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The Steak Bake Battalions
I have said it for years.
The men who will save this country can be found every morning, from six until half past eight, at almost every Greggs in the land.
They are there before the office lights come on. Before the besuited pen-pushers arrive for their lattes. Before the morning fills with pushchairs, school runs and meetings about meetings.
They are already awake. Already moving. Already at work.
You will know them.
Men in high-vis and cargo shorts. In battered work trousers and steel toe-capped boots. Sometimes in hard hats. Paint-spattered. Plaster-caked. Oil beneath their fingernails. Bags beneath their eyes.
They queue for coffee, bacon rolls and Steak Bakes.
The banter is merciless. The humour is dark. The language is occasionally appalling. But the fellowship is real.
They are the grafters.
Tradesmen. Engineers. Drivers. Fitters. Welders. Bricklayers. Scaffolders. Electricians. Plumbers. Mechanics. Machine operators. Small businessmen. Employers and employees.
Working-class men. Middle-class men. Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen and Northern Irishmen.
British men.
While much of the country still sleeps, they are leaving their wives, their children and their warm homes. They climb into cold vans. They drive through darkness and rain. They go where the work is.
They build Britain.
They keep the lights on and the water flowing. They repair the roads. Raise the scaffolding. Lay the bricks. Weld the steel. Fix the boilers. Clear the drains. Restore the roofs. Mend what is broken.
They rarely appear on television.
Nobody invites them onto fashionable panels. Nobody asks what they think. Nobody in Whitehall seems particularly interested in whether they can afford another van, another apprentice or another year of taxes, regulations and rising costs.
Yet without them, the country stops.
Completely.
These are the descendants of the men of Agincourt and Waterloo. Of the Somme and Dunkirk. Of D-Day, Korea, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not trained soldiers, most of them. But recognisably of the same temper.
The same stubbornness. The same humour in adversity. The same refusal to make a song and dance of hardship. The same instinct to shoulder the load, finish the job and look after the man beside them.
They carry an inheritance shaped across centuries. Celt and Pict. Roman and Saxon. Viking and Norman. Generations forged by cold seas, hard ground, long winters, dangerous work and war.
Their forebears built ships, railways, bridges, factories and cities. They crossed oceans. They defeated Napoleon, Hitler and Galtieri. They created an empire of extraordinary reach and consequence, and then spent British blood and treasure destroying the slave trade across much of the world.
They were not flawless men. No nation is flawless.
But they were formidable.
And these men are formidable still.
They are not extremists. They are not fanatics. They do not spend their days raging online. Most ask for very little.
A fair wage. A decent home. Safe streets. A future for their children. The freedom to speak plainly. And a country that remembers who built it.
But beneath the dust, the laughter and the apparent indifference, something remains.
A deep attachment to home.
A quiet patriotism.
A line that can be pushed only so far.
When this country finally decides that mass immigration must end, that integration must mean something, that borders must be real and that Britain must remain recognisably British, it will not be delivered by consultants, commentators or career politicians.
It will be delivered by the people who already carry Britain on their backs.
They are out there every morning.
Millions of them.
Waiting patiently in the half-light. Vans lined along the kerb. Engines ticking. Reflective jackets catching the first grey light of dawn.
Coffee in one hand. Steak Bake in the other.
The backbone of Britain.
The Steak Bake Battalions.
Draw your own conclusions:
Blackpool — Claremont
Labour hold
Labour 458 (41.8%);
Reform UK 419 (38.2%);
Restore Britain 79 (7.2%);
Conservative 62 (5.7%);
Green 44 (4.0%);
Liberal Democrat 18 (1.6%);
Independent 16 (1.5%).
Turnout: 22%.
Highland — Wick and East Caithness
Liberal Democrat gain from Independent
Julie Calder (Liberal Democrat) won at the first stage with 1,522 first-preference votes (50.4%).
Independent 714 (23.6%);
SNP 424 (14.0%);
Reform UK 283 (9.4%);
Conservative 79 (2.6%).
Turnout: 30%.
North West Leicestershire — Long Whatton and Diseworth
Conservative hold
Conservative 576 (55.5%);
Reform UK 204 (19.7%);
Labour 147 (14.2%);
Restore Britain 55 (5.3%);
Green 34 (3.3%);
Liberal Democrat 22 (2.1%).
Turnout: 50.8%.
Northumberland — Amble
Labour gain from Reform UK
Labour’s Amy Spriggs won with 38.8%; Reform UK 33.5%;
Conservative 21.0%;
Restore Britain 6.7%.
Turnout: about 31%.
Northumberland — Hirst
Labour gain from Reform UK
Labour’s Melanie Tuesday Fox won with 50.1%;
Reform UK 30.0%;
Restore Britain 10.3%;
Conservative 4.1%;
Liberal Democrat 3.9%;
Independent 1.6%.
Turnout: about 21%.
Stirling — Forth and Endrick
Conservative hold
Katie Harrison (Conservative) won at stage 7. First preferences:
Harrison 1,188;
SNP 1,057;
Labour 380;
Green 317;
Reform UK 298;
Liberal Democrat 175;
Independent 55.
Turnout: 32.2%
ALLISTER HEATH’s ANALYSIS IS WORTH A READ
Here’s my précis:
Précis — Allister Heath
Photo credit: Andy Davey
Published: 30 September 2026, 6:57pm BST - TELEGRAPH
Allister Heath portrays Andy Burnham’s programme as “mad, nasty” and shockingly extreme: a revolution in all but name, driven by the determination to reunite the Left and defeat the Right. Burnham, he argues, is making a triple gamble: that his policies will bring the Left together, that his charisma and promise of a national care service will win over Middle England, and that Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s Reform will be too busy trying to annihilate each other to confront their “true existential enemy”.
Heath says Burnham would accelerate three long-running Left-wing strategies. First, he would reshape the constitution, shifting power away from Parliament and voters towards devolved authorities and political institutions. The most consequential proposal, Heath argues, is proportional representation. It would end the prospect of Labour governing alone, create permanent coalitions and bring smaller parties into power. Their demands could include another Scottish independence referendum, risking the break-up of the United Kingdom. Rather than producing calmer politics, Heath warns, PR could turn Parliament into an “Israeli-style ungovernable cacophony”.
Second, Heath says Burnham would deepen state control of the economy through spending, regulation, nationalisation and net-zero policies. With little money left to fund large-scale renationalisation, he points to proposals to seize empty homes and impose a mansion tax.
Third, Burnham would expand welfare, especially through social care. Heath argues this would draw more people into dependence on public spending, appeal to younger voters concerned about inheritance and create yet another ratchet pushing government spending upwards.
Heath calls Burnham’s plan to rejoin the EU without another referendum an “incendiary” element of the project. He warns that asking voters to vote again because they gave the wrong answer would undermine democracy. He also describes rejoining as economically and geopolitically “ludicrously out of date”, arguing that Britain’s problems stem from collectivism, not Brexit.
The next election, Heath warns, may be the country’s last chance to choose between socialism and capitalism, self-government and technocracy, prosperity and pauperisation. It could be the “final rerun” of every past battle, with one side seeking to obliterate the other. His closing question is whether a divided, demoralised Right is ready for “the mother of all battles”.
More from Allister Heath: “I saw a breathtaking glimpse of what Britain could have become.”
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Andrew Neil takes apart the case for Britain rejoining the EU, arguing the Europe of 2026 bears no resemblance to the EU of 2016. From the rise of the AFD in Germany to Le Pen's dominance in France, Neil breaks down why the political and economic landscape in Europe has shifted dramatically since Brexit. A sharp, no-nonsense take on Brexit, the EU single market debate, and UK growth versus the EZ3 economies.
Our Universities are at the epicentre of the problems this country faces….
A massive clear out and probably some severe sentencing required.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…
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Stop. Think. You are being played. Let’s turn it around
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THE RIGHT IS RUNNING OUT OF ROAD
Here's a prediction I desperately hope is wrong:
The British Right could spend the next three years arguing itself into oblivion.
Tories will blame Reform. Reform will blame Restore. Restore will blame both. The ethnonationalists will demand ideological purity. The moderates will refuse to associate with them. Farage and Lowe will continue their feud.
And while everybody is furiously explaining why their version of the Right is the only authentic one, the electoral arithmetic won't give a damn.
I've already watched this happen in miniature.
I stood for Restore in the Dover District Council by-election. Reform and I went head-to-head. The Right split its vote.
The Green won.
Reform finished just 34 votes behind.
There, in one constituency, is the warning.
Scale that stupidity nationally and the consequences could be enormous.
Because putting multiple right-of-centre candidates into constituencies, cannibalising broadly the same electoral pool and then spending five years raging about the left-wing MPs who walked through the middle isn't principle.
It's political suicide.
And time is running out.
If Andy Burnham's timetable holds, there are just shy of three years before the next general election. Possibly less.
This cannot be a lastminute-dotcom arrangement cobbled together three months before polling day. Any serious electoral cooperation requires strategy, agreement, data, money, candidates, activists, constituency intelligence, organisation and trust between people who currently appear to despise one another.
The work therefore has to begin now. It’s a task of truly Olympian proportions. But it is beyond vital.
Call it an alliance, convention, electoral compact call it whatever the hell you like.
The important concept is this:
A voting bloc.
Not necessarily one party. Not ideological uniformity. A mechanism capable of looking at every constituency and asking:
Which candidate gives the democratic Right its strongest opportunity here, in this location?
And that immediately exposes the uncomfortable reality.
Restore ethnonationalists aren't voting for Kemi Badenoch.
Centrist Conservatives aren't migrating to Restore while elements within it openly display racist and antisemitic tendencies.
Moderate Reformers aren't flocking to Rupert Lowe while the animosity with Farage continues.
And Reform voters who believe the Conservatives participated in Britain's decline aren't simply going to "come home".
It ain't ever gonna happen.
So stop pretending one tribe will eventually swallow the others.
No single faction currently has everything it needs.
Collectively, they may.
Which means everyone conceding something.
Tories. Reformers. Restorers. Everyone.
And if cooperation causes the genuinely racist, antisemitic and irreconcilably ethnonationalist fringe to slink off and create another reincarnation of the BNP, they're welcome to it.
They can stew in their ideological juices.
Because ultimately the question isn't which tribe gets to wear the crown.
It's whether the fragmented Right wants to keep winning arguments with itself or ever become capable of governing.
Everyone on the right, especially the ‘leaders’… wake the fuck up or die the fuck off.
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One wake up call the nationalist right needs is that Britain will have enemies whatever it does. You can prattle on about "Israeli genocide" and US military bases etc, but appeasing the Arab world does not take the target off our backs. Regardless of our foreign policy posture towards Israel, Iran and elsewhere, we are still the infidel.
When you see the Palestine flag on the streets of Britain, it is not the Palestine flag. It is the flag of the Islamo-leftist revolution. It does not seek a homeland for the Palestinians. They do not care about that at all. They want to overthrow the West. They want to overthrow capitalism. They want to overthrow democracy - and they will keep attacking us whatever we do.
This is why your average Tommy Robinson supporter is smarter than the grotbag right. They might spout the "Israel is our greatest ally" nonsense, but they at least understand who the enemy is. That's why you see so many Israel flags at Tommy Robinson demonstrations. It is not just a show of solidarity. It is a flag of defiance.
This is why I am deeply sceptical of the nationalist right and elements of Restore Britain. Doctrinal British nationalism is isolationist and believes that if we retreat from the world then the world will leave us alone. It doesn't work like that. Even remaining neutral has consequences.
This will become particularly apparent over the next few months and fuel and energy costs skyrocket. Ragbag bands of terrorists cannot defeat the West militarily but they do have us over a barrel (of oil) and they are quite capable of waging an economic war on the West, blocking sea lanes for starters - and states like Iran can throw the entire region into chaos by funding proxies like Hezbollah.
At some point, you have to decide what you're willing to let them get away with. At some point you have to make a choice and take a side. With these things, taking action has a price but then so does indecision and cowardice. You can appease these basketcase regimes, but they will still hate you and they will still undermine you. At some point you have top look at who they are and what they do, and think carefully about the costs of not taking a stand.
For sure, we could kick the USAF out of Fairford, but that doesn't mean they will allow oil tankers to sail to Britain if they're waving a British flag. These are not nice people we're dealing with. We can wean ourselves off middle eastern oil to some extent, but it still isn't in our interests to sit on our hands and let Islamist regimes do as they please - and the very last thing we should allow is the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
We could turn our backs on Israel, but that won't make the likes of ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas hate the West any less. And what is the price of appeasing Islamists in our own back yard? They'll just start on the next agenda item. We no safer for appeasing them. Jihad isn't just concerned with the eradication of Jews. They come for us all eventually.
Nobody wants to be embroiled in the Middle East. There was never any optimal outcome from Trump's latest campaing against Iran, but between Israel and America, they have done enormous damage to Iran's capacity to wage war and disrupt the region - while its proxies have been badly mauled. Clearing out Hezbollah did the world a favour. Largely staying out of it didn't make us any safer or insulate us from the consequences.
For sure, the cost of fuel is going up but that's as much to do with closing down our domestic production capacity, which made us more reliant on the Middle East.
I'm not one for liberal interventionism or meddling in the sovereign affairs of others. That has never really paid off for us, even when we've acted with the best of intentions. All the same, we can't lose sight of the fact that we still have enemies in this world. I have no time for the moral relativism of the left that says we are as bad. We're not. We are right, they are wrong. Our way of life is objectively better - which is why our enemies always want to move here. The moment we concede the nihilistic left wing idea that we somehow deserve to be attacked because of our foreign policy is the moment we lose everything.
SCAM SCUM
False Veteran’s ‘charities’ are in the rise.
I confronted this outfit in Deal High Street.
Veterans in Need.
Associated with other scam charities such as We R Blighty.
Beware. Do not donate your hard-earned to these scamming bastards.
If in doubt, ask for or look for the Charities Commission registration number. Use your phone to look it up before you part with your cash.
In this case, whilst purporting to be charitable, Veterans in Need is NOT a charity. It had a false business registration number on its literature.
I stood for almost an hour (I only went into town for a haircut) informing folk of the reality of the destination of their money. It took that long for this cretin to decide his day was best spent elsewhere.
If you see these scamming fuckers, don’t confront. Take an image or a video, ideally of someone donating, and provide the location, time and imagery to the local police.
In this case, the Police turned up… because the scammer called them. Claiming I was harassing and intimidating him.
The Old Bill questioned me.. and were sympathetic… but couldn’t move him on. They said they’re ‘aware’ of the issue.
They asked me to move on. 🤷♂️
I did not.
He only moved on when he realised I was going nowhere and his revenue stream had dried up.
SWEEP STAKE
Let’s see how many of these individuals entered the country illegally….
I’m going three out of five.
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You're betraying Britain, based on corrupted science and lies.
We want rid of you, as soon as we can vote you out.
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This chap aswell @DANNYUNFILTERED,like I said when their own team are talking up there’s a big problem 🤦♀️
Biblical Migration.
Tens of millions?
Could that be the scale of human migration towards Europe over the coming decades?
The inwards migration we are experiencing today, legal and illegal, may prove to be merely the tip of the spear. The vanguard.
Much, much worse could be coming.
I think it is.
Look south and east. Sub-Saharan Africa's population alone is projected to reach around 2.2 billion by 2054. Across Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia, enormous young populations face varying combinations of poverty, conflict, instability and pressure on food, water and employment.
Where will those pressures ultimately lead?
We simply don't know.
But when the populations involved are measured in billions, it does not require a majority to move. It does not even require a large minority.
A movement involving only a small percentage could mean tens of millions of people.
The domestic pressures in the countries of origin, allied to the pull factors of a liberal Europe and an apologist, self-flagellating West, will continue to build.
I believe we need to contemplate something that our political establishment appears unwilling even to discuss: migration towards Europe on a genuinely biblical scale. Beyond the current comprehension of our current political classes.
Racial, cultural, criminal, behavioural matters to one side….for the moment, I’m talking about the pure overwhelming scale of what might come.
We had a small taste of it in 2015 thanks the Merkel’s idiotic ‘all welcome here’ policy. And another insight in Cueta.
I’m talking about Ceuta on steroids…. Daily. For years.
And then the question changes completely.
It will no longer be: Where do we house them? Which hotels? Which former MOD bases? How do we feed them, school their children and provide healthcare?
Housing is finite. Schools are finite. Hospitals are finite. MOD sites are finite.
Patience…. Is finite.
In fact, that resource is in very short supply already.
Eventually the question becomes brutally simple:
How do we stop them?
How does Europe secure its external frontier? How does Britain defend its own border? Are we politically prepared, where lawful, to repel at the border? With force if necessary?
That immediately takes us into uncomfortable territory. Asylum. International conventions. Human-rights law. Non-refoulement. Laws and conventions conceived around the protection of individuals potentially colliding with mass population movements on a scale their architects could scarcely have contemplated.
We need to have that argument now.
In fact and in view of the evidence laid out before us, the argument should have been done and dusted a decade ago with the necessary instruments and resources in place and in action.
We need a government driven not by ideological attitudes towards multiculturalism, penance for Empire, or the desire to cultivate future blocs of migrant voters, but by one overriding consideration:
the long-term interests of the British people.
We need steadfast political leadership and right-wing unity prepared to recognise mass migration for what I believe it is becoming: Britain's greatest existential threat.
Because ultimately this is about far more than stopping small boats.
The politics. The legislation. The international agreements. The processing and returns infrastructure. The surveillance. The maritime capability. The physical defences.
All of it needs thinking through and resolving.
Now.
Biblical migration is not inevitable. But neither can we assume it will not happen.
I think it will. Sooner or later. Probably sooner.
If the demographic pressures gathering beyond Europe's borders translate into mass movement, we cannot begin constructing our defences when that overwhelming movement is already under way.
By then it will be too late.
Get the politics, the legislation, the logistics and the defences sorted now.
Or we risk being overwhelmed and consumed.
The Break-up of the Union:
Why I’m Conflicted….. a bit.
The growing clamour for referendums in Scotland and Wales, and for a vote on Irish reunification in Northern Ireland, troubles me. Our Prime Minister’s enthusiasm for devolution seems to have given the movement fresh momentum. He already looks weak, and the nationalists smell blood.
When Scotland voted on independence in 2014, I was vehemently opposed. I believed in the United Kingdom then, and I believe in it now. Our nations share a long history. We have fought together, built together and achieved things together that I would hate to see thrown away.
But since that vote came Brexit. I argued passionately that the UK should be free to determine its own future. And therein lies the rub.
If I believe the UK had the right to leave the EU, how can I deny Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland the right to decide their own futures? The two unions are different, of course. But the principle of self-determination cannot apply only when I like the likely outcome. I can argue fiercely for keeping the UK together. I cannot comfortably argue for keeping one of its nations in against its will.
Some people say England should have a binding vote on whether the others may leave. I understand the instinct. A break-up would affect England profoundly. But the EU didn’t get to cast a binding vote to keep Britain in, and I’m not persuaded that England should be able to veto another nation’s decision.
What England does need is its own Parliament. Westminster sits in England, but it governs the whole UK. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own institutions through which to express their national interests. England should have that same voice. If the Union is to endure, it ought to be a fairer arrangement for all four nations. And if it does break up, England should be able to decide its own future on an equal footing.
Then comes the paradox I find hardest to ignore. Scotland, and perhaps Wales, might leave a union that has steadily handed them more powers, only to seek membership of the EU, whose treaties speak of “ever closer union”. They may judge that trade-off worthwhile. That is their choice. But anyone campaigning on the promise of independence owes voters an honest account of what sovereignty they would gain, and what they would hand over again.
I would campaign to keep the United Kingdom. I hope we can make a better case for it than simply telling people they aren’t allowed to leave.
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Just so we're clear...
We've had years and years of Islamist thugs roaming our streets masked up, Muslim women in burqas and left wing mobs hiding their identities.
That's acceptable. A few words of mild concern, but generally nobody cared.
But now is when the establishment acts?
After just ONE protest of concerned patriots who were looking to highlight the invasion of our country.
One protest from them, and the entire political establishment jumps into action.
Where was that passion before?
Labour, Reform, Tories. The police, the media.
Now is when they all passionately agree that face coverings are unacceptable and must be banned?
Our establishment is rotten to the core and must be replaced.
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This veteran has a message for the British government in response to them trying to recall all the veterans.
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‘Just telling you Herr Hitler and Emperor Hirohito - we’ll be sort of ready for your attack in 1945.’
🚨 Sounds like @wesstreeting just swerved Labour's promise to spend 3% of GDP on defence by 2030
(What @JohnHealey_MP quit for in June)
He said PM & Healey were committed 3.5% by 2035
BUT no date for 3%
Said they'll set 3% commitment "at the next spending review"
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£1M LATER… AND I WAS RIGHT TO ASK QUESTIONS
This is now the SECOND video that somebody has independently made about what has happened over the last year.
I did not ask for this video. I did not know it was being made.
But perhaps people are finally beginning to understand why I refused to stay silent.
For almost a year I have challenged what was happening with Local Government Reorganisation in Kent. I questioned the process, the expenditure and why KCC was pressing ahead with costly preparations when there was no certainty about what would ultimately happen.
I spoke out.
I subsequently lost my position within Reform UK.
But I did NOT stop asking questions.
And now look where we are.
Kent and Medway’s LGR has been PAUSED pending a Government review.
Linden Kemkaran has herself said that the process has cost taxpayers “around £1 million so far” — and described it as a “monumental waste of public money and officer and councillor time”.
Those are HER words.
Yet months earlier, KCC’s Monitoring Officer had confirmed to me that KCC was not the decision-maker on LGR and that there was no specific legislation obliging KCC to incur expenditure on it.
And on 9 June 2026, Linden Kemkaran, as Leader of Kent County Council, personally took the formal Key Decision approving procurement of a Strategic Partner to facilitate and assist with LGR activity, including arrangements connected with transition and implementation planning.
So Kent taxpayers are entitled to some very straightforward answers.
Exactly how much has now been spent?
Exactly how much has been contractually committed?
What liabilities remain?
Why did KCC continue preparing and committing resources when these concerns had repeatedly been raised?
And if, in Linden Kemkaran’s own words, this has resulted in a “monumental waste of public money”, who takes responsibility for the decisions made at KCC along the way?
For months I was treated as though I was the problem because I would not stop asking difficult questions.
I kept the evidence.
I kept asking.
And I kept speaking out.
I will continue to do so.
Thank you to the colleague who made this video completely independently and unbeknown to me.
Please watch it — then look at the public record and draw your own conclusions.
@LeaderofKCC @reformparty_uk @RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain @Kent_Online @BBCSouthEast @SkyNews @guardian @thetimes