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Lifelong Centre Right Conservative, raised in tenements of Glasgow’s Southside, now enjoying life in Yorkshire, seeking a new political direction. Ian Robertson

God’s Own County
Joined May 2015
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TenementBloke retweeted
The UK *nominated* Iran to join this committee. Why @Ed_Miliband? Is this what you shook hands over?
SHAME: The U.N. General Assembly by 144 votes just elected Iran's Islamic Regime to the Committee for Program and Coordination, which shapes priorities on Women’s Rights, Disarmament & Counter-Terrorism. Disgraceful reward for a regime that massacred tens of thousands of people.
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TenementBloke retweeted
They down in Mississippi lookin for votes like loose change in the couch
Mississippi U.S. Senate: 1 new vote from Tishomingo County 🔴 Hyde-Smith: +1 (100%) 🔵 Colom: +0 (0%) Colom's statewide lead narrows to 2,535 votes.
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TenementBloke retweeted
It is not appropriate to laugh outside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a member of the Army’s Old Guard reminds Hegseth’s group. On Veterans Day.
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- Alexander Stubb: " I think we need to make clear to the Russians and everyone else that there are a few things that are completely off the table in these negotiations. One is EU membership. It is not Russia who decides on EU membership. It is the European Union who does that. Two is NATO. It is not Russia that decides on NATO membership. It is the Alliance itself. Three is Ukrainian defence. It is not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border, when, where, and how. And four: European security arrangements ... or order. It’s not Russia that decides on that. We already have a European security order and should stick to it." ................ It should be clear enough! 🤷‍♀️ He is one of the strong leaders.😉 Europe needs more such firm opinions.👍
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TenementBloke retweeted
A Labour MP texts: “I cannot believe, or sadly I can, that the PM has said there should be a rape unit in every police force when he presided over the abolition of the Greater Manchester one when he was Mayor”.
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TenementBloke retweeted
*********PLEASE SHARE********** A VIGIL FOR HENRY NOWAK IS TO BE HELD ON THURSDAY 3RD OF DECEMBER AT PORTSWOOD POLICE STATION @ 6PM 🙏🏻
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Replying to @AtlantaBlue
"The US state department has told its embassies across Europe, including London, to report migrant crime, track how governments handle it, and raise concerns when they fail. That is what nations do when an ally becomes weak, compromised or unwilling to defend itself. You don't rely on its assurances. You verify. You watch. You intervene if you must."
The US Is Now Monitoring Britain Like a Failing State America has just delivered the bluntest verdict on modern Britain: the United States no longer trusts this country to police its borders, protect its people or face the truth about migrant crime. Washington has ordered its diplomats to monitor Britain the way great powers monitor unstable nations – a quiet but devastating admission that Britain is now a liability, not a partner. The US state department has told its embassies across Europe, including London, to report migrant crime, track how governments handle it, and raise concerns when they fail. That is what nations do when an ally becomes weak, compromised or unwilling to defend itself. You don't rely on its assurances. You verify. You watch. You intervene if you must. And America has every reason. Britain's border is no longer a barrier; it is an intake pipe. The country has spent twenty years importing problems faster than it can name them, let alone confront them. Washington has seen the grooming-gang cover-ups, the blocked deportations, the asylum farce, the courts that protect offenders while leaving the public exposed. They've watched Britain's political class treat national security as an afterthought and public concern as a moral failing. Now they are acting because Britain refuses to. Even the language coming out of Washington is a shock. The US calls mass migration an existential threat to Western civilisation. While Starmer's ministers mumble about "compassion" and "pathways," America spells out the truth: the West is being hollowed from within, and Britain is the softest point of entry. And that is the humiliation. For the first time in living memory, America is speaking about Britain the way it speaks about failing states – nations that can no longer enforce their own laws, control their own borders or protect their own people. Nations that have surrendered the basic duties of sovereignty. It is a verdict on Starmer, but also on the rotten consensus he inherited. The Home Office can't deport foreign criminals. The courts block removals. NGOs lawyer the system into paralysis. Ministers talk tough and act weak. And as the consequences mount, Westminster hides behind euphemisms and press releases. America isn't "interfering." It's bracing for the fallout. If Britain won't protect itself, Washington will protect itself from Britain. That is how low we've sunk. The tragedy is that the Americans are right. Britain no longer behaves like a nation that intends to survive. Our governing class clings to an ideology that treats control as cruelty and national interest as taboo. Meanwhile the country absorbs the real-world cost: fractured streets, rising crime, a fraying social fabric, and a public left to fend for itself. When your greatest ally starts monitoring you because it no longer trusts your judgement, it means one thing: the decline is visible from across an ocean. This is the warning. America has sounded it. Britain's leaders choose not to hear it. And unless the public forces a reckoning, the next verdict won't come from Washington, it will come from events at home. "They've watched Britain's political class treat national security as an afterthought and public concern as a moral failing. Now they are acting because Britain refuses to."
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TenementBloke retweeted
What a time to be alive. 😍
Texas' four new Supreme Court Justices. Congrats ladies.
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I read this open mouthed. Are You happy for energy companies to be able to access your finances and charge you more to help someone less well off?!?
🚨Labour’s Bill Would Let Energy Firms Dig Into Your Tax Records and House Value So They Can Charge You Extra to Subsidise Others Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh introduced the Energy Independence Bill last week that would hand energy companies access to eight government databases, including your HMRC tax and income records, child benefit, property value and pensions. This is a major expansion beyond the limited fuel-poverty data they already get. Official assessments openly plan “progressivity”: discounts for some households paid for by extra levies on those judged better off. Nothing happens until the bill passes and ministers create a scheme through further legislation. Her department calls it targeting support. The unmistakable purpose is giving private firms the power to inspect your private finances and raise your bill to subsidise everyone else. This is not support. It is a deliberate decision to treat your private tax records and property value as legitimate tools for deciding who gets charged more, then hand that power to private energy companies. Once the machinery exists, Labour will expand it. The only real question is how far they intend to go.
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TenementBloke retweeted
When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester. Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker. Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments. They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger. When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws. Look at the terrifying double standard at play here. If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court. But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo. This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests. I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.
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TenementBloke retweeted
This is one of the most outrageous posts I have ever read! What right do energy companies have to examine our personal financial records?
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TenementBloke retweeted
This is legit the most crazy thing I've seen today on here! Congratulations. 🏆
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. x
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TenementBloke retweeted
I am shocked and disgusted by the story of Captain Ken Kunkel who was assaulted by two kids and this woman while supervising air cadets selling poppies. He’s now undergone emergency spinal surgery and may never walk again. The 11 year old who did this can’t be charged, and the 12 year old will get some minor penalty. This is not justice. The youth criminal justice act needs serious reform. Who are these kids? Who are their parents? What punishments can we apply to violent youth crime? If you’re old enough and strong enough to kick and stomp a full grown man on the ground such that he is paralyzed - you’re old enough to face justice. We need to know their names, and their parents’ names. This shameful behaviour needs to be exposed. Every element of social and peer pressure should be used to shame families involved in this behaviour. All kids do stupid things, even kids of good parents. But if your 11 year old is assaulting and paralyzing a grown man, that’s on you parents. Something went wrong years ago. This is not justice, and we’re seeing an uptick in gangs deliberately using underage kids to commit shockingly violent crimes because they’re not tried as adults. There’s plenty of kids that know this and laugh. For people who laugh off decency and restraint, the corresponding punishment should do the same. This 11 year old can change this Captain’s life, and that of his wife, kids and grandchildren forever, and yet his life will go on as usual. Absolutely shocking and disgusting. If you can deliberately and maliciously destroy someone’s life, there must be some degree of accountability from either you or your parents, even if you’re 11. We have 11 year olds assaulting teachers in schools as well. Time to bring back corporal punishment. Praying for a speedy recovery for Captain Kunkel.
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Let’s see who actually cares
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TenementBloke retweeted
A charity that's supposed to protect London's bridges has handed out £1.1 million to a group with alleged links to Hamas. It's completely nuts. Basic infrastructure in our country is literally crumbling, and this is what they're focused on?
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TenementBloke retweeted
Replying to @GuidoFawkes
Does the man actually understand the meaning of the words he utters?
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We don’t have any money?! This PM is ridiculous. He’s dangerous because he’s clueless. The TikTok Prime Minister, cute face, great vibes, zero understanding of his actual role.
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is “open” to payouts in health and education for Commonwealth countries to make up for Britain’s role in the slave trade [@Telegraph]
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TenementBloke retweeted
MUST WATCH: @JustLuai stuns the United Nations by unveiling the rampant racism and Jew-hatred that he grew up with in Yemen — and how his visit to Israel after October 7th and witnessing life there changed his worldview. “Everything I was taught about Israel was a lie.”
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