn’t about race. It’s about patriarchy and sexual predators.

@TrisOsborneMP @Conservatives How has investment decreased & yet we move up the FDI rankings? The UK was ranked 3rd for newly announced FDI projects between 2022 and 2025 - behind only the US and India - up from 4th in 2015–19 reuters.com/sustainability…

The cost of @Conservatives incompetence has been deep.

@SriAbhigyan @RafHM Here’s some more reading for you winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/masani-bengal-…

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, you polished Churchill fanboy and professional Britain-defender, your thread is pure selective whitewash garbage that insults the intelligence of anyone who’s read beyond GB News scripts. You dodge, deflect, and downplay to protect your colonial nostalgia hero. Let me rip your baseless logic to shreds, you smug myth-peddler. 1. Natural disasters + Japan made it inevitable, Churchill was helpless: Cyclone, brown spot disease, lost Burma rice were real problems, sure. But Amartya Sen (actual Nobel economist who knew the region) proved Bengal’s 1943 rice production was only ~5% down and higher than in 1941 (no famine). It was an ‘entitlements failure’ war-driven inflation exploded rice prices 300%+, wages for the poor stagnated, hoarding/speculation ran wild. Your ‘nature + Japs = done’ excuse ignores how British policies, boat seizures, military stockpiling, denial of the crisis, turned shortage into mass death. Conveniently skipped in your hero worship. 2. Blame local Bengal gov & “Indian hoarders,” not London
Classic colonial deflection, Rafe. Yes, provincial screw-ups happened. But ultimate shipping control, war priorities, and policy sat with Churchill’s cabinet in London. Warnings ignored. Aid requests delayed for D-Day and Europe. The Famine Inquiry and docs show military diversion of grain and inflation from war spending. Scapegoating “beastly” locals while your boy sat thousands of miles away prioritizing empire over lives is pathetic. 3. Churchill did everything- shipped grain, appointed Wavell!: Too little, way too late, you liar. Peak deaths hit before your late 1943 shipments. Australia/Canada offers stalled. Roosevelt said no to extra ships. Grain trickled in after hundreds of thousands were corpses. Appointing Wavell helped end it eventually, but the famine exploded on Churchill’s watch due to inaction and priorities. “He tried” is weak sauce for a leader who ran the show. 4. The racism and quotes you cowardly airbrush
Churchill called Indians “a beastly people with a beastly religion” who “breed like rabbits.” He questioned aid because Gandhi was alive. These weren’t offhand quips, they shaped policy where Indian lives ranked below European war stocks and postwar planning. Your “fighting the war” excuse doesn’t erase deliberate choices and contempt. Madhusree Mukerjee’s research (declassified docs) exposes how Churchill’s war cabinet exacerbated it. You ignore this because it shatters your Greatest Briton fanfic. Rafe, you’re not a historian here, you’re a lowlife propagandist peddling post-2010 “debunking” that whitewashes empire while calling critics “idiots and Britain-haters.” The Bengal Famine killed 2-3 million. It was war + disaster + colonial fuckups + racist indifference. Pretending Churchill was some flawless savior shipping grain heroically is the real ignorant anti-history garbage. Facts don’t care about your garbage, flags or nostalgia, mate. Step up or shut up.

Only idiots and Britain haters blame Churchill for the Bengal Famine This myth only became popular in 2010 after a ridiculous book was published by a far-left journalist with no historical training This is what REALLY happened: 1. A cyclone hit Bengal in 1942, destroying crops 2. They were already suffering from the worst rice brown spot epidemic on record 3. Normally in a famine grain would be imported from Burma, Malaya, Phillipines, Thailand etc. But WW2 ws raging and our Japanese enemy now controlled those areas 4. The Japanese had bombed Indian ports, which also destroyed grain 5. Shipping grain in was hugely dangerous because Japanese fleet was blockading the Bay of Bengal and sinking ships Remember, the Axis powers were sinking one ship every day and had sunk around a million tons of shipping in 1942. 6. On top of that local Indian speculative traders were unforgivably HOARDING grain. With inflation rife, this was classic wartime speculation as they could make (and expected to make) much more money by hoarding rather than selling immediately. 7. Local government and administrators were slow to act and initially told the UK government there was enough grain in Bengal. One can blame the democratically elected Government of Bengal, people like Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (Minister of Civil Supplies for the newly formed Muslim League) and Sir John Herbert (the Governor of Bengal) for exacerbating conditions in the Bengal Famine. But not Churchill. What did Churchill do? Everything he could. Remember also, he was thousands of miles away in a different continent fighting the Second World War and preparing for D-Day. Yet despite all his other commitments he worked hard to save the people of Bengal. 1. When the British government found out about the famine’s severity in August 1943, they authorised around 1 million tons of grain to be shipped to India between then and December 1944. 2. Churchill pushed Australia to send wheat 3. Churchill personally requested shipping assistance from U.S. President Roosevelt in April 1944 to transport it from Australia. Roosevelt declined, stating US ships were needed for the Pacific campaign and the upcoming D-Day operations. 4. Thanks to Churchill grain arrived from Iraq (barley), and Canada as well as Australia. 5. Crucially, Churchill was responsible for appointing the man who played such a pivotal role in stopping the Bengal Famine: Field Marshal Wavell. Wavell knew India and its people extremely well and was a magician of logistics. He drafted in the army to move food supplies and halted the famine. Why are tax payers funding Helen Cammock's ignorant, anti-British propaganda at the @NPGLondon?

A blazing Sammy Woodhouse exposes a @GMB producer who told her not to mention the race or religion of the Pakistani Muslim men who raped and trafficked thousands of girls like Sammy. Exactly why the monsters got away with it for so long!

@stephenlaw60 x.com/jebadoo2/statu…

Two things I cannot get my head round being legal: 1. Charging young people 9+% p.a. interest on their student loan. 2. A judge sentencing young people as terrorists despite their never having been charged with terrorism.

@Seanchuckle Please read & learn x.com/jebadoo2/statu…

Lots of folk, and not just random Twitter trolls but those in public life with significant power, pretending not to understand why some of us might object to people being sentenced as terrorists when they've not been convicted of any acts of terrorism. A society beyond redemption

@ejwwest @Jebadoo2 @SarahLudford When a guy who knows what they’re talking about presents facts you don’t like…..

@Jebadoo2 @SarahLudford No, terrorism is specific charges that the jury decides the facts of the case on. The judge does not get to decide after the jury verdict that the charges should have been terrorism. A judge can’t decide after a manslaugher verdict that the charge should have been murder.

1/ Zack and pals are peddling the attack line “no jury convicted them of terrorism” to try to undermine the sentences in this case. Let me explain why this is fundamentally wrong. In a criminal trial the jury is the judge of the facts and the judge is the judge of the law.

@no1girl22new @Rimmesfk Exactly - watch the video x.com/skynews/status…

@jonnyish2001 @Rimmesfk Watch the video

When the family came on the balcony the children were spreading out to the left, but Kate pulled them in to be near her & William, had she left them the way they had been initially the Duke of Kent wouldn’t have been left on his own lonely as the last leaf on a tree! This was just pure coldness!!!

@SarahLudford “Voters were misled over Brexit – but mostly by the Remain campaign” capx.co/voters-were-mi…

10 years ago, George Osborne predicted that #Brexit would cost us 6% of GDP, with lower wages, higher prices & higher taxes. While his failure was in not addressing ‘identity’ issues, on the economic effects of Brexit he was absolutely correct.

1. The judge can indeed impose the terrorist connection, whether it is so charged or not, per s.69 Sentencing Act 2020. 2. Crown Court sentences don't set precedents. This is trite - and as an MP, you really ought to know this. 3. The sentences are neither disproportionate, nor wrong. There was serious damage (£1.2m) to property, and a police officer's spine was fractured with a sledgehammer. What's "wrong" here is that MPs are outraged that people have been appropriately sentenced for such crimes that include GBH by fracturing a police officer's spine with a sledgehammer. We should not have MPs who think this way.

@Heccles94 @GeorgeO53769524 Poll not going how you expected?

Would you agree with confiscating all of Elon Musks trillion pounds in order to fix world hunger, provide the world with clean drinking water, and reforesting the Amazon?

@RichardGCorbett Not really x.com/britainunbound…

My thoughts. Contrary to what many politicians expected, the public did not rally behind Brexit once it happened. On the contrary,the costs of Brexit, & the new geopolitical situation, means a majority now want to team up again with our European neighbours northeastbylines.co.uk/news/europe-ne…

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep. The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements. For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep. A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own. The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing. Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin. So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good. A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off. You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

@andrewhesselden @MarchForRejoin

Movements grow because people decide that this time they won't stay at home. This time they won't leave it to someone else. This time they will be there. 20 June. London. @marchforrejoin marchforrejoin.co.uk

@TheGreenParty Can you define “women”?

"I believe that the women of Makerfield deserve better [...] Reform's policies for women would be a disaster. " - Sarah Wakefield, Green candidate for Makerfield.

@DBigblack @reformexposed @welshroots x.com/robkenyonrefor…

@reformexposed @welshroots Wouldn't it be nice to know what he's hiding.

Reform UK’s #Makerfield candidate Rob Kenyon is being paid £14,822 per year now he’s a Wigan Councillor. He’s not even turned up to sign in, not attended a council meeting and hasn’t even bothered to post a single thing advocating for his ward. Voted for Rob Kenyon as councillor? He conned you.