John Tempest @OriginalTempest

Dawn @GBNEWS, Nicola West has recorded a most uplifting and unifying song regarding our existing (at the moment) Prime Minister.

@AlistairCarns Mr Carns would, I think, be an excellent Defence Secretary… if there was adequate funding to allow him to do the job. Or it could be a poisoned chalice, which would tarnish his otherwise excellent reputation. And no, I don’t vote Labour.

@lukedepulford I very much enjoyed your appearance on @GBNEWS tonight. You clearly know your stuff and, importantly, communicate in a manner that makes it easy to understand.

@ArchRose90 Mr Rose, re your comments on @GBNEWS regarding ‘flying the flag’. I agree that many of the ‘wokery’ may well be against it but, looking deeper, aren’t the majority of the Cabinet members of the Marxist-promoting Fabian Society, and isn’t that the nub of the matter?

@Ameer_Kotecha @LaurenMaeve Knowing our current (UK) Govt., he could probably get Chagos for a second-hand ‘in need of repair’ submarine. Or at least a tenner.

@LaurenMaeve @GBNews Credit where it’s due. Good to see you back on @GBNews.

Note to interviewees: If you’re not sure about your subject/might struggle to explain it, watch the excellent @LaurenMaeve on @GBNews and see how it’s done.

@elonmusk Because he wasn’t black, or Muslim?

@jamespriceglos Excellent explanation today on @GBNews regarding the fiscal ineptitude of our current government. Thanks.

Today is my son’s(Danny) birthday. He turns 35 today. Could you please wish my son a very happy birthday today 🎂🎉🥳🎈🎁

@cristo_radio @dalrymple_mrs @UKLabour You’re not wrong on all you say, but maybe you could get further if you were to investigate the aims (and membership) of the Fabian Society. Just a thought.

Sorcha Eastwood, we need more MP’s like her! She’s bloody fantastic ❤️

The Man Nobody Is Talking About. His Name Is Sir Philip Barton. Buried inside Tuesday's committee testimony, beneath the headlines about constant pressure, bullying and secret job searches, is the detail that may prove the most consequential of this entire affair. It concerns not Olly Robbins, not Morgan McSweeney, not even Keir Starmer. It concerns the man who was there before all of them. The man who said no. The man who then left his post eight months early. Sir Philip Barton was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office when Peter Mandelson's appointment was announced in December 2024. He was, in other words, the most senior civil servant in the building at the precise moment the machinery of state was being directed to place a man with documented links to Russia and China into the most sensitive diplomatic posting in the Western alliance. What Robbins told the committee on Tuesday is this. Barton pushed back. When the Cabinet Office argued that vetting Mandelson was unnecessary, that a peer and Privy Councillor did not require developed vetting, Barton refused to accept it. He insisted that vetting was a requirement. He had to be, in Robbins's own words, very firm in person. He also voiced reservations about the appointment to Jonathan Powell, the National Security Adviser, reservations that were noted and not acted upon. He was worried, Robbins suggested, about exactly the same reputational risks that had been detailed to the Prime Minister before the appointment was announced. Then Sir Philip Barton left his post. Eight months before his tenure would otherwise have concluded. The question Richard Foord put to Robbins on Tuesday was the right one. Why did Barton's tenure end early? Robbins said he did not know. He suggested ministers may have felt it was time for a change. That answer is not an answer. It is the absence of one. Consider what the timeline now shows. A senior civil servant pushes back against the appointment, insists on vetting when the Cabinet Office wants to bypass it, raises reservations with the National Security Adviser, and departs eight months ahead of schedule. His replacement arrives to find the appointment already treated as a fait accompli, the vetting process under constant pressure from Downing Street, and the question of outcome entirely subordinate to the question of speed. If Barton was removed because he stood in the way of this appointment, then Robbins was not the first civil servant sacrificed to protect it. He was the second. And the question of who else was moved aside, overruled or silenced in the months between December 2024 and the moment the security services finally said no, becomes the most important question this affair has yet produced. Starmer sacked Robbins for following the rules. The Foreign Affairs Committee will now call Barton to give evidence. What he says will either confirm what the timeline already suggests or provide an alternative explanation that the evidence does not currently support. There is a pattern here that goes beyond process failure. Process failures are random. They point in different directions. What this affair has produced is a series of events that point consistently in one direction. Officials who comply are retained. Officials who push back depart. The security services are bypassed. The vetting is treated as an administrative inconvenience. And the one question nobody at the top of this government will answer is why this appointment, this man, this post, mattered so much that every obstacle was removed to make it happen. Barton apparently asked that question. He left eight months early. The country deserves to know why.

@jamespriceglos Another excellent appearance by you on @GBNews tonight. Can I go to bed now?!

PLEASE READ AND RETWEET In May, we head to the polls for the local elections — assuming, of course, nobody in Westminster decides a conveniently timed international “situation” is more important than letting the public have their say. So let’s keep this simple: if you can vote, vote. And vote like it actually matters — because this time, it does. Now before the Restore crowd start foaming at the mouth, take a breath. I respect what they’re trying to build, and I’d genuinely like to see figures like Rupert Lowe gain real traction in the future. From what I’ve seen, a lot of his views aren’t a million miles away from where many of us stand. But politics isn’t about what might happen one day — it’s about what can happen right now. And right now, they don’t have the numbers. Reform, for all its flaws, is the only outfit currently in a position to seriously rattle the establishment. Do I agree with everything? No. Do I trust every face involved? Also no. Farage, for me, still has the air of a man who might fumble the moment when it truly counts. But I’d much rather take that risk than guarantee nothing changes at all. Because here’s the truth — if the vote splinters, nothing shifts. The same machine rolls on, the same voices dominate, and the same outcomes repeat. Division is a luxury we can’t afford. Unity — even if it’s imperfect — is the only way anything changes. The left has entrenched itself deeply across institutions, influence, and narrative. That doesn’t get undone by wishful thinking or protest votes — it gets undone by numbers. So if there’s no merger, no alignment, no last-minute miracle before May… then people need to be pragmatic. Pick the option that can actually move the needle. Because if we don’t, we’re not sending a message — we’re just handing them another win. And frankly, Britain deserves better than being the punchline.

The mark of a bad Bill is obvious: sweeping Henry VIII powers hidden inside something thin and flimsy, handing the Government carte blanche to rewrite it after the event. That is exactly what this was. Now, having pushed it through, the Government is retreating: call it a pause, call it a U-turn. But let’s get to the point, the rights of the Chagossians. This Labour government talks about enabling their return, yet when the Supreme Court ruled that Section 9 of the 2004 Order in Council, denying their right of abode, was unlawful this Government chose to appeal. So which is it? Does the goverment believe the Chagossians have the right to return, or are they determined to keep them out? This is not about process. It is about justice.

Mr Starmer, The world is watching. And for once, I’m not here to play nice or balance both sides. This is the one shot I get to say what millions already know in their bones. You are not Britain’s Prime Minister. You are a man who won an election and immediately began dismantling the very things the British people voted for in 2016. You are squatting in Downing Street while steering the country back into the arms of the institution it explicitly rejected. If you will not stand down, the British people will make you. Here is every claim you made today, stripped bare, no spin, no mercy: 1. “The Middle East conflict has now entered its second month.” Thank you for the calendar update. While you counted months, the IRGC a group formally designated as terrorists by the United States, Canada, and others, continued running its London operations from 16 Prince’s Gate, Knightsbridge. You did nothing. 2. “The UK is working at pace for de-escalation and peace.” Translation: we issued strongly worded statements. Results: zero. Your “pace” is the speed of a snail on tranquillisers. 3. “The war will affect the future of our country, energy and cost of living.” It already is. Your green ideology and EU realignment have left Britain with some of the highest energy prices in the developed world. Pensioners choose between heating and eating. That’s not “the war.” That’s policy. 4. “We are well-placed with a long-term plan to emerge stronger and more secure.” Record taxes. 7.5 million people on NHS waiting lists. Record small-boat crossings. Energy bills that could bankrupt households. If this is your definition of “stronger and more secure,” the English language just filed for divorce. 5. “I held meetings with business leaders…” Photo opportunities. They warned you. You smiled for the cameras and carried on regardless. 6. “Energy bills will be cut today and fixed until July.” A £117 cap that your own NI increases and green levies have already vaporised. It’s not relief. It’s an insult dressed up as compassion. 7. “The most effective way to support the cost of living is to push for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.” Then why did you help shut down North Sea production and make us dependent on foreign energy? The hypocrisy is so thick you could spread it on toast. 8. “The UK is taking back control of our energy security by investing in clean British energy.” Britain now pays the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe. Blackouts are on the menu. This is not “taking back control.” This is self-sabotage with better PR. 9. “Because the world is volatile, Britain’s long-term national interest now requires closer partnership with the EU.” Let’s be honest for once: you are using a foreign crisis as cover to hand sovereignty, money, and decision-making back to Brussels without asking the British people. That is not statesmanship. That is betrayal by stealth. 10. “I will announce a new summit with the EU later this year…” Re-joining by the back door while an Iranian terror-linked operation sits in one of London’s most expensive postcodes. The sheer gall is almost impressive. You stood at the podium today and spoke of “British interests” while actively working against them. You swore you wouldn’t rejoin the EU. You are doing it anyway. You talk of security while leaving a designated terror network untouched in central London. You lecture about the cost of living while your policies make it worse. The mask is not slipping, Keir. It has fallen off and shattered on the floor. The British people see you clearly now: a politician who values international approval and Brussels goodwill more than the nation that elected him. You are not leading Britain. You are managing its managed decline. The clock is ticking. Not in secret. Not in silence. Out loud, in broad daylight, across every pub, every kitchen table, every X feed and every street in this country. History does not forgive those who sell their own people’s sovereignty for applause. Britain did not vote for this. Britain does not want this. And Britain will not tolerate this forever. The reckoning is coming. And it will not be kind. Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧

To encourage them, teenagers who vote between 10pm and midnight on 7th May will have their votes counted twice. “It’s never too late to support democracy.” said a Green Party spokesman.

@DobbsandPolicy “The proof is in the pudding.” you say on @GBNEWS. Oops. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” is what you probably meant to say. Standards, Ms Dobbs. Apart from that you were quite good and I look forward to your next appearance.

The UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values, regardless of dogma Despite the many mistakes made by churches, for centuries British people have been influenced by Christ's teaching If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain any more

Susan Hall AM @Councillorsuzie

3 months ago

We must fight for our culture and remain a Christian Country. It’s essential that we bother to go out and vote for politicians that have this country’s best interest at heart. Not those that are obsessed with issues elsewhere.

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