Andy Burnham is the platonic midwit. No wonder he's popular with a portion of the electorate. He's the personification of representative government, in that he represents the British public in all its idiocy, shallowness and unseriousness - but he can emote, so it's fine.

Tonight the clocks go back an hour which means briefly we move back towards the homogeneous country of the nineties before time irrevocably drags us forward again to unending dystopia.

@TheRealJamieKay Behave yourself Jamie,they’re just everyday concerned uk citizens,who have simply had enough of governments that dont listen to the taxpayers,turn your tv on, constant charity adverts: fund cancer research,old age,RNLI,etc..our taxes should be funding the above not immigration.

Government bleeds small businesses to death, for what? To accommodate Somalian and Eritrean conmen? To fund the indolent who refuse to work? To send millions in foreign aid to Pakistan and wherever else? To put up lazy foreigners in British social housing?

NO THANK YOU.

🚨BREAKING: The Sudanese man named Hadi Alodid who attacked Steven Ogilvie, removing one of his eyes and blinding him in the other has pleaded NOT GUILTY to attempted murder

Deport his ashes

Is this AI Macron ??

This is Simon Bennett, a Conservative Councillor for Wolverhampton.

He reported a 15-year-old to the police for online trolling.

He is a 100% certified GARGANTUAN, snowflake, snivelling wanker.

No hosepipe ban in France.

I’m watching this on loop. 🍿

🚨🇬🇧 An English girl was sexually assaulted at school by four young Pakistani Muslim immigrants and is afraid to return to classes.

Now her friends are protesting to demand the deportation of these immigrant families.

Do you support them?

RT @EYakoby: People are being buried alive by Islamists in Africa and the world is completely silent.

Why?

These people don’t belong in the West. They are not like us.

Welcome to NCP Marylebone NW1.
If someone is cutting around with a blue and white NIMSDAI cap, an Ant Middleton passport then please give me a shout will you! Welcome to Khans London! Ooh they didn’t touch the expensive bottle of whiskey or red wine! 🤔 I wonder who it could be! 😉

This is the future of our continent without mass deportations.

National resilience is the theme de jour in government and the civil service at the moment. Ministers are being told that Britain is vulnerable on several fronts. Our cyber security is poor, we are massively vulnerable to cyber attacks and energy shocks, and the Iran situation is looking precarious - suggesting skyrocketing diesel prices. Germany is suffering from a shortage of refinery capacity and we allowed ours to close.

There is also an ever present suggestion that the national grid won’t make it through the winter. National Energy System Operator (NESO) is keen to downplay any suggestion of blackouts this winter, and while is assurances are almost believable, the margins keep getting tighter. There is a strong possibility NESO is deceiving itself. Something is certainly up. We’re presently heavily reliant on interconnectors while our own CCGT power stations are idling. Our gas storage is below where it should be.

Meanwhile, I wouldn’t rule out Russian sabotage of some kind. Ukraine is knocking the hell out of Russian energy infrastructure with British supplied weapons, and I don’t think Mr Putin will be very happy about that. We can also assume the government is concerned about domestic security. The chances of French style riots spreading to the UK may be remote, especially in this weather, but these things are often unpredictable.

There are, then, plenty of good reasons why the government should be worried, and the suggestion that we should be stockpiling tinned foods and essentials is not misplaced. While the risks may slight for the moment, instability and uncertainty is set to be the new normal.

This is also flanked by unsettling movements in the financial markets. I’m not even slightly qualified to comment on those such matters, but I am assured by people who follow such affairs that the downward pointing graphs I’m looking at are what economists often describe as “bad”.

So when does this big implosion happen? I don’t know. But here’s my bet. This is Britain. A big riotous implosion and a financial meltdown would be far too interesting and politically entertaining - which is why it probably won’t happen. In Britain, nothing really happens. This just get progressively shitter.

Every month we’re just that little bit poorer, where we think twice about putting the heating on, don’t drive out anywhere, stop ordering take outs, postpone any major purchases, and watch local businesses blink out one by one until even the nice places look as depressed as the bad places. Then come the bankruptcies, foreclosures and family breakups, and we all end up living in HMOs with asylum seekers living in the next room.

What we can say is that nothing is going to improve any time soon. We can’t have cheap energy because the government has decided against it. We can’t have functioning borders because the government has decided against it. We can’t have decent paying jobs because the government has decided against it. We can’t have safe communities because the government has decided against it. We can’t have viable armed forces because the government has decided against it. I struggle to think of any major problem afflicting this country that isn’t a conscious choice of the people who rule us.

What’s really depressing is that some time in the not too distant future, there will be a general election that Labour will comfortably win, and we'll have this hapless oaf as PM for the next decade. The right is fatally divided and too useless to be worth electing anyway. The only good news is that by the time Labour is done with us, Britain will be too grim even for dinghy migrants. Also, EVs will be super cheap. You won't be able to charge them, and they'll be ugly Chinese affairs, but they might be cheaper than renting a room in a HMO.

This is Scott Green -the Chief Constable of @WMPolice , the police FARCE who arrested the 15 year old boy for posting a photo of Tory councillor Simon Bennett wearing ' Bunny Ears ' after Bennett felt "Offended" .

A flashback to 2022 when a yob attacks a pensioner in Chapel Lane in Keighley, West Yorkshire.

A local lad drags him off & gets a right hander. A second man arrives & gets hit by his shoe. It's then Good Night Vienna.

This is getting out of hand 💀

Meanwhile in the EU.

We are living under an authoritarian regime. War and a suspension of elections is their likely next move.