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🚨LEAKED: A Woman in Leicester has sent me this. Her granddaughter brought it home from Orchard Mead. This is what children are being given to read. The worksheet is called “What is far right?” The questions are who Tommy Robinson is, whether the Nazis were far right, and how social media is used to encourage support. The reading beside it is a BBC write up of the Southport protests, with Hope Not Hate quoted as the authority. Page 39. Orchard Oath at the bottom. That is not history. It is a sorting exercise. Concern about illegal immigration, a knife attack, and parents who do not want criminal illegal aliens dumped on their streets gets filed next to the Nazis. A school in Leicester is teaching children that the people who object are the danger, and that an anti racism research group is the neutral voice. No equivalent sheet on grooming gangs. No sheet on the boats. No sheet on what the Southport families were actually told. It is disgusting. Parents should see exactly what is being put in front of their children.
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Don't forget the Goldens ❤️
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The lovely people at Fabulous Films have given me one of these to give away. You will get it a couple of weeks before it's released. All you have to do is retweet this tweet & I will select a winner at random. Good Luck!! fabulousfilms.com/products/m…
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Once the best in the world, British justice has become a joke. A jury just found this Palestine Action supporter not guilty of vandalising the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square. Caspar San Giorgi, 39, from the Netherlands, was prosecuted for causing around £7,000 worth of damage to the statue in February. He reportedly told prosecutors at Southwark Crown Court that the alleged act was intended as a political message to the Prime Minister and Parliament over the UK’s position on the Israel-Hamas war. Downing Street condemned the vandalism at the time as “completely abhorrent”, while describing Churchill as “a great Briton”. This is yet another example of criminal proceedings failing because the criminality was carried out ‘for Palestine’. If a jury delivers a “not guilty” verdict, even if the facts are absolutely clear, jury nullification is final. There is nothing to be done in this case. Today is yet another victory for two-tier justice in Britain as Palestine activists break our laws with impunity.
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Nick Ferrari was left STUNNED on @LBC as School Standards Minister Georgia Gould defended the NSPCC change and could not bring herself to rule out male teachers watching young girls get changed. Ferrari: “Are you in favour of female teachers watching boys change for swimming and vice versa?” Gould: “If the right safeguards are in place for younger children then that, that…” Ferrari cuts her off, visibly shocked: “What? Male teachers watching young girls change for swimming? You’re comfortable with that?” She doubled down. As long as “safeguards” are in place, it’s basically fine. She even compared it to male nursery staff changing her child’s nappy. This is the School “Standards” Minister. Labour keep proving they have no “standards” left. Just when you think it cannot get worse, and that Andy Burnham might drag a bit of common sense back, a minister is on national radio defending this. Girls are entitled to privacy from adult males when they get changed. That is not complicated. It is basic safeguarding. Totally unacceptable!
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His eyes when he discovers straws are fucking amazing 😭 nitter.gq/Yoda4ever/status/20916…
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A Muslim country is warning Europe about Islamism. Not Christian conservatives. Not the "far right". Not anyone you can wave away as an Islamophobe. The United Arab Emirates. The UAE has spent years taking a hard line against political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood, which the country classifies as a terrorist organisation. And in June 2026, the UAE's ambassador to the EU, Mohammed Ismail Al Sahlawi, sat in the European Parliament at a conference with this title: "Muslim Brotherhood: a real threat to Europe." Hard to misread. The warning was about the Brotherhood's methods. Infiltrating European societies and institutions, influencing political decisions, spreading extremist ideology. Read that again. A Muslim country is warning Europe about political Islam. And here is what matters most! Islamism is not only the man with a rifle or a suicide vest. That is the outermost, violent expression of it. Islamism can also work slowly. And politically. Through organisations, universities, religious institutions, activism, lobbying, political and institutional influence. That is exactly why it is so dangerous to look only for the man with the bomb belt. Because Islamism can arrive in a suit. It can hold a university degree. It can run an organisation. It can sit close to political decision makers. And it can learn to speak the West's own language about tolerance, rights and diversity, while working for values that collide with liberal democracy. And no. This is not just something the UAE claims. Britain's own government has investigated the Muslim Brotherhood. The British review found that Brotherhood-associated and Brotherhood-influenced groups in the UK had, at various points, held significant influence over the largest Muslim student organisation, national Muslim organisations in dialogue with the government, charities and some mosques. The same review concluded that parts of the Brotherhood's ideology and activities run counter to democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, equality, and mutual respect and tolerance between faiths. So this is not only about terror. It is about ideology. And now comes the part that should stop every European in their tracks. The UAE has become so concerned about Islamist radicalisation at British universities that British universities have been removed from the list of institutions where Emirati students can receive state scholarships. Young Emiratis are still free to study in Britain. With their own money. The UAE simply will not pay for it anymore. A person with direct knowledge of the discussions put it plainly to the Financial Times: "They don't want their kids to be radicalised on campus." Sit with that for a second. A Muslim, Arab country is worried about sending its Muslim young people to Britain, because it fears they will be radicalised there. If that does not trigger some soul-searching in Europe, I don't know what will. Because the UAE's point is precisely this. You make a fatal mistake if you only start caring about Islamism once someone picks up a weapon. The ideological process may have started years earlier. The UAE's foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has said: "Daesh, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have fed off a wider current of extremist ideas." He pointed specifically at political Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, which in his view have spent decades spreading those narratives. He called them "backward-looking". And said they "reject open, pluralistic societies." This is a Muslim foreign minister saying it. And there is something else I want to make very clear! THE UAE IS NOT THE WEST. It is not Europe. It is not a Western liberal democracy. It is a Muslim, Arab country with a different culture, a different form of government and different traditions. And there are aspects of the UAE's political system and human rights record that we would never accept in a Western democracy. This is not to be romanticised. But the UAE has fought political Islamism for decades, an ideology its leadership believes has undermined and destabilised the Middle East. And which they now openly warn is seeking influence in Europe and the rest of the Western world. Their foreign minister has spoken about the need to show that you can be "modern, Arab and Muslim." That distinction is one Europe desperately needs to understand. You can be a Muslim and still reject political Islam, extremism, antisemitism and religious intolerance. And notice one more thing. THE VIEW OF WOMEN IS PART OF THAT FIGHT. Abdullah bin Zayed has directly criticised Islamist ideologies for their "denigration of women's role in society." The UAE has not just talked about it. The country has made women's education, economic participation and leadership official state policy. Women are to be educated. They are to work. They are to be able to start businesses. They are to take part economically and politically. And they are to sit at the table where decisions are made. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and the UAE's vice president and prime minister, established the UAE Gender Balance Council with the stated aim of reducing the gender gap and strengthening women's participation in leadership and decision making. And the UAE's president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, MBZ, leads a Muslim country that has made religious coexistence part of its national story. In Abu Dhabi, a mosque, a church and a synagogue stand side by side in the Abrahamic Family House. Think about that contrast. A Muslim country is saying: Keep Islam. Fight Islamism. Let women study, work and lead. Let Christians be Christians. Let Jews be Jews. And fight the political and religious movements that want to replace pluralism with their own ideology. And yes. That includes the people who support, legitimise and clear the path for those movements while believing they are defending tolerance and diversity. Including when they end up working against the very Western values, freedom, equality, democracy and religious liberty, that gave them the opportunity to do so in the first place. History has an old term for people who end up serving an ideology whose actual goals they do not share: "Useful idiots." They do not have to be Islamists themselves. That is the whole point. They only have to be useful to those who are. And this is what Europe has to learn to separate: Islam is a religion. Islamism is a political ideology. And Islamist extremism is not "diversity". You can defend Muslims' full right to believe and practise their faith, and at the same time say a resounding NO to movements that want to use religion for political power, parallel societies, extremism, or the gradual erosion of the society that gave them the freedom to be here. Tolerance does not mean tolerating intolerance until it has grown strong enough to turn on you. When a Muslim country pulls its state scholarships away from British universities out of fear of Islamist radicalisation, while parts of Europe are still afraid to even name the problem, the question is no longer whether there is a problem. The question is who understood the seriousness of it. And right now, it isn't us!
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If ever there was a video or image to sum up the UK in 2026, it's this. It is of a Prime Minister, dressed like a bum, stood in front of illegally dumped garbage as far as the eye can see, defending having to tell the 200,000 people they have allowed in not to rape women. 😑💔
Andy Burnham has defended the Home Office guide that tells asylum seekers not to rape or harass people. Asked about the booklet, the prime minister said the government wanted to make UK law "explicitly clear". Politics latest: trib.al/G8EcKQF 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
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Replying to @James_J_Marlow
Let’s make this bastard famous…
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The face of pure hatred. An Irish citizen visiting France, tells two Jewish visitors he's sorry Hitler didn't finish the job. They started videoing him and he threatens to kill them. Identified himself as "Paddy from Ireland".
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There is no clearer image of British politics than this: the camera shows you the man, the wider frame shows you the machine. In Orwell’s Britain, the lie was printed. In ours, it is lit, framed and carefully edited.
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Let's make her famous Credit Andy brook's
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This is Marie-France van Heel, she is a director of Be.EV & Iduna Infrastructure, she is also Chief Marketing and Customer Officer for Octopus Energy. In her capacity on both these rolls she secured a contract to supply EV infrastructure and supply energy to Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the famous “Bus” project the now ex mayor of Manchester keeps banging on about. One thing that he possibly fails to shout about is the this woman that got this contract is in fact Andy Burnham’s wife
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We know that the problem presented by sectarian Islamism in this country is only beginning. As the population of believing Muslims grows, so the threat of Islamist supremacism will grow disproportionately with it. As Emma Trimble points out, even minority numbers of radicalised Muslims can have an outsized impact on what the rest of the population can say and do. Rather than tackling the problem, in the wake of the Gorton & Denton by-election, the Labour Party is in the process of cutting a deal with the Islamist bloc to stem the flood of Muslim voters deserting them for the Greens. That’s why Steve Reed’s anti-Muslim hostility definition was rushed through. Labour is pandering to Islamist supremacism. How are future generations going to deal with it?
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The US/Israeli attack on Iran and the widening hostilities in the region are exposing the growing scandal that is Britain’s military capabilities, or lack thereof. We are still in the world’s top 5/6 on defence spending yet: We don’t have a single warship in the whole of the Mediterranean, despite the eastern Mediterranean becoming part of the theatre of war. We don’t have a single warship in the Gulf. We have a naval base in Bahrain. But a base with no ships. We don’t have any subs to deploy. The one active Astute Class sub is in Oz. We have a handful of fighter jets in Cyprus. And a smaller handful in Qatar (attached to Qatari airforce). That’s it. Most of what’s left of the Navy — not even in the top 30 in the world in terms of warships these days — seems to be in repair/maintenance/renovation. Brilliant MoD planning. Labour/Tories/LibDems who all had a shot at government these past 16 years need to be held to account. When Ed Davey says Brit expats in the Gulf should pay for UK protection, exactly what protection does he have in mind that would be worth paying for?
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Winston Churchill in the White House… Not wearing a suit because he is at war
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Let’s get this straight from the outset. The sole intent of this meeting in the Oval Office, was a tag team mugging designed specifically to disgracefully humiliate a war time president in front of the world’s media, for the sole purpose of gaining leverage. Just one problem, Zelenskyy hadn’t read the script. He was OK until JD Vance lit the blue touch paper looking for Zelenskyy to get down on his knees and show gratitude to a president, who had spent his entire campaign attempting to block military aid to Ukraine. JD Vance has been the chief cheerleader to not give Ukraine a cent. So tell me, who was Zelenskyy supposed to thank? Did they plan to invite Joe Biden into the room? The reality of the situation is, Zelenskyy is viewed as an obstruction to their attempted extortion of his nation’s mineral wealth. So it’s no surprise Lady Lyndsay Graham is now calling for his resignation. The Ukrainian president owes no loyalty to this administration, all they have ever done is try to starve him of military aid which they did successfully for six months resulting in thousands of Ukrainian soldiers losing their lives. Meanwhile, the President of the United States has unilaterally decided to align with a Russian war criminal. Trump has demanded nothing from Putin by way of reparations for Russian aggression. Instead, preferring to insist Ukraine pay reparations as the VICTIM of an illegal invasion. To really twist the knife, he is illegally attempting to convert lawfully appropriated funds, retrospectively to a loan. $183 billion dollars of aid has been appropriated, NOT $350 billion as claimed by Trump. 70% of the military aid funding, has been spent in arms manufacturing plants across America, providing jobs and profits to those companies. You won’t be surprised to note that many Republicans hold stocks in those companies too. In many cases the newly manufactured hardware has gone into U.S. stock, while the older stocks have been shipped to Ukraine. These same plants have also been paid by NATO allies and European countries who supplied aid to Ukraine. I’d really like to take a look at the premiums that were added to these orders. The U.S. has been the primary economic benefactor of the Ukraine war, while simply drip feeding just enough hardware for Ukraine to hold off the Russian army. At every twist and turn Ukraine has been exploited, so Zelenskyy has every right to be pissed off and say enough of this shit. Here’s where we are. The Trump Administration has every intention of throwing Ukraine under the bus as a favor to Putin, so that Trump can align America with Russia. Bizarre really, when you consider it’s an economic basket case feeding its soldiers on out of date rations. The only beneficiary of this realignment is Putin. He needs sanctions lifting quickly before his economy collapses. This geopolitical move by Trump effectively destabilizes European security, because the lifting of sanctions will allow Putin to regroup, then take another stab at Ukraine before moving on to the Balkan states. European and the NATO allies must stop thinking they can rehabilitate their abuser. It can’t be done. When a bully steals your lunch money today, rest assured he’ll be back tomorrow. It’s time to rip off the bandaid. Revoke the leases on all US bases, in the interests of the global threat presented by the Russo-American alliance. Invite South Korea, Australia and New Zealand into a new alliance. Cancel all military contracts and current licenses for military tech to the U.S. It’s time for a new global alliance. This can then form the foundation for a new economic alliance to rival the dollar. This can be done, there just has to be the will to do it. America has now declared war on the world, so it’s time to demonstrate that the world has had enough. We need to STOP living in fear of our abuser. TODAY WE ARE ALL UKRAINIAN S L A V A U K R A I N I 🇺🇦
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If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT. If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
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The place in question is The Ship Inn, Sewerby, Bridlington.
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