David Tomlinson

@BLAIMGame There are plenty of people who can’t abide wisdom or common sense. X is full of them. Conspiracy theorists, climate deniers, xenophobes, racists etc, ignorance abounds. You are amongst many (admittedly not very bright) friends.

I know I’m probably the only one, but I just can’t abide David Attenborough.

@ronmanagernottm My Dad was specially selected to be amongst the first drivers of the ‘lilac leopards’ coaches for Nottingham City Transport (aka ‘The Corpo’). He took one full of the great and the good out to Ljubljana. Now in Slovenia, but then in the nominally communist Yugoslavia

Phwoooooooooooooooooar!

@ronmanagernottm It’s like thinking you were going to get Coca-cola or Pepsi for your birthday party and then finding out your mam got Rola Cola from Bejam

@Oldscarfe @AllisonPearson I think you are getting the cart and horse the wrong way around. Voters have never been more manipulated. Algorithm driven social media echo chambers. ‘Entertainment’ channels masquerading as News. Unprecedented use of blatant lies and playing on fears and prejudices

@Handlebarbleep @AllisonPearson She's right. None of the main parties have represented their voters' politics for decades. Starmer didn't "win" the previous election, the Tories lost: if the Right wasn't undergoing a revolution at the time he could never have won, even against the 14 years of indolence Tories.

From today, the Government and Opposition will no longer represent the British people. An extraordinary thought. We really need a general election

@Chris_Davies @ShabanaMahmood @EvaVlaar @ValentinaForUSA @JoeyMannarino @AdaLluch Do you mean like Martin Sellner Snoop Dog Geert Wilders Stokely Carmichael Etc? All deemed un-conducive to the public good by Conservative governments? Presumably you would want to champion these as well? Because very unpleasant they are too Strange bedfellows you keep.

So @ShabanaMahmood has now banned the following from entering the United Kingdom on the grounds that they “would not be conducive to the public good”. @EvaVlaar @ValentinaForUSA @JoeyMannarino @AdaLluch The common links? All right wing and all proposed speakers at the Unite The Kingdom rally on 16th May. Regardless of your political vista, this is chilling stuff and solely politically motivated to try to undermine @TRobinsonNewEra So much for “we’ve had free speech for a very long time and it will be around for a very long time”. What say you @POTUS ??? You can’t hate Labour enough.

@Artemisfornow Our rights belong to us, in our own jurisdiction. They do not extend to foreign actors who enter our country, any more than our citizens have the right to enter other countries and practice our rights there.

Starmer told President Trump that Britain has had free speech “for a very long time and will have it for a very long time.” Yet the Home Office has blocked 4 speakers from entering the UK before they’d even spoken at any event, I presume on the basis they might cause disorder. But that’s pre-emption. Once you accept that the state can decide who is allowed to speak based on what might be said, you no longer have free speech as a principle… you have only selective permission to speak, if the government approves.

@AllisonPearson @TonyAngelUK Make your mind up. Stealing our jobs or scounging? Can’t be both.

This is INSANE. 1.5 million migrants claiming Universal Credit. Other countries don’t allow access to their benefits system.

@JoeyMannarino @TonyAngelUK No different to the US or any other country denying entry to undesirables. Ironically it’s called taking back control of your borders. Which is largely what Tommy is in favour of. Oh, I’m explaining irony to an American. This will end badly methinks. 😀

So, let’s get this straight. The government of the United Kingdom has banned at least four people expected or confirmed to speak at Tommy Robinson’s rally on May 16th from entering the country. Eva Vlaardingerbroek of the Netherlands Ada Lluch of Spain Valentina Gomez of the USA and myself, Joey Mannarino of the USA What in the hell are the people in the government so afraid of?

@martinsharman43 @David90shaw Like having safe and legal routes, offshore processing, sufficiently resourced immigration services and courts, streamlined, clear criteria etc. All very boring and requiring grown up mature reflection. Much easier to call to ban or leave things and blame foreigners.

@martinsharman43 @David90shaw If you process the numbers, you will find the effect is minimal. ECHR is cited very rarely and mostly unsuccessfully, despite the rabid publicity. There are much more effective (but probably much less popular) measures we could take.

🚨 BREAKING: The head of the Council of Europe just dropped an absolute bombshell. He says if Britain leaves the ECHR to finally secure our own borders, we will be grouped alongside Russia and Belarus. The global elite are officially using extreme scare tactics just because we want safe streets. 🧵👇

@Ronswan649378 Or are you holding out for one of these?

@Ronswan649378 What’s the current Rouble to GBP conversion rate? For some strange reason I thought you might know…..

A friend is married to a Ukrainian, for the last 15 years. Her parents live near Lyviv, on the west of Ukraine. They are both getting a full UK state pension. They spend a lot of their time back in Ukraine....... We are being rinsed. #ukraine #restore

@DavidAHoward @DaveKent101 It’s representative democracy. We elect people who make decisions based on the circumstances they find. Not robots who exist to enact manifesto contents. Things like immigration are not just a matter of policy wand waving. It’s driven by economics, markets and demographics

Every single person allowed in By Boris (over a million) was given a legal visa. Every wind and solar farm was built by our tax money as we voted for net zero (as in the majority). If they have a policy they implement it, whether or not like mass immigration it was not in the manifesto.

Why is it that Denmark can ignore the ECHR and deport ALL migrants with a conviction of a year or more WITHOUT APPEAL, yet the timid UK remains a frightened rabbit in the headlights of the wretched ECHR?🤔 Ignore it or scrap it!🤨

@nicksortor We figured that, when our contributions and sacrifices were demeaned and insulted. Which is why we didn’t show up

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump says the US will be withdrawing "A LOT" more troops from Germany than the 5,000 announced yesterday FINALLY. Bring our troops home! We don't need NATO — NATO needs US! "We're going to cut WAY down and we're cutting a lot further than 5,000" 🇺🇸

@DavidAHoward @DaveKent101 Sadly though, the issue is largely being driven by people with agendas, not solutions. Because it is emotive, they just want to twist the knife for electoral effect, not heal the wounds.

@DavidAHoward @DaveKent101 What is actually required is adult, responsible debate. Doctrinally willing to consider all aspects, including that we may have to accept equivalent or even higher immigration in the short or medium term, just organise it better.