Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
In a democracy we submit to be governed. And there is an unwritten agreement. You keep us safe, stop society descending into devil-take-the-hindmost savagery, and we - the people - agree to contract-out the right to defend ourselves and punish those who would do us harm.
In other words, policing by consent not vigilantism. When we see, as we have this week - criminals walking free, punching the air, having served a fraction of the sentence imposed by the Crown, on our behalf, then we are entitled to wonder - are we not - whose side the law is now really on.
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Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
He was a fighter. We shall all miss him, no doubt you know that. Wherever he is now he's in a far better place than the last year or two. He was indeed a one off and we were privileged to interact with him. He was a Dad worth having and remembering. And you will remember him. A one off.
Dear all, James here, I’m Robin’s proud son.
I’m posting from Dad’s phone to let those of you who knew him here, know that he passed away this morning.
He had an enormous amount of time for this place, the conversations, arguments, humour and friendships he found here, so I know he would have wanted me to tell you.
His last few weeks were difficult, but he was surrounded by people who loved him and I was with him when he died.
Thank you to everyone who entertained him, challenged him, supported him and made him laugh over the years.
I probably won’t be replying to messages for a while, I don’t even know how on this platform you read them 🤷🏻♂️🤨😂, you fuckers should try Facebook more. For ease, easier to navigate and more fruitful watching what your neighbours cooked for dinner 🧐🤭
I’ll make sure anything important is seen.
Bless you all. Robin was an amazing man, my Dad 🥂🙏💔
James ❤️
Hi @TimesRadio I was expecting Andrew Neil to discuss the hasty departure of US B1 bombers from RF Fairford on his 1:0 pm show.
Was there a reason it was pulled? What if anything is going on?
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
I am angry. I am angry because my country is being changed in a way I never consented to and never had a say in - when this is supposed to be a democracy. What’s being done is against the public will. Moreover, it is not a good change. It is change that isn’t workable and is not sustainable. It is dangerous.
In recent years we have seen growing sectarianism and separatism, as our inner cities transform into ethnic ghettos where there is no longer anything discernibly British left, unless you count post-industrial squalor.
What it leads to is a dysfunctional, ungovernable and corrupt society which eventually descends into chaos, anarchy and violence, where everyone is pitted against each other, social trust evaporates, and safety in public becomes a thing of the past. It also leads to more authoritarian government and abridgements to basic liberties just to prevent it all exploding.
This would be challenging even in optimal economic conditions, but the economic situation is bad and deteriorating all the time. Fuel costs are going up. Energy costs are going up. And that means the price of everything else is going up. The only thing that isn’t going up is wages. What that means is rising unemployment, shrinking disposable income and a major surplus of redundant males which leads to violence and organised crime.
The political landscape is also suboptimal to say the least. We have a PM who nobody voted for, leading a party that nobody especially wanted, and a political class that’s oblivious to the levels of public disaffection and anger. It is increasingly a law unto itself. This is exacerbated by massively broken and corrupted justice system that lets violent offenders and sex offenders walk free, while cracking down on any kind of dissent.
To then be told, amidst an energy crisis, a political crisis, a housing crisis, and an economic crisis, that we should simply suck it up, and endure insult after insult from the people who rule us (not least naturalising members of Hamas) is enough to push us to breaking point.
Over the last five years, we've seen an increasing tempo of protests and demonstrations and even riots. There have been plenty of warning signals about the overall disaffection, yet the message never reaches the politicians - who are too absorbed in their own narcissistic little bubbles. They seem to think this all happens in a vacuum.
If anything, the politicians are making it worse because we consistently see them distracted by trivia, living in a world of their own. They keep talking about conscription and the possibility of war when it’s largely escaped their attentions that our armed forces have been cut to the bone, and there are increasingly fewer people who would put their lives on the line for a country that treats them with contempt.
Increasingly, our country looks totally alien to us. Day to day life still ticks over as usual, but every day it becomes just that little bit more hostile, where nobody can look to the future with any sense of optimism. People will endure a great deal just so long as things are basically fine, but we’re racing up on a point where things will not be basically fine, where the necessities become luxuries, and poorer households face a winter of choosing between food and heating.
Meanwhile we see a bloated, incompetent, tone-deaf state, where nobody is ever held accountable, and they fritter our money away without any regard for where it came from. Our armed forces are suspending vital training while Ed Miliband hands over tens of millions to “Palestine”. You can take to social media to let off a bit of steam but you can never be too sure you won’t get a knock on the door from Big Brother.
And speaking of Palestine, we increasingly see all of Britain’s enemies congregating on our streets waving the flag of the Islamo-leftist revolution, while raising our own flag is gradually criminalised. We are more likely to see the flag of Palestine, Pakistan or the Trans lobby flying from public buildings than the cross of St George.
Not a single one of our institutions is immune from this ideological corruption. The town halls and the universities are marinated in it. Academia is increasingly skinsuit for Marxist activism while our town councils have more to say about Gaza than fixing potholes and local care services.
I often wonder when the day will be when it all implodes, but then I remind myself that we would never get such a merciful release. It’s just going to get imperceptibly worse, every day, for the foreseeable future, and there are no means at our disposal to arrest the decline - or hold them to account. It’s not even as though there is a competent alternative waiting in the wings.
You can expect people to maintain a certain decorum in a democracy if there is at least some light at the end of the tunnel - but in modern Britain, the rewards for hard work are minimal, and there is no hope that anything is going to get better.
Consequently, I don’t see Britain remaining a stable country for much longer. We’ve churned through half a dozen prime ministers in the last ten years, and latest caretaker doesn’t look like he will go the distance either. To get things back on track would mean going in a different direction to all of their political instincts, and they would rather watch Britain burn than admit their model is no longer working - and never worked in the first place.
So where even does that leave us? I can vent my anger with the best of them on social media. I can participate in empty voting rituals at election time. I can write blogs and even show up to the odd protest. But on an instinctive level we all know it’s meaningless. If participating in democracy through normal channels had any effect, we would not now be where we are. It suggests to me that we are in the last chance saloon, and may even have missed the off-ramp to avoid low level civil conflict.
All it’s going to tale is a single trigger moment. It might be another Southport style slaying, of a dingy migrant committing an act of barbarism. Or it could be something more mundane like the national grid collapsing on a day without wind. A functioning country is resilient to occasional bouts of unrest, but little by little the political class have robbed Britain of its resilience and exhausted the patience of its people.
We have already seen what it could look like. Recent disturbances in Northern Ireland give us a fairly accurate picture. Once word gets out that housing is allocated for illegal immigrants, it’ll go up in flames. I don’t even rule out the possibility of somebody burning down the barracks at Linton on Ouse. The state is certainly alert to that possibility which is why there are already security patrols.
That’s actually the worst part about it. While most politicians may be oblivious, the machinery of state knows there are consequences, but they’re still going to inflict it all on us anyway.
I think probably the main reason things haven’t kicked off already is because most people are just too busy trying to make ends meet to be following every last detail of what is being done to them. But when that’s no longer possible, they’re going to have a lot more time on their hands. Soon after, the anger will reach critical mass. If the public is even half as angry as I am, then it could very well be explosive.
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
The political left get what they want: vacuous virtue signalling.
The political right get what they want: highlighting two tier justice and the unfairness of it all.
Us? Well our views clearly mean nothing. I'm deeply saddened that a country once considered one of the most liberal and welcoming has been reduced to this by politicians of all stripes taking the pee in regard to those tolerant values. Polite discourse requesting restraint on immigration has led nowhere and promises of immigration control have been broken spectacularly for over two decades.
It's now race to the bottom stuff, with a stagnating economy and rising unemployment, there's no bandwidth left to accommodate more and more migrants. Distributing them to the shires will engage an otherwise sleeping cohort of people, not ordinarily known for protesting.
Those old enough will recall the Poll Tax Riots and how it was intrinsic to the downfall of a tin eared government, too long in power to properly sense the mood of the nation. We're at that point again: the political class are talking to themselves, unwilling and probably unable to address the things that really matter to people. I can no longer bear to listen to them, hence my presence on X has diminished because I often can't bring myself to engage in the bs.
We slide steadily into more frequent, mass civil disobedience, and 'they' fiddle whilst Rome burns.
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
If I was a self-aware lefty (contradiction in terms, I know) I'd be feeling like a bit of a twat right now. Everything they've ever supported has been totally self-defeating. They supported the climate scam and now they can't afford electricity. They supported laws punishing landlords and now they can't find a place to rent. They supported high taxes and now there aren't any jobs.
They supported open borders and now there's no casual work for them or their kids. They supported welfare increases so now there's no money to maintain basic amenities. They supported "refugees" and now rapey Afghans being moved into their street. They supported trans rights and now their daughters have to share changing rooms with total perverts.
And worse still, because they've built their entire personality around their ideology, and believe themselves to be morally and intellectually superior, they have to suck it up and pretend they like the way they've soiled their own nest.
They now have to pretend that the overcrowded urban slums they have to live in are "vibrant" and "enriched by diversity" even though he next door neighbour on one side is an Albanian heroin dealer, and the other side is a family of Roma benefit monkeys who keep breaking off your car wing mirrors.
This is why lefties live in a bubble of delusion because if they actually had to face up to the fact that the deteriorating world around them is exactly what they keep voting for, their tiny little brains would capsize.
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
Breaking : Met Police delighted with the success of their deadly weapon amnesty.
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
I’m not passing on a post. This is me. I’m furious. 😡
I worked. They took NI off my wages before I ever saw it. My employer paid in too. For years. That was not a favour. That was money ripped out of work I actually did, on the promise it would be there when I was old.
People paid the same and dropped dead before they collected a penny. That money didn’t vanish. The government spent it. Then they have the cheek to look at the rest of us like we’re scroungers for wanting it back.
They never put their own money in. Not a pound. They took ours, blew it, and when it was our turn they changed the word. “Entitlement.” As if I crawled in begging.
Then they moved the line. Retirement age up. Then up again. Work till you drop. Wait till you’re worn out. Hope you live long enough to see what you already paid for. That’s the con, empty the pot, shove the age back, and let more of us die waiting.
And some of the young ones sneer. Talk as if we stole their lives. As if we sat on our backsides. We paid in when the deal was 60 or 65. We didn’t invent this mess. We grafted and now we’re the villains while they raise the age and spend the money elsewhere! 😤
It was never locked away with my name on it. I know that. They used it like a slush fund and expected us to swallow it.
Look at them. Fat packages. Weeks off. Sick pay. Sorted. Then look at pensioners on a fixed state pension, counting every coin, filling in bloody forms, being told there’s nothing left.
Veterans. People who built this country. Our own. Treated like an inconvenience.
Meanwhile the spongers sit on it fit to work, won’t work, know every loophole, take and take while the rest of us paid in. And still they find money. Hotels. Benefits. Lawyers. Welcome packs for boat after boat coming over. People who never paid a day’s NI here. Never put a pound into the pot I funded for decades.
Don’t tell me we can’t afford our own. Don’t tell me the cupboard is bare for the ones who worked, then fling it open for spongers and arrivals who contributed nothing. Don’t push the retirement age up on people who already paid, then let kids be told we’re the ones draining the country.
Billions abroad. Billions here on people who put nothing in. And the ones who paid get lectured, delayed, and spat on.
Now they want to tax it as well. Take it off you on the way in, spend it, make you wait longer, call it an entitlement then tax what’s left when you finally get it. Steal it twice. Three times if you count the years they added to the retirement age.
Don’t call my pension charity. Don’t call it welfare. Don’t preach at me about kindness while you rob the people who funded the lot.
I paid it. In work. In tax. In years I don’t get back.
They spent what was meant for later on spongers, on foreign aid, on boatloads who never paid in, then shoved retirement further away, told the young to blame us, and now they’re coming back for another cut.
It is my money! I earned it! 🤬
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Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
Replying to @Kumail_Jaffer
A cleverly placed 'joke' to demonstrate his allegiance to those who regularly don't speak English.
Including his pronunciation of Urdu... all designed to court votes.
Remember, this is the Capital of England... but the mayor thinks it's a brilliant wheeze not to speak English... just as a joke, you understand.
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
☕️ Here's a question to ponder over your morning coffee. What would have happened if America had simply not spent the last couple of years behaving like a drunk uncle at a wedding, insulting the bride, the groom, the vicar and the man who parked the cars?
The answer is nothing. Nothing at all would have happened to the rest of the world. Life inside America, on the other hand, would have been a great deal more pleasant, because every single problem the country is currently wrestling with was made in America, by Americans, on purpose, and then explained to the public with a lie.
There was no trade deficit emergency. None. So there was no need for tariffs, which means there was no need for the inflation, the diesel and petrol prices heading for the moon, the farmers queuing for bailouts or the bond market clearing its throat every time the president opens his mouth.
Nobody was ripping America off, so there was no need to insult the Canadians until they took their billions and went home, and started filling in the paperwork to become an associate member of the European Union, which is a sentence nobody expected to write in their lifetime. No need to gift-wrap the soybean market and post it to Brazil, and no need to make the average European feel he is doing something noble by putting the bourbon back on the shelf and buying a Mercedes instead.
Iran would have carried on being Iran, which is to say tedious and unchanged. America would still have its bases scattered across the globe with grateful hosts rather than muttering ones, and the allies would still be buying American missiles rather than build their own. Foreign students would still be paying eye-watering sums to attend American universities, tourists would still be queuing in the Florida sun, and the dollar would still be trusted without anyone having to ask an awkward question.
And here is the truly maddening part. Trump would have been more popular than Putin. He would have been sitting on a booming economy, cheap fuel and a world that still picked up the phone, facing a Democratic party so invisible it could have been declared missing, and the midterms would have been a coronation rather than a coin toss.
In other words, the car was running beautifully. And then somebody climbed in, announced that the engine was on fire, and set light to it to prove the point.
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Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
The RNLI apparently saved 272 lives last year.
How odd 🤔
They actually ferried nearly 2,500 "migrants" across the channel in 2025.
Surely if these men were in danger at sea their numbers would be included in the numbers "saved", bringing the total upto nearly 3,000.
Were they not in danger?
Are the RNLI not very good at maths?
Or are they admitting what we all knew? - That they're simply being used as a taxi service.
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
Can someone please explain this to me as if I'm a 5 year old.
Why are the dinghies not considered to be "in distress" or "danger" while they're being escorted and shadowed by the French Navy but then magically become vulnerable cases of "possible threat to life" once they get handed over to us and need "rescuing"?
I find this VERY hard to swallow.
I'm not a fan of any face coverings: balaclavas, masks, burqas.
However, I'm less of a fan of hypocrites like @ShelaghFogarty, James O'Brien, @jonsopel and their pathetic ilk, who had fuck all to say about the masked up Pally Protesting scum, the antifa fuckwits who regularly turnup here and there, the Just Stop Oil wankers or the hordes of feral Muslims who have rampaged through our towns, with faces covered.
Those all go uncommented.
But a bunch of blokes protesting against the importation of illegal ne'er-do-wells?
Quick, boys and girls, clutch your pearls!
Tossers!
#OFOGARTY
#OBINGO
#OHYPOCRITES
He's now spent more time bleating about a daft Lefty being clobbered with a walking stick than he did an elderly right wing lady being beaten to death with a hammer!
I think that tells you all you need to know about James O'Brien!
#OBINGO
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
In 1979, inflation was at 13.4% and unemployment 5.4%. Income tax rates were as high as 83% & we'd had an IMF bailout in 1976. Strikes had impacted all public services. This was the Labour legacy that Mrs Thatcher had to deal with. Burnham's look back at history was selective.
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
Replying to @TraceyLee_07
Retain in fridge until rotten and then throw out.
Same as your kale and other greens.
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Extracts from article in Spectator 16th August by Brendan O’Neill:
Behold the human wreckage of the cult of diversity. The tragedy of Jason Arday is that he was both built up and destroyed by the ruthless machinery of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). The academy made him into the golden boy of its philistine project of ‘decolonisation’ and gave not one thought to what the consequences might be if his thin story unravelled, as it inevitably would. No one can deny it now: wokeness makes false gods and real tragedies. . .
This is the poison chalice of the state religion of diversity. It lays traps for the very people it celebrates. It handpicks members of ‘the oppressed’ for moral anointment and institutional gushing while leaving them open to exposure as others start to query their credentials. That’s the toxic bargain of identity politics: it builds teetering pedestals for ethnic-minority thinkers, meaning their fall from grace is often twice as fatal.
And what a pedestal they made for Arday. They worshipped him as ‘the best in the world’. They beatified him as a black wunderkind whose very presence in a place like Cambridge might help to wash away its sins of whiteness. They canonised him as a living monument to ‘decolonisation’. It was precisely this, their giddy, narcissistic desire to manufacture a kind of black saviour, that made them turn a blind eye to the questionable elements of Arday’s CV and life story. They sacrificed their due diligence to the god of decolonisation.
And Arday suffered. He was both poster boy and sacrificial lamb of the diversity crusade. Even as he gained from it – reaching the dizzying heights of a Cambridge professorship – he was being damned by it. The foundation of myth and sand his starry career was built on was untenable. Its collapse was a given. It is a testament to the ideological blindness of the inhabitants of our ivory towers that none of them foresaw it. . . .
The Faustian ruthlessness of it all is mindblowing.
. . . The media is the only institution in this entire tragic scandal that did its job properly. Journalists found a story and they told it. It was the academy and Arday’s colleagues who failed to do their jobs. Who failed to prize merit over identity, and failed to foresee the public embarrassment that would befall their falsely promoted friend. They ignored the truth – the media found it.
I and others have been arguing for years that the politics of identity is a disaster for all, black and white alike. White kids are overlooked, black kids are patronised. Whites are branded ‘privileged’, blacks ‘oppressed’. Whites are seen as the beneficiaries of historic crimes who must atone for past sins, blacks as history’s perma-victims who require the gracious helping hand of the state. We are demonised or infantilised according to the accident of our race.
Enough. Let our monument to Jason Arday be the restoration of the true ideal of equality. We couldn’t save Jason but we can save merit from the monstrous jaws of identity.
Geoffrey Bowles retweeted
Replying to @TheGNPE
She’s a politician so she only lies when her lips move. Other than that she’s a massive brown nose desperately trying to cling on to being relevant.























