Dave Baxter @darkblackghost

Look, I'm an atheist so I have no dog in this fight. But this is utter horseshit. Regardless of my lack of belief, this garbage offends my fundamental sense of justice and fairness. You simply cannot treat one religion (or group of ppl) as fair game while the other ones are sacrosanct whose offense must be avoided at all times. A societly simply cannot be healthy when that kind of cherry picking is the norm, where some religions (or some races) are free to mock, ridicule and discriminate against but others are sacred. And to be clear, the solution isnt to make Christianity off limits either, its to make it just as acceptable to make fun of the other religions. We live in a secular society and secularism should be zealously defended; No free and open society can allow de facto blasphemy laws to sneak in through the back door

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The argument for North Sea production is not that oil and gas last forever. It is that Britain still needs them now - and, while it does, there is a massive difference between relying on domestic production and sending ever more money abroad to import it. Approve Jackdaw and Rosebank. Protect high-value jobs, retain supply-chain capability, generate tax receipts and reduce the economic self-harm of becoming more import-dependent before clean alternatives are fully built. That is a transition strategy, not a slogan.

The Climate Change Committee’s costing of offshore wind was wrong by a *factor of three*. Yet Labour MPs still waved through their new Net Zero target with absolutely zero scrutiny. We need far less ideology and much more evidence-based energy policy.

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Les. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @MartinTwigs68

2 days ago

This should be hanging in the entrance to the HoC. So every mp can see it every time they walk into parliament

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Yes Mr Burnham. Things are expensive. Here’s why. Taxed on income Taxed on capital gains Taxed on petrol Taxed on insurance Taxed on flying Taxed on buying most goods and services Taxed on buying property Taxed on owing property Taxed on renting property Taxed on savings Taxed on gambling Taxed on dividends Taxed on buying a new car Taxed for using a car Taxed (in effect) for having a TV Taxed on death for leaving what’s left to loved ones. If you want to cut the cost of living - Cut the State,

🚨 Dutch farmers literally formed a shield of tractors A shield is exactly what free people need against the Agenda 2030 crowd, the WEF, and the politicians and corporations pushing “sustainable” policies that destroy the people who actually grow our food. Farmers across the West are under coordinated attack in the name of SDGs. The result is not sustainability. It is fewer farms, higher costs, and greater dependence on distant supply chains controlled by the same interests writing the rules. Food security is national security. No farmers → no food → no future. 🔥 Share this if you stand with the people who feed us. #WEF #Farmers #SDG #Agenda2030

Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK

2 days ago

🇳🇱EUROPE’S FARMERS ARE ROARING — AND THE WORLD IS WATCHING Thousands of Dutch farmers. Tractors on the streets. A movement refusing to disappear. Footage coming out of the Netherlands is extraordinary. And it raises a question that should concern every European: Why are so

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🚨BEACON ALERT | MISSING SERVING SOLDIER There are growing concerns for the welfare of Liam, aged 22, a serving soldier, who has been reported missing in Northumberland. LAST SEEN: Shortly after midnight in the early hours of Saturday, 15 August 2026, heading towards Wylam from Wylam Bridge. DESCRIPTION - White - 6ft 3ins - Medium build - Dark hair - Tattoos down his right arm LAST SEEN WEARING - Black joggers - Black Nike trainers - Black T-shirt with large text and a diamond logo on the back - Gold chain Extensive enquiries are ongoing to locate Liam, and police and his family are growing increasingly concerned for his welfare. If you have seen Liam, or have any information that could help locate him, please contact Northumbria Police. Police Reference: NP-20260815-0424 Please share, particularly across Wylam and the surrounding areas. #BeaconAlert #MissingPerson

Devon and Cornwall Police, like me, understand the real reason behind these “wildfires”. As I’ve mentioned, it’s well-known in Cornwall that arsonists light these fires for a thrill. Over my many years here I’ve countless times witnessed the moors ablaze. And it has nothing to do with “Climate Change”

PARMOD KALIA IS DEAD He died on 13 March 2026, aged 67, still waiting for the full compensation he was owed. Owed for a crime he never committed. Parmod Kalia ran a Post Office branch in Orpington for 11 years. Clean record, steady business, nothing unusual. Then Horizon showed up and decided he owed £22,000 he never took. He was accused of theft in 2001. Investigators got a confession out of him. He said later it was signed in fear, not guilt. He pleaded guilty because that is what people do when the system makes resistance cost more than surrender. He got 6 months in prison. It took until 2021 for Southwark Crown Court to quash the conviction. @PostOffice didn't even oppose the appeal. Twenty years to undo what one honest look at the evidence should have caught in a week. Through all of it Kalia worked as a foster carer, giving stability to vulnerable children while carrying a criminal record he was too ashamed to mention to the people closest to him. His friend Tim Brentnall said he brought calmness and warmth to whatever room he walked into. Funny how the system managed the opposite for him. Then came the cancer diagnosis. He told ITV News he was taking it one day at a time, hoping his final redress payment might arrive before he ran out of days. It didn't arrive in time. He was one of more than 4,300 subpostmasters still waiting on full and final compensation when he died. Post Office said if there had been retrials there was still a reasonable prospect of conviction, so Kalia wasn't owed full compensation for malicious prosecution. Read that twice. A wrongly convicted, terminally ill man was told the theoretical odds still weren't fully in his favour, so the payment could wait. Meanwhile MPs pointed out that Fujitsu @Fujitsu_UK still hasn't contributed a single penny to the nearly £1.5 billion redress bill for a scandal it built and sold to the Post Office. Not one penny. They can engineer software that jails hundreds of innocent people but apparently a bank transfer is beyond their technical capability. More than 700 branch managers were convicted between 1999 and 2015 because of Horizon's fictional shortfalls. Only a fraction have full settlements. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry @PostOffInquiry keeps recording the names of people who died waiting. Kalia is just the latest entry on a list that should never have existed. He wasn't asking for a favour. He was asking for what he was owed, for a crime he never committed, from a system that has known it was broken for over a decade. SOURCES @BBCNews @ITVNews @ComputerWeekly @PostOffInquiry

In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen; • Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%. • The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000. • Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031. • Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%. • Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%. • Investors’ Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million. • Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime. • Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points. • Savings-income tax rates increased by two percentage points. • Property-income tax rates increased by two percentage points. • Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net. • Agricultural Property Relief restricted. • Business Property Relief restricted. • Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer. • The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence-based system. • VAT imposed on private school fees. • Business-rates relief removed from private schools. • Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy-to-let properties. • The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished. • Pension salary-sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies. • The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under-65s. • A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non-cash ISAs. • Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash-like holdings within ISAs. • The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended. • Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced. • A new Vaping Products Duty introduced. • Tobacco duties increased above inflation. • Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars. • Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system. • A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug-in hybrid cars. • Air Passenger Duty increased. • Climate Change Levy rates increased. • Plastic Packaging Tax increased. • A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced. • Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people. Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades - with no noticeable improvement in public services. Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for retirement... You keep less of what you earn. You keep less of what you invest. You leave less to your family. Death by a thousand cuts is becoming tax policy.

To every person in the UK who doesn’t bother to vote In 1944, 15-year-olds stormed the beaches of Normandy. Boys who had barely left school lied about their age, climbed into landing craft, and ran into machine-gun fire so that this country could remain free. They didn’t have the option of staying home because “it won’t change anything” or “they’re all the same.” They paid in blood so that you would one day have the right to choose who governs you. That right is still yours. Most of you just don’t use it. While you stay home, decisions about your borders, your streets, your taxes, your children’s future and the character of this country are made by people who never have to live with the consequences the way you do. Low turnout is not neutrality. It is surrender. Restore Britain is a party that will listen and put the people and the country first. No more managed decline. No more treating the British public as an afterthought. The message is straightforward, the people who actually live here should come first. You don’t have to wait for some perfect moment. When the chance comes, local elections, by-elections, or a general election, go and vote for them. Register if you need to. Turn up. Put a cross in the box. The boys who hit those beaches didn’t do it so their descendants could shrug and stay on the sofa. Honour what they did by using the freedom they bought. Vote @RestoreBritain

GREAT NEWS! Do you remember these two (criminal) clowns...? They've now both been issued with £1000 fines by North Warks Borough Council. Also, the vehicle they were driving was issued as part of the taxpayer-funded Motability Scheme. This has now been seized by the police on behalf of the Motability company.

britain feels like an early 2000s bbc sitcom at the moment. i know we’re a nation that takes the piss out of everything, but at some point we might have to be serious. the emergency alert system went off last night to tell people not to have a bbq. a man called count binface with a bin on his head just took nearly a third of the vote against the possible next pm. we have a hosepipe ban on a rainy, gloomy island in the atlantic. meanwhile costs up, energy up, debt up. it’s an odd timeline.

Since 2006 the UK has: • Cut grid emissions by ~80% • Cut electricity generation by ~30% • Seen electricity prices rise ~250% • Lost ~600,000 industrial jobs Meanwhile the world increased its emissions by ~30%. Our heroic sacrifice may have stopped global emissions rising by 30.3% instead of 30%. Atmospheric CO₂ moved from 0.038% to 0.042%. Highest electricity prices in the developed world. Higher cost of living. Hollowed-out industry. All to shave a rounding error off the global total.

If @andyburnham had any brains or balls, he’d have gone into COBRA yesterday and said: “Right, everyone’s worried about the weather, water, criminals and immigrants. We’re up to our tits in debt, we can’t go after benefits claimants because we need their votes, and unless someone in the Treasury has recently acquired the ability to control the f*cking sun, there’s not much we can do about that either. So let’s stop funding Indian space programmes, Spice Girls workshops in Sudan, transgender Shakespeare studies, interpretive dance about colonialism and the seventeen hundred diversity officers required to supervise them. Get a crack team of forensic accountants in, open the government books and find out where the billions are actually going. Foreign aid, quangos, consultants, vanity projects, pointless grants, duplicated departments, waste and every other non essential expense. Then take the billions we save and build some enormous fucking reservoirs and some enormous fucking prisons. Water goes in one. Criminals go in the other. It really doesn’t need to be this complicated. Now stop fucking around.” But he wont.

People going around saying we need to save the planet are wrong. The planet will heal and there'll be no trace of us. What we need to save from disaster is ourselves

Breaking news: hydrogen-powered JCB Hydromax sets 406.320 mph world land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. x.com/i/article/2087…

If you're going to have gendered bathrooms, fucking label them properly. I just want to have a piss why am I having to solve a picture riddle to work out where I'm going.

How freaking cool is this?

Ben Leo @Benleo

7 days ago

BREAKING: British business giant JCB officially breaks the world land speed record for a hydrogen powered car. Their 1600bhp Hydromax clocked a whopping 406mph at the Bonneveille Salt Flats in Utah. It was piloted by RAF Wing Commander Andy Green.

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