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Mark Cooke retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister sends a message to the EU:
"Perhaps it is now clear to everyone why Hungary has the strictest possible approach to migration, and why we will NOT weaken our border protection or immigration policy under any pressure." 🇭🇺🇫🇷
Mark Cooke retweeted
🚨 THE STAGGERING DAMAGE LABOUR INFLICTED ON GREAT BRITAIN IN JUST SEVEN DAYS!
I need every taxpayer to look at the absolute trail of destruction Burnham and his cabinet left behind over the past week alone.
While working families struggle to pay their bills, the Westminster establishment has been busy dismantling our country piece by piece:
*The Ministry of Justice paused tougher life sentences for child rapists just to save 350 prison beds, right after releasing hundreds of convicted criminals onto our streets.
*Burnham openly floated a second Brexit referendum on television and confirmed that dragging Great Britain back into the European Union is firmly on the table.
*Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy backed a disgraceful plan to force every household to pay a mandatory BBC tax on their broadband bills even if they do not own a television.
*Nature Minister Jenny Riddell Carpenter publicly smeared traditional British country pubs, pints of ale, and pet black labradors as a dangerous far right fantasy.
*Shabana Mahmood approved blowing 250 million pounds to dump a massive migrant compound into the tiny Oxfordshire village of Piddington while British veterans sleep rough.
*Justice Minister Jake Richards went on BBC Question Time and deliberately refused to commit to stopping the small boats until the studio audience groaned in absolute disgust.
These out of touch socialists are treating our nation like a radical ideological playground and bleeding the domestic working class dry to pay for it!
I am sick to death of watching arrogant politicians destroy the country my grandparents built!!
Retweet this immediately to expose the disastrous reality of this government to every single voter before they do any more damage. 🇬🇧🔥
Mark Cooke retweeted
Here’s a little reminder of what Thatcher actually achieved after the mess left by Labour, this was true leadership:
83% → 40% top-rate income tax
33% → 25% basic-rate tax
29.5m → 1.9m days lost to strikes
55% → 67% home ownership
3m → 11m individual shareholders
1.9m → 3.5m self-employed
49.5% → 28% national debt as a share of GDP
Over 1 million council tenants became homeowners through Right to Buy.
British Steel went from a colossal loss-maker to £733m profit.
BT was privatised. British Airways was transformed from a loss-making nationalised airline into a profitable global carrier.
Nissan came to Sunderland. Toyota to Derby. Honda to Swindon.
Exchange controls were abolished. The City was transformed by the 1986 Big Bang, helping London grow into one of the world’s leading financial centres. Financial services expanded significantly, attracting investment, creating high-value jobs and generating substantial tax revenues that supported the wider UK economy. Even Labour governments recognised the City’s success as an important national asset and built on Britain’s position as a global financial hub.
Britain became a net oil exporter.
And internationally, Thatcher stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Reagan, built a remarkable relationship with Gorbachev and was one of the West’s most formidable opponents of Soviet communism.
Three election victories. 11 years in Downing Street.
Agree with every Thatcher policy or not, @andyburnham, but let’s not rewrite history.
She didn’t just govern Britain — she changed it.
And compared with today’s politicians, she had something increasingly rare:
Conviction. Courage. And the willingness to actually do something about Britain’s problems.
THAT’S WHY WE MUST VOTE FOR NIGEL AND REFORM🤷🩵🇬🇧
Mark Cooke retweeted
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and the UK government have repeatedly clarified that Sharia law forms no part of the official legal system of England and Wales
If this is the case why is the DWP advertising a job?
Mark Cooke retweeted
Foreign nationals are 71 per cent more likely than Brits to commit sex crimes.
Afghans are more than TWENTY times more likely.
Labour hold all the data on crime and nationality.
But they are covering it up. We want it released.
Mark Cooke retweeted
YEY! Brilliant news. The hotel bill is down and 73,000 illegal migrants claiming asylum have been dispersed into housing across the country, adding pressure to housing, rental prices and crime figures.
oh and that's only estimated to cost £15.3 BILLION by 2029, a 240% increase on the original estimate in 2019.
oh and excellently... that now frees up hotel rooms for all those failed asylum seekers living in tents on the streets to be inside by Christmas.
And the other bit of really good news is that the Home Office only spent £58 MILLION in 2024/25 on voluntary returns, including financial support for migrants to leave the UK. 👏👏👏
A little over two years into office and the asylum backlog is down, the number of asylum seekers in hotels is falling, illegal working arrests are at record levels, and deportations and returns are up markedly.
Small boats numbers are also now falling, but we are not complacent and there is more we must do. That is why I have boosted enforcement on the French beaches and overseas, and introduced new legislation to tackle the pull factors that draw people here through unsafe and illegal routes.
This government is restoring control at our border and fairness to the migration system.
Mark Cooke retweeted
🚨Hotel numbers halved. That’s the headline. The rest doesn’t hold up.
16,021 people in hotels at end of June 2026 — down 50% from 32,041. True.
They were moved into houses, flats and HMOs. About 69,000 now live in communities. Total on asylum support is still around 93,000.
The hotels closed. The people didn’t leave.
“Asylum backlog down” only covers initial decisions (around 40,000).
The appeals backlog hit a record 87,450 cases by March 2026 — up 70% in a year, covering roughly 114,000 people waiting an average 67 weeks.
Faster refusals just shifted the queue into the courts. The overall caseload is not cleared.
The 80,286 “returns and deportations” since July 2024 mix enforced removals with voluntary departures.
Only 19,622 were enforced. Only 11,733 were foreign national offenders.
Only 6,103 were small-boat arrivals — 7.6% of the ~81,000 who crossed since the election.
Most of the 80k figure is not forced removal of Channel arrivals.
Small boats are down in 2026. They are not low.
The fall tracks a wider drop in irregular arrivals into the EU. The France returns deal sent back about 1,100 people.
Illegal working arrests *are* up. That claim stands. However less than 3% are detained rest are bailed.
Hotel use fell because people were dispersed into towns and villages, not because the system is under control.
Initial decisions sped up; appeals exploded. The 80k returns number is not 80k deportations of recent illegal arrivals.
Sources
gov.uk/government/pub…
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
lbc.co.uk/article/asylum…
itv.com/news/2026-08-2…
express.co.uk/news/politics/…
refugeecouncil.org.uk/press-……
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.u……
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08……
A little over two years into office and the asylum backlog is down, the number of asylum seekers in hotels is falling, illegal working arrests are at record levels, and deportations and returns are up markedly.
Small boats numbers are also now falling, but we are not complacent and there is more we must do. That is why I have boosted enforcement on the French beaches and overseas, and introduced new legislation to tackle the pull factors that draw people here through unsafe and illegal routes.
This government is restoring control at our border and fairness to the migration system.
Mark Cooke retweeted
🚨 SHOCK ADMISSION: PAT MCFADDEN CONFIRMS 4.2 MILLION PEOPLE ARE SIGNED OFF WORK INDEFINITELY UNDER UNIVERSAL CREDIT!
Good morning to the millions of everyday, hardworking Brits setting your alarms in the dark to go and earn an honest living.
You drag yourself out of bed, work 40 or 50 hours a week, and watch your wages get decimated by record taxes just to pay soaring mortgage and energy bills.
And what is your hard earned money being spent on?
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden has openly confessed that Britain's welfare system is completely broken, revealing that out of 8.4 million people on Universal Credit, a staggering 4.27 million have zero requirement to seek employment!
Over one million young Brits are now sitting at home completely out of work or education, while the national welfare bill heads toward an astronomical 400 billion pounds.
The system does not reward your effort. It punishes the grafter!
You break your back every single day so the state can subsidise economic idleness and treat you like an absolute cash machine!
Mark Cooke retweeted
🚨BREAKING: The National Lottery caught funding illegal migrants entry into the UK
Investigation shows:
- £114 MILLION given to left wing pro migration organisations
- £10 MILLION to the UK Refugee Council
- Nearly £5MILLION to the Scottish Refugee Council
- Nearly £6 MILLION given to Refugee Action
The list goes on
On Refugee Actions website they describe Britain as a 'hostile environment for refugees'
They go on to say the system "cannot be reformed, so we must work with partners to demolish it, transform the asylum system and build a future rooted in the fundamental right to move, underpinned by a commitment to anti-racism".
"It's time we all recognised just how rooted the asylum system is in colonialism and the ashes of Empire. Then and only then can we create a just and welcoming system."
And the LOTTERY is funding these people
Absolutely disgraceful
Mark Cooke retweeted
UK energy policy just got even more bonkers:
The Burnham Government is considering investing billions of pounds in new facilities to import foreign LNG, even though it refuses to issue any new licenses for North Sea gas, which emits 3/4 times less CO2 than imported LNG. Madness.
Mark Cooke retweeted
The Government introduced an official definition of Islamophobia — repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — which has had a chilling effect on free speech.
Since its publication in March, the definition has been weaponised — as the FSU warned it would be — to silence those who legitimately criticise, debate, challenge or mock Islam. It amounts to a de facto Islamic blasphemy law.
The FSU exposed that all five members of the Working Group tasked by Angela Rayner, the then — and now newly reappointed — Communities Secretary, with drafting the definition had troubling links to Islamist organisations. These included the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND, organisations with which successive governments have adopted policies of non-engagement due to their extremist views.
It has now been revealed that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government deleted all the responses to the Working Group’s five-week Call for Evidence.
This is shocking. It means the Government has effectively reintroduced Britain’s blasphemy laws 18 years after Parliament voted to abolish them — for Islam alone — and then deleted the evidence that would allow the process to be properly scrutinised.
The public will rightly have questions. The lack of transparency is alarming.
Was there ministerial direction to delete these responses? If so, which minister gave it? What have they got to hide? And could Islamist extremists really have been allowed to help draft this new, state-sponsored Islamic blasphemy law?
Serious questions must be answered.
Read Shadow Justice Secretary @NJ_Timothy’s letter to the Interim Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 👇
Mark Cooke retweeted
‼️ Remember that extra £65 MILLION of support for farmers? Where £50 million was tied to sustainability and the environment?
Now look at what taxpayers have been funding in agriculture ABROAD.
In just the last 2 YEARS, I can identify around £324 MILLION of NEW UK government backed commitments and investments into overseas farming, agriculture and food production.
▪️ DR Congo climate-smart agriculture - £38 MILLION
▪️ African agricultural businesses through AgDevCo - £24.3 MILLION
▪️ Indonesian sustainable palm oil/agricultural commodities - £4.6 MILLION
▪️ AgDevCo overseas agribusiness investment - £37 MILLION
▪️ African agricultural commodities/ETC Group - £74 MILLION
▪️ Pakistani farmers, dairy & poultry/climate resilience - £55 MILLION
▪️ Nigerian sustainable cocoa production - £30 MILLION
▪️ African cashew & sesame production - £15 MILLION
▪️ Indian regenerative agriculture & soil carbon - £7.4 MILLION
▪️ Nigerian smallholder farmers/climate resilience -£5.5 MILLION
▪️ Ukrainian food & agriculture sector - £25.7 MILLION
▪️ Kenyan food & agricultural businesses - £7.4 MILLION
So that’s £324 MILLION in the last 2 years to foreign farming projects.
And on top of that, over the past 15 years ish, another £670 MILLION was allocated to longer running overseas agricultural programmes.
That’s almost £1 BILLION of taxpayers money.
Whatever indirect benefits government claims, the immediate benefit goes to farmers, businesses and economies abroad! Spend that money on British farming …. and the jobs, production, tax receipts, economic benefit and food security stay here! 🤡
Mark Cooke retweeted
Data center carbon emissions have reached 286 million tonnes in 2025, significantly exceeding projections by 57%.
AI currently accounts for 15% to 20% of data center electricity consumption, a figure projected to surge to 40% by 2030.
Data centers are projected to consume approximately 1.2 trillion liters of water annually by 2030.
But hey, let’s have hosepipe bans, reduce red meat consumption, and drink from plastic bottles with tethered caps…
Mark Cooke retweeted
This should be hanging in the entrance to the HoC. So every mp can see it every time they walk into parliament – at Wawne, England
Mark Cooke retweeted
🚨NEWS: The UK Government has confirmed it recorded 74,727 rapes in the year ending to March 2026
The UK has become the rape capital of Europe with attacks on women and girls at an all time high since records began
We all know why
Mark Cooke retweeted
Our country is drowning in £3 trillion of debt, and still our government give away £billions in foreign aid, spend countless £millions on illegals and foreign criminals, and promote a ballooning welfare system.
Business and workers are taxed to the hilt.
This lunacy has to stop.
Mark Cooke retweeted
🚨NEW: The Home Office has given the ‘Islamic Centre of England’ powers to sponsor visas for “skilled workers” and religious ministers
This charity is an alleged outpost of the Iranian regime in London
[@Telegraph]
