Former UK MOD Scientist, Computer programmer & interests in politics, geopolitics, economics, military & history. Views are my own. #DigitalIntegration
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If you feel disenfranchised by modern UK politics & you haven't left the Tories but they have left you, then read this brilliant article & you will understand why. countrysquire.co.uk/2019/03/…
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You ask "who are the British?"
This is who we are.
❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
For generations, our red postboxes have carried letters to those serving far from home, connecting loved ones in times of war.
Today, this one carries a poignant tribute to those who served, sacrificed and never came home.
We will remember them.
#postboxSaturday 📮💌
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In June when Andy Burnham delivered his speech having won the Makerfield by-election, he promised to implement a "Makerfield Test" against all of his governments' policies.
There is one thing for certain - this EU Reset policy would fail the Makerfield Test. So he's a liar.
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- £41bn for the EU
- £39bn for Chagos
- £10bn for Ukraine
And not a single vote for any of it.
The supranational entities (UN, IMF, EU, WEF, WB etc.) have plenty of new "jobs for the boys" though.
Are you seeing how it works now, kids? 🤔
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Illegal migration
Point 60 is more comedy gold. Apparently, we adopted the European Commission’s Channel Action Plan in June 2026, which is apparently providing ‘a structured EU-level framework for cooperation to tackle irregular migration and the criminal networks facilitating it, as well as to strengthen border management.’
The EU claims that its Action Plan is ‘coordinating action against migrant smuggling’. However, anyone who has watched footage of French Police standing on Calais beaches while enormous rubber dinghies are loaded with illegal migrants, which the French navy then escorts to the UK’s maritime border, may not have realised that this is a coordinated action against migrant smuggling.
Point 60 also explains that the UK is ‘making a financial contribution’ to the EU’s ‘coordinated action’ to reflect our ‘shared responsibility for addressing these challenges’.
Again, the Document doesn’t mention how large this financial contribution is, but we can see from the daily dinghy arrivals in the UK that the EU is either totally inept or it is actually coordinating the movement of illegal migrants into the UK, rather than trying to stop it. Or the EU is simply pocketing the money and letting the French Police do what they like. Also a possibility.
For more information, read my Substack: catherinemcbride.substack.co…
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🇪🇺“It is one of the most one-sided agreements I have ever read. There is no upside for the UK; the few benefits are negated by the massive cost and regulatory straitjacket the UK will find itself bound by,” writes @CeeMacBee
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Point 66 gets to the EU’s main aim in its protectionist policies: the EU wants the UK to help protect the EU’s steel industries with a quota system under the WTO GATT process. This ‘reciprocal’ arrangement has two massive holes.
1. The UK hardly makes any steel any more. It is down to just 2 blast furnaces, and they are only still operating because of massive government subsidies, while the EU has 47 blast furnaces and hundreds of Electric Arc Furnace steelworks which run on much cheaper industrial electricity than the UK’s. So agreeing to Point 66 would simply result in the final death of UK steelmaking.
2. The EU has defied the WTO CODEX rules and has ignored a myriad of complaints to the WTO after the EU lowered its pesticide Maximum Residue Levels, and its banning of certain food ingredients and packaging materials without any scientific evidence to back up its changes.
The EU is happy to cherry-pick which WTO rules it wants to obey and which it wants to ignore, but now the EU wants to use the WTO to block Chinese EV and steel imports while the EU is simultaneously defying the WTO CODEX rules and blocking imports of fruit, vegetables, and cereals from other countries.
I should point out that if the UK is silly enough to let the EU make its SPS rules, the UK will also be defying WTO CODEX rules.
However, the UK would still have a steel industry and would not fear being undercut by Chinese steel if it had encouraged investment in new steel plant and equipment rather than making steel production uneconomic through short-sighted carbon taxes, bans on coking coal extraction, and high industrial electricity prices making EAFs uneconomic in the UK.
For more information about the 'Reset' read my latest Substack, catherinemcbride.substack.co…
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Nationalised last year, the rail network c2c ( Essex and East London) is so bad even the 3 dimwitted Labour MPs ( they supported the state grab) whose constituencies the trains serve has summonsed the MD to demand answers.
Here are the bloody awful stats;
* Before Labour 94% of the trains arrived within 5mins of the scheduled time. Now it’s 71.5%
* Before Labour c2c cancelled 1% of trains. Now it’s 1.7% with 4.7% in August.
* In mid-August to mid - September the average delay to exiting passengers was 3.5 minutes, the longest since records began.
The same is true of SWR and the Great Northern.
The state are bloody awful at running things, not least because trade unions are involved.
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It has become clear over the past week, that the terms of the EU Reset are more one-sided than we could have believed possible.
Any MP agreeing to those terms has either not read them, is too blinded by the pro-EU Stockholm Syndrome to notice, or is working for a foreign power.
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How the UK used its dominant position as a Coal Exporter to help win WW1. We put extreme pressure on countries like Norway, Sweden, Denmark to carry out our wishes. Interesting facet to the war that we never hear about 🇬🇧⬇️
Britain used its dominant position as the world’s leading coal producer and exporter—especially of high-quality bunker (steamship) coal—as a major instrument of commercial and diplomatic leverage during World War I.** This formed a core part of the broader Allied blockade and economic warfare system, often described as more flexible and effective than pure naval blockade alone.
Before the war, Britain supplied a large share of Europe’s coal and over 80% of global bunker coal for the world’s merchant fleet (most of which was still coal-powered). It also controlled the main network of coaling stations and depots along major trade routes.
From the early months of the war, Britain developed **“bunker control.”** This restricted or denied coal bunkers at British ports and British-controlled foreign depots to neutral ships whose owners had not accepted formal “Conditions of Supply.” These conditions typically required:
- No carriage of goods of enemy origin or destination.
- No chartering to enemy subjects or blacklisted firms.
- Voluntary calls at British ports or inspection arrangements (later formalized with navicerts).
- Often, a commitment covering an owner’s entire fleet.
Ships or owners placed on blacklists (for trading with Germany or engaging in “un-neutral service”) could be immobilized without firing a shot. Contemporary accounts, including those by shipping controller J.A. Salter, described this as one of the most powerful coercive tools available, because neutral shipowners could not easily operate long-distance trade without reliable bunkering.
### The Coal Exports Committee and Licensing
In April 1915, the **Coal Exports Committee** (under the Board of Trade) was set up to manage exports. Its priorities were:
1. Retain enough coal for British home consumption and war industries.
2. Guarantee supplies to Allies—especially France (whose northern coalfields were occupied, roughly doubling its need for British coal) and later Italy.
3. Allow surplus exports to neutrals only under license and at high prices, while applying pressure.
Exports to neutrals (and soon also to Allies) required licenses. This enabled systematic **“coal pressure”**: supplies were granted only in exchange for compliance with Allied interests, such as limiting or stopping trade with Germany, providing return cargoes (pit props, ore, food, etc.), or allocating shipping to Allied service.
### Leverage on Neutrals
Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and the Netherlands were particularly vulnerable because they depended heavily on British coal for industry, railways, heating, and shipping, while also having access to Baltic trade routes that could supply Germany.
- Britain rationed coal imports to these countries to prevent surplus production or re-exports reaching Germany.
- Firms dealing with the enemy were blacklisted and denied coal.
- A clear example is Norway, later nicknamed “The Neutral Ally.” On 24 December 1916, Britain issued an ultimatum: coal exports would cease unless Norway stopped trading with Germany (notably in fish and pyrites). Norway complied. Britain also organized much of Norway’s coal supply and transport in return for large amounts of Norwegian shipping for Allied use (including coal shipments to France). Hundreds of Norwegian ships were lost to U-boats, reinforcing the practical alignment.
- Similar pressures were applied to Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, often combined with certificates of origin, restrictions on specific goods, or requirements for return cargoes. Some agreements involved exchanges of coal for essential imports.
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If you are a sane, rational person who can perform simple maths and cares about the economy of their country and the future of the people within it, then you should be livid with the government this morning.
There is no part of the proposed EU reset terms, that you should be remotely happy about. The entire deal is giving the EU what it wants, and dressing it up as a benefit for the UK when it is anything but.
- Promising to not deport EU criminals
- Paying billions a year to build infrastructure in Eastern Europe
- Subsidizing EU students to study in the UK, costing hundreds of millions a year
- Putting UK laws in the control of the EU again, with no say at all from Parliament
- Adding hundreds of millions of costs onto imports from non-EU countries
- Making imported EV cars 30% more expensive, to help EU car manufacturers
- Giving 80-100,000 extra youth visas a year, increasing competition and driving down wages for our unemployed youth
- Stopping checks on imported agrifoods, increasing risk of diseases currently rampant in EU livestock entering the UK
All of this with the reason of making exporting food to the EU easier, which we do virtually none of and never did, as we are an island that consumes more than it produces.
It doesn't matter if you ultimately want to rejoin the EU or not. This isn't about that. This is about an atrocious deal and our atrocious government.
Fight this with everything you've got.
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So now British taxpayers are expected to fund roads, airports and green energy projects in poorer EU countries, while Burnham signs us up to Brussels regulations. We voted to leave the EU, not to become its cash machine without a vote or a say.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
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What is going on in Poland is nothing short of a coup against democracy. Donald Tusk, with the support of the EU, is blatantly seeking to remove judges who refuse to bow to European diktats. The EU is the enemy of the people, says Frank Furedi
buff.ly/EWjrRYg
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I agree.
The EU deserves to be told 2 things:
1. Our constitution allows us to reverse this ridiculous EU Reset (and free Northern Ireland). And,
2. We will.
Let us have no crying on the continent, when Britain fixes herself.
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Dacă Polonia fuge de sub escortă, hegemonia germană în Europa e nulă. Polonia e, deja, prea departe pentru a mai fi recuperată cu mijloace obișnuite. Tot ce merge spre faliment în UE, urcă spre autonomie în Polonia: economia e puternică, moneda e stabilă iar forța militară e reală. Poate mai important, nervul național e viu, într-o țară care își detestă geografia și își cunoaște blestemul prin grija vecinilor.
Cine trăiește între Germania și Rusia moare frecvent și învie numai cu prețul unui curaj misterios. Unii l-au numit „nebunie poloneză”. Însă, nimeni nu i-a descoperit formula și n-a putut imita această trăire națională furibundă care a scos o nație din toate ororile și a doborît, pe parcurs comunismul.
Astăzi, Polonia e cea mai mare putere a Estului iar Estul e marea excepție nealiniată la mortificarea îmbrățișată și recomandată tuturor de Vest.
Aceste divergențe de mentalitate și caracter în fișa pacientului, sînt sursele izbucnirii de banditism a liberalismului stîngist european, în execuția comandoului Tusk – Primul Ministru filo-german și euro-fanatic al Poloniei.
Tusk a încercat să pună mîna pe Curta Constiutuțională a țării și, prin asta, pe centrul de putere juridică și legalitate care pilotează mersul unei democrații, menținînd-o sau scoțînd-o din realitate. Înhățată de o ideologie care nu se recunoaște decît pe ea însăși, Curtea poate deveni un super-partid care elimină orice partid nealiniat, face liniște și pune capăt dezbaterii, scoate în afara legii un Președinte ales sau reface votul alegătorilor.
Cu alt cuvinte și aceleași tehnici, Curtea Constituțională poloneză poate fi românizată. Modelul București 2024 poate fi transformat în platforma europeană de relansare a stîngii liberale, în 2026.
Modelul a fost pus la lucru cu tot respectul pentru banditismul unui putsch sud-american.
Primul Ministru Donald Tusk a așteptat ca Președintele Karol Nawrocki să urce în avion pentru o vizită în străinătate și apoi a lovit. Cu două zile înainte, poliția primise ordinul de dotare cu armament de război, pentru a face față unor „tulburări” pe care, în nesfîrșita lui clarviziune, numai Tusk le-a prevăzut. În consecință, argumentele invocate, acum, de Tusk și de Comisia Europană sînt penibile. Da, conflictul e juridic și trebuia să rămînă așa. Nimeni nu poate susține că apără democrația și legalitatea, în timp ce pune la cale o lovitură de stat. Cine apare în fața băncii, noaptea, cu automatul în mînă și cu cagulă pe cap nu e un depunător sosit să depună o reclamație.
Nawrocki a întors din drum avionul care îl purta spre Africa, a aterizat la Varșovia și a intrat în sediul Curții, unde se pregătea îndepărtarea judecătorilor. Dar povestea nu se va termina aici. Pentru că miza e mult mai mare iar distribuția e mult mai vastă. Pe rol e, de fapt, viitorul lumii europene.
Disperarea obscenă a atacului lansat de Tusk e împrumutată de la liderii sistemului european la putere.
Crema progresistă a Europei simte că sistemul se clatină. Lumea conducătoare s-a baricadat în spatele cenzurii și într-o retorică pseudo-democratică mai plictisitoare decît un mesaj telefonic automat. Acolo unde are, încă, o bază internă complice, sistemul încearcă să lovească preventiv.
Sondajele spun că alegerile de anul viitor vor fi cîștigate de dreapta și Polonia va ieși de sub control. Cu asta, sistemul ar pierde orice pondere pe noua hartă geo-politică, unde Polonia e o forță militară și economică mult mai credibilă decît cadavrele de carton ale puterilor tradiționale. Tot în următoarele 12 luni, alegerile ar putea aduce sau menține la putere dreapta, în Franța, Spania și Italia. În paralel, Germania e paralizată de încercarea de a-și transforma statul în frauda care blochează opoziția. Pe margine, Marea Britanie își vede harnic de propriul faliment.
Traian Ungureanu, fost europarlamentar
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Hungary 1956 - put down by the Soviet Union. Poland 2026 - put down by the European Union.
🚨🇵🇱 MIDNIGHT CRACKDOWN WARNING IN WARSAW
TV Republika, citing Radio WNET, reports that the protest camp outside Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal could be forcibly cleared at midnight by Tusks Police enforcers.
This remains an unconfirmed warning—not an established police operation.
But it demands an immediate answer from Tusk’s government.
Has a clearance been ordered? By whom? Under what legal authority?
Earlier today, police said they would not remove the demonstrators. If that position has changed, the public deserves to know why.
Peaceful protest is a right. Any restriction must have a lawful basis; any use of force must be necessary and proportionate.
The authorities must protect protesters and journalists—not treat political opposition as an enemy.
Poland deserves answers before midnight.
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🚨 Maski opadły❗ Komisja Europejska oficjalnie wsparła bandyckie działania Tuska i siłowe przejęcie Trybunału Konstytucyjnego❗
Proszę o podawanie dalej, bo widać jak na dłoni, że mamy do czynienia z antypolskim porozumieniem Ursuli von der Leyen i Donalda Tuska, którzy ponad głowami polskich obywateli chcą przejąć kontrolę nad fundamentalnym dla naszego porządku prawnego organem konstytucyjnym.
Mimo, że Komisja Europejska nie ma ŻADNEGO prawa do decydowania w sprawach wymiaru sprawiedliwości, bo nikomu Polska nie przekazała takich kompetencji, to wystosowała stanowisko, które mówi wszystko: "Trybunał Konstytucyjny powinien funkcjonować zgodnie z polską konstytucją ORAZ orzecznictwem Trybunału Sprawiedliwości Unii Europejskiej."
I tu leży sedno sprawy - do tej pory Trybunał Konstytucyjny orzekał, że polska Konstytucja stoi ponad prawem unijnym, a celem Brukseli jest, żebyśmy byli pod butem UE i jej trybunałów! Polska ustawa zasadnicza ma być na drugim miejscu.
Chcą całkowicie podporządkować sobie Polskę, a do tego niezbędne jest uznanie przez polski TK wyroku TSUE o nadrzędności prawa unijnego nad Konstytucją RP. Oni już nawet nie zamierzają udawać, że cokolwiek ich obchodzi fakt, iż wymiar sprawiedliwości i organy konstytucyjne to kompetencje państw członkowskich. Idą na rympał w imię niemiecko-brukselskich interesów, a Tusk to ich narzędzie do osiągnięcia celu.
Oto prawdziwa twarz Komisji Europejskiej, wielkich "obrońców demokracji". To instytucja, której najważniejsi urzędnicy w ostatnich latach są po uszy umoczeni w korupcję i różnego rodzaju wały. To instytucja, dla który liczy się tylko władza, wpływy i kasa. Nic innego. Obok praworządności to oni nawet nie stali, ale chętnie wycierają sobie nią gęby, wszyscy na czele z von der Leyen.
Dlatego powtarzam @vonderleyen i całej @EU_Commission - ręce precz od Polski❗🇵🇱
Jesteście siedliskiem bezprawia i korupcji, za co płacą wszyscy obywatele, a żaden z nich nie wybrał was na funkcje, które pełnicie! Waszą Komisję Europejską należy zlikwidować, bo to rak, który od wielu lat niszczy europejską Wspólnotę i działa przeciwko suwerennych państwom narodowym!
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🇵🇱 POLAND STANDS FIRM
President Karol Nawrocki just delivered a clear message in the Sejm:
“I will never agree to the European Union taking competencies from Poland.”
His program is straightforward:
• No to illegal migration
• Keep the Polish złoty — no to the euro
• No to raising the retirement age for women or men
• Poland cooperates with the EU on treaty terms, not on Brussels’ open-ended demands
He also called out repeated constitutional violations and said Poland must begin work on a new constitutional framework, potentially ready by 2030.
This is not isolationism. It is the basic defense of national decision-making on borders, currency, social policy, and the Constitution.
Member states, not EU institutions, remain the source of Republic of Poland legitimacy.
➡️ Share if you support sovereign countries setting their own red lines inside the EU.
#Poland #Nawrocki #Sovereignty #EU #Złoty #NoIllegalMigration
🚨THIS IS BIG: 🇵🇱🇪🇺 POLISH PRESIDENT KAROL NAWROCKI WARNS BRUSSELS: “I WILL NEVER AGREE TO THE EU TAKING COMPETENCIES FROM POLAND!” — REJECTS EURO AND ILLEGAL MIGRATION!
Speaking in the Polish Sejm, President Karol Nawrocki delivered a firm message on Poland’s sovereignty and its future within the European Union.
“I WILL NEVER AGREE TO THE EUROPEAN UNION TAKING COMPETENCIES FROM POLAND!”
Nawrocki declared that his political programme includes:
🇵🇱 NO to illegal migration.
🇵🇱 YES to the Polish złoty — NO to the euro.
🇵🇱 NO to raising the retirement age for women or men.
He also accused Poland’s political establishment of repeatedly violating the constitution and called for work on an entirely new constitutional framework, potentially ready for adoption in 2030.
“THE POLISH CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN VIOLATED SO REGULARLY THAT WE MUST BEGIN WORKING ON A NEW CONSTITUTION.”
Nawrocki says Poland should cooperate with the EU while retaining powers not transferred to it under European treaties.
POLAND IN THE EU — BUT ON WHOSE TERMS?
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Pensée du soir suite au crash du N722BD : je n’aime pas les avions à empennage en T, comme le Learjet 60. Le plan horizontal est perché au sommet de la dérive. En vol normal, il reste largement à l’écart du sillage de l’aile. Mais si l’aile décroche, son sillage turbulent peut s’élargir au point d’envelopper l’empennage.
C’est là que cette configuration pose problème. Pour sortir du décrochage, il faut réduire l’incidence en abaissant le nez. Or, dans cet air perturbé, la gouverne de profondeur peut perdre une grande partie de son efficacité. Le pilote pousse sur le manche, la gouverne bouge normalement mais l’avion reste à une très forte incidence. C’est ce qu'on appelle un deep stall.
On peut perdre l’efficacité de la commande au moment précis où l’on en a le plus besoin, sans qu’aucune pièce ait cassé. La sensibilité à ce phénomène dépend aussi du centrage de l’avion.
Est-ce une piste pour le Learjet N722BD ? Sur la vidéo, on voit la chute finale. Pour parler de décrochage profond, il faudrait savoir sous quel angle l’air arrivait sur l’aile et comment l’avion répondait aux commandes avant ces dernières secondes.
Un décrochage de l’aile, éventuellement favorisé par le givrage, reste une hypothèse. À forte incidence, le sillage de l’aile aurait pu masquer l’empennage en T et réduire l’efficacité de la profondeur au moment où il fallait diminuer l’incidence avant d’amorcer la ressource.
Autre séquence possible : si le nez s’est abaissé alors que l’aile était encore décrochée, les pilotes ont pu tenter de redresser trop tôt. Une action à cabrer aurait alors pu maintenir l’incidence au-dessus de sa valeur critique et prolonger le décrochage. L’enquête du NTSB dira si les éléments recueillis étayent cette hypothèse.
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Ko smo se odločali za vstop v EU, si ni nihče predstavljal, da bo v kaki njeni članici in uniji nasploh mogoče brez posledic:
1. Razveljaviti predsedniške volitve (Romunija);
2. Ukiniti informativni program na nacionalni RTV (Madžarska);
3. Poslati policijo na Ustavno sodišče (Poljska);
4. Tri tedne pred volitvami poslati v zapor predsednika stranke, ki vodi v anketah (Slovenija);
5. Zasesti nacionalno RTV s policijo in zamenjati vodstvo (Poljska);
6. Prekiniti mandate vodstvu nacionalne RTV in izvesti čistko zaposlenih (Slovenija);
7. Poslati v zapor člane prejšnje vlade brez možnosti obrambe (Madžarska);
8. Podeliti skoraj milijon državljanstev ilegalnim migrantom po hitrem postopku (Španija);
9. Zapreti novo Nuklearno elektrarno in zgraditi plinovod do Rusije (Nemčija);
10. Obdavčiti ogljične energetske vire ob hkratnem zapiranju NE ter preseliti industrijo v države z nizkimi ekološkimi standardi pod pretvezo, da tako rešujemo planet.
Nastala je EU, ki se mora reševati sama pred sabo.
