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Paul Spackman retweeted
Another British Fumble!
£2bn AI data centre in Essex. 23,000 Nvidia chips, planning permission sorted, Microsoft signed up as the anchor tenant
Microsoft has reportedly now walked. Because the grid told them they can't have the power until 2033/34
The government literally named this site in its own AI action plan. They talk about AI growth zones every other week. And we can't get 90MW to a field in Essex for 8 years
Same story as the reservoirs. We don't build the boring stuff, so the exciting stuff can't happen here
Paul Spackman retweeted
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?
Paul Spackman retweeted
God-tier trolling. 🔥
We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.
Paul Spackman retweeted
Oh dear, now Polanski is claiming Palestinians are being killed "in the name of Judaism". If that isn't conflating the actions of an Israeli state with being Jewish I don't know what is. This is antisemitism under cover of pro-Palestinian campaigning. Polanski's actual words below. #LauraK
Paul Spackman retweeted
It’s no coincidence that rioters in France have vandalised synagogues and churches but no mosques.
Attempting to destroy religious buildings has nothing to do with "school resources."
It’s an attack on Christianity and Judaism. xitter.cf/BastionMediaFR/status/…
Paul Spackman retweeted
Polska nie powtórzy błędów innych europejskich państw, nie będzie też za nie płacić. Twardo bronimy granicy przed nielegalną migracją, mamy własną politykę azylową (nie przyjmujemy wniosków), deportujemy tych, którzy łamią polskie prawo. W kwestii bezpieczeństwa będziemy bezwzględni. To usłyszeli ode mnie liderzy Europy w Brukseli.
Paul Spackman retweeted
Read this powerful article by @thetimes , and reflect on what has been shared..
This is not just “persecution by (extremely clumsy) process” imposed upon active-duty SAS operators fighting to detain vicious ISIS thugs in an active war zone, but also an example of performative self-immolation initiated by the most senior UK Special Forces officer at the time (G Jenkins) as self-serving exercise in what HE calls ‘transparency’……
So, if someone, anyone (quite possibly an enemy) within an active war zone says the SAS killed an unarmed man, then the so-called ‘senior leaders’ (some, as in this case, with near-zero combat experience) within the Whitehall-based ‘UK system’ desperate to demonstrate something that they call ‘transparency’ (or whatever else floats the MOD’s boat), will automatically launch an aggressive RMP operation to detain the SAS men involved….
Not on the basis of any hard evidence (there is no crime scene, no bodies, no bullets etc), but purely on distant, uncorroborated hearsay and remote, delayed analysis of operational reports; all supported by desk-bound, chinless leaders that seemingly care more about how they will (personally) look in an MOD promotion board than trying to properly understand the circumstances faced by the SAS men and defend them accordingly.
What a gift this utterly pathetic weakness, low threshold investigative process and twisted self-defeating system gives to our many enemies….and what an awful message it sends to those that still volunteer to fight on our all of our behalves….
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: How did a secret mission in Syria lead to a crisis within Britain’s special forces?
Insight, The Sunday Times investigations team, can reveal the full story behind an SAS operation in Syria in 2022 — and its aftermath thetimes.com/uk/defence/arti…
Paul Spackman retweeted
Imagine jumping from a helicopter behind enemy lines at night to capture an ISIS cell leader, not knowing if you'll come home. Then imagine coming home to a double murder investigation.
In July 2022, five SAS soldiers came under fire in a pitch-black field in Syria. The two people in front of them refused calls to surrender, and the soldiers believed their lives were in danger. They fired. An internal review cleared them on self-defence grounds.
Days after a BBC Panorama on the SAS, the Director of Special Forces overturned that review and referred them to the military police. The soldiers were arrested at secret bases in Syria and Iraq, and their homes were raided. Detectives asked for a sleeping baby to be moved so they could search under its cot.
Forty-eight hours after their police interviews, the same men were sent back to jump out of helicopters into enemy territory, with life sentences hanging over them.
Their legal support was one sheet of A4 listing legal aid solicitors, plus no more than £500. After nearly three years of limbo they were told there would be no charges, but the case could be reopened at any time. They have never been formally cleared.
All five have now left the Army. They've been through broken relationships, drinking, and in one case an attempted suicide. The SAS is losing more experienced soldiers than ever, and the Defence Secretary has refused to meet them.
This is outrageous. They aren't asking to be above the law. They're asking for a fair process. Our soldiers deserve protection from lawfare, not to be treated like criminals by the state they serve.
#SAS #Lawfare #StandWithOurSoldiers
Paul Spackman retweeted
Imagine if it was the far-right rioting in France and Nigel Farage posted in solidarity with them. Zarah Sultana would have been very vocal.
She is completely unfit to be an MP. She’s as dangerous as she is idiotic.
Paul Spackman retweeted
We've raised a generation of would-be revolutionaries enjoying historically unprecedented prosperity while condemning the system that made it possible.
Their politics is a revolving door of demands: expand government, drain the coffers, blame capitalism for the consequences, and demand even more.
And politicians, terrified of offending them, keep rewarding the entitlement that fuels the cycle.
Appeasement has consequences. So does economic illiteracy.
Paul Spackman retweeted
GB Energy, the useless state-owned company established by Labour, has so far spent £14.2m on running costs — and £5.8m on investments.
Running costs included the almost £400,000/year paid to its ineffective CEO and six executives on more than £100,000 each. What any of them has done to earn these sums is one of life’s mysteries.
Perhaps it’s a blessing it’s invested so little. The £5.8m it has earmarked is for a proposed floating wind farm off the north coast of Scotland — a sure-fire loss-maker if ever there was one.
Paul Spackman retweeted
When people say "I used to swim in the sea all the time when I was a kid. Now my kids can't" they really have no clue.
Chances are they swam in sewage 10 to 100x more concentrated.
Danny Dyer thinks the water around the Isle of Sheppey is "a disgrace" and "very dangerous". Is it dirtier than when he was a kid? No.
In 1991, 55% of English bathing waters would pass today's standards. In 2025: 95%. Leysdown's E. coli is down ~96%.
tidalwaiv.co.uk/blog/danny-d…
Paul Spackman retweeted
🚨 BOOM! A shop owner in Lyon who spent ALL NIGHT guarding his store looked the city's Green Party mayor in the eye this morning and told him to RESIGN.
"Are you proud today? Look at the damage you've done!"
"You should be ashamed. You must resign!"
Mayor Gregory Doucet came to see the damage in the city center, and police had to stand between the two men.
Yesterday, masked rioters smashed and looted shop after shop and burned the city's historic tourism office to the ground.
Some shop owners stood in their doorways with baseball bats because that was the only protection they had.
Lyon made just 20 ARRESTS.
This is what happens when leftists run a city. The rioters walk, and the shop owners clean up the glass.
He's right. Resign.
Paul Spackman retweeted
I’m French. 🇫🇷
And I’m tired of watching people confuse freedom with the freedom to destroy.
You have the right to protest.
You have the right to be angry.
You have the right to demand change.
You do NOT have the right to burn, loot or attack people.
A Republic that protects the right to protest must also protect its citizens from violence.
That’s not authoritarianism.
That’s the rule of law.
Paul Spackman retweeted
The mainstream media is not telling you the truth about the so called "student protests" in France.
It is far left riots.
They were literally in the streets of France today singing about a Communist revolution.
People must realize how dangerous the far left actually is.
Paul Spackman retweeted
Fantastic commentary.
“…democracy rests on a promise: that the state is strong enough to guarantee everyone the same protection, the same rights and the same rules. When that promise breaks, the consequences extend far beyond security.”
This is Limoges city hall. On fire.
Storming and setting fire to seats of democratic government is insurrectionary violence. No grievance gives anyone the right to do this.
Students have legitimate grievances. This violence is burying them. The missing teachers, overcrowded classrooms and anxiety about the future disappear behind the destruction.
For a politics built on permanent confrontation, that can be useful. Mélenchon’s strategy connects separate grievances into a single indictment of the system. The confrontation becomes the cause.
And violence feeds on perceived weakness. When the state appears to have disappeared, people test its limits. Each retreat invites another challenge. A kind of madness takes hold: destroying the institutions we depend on comes to look like liberation.
I wrote in June that democracy rests on a promise: that the state is strong enough to guarantee everyone the same protection, the same rights and the same rules. When that promise breaks, the consequences extend far beyond security.
Fear spreads. People protect themselves because they no longer trust that they will be protected together. They retreat into their group, their community, their identity. Those promising order gain ground. Distrust replaces the confidence that makes a common life possible.
And is exploited by all those, inside and outside the country, who want to see it burn!
Paul Spackman retweeted
That’s a nonsense argument too. Yes, Brexit has probably reduced UK GDP growth, certainly in the early years. But by how much? That’s the key question. Most studies ascribe all UK growth shortfall to Brexit. Nothing to the highest industrial energy costs in the world or the reckless obsession with net zero, which has hollowed out industry. Nothing to the cackhanded economic policies of successive governments. Nothing to heading for European levels of tax and spend, a proven growth killer (as France illustrates all too clearly). Not that really is a nonsense.
Paul Spackman retweeted
The biggest single factor that has held this country back isn’t Brexit.
It’s the constant arguing about Brexit.
It has kneecapped us for a decade.
Losers consent matters.
If the country just pulled together we really could thrive but so many simply won’t.
They see the EU through rose tinted glasses and never consider the flip side.
Rather than working together we all push against each other resulting in our politicians looking back to the past as opposed to forging our future.
We simply do not have to be in the EU to grow the economy - we really don’t.
The biggest lie of all is that the EU wants the UK to thrive. They don’t. They want us back to pay their bills, clip our wings, keep us under their regulatory thumb and to get cheap food on their tables.
Paul Spackman retweeted
We don't talk enough about how your electricity bill acts as a backdoor tax rise.
If they put income tax up 2p there would be a national debate. But every year they add billions in policy costs to your bills and nobody blinks an eye.
