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@MellonSdp6741 @FUDdaily @AdamPerkinsPhD That would be good. But there’s no way I’m going to Coventry…

@Caesar0101010 @FUDdaily @AdamPerkinsPhD Let’s discuss it over a pint

Regardless of my "extreme" views on immigration, I would actually vote for the SDP if they were standing in my area - chiefly because I am seriously sick of the slop right. If we're going to fix Britain we need an active state. We're going to need an army of Environment Agency inspectors, tax inspectors, probation officers, EHOs, housing inspectors, trading standards officers, HRMC auditors, better police, more magistrates courts, more border force officers, and more back office support to expedite prosecutions and removals - and to take red tape away from frontline practitioners. On that basis, I am not going to vote for slop right parties who approach civil service reform from an accountancy point of view, deleting entire departments just because they don't personally benefit from them. I want to see the civil service brought into sharper focus through better policy and better leadership. You can't expect the state to deliver on any of your agenda if you're inherently hostile to the public administration tier. If you want a functioning state you have to invest in it, and you have to take the time to understand it. The mission is to worst performing departments up to the standard of the best, but you won't get that kind of analysis from lazy nihilistic populists who think the state is "the enemy of the people" - who would just end up imposing more austerity. The last thing this country needs is more half-baked Thatcherism. Just recently we've seen the National Food Crimes Unit and the Environment Agency given police powers to get on top of food fraud and illegal waste. This means there is no more buck passing. If something is reported, they have to investigate. Labour has done a good thing there. These are important reforms that will get results in the coming months. But we have to go further. We need more specialist enforcement with teeth if we're going to take on deliveroo drivers, bad landlards, illegal car washes, vape shops and Turkish barbers. We're going to have to come down on back street solicitors to tackle remittance fraud and visa laundering. We need political leadership that will put a rocket under the civil service rather than stripping their departments bare and shuffling deckchairs. To give Restore their dues, their mass deportations paper alludes to some of this, but none of that is reflected in the slop-posting from the party leader, whereas @WilliamClouston genuinely understands the need for policy, and takes the time to understand the issues rather than churning out slogans. I might agree with 90% of the sentiments driving Restore and even Reform, but I do not believe for a nanosecond they would have the first idea how to govern effectively. I'm not going to vote for slop merchants who don't think about what they say and don't have a plan for government. I don't think they'd last five minutes in office. I've spoken to a few SDP people now, and they're all very sensible pragmatic people rather than ideological zealots taken in by generic right wing tropes. I might not agree with their entire prospectus but I can take them seriously. As much as anything, it's a party that could withstand the departure of its leader, which is more than you can say for any party of the slop right. That in itself says a lot about them.

@AaronBastani What about all the companies and assets the UK owns in the US. And other countries. Should foreign ownership of any assets be banned?

“…completely imaginary American influence” All our payment systems, digital systems and social media platforms are basically American owned. My favourite example: Starbucks, Costs and Nero….all owned by…Americans! It’s so much worse than you think.

@MellonSdp6741 @FUDdaily @AdamPerkinsPhD He certainly had his good points. Not sure the morality laws were his best idea, though. A lesson there, I think.

@Caesar0101010 @FUDdaily @AdamPerkinsPhD Ironically true. Just like Rome needed the Emperor Augustus to restore order so they could have freedom

@Dogbert_Rules You keep posting twice. The system probably thinks you’re a bot. Don’t think you’re important enough to shut down. That way madness lies.

I can't see half my answers here, I feel like Twitter DELETED half of them. THAT IS A SHADOWBAN look for yourself people. There are FOUR answers here, only TWO are visible (and this one). so FIVE answers, only THREE are visible. Where are my other two??

@Dogbert_Rules And their corruption is our fault? My gods, but why can you not give Africans agency?

Why do you think the countries we give Billions to are ALWAYS still shit holes? BRIBERY we pay them to give US privileges.

@Dogbert_Rules @RGrauholz1871 @WalkerMarcus If they’re so great why are we giving them so much aid?

@RGrauholz1871 @WalkerMarcus So you don't want to ban trade with Africa, the fastest growing region in the world. Because you realize all your profits in future will be in colonies? That's why Britain was RICH in colonial era (black & brown) labour. ... ok well all least you know who buttered your bread.

Countries that unambiguously are trying to destroy Britain should face the consequences: absolute hostility from every organ of the state, suspension of all aid, suspension of all visas for any reason. We should not be pretending this is acceptable or normal.

@TakingdaP @Mschatnoir That would be the bit of paper doing all the heavy lifting. Very much as today.

@Caesar0101010 @Mschatnoir including British India and African colonies you could say that most British people in the 19th century were non-white

BBC really pushing early 1800's were full of african, indian and fat people in London why? whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy it pulls me out of it alll....gahhhhhhhhh Imagine watching Zulu and a bunch of white irish emerge in tribal gear it's stupid

@TakingdaP @Mschatnoir Even in London it was just 10,000 out of 2.5 million.

@Caesar0101010 @Mschatnoir we were talking about London, the heart of the British empire, and literally a port city

@TakingdaP @Mschatnoir It was minuscule and highly concentrated in port cities. The vast majority of British people in the 19th century would not see a non-white person in the flesh at any point in their lives.

@Mschatnoir you do know that India and parts of Africa were British in the 19th century, media for decades whitewashed British society, it's now through education and further learning, we know there was a far higher nonwhite population throughout London and British isles as a whole

@albieamankona @Publius819 It will surely give you a warm feeling on that deportation plane back to Ghana, then. We’ll all be happy.

@Publius819 I'm not trying to endear myself with anyone, I am trying and succeeding at pissing people like you off.

My 93 year old Ghanaian grandfather has more of civic connection to the “old England” (born a subject of the British Empire & moved here in 1957) than any white gen-Z ethnonationalist today. If you think there's a genocide happening the UK, good for you. I can't debate crazy.

@OliverKamm @TheGreenParty If someone cannot understand English they shouldn’t be living in the country let alone allowed to vote. It’s not difficult, so one must assume you are just being performative in your loss of understanding.

“A Green Party leaflet had been printed in Urdu and Bengali ‘on one side’ and English on the other.” I’m no supporter of @TheGreenParty but am at a loss to understand how anyone could reasonably object to this. The Tories shouldn’t be embracing Reform on the ethnocentric fringe.

@AaronBastani Glad to see you accept the concept of foreigners now. Just a few more steps and you’ll be deporting yourself back to your Iranian homeland.

I don’t care where the voices are, or who I’m meant to ‘centre’. No country, in the 21st century, is going to be bombed into democracy by foreigners. Even if you think the US has noble intentions, it’s among the stupidest propositions I’ve come across.

@oldspeak_books Performative outrage. “I’ll go somewhere I know I wll dislike just so I can virtue signal on social media.” Like children playing up because they’re looking for attention.

Look at this big baby.

@SalwayBrewer @AaronBastani Read the UN partition plan.

@Caesar0101010 @AaronBastani Nope read some history.

Possible Iran would reduce support for proxies & even put nuclear ambitions on ice in exchange for economic normalisation, Israel accepting 1968 borders, & withdrawal from Lebanon. Can’t happen, tho, because nobody in West is actually serious about a ‘2 state solution’.

@AaronBastani I’m beginning to suspect your account has been hacked. Making far too much sense these days.

Cuban, Iranian, Afghan, Iraqi, British-Jewish, whatever. People with dual nationality, or refugees, demanding spilled blood and lost treasure for their own fights 1000s of miles away should set off a very loud siren.

Western societies are going to need a hard rule going forward: For better or worse foreign policy outcomes shouldn’t be shaped by ‘diasporas’, military intervention most of all. This has only served to weaken these countries, & has universally led to unwise decisions.

@empiresunchnd @GenealogyBeech The First Cod War, then?

The stockfish trade is one of the most underappreciated economic engines of medieval England. Dried cod from Icelandic waters was a critical protein source across Catholic Europe where fasting days prohibited meat, and Hull became the primary entry point for that trade into northern England. What's less known is that English fishermen had been sailing directly to Icelandic waters since the early 15th century, effectively bypassing the Hanseatic League's monopoly on northern trade, a commercial rivalry that repeatedly turned violent, with English and Hanseatic crews attacking each other's vessels off the Icelandic coast decades before anyone was calling it geopolitical competition. The Icelanders showing up in Yorkshire were following the money in both directions.

🧵When perusing the England's Immigrants 1330-1550 database I was interested to note the number of people from Iceland in Yorkshire especially around Hull and Beverley. Icelanders in 15th-century Yorkshire were drawn by the booming stockfish trade during the so-called “English

@AaronBastani There will always be wars somewhere. Let’s just stop importing historical enmities and boot out those already here that cannot let go of their homeland. Will also free up the housing required.

I want politics to be about restoring high streets, conservation of architecture, saving the bees, giving young people great homes. Ideally we should try and minimise the statistical likelihood of global war and recession, where possible. Just a thought!

Trump & Israel started a war which is leading to: $200 a barrel of oil End of UAE & Qatar as destinations Sustained closure of world’s most important logistical chokepoint. Missiles hitting Europe. Global recession. - I just wanted student loans for nurses cancelled.

@AaronBastani @GrimmVeronika Building walls is possible. Pushing boats back is possible. It’s almost as if you do not want to stop the flow of illegal migration.

@GrimmVeronika Why do you people want infinity refugees? It genuinely seems like some sort of addiction.

I fear that Europeans don‘t get what is at stake. Failure of US/Israel in the middle east is of MUCH higher cost to us in Europe than to almost anyone else. (This holds independently of what one thinks about the escalation - it is already there)