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AWilkins retweeted
Deutschland wird nicht deindustrialisiert.
Deutschland wird abgewickelt.
Und die Täter sitzen in der Politik.
Patrik Baab sagt, was niemand in Berlin zugeben will: Die Großkonzerne fürchten die Deindustrialisierung nicht – weil ihre Herren nicht in Deutschland sitzen.
Die billige Energie ist weg. Die Werke gehen. Die Jobs gehen. Der Mittelstand geht.
Aber die DAX-Bosse bleiben gelassen. Warum?
Weil sie längst nicht mehr für dieses Land entscheiden.
US-Fonds sitzen in den Aufsichtsräten. Die Produktion wandert nach China, in die USA oder nach Usbekistan.
Deutschland wird zum Kostenfaktor, den man abschreibt.
Gleichzeitig fließen Milliarden in den Krieg.
Nicht in Fabriken, nicht in Infrastruktur, nicht in die eigene Industrie – sondern in Waffen, an denen andere verdienen.
Für BlackRock & Co. ist der Niedergang kein Unglück.
Krieg und Deindustrialisierung gehören zusammen:
Hier wird ein Land geschwächt, dort wird verdient.
Deshalb bleibt die Furcht aus.
Deshalb redet die Politik von Transformation und Solidarität, während das industrielle Herzstück zerlegt und das Land in einen Konflikt getrieben wird, den es nicht gewinnen kann.
Und deshalb ändert sich nichts, solange dieselben Leute an den Schalthebeln sitzen.
AWilkins retweeted
The state pension is paid out of the National Insurance Fund & that fund has had a surplus for the last ten years...at the end of 2025 the balance was £79.3 Billion...
AWilkins retweeted
Found THIS "Enforcement & Regulations" on the UK Gov't Folic Acid agenda papers yesterday, & was frankly STUNNED!
It will become ILLEGAL & a Criminal Offence to IMPORT folic free flour from any EU Country...
Unless it has folic added.
Am I living in an alternate reality or something?
Think about that..
A CRIMINAL OFFENCE to import the most basic of human foods. FLOUR!
This is just a communist toe tap, away from actually BANNING FLOUR, altogether.
& this Gov't paper say's it will:
"Enforce CORRECTIVE ACTIONS"
For any flour, black marketeers.
CRIKEY!
I better hide my Polish flour haul I got from Lidl last week!
So, is the Burnham Gov't going to have FOLIC ENFORCEMENT & the Flour Police?
?
(I am just going to have a nice, sensible conversation with a huge caterpillar, smoking a hookah, sat on top of a big mushroom...)
@andyburnham @ukhomeoffice @foodgov
AWilkins retweeted
Link to petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
AWilkins retweeted
Flour millers say UK flour consumption is 54kg per person per year.
= 148 g per day.
Gov modelling assumed 59g per day!
That is quite a discrepancy.
We have ended up with higher dose of folic acid in our food than USA, Canada, Australia and NZ.
Sign the petition below.
AWilkins retweeted
If you are over 50 years old your limit on folic acid should be 200 micrograms.
They are adding 250 micrograms to every 100g of flour.
Below is NHS advice on if you take more than recommended amount.
Petition in next tweet:
AWilkins retweeted
Clive Lewis’s argument is full of holes, and his own words expose them. Reform receiving enormous private donations apparently represents the “corruption of our politics”, yet enormous donations from trade unions are to be protected. Private wealth is portrayed as a threat to democracy, while “what remains of state power” is spoken of almost as something politicians must retain. And in a letter demanding changes to legislation, Lewis cannot even get the legislation’s name right. There is a legitimate debate to be had about money in politics. This letter doesn't settle it; it demonstrates why the rules need to be examined consistently, whoever the money happens to benefit.
“Reform's corruption of our politics” is quite an accusation to make without demonstrating corruption.
But your argument on funding is rather selective, Clive.
You say union donations are different because they're ultimately funded by thousands of individual members. Businesses are ultimately funded by thousands, or millions, of customers too. Neither fact means those individuals personally endorsed the organisation's political donation.
If the principle is that no single organisation should wield disproportionate financial influence over politics, why should that principle depend upon whether the organisation is a company or a trade union?
And if you're going to write formally to a Cabinet Minister asking her to amend legislation, it might help to get its name right.
It's the Representation of the People Bill, not the “Representation of the Bill”.
Perhaps the most revealing phrase, though, remains “what remains of state power.”
State power isn't the property of politicians to retain. In a democracy, it is authority temporarily entrusted to government by the electorate.
I’m taking action to stop Reform’s corruption of our politics. I’ve written to Angela Rayner calling for a cap on donations from any individual to be included in the Representation of the Bill as it goes through the House of Lords.
Reform is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital.
The recent multimillion pound donations they received must be seen as a chilling threat to our democracy. When the super-rich are permitted to influence political parties like this, it highlights a fundamental weak spot in our constitutional protections. It’s clear we need a stronger firewall around our democracy.
I know some are worried that donation caps could inadvertently hit trade unions as well. But targeting individual donors means that union donations – made up of thousands of working people who can voluntarily decide whether their dues will contribute to political funds – would not be included.
The real working class – individual union members – do not have millions of pounds they can so easily give away, unlike Reform’s billionaire backers.
ALT My letter to the Secretary of State for Housing
AWilkins retweeted
BREAKING: France's fuel shortage is surging, with 16% of the country's stations now out of petrol or diesel, one in six, up from 11% on Saturday, and 18% in Île-de-France around Paris, per government figures published this morning.
Pays de la Loire is at 20%, Grand Est at 19%, and Centre-Val de Loire and Normandie at 18%, with every region except Corsica above 13%. The official count only registers a station as short if it has no petrol at all or no diesel at all, so the real shortage is much larger.
French diesel now averages €2.42 a litre, about $10.52 a gallon, a new all-time high. Petrol is also above its previous peaks.
Europe’s worst-ever energy crisis is getting worse.
AWilkins retweeted
Labour is preparing to tell the British public that “challenging” weeks lie ahead, and that difficult decisions cannot be avoided. The message is familiar. Households should brace themselves. The Budget is coming. Pain is on the way.
At the same time, the government has just backed £655 million of financing for infrastructure projects in Angola.
That is not a small line in a departmental press release. UK Export Finance is supporting four major schemes: a new international airport in Cabinda, the rehabilitation of a key road in Luanda province, an electrification project in Uíge, and a high voltage transmission line between Huambo and Benguela.
The government says this will unlock about £167 million of supply contracts for British firms. Ministers present it as trade, jobs and partnership.
That may be true on paper. Export finance is not the same thing as writing a cheque and calling it aid. But the political contrast is still brutal.
British families are being prepared for higher taxes, frozen thresholds, squeezed public services and another round of “tough choices.” Borrowing costs have been rising. Living standards have stagnated for years. The NHS, housing, welfare and defence are all competing for money that does not exist.
Unions are already warning that the lowest-paid are being dragged into tax by frozen thresholds. The chancellor talks of breathing room where he can, and hard choices where he must.
And yet hundreds of millions of pounds of state-backed finance can still be found for an airport, a road and power lines thousands of miles away.
The government will say this is how export credit works: guarantee the finance, win contracts, support British suppliers. Critics will say the priority is the wrong way round. If the cupboard is so bare that the public must be softened up for pain, why does the state still have the capacity to underwrite large overseas infrastructure packages?That is the charge.
Britain is told to tighten its belt. Projects abroad still get the backing. Once again, the public at home is asked to go last.
My wife is convinced the government are doing it on purpose to provoke civil unrest so they can invoke martial law and bring in a social credit surveillance state. I called her a conspiracy theorist until recently. The current situation is beyond incompetence. They can't be this retarded, I don't see any other logical explanation.
AWilkins retweeted
🚨 The Government has revealed that it consulted the left-wing, censorious think tank the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) over the Online Safety Act.
The CCDH was founded by Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former Downing Street Chief of Staff. It claims that it wants to tackle “hate”, but in practice campaigns for greater restrictions on online speech.
Its US Director, Imran Ahmed, is a staunch opponent of the Trump administration, and it has been reported that the US State Department is even considering deporting him.
In response to a parliamentary question from Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Mike Wood, ministers revealed:
“DCMS also engages with a range of civil society organisations in developing online harms policy, including where it relates to public safety. As part of this, the Centre for Countering Digital Hate has participated in official-level roundtables with the department in 2024 and 2026.”
The CCDH has received money from taxpayer-funded charities, was revealed to have drawn up a plan to “Kill Musk’s Twitter”, and campaigns for greater government control of the internet, as well as the defunding of right-of-centre platforms.
So why is the Government consulting an organisation with such an overtly censorious agenda on laws governing what millions of people can say and see online?
Read more in @GuidoFawkes 👇
We have to resist this mission creep
The government scrapped the national digital ID after the backlash. A few months later they’re rolling out facial scans so you can buy a pint. That’s not “choice.” That’s mission creep walking in through the beer pump.
No manifesto. No vote. Just another quiet step toward biometric checkpoints in everyday life.
AWilkins retweeted
L'Etna a craché en 3 jours plus de CO2 que 10 ans de sacrifices imposés par l'UE. Tout leur Green Deal anéanti par un volcan!
Mais c'est TA voiture qui pollue! Pourquoi? Parce que l'arnaque écolo leur permet de te racketter à vie avec ZFE, taxes et malus.
AWilkins retweeted
Dec '25 to July '26, Angela Rayner received £150,000 from 'Refrigeration House Ltd' for 'staffing costs'.
The July 2026 accounts show:
- zero staff
- £62,733 net assets
A company with no employees make a huge political donation exceeding it's assets to Rayner?
Does it add up!?
AWilkins retweeted
🤯This story is so mindblowingly misogynistic and undemocratic that I’m still shaking my head in disbelief writing about it.😮
For her protection from abusive trans activists outside, Emina Ibrahim had to be escorted out of the meeting when she presented a petition to the Green Party-controlled Haringey council.
She had been calling for the law to be upheld so that single-sex spaces for victims of domestic violence would be protected. She herself is a victim of domestic abuse.
Rather than condemn the activists who intimidate women who seek to uphold their rights within a democratic framework, GP Tehseen Khan, a Green Party councillor, praised and thanked the abusive trans activists after their meeting!
Does he praise all demos outside the council building, or just the ones that he agrees with? 🤔
Democracy is dead and women are being trampled on and erased in plain sight.😱😡
AWilkins retweeted
The upper-middle class LibDem voters in Piddington didn’t expect their open borders, LibDem councillors and MP, to dump 1,250-3,500 illegal migrants into their area.
It’s a good lesson to only support policies you wouldn’t mind happening near you.
AWilkins retweeted
Why would the government etc not want us to be aware of the risks to many millions of people of the additive folic acid ( which is not the naturally occurring vitamin, folate) to our foods. It is now in many foods cereals, ready made sauces, sausages & anything containing wheat or flour.
My folic acid posts on fakebook have been suppressed! So has @ABridgen posts on fb too. That's why I keep calling for everybody to share to it, to break through its malignant suppression. I hope & pray you have better luck!
AWilkins retweeted
Angela Rayner now runs the Bill to stop companies with "no genuine business activity" donating.
Her biggest donor? Refrigeration House Ltd: £150k from a £1, no-staff company that had never filed accounts when she took the money.
Its owner: a family trust that can't donate (PPERA s.54, s.162(5)) named on the company's incorporation form.
Her office was legally required to take "all reasonable steps" to verify the donor (s.56).
