Robert Pramston

@JohnCleese @Richard00655575 No. Conquest, as laid out.

The puzzzle is... Why on earth did they decide to come here, when there are 60 Muslim countries where their beliefs would fit in perfectly Oh ! Possibly the easy money ?

They Never Accepted Brexit. Now They're Reversing It In her interview with The Economist, Rachel Reeves said: "If we could go back in time I would have voted again to Remain. I wish we had voted to Remain." She is not a minister reluctantly implementing a democratic result she inherited. She is a minister who never accepted it and is now in a position to reverse it. Everything she has said this week flows from that position: the claim of economic damage, the insistence that Brexit is the exception rather than the norm, the promise of gains through closer alignment. This is not dispassionate analysis. It is a settled conviction finally given power. Starmer will use the King's Speech in May to introduce legislation bringing 76 EU directives back onto the UK statute book. The government calls this technical alignment. Lord Frost, who negotiated Britain's departure, calls it what it is: subordination. The bill will make EU laws applicable in Britain without Parliament having any meaningful say in shaping them. The scope is wide; food standards, pesticides, animal health, and the regulatory framework governing genetically modified organisms. That last area cuts straight through one of the few clear gains ministers themselves once claimed for Brexit: the freedom to set our own approach to gene editing. Bringing those rules back under EU alignment contradicts that position directly, and no one in government has explained why. Peter Kyle made the position plain. The government's red lines on the single market and customs union apply to "the moment we're in". Not permanent. Not binding. A holding position. Chris Bryant went further, calling the 2016 referendum a pack of lies and refusing to rule out a rejoin pledge. Sadiq Khan has already called for Labour to fight the next election on a commitment to full membership. Within Labour, the direction of travel is not debated. It is assumed. Downing Street rejected Khan's demand. But it's worth looking at what that rejection actually said. The Prime Minister's spokesman confirmed the red lines stand for now, while also stating that where alignment serves the national interest it will be pursued and that the prize is considerable. The denial and the programme sit side by side, delivered in the same breath. That is not a government holding a line. That is a government managing a timetable. The Cabinet Office is already reviewing automotive and chemicals for the next wave of EU law adoption. The agrifood bill is described as the first in a series of sector-wide deals. The summit planned for the tenth anniversary of the Brexit vote in June is the intended moment for the food and agriculture agreement to be concluded. Sector by sector, law by law, the architecture is being rebuilt. The only question left is pace. Labour's 2024 manifesto was explicit. No return to the single market. No return to the customs union. No freedom of movement. That promise has now been exposed for what it was: not a commitment but a lie, used to neutralise opposition long enough to win the election. Kyle has said the red lines are temporary. Bryant has said the referendum cannot be trusted. Reeves has said she wishes it had gone the other way. The intent is no longer hidden. It is stated plainly, on the record. If the government has stopped pretending, the question is simple. When does the opposition stop pretending too? "Chris Bryant went further, calling the 2016 referendum a pack of lies and refusing to rule out a rejoin pledge."

@TerraOrBust Yet we’re rejoining the EU one small step at a time. The propaganda is off the charts. Elites won’t stop until the people’s vote is reversed. They’ve fought Brexit since day one, and this government is accelerating it. The powerful always get what they want eventually.

The Rejoin EU argument is dead. The impact on the UK economy, as found by the LSE in-depth analysis published in December, is less than the current price of membership - and the requirements to rejoin, which include the Euro and Schengen, are deeply unwanted by voters.

@mikebirdy @dave43law Seriously if you’re reading this ☝️ and nodding as if it means something, you are effectively retarded. Incapable of understanding how the convention impacts on every decision made by our courts. If you find yourself agreeing the post is meaningful, please consider seeking help.

How to prove you are clueless about your brief. The ECHR is not a foreign Court - it is an international Court of which we are a fully functioning member. It has been involved in 29 UK cases involving migrants

@flcro @OperaSocialist Read the Quran and the key Hadiths and then get back to us. You haven’t and you won’t, because that would puncture your monumental levels of ignorance and make you face a dark historic reality.

@OperaSocialist They just hate Muslims. Can we just leave it at that? That’s what they do, after all. No evidence, no facts to back it up, they can’t do analogy, they just run on black, burning, baseless hatred. They are scum, the lot of them.

Apparently Reform and the Tories now have a problem with women praying separately from men and covering their heads. Strangely enough they've never complained about Catholic nuns... #islamophobia #racism

@JackWDart No it didn’t.

Brexit cost this country £180 billion a year in lost economic output, enough to build 140 new hospitals every single year. The people who did it are now asking for your vote again. #Brexit #NigelFarage #ReformUK

@LeoKearse So very brave.

I know Saturday Night Live UK has its detractors. But I'd like to see another UK comedy show have the balls to mock both Liz Truss and "young people who don't vote Green" in its opening skit.

@JonathanPieNews @bijolandendall You are deluded, swallowing false information because it confirms your biases and how you want the world to be. Fool.

@bijolandendall But it's not. Investments in renewable energy and building new infrastructure are estimated to add roughly £100 to household energy bills. The biggest driver of high energy bills is the wholesale price of gas. And drilling doesn't change that. And Tice knows it.

UK energy expert? Last year the cunt earned a mere £4.3m, down from the £8.2m received in 2023, due to falling profits. That's why he wants to drill. Got nothing to do with our bills! And you know it!

Mahmood's Deportation Crackdown That Isn't Shabana Mahmood says foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers will be deported before they can hide behind human rights law. That is the pitch. The truth is simpler. There is no new power. No new resolve. No change in the system. The law she is using was passed in 2002 by Tony Blair and left untouched by every Home Secretary since. It sat there for two decades while removals collapsed. It is being dusted off now for one reason only: Reform UK is surging, and Labour needs the appearance of control. The numbers cut straight through it. Under Blair, who introduced this legislation during his own migration crisis, removals without appeal ran at 22 per cent of rejected cases, nearly 20,000 a year. Under Mahmood’s crackdown, that figure stands at 10.6 per cent. She is using Blair’s law at half Blair’s rate and calling it a toughening of the system. It is the opposite. Then look at who it applies to. The 25 countries designated as safe for immediate removal include India, Nigeria and Albania. They do not include Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Eritrea or Somalia. Those are the countries driving small boat crossings. The men arriving unvetted across the Channel are exempt. The crackdown lands where it is easiest to land, not where it is most needed. And then there is Starmer. Mahmood has staked her credibility on reforms that go beyond deportations, including extending the wait for settled status from five years to ten. More than 100 Labour MPs oppose her. Angela Rayner, who wants Mahmood's job and eventually Starmer's, has called the plans un-British. Downing Street, sensing the revolt, has declined to back its own Home Secretary. There is a consultation process. There always is when Starmer needs to avoid a decision. A government that cannot hold its own backbenchers to a policy cannot enforce that policy against determined legal challenge. The human rights lawyers know this. The appeal industry knows this. The NGOs citing a two-in-three appeal success rate as proof of injustice know this. That success rate is not proof that the system is wrong. It is proof that the system is gamed, that delay is the strategy, that every procedural lever will be pulled by those with every incentive to pull it. Mahmood knows it too. She simply cannot say so while her Prime Minister refuses to stand beside her. This government has now staged two crackdowns on the asylum crisis. The first closed hotels while dispersal numbers hit a record high. The second announces record deportations while running at half the removal rate of 2003. The presentation changes. The mechanism is always the same. Find a metric that sounds tough. Define it narrowly. Announce it loudly. Hope nobody reads the footnotes. But someone always reads the footnotes. "Angela Rayner, who wants Mahmood's job and eventually Starmer's, has called the plans un-British. Downing Street, sensing the revolt, has declined to back its own Home Secretary."

@petermx14 @OdohertyI64991 If you say so.

@RPramston @OdohertyI64991 This is the hackneyed answer when the anti-Christianity of the merciless genocidal West is pointed out. We are bereft of spirituality and religious ritual. It was only ever imposed through terror. Islam looks very much authentic. That's why it frustrates us so much.

It's such an infantile view. It's like a child who says heaven is where you can eat chocolate and ice cream forever and there's never any bedtime. Let's just be honest - these people are idiots.

@UxbEconomist07 It’s troubling that the British have become so monumentally stupid in recent decades that this wrecking ball may actually have a shot at power.

This is utterly dangerous bollox beyond even the normal bollox you hear. MMT is delusional, in the hands of the Greens it’s your worst nightmare. Fiscal multipliers are ‘low’ for a reason. That’s because the Govt can’t spend its way to economic growth for the whole economy. The more the Govt spends the worse it is in the medium term overall for actual productive growth. Because politics is involved ppl are able to get away with saying ‘it’s an opinion.’ That’s no excuse it’s like saying you can hypnotise women so their breasts increase in size! 🤣 @jbhearn @TIMGOLDFINCH

@petermx14 @OdohertyI64991 And every army throughout antiquity, but that’s not what we were talking about was it? Why the diversion?

@RPramston @OdohertyI64991 All that ever followed the march of the Christian warriors was brothels and degeneracy. Ships laden with opium😉

@RichardAngwin No, I’m much more concerned about the indoctrinated voters than the ‘uneducated’ ones. At least the uneducated ones tend to be living in reality.

who agrees ??

@petermx14 @OdohertyI64991 Of course not, but the contrast is huge: Christian heaven seems spiritual & almost dull to non-believers. Islamic paradise is an eternal brothel of carnal rewards - likely reflecting the tribal mindset of a certain warlord who invented it to attract warriors to his cause.

@OdohertyI64991 What do Christians get in Heaven, Ian? Shouldn't you ask a few believers before passing judgement? You are saying that Muslims are idiots because they believe some fantastical things. Do you believe the beliefs held by people of other religions are grounded in logic and reason?

Criminally Negligent. Andrew Neil's Words. Britain's Reality. Andrew Neil does not use language carelessly. Writing in the Daily Mail this morning, he describes Britain as stuck in an energy emergency with an oil and gas policy bordering on the criminally negligent, delivered by a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller. He is not reaching for effect. He is delivering a verdict. And the evidence he marshals is unanswerable. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for the first time in history. Oil is heading toward two hundred dollars a barrel. Britain is facing the worst energy crisis since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The International Energy Agency has described the supply disruption as the largest in history. And the government overseeing this catastrophe has spent the past year doing everything in its power to ensure Britain would be maximally exposed when it arrived. It closed North Sea oil and gas production. It borrowed against already strained public finances. It built an economic strategy on OBR forecasts that the energy crisis has already rendered obsolete. And it put the man most responsible for Britain's energy vulnerability, Ed Miliband, in charge of the response. The Miliband contradiction has been hiding in plain sight for months. He stood at the despatch box during the energy debate last year and warned that Britain was a price taker not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets, leaving it exposed to their volatility. He was right. He was also the man who ensured that exposure would be as severe as possible by closing down the domestic production that could have cushioned the blow. The North Sea fields that could have been producing. The coal beds that remain untouched. The nuclear capacity that was decommissioned in pursuit of net zero targets that now look like a luxury policy designed for a world that no longer exists. Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences. The fiscal headroom she has been defending against every request for defence spending, every demand from the Treasury and every warning from military chiefs, is being wiped out not by defence costs alone but by the energy price shock her own government's choices made inevitable. Her foundations, as Neil puts it, are built on quicksand. The borrowing costs are rising at the fastest pace since the Liz Truss mini-budget. Foreign creditors are watching. The bond markets are watching. And the Chancellor is discovering that the numbers she has been citing as proof of fiscal responsibility were always dependent on a stable world that this government's foreign policy paralysis helped to destabilise. Neil makes one observation that connects the economic catastrophe to the political one with surgical precision. A stronger Prime Minister would have fired Miliband. He is right. The man who led the Cabinet revolt against supporting America, who blocked the use of Diego Garcia, who has spent a year dismantling Britain's energy independence and who stood at the despatch box admitting British households would pay the price, is still in his post. Still in the Cabinet. Still in the room. The reason Starmer has not fired him is the same reason he needed a drone on his own runway before he would act, the same reason he consulted his team on minesweepers and the same reason Britain is now a diminished, exposed and strategically paralysed country being described in its own press as a nation of clueless inadequates. He cannot afford to. The coalition that put him in power will not allow it. And so the inadequates remain at the tiller while Britain heads for the rocks. "Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. [...]. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences."

@Cjsavage696969 @benonwine Think about why they might want to do it. Read what the Quran and Hadiths say about other religions (taking into account the doctrine of abrogation) and it really is not difficult to understand at all. More people need to educate themselves on the doctrines and history of Islam.

@benonwine This should not be allowed. Catholic churches are our sacred spaces. They have their own. I don’t understand why they need to invade our spaces.

This was in Bristol Cathedral… You wouldn’t be allowed to worship Jesus in their mosques so why are we allowing them to worship Allah in our churches. What are your THOUGHTS?

@Frances_Coppola This is historical distortion for cheap political points - anyone smarter than an amoeba can see it. Did you post on March 17th that St. Patrick was an Englishman enslaved by the Irish, who escaped then returned as a missionary? If not, why not?

St George was a Palestinian who never set foot in England.

@nw_nicholas The majority of the country loathes all politicians - Labour rule with an iron majority on just 34% of votes cast. So what’s your point? They should all give up? Things might be better if they did, but it makes no sense for the one leading in the polls to give up unilaterally.

Why doesn't Farage accept that the vast majority of the country loathes him & his band of spivs and throw in the towel?

@Tush27J Will you call out the lies on the side of Remain which were legion? Virtually nothing they said was true. I don’t understand the obsession with one sign on the side of a bus whilst ignoring all the false fear mongering undertaken by the other side. It’s pure hypocrisy.

As Caroline Lucas did such an excellent job disposing of Tory Helen Whately and Reform UK's James Orr - a reminder of the bullshit that was Brexit. #Brexit #bbcqt

@ZackPolanski, Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, the joint US-UK base in the Indian Ocean. Neither hit their target but the significance goes far beyond this engagement. Diego Garcia is a 4,000 kilometres from Iran. Iran's foreign minister said last month that Iran had limited its missile range to 2,000 kilometres. That was a lie. And the implications of that lie are ones that every European leader, every Green Party politician and every opponent of this operation needs to confront. Missiles that can reach Diego Garcia can reach virtually every capital city in Europe. London. Paris. Berlin. Rome. The threat you are demanding Britain appease just revealed it can hit further than anyone publicly acknowledged. Now let's address who started this war since you seem confused. Iran built, funded and directed Hezbollah for thirty years. Iran built, funded and directed Hamas, which carried out the October 7th massacres. Iran built, funded and directed the Houthis, who have been attacking international shipping for over a year. Iran supplied the drones and ballistic missiles Russia has been using to kill Ukrainian civilians. Iran plotted twenty assassinations on British soil in two years, every one of them thwarted by British security services. Iran hit RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Iran has been blockading the Strait of Hormuz, collapsing Gulf oil exports by sixty per cent and driving up the energy bills of the British households you claim to represent. And lest we forget what this regime does to its own people: it has massacred over thirty thousand of its own citizens who dared to protest against it, hanged dissidents in public, executed gay people and imprisoned women for removing their hijabs. This is not a government that deserves the benefit of the doubt. It is a theocratic killing machine that has been at war with its own people and the wider world simultaneously. Iran started this. It has been starting it, in one form or another, since 1979. On the promise of a parliamentary vote: Starmer made that commitment as Labour leader running for his own party's leadership in 2020. He was not Prime Minister. He had no constitutional authority to bind future governments. The convention, as he has explained, is that votes apply to offensive deployments of troops, not defensive operations conducted at speed. You know this. You are citing it anyway because it is the only procedural argument left when the substantive ones have collapsed. You lead a party that has never condemned Hamas. Never condemned Hezbollah. Never condemned the Iranian regime that funds both and has just fired ballistic missiles at a British base. Your concern for British military personnel and civilians rings hollow this morning. The regime you have consistently refused to condemn just tried to hit a base housing British forces. That is the context in which your statement lands. And it lands very badly indeed. "This is not a government that deserves the benefit of the doubt. It is a theocratic killing machine that has been at war with its own people and the wider world simultaneously."