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Pete “The Truth” North nails it again.
Under Labour, things are not going to get any better. You cannot tax your way to prosperity. Small fixes and helping hands don't change the fact that the fundamentals are broken, and are getting worse all the time. Redistributive policies make you poorer in the long run. An increase in minimum wage mean prices go up and fewer people are employed.
Meanwhile, taxes, red tape and regulation deter anyone from starting or expanding businesses. If being bigger and more successful means more administrative burden and more tax, there is no incentive to do better. Not forgetting that if energy is expensive then everything is expensive, and the more expensive it is, the less competitive we are. You can't export things if you can't afford to make them.
This is why the economy is stagnating. Our economic woes are self-inflicted. We are stifling our own growth, making infrastructure more expensive, and killing jobs in the process. As such, there is no recovery without addressing the fundamentals. Britain is over taxed, over regulated, over its head in debt, and more of the same is only going to make matters even worse.
You could have said this at any point in the last twenty five years. Britain cannot afford its spending, much less its welfare burden. The reason the country is so dilapidated is because we have hollowed out state capacity in order to maintain our lavish welfare systems. We cannot go on as we are without some major reforms. Reforms that will be painful.
I believe we are rapidly reaching a crunch point at which all of these factors converge - where we can't borrow any more and the economy cannot sustain our expectations of government. We are set to be much poorer - and colder.
Fixing this will require a complete reassessment of every base assumption of the last two decades. You cannot power a first world economy with windmills. We cannot have a quarter of the workforce claiming benefits. We cannot treat every ailment as a disability. We can't keep punishing innovation with regulation and tax. We cannot keep asset stripping the armed forces to pay for welfare. We cannot afford feed and cloth every hapless biped who rocks up with their hand out.
This, though is the central division in our politics. Labour would have us carry on as we are. Burnham will use out money to buy off his client groups, while keeping us shackled to the EU so that there can be no reform. We simply bleed out over the next decade.
This is what @robertjenrick's latest measures are designed to address. What Reform neglects to state, though, is that much of Jenrick's agenda puts us on a collision course with the EU because much of the Brexit deal is centred on non-regression. We are locked in to the status quo, just as we were as members of the EU. As such, the Brexit question was never satisfactorily resolved.
Burnham wants us to remain shackled to this corpse. We only need look to the rapid deindustrialisation of Germany to see how that pans out. Climate rules are destroying the European car industry - the beneficiary of which is China.
Britain can only reindustrialise if we break from the dogmas of EU. This is what made it necessary to leave in the first place. Since Brexit though, little has been done. We could have repealed the galaxy of EU directives that make everything more expensive and inefficient - but we didn't. The Westminster blob simply doesn't have the will to put us on the right track. Brexit was kicked into the long grass.
To a point, it's understandable. There isn't a popular consensus for making many of the necessary reforms. The dogmas are too deeply entrenched - both in politics and the wider population. The Tory party itself was and is captured by the green blob, and Kemi Badenoch remarked only as week that "of course we still need renewables". The Westminster mindset is anti-growth and anti-prosperity.
That's ultimately the result of thirty years of green propaganda. They will oppose any reform that liberates the economy. Until this is addressed, we are circling the drain, in a state of badly managed decline until we can barely even keep the lights on, and Britain finds itself bankrupt and defenceless.
What’s interesting about Jenrick's reform measures is that they mainly remove artificial inhibitors on growth. Britain’s stagnation is wholly self-inflicted (with a little help from the EU. We’d be a lot better off even even half of them were implemented, but the left would fight to the death to stop any one of them being implemented.
That is the fundamental division in our politics now. It is continuity Brexit politics, up against a ruling class that will tolerate no deviation from the status quo. As @SebMilbank put it this morning, "Much of this is because they have no actual vision of the nation's future, beyond an end of history secular humanist internationalism". Moreover, conceding the need for reform means admitting they've been wrong about absolutely everything for the last half century.
Darren Foley retweeted
Unbelievable.
Britain is ALREADY holding talks with the EU about a return to free movement, The Times reports.
Only 16 weeks after Burnham told Makerfield he wouldn’t “re-open” Brexit.
There is absolutely no democratic mandate for this.
Darren Foley retweeted
🚨🇺🇸 BRAELYN’S STORY JUST MADE FOX BUSINESS! 🇺🇸🚨
What an incredible moment for our family!
Today on Varney & Co., Stuart Varney brought up Steve Moore’s recent Rasmussen Reports article about Braelyn and the barriers seriously ill Americans face in accessing promising experimental treatments!
Steve shared Braelyn’s story and called out the FDA, saying it’s CRUEL to withhold promising investigational treatments from desperately ill patients.
Varney agreed, arguing that patients facing terminal illnesses should have the freedom to accept the risks of experimental treatments without liability concerns preventing companies from providing them.
Then Steve asked a powerful question:
“Whatever happened to my body, my choice?”
He also pointed out that President Trump supports Right to Try, yet significant barriers remain between patients and the treatments they desperately need.
THIS is the conversation we’ve been fighting to bring into the national spotlight!
Our 19-year-old daughter is attending college, and her latest MRI shows no evidence of cancer recurrence. Yet we still have to travel to ENGLAND for her ongoing DCVax-L treatments—developed right here in AMERICA!
We are so incredibly grateful to Steve Moore and Stuart Varney for bringing attention to Braelyn’s story and, more importantly, to the countless patients who deserve a fighting chance.
Patients facing life-threatening illnesses shouldn’t have to fight their own government for the opportunity to fight for their lives.
PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE! ❤️🙏
@realDonaldTrump @DrOzCMS @SecKennedy
#DCVaxForBraelyn #RightToTry #DCVax
#BraelynsFight
$NWBO
Darren Foley retweeted
Climate policies have consequences
EU pays 1.9x US prices and 3x China and India
UK has the costliest electricity in the world
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
The cheap green lie
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems
Data for 2025 shows that
cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly
Sources:
Electricity prices, households and industry, 2025
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind generation, electricity use and consumption weights
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind for countries without IEA 2025 data
ember-energy.org/data
Electricity trade partners, plus industry prices for Norway, Albania, Iceland and Kosovo
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/en…
US industry price
eia.gov/electricity/annual
Australia, IEA 2021 prices updated with official price indices
abs.gov.au/statistics/econom…
South Africa industry price
eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploa…
Taiwan industry tariff
taipower.com.tw
Egypt industry tariff
egyptera.org/en/TarrifAug202…
Tunisia tariffs (archived copy, the STEG site is unreachable)
web.archive.org/web/20250614…
Azerbaijan industry tariff
regulator.gov.az/en/istehlak…
2025 tariff changes applied to IEA 2024 prices
Pakistan: nepra.org.pk
Thailand: erc.or.th
Ghana: purc.com.gh
Paraguay: ande.gov.py
Kazakhstan: stat.gov.kz/en/industries/ec…
GlobalPetrolPrices 2025 averages for 18 countries, read from archived 2025 pages
globalpetrolprices.com/elect…
web.archive.org
Sri Lanka 2025 tariff changes
pucsl.gov.lk/end-user-tariff…
Indonesia solar and wind estimated from official 2025 capacity
esdm.go.id/id/media-center/a…
Statista 2025 averages for China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Singapore, Peru, Argentina and South Africa (data from GlobalPetrolPrices)
statista.com/statistics/1369… (business prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1461… (household prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1173… (Latin America business)
statista.com/statistics/1123… (Latin America households)
statista.com/statistics/1373… (China business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico households)
statista.com/statistics/1617… (South Africa households)
Darren Foley retweeted
Wiele razy pisałem, że wraz z Unią zmierzamy w stronę faszyzmu - ale nigdy nie myślałem, że dożyję czegoś takiego!
Pod obrady Sejmu trafiła Ustawa 3003 "O wrogach ludu" - powielająca ustawy stalinowskie i przebijająca ustawy hitlerowskie. Mówi ona, że jeśli ktoś - osoba fizyczna lub prawna - powie coś, co jest sprzeczne z polityką państwa (w sprawie Ukrainy, CoViDu, walki z klimatem, LGBTQZ - w każdej!) decyzją ministra (!!) może trafić ona (bez swojej wiedzy!!) na listę Wrogów Ludu. Może zostać ukarana do 10 lat więzienia i grzywną do 20 mln zł. I każdy, kto poprze takiego Wroga Ludu - np. wpłacając coś na jego konto (nie wiedząc, że to jest Wróg Ludu!) podobnie - w przypadku firm do 200 milionów!
Przerażające jest to, że zgłosił to rząd, na czele którego stoi były liberał, JE Donald Tusk, Ale jeszcze bardziej przerażające, że odbywa się to w ciszy. Nawet ja o tym do niedawna nie wiedziałem. Odbyły się już dwa posiedzenia komisji (poparły ten projekt ogromną wikszością!), podkomisji - a Sejm przesłał to ponownie do komisji. Jedynie KORONA odważyła się sprzeciwić. KONFEDERFACJA ani razu nie zabrała w tej sprawie głosu, a PiS się kryguje. Żaden dziennikarz nie odważył się podnieść larum, że III Rzeczpospolita staje się III Rzeszą, a nawet gorzej!
Rząd twierdzi, że jest to wypełnienie norm unijnych (nieprawda, znacznie je przekracza!). Twierdzi też, że jest to tylko przedłużenie ustawy PiSu z 2022 - i ma trochę racji. Cała Banda Czworga, jak to im śp.gen.Czesław Kiszczak nakazał - zgodnie to popiera.
Proszę alarmować gdzie się da - nie tylko w kraju, ale i za granicą. To jest coś niewiarygodnego - ale to JEST!
5 listopada protestujemy w Warszawie - ale tu potrzeba środków bardziej skutecznych. Myślmy nad nimi - i działajmy! Bo niedługo przyjdą po nas.
sejm.gov.pl/Sejm10.nsf/Przeb…
Darren Foley retweeted
Why were Jonathan Powell, Peter Mandelson and Lord Hermer appointed without vetting?
The answer is that Chagos was a deal Starmer couldn't refuse to make.
Here's a timeline of the key stages of the Chagos treachery.
In 1982, after it became known that the Chagos seabed may contain vast mineral wealth, Mauritius set up a select committee to examine the matter.
However, sea-mining technology was in its infancy, and it was too expensive to be commercially viable at that time.
In 2003, as underwater mining technologies advanced and the value of minerals and rare earth elements soared, mining the Chagos seabed became an exciting possibility again; Mauritius appointed the eminent international barrister Sir Ian Brownlie as advisor for the Chagos Archipelago.
A former member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Brownlie was a good friend of Sir Satcam Boolell, a former Labour deputy prime minister of Mauritius, and High Commissioner in London.
In 2009, Brownlie led the first Mauritius delegation to the Foreign Office in London seeking a Chagos deal.
Among the delegation was Sir Satcam Boolell's son Satyajit, who became Mauritius Director of Public Prosecutions the same year.
In 2010, after Brownlie died in a motor accident in Egypt, Sir Keir Starmer’s “great mate”, Philippe Sands, a leading human-rights lawyer who has publicly boasted of humiliating the UK in international courts, took over as counsel to Mauritius for Chagos.
In 2013, Satyajit Boolell invited Keir Starmer, whom he had become friendly with during Starmer's time as the UK's DPP, to a legal conference at the 5-star Balaclava resort in Mauritius.
During the trip, Starmer discussed the future of the Chagos Archipelago with then Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam.
After Starmer’s 2013 visit, Ramgoolam wrote that he and Starmer were aligned over Chagos.
In 2015, Ramgoolam was arrested on money-laundering charges when large sums of cash in foreign currencies, suitcases full of brand-new luxury watches, and blank British visas were found in his home.
Also in 2015, Starmer was elected to the British Parliament.
In 2019, Philippe Sands, after a campaign of lobbying the UN, obtained an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only, and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius.
Sands used the ICJ ruling as leverage in the following years in his efforts to persuade the Conservative government to give Chagos to Mauritius.
In 2020, Starmer became leader of the Labour Party.
In 2021, Sands received Mauritius' top honour, The Most Distinguished Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean.
In 2022, Sands made an unauthorized entry into the Chagos Archipelago for a flag-raising ceremony. Sands tweets at the time, “It’s morning on Chagos, where the flag of Mauritius flies."
In 2023, Sands became a Mauritius citizen, but retains his British and French citizenships.
🧧In November 2023, David Cameron replaced James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary and, with the support of other senior Tories, stopped a Chagos deal saying, it’s not in the national interest, as reported in Hansard.
In July 2024, Starmer became UK Prime Minister and just ten weeks after entering Downing Street, he agreed a deal with Mauritius, despite there having been no mention of Chagos during the election campaign, and the Labour manifesto pledging to protect the BOT.
in November of 2024, Ramgoolam was elected Mauritius prime minister again after a snap general election, and took over from the incumbent PM, Pravind Jugnauth, to lead the Chagos negotiations with the UK.
In December 2024, after 14 years in the role, Philippe Sands steps down as Mauritius counsel for Chagos.
In January 2025, Attorney General Lord Hermer recused himself from signing off on the Chagos deal, and declined to say why.
In February 2025, Jugnauth was arrested on money-laundering charges after large sums of cash in foreign currencies and suitcases full of brand-new luxury watches were found in his home.
In May 2025, twelve years after discussing the future of Chagos in Mauritius, Starmer and Ramgoolam sat down in London to sign the treaty that transfers the archipelago's sovereignty to Mauritius.
The Fall Out.
The Chagos deal does🟥NOT secure the joint UK/US military base on Diego Garcia.
The deal operationally hobbles the base, and increases the dangers to the British and American military personnel, and the civilians who work there, and in the wider Central Indian Ocean region.
Diego Garcia's remoteness made it easy to defend in the past. This deal leaves the base horribly vulnerable to the growing threats posed by the new longer-range missiles, and more sophisticated and lethal drones.
When Keir Starmer, Lord Hermer and Vijay Rangarajan, the Director General at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, made the deal it was fully understood that the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago were by far the best locations to deploy early warning, and air-defense systems, to protect the main base from missile and drone attacks.
Yet they still decided to lease only Diego Garcia.
Andy Burnham, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, and Defense Minister Wes Streeting, know the deal increases the dangers to the lives of British service personnel, and our NATO allies personnel, in the strategically important Central Indian Ocean region.
To double down and push the deal with that knowledge is a shameful act of betrayal.
While the deal leaves Diego Garcia vulnerable to attack, it also renders the base itself ineffective and operationally hobbled.
Mauritius is a signatory of the Pelindaba African Weapon-Free Zone Treaty which bans all nuclear weapons from treaty members' territory.
Pelindaba gives each of the more the 40 countries who have signed it the right to inspect the facilities on Diego Garcia if they suspect nuclear arms are being stored there.
The UK's nuclear-armed Trident submarines will no longer be able to enter Chagos waters, or visit Diego Garcia which is the only island in the region which has suitable anchorage and facilities for maintenance and restocking provisions, etc.
The US's nuclear-armed submarines, ships, and planes will also be banned from Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelago's waters.
Mauritius gets complete sovereignty over everything, including control of the airspace above the Chagos Archipelago, which at 250,000 square miles is the same size as France.
The implications of controlling such a vast area of airspace in a strategically vital region are huge.
Mauritius has shown it will ban planes entering its current airspace when China asks.
The Chagos Deal does not ‘secure the base’. It methodically destroys every element required for operations. The text and annexes state it will:
❌Constrain future Ops and use of the base
❌Prevent the placing of sensors and other maritime installations
❌Require us to sight our foes on defence planning
❌Mean we’re unable to use our preferred contractors
❌See us lose of control over electromagnetic spectrum.
Darren Foley retweeted
Astounding Sunday Times investigation reveals new scandal in SNP’s Socialist Scotland:
800 NHS, central government, council and quango workers whose jobs no longer exist but remain on the public payroll because of the SNP’s ‘no public-sector redundancy’ policy.
Estimated cost of paying people to do nothing: £27m a year.
One NHS Highland worker has been receiving a full salary and benefits for 17 years despite not having a specific job.
The health board refused to say what the worker had been doing for almost two decades and how much they had been paid.
Likely cost to the taxpayer is expected to be far higher with several public bodies refusing to disclose salaries for hundreds of the workers awaiting redeployment.
Darren Foley retweeted
The cheap green lie
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems
Data for 2025 shows that
cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly
Sources:
Electricity prices, households and industry, 2025
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind generation, electricity use and consumption weights
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind for countries without IEA 2025 data
ember-energy.org/data
Electricity trade partners, plus industry prices for Norway, Albania, Iceland and Kosovo
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/en…
US industry price
eia.gov/electricity/annual
Australia, IEA 2021 prices updated with official price indices
abs.gov.au/statistics/econom…
South Africa industry price
eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploa…
Taiwan industry tariff
taipower.com.tw
Egypt industry tariff
egyptera.org/en/TarrifAug202…
Tunisia tariffs (archived copy, the STEG site is unreachable)
web.archive.org/web/20250614…
Azerbaijan industry tariff
regulator.gov.az/en/istehlak…
2025 tariff changes applied to IEA 2024 prices
Pakistan: nepra.org.pk
Thailand: erc.or.th
Ghana: purc.com.gh
Paraguay: ande.gov.py
Kazakhstan: stat.gov.kz/en/industries/ec…
GlobalPetrolPrices 2025 averages for 18 countries, read from archived 2025 pages
globalpetrolprices.com/elect…
web.archive.org
Sri Lanka 2025 tariff changes
pucsl.gov.lk/end-user-tariff…
Indonesia solar and wind estimated from official 2025 capacity
esdm.go.id/id/media-center/a…
Statista 2025 averages for China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Singapore, Peru, Argentina and South Africa (data from GlobalPetrolPrices)
statista.com/statistics/1369… (business prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1461… (household prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1173… (Latin America business)
statista.com/statistics/1123… (Latin America households)
statista.com/statistics/1373… (China business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico households)
statista.com/statistics/1617… (South Africa households)
Darren Foley retweeted
One thing that's surprised me about Andy Burnham is the extent to which he just lies.
He says this morning small boats are because of Brexit and "we can't return people".
The FACTS:
In last 5 years of Dublin agreement the UK took in far more migrants than it sent back.
2016: net 200
2017: net 150
2018: net 1000
2019: net 500
2020: net 800
Five years = net 2,500 more migrants than sent back.
Plus, now we'd have to sign up to the migration and asylum pact so the numbers will be enormous.
He knows this. His advisors know this.
They are just lying to you.
Darren Foley retweeted
I’ve written many times about how the soft left on Labour’s backbenches are ‘economic illiterates’. This is proof positive. Beyond redemption in its misunderstanding of markets, supply, demand, taxes.
Nope, that’s not how taxes and price works. The price is determined by demand and supply.
Companies charge the highest price they can given demand. A tax levied on *profits* does not affect a company’s cost ie supply.
Taxes on *windfall* profits (like oil and gas) are the most efficient kind of tax there is.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Corporate profit taxes do not directly shift marginal costs but empirical studies show partial pass-through into higher consumer prices. Windfall taxes on oil and gas have deterred investment and production in practice despite theoretical efficiency on rents.
dadun.unav.edu/server/api/cor…
ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps…
taxfoundation.org/blog/big-oil-p…
scottishfinancialreview.com/2025/09/03/win…
Darren Foley retweeted
🚨 THERE IT IS. IN THEIR OWN ACCOUNTS.
THIS IS WHAT YOU ALL WANTED. CLEAR, DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE OF ORGANISED LOBBYING, LEGAL CHALLENGES AND CAMPAIGNING TO CHANGE UK IMMIGRATION POLICY.
And it comes directly from Care4Calais's own financial statements and annual reports.
Care4Calais isn't just providing humanitarian aid. Its annual reports document years of organised campaigning, lobbying and legal challenges against UK government immigration policies.
HERE'S WHAT THEIR OWN REPORTS REVEAL:
📄 2022 — Annual Report, pp. 5–7
Launched the Stop Rwanda campaign, lobbied for policy changes, challenged the Home Office's pushback policy and distributed legal-help contact leaflets in Calais.
💷 2022 — Financial Accounts, p. 21
Raised £124,797 in a restricted legal fund specifically to challenge the government's Rwanda policy.
⚖️ 2023 — Annual Report, p. 6
Supported 763 people facing possible Rwanda removal and initiated its own legal challenge against the government's use of RAF Wethersfield.
💷 2023 — Financial Accounts, p. 21
Recorded £149,282 in expenditure from its Rwanda legal fund.
📄 2025 — Annual Report, p. 6
Distributed leaflets in France advising people detained after arriving in Britain how to obtain legal assistance to challenge detention and removal.
📨 2025 — Annual Report, pp. 9–10
Reported over 43,000 supporter advocacy actions, including more than 13,000 emails to MPs and 5,000 to the Prime Minister.
🏛️ 2025 — Annual Report, p. 9
Documented meetings with trade unions, parliamentary groups, campaign alliances and Home Office representatives.
💷 2025 — Annual Report, p. 4
Confirmed that local Care4Calais groups had received funding from local authorities.
🚨 NOW HERE'S THE CONNECTION THAT NEEDS SCRUTINY.
On 25 March 2025, the PCS union and Care4Calais jointly launched a proposal for new visa-to-travel routes into Britain.
PCS represents civil servants working in Border Force and the Home Office.
The union confirmed Home Office members helped develop the proposal, which was intended to lobby politicians.
So a union representing people involved in administering Britain's borders was working with a charity actively challenging government immigration policy.
IS THAT ILLEGAL?
Not automatically. Civil servants have trade-union rights. Charities can lawfully campaign and challenge government decisions.
But I believe the public deserves answers.
Who authorised these activities? Were Civil Service impartiality rules respected? How were the campaigns financed? Was public grant funding kept separate from lobbying and litigation?
And who was accountable for ensuring those boundaries were respected?
The evidence of organised campaigning is in their own published records. It does not establish organised crime or unlawful conduct.
I'm following the money, the partnerships and the paper trail.
Care4Calais charity number: 1169048.
PUBLIC AUDIT | WE ARE HOUSE
TRACE. VERIFY. RECORD.
Darren Foley retweeted
The War Criminal Campbell has smeared me and @TuckerCarlson tonight on X. When I knew him he was the willing accomplice at the @DailyMirror of Ghislane Maxwell’s father Robert, usually just carrying his hat and coat. So besotted was he with the greatest thief of the century he broke the nose of a Guardian journalist in Parliament for celebrating the fat thief’s trip to Davy Jones Locker. Later he served the War Criminal Tony Blair with similar gusto. He lied and cheated his way through the Blair era, deceiving parliament and people and world opinion equally. None of this has seen him banished from Labour or the great British media and Establishment society, quite the contrary. That he has turned his grease-gun on Carlson and me says more about the Epstein class who still rule than it does about us.
Darren Foley retweeted
What a day for our club #QPR
I was so proud of the 10 year celebration of the Forever R’s at HT and the brilliant words of @CleverClarkey that articulated how lucky we are to have @AndySintonQPR as our Club Ambassador.
Football and life is about relationships and belonging 👏🏻
Darren Foley retweeted
UK Treasury confirms extra £20bn over five years for the so-called National Wealth Fund (£15bn) and the state-owned British Business Bank (£5bn), which lends to business.
Treasury claims this will support around 100,000 jobs by 2035 in AI, defence and green energy — a figure it has pretty much plucked out of thin air and will never really be tested because by 2035 everyone will have forgotten such a modest announcement.
Two takeaways:
Yet more government borrowing. It’s an addiction.
Illustrates government philosophy: growth will come from a bigger, more activist state. Ho hum.
Darren Foley retweeted
That's funny because at my last strategy meeting with my accountant, they informed me I must use HMRC-recognised Making Tax Digital compatible software, creating an oligopoly for firms like Xero.
I must now also report my company's income every three months rather than once a year, as well as a final report at year end.
So I now have to pay for a Xero subscription.
And pay my accountant more for the increased submissions.
And fuck about with reconciling every three months, rather than once a year.
For HMRC to end up with the same amount of income from me as before.
Fuck off.
Just fuck off.
Fuck off all the way back to Yorkshire, then fuck off some more.
Darren Foley retweeted
This is breathtaking research by Welshmaan on crime committed by migrants in just one week.
🚨 7 DAYS IN THE UK: 110 reports involving 166 migrants or minorities between 15 and 22 October 2026
|- TOTAL
|---- 166 PEOPLE
|---- 110 STORIES
|
|- GUILTY
|---- 90 PEOPLE
|---- 62 STORIES
|
|- CHARGED
|---- 15 PEOPLE
|---- 12 STORIES
|
|- WANTED
|---- 35 PEOPLE
|---- 24 STORIES
|
|- ARRESTED
|---- 13 PEOPLE
|---- 4 STORIES
|
|- OTHER
|---- 12 PEOPLE
|---- 7 STORIES
|
|---- 1 PEOPLE
|---- 1 STORIES
. . . . . . . . . . .
✅ GUILTY
. . . . . . . . . . .
15/10: Former Met Police officer, Sijanta Thapa, has been jailed for 21 months after sexually assaulting a female colleague while she slept following a drinks party
16/10: Illya Priddy has been jailed for 5 months in Staffordshire after smoking inside a public building before being apprehended by two police officers who subsequently found a non-legal lock-knife in his bag
16/10: Reving Abdullah, of Longton in Stoke-on-Trent, has been handed a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for 2 years, after taking a large knife to a doctor's surgery
16/10: Ahmed Ouerfelli has been handed a 12-month SUSPENDED sentence after he went to a pub in Braintree, armed with a Samurai sword to settle a dispute about paedophile allegations
16/10: Zakaria Majeed has avoided jail after being caught on camera hitting a young child
16/10: Ali Mirzai, 31, jailed for 28 days alongside a 4-year Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) after admitting a series of shoplifting offences across Kent
16/10: Hamza Mohammed, 30, jailed for 3 years 3 months after defrauding 2 elderly women in their 80s of £5,222 in High Wycombe and Oxford
16/10: Karol Wieczorkowski, 21, of no fixed abode, has been jailed for only 2 years 6 months after being caught dealing cocaine and cannabis in Milton Keynes, shortly after being released from prison for earlier offences
16/10: Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, has been jailed for 20 years after travelling to Britain to carry out a contract killing for an Iran-backed organised crime gang
16/10: Muhammad Haarith, 23, has been convicted of murdering Matthew Weller, 44, after running him over and dragging him beneath his car before fleeing the scene in Accrington
16/10: Idris Sheikh, a former Bradford care worker, jailed for only 20 months after sexually abusing a vulnerable patient while on the job
16/10: TWO drug dealers jailed after police seized 241 bags of cocaine worth £9,500 as well as more than £11,900 in cash. Mikele Bilali, was jailed for 1 year 10 months and Ervin Hasa for 3 years in Stoke
16/10: THREE people have been jailed after a knifepoint robbery of a man for his luxury watch. Younes Djoudi, Ali Eldahouzze and Abdel El Habchi were jailed for 5.9 years, 5.6 years and 3.6 years in London
16/10: ELEVEN men jailed for a combined 96 years 9 months for their roles in a large-scale cocaine supply and money laundering network operating out of Nottingham
16/10: THREE men jailed after breaking into a man’s home in Bristol, assaulting him and threatening him in a failed attempt to steal a large amount of cryptocurrency. Mohamed Samagassi, Pierre Madzou and Terroll Paul forced their way into the victim’s home in the early hours of 15 May 2026
16/10: Khawaja Hussain, 26, a former worker at a Halal Abattoir in Arley, Warwickshire, has admitted animal cruelty after forcing a sheep against a door and walking on its back
16/10: Azeem Mohammed, jailed for 10 years after defrauding 8 elderly victims between the ages of 77 and 89. He ran a sophisticated banking scam that raked in almost £1.2MILLION, later admitting 8 fraud charges at the High Court in Glasgow
16/10: Mujeeb Rahman Hassani has been given an indefinite hospital order after stabbing a 64-year-old to death in his own home in Cardiff
16/10: Keas Ali, 21, has avoided prison after being convicted of 4 counts of sexually assaulting 2 teenage girls in Cardiff
16/10: Muddasier Hussain, of Oldham, has admitted sexually assaulting a young girl on a bus as well as a woman outside a shop in Scotland
16/10: Image released of Ali Khalid, 33, who operated the ‘Huz’ drug line, supplying crack cocaine and heroin across Dudley. He will be sentenced later this year
16/10: Samuel Csiszar, 23, has been jailed for 22 months after coercing a vulnerable woman into prostitution for his own financial gain. Bradford Crown Court heard that Csiszar, of no fixed abode, controlled the woman's movements, prevented her from seeing friends, took her money to buy drugs and forced her to sell personal belongings, including her phone
19/10: Hassan Khan, 22, has been sentenced to 3 years 2 months at Burnley Crown Court after being caught twice with heroin and crack cocaine alongside just under £1000 in cash
19/10: David Campbell, 37, jailed for 4 years 8 months after driving under the influence of cocaine and hitting a 13-year-old girl in Northfield. The girl was pinned against railings and suffered life-threatening injuries, including a brain bleed, depressed skull fracture and fractured spine
19/10: Bilal Muhammed-Rahmatullah, 61, who has 22 previous convictions for 32 offences, has admitted breaching sex offender registration requirements after failing to notify police of a change of address within 3 days in Birmingham
19/10: Mohammed Zeeshan Sadiq, 20, of Solihull, faces imprisonment after being caught carrying a 12-inch zombie knife and a 7-inch blade near Babbs Mill Park on 27 August
19/10: Alexandre Alberto Santana Da Silva, 49, jailed for two years for Class A drug supply offences in Sudbury. Allegedly, he will face immediate deportation after serving his prison sentence
19/10: Ahmad El Abd, 28, jailed for 5 years 4 months after stabbing a man in his 40s in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. He admitted wounding with intent and possessing a knife in public
19/10: Polish national, Tadeusz Podlasinski, will be sentenced on the 3rd of December after attempting to rape and threatening to kill a woman near an M1 service area in Leicester
19/10: Monzurul Haque has been sentenced in absence to 32 months in prison after being convicted of attempting to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex following online grooming. It is believed he fled to Bangladesh before his trial
19/10: Moatz Elkomsi, 23, of no fixed abode, jailed for 3 years 2 months after officers seized over £100k worth of drugs in Manchester. GMP discovered cocaine, MDMA, ketamine and cannabis hidden in two rucksacks beneath the boot floor of an Audi in Heald Grove
19/10: Mohamed Mohamoud, 22, a Somali-born security guard in Bristol, has been jailed for 12 years after travelling to Somalia in an attempt to join Islamic State (Daesh)
19/10: Daniel Kaminski, 33, jailed for 2 years after sexually assaulting a woman who was too intoxicated to consent. Kaminski, described as a "Polish-speaking man from Dundee", was accused of digitally penetrating the woman at a flat despite being warned by a witness that she was too drunk
19/10: Arjun Nijjar "of Sutton Coldfield" has been jailed for 8 years and 6 months after killing pedestrian Douglas Draper while driving his Mercedes C63 AMG at approximately 83mph in a 30mph zone
20/10: Mohammed Hayaat Khan, 18, sentenced to 4.5 years detention in a young offender institution after being caught with a prohibited revolver, live ammunition, heroin and crack cocaine in Bradford
20/10: Mohammed Tasadiq Khan, a mastermind behind a massive drug operation across England, has been jailed alongside his illicit accountant, Razwan Arif. Khan was jailed for 16 years, and Arif for 9 years 6 months
20/10: Abid Ashraf and Amir Shah have been jailed for 5.7 years and 4 years for heroin and cocaine supply in Nelson
20/10: Amar Manzoor, has been jailed for 22 years following a campaign of rape, violence, stalking and controlling behaviour against 3 different women between 2018 and 2025. He was convicted of 12 offences in total including rape, strangulation, stalking, perverting course of justice and others
20/10: Hayadulla Turkmani, 53, of Hornchurch, has been found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving after running over a passenger moments after dropping him off at his home in Langdon Hills, Basildon
20/10: Three men have been sentenced to a combined 20+ years after they abducted a student before driving her to an isolated location, gang raping her and then abandoning her. They also filmed the sex attack. The men are Arjan Purewal, Jaskaran Thandi and Hassan Jangheer
20/10: Goodness Sokoh, 35, jailed for 21 years following 10 child sexual offences including rape and sexual assault against multiple teenage girls in Buckinghamshire. He groomed them on social media and promised them vapes and cannabis. He raped them instead
20/10: Theo Gottshalk, jailed for 13 years after being charged with 3 robberies as well as knife & gun offences, drug possession with intent to supply, and threatening to chop a teenager's arm off during a mobile phone theft in Nottingham
20/10: Faiser Hussain, 44, has pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in connection with the fatal shooting of another man in Sheffield two decades ago in 2006
20/10: Corinthian Brown has received a 2.5 year SUSPENDED sentence for supplying heroin and crack cocaine across North East Derbyshire
21/10: Yusuf Shah, 18, from East London, jailed for 4 years 4 months following terrorism offences. He collected Al-Qaeda bomb-making and weapon manuals, advised terrorists how to avoid detection while making cryptocurrency payments, and even produced a cybersecurity guide for the terrorist group Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP)
21/10: Jignesh Patel, 46, and Rahil Patel, 42, have each been jailed for only 6 years after defrauding the NHS of £1.3 million through fake prescriptions for expensive medicines, including cancer treatments. This occurred via the Wise Pharmacy in Edmonton, North London
21/10: Omet Fazily, 26, and Hanif Walizada, 21, have been sentenced after supplying heroin and crack cocaine in Cheshire as part of an Afghan controlled drug line
21/10: Former Scotland police officer, Dilexan Aloysious, has been jailed for 12 months after being caught drug dealing in Glasgow and Lanarkshire. Aloysious, 32, was stopped by police 3 times between January and July 2025, with officers recovering cocaine worth £5,960, cannabis worth £3,040 and 83%-pure crack cocaine worth £11,200
21/10: Moroccan national, Mohammed Benradi, has been jailed for 8 years 6 months after raping a woman at a property in Toxteth, Liverpool. He followed the grandmother home before raping her after waiting until she slept
21/10: Eritrean convicted rapist, Mebrahtom Abrha, has been jailed for 6 months after failing to disclose two bank accounts to police, breaching his sex offender requirements
21/10: Fabian Pawlowski, of Banstead, has been jailed for 4.6 years after robbing 3 young men of their mobile phones on the London Underground. He carried out the robberies on the Metropolitan and Jubilee lines, using violence and knives to intimidate his victims
21/10: Txomin Huare-Place was already serving 6 years for watch robbery and has now been sentenced to another 2.9 years for his involvement in a £65k watch robbery in Mayfair. His accomplice, Ahmed Djidi, was also jailed for 22 months for his involvement in the ripping of the Patek watch
21/10: Amin Belechguer, most likely from Morocco, has been jailed for 4 years after pulling in front of a blue-lighting police car which was responding to a call. He taunted them into a high-speed chase before his bike was disabled by a stinger. Police then discovered large amounts of footage on his devices showing him riding at almost 200mph and dangerous driving across London, Kent and Essex
21/10: Footballer Ali Abboud, from Perth, has avoided jail after sexually assaulting a 65-year-old man on a train in Scotland
21/10: Mousa Alsharki, 49, a Syrian refugee living in Cardiff, has been jailed for 17 years for raping a woman twice and attempting to pervert the course of justice
21/10: Dilshaw Omar Kawani, 53, a vape shop manager in Poole, Dorset, has been jailed for 8 years for sexually exploiting teenage girls by offering them free vapes and then sexually assaulting them
22/10: Sami Aharroud, "of Splott" in Cardiff, whose name has Moroccan origins, has been jailed for 10 years for a rape committed 20+ years ago
22/10: Three Romanian migrants have been jailed for a combined 13+ years after stealing more than £40k from vulnerable and elderly victims across England. They are Ionut Matei, Vasile Ciubotaru and Ramonel Mandache
22/10: Patryk Medrala, likely of Polish descent, has been jailed 3.6 years for throwing his friend from a moving car after a night out in Alwalton. This caused injuries including a broken jaw. Medrala sped off and failed to stop for police, who deployed a stinger
22/10: Oumar "Omizz" Traore, apparently aged 17, is due for sentencing today after stabbing another teenager to death in a postcode gang battle. Traore was part of the B20 gang of Handsworth
22/10: Rasharn Francis has been jailed for 5 years 7 months for supplying heroin and cocaine in High Wycombe between November 2025 and February 2026
22/10: Faisal Razzaq has been jailed for life for his central role in a London firearm network. He was also once jailed for the manslaughter of a police officer in the 2000. An accomplice, Abdul Rahman Sale, was also one of the total five sentenced in this case, receiving 7 years 6 months
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⏳ CHARGED
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16/10: London MET Officer, Harman Singh, charged with Attempted rape, 3 counts of sexual assault and Intentional strangulation
16/10: Warqaas Parvez has appeared in court accused of NINE counts of rape alleged between 2024 and 2026. After pleading not guilty, he's been granted UNCONDITIONAL bail ahead of his next appearance at Leeds Crown Court
16/10: Hasan Sharif, 26, has denied a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a sheep at a Halal Abattoir in Arley, Warwickshire, but is due to appear at Coventry Magistrates' Court next April
19/10: Polish national, Boguslaw Walczyk, 45, charged with the murder of a father-of-three who was found dead at The Foyer on Stoke Road
20/10: Muja Ervin, 21, has been charged with drug supply, money laundering-related and driving offences following a police pursuit in Rugeley, Staffordshire
21/10: Abdisamad Siad has been charged with assaulting 3 Jewish women in Hackney, London. He also faces a separate charge of GBH in connection with a an attack on 4th woman believed to be known to him in Islington
21/10: "Derby man" Sindiso Sibanda, likely of Zimbabwean descent, has been charged with GBH after a police officer was hospitalised during a pursuit in Derby. Additional charges relate to motorcycle theft and 4 motoring offences including driving without licence or insurance
21/10: Two people charged by West Mids Police after a man was stabbed on a bus in Birmingham City Centre on 13 October
22/10: Mohammed Akram, 49, has been charged with 15 offences following a child sexual exploitation investigation in Bolton. Charges include 5x child abduction, 5z arranging travel for exploitation, 4x sexual assault, 1x sexual activity with child and 1x possession with intent to supply
22/10: Two men, likely of Turkish and Vietnamese origin, have been charged and remanded in custody following the discovery of a cannabis cultivation operation in Hereford. Cihan Oral, of London, and Loi Ha, of no fixed abode, are due to appear today in Kidderminster Magistrates Court
22/10: Three people have been charged in Sheffield relating to supply of Heroin and Cocaine. The youngest charged, being 16, also has charges relating to blackmail and intimidation with an imitation firearm. The charged include Mohammed Ahmed and Bilal Shah, both of Sheffield. The boy, 16, cannot be named due to age
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16/10: 7 PEOPLE have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in Bradford. It's believed they are assisting 2 convicted child rapists who absconded during their trials
20/10: Thames Valley Police were previously looking for 4 people after two 14-year-old girls were taken to a secluded area in Oxford before being raped and sexually assaulted. 3 have been arrested; 2 were bailed pending further investigation, another was released without suspicion, meanwhile the fourth still hasn’t been apprehended
22/10: Staffordshire Police have arrested someone described as "a black man wearing all black aside from beige trousers". While wielding a machete, he attempted to stop a car on Pinfold Avenue in Norton
22/10: Two men arrested and detained by Thames Valley Police under suspicion of the rape and attempted rape of two women in Milton Keynes
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17/10: West Midlands Police are seeking a cultured gentleman who spat on a teenage girl twice before trying to steal her bag on the Walsall-936 bus
18/10: West Midlands police added three men to their most wanted list: Haben Fustom, Ceejay Williams and Farhad Khoram
19/10: West Midlands Police seek to identify three men after they attacked a man at a Soho service station in Birmingham before stealing his keys
19/10: Crimestoppers are offering £7500 reward for the whereabouts of Emmanuel Sakyi, 31, of Milton Keynes. In absence, he's been sentenced to 15 years in prison for causing the death of his 7-month-old daughter, Emmanuela, in a drink-driving crash. He is currently on the run
19/10: Thames Valley Police have released an e-fit after a woman reported being followed by a black or mixed race man who approached her asking for directions. He then grabbed her wrist and forced her hand against his groin. This happened on Gallys Road in Windsor
19/10: Police are appealing to identify a man after a woman was punched in the face and a man was slashed with a knife on Bristol Bridge. The suspect is described as a cubby 5-foot-8 black man in his 20s, with "afro-style hair and beaded braids"
19/10: Sussex police are hunting this trio of Tanned Europeans after a newlywed couple had around £500 worth of honeymoon clothes stolen from their apartment building in Hove
20/10: Police in Bristol would like to speak to a lady of high class after a bus driver in his 50s was assaulted at Bristol Bus Station off Marlborough Street. The attack led to minor hospital treatment
20/10: Police in Dover want to speak to a tanned European man after he approached a father with a prammed baby. He then made a comment about the child before trying to pull the pushchair away from the father on Pencester Road
20/10: Met Police are looking for a Tanned European man caught on CCTV after A woman in her early 20s was dragged into a building entrance on Church Road in Islington. She was assaulted and subjected to an attempted rape. Two members of the public intervened after hearing her cries for help. The alleged suspect then fled towards Angel
20/10: Police are appealing for help locating Emmanuel Osinaike, 27, from Falmouth, who is wanted in connection with a breach of court bail. He's also known as Tyrone or Ty, and sometimes wears a headwrap scarf. Links to Falmouth, Truro & St Austell in Cornwall
20/10: Northamptonshire Police have released CCTV of a man following a theft in St Crispin’s Close, Burton Latimer. The incident happened on Thursday, October 15, at about 7.50am, when a lawnmower and handheld jigsaw was stolen
20/10: Transport Police released an image of a man in after reports that he sat next to a woman on a train between Birmingham and Derby, before repeatedly commenting on her appearance and then sexually assaulted her. He got off at Derby station
20/10: Northamptonshire Police are seeking the location of Andre Da Silva, 31, who is wanted following allegations of assault in the Corby area
20/10: Reports have been received that 4 black men robbed another man of two Rolex watches outside Costa Coffee in Queensway, Bletchley, at around 5pm on Tuesday, 13 October. One of them threatened him with a blade during the theft
20/10: West Midlands Police are hunting a man in Dudley after a teenage girl reported being sexually assaulted on the X21 bus which was moving through Draycott Drive at the time of the attack
21/10: Hampshire Police are looking for two "tanned women" and one "Asian man" after £1,460 worth of items were stolen from Next at Solent Retail Park in Havant
21/10: Transport Police are looking to identify a middle-eastern-looking man after a number of high-value luggage thefts have been reported on trains travelling in and out of London. After one incident, the man got off at Peterborough on 8th July with over £30,000 worth of goods
21/10: West Midlands Police are looking for a darker man after he chased another man onto a bus before stabbing him in Birmingham city centre on 13 October
21/10: North Yorks Police are appealing for witnesses after a Romanian man allegedly assaulted a woman following an argument on a bus travelling from Scarborough to Eastfield
22/10: Gwent Police are looking for Dwayne Zungunde who has been recalled to prison after breaching his licence conditions. Links to Newport and Torfaen
22/10: Hampshire Police want to speak to a man after he was reportedly seen on a bus from Andover to Winchester touching himself inappropriately, viewing indecent images and videos, and purposely positioning his phone so other passengers could see the content
22/10: hames Valley Police are looking for Feisal Saleh who failed to return to HMP Springhill, which is an open prison in Buckinghamshire. He was released on temporary bail but did not return - surprise. Links to Milton Keynes and Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
22/10: British Transport Police have released an image of a man following the theft of a suitcase worth nearly £1,500, including its contents, from a train in North Yorkshire. The suspect then got off the train at Northallerton railway station
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16/10: Mohammed Amaaz has had an appeal to reduce his prison sentence rejected after battering a police woman in Manchester Airport
16/10: Taliban fighter, Munir Farooqi, has died in HMP Frankland in Durham while serving 4 life sentences for terrorism offences. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has launched an investigation into his death
19/10: Convicted ISIS terrorist, Mohammed Yaseen, was spotted shopping at a Co-op in Windsor
20/10: Valdo Calocane, 35, the Nottingham triple killer, is among approximately 2,500 convicted criminals in secure psychiatric hospitals who have been receiving up to £800 per month in state benefits while serving sentences
20/10: Ilia Belov and his sister have announced they plan to appeal their sentences despite receiving no jail time after assaulting and speaking sexually to a 12-year-old girl in Dundee, Scotland. They wish to appeal being given community orders
22/10: Locals have claimed a migrant man has been loitering and harassing women in Hebburn New Town. When told "NO" he allegedly continues to follow them around the town centre
22/10: A judge has discharged the jury in the trial of 5 men accused of a brutal machete attack in Bradford following allegations of jury tampering. The suspects are Mohammed Waqqas Khan, Rahees Khan, Hanzalah Saladin, Adam Takolia, fifth man who cannot be named
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21/10: A 26-year-old "illegal visitor" has been deported for a second time after dangerously cutting in front of an unmarked police car in Nottingham. Officers stopped him on 24 SEPT before discovering he'd already been deported once in June 2026
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We can't have cheap energy because the government has decided against it. We can't have functioning borders because the government has decided against it. We can't have decent paying jobs because the government has decided against it. We can't have safe communities because the government has decided against it. We can't have viable armed forces because the government has decided against it. I struggle to think of any major problem afflicting this country that isn't a conscious choice of the people who rule us.
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