Tim Pendry

@SimonPartridge @TuckerClemens @MadelaineLucyH @MonkEmma @FUDdaily @adhib No, I am not an intellectual. I actually think.

@TimPendry @TuckerClemens @MadelaineLucyH @MonkEmma @FUDdaily @adhib Come, come, Tim, you're an intellectual. You can be an intellectual without being a busybody.

My best friend is Muslim, and she has been fasting. I’m not a Muslim, and I don’t. We joke about it. She’s going to a white CoE funeral, and calls me to ask what the norms are and what to wear and say. This summer, I’ll be going to a family wedding with her and asking the same. Because that’s integration. That’s how you build a society that works. We don’t all have to be the same. We just need to have policies that allow for proper mixing and insight.

@LaocoonsJournal @SimonPartridge @RebornDoom @Tom_Rowsell @danielfoch @Landeur But it won't happen and you know it. The Brits in India were a thin layer across a sub-continent. South Asians are settled deep into specific localities as de facto colonists like Britons in Australia or Americas or South Africa.

@SimonPartridge @RebornDoom @Tom_Rowsell @danielfoch @Landeur @TimPendry We didn't leave because the indians couldn't make us leave. The foreigners who have settled our countries within living memory aren't leaving because our own governments flat our refuse to send them back, we could do it.

Canada has observed the largest decline in happiness in the world (along with the UK)

@TuckerClemens @SimonPartridge @MadelaineLucyH @MonkEmma @FUDdaily @adhib Those are cities. A lot of people live in small towns and rural areas and resent city people dictating cultural terms. This is why populism emerges as a legitimate correction from Hungary to Kent.

@TimPendry @SimonPartridge @MadelaineLucyH @MonkEmma @FUDdaily @adhib If I had to categorise myself, I'd say I'm intellectual, not "an intellectual,"if you know what I mean.I don't try to enforce any ideology. I've grown up around the world in cities that would be considered "multicultural," I know they work.They're enhanced without losing identity

@SimonPartridge @TuckerClemens @MadelaineLucyH @MonkEmma @FUDdaily @adhib I think the critique of multiculturalism that is reasonable is that it is not cultures living alongside one another but intellectuals enforcing it as an ideology. Withjout intellectuals everyone would be a lot happier and almost certainly more easy-going.

@TuckerClemens @MadelaineLucyH @MonkEmma Not sure it's an "ism". Seems more like mutual respect following the good Brit tradition of live and let live. @FUDdaily @adhib @TimPendry

@SimonPartridge @RebornDoom @Tom_Rowsell @danielfoch @Landeur Indeed ... we are where we are ...

@RebornDoom @Tom_Rowsell @danielfoch Imo, No. The practical issue is that the Anglo settlers aren't going to leave. Just I think most of the recent settlers in the UK won't either. We are where we are. @Landeur @TimPendry

@Craig366382 @SimonPartridge @Sargon_of_Akkad @Landeur @FUDdaily I think we can safely ignore the opinion of the UN nowadays ...

@SimonPartridge @Sargon_of_Akkad @Landeur @FUDdaily @TimPendry To be indigenous the UN changed the definition to include being an oppressed minority within said country. That is why we have the ridiculous situation of white populations living in Europe for thousands of years being told we aren't indigenous. It's ridiculous.

The English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish are indigenous to the British Isles.

@AntonGainsbarre @SimonPartridge @Sargon_of_Akkad @Landeur @FUDdaily It is a sign of decadence that ethnicity is even being discussed in contemporary Britain. Is the model to be the utter lunacy of Judaic nationalism (Zionism) or the mad fantasies of rthe Banderistas of Lvov?

@SimonPartridge @Sargon_of_Akkad @Landeur @FUDdaily @TimPendry I think the English view ethnicity the same way the ultra-rich view money: probably necessary, but something for other people to worry about.

@CatoThistlewood @SimonPartridge @Sargon_of_Akkad @Landeur @FUDdaily That is fair comment.

@SimonPartridge @Sargon_of_Akkad @Landeur @FUDdaily @TimPendry That definition of indigenous is steeped in Marxist power dynamics - it is not objective. What other countries do is up to them. What we do here is up to us.

@SimonPartridge @Sargon_of_Akkad @Landeur @FUDdaily Technically indigenous in the British case would refer to the original mesolithic inhabitants ... there is some evidence that there is some continuity at least to them and to the neolithic in some parts of Britain but nothing that would justify 'English'.

@Sargon_of_Akkad "Indigenous" used to be used for people who lived in a country before European colonists arrived. The implication is that these islands have now been colonised. If remigration is the demand are European colonists expected to return from overseas? @Landeur @FUDdaily @TimPendry

@adhib @SimonPartridge @technopopulist @FUDdaily Oh, I am perfectly happy ... not everything is about politics.

@TimPendry @SimonPartridge @technopopulist @FUDdaily Cheer up, old bean! Yes, we need a fit and energetic state under a government actively supported by a majority, devoted to the common wealth, acting in the national interest.

The biggest conflict in British politics right now, and for some time, is between re-territorialisation (right wing populism) and de-territorialisation (globalism). The process of de-territorialisation encompasses policies such as global trade, liberal immigration policy, supranational institutions, and political action through intergovernmental organisations. It is also driven by technological change that sits partly beyond the control of political elites, although those elites can shape and regulate how those changes play out. Re-territorialisation (right wing populism) is about taking back control and reasserting sovereignty over culture and the political economy. De-territorialisation pulls in the opposite direction. De-territorialisation really began to take hold in the 1990s. The Channel Tunnel was completed. The Maastricht Treaty was signed. The Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 was introduced under John Major. New Labour took this framework and intensified it. They abolished the Primary Purpose Rule for family visas, experimented with points-based systems, and failed to impose transitional controls on new EU accession states. They also introduced the Human Rights Act 1998, which hollowed out the powers of immigration officers and turned them into intermediaries. They massively expanded higher education and outsourced international student visas to universities, which often issued them to fraudulent applicants. This happened under Beverley Hughes. Theresa May, to her credit, pushed back by capping non-EU work visas and tightening the rules on international students. The Brexit referendum was meant to resolve this conflict by giving a clear answer to the de-territorialisation (globalism) versus re-territorialisation (right wing populism) question. Brexit won. But the Brexiteers did the worst possible thing. They junked some of the only functional parts of globalism, such as frictionless trade and lower non-tariff barriers (Common Market), while embracing the most destabilising elements, high levels of Third World immigration, regulatory entanglement, and continued subjection to frameworks like the European Court of Human Rights. Today, we are living through the fallout.

@adhib @SimonPartridge @technopopulist @FUDdaily We need a strong State committed heroically to the will of the people and the provision of the good against all special interests ... I suspect democracy will never provide that and it may not be part of our species definition in any case.

@TimPendry @SimonPartridge @technopopulist @FUDdaily True. Hence the title of our 2021 green paper. sdp.org.uk/the_end_of_ind…

@wei63906 @Rae_the_otter I still have some lingering faith in her. She was 'in the room' but clearly not listened to. She just has to wait now and let the disaster unfold before stepping in and saving her President. The trick is to change Congress and its den of thieves.

@TimPendry @Rae_the_otter One could feel the truth longing to escape from her (which could not be said about Hegseth)

Trump seems to be a very bad magician (like Hitler) ... he effects change according to will but lacks the science involved in understanding himself and his situation (like Hitler). But, to be fair, this seems to apply to all our Western political class. I wonder why?

@adhib @SimonPartridge @technopopulist @FUDdaily Yes, the corrupt ones without any fundamental integrity but, actually, most people in the City are amoral more than immoral and business is not supposed to be moral except in its own interest - it is the democratic State's job to 'care'. It does not.

@TimPendry @SimonPartridge @technopopulist @FUDdaily Agree, up to a point. There's a banker or two I'd be less forgiving towards. Capitalist organisations have an interesting tendency to turn into financial services providers in their old age. UK plc as a whole is on the same path. So slamming that door is going to hurt.

@UKinUSA 'appropriate efforts' LOL ... the weasels speak weasel.

NEW: The UK alongside France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan expresses readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz 👇 gov.uk/government/new…

@SimonPartridge @technopopulist @FUDdaily @adhib To be fair, it is not the City of London's job to do anything but what it has done ... the 'blame' such as it is lies entirely with the political class, a thick civil service and half-educated short-termist voters. Democracy, in fact. The City is, strangely, not the villain here.

@technopopulist The UK has been more thoroughly penetrated by global capital than any other European state, enabled by City of London. How do you intend to "reassert" control? @TimPendry @FUDdaily @adhib

@wei63906 @Rae_the_otter She and Hegseth were working to a damage limitation script today ... "I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er" - they are so fecked, the lot of them, puppets of others' malignity

@TimPendry @Rae_the_otter I'd have agreed this morning. but today's testimony was so pathetic

I have now simply dumped @Outlook completely because it repeatedly failed to interface properly with a Google account ... so @Microsoft you lose from your own excess of greedy stupidity, as usual. Did you honestly think I would choose you over @Google? Fools!

Now that's what I call 'fake news' ...

MAGA looks pretty dead to me!