Ben Wisson @BenWisson

We’re working our way through this harrowing Rape Gang Inquiry Report and will comment in more depth soon. But for now, we just want to say that no girl in the UK should ever have been subjected to such depraved sexual assault and torture while organisations, the police, and our government turned a blind eye. The fact that adults who were responsible for protecting those girls not only failed catastrophically but actually covered it up is beyond words. We note the inclusion at the start of the report that “Scottish political parties have refused a dedicated inquiry and failed to record offender ethnicity.” We welcome more investigation into this in Scotland. Girls deserve better. All of them.

Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10

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The Rape Gang Inquiry Report. bit.ly/4uE5odw

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Want to understand how we ended up with a pony cull? It’s the same logic that gave us a £100m bat tunnel and a £700m fish disco, that blocks thousands of homes, and that has added billions to HS2. Legislation, and the delegated powers to create regulation in pursuit of those goals, has meant Natural England has little choice but to cut grazing on Dartmoor. The ponies are in the crosshairs because the rules count every grazing animal as a single livestock unit, a system built for the EU to allow subsidy regimes that applied equally to French beef farmers and Eastern European subsistence farmers. The goal of cutting the total means graziers will have to prioritise livestock. Worse, the Government’s own review told Natural England not to reduce pony numbers. They are doing it anyway. Even Labour’s own ministers and MPs say they are deeply concerned; Labour are in government, but not at the wheel. It would not matter who you put in government tomorrow if they weren’t willing to change how government works. The same rules would tie their hands in exactly the same way. That is why nothing ever seems to change, whoever wins. This is not an argument for caring less about nature; we need more accountability to actually achieve nature recovery. We must return real control to elected ministers, so that the people who make these decisions are the people you can remove. Only then can we supercharge nature recovery, get the economy growing, and make farms across Britain productive and profitable. Until we do, we will keep losing the things we love to a system no one is able to own. (Photo Exmoor not Dartmoor)

British taxpayers will subsidise French energy bills under Starmer’s EU deal. British taxpayers are subsidising the energy bills of French households – with the payments expected to surge under Sir Keir Starmer’s EU reset deal. France can buy cheap wind power from the UK that is subsidised by British taxpayers, because of “wasteful” rules that allow suppliers to sell surplus energy abroad. Octopus, Britain’s biggest gas and electricity supplier, estimates that the problem will cost between £16bn from 2030 to 2050, or £770m a year on ­average. It also warned the subsidies to France and other EU countries could grow further under the Prime Minister’s plan to merge the UK electricity market into the EU’s. Under market rules, France can buy surplus power on windy days when too much is generated in Britain. However, most wind farms are concentrated in Scotland and the North and there is often not enough physical grid capacity to carry the power to France. In this situation, grid operators have to step in and “balance” the system; meaning the cheap power the French receive comes from gas-fired power plants that have to be fired up in the South East. The Conservatives warned on Tuesday that British consumers were therefore being “shafted” by paying twice, once for the subsidies to the wind farms and again for the gas generators. Claire Coutinho, the shadow energy secretary, said: “The problem with our electricity market is that it’s protecting wind developers not the consumer. “Why should the consumer pay for energy to be created in Britain that is then going to be sold for profit to France? “Energy companies will get paid twice whilst consumers get shafted. Our Cheap Power Plan would put cheap energy first.” The problem is partly a result of Labour’s clean power 2030 target, which is poised to expand wind and solar generation initially at a much faster pace than the grid can be upgraded. It comes after energy executives from the country’s biggest suppliers also warned that government taxes and levies would be the biggest factor in rising bills in the next five years. In a hearing about Sir Keir’s EU deal, Octopus urged ministers to “prioritise other things” that would do more to bring down bills, such as removing green levies from bills. Jack Pardoe, the head of policy at Octopus Energy, told a House of Lords committee on Tuesday: “If I was the Government and the priority was we’re going to try to cut bills, then I would prioritise fixing our own roof. “If it is strictly to do with the cost of electricity, the benefits [of the EU deal] are marginal.” Although joining the EU market could make power trading between Britain and its neighbours more efficient overall, it also runs the risk of exacerbating “the worst features of an inherently inefficient market”, he claimed. “Over time, with the Government’s plans for what we’re building in this country, they might then raise the costs for British households and businesses,” Mr Pardoe added. Starmer’s EU deal is ‘not a silver bullet’ Adam Berman, of Energy UK, an industry lobby group, also admitted “there was a question” whether Britain was inadvertently subsidising European neighbours “because of the way our financial structures work”. “The French or the Dutch may well benefit ... That is simply a fact of how the interconnectors currently work, and of how renewable generation capacity is procured,” he said. He said Sir Keir’s EU deal was “absolutely not a silver bullet to the UK’s dilemma around energy prices” but insisted that overall it would probably be positive for consumers, citing an estimated saving of £370m per year on wholesale electricity costs. Mr Berman said: “I don’t want to pretend this is going to come into effect tomorrow and people will feel it on their energy bills, or the next price cap. But there clearly is a negative impact on power prices.” Mark Copley, of Energy Traders Europe, claimed establishing electricity market links with Europe would make “something which used to be efficient … more efficient again, and that to me sounds like a good idea”. All three experts also warned the “joining fee” – in the form of whatever other concessions the Government makes to the EU – will have a significant effect on whether linking up with the European power market is ultimately good value. The effective subsidies being paid to France are the result of Britain’s electricity pricing system and bottlenecks in the grid, Mr Pardoe said. On windy days, more power is sold to France because prices in the UK drop. But most wind farms are concentrated in Scotland and the North and there is often not enough physical grid capacity to carry the power south to Folkstone. This means grid operators have to step in and ‘balance’ the system. In this situation, French buyers still pay cheap prices but the power they receive comes from gas-fired power plants that have to be fired up in the South East – not wind farms in Scotland. British consumers pay subsidies to the wind farms, meaning they are effectively subsidising the energy sold to French households. A government spokesman said: “We do not comment on ongoing negotiations, but you cannot ignore the fact that we already use interconnectors - we’re fixing a system that is clunky, slow, and prone to expensive miscalculations. “Electricity trading is common sense. By modernising our approach, we can export our clean surplus power instead of paying wind farms to switch off. Equally, on freezing, windless days, we can import cheaper electricity rather than firing up expensive domestic gas plants. “This is a two-way street designed to protect consumers. Fixing these inefficiencies will ensure power automatically flows where it is cheapest, helping to bear down on bills for British households.” - The telegraph

Labour MP Kevin McKenna claims men cannot be expected to respect women's boundaries What a chump! The vast majority of men have respected women's boundaries for generations - without any fuss or drama Stay in your own lane fellas and all will be well x.com/Gaynotqueer1/s… https://t.co/CkttOcMfeG

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I put a video on a couple of days ago about the insane level of spending, £819m in 5 yrs but Buckinghamshire council just on taxis to transport kids to and from various facilities. Further investigation has revealed a remarkable “coincidence”. A number of the councillors have publicly declared interests and relationships with taxi firms and transport businesses that have received tens of millions of £’s from the council. And very weirdly a number of the councillors themselves appear to be either taxi or vehicle drivers or run taxi firms…..what are the chances of that. There is not yet proof of any wrongdoing but it stinks of potential corruption and effectively theft of huge amounts of public money. And please follow @UKDecline @UKGovscan who dig into and provide these sorts of stats and figures.

This is right. What the government are bringing in is a bill we need to get right. @aliciakearns is entirely correct that it would help if it works but to work it must be clear and this one has gaps.

Astonishing fact: Only 4% of all small boat arrivals have ever been removed from the UK; of those, 71% were Albanian. Strip out Albania, and the UK has deported just 1 in 100 illegal small boat arrivals since 2018. This is how good your odds are if you make the trip.

The Education Secretary claims the VAT raid on independent schools is boosting education funding. Yet real-terms spending growth for mainstream schools is down in 2025/26, teacher numbers are falling, and as more independent schools close, additional pressure is being placed on already stretched state schools. This policy is creating problems, not solving them. @Rebecca_SPaul @LauraTrottMP

More trans activism madness out of the UK. A bookstore is displaying artwork that appears to celebrate double mastectomies alongside transgender symbolism. Why are we normalizing the idea of healthy young women removing their breasts? This isn’t progress. It’s a tragedy.

TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd

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Amnesty's message to vulnerable young women: get your healthy breasts surgically removed and you can be one of the cool crowd too. Amnesty bookshop in Kentish Town uses this dangerous and irresponsible messaging to celebrate Pride. With a backdrop of the trans flag of course.

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How DARE you fly a British flag on Britain!!! Lib Dem’s say it ‘causes distress’ and it’s a health and safety issue. And they want a high court to agree! meaning up to 2 years in prison …. For a flag! A British flag, in Britain, and it’s the World Cup. I have nothing 🤡

Labour's priorities for spending your money: ❌ Keeping our country safe ✅ Building solar farms in the Congo ✅ Wacky experiments to try to dim the sun

Are you an overseas migrant or a benefit claimant? Would you like to live in a London mansion in the Royal borough of Chelsea or Hampstead or possibly Westminster for £795 a month. If your answer is yes jump on the website now, Social Housing Claimants only of course!

This is the Labour Online Safety & AI Minister @KanishkaNarayan telling GB News they’re “crossing the line” on free speech with “fake news”. Does this give anyone confidence in the people in charge of online safety and AI regulation in this country? A government minister openly declaring that a mainstream news channel has gone beyond the acceptable limits of free speech simply because he doesn’t like what they’re saying. What the f*ck. These power-hungry authoritarians littered throughout the Starmer government need to go. How can anyone trust them with sweeping powers over what we can say online when this is how they behave? “We don’t like you, therefore your speech crosses the line.” That’s the attitude. And he’s boasting about it on his own X account! Absolutely disgraceful. This is exactly why people have zero faith in this government’s entire online safety agenda.

Some Rotherham councillors knew in 1999. By 2011 his crimes were openly discussed in Labour Party meetings I attended. We were always told to keep quiet

Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad

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The first Pakistani lord was a convicted grooming gang member.

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Ed Miliband doesn't need to explain what Net Zero will do to Britain. Aberdeen is already showing us. ➡️Jobs Gone. ➡️Investment Gone. ➡️Desolate City Centre. All sacrificed to satisfy climate targets that won't change global temperatures by a fraction of a degree.

All @Councillorsuzie wanted from the Deputy Mayor was a straight answer about the Palantir decision - but it's like pulling teeth trying to get a response!

It takes courage to reform welfare. When 4 million people are on sickness benefits and nearly half a million are under 25, it's clear the system isn't working. I'm prepared to rip up the current system and build something better – one that supports disabled people and is fair to taxpayers.

A well-heeled homeowner has spent nearly £1 million converting his home so that it could achieve an Energy Performance Certificate with an ‘A’ rating – and demonstrated just how unaffordable Net Zero is. dailysceptic.org/2026/06/17/900…

"almost £68billion of public money is entrusted to people who somehow didn’t notice their own chief executive stealing for over 12 years" This is you @JohnSwinney thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16400834/…

The Government do not take the safety of women and children seriously Lucy Connolly got 31 months inside ffs. This is a disgrace!

Freyja1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇯🇩🇪🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @FreyjaBakke

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🚨PAEDOPHILE WHO EXPOSED HIMSELF TO CHILDREN SENTENCED TO £10 FINE A sex offender who repeatedly exposed himself at train stations to lone females and children has avoided prison and instead is fined £10 Leon Clarke, 49, from Sutton, admitted exposing his genitals intending

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