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Andrew Inglis retweeted
Where the mighty Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean at Cape Disappointment in Washington State, the outgoing river current collides head-on with massive ocean swells to create a four-mile wall of breaking water known to mariners as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
More than two thousand ships have sunk across that turbulent sandbar, and over seven hundred sailors have lost their lives in its churning white surf.
When a storm hits the Columbia River Bar, forty-knot gales drive twenty-foot waves straight up like collapsing brick walls.
That exact stretch of deadly water is where the United States Coast Guard operates its legendary National Motor Lifeboat School, the only place on Earth that trains surfmen to drive straight into breaking twenty-foot waves.
And when Japan wanted to train its most elite maritime rescuers, the orange-suited Special Rescue Team of the Japan Coast Guard known as the Tokkyu-tai, they sent their men straight to the surfmen of the United States Coast Guard.
Why do American and Japanese rescue crews voluntarily steer forty-seven-foot aluminum boats directly into ocean waves tall enough to flip them upside down?
Because out in a winter gale, when a fishing boat or cargo ship is breaking apart on the rocks, helicopters sometimes cannot hover through thefreezing spray, and someone has to come through the water.
To survive the Columbia River Bar and the typhoon seas of Japan, American engineers designed the 47-foot Motor Lifeboat as an unsinkable marine vault.
If a thirty-foot rogue wave slams the boat broadside and rolls the entire vessel one hundred and eighty degrees upside down in the surf, the watertight aluminum superstructure traps a massive bubble of air inside the cabin while the heavy keel pulls the hull right-side up again in less than ten seconds.
With the crew strapped into four-point harnesses on the open bridge and twin diesel engines built to keep running even during a full three-hundred-and-sixty-degree rollover, the boat punches out the other side of the wave and keeps moving forward.
Over decades of joint training and the SAPPHIRE bilateral rescue partnership across the Pacific, American Coast Guard surfmen and Japanese Special Rescue divers have shared every hard-won lesson of the sea.
They speak two different languages on land, yet out on the rolling deck of a lifeboat in twenty-foot whitewater, they live by the exact same creed: you have to go out, and you never leave a sailor behind.
Reference photo: U.S. Coast Guard. Not the exact scene described.
Andrew Inglis retweeted
NHS England still exists, some 20 months after Starmer announced - to much fanfare - its abolition for the same reason so much of government fails: for ministers it's all about eye-catching 'announcables' without any attention given to delivery. Starmer went out of his way to pose as the sensible adult in the room but didn't bother to do any serious implementation planning around how to pay for/achieve the redundancies and all the rest. This is the result
Andrew Inglis retweeted
Things in Western Europe will improve when a few hard realities are understood:
1. Europe has no God-given right to be wealthy or stable. Things can & will decline and fall apart if not maintained and adapted to new realities. Things that worked in the 1970s may be counterproductive now.
2. Energy is the basis of the economy. Without it, nothing else matters. While efficiency will be important, any economy where energy is scarce will inevitably be one that struggles
3. Not all cultures are equal. Some create prosperity, some lead to misery, some are outright evil. If Europe doesn't accept this, the cultural basis of its previous success & prosperity will be destroyed forever
4. Have kids, or die out. In the long term, few things matter this much. You can't create a European future if there are no Europeans left for it, and as the experiences of the last few decades show, non-European immigration simply makes Europe culturally less European - and doesn't magically make these people culturally European.
5. The state can not - and should not - save every individual from him/herself from him/her bad choices or ineptitudes. The idea of a nanny state which can ensure that everyone always live comfortably with minimal effort & contributions 100% of time is not feasible. The socialist promises of 30 years of wealthy retirements for everyone and Europe being able to take on endless low skill immigration were lies.
6. If a society has no way for ambitious & creative people to get rich from working hard, everyone will get poorer because of it. The hard truth is that much of our economic future depends on businesses being built & transformed by ambitious & sometimes ruthless individuals. Not everyone is able or willing to do this, and without them, there is no one to employ others and no wealth & growth to tax. But if businesses & wealth are seen solely as an evil force to be taxed into oblivion, they will go elsewhere.
7. In some cases, the best way for society to deal with a criminal is to lock them up and throw away the key. A small percentage of humans are ticking time bombs - low IQs, high aggression potential, psychopathic traits, socialised into criminal structures or a culture of lawlessness. Society can't fix them. They go in and out of court rooms and across Europe states, NGOs & social workers waste billions of hours & Euros to try & fix the unfixable. Not least because of mass immigration from dysfunctional societies, our legal systems & high trust societies built on principles such as the benefit of the doubt & correction via socialisation are overwhelmed by the amount of aggressive young men with no interest to contribute to society.
All of this is fixable. But the first step is accepting reality.
Andrew Inglis retweeted
>Announce you'll abolish NHS England
>18 months later fail to abolish it
>Rebrand it instead
>Spend on NHS bureaucracy goes up £300m a year
>Say you'll halve external consultancy spending
>NHSE external consultancy spend goes *up*
>Waiting lists also going up
>Total clownshow
Andrew Inglis retweeted
Shanker Singham and Douglas McWilliams have been working to try to establish the cost to the UK of EU reset. We estimate that long run it will reduce GDP by £73 billion. Just after a budget including stealth taxes and a rise in the minimum wage reducing GDP by £33 billion in total. For details see:
growth-commission.com/2026/1…
Andrew Inglis retweeted
No they didn't 'stop coming.'
There were 63,600 EU students studying in UK universities in 2024/5 and they were paying the full fees, just like all other international students, as well as the NHS surcharge.
Lord Bilimoria wants to give them a discount, worth on average £15,000 each but with your money - not his.
This will cost UK tax payers almost a billion pounds each year even though these students can afford to pay the full fees.
A young European who wants to take a full degree here now pays international fees, often three or four times what a British student pays. Unsurprisingly, many have stopped coming.
I support the Government's willingness to offer EU students discounted fees at the summit on 20 November, on two conditions: the cost must be met by the Treasury, not by our universities and colleges, and British students should be treated fairly in return.
European students who study here go home as lifelong friends of Britain. We should want them back.
Andrew Inglis retweeted
This is nuts. It was already a terrible deal for the UK.
To save a projected £250m a year we added £2bn+ a year to our carbon costs and gave the EU control over what carbon tax applies to.
Now we are going to pay them for the pleasure too?
This is economic suicide.
Britain has agreed to pay into European Union development schemes as the price for rejoining the bloc’s electricity market, according to a draft text seen by The Telegraph.
Taxpayer money will be funnelled into projects to build roads, airports and green energy facilities across the bloc’s poorer member states under the plan.
In exchange, British energy companies will be allowed to trade freely in the EU’s single market for electricity.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
Andrew Inglis retweeted
If you are a sane, rational person who can perform simple maths and cares about the economy of their country and the future of the people within it, then you should be livid with the government this morning.
There is no part of the proposed EU reset terms, that you should be remotely happy about. The entire deal is giving the EU what it wants, and dressing it up as a benefit for the UK when it is anything but.
- Promising to not deport EU criminals
- Paying billions a year to build infrastructure in Eastern Europe
- Subsidizing EU students to study in the UK, costing hundreds of millions a year
- Putting UK laws in the control of the EU again, with no say at all from Parliament
- Adding hundreds of millions of costs onto imports from non-EU countries
- Making imported EV cars 30% more expensive, to help EU car manufacturers
- Giving 80-100,000 extra youth visas a year, increasing competition and driving down wages for our unemployed youth
- Stopping checks on imported agrifoods, increasing risk of diseases currently rampant in EU livestock entering the UK
All of this with the reason of making exporting food to the EU easier, which we do virtually none of and never did, as we are an island that consumes more than it produces.
It doesn't matter if you ultimately want to rejoin the EU or not. This isn't about that. This is about an atrocious deal and our atrocious government.
Fight this with everything you've got.
Andrew Inglis retweeted
I think the #JohnLewisChristmas ad in 20 years time should revisit this family as granny’s will is being read out. And she’s left the lot to a donkey sanctuary.
Karma, you materialistic little sods.
Andrew Inglis retweeted
The hype around the proposed UK-EU "SPS" (sanitary and phytosanitary) agreement is getting ever more ridiculous... 🙄🧵
1⃣ As @CeeMacBee has pointed out, the UK’s entire food and live animal exports to the EU were only worth £12 billion in 2025 (and that was a record high), or just 1.3% of total UK exports... (1/5)
Andrew Inglis retweeted
Good grief, but the John Lewis Xmas advert is AWFUL.
It's basically an advert for buying gifts for ungrateful kids with terrible parents.
The grandchildren are just plain rude. The parents don't notice or care. So the grandma decides to splash the cash on gifts she thinks they will like - so rewarding their rudeness!
If I had a kid who behaved like that, they wouldn't be getting a single gift on Christmas Day. Not one.
Oh, and of COURSE the ad has to feature a mixed race family (who make up 1.3% of all British families yet about 50% of families appearing in TV adverts) because, y'know, diversity.
It's all so bloody irritating. 🙄
Andrew Inglis retweeted
Even small local bakeries that never trade with the EU will have to follow EU rules on ingredients, packaging, and nutritional information. Industry compliance costs are estimated at £2 to £3 billion. They will also face additional compliance costs every time the EU changes its rules.
UK taxpayers will also have to pay the EU for its policy work to create and enforce these rules on UK firms. This could be up to £3 billion a year, every year.
Andrew Inglis retweeted
@UKLabour claims that we have to follow EU food standards and SPS rules because our food exports to the EU have dropped.
But take a good look at the chart below: the main drop in fruit exports to the EU is in citrus fruit, pineapples, avocados, mangoes, and Bananas.
These were always re-exports from Commonwealth countries that the EU miscounted as UK exports. Now that we are outside the EU, these goods are correctly counted as non-UK exports.
The #EUReset won't change this.
Andrew Inglis retweeted
In the space of barely 48hrs, Britain has announced plans to subsidise European students, gift 30yr visas to migrants entering the country illegally & offer verbal & likely financial restitution for a slave trade it ended 219yrs ago. Behold the most generous doormat in the world.
European Union nationals will pay the same university fees as British students as part of a broader deal to tighten links between the two sides bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Andrew Inglis retweeted
Since I posted this it’s been reported that PM Burnham will announce £40m today for infrastructure and green energy projects in the Caribbean. So that didn’t take long. And if Burnham/Miliband think this sort of gesture will appease the reparations grifters I have several bridges to sell them. They are not beating up on the UK to join the net zero bandwagon!!
Andrew Inglis retweeted
Mahmood says the cost of the asylum system is "£4 bn a year". It's actually a lot higher, as this figure does not include the costs of:
-the Afghan system
-courts and tribunals
-welfare for those who've left the asylum system
-social housing
-temp accommodation
-the care system
Andrew Inglis retweeted
Just in case the government try to say later that social care workers make a net contribution, here’s their own analysis showing that the cost of letting social care workers settle is £10 billion:
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Andrew Inglis retweeted
On November 1, 1998, a former British Army paratrooper named Karl Bushby set out on foot from Punta Arenas, at the southern tip of Chile. His goal was to walk an unbroken path home to Hull, England.
He had two rules. He would not use any transportation to move forward, and he would not go home until the journey was complete.
He kept both rules for 28 years.
In 2006 he and a companion walked across the frozen Bering Strait from Alaska to Siberia over shifting ice, only to be arrested by Russian border guards on arrival. Russia later barred him for five years. Instead of quitting, he walked from Los Angeles to the Russian Embassy in Washington to make his case, and the ban was lifted. When he could not pass through Russia or Iran, he swam 186 miles across the Caspian Sea. Last month, with the Channel Tunnel closed to him, he swam the English Channel to set foot on British soil.
He has covered more than 30,000 miles across four continents. Visas and money stretched his 12-year plan to nearly three decades. Today he walked up to his childhood home, where his mother was waiting for him.
After the Channel he said, "All of us can accomplish more than we will ever imagine." When he got home he gave the credit to others, saying “I didn't do this alone."
There is a lesson here for every one of us. A promise made to yourself is still a promise. Few, if any, of us will ever walk around the world, but each of us has a road we said we would finish. Mr. Bushby reminds us that the way through is one honest step after another, and the patience to keep taking the steps when no one is watching.
Ladies and gentlemen, may we all keep our word as faithfully as he kept his, and finish the walk we have started.
