Retired. Long career in IT, exporting Rowntree’s chocolates, Software sales then own Airport taxi company, YCFC fan, Biker. Lovely wife Liz & share 4 children
York, England
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“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s sign a major energy deal with Chins but not publish the details. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by falsely claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”
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HOW A “GODLY MAN” LIED — AND A NATION PAID IN BLOOD
“How can a godly man lie?”
That single, fatal question destroyed Iran.
Millions believed it.
Students believed it.
Liberals believed it.
Leftists believed it.
Intellectuals believed it.
They looked at Khomeini and convinced themselves that faith was proof of honesty—that piety meant virtue, that a cleric could not deceive.
They mistook religious appearance for moral restraint.
They were catastrophically wrong.
Khomeini told them exactly what they wanted to hear.
He spoke of democracy.
He spoke of sovereignty.
He spoke of freedom from Western control.
Every promise was bait.
On February 11, 1979, the moment power was secured, the mask came off.
Not a single liberal.
Not a single leftist.
Not a single socialist or Marxist
was allowed anywhere near power.
They were not partners.
They were useful idiots.
Within weeks, Iran’s secular society—built over decades—was dismantled by force. On March 7, women were ordered into hijab. Not debate. Not lawmaking. Command.
The shock was total.
For fifty years, Iran had been secular. Women were educated, visible, free. They studied. They worked. They chose. And suddenly they were told obedience was mandatory—or else.
When women resisted, the response was not persuasion.
It was terror.
“We will stone you to death.”
Women were stabbed in the streets.
Knives were used as lessons.
Acid was thrown into faces—punishment for refusing submission.
This was not chaos.
This was doctrine.
The same people who had marched for “freedom” watched as universities were purged, newspapers shut down, books banned, music silenced, and history rewritten.
The same radicals who promised equality ruled through fear and execution.
And still, some in the West pretend not to understand.
Radical Islam does not negotiate with democracy.
It replaces it.
It does not coexist with freedom.
It eradicates it.
Iran’s tragedy was not ignorance. It was naivety weaponised—the belief that faith guarantees goodness, that ideology excuses brutality, that “good intentions” can restrain totalitarian power.
They could not imagine what was coming.
By the time they understood, prisons were full, gallows were busy, and silence was the only way to survive.
Iran did not fall to tanks.
It fell to lies believed by the naive.
And the women paid first. @Kanthan2030
🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: IRAN: YOU DON’T “NEGOTIATE” WITH A REGIME THAT CHANTS FOR YOUR DEATH
I’ve just spoken with S.L. Kanthan (India) and what we laid out is chilling — because it’s not theory. It’s history. And it’s happening again in real time.
Iran didn’t become what it is by accident. In 1979, a modernising nation was hijacked by an Islamist revolution that sold the public a lie: “Freedom is coming.”
The left helped open the gate.
Then the Islamists walked through it… and slaughtered them.
That’s the lesson the West keeps refusing to learn:
Radical regimes don’t compromise. They don’t reform. They consolidate.
Khomeini’s genius wasn’t just brutality — it was the mechanism he installed:
Oppose the state = oppose God.
And once that switch is flipped, every dissenter becomes “lawful prey.”
Women forced into submission.
Universities shut down and rewritten.
Opposition erased.
Fear made permanent.
And now? While the world talks about “talks,” their lawmakers chant “Death to America” and burn flags like it’s a sacrament.
So ask yourself:
What exactly is being negotiated?
A nuclear timetable?
A face-saving headline?
Or a delay that buys the regime time to regroup, rearm, and tighten the noose on its own people?
Because here’s the truth:
A dictatorship built on hatred needs an enemy to survive.
Without it, the whole fraud collapses.
This is not a normal government.
This is an ideological machine that feeds on humiliation, control, and blood.
And it’s not just Iran’s problem.
When the nearest neighbour of the free world is threatened by a regime like this, it becomes a global security crisis. The West can either pretend this is diplomacy… or admit what it is:
A confrontation with a system that cannot coexist with liberty.
The Iranian people deserve better than a lifetime under the boot of religious tyrants.
And the free world needs to stop treating demonic slogans as “negotiating posture.”
History already ran this experiment.
It ended in mass graves.
@Kanthan2030
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You heard Stones last night he knows we will have numbers in the away end! The players &management will be doing all for 3pts. So as fans let’s jump in the car a bus it’s only 2hrs away & back the lads in what is a big game in this title race! #ycfc
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What we are witnessing today is the largest ethno-cultural upheaval in Europe since the arrival of the Yamnaya around 5,000 years ago.
They laid the foundation of the European tribes and, ultimately, modern European nations.
Since then, there has been an unbroken chain of ethno-cultural continuity. All foreign invasions, from the Huns to the Ottomans to the Moors, were ultimately repelled.
Today, within just a few decades, this chain is being broken. The people living in huge parts of Europe, France, Germany, England, and Italy in 100 years will not be the descendants of those who lived there 100 years earlier.
This has never happened in the last 5,000 years.
So forgive me if I don’t care whether someone calls me racist or whether a leftist judge claims we should be banned.
Far more is at stake than a delusional anti-white universalism. That ideology is only a few decades old and will fade away.
What must endure is resistance to this threat. Every people deserves an identity, a culture, and a homeland. I want to take nothing from anyone. I simply want to live this life and pass it on.
If you think that makes me evil, then that makes you evil.
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🇬🇧 On the modern Britain:
A Muslim immigrant with 3 wives, 11 kids, and 0 jobs, all funded by the hardworking British taxpayer.
No work. No contribution. Just benefits, and more babies.
And somehow… if you question it, you’re the problem. How long will Britain keep paying for its own decline?
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So while junior doctors grind through 14-hour shifts for poverty wages…
While NHS nurses queue at food banks after healing the nation…
While pensioners sit in darkness, wrapped in blankets instead of dignity…
And while hundreds of thousands of children go to bed hungry: in a country that boasts billionaire bankers and royal pageantry, Wes Streeting has been quietly climbing the rungs of power, greased not by service to the people, but by money, private healthcare cash, billionaire hedge fund cheques, and quiet favours from Tory-linked elites.
This isn’t a misunderstanding.
This isn’t a coincidence.
This is strategy.
This is a man backed by those who stand to profit from the slow death of the NHS.
And they’re not backing him for free.
We’re not talking a few thousand in good faith.
We’re talking £587,259 in “donations,” including a staggering £237,900 from Peter Hearn, a multimillionaire private health boss who profits from the very system Streeting pretends to protect.
Let’s be honest:
These are not donations.
They are down payments.
And Wes Streeting is paying dividends.
Here’s what he’s voted for:
• To retain the two-child benefit cap, a cruel policy that plunges working-class families deeper into poverty.
• To slash Universal Credit and PIP, lifelines for the disabled, the sick, and the vulnerable.
• To axe the Winter Fuel Payment, knowing full well pensioners will suffer through freezing homes in silence.
Is that what a servant of the people does?
No.
That is not public service.
That is public sabotage.
This is not a man of principle.
This is a well-packaged product, polished in PR, programmed to please donors, and sold as ‘change’.
It’s not reform. It’s a front.
Austerity in a red tie.
Neoliberalism with a friendly face.
While the NHS gasps for breath, Streeting plays saviour, while selling its lungs, limbs, and life support to the highest private bidder.
He speaks of modernisation, but delivers mutilation.
He speaks of compassion, while voting cruelty into law.
This isn’t incompetence.
It’s collusion.
This isn’t misjudgement.
It’s betrayal.
He wants to privatise the pain.
Nationalise the silence.
Monetise the collapse.
Then sell the rubble as “reform.”
And when the dust settles, when our hospitals are auctioned off, when care is conditional,
when waiting rooms are empty because the sick can no longer afford to enter, Wes Streeting will say it was “inevitable.”
That “difficult choices had to be made.”
That “the NHS is still free at the point of use,” even as it lies gutted behind a paywall.
Do not be deceived by the charm.
Do not be blinded by the soundbites.
Do not confuse access to television with accountability.
The truth is on the record.
The receipts are in the open.
And the mask is slipping.
This is not leadership.
This is betrayal, dressed in Labour red.
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Informed common sense from a dedicated and justifiably concerned politician. The sooner him & Farage park their egos, get together on realistically hardcore policies, appoint this guy as Shadow Chancellor and Business Secretary elect, Reform will be stronger & totally credible.
I sit in Parliament listening to these ministers, and it’s all just so depressing - the vast majority of them have never run a business, and it SHOWS. You would not believe how bad it is.
They think ‘work’ means turning up to an office between 9 and 5, answering a few emails, and going home at the end of the day. Nice lunch break, few coffees away from the desk, probably a smoking break or several. It doesn’t - not for the millions of men and women who actually create the wealth that funds the state.
Running a small business isn’t a job. It’s a way of life. It is life. It’s 24/7/365. It’s relentless. You are the accountant, HR department, compliance officer, cleaner, marketer, and customer service team - all in one. There’s no sick pay, no safety net, and no taxpayer-funded pension waiting for you.
Holiday? Good luck. If you do manage to get away, it’s checking the phone all day, every day. Wife/husband obviously getting pissed off. We’ve all been there...
It’s all on you. Every invoice chased, every tax deadline met, every bit of red tape navigated is on you. And if you make one mistake, one error, one small slip-up, the state comes after you - in a relentlessly efficient manner that is never afforded to us when we ask questions of it.
Most MPs have no idea what that feels like. They just don’t. We’re going to see more of this in the budget I’m sure. More hurt. More pain. More tax. They don’t get it.
They don’t understand that when a small business owner gets hit with another tax, it’s not absorbed by a ‘budget’ - it’s taken straight out of their family’s pocket.
There is no ‘deficit’ in the business world - that’s called going bust.
And they certainly don’t understand what real risk looks like. Politicians can vote through a policy on Monday and forget it by Tuesday - a small business owner lives with the consequences of that policy for years, decades. The MP monthly salary is safe. It always has been. In the public sector before, and in the public sector after - if not that, some charity/NGO funded entirely by the public sector.
GET A REAL JOB.
If MPs actually spent a week running a small firm - paying suppliers, tackling VAT, navigating health and safety law, sorting out HR issues, chasing clients for payment, trying to expand while staying compliant with everything from GDPR to local planning regulations - they’d legislate very differently. I can promise you that.
They’d realise that most of Britain’s problems could be solved by the state doing less, not more.
Cutting tax. Simplifying regulation. Slashing back the HRification of the country. Trusting people who actually produce things to get on with it.
Instead, we have a political class that talks endlessly about ‘growth’ while brutally punishing the only people capable of delivering it - especially going after the family businesses/farms, which is a particularly spiteful policy decision.
Small business owners are people who work harder than almost anyone in Parliament could imagine - and who are treated worse for it.
Britain’s small businesses don’t succeed because of politicians, they survive in spite of them.
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Tommy Robinson’s case isn’t about liking him or not.
It’s about what happens when the state starts using terror laws to target people for their political opinions.
He was detained, questioned about his views, and charged for refusing to hand over his phone PIN.
That’s not counter-terrorism — that’s political policing.
If this can happen to him, it can happen to anyone.
Freedom isn’t a gift from government — it’s a right.
And it’s being quietly taken away.
#TommyRobinson #FreeSpeech #CivilLiberties #Authoritarianism #UKPolitics #StateOverreach #BruceUnfiltered
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Pay attention. This is my warning to you.
As the policing of thoughts and speech becomes more sinister, understand this …
ANYTHING you say may be held against you and used to silence you. Your intent does not matter.
You don’t need to lie, threaten, or even be rude. All it takes is for a person, police officer, or authority to claim your words made them feel “alarmed” or “distressed.”
Truth won’t protect you. You can post something accurate, sourced, and backed by official reports and still be accused of online harassment, If someone claims you’ve created a “hostile atmosphere,” that can be enough.
And you don’t even need to break the law.
Civil injunctions, Community Protection Notices, and “Respect Orders” can ban you from speaking publicly, & can be used pre-emptively (in case you say something offensive in the future) to silence people.
No jury. No trial. Just a judge ruling that your speech causes “discomfort.”
This isn’t about protecting people, it’s about protecting narratives.
This is the front line now. It’s not about safety. It’s about control 🚨
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🚨 The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - in the Lords now.
They don’t care if the refuseniks rebel against Digital ID. They are coming for the children
What it does:
▪️Creates a single unique identifier (SUI) er … ID for every child, used across safeguarding & welfare systems, shared beyond local government. (Probably via their NHS number so you can’t opt out)
▪️Builds new registers & databases of children, parents, and education providers
▪️Forces parents (inc home schooled) to hand detailed prescribed data to registers, and the government may require sensitive characteristics later by regulation, including religion.
▪️Hands councils & the DfE new powers to collect, share & mandate disclosure of child-level data across agencies — and even across UK nations.
This isn’t about wellbeing. It’s about building infrastructure to track and catagorise every child from birth….
And then what will they ‘share’ ? trouble makers? ‘Dangerous’ views? Who knows.
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The Palestinian Movement: A KGB Project, Now Used Against the West
The Palestinian cause was never about land.
It was about destabilization.
As revealed by Soviet defector Ion Mihai Pacepa, the KGB played a central role in inventing “Palestinian identity” in the 1960s. They trained Arafat, created the PLO, and engineered a narrative designed to undermine pro-Western Arab governments like Jordan and Lebanon - both of which were nearly torn apart by Palestinian militants.
And it worked.
Today, the same playbook is being run - in the West.
Yuri Bezmenov, a former Soviet propaganda agent, warned that the most powerful tool of subversion isn’t war. It’s demoralization - changing how a population sees its own history, institutions, and identity.
He described a 4-stage process:
1.Demoralization (erase pride and trust in one’s own culture)
2.Destabilization (economic, political, and social chaos)
3.Crisis (a triggering event)
4.Normalization (new regime or ideological control)
Sound familiar?
In the U.S., Palestinian activism is now the face of “resistance.”
It’s wrapped in intersectionality, critical race theory, and slogans like “decolonization” - but the effect is the same:
•Erode Western confidence
•Turn Jews into villains
•Justify violence as justice
•Collapse the center
And it’s not organic.
Funding, propaganda, and ideological infrastructure comes from Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood, and groups exposed in the Holy Land Foundation trials (2008) — where it was revealed that Brotherhood operatives had a long-term plan to “sabotage the West from within.”
So let’s be clear:
The pro-Palestine movement in the West isn’t grassroots.
It’s a foreign ideological weapon, repackaged as activism.
And the West is falling for it — again.
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Communism: Great on Paper. Disastrous in Practice.
Mamdani and others sell a seductive story: capitalism is the root of all evil, and revolution will bring justice.
For a generation of Western middle-class kids who feel they’ll never own a home, never match their parents’ success, and are drowning in anxiety — it’s tempting.
Communism tells them: You didn’t fail — the system did.
And once they believe that, the next step feels obvious: burn the system down.
But every time it’s tried, communism doesn’t liberate — it crushes.
Why?
Because communism centralizes power. It kills competition, silences dissent, and assumes a few planners can control what millions of individuals once did freely.
The result?
In the USSR, the state tried to control prices, production, and thought. It ended with bread lines, gulags, and collapse.
In Iran, leftists helped topple the Shah — but by handing power to a centralized revolutionary force, they paved the way for a brutal Islamic theocracy that murdered them first, and then many others.
Same pattern: idealists seize power “for the people,” then concentrate it, crush opposition, and create something far worse.
Today’s talk of government-run supermarkets isn’t new — it’s a soft reboot of the same failed idea: State knows best. Just give up control.
But only capitalism, for all its flaws, has created prosperity at scale.
People don’t flee free markets. They flee revolutions.
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Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.
I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.
They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.
We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.
Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.
Criminals will work around it.
Honest citizens will pay the price.
It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.
One breach and your life is exposed.
Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.
Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:
It lies quiet for months.
It rolls through the backups.
On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.
Centralise identity and you centralise failure.
Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain.
It starts as login.
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.
It will centralise risk and outsource blame.
It will not stop fraud.
It will not stop illegal migration.
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.
If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.
You do not need a national ID to do any of that.
We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.
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This Is How a Nation Dies...
What's coming across the Channel is not "migration." It is invasion. If tens-of-thousands of fighting-age men attempted to land on our shores with rifles, the Navy would sink them. Yet when they come with empty hands, we're told it's "humanitarian." The weapon isn't guns - it's numbers. And numbers can topple nations as surely as bullets.
The boats are not full of widows and orphans. They are full of young men from cultures totally at odds with ours. Each one is the spearhead for dozens more through chain migration. Every dinghy is not fifty cases - it is five hundred futures planted here without consent.
They know it. They laugh at Starmer's "one in, one out" gimmick. They boast they will cross again and again. Why wouldn't they? They have lawyers, NGOs, and charities arming them with paperwork and preprepared soundbites. The state bends, the courts stall, the government wrings its hands. This is conquest by lawfare - and Britain's own institutions are the enemy's greatest ally.
And the government? It shrugs. Peter Kyle says guarding our borders is "not the best use of the Army." Then what the hell is the Army for? To fight wars in faraway deserts while Britain itself is surrendered? If tens of thousands of unarmed men can walk into a country unchecked, the country is finished.
This is not asylum. This is colonisation dressed as compassion. The French wave the boats on. Our leaders stage token deportations to fool the public. And the flood grows by the day.
The truth is brutal: Britain is being dismantled from within, one dinghy at a time. Not with bombs, but with demographics. Not with armies, but with our own government's cowardice. Every crossing is not just a breach of the border - it is the theft of Britain's future.
A state that cannot or will not defend its borders is no state at all. A government that surrenders its people to demographic replacement is not "compassionate." It is treacherous.
Call it what it is. Not migration. Not crisis. Not "challenge." Invasion. And unless we act like a nation under attack, we will cease to be a nation at all.
"Each one is the spearhead for dozens more through chain migration. Every dinghy is not fifty cases - it is five hundred futures planted here without consent."
