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Suella Braverman to Yvette Cooper
"So let's stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress. The whole country knows that that is not true. And it is only the honourable members opposite who pretend otherwise. The system is broken, illegal migration is out of control."
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
Remember Thierry Breton?
Former EU commissar for censorship and digital strangulation. Champion of the DSA and DMA.
In 2024, he tried to meddle in the US election, threatening Elon Musk and X with EU action over "hate speech" just before Elon's interview with Trump.
Well, now he's trying to make a political comeback, lecturing us on Europe's tech future.
Seriously? The man spent years crushing the very innovation Europe desperately needs.
Honestly, someone cue the Tropic Thunder memes.
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
Coming to a country near you...
🇵🇱 Poland just voted to EXPAND the government’s power to freeze your assets without a court ruling.
Say the “wrong” thing online, and you could wake up to a FROZEN bank account.
The bill lets the Interior Minister sanction anyone accused of supporting foreign interference or information manipulation aimed at Poland.
Bank accounts, property, even crypto can be frozen instantly by administrative decision, and appealing to a court won’t automatically lift the freeze.
It passed 240 to 202 last week.
The opposition warns the vague wording opens the door to political abuse, with one lawyer admitting nobody really knows where the line is.
Now it’s up to the Senate and President Karol Nawrocki.
Freeze first, ask questions later. What could possibly go wrong?
Sources: Sejm, BitHub, Poland Daily 24 / Writer: Julie
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
Britons believe Burnham is covering up migrant crime data amid court battle.
gbnews.com/news/migrant-cris…
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Given we voted to leave the EU and the Labour manifesto promised not to go back in, you'd have thought in a democracy that this "agreement" would have been discussed in parliament. And you'd suppose the media might be interested in the detail.
But this isn't a democracy is it?
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A Muslim MP says Scottish pubs should change because they serve alcohol and don’t cater to everyone’s religious preferences.
By that logic, halal restaurants should start serving pork and beer, rock concerts should provide quiet corners for reading books, and every social space must abandon its identity to accommodate everyone…
Why should he expect an entire culture to reinvent itself around HIS preferences?
Don’t drink? Then don’t go to the pub!
Integration is about living alongside each other, not demanding that everyone else change to suit you.
How terribly selfish.
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
No! this is just not right, how can you give #utility companies access to private financial information so they can assess how much to charge you - so they can then subsidise others - wtaf is going on - no one signed up for this!
🚨Labour’s Bill Would Let Energy Firms Dig Into Your Tax Records and House Value So They Can Charge You Extra to Subsidise Others
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh introduced the Energy Independence Bill last week that would hand energy companies access to eight government databases, including your HMRC tax and income records, child benefit, property value and pensions.
This is a major expansion beyond the limited fuel-poverty data they already get. Official assessments openly plan “progressivity”: discounts for some households paid for by extra levies on those judged better off.
Nothing happens until the bill passes and ministers create a scheme through further legislation.
Her department calls it targeting support. The unmistakable purpose is giving private firms the power to inspect your private finances and raise your bill to subsidise everyone else.
This is not support. It is a deliberate decision to treat your private tax records and property value as legitimate tools for deciding who gets charged more, then hand that power to private energy companies.
Once the machinery exists, Labour will expand it. The only real question is how far they intend to go.
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
We could have 40 nuclear power plants
You are poor because they want you poor.
£300,000,000,000 would’ve built ~40 nuclear power plants*. Producing 1.4GW per reactor or ~112GW total of consistent & reliable energy.
Currently wind & solar are producing 5.43GW - a difference of one hundred & six Gigawatts.
For the same cost.
In subsidies alone.
Utter dereliction of duty for a moral crusade.
* Assumed RoK build cost of ~£3.7bn/reactor
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
Posted by the Scottish government at 11.00am precisely on Remembrance Sunday. Not a single post all day about the remembrance events.
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Explains why Brand was a Guardian columnist.
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Folks on my TL will have seen this several times along with some excellent analysis from a few other think tanks around the Brexit debate. It’s a good job there’re some players making the case because MSM is saturated with mainstream Faux Remoaner nonsense on the economics!
We estimate the Government's EU 'reset' will result in a net long-run loss of £73 billion to the UK economy👇
growth-commission.com/2026/1…
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
“The Britain Unbound campaign said a survey of 500 people in Makerfield, carried out by Survation, found 74 per cent believed food standards should be decided by UK governments alone. A further 69 per cent said the same about animal welfare standards.”
Burnham fails his own Makerfield test.
Source:
Labour heartlands don’t want EU rules, MP warns Andy Burnham
thetimes.com/article/09ede64…
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I read this open mouthed.
Are You happy for energy companies to be able to access your finances and charge you more to help someone less well off?!?
🚨Labour’s Bill Would Let Energy Firms Dig Into Your Tax Records and House Value So They Can Charge You Extra to Subsidise Others
Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh introduced the Energy Independence Bill last week that would hand energy companies access to eight government databases, including your HMRC tax and income records, child benefit, property value and pensions.
This is a major expansion beyond the limited fuel-poverty data they already get. Official assessments openly plan “progressivity”: discounts for some households paid for by extra levies on those judged better off.
Nothing happens until the bill passes and ministers create a scheme through further legislation.
Her department calls it targeting support. The unmistakable purpose is giving private firms the power to inspect your private finances and raise your bill to subsidise everyone else.
This is not support. It is a deliberate decision to treat your private tax records and property value as legitimate tools for deciding who gets charged more, then hand that power to private energy companies.
Once the machinery exists, Labour will expand it. The only real question is how far they intend to go.
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
Here's yesterday's 'wind power' (oh I can't stop giggling at the name) electricity production for UK.
Struggled up to nearly 3% but then settled back to a more comfortable 1%..where its stayed until now.
And just think! We've 'invested' (= flushed down the lav) over £200 billion in the wind industry - enough to run the NHS for over a year - in this pathetic, pitiful flibbertigibbet of a power source
The Wind Gods are laughing at us for our stupidity!
Lakesman 🚜 retweeted
To deny the very existence of a people is a profoundly inhumane position - a level of aggression applied to no other group.
Disgusting.
I simply said the strange belief in English ethicity was a racist evil
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
English people are an ethnic group native to England with shared ancestry, history, language and culture per scholarship and genetics. UK Census data includes "English" in official ethnic group categories; John McTernan, born in London, identifies as Irish.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_p…
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McTe…
x.com/Johnmcternan/s…
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When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.
Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.
Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.
They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.
When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.
Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.
If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.
But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.
This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.
I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.
