UAV Drone Pilot Operator since 2012 - A2 CofC and GVC Certified - CAA Operational Authorisation - CAA Swarm Operational Authorisation -
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Mark Wingad retweeted
I was accused of 'whipping up division' across Britain by a Labour Minister in Parliament today.
'Moral bankruptcy', he called it, as their MPs all cheered like performing seals desperate for yet another fish.
The calibre of politicians running our country, compared with the quality, intelligence and decency of the British people they are supposed to represent, is frankly obscene. You cannot believe it.
The lunatics aren't just running the asylum, they've broken out and somehow stormed parliament in sufficient numbers to 'run' the country.
Our people deserve so much better than this shower of arrogant, self-congratulatory, unimpressive mediocrities who have the sheer cheek to lecture the rest of us about morality.
The tragedy of modern Britain is that the people being governed are infinitely more capable than those governing them.
Mark Wingad retweeted
The Chancellor has misled Parliament on borrowing.
The Budget shows borrowing is almost £20bn higher than OBR's March forecast, at £133bn, and £65bn higher over next 4 yrs.
Labour are bankrupting Britain.
Mark Wingad retweeted
Holding the most senior NHS civil servants to account on failing executives receiving such outrageous salaries despite poor hospital performance. My view is to link the leadership pay to league tables and watch the overall scores fly up...
Mark Wingad retweeted
Last night I verified that the DfT is now in operational command of the counter-drone efforts at Jersey with the RAF deployed under Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA).
RAF deploys to Jersey under MACA request after rogue drone incursions @UAVHive has confirmed with MoD press office
suasnews.com/2026/11/suas-ne…
Mark Wingad retweeted
The irony, Jersey literally being known for clear skies, which by the same token means you'll see airliner navigation lights and Starlink flares all the better.
Ideal for a false positive drone drama...
jersey.com/inspire-me/inspir…
Mark Wingad retweeted
Far from it, albeit there is ADS-B & weather data, there is past experience of incidents just like this, I have 8 years examining similar responses, plus I'm a former commercial drone op with night flying experience. Here's a test with a contemporary drone:
Mark Wingad retweeted
ITV are right, if this had been a drone, it would have to fly again to get the pilot. That said all the evidence suggests this is a mistake, so the only way the police will get an arrest is if they stitch-up someone innocent, without an alibi, as was tried with Paul Gait.
Mark Wingad retweeted
This was a clever question by ITV about the Jersey incident, but the answer could be sinister...
I remember Gatwick 2018, every drone owner was treated like a criminal in Crawley, tire prints were taken, satnavs checked, the police wanted to pin the drone on someone, ANYONE.
Mark Wingad retweeted
On behalf of every British taxpayer in the country, I just gave the Chancellor and his pygmy ministers the honest assessment of our public finances.
They did not like it.
Mark Wingad retweeted
It’s been a great year for Flyby Guys.
We even managed to squeeze in a drone show in Taiwan.
What are you doing with a drone?
Mark Wingad retweeted
Jersey has a fully digital backup ATC with a tonne of video cameras, so surely would have been able to use that to capture video evidence of a drone?
frequentis.com/en/pr/jersey-…
Mark Wingad retweeted
@ChristieBail3y I'm not sure if you monitor your X, but it's worth noting drone misidentification is common, drones are NOT highly illuminated to be seen at night.
I helped uncover the mistake at Lakenheath which the BBC covered & I'm happy to provide you with insights.
Mark Wingad retweeted
I'm told by a source that the @RoyalAirForce are being deployed to Jersey, I've not verified this with a 2nd source yet.
Britain's national defence for drone panics is the RAF with @Leonardo_UK ORCUS, usually it finds civilian incidents are simply misidentification.
Mark Wingad retweeted
A reminder the FAA secretly monitored real drone flights in the US for a year & found drone owners rarely ever fly at night or in bad weather.
People have better things to do.
On top of that CISA notes malicious drones will not be illuminated, Leipzig underlined that.
Mark Wingad retweeted
There is already a thread on Metabunk for the Jersey "drone" incidents, that thus far has all the hallmarks of a mistake.
An aircraft that could have been perceived as a drone coincides with a key sighting.
metabunk.org/threads/reports…
Mark Wingad retweeted
💯 concur.
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.