Every single sentence in your post is untrue. Labour’s 2002 ‘deal’ had very little long-term impact on migrants trying to sneak into the UK by lorry/container/vehicles. It simply moved from Sangette to other routes. Between 2014-2019 55,000 came in that way — an underestimate since many came in undetected and disappeared into society. Unlike boat people, nearly all of whom are counted. So it’s an obvious nonsense to say people weren’t being sent back because nobody was arriving. Tens of thousands were arriving. They switched to small boats when major advances in technology, perimeter defence of lorry/container parks and detection made lorries etc too risky to take. That’s why, from 2018 onwards, the small boat numbers grew fast. Nothing to do with EU, Brexit, Dublin rules, fairy dust etc. Why do you peddle such falsehoods?

I went on @BBCNewsnight and enraged all the usual radical-left loons stating these simple facts: ~1.85m foreign nationals claim £23 billion in welfare each year in Britain ~ 1.3m foreign nationals claim £11.9billion of Universal Credit Britain must put the British people first **Britains tax burden is the highest it’s been since the War (1948 to be exact)** If you want to lift people up, you have to create wealth. You have to incentivise work. Which means tax them less. Anyone who runs a business knows this. Since then, far-left X has launched a series of ad-hominem attacks. Some even saying these ideas are “extreme far-right” None of them have addressed the substance of my arguments. Instead they are trying to shame me for being in one of the most successful bands of last 20 years, whilst ignoring that I have one of the biggest independent politics podcasts in Britain. And ignoring that I’ve generated 10s of £millions in wealth and taxes for the economy, created 1000s of jobs, and built several successful companies. Likewise they think that I might be anything but immensely proud to be associated with my own dad, one of the most successful businessmen and generous individuals this country has produced since the War, and his association with GB News, officially the most viewed and trusted news channel in the country. He’s a hero. Thanks to Newsnight for having me!

Why Danny Kruger Is Integral to Reform UK’s Future Yesterday, I attended the Battle of Ideas festival in Westminster, where I listened to Danny Kruger MP in conversation with Baroness Claire Fox. The discussion was entitled Will Reform be allowed to rule? Taking on the Blob. As a Reform voter, I found this one of the more interesting discussions of the day, particularly because Danny is responsible for Reform’s preparations for government. Danny made a point that stood out to me. Sometimes we need to be more ‘vulgar’ towards those who oppose our views. I understood exactly where he was coming from. We have become so accustomed to politicians watching every word they say, terrified of upsetting the establishment, that very little actually changes. Claire Fox provided a good balance. She challenged Danny, reeled the conversation back in when necessary and made it clear that this was not going to become a party political broadcast. I appreciated that because I hadn’t travelled to London to listen to people agree with each other. The questions from the audience were equally pertinent. There were school teachers and lawyers raising genuine concerns, and they were not necessarily coming from a left-leaning position. It was refreshing to hear people questioning the practicalities rather than simply repeating the usual political arguments. One of the areas discussed was the complexity of legal status and the difficulties that come with trying to implement substantial political change. That immediately brought me back to my own analysis of Restore’s mass deportation proposals. Whatever your position on immigration, you cannot simply announce mass deportations and expect them to happen in a vacuum. There are legal frameworks, individual circumstances, administrative processes and international obligations to consider. You cannot just bypass all of that because it makes for a good political soundbite. And this is where I think Danny’s work is particularly important. We often talk about ‘the Blob’ as though it is some distant political entity. I don’t believe it is merely institutionalised. I think it is deeply entrenched within the machinery of government, and any party serious about changing the direction of this country needs to understand precisely what it is walking into. Danny’s proposals in Fixing the Centre address many of these issues. There is clearly a great deal of work taking place behind the scenes with Danny and his team, much of which the average voter probably never considers. I have never been particularly interested in politicians who simply tell me what I want to hear. I want to know how they intend to deliver what they promise, what obstacles stand in their way and whether they have actually thought beyond winning an election. I came away with a greater appreciation of the work Danny is doing. Not because I agreed with every word, but because I could see the thought being given to the practicalities of governing. As a Reform voter, that matters to me. There is a considerable difference between campaigning to change Britain and actually being in a position to do it. And after yesterday, I think Danny Kruger’s role in preparing Reform for government deserves far more attention than it receives. @danny__kruger @reformparty_uk

All the rejoiners know this. 👇 It has been pointed out many times. But they continue to lie to you. 🤥 And just look at Spain or France, Germany or Italy to see how great the current EU immigration policy is. 🤔

Then the 70% are wrong. Privatisation of energy was a success. Prices fell. Consumers benefitted. It all started to go wrong when the Tory/LD Coalition relentlessly increased state control of energy in pursuit of net zero. Continued under subsequent governments. The state now has more control over UK energy than it did in the days of the Central Electricity Generating Board! And the remuneration last year of the boss of Gaz de France (now Engie) was €5.5m. Other than that you’re spot on.

In other words — and contrary to all the lies told about the Dublin rules, including by Stephen Kinnock on Question Time — we took more people in under them than we sent back. End of.

Likely there will be many claims to fatherhood of any appearances of success, but the most convincing attribution will, as usual, be this one: "The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration." (Wealth of Nations)

UK 🇬🇧 The Drax net zero con-trick - where a massive polluter has become a net zero manipulator. Yet more net zero environmental destruction masquerading as “saving the planet”. The Labour government is trying to force through an extension that would give Drax an estimated £1.8bn in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11bn it has already received. Drax has burned an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal. And here’s the con trick: Drax is a sneaky way of exporting our CO2 emissions. We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in diesel tankers, then burn it in a Yorkshire-based power station. And here’s the kicker - the CO2 emissions tally is not counted against the country that burns it, but the country that grows it. So Drax emissions are counted against the countries who grow and export the wood for Drax - like Canada and USA…not UK who burn it. So the UK can reduce CO2 figures by importing the burning wood grown elsewhere. A gigantic net zero con-trick.

Stephen Kinnock’s claim that there were no boat people because we were in the European Union is a straightforward lie. Illegal immigrants flooded in by lorry, train and cars. They disappeared into towns/cities and couldn’t be properly counted. When advances in technology made these methods of transport much harder to use the illegal migrants took to boats, courtesy of the people smugglers. Since the boats are usually interdicted on arrival the counting is easier. Nothing to do with being in or out of the EU.

Ministers lied when they said the evidence behind their "Islamophobia" definition was deleted. I exposed Labour's cover-up, and they have now been forced to correct the record. It's almost certain extremist groups influenced the definition. I'll keep fighting for the truth.

🇬🇧 This is proper British (oh hush you progressives) A 76 year old man is before the courts with a test of equality before the law! … pay attention. Timothy Miller was arrested for wearing a burka at an anti-migration protest. So he’s turned up to court wearing it AGAIN! Because Section 157 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 provides a defence for face coverings worn for religious observance… It doesn’t say ONLY women. It doesn’t say ONLY Muslims. And the Equality Act protects religion or belief, while Article 9 protects the freedom to CHANGE religion. And clever Mr Miller says he’s “exploring Islam” So now the court is screwed (not a legal technical term) and must decide whether his actions qualify as ‘religious observance’ Because the law must be applied EQUALLY, regardless of sex, religion or political opinions. He’s challenging whether equality before the law really means equality for EVERYONE. (I think I love him) And I think that’s bloody brilliant!.. now we have to see if the law is going to show its cards! … Will it discriminate against this white man? exploring his religion? … of course it will. And then you will know … that this brave man took one for the team. Come on Team Britain 💣

The Liberal Democrats have some serious explaining to do over yesterday's Piddington vote. Not a single Lib Dem MP recorded a vote on the motion to scrap plans to house 1,200 male asylum seekers near the village. Even Calum Miller, the local MP, failed to register a vote. Imagine being elected to represent a community, hearing residents express serious concerns about their safety, and then not even recording a vote on a motion affecting their own doorstep. What exactly are his constituents paying him to do? The Liberal Democrats spend an extraordinary amount of time telling Britain how much they care about local communities. Yet when it came to one of their own, there wasn't a single recorded vote from the party. All that talk about standing up for local people. Not a single vote to show for it. The Liberal Democrats increasingly look like a party searching for a purpose. Perhaps they could start by explaining where they were when Piddington needed representation.

This reminds me of a chat I had with a Lib Dem friend shortly after the grooming gangs scandal had risen in salience due to X – lovely guy, but his main concern was Musk, 'disinformation', division. As if people knowing about the horror was worse than the fact that it happened

I’m Polish. If France is your future, I come from the end of that road. France shows you the slow version. We lived the full one – the version where the state doesn’t just take care of everything. It owns everything. In Poland it arrived with Soviet bayonets. In America it would arrive by vote – slower, softer, with better slogans. But the destination is the same, and so is the mechanism. It starts with prices. When the state decides what things should cost, prices stop telling the truth. A price is a message: this is scarce, this is wanted, make more of this. Abolish the message, and the whole economy goes deaf. So the shelves emptied – first of meat, then of almost everything. Every Pole knew the joke. A man walks into a shop: "No meat?" The clerk: "No, sir. Here is no fish. No meat is across the street." We queued for everything. People wrote their place in line on their palms and kept lists through the night. You waited years for a small car, and often more than a decade for an apartment. Not because Poles were lazy. Because nobody in the system had any reason to produce what we needed. At work, we had another joke: we pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us. And the promise of equality? It produced the most unequal system of all. The party elite had their own shops – Poles called them the shops behind the yellow curtains. Those with dollars shopped in special stores. Everyone else got the queue. Then the system needed informers, because nobody believed in it anymore. Our neighbors were recruited to report on us. You never knew who was listening – the colleague, the friend, sometimes family. So we learned to live a double life: one language in public, another at home. Those who spoke up got the wolf ticket: no job, no promotion, sometimes no university place for their children. Nobody needed to send them to prison. They just couldn’t live. The newspapers reported record harvests while the shelves stood empty. Everyone knew. Nobody said it. That is what a society looks like when the lie becomes the system. In 1950 we were about as rich as Spain. By 1989, Spain was twice as rich. That is what forty years of "fairness" cost us. Today in America, the method is softer. Your neighbor won’t inform on you to the secret police. Someone will report your post, and you’ll be cancelled – no job, no account, no platform. Different tools, same machine. We got out. Ten million of us joined Solidarity, and in 1989 a system that looked eternal collapsed. Since then, Poland has become one of the great success stories of Europe – because people were finally free to build. But we still carry it. More than thirty years later, you can see it in the careful answers, the closed faces - the system leaves faster than the fear does. It takes generations to get out of it fully once you fall into that trap. Nobody votes for the queue. Nobody votes for the informer. They come with the promise. Trust me, you don’t want to go down that road.

These imams told Muslim men they should beat their wives. They said "physical discipline" should be used if they are "disobedient" or deny sex. I've written to the CPS - they must prosecute these barbaric preachers.

The Empire suppressed the self-immolation of widows and female infanticide in India and female genital mutilation in Africa. It moderated the disruptive impact of the inevitable arrival of Western modernity upon very unmodern societies in North America and especially Australia. It created regional peace by imposing an overarching imperial authority on multiple, warring peoples—unifying, for example, much of the Indian subcontinent. It promoted a worldwide free market, protected by the Royal Navy, that gave native producers and entrepreneurs in India and West Africa new economic opportunities. It made foreign investment attractive by reducing risk through establishing political stability and the rule of law. Consequently, Australia’s gross domestic product per capita became the highest in the world by 1890, and by 1914 India was the world’s fourth largest textile-producer. The Empire built canals in India, bringing five times as much land under irrigation as the Mughals had in the 18th century. By 1900 it had figured out how to prevent food shortage escalating into famine there and went on to fight disease in tropical Africa. It provided a civil service and judiciary that was generally and extraordinarily incorrupt. It introduced liberal ideas and liberal institutions of a free press and representative government to places that had never known them. New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant the vote to men and women on equal terms, in 1893, and by 1935 electoral democracy had been established in Indian provinces. From May 1940, when France fell, to June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, The British Empire offered Nazi Germany the only military resistance—with the sole exception of Greece. Inspired by the ideal of the Commonwealth, it helped to plan and realise the League of Nations after the First World War and the United Nations after 1945. And it brought up three of the most prosperous and liberal states in the world—Canada, Australia and New Zealand—and gave birth to one more, the United States. Significantly, there is evidence that all of these former members of the British Empire are among the least racist countries on earth. Read our latest here: nigelbiggar.co.uk/p/empire-a…

The biggest problem for UK car manufacturers is not competition from China, but - the UK’s EV mandate, - the UK’s fines for car manufacturers for selling ‘too many’ petrol and diesel vehicles, - the UK’s emissions trading scheme and other carbon taxes, - the UK’s world-beating ‘industrial electricity prices', and, - soon, the UK’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that will add a carbon tariff onto the steel and aluminium UK manufacturers need to import to make their cars. I thoughts on the Trade Minister's decision below. globalbritain.co.uk/blog/two…

This chart highlights the current govt’s poor record on public finances, highlighted by @afneil below

There’s a lot of self-serving spin emanating from the UK government about how virtuous it is re fiscal consolidation. Here are the facts. Labour inherited an OBR budget deficit forecast of £87bn (3.1% GDP) for FY2024/25. After R Reeves’ 1st disastrous budget the actual deficit was £153bn (5.2%). Massive jump. Labour inherited OBR budget deficit of £77bn (2.7%) for FY2025/26. After RR’s disastrous 2nd budget that turned out to be £133bn (4.3%). So in its first two years it added over £120bn to borrowing/deficit (despite huge increase in taxes). The OBR forecast it inherited for this FY2026/27 was £69bn (2.3%). It is now forecast to be £116bn (3.3%). That looks like an underestimate. More likely to be closer to £130bn again. Inherited budget forecast for 2027/28: £51bn (1.6%). Latest forecast: £97bn (2.9%). Inherited budget forecast for 2028/29: £39bn (1.2%). Latest forecast: £86bn (2.5%). Far from fiscal consolidation Labour is forecast to borrow an incredible £260bn more over the 5 years from 2024/25 than the forecasts it inherited. Despite the tax rises. Which will continue. Alone among G7 countries the IMF projects the UK tax burden to rise by 3.7% of GDP 2025-31. The only other country with a rising tax burden is France (0.8%). Italy is static. Rest of G7 have falling tax burden. And let’s not forget Labour’s so-called ‘fiscal consolidation’ is all backloaded to end-decade. Unlikely to happen. So taxes will have to rise by even more.