
Fretless
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Fretless
@FretlessStrings
Christian. Member of the Free Speech Union. Wyrd bið ful aræd.
Atlantis Katılım Ağustos 2024
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@donaldtusk Dear Mr Tusk, when you need help, Starmer will be looking in the opposite direction. If you're lucky, he may send a strongly worded email when the fighting is over.
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I may not agree with Green voters, but deliberately placing deportation centres in areas that vote against you as political punishment is vindictive and counterproductive.
You don’t win people over by threatening them. It’ll also put people in serious danger.
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage
If you vote Reform you will not have an illegal migrant deportation facility in your area. We will hold migrants awaiting deportation in constituencies that vote Green instead. You get what you vote for.
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Zack Polanski saw five kicks to a tasered man's head. Instead of performing outrage for cameras, he's doing the harder thing: taking it to the Met Commissioner directly. Social media wants spectacle. Zack wants accountability. That's not weakness — that's maturity. #bbclaurak
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@tykestakeonit @D36249Peter I agree with that post, so block me too.
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My message to Britain's holidaymakers this summer is simple: we are not currently seeing disruption to jet fuel supplies. But if we do, we've got your back.
thesun.co.uk/news/38998656/…
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@Heccles94 You want us to vote Greens. That tells you all you need to know.
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BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Armenia ahead of the European Political Summit in Yerevan, the country's capital.
trib.al/vAkhilb
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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@HJB_News__ Raynor has been crap at micro/macro economics. She is being directed by the Blob. So it won't make a ha'porth of difference.
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Rumours suggest Angela Rayner could take over from Rachel Reeves as Chancellor.
She left Avondale High School in Stockport at 16, pregnant and with no qualifications. She later studied part-time at Stockport College, where she learned British Sign Language and gained an NVQ Level 2 in social care. She never went to university. She has no financial services experience.

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Ok I'll bite. British culture is diverse. But you know it when you see it. It's pub culture. It's Wimbledon. It's airshows and steam rallies on a Summer day's. It's boating on the Thames. It's fish and chips on the harbour. It's eighties nights and rock clubs. It's garden fetes and village galas. It's bingo halls and snooker clubs. It's 40's revival weekends. It may be subjective but it's all around you if you open your eyes.
It struck me recently that a lot of British culture is based around nostalgia, but it's more than that. We come together to enjoy our common heritage, marvel at our accomplishments and remember our fallen.
I tend not to see minorities at airshows, battle reenactments and steam rallies because minorities aren't meaningfully part of that story. I see sons with elderly fathers, and fathers with young sons, passing on knowledge about our country. But I'm always surprised to see a south Asian or an African. They're just not interested.
But then I wouldn't expect to see minorities at such events because they're not exposed to it. Our schools would rather teach black history than English history. It teaches our young people that our history is something to be ashamed of - and something to be contextualised, scorned and dismantled.
But then so many minorities have no interest in integrating at all. I walk through Bradford and see women in burkas and men in pyjamas who can barely speak English and prefer not to - who go to places of worship to hear sermons in another language. They're nothing to do with me.
Pakistanis have been on Bradford for more than fifty years, and whatever assimilation process that might have occurred appears to be in reverse. They don't dress like us, don't speak like us, don't interact with us and don't participate. They don't participate in our local politics. They colonise it. They will turn out in their hundreds in solidarity with Palestinians, and bring their tribal bickering over Kashmir to our streets.
Contrast that with Eastern Europeans who have effortlessly integrated, and are now part of us. Part of our social fabric. They come to our rock clubs and raves, they drink in our pubs, they assimilate into our politics. They're our friends and family now. They're compatible because their places of origin share similar foundational values. Democracies striving for equality.
But what has Pakistani/African/Arab culture contributed to British life? Honour killings, acid attacks, grooming gangs, deep rooted misogyny, suicide bombs, cousin marrying, FGM, forced marriage etc. And for what? They weren't needed or wanted. And now we have parallel cultures that don't interact, and lawless cities that no longer look or feel British in any meaningful sense.
Though it's not entirely the fault of minority groups that they don't integrate. It's a two way thing and it's human nature to seek out the familiar. Most of us don't really want anything to do with your culture and we'd prefer it if y'all weren't here - even if we keep that sentiment to ourselves. It's not a racial thing. It's not personal. Xenophobia = evolutionary instinct + experience. Y'all just don't fit here, spend most of the time denigrating and complaining, and seem intent on turning our country into the sort of corrupt basketcase slums you hail from. So you're not really welcome.
It might be different if we could see any kind of effort to integrate and if we felt like you appreciated being British as much as we do, but when we see Muslims taking to the streets to stand with Hamas and call for Jihad, how can we not conclude we have an enemy in our midst?
Ultimately a functioning country is about kinship. The more alien cultures we import, the more diluted our commonality - and the more fragmented we become, to the point where we're just a rabble of competing tribes, where there's no sense of obligation to each other. A failed state basically. Those who won't integrate need to be gone.
Bushra Shaikh@Bushra1Shaikh
Genuinely I ask, what is British culture? Born in the UK and lived here for 40 years and yet we are constantly told 'we're not integrating'. Not Integrating into what culture exactly?
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@PhilipProudfoot And when the business goes down, you can sit at home like Johnny no mates, as you watering hole has just closed. Congratulations!
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@SophieP25397 Starmer is clinging on. When his pathetic back benchers realise the game is up, somebody may well throw him out of the proverbial window. I'm looking forward to the results.
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@SophieP25397 So, under Reform, an ambulance will actually turn up to a life or death emergency? Progress in my eyes.
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@MattCas04807118 Has Amy shaved so he looks rather gorgeous for this photo?
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@ZoeJardiniere The explanation is: our police are ill equipped to deal with assassins. A bullet to the head would have sufficed.
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You cannot tell me you watch this video and think the police behaviour needs no explanation.
Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno
Hold on - what? If police officers think someone might be carrying explosives, protocol is to kick them in the head repeatedly like this? Is that actual police protocol? If so, how is it a wise police protocol? Can someone explain the reasoning?
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@TheGriftReport He doesn't care about folks who are too sensible to vote for his cause.
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Tony Blair has urged scrapping the ‘unaffordable’ pensions triple lock that protects millions of pensioners,
his own think tank claims the system is outdated and too rigid for modern life with costs exploding by £85 billion a year by 2070,
the former PM’s report demands it ends after the next election and be replaced by a new ‘lifespan fund’ that forces people to build their own entitlement through work,
Blair’s director Tom Smith said Britain’s state pension was built for a different era and we can’t keep pouring money into a system that is increasingly unaffordable,
pensioners facing rising bills are now told to accept less while the multi-millionaire ex-leader lectures them on restraint,
Thoughts?

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