Callum Collins

I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not

My column www.ft.com/content/f086...

Fawning royal coverage again on #bbcnews. “A single protester amongst a horde of loyal supporters”. 🤢

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Reform UK suspends four Kent councillors after video leak The suspensions come after footage was leaked of a heated virtual meeting of Kent councillors.

"It is business as usual at Kent County Council," says the Reform leader. The suspensions were because councillors "brought the party into disrepute".

How did they do that? Umm... <checks notes> by sharing video of what we are actually like.🤣😂~AA

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BOSTON SHOWING UP TO TELL DONALD TRUMP #NOKINGS 🤴🚫

Government approves 'UK's largest' solar farm in Lincolnshire Developers claim it will power about 300,000 homes - making it larger than any currently built.

Overall, it's the 27th approval of a major natonal infrastructure project since Labour came to power.

As you'd expect the BBC reporting on this had a local resident complaining, while also suggesting local 'officials' are unhappy quote a local councillor saying it's 'climate madness'. Yawn!

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🚨 NEW: Ed Miliband has approved the UK's largest solar panel farm to date - set to be built in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln...

Legend.

Read My Lips (late 70s) is sublime.

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

Kemi Badenoch, who was part of a Government that delivered 14 years of economic stagnation and record increases in immigration, says the Conservatives are "the only party that can deliver a stronger economy and stronger borders"

Reform UK Kent

TAX TO THE MAX

After DOGE finds nothing, they are now raising tax to the maximum annual hike allowed 5%.

#ReformTaxToTheMax

This isn’t a picture of Mel Stride and the shadow chancellor being misidentified on ConHome feels quite indicative of where the Tories are at.

Good god. The BBC are obsessed with the 1.2% increase in Employers’ National Insurance earlier this year. Now doing a ‘six-month review’ on BBC Breakfast.
Can’t remember this fixation on any other govt budgetary decision before.

Queuing: Is waiting in line for hours the new cool thing to do? Whether it's waiting in line to try a new bakery, or to grab a bargain at a sample sale, queuing is becoming an activity in itself.

I’m so glad I’d rather chew my fingers off then succumb to this sort of marketing nonsense.
‘Is waiting in a 12-hour queue the new cool thing to do?’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wish I could retweet this every day.

Reform’s immigration plan falls apart on hard contact with evidence, economics and any form of engaged brain. Never be afraid to stand up for this country and its decency and future by giving them short shrift.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

That's how I wanna go

Surely, when the richest man on earth urges the working class to 'fight' from behind the safety of a video camera a thousand miles away from the batons, pepper spray and prison time - surely then, you know you’re being played like a puppet. Surely...

Brexit Britain in one image.

well done Ed.

Record numbers of Americans have applied for UK citizenship because of London’s values, says Khan Ahead of Donald Trump’s state visit, the mayor of London hit back at US critics of the capital’s crime rates and diverse population The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has said a record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship following the election of Donald Trump, which he attributed to the city’s “liberal values”. In an opening salvo ahead of the US president’s state visit, Sadiq Khan said he wanted to challenge the idea that London was in turmoil and said that more Americans than ever were seeking to make it their home. Continue reading...

Record numbers of Americans have applied for UK citizenship because of London’s values, says Khan

£318,000 for EACH CHILD. Someone’s having a huge laugh.

Cost of children's homes doubles but care can be poor, says report

What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct? Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files

A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.

It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Labour has taken UK to 'edge of a crisis', warns Lord Stuart Rose Lord Stuart Rose, the former boss of Marks & Spencer and Asda, called for 'radical action', saying Britain was 'standing still in a lay-by while we decide what to do'.

That would be CONSERVATIVE PEER Lord Rose, then. Funny - no mention of that. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

This still makes me hoot with laughter.