Bryan

@KonstantinKisin Same with fascist, racist, bigot etc etc

Calling everyone you disagree with “far right” has destroyed the meaning of the term. I’m sick of seeing serious labels abused to smear ordinary people with legitimate concerns. In 2015, before Brexit, over 50% of the country was concerned about immigration. Does that make half the country “far right”? Throwing these labels around is reckless, dishonest, and damaging to public debate.

@BethRigby Keep him in for me. It will guarantee a reform win in 2029 😆

PM not backing down. Says he wants to fight the next general election

@seledka_vodka @reformparty_uk @KemiBadenoch Like the reform party, including nigel farage himself haven't been targeted by not just other parties but the media as well.

You are absolutely right, Baroness. The @reformparty_uk machine is running a coordinated character assault on @KemiBadenoch because they see the threat clearly. Their attack line is uniform - scrub every interview, clip anything that can be spun, push the narrative that the Conservatives haven't changed and cannot be trusted. Reform activists and influencers have gone from patronising platitudes ("Kemi's great, but her party will betray her") to manufacturing hypocrisies that don't exist. Take the @TRobinsonNewEra march interviews - twisting her defence of government prerogative on border security into an attack on free speech, when she's on record defending protest rights and stating she hasn't seen hate at the UTK marches. However, Reform are not stupid. They know how to campaign. And they are visibly rattled. The dynamic they fear is straightforward. Voters who felt betrayed by the pre-2024 Conservative Party are warming to Kemi. A rejuvenated Conservative Party winning back trust removes Reform's entire purpose - they are the protest shadow, and shadows disappear when the light returns. We should expect the operation to escalate. Every interview will be scrubbed. Every statement spun out of context. And watch for the second vector - weaponising Conservative wets with platforms, the Gavin Barwell set, so their noises about Kemi can be held up as proof the party hasn't changed. This will become the number one priority for Reform activists and influencers. I’m sure Kemi knows it. The rest of the party needs to be equally ready.

@KDegerdon30481 Lol

Starmer is recognised as an 'excellent PM' even among non-Labour supporters.

@LauraTrottMP Why?

Reform’s attitude towards Ukraine and Russia demonstrates why people should be worried about voting reform in a general election.

@johnsweeneyroar Why, are they flying the Russian flag?

Reform likes Russia.

You dont know unless you try. I am open to other ideas, unfortunately I think the reverse is true in your case. I have laid out my thinking with reasons of why I think that. You haven't, which i find really disappointing. You appear to be like a rock stuck in a hole that you cant move from. But seem happy to stay there because it's comfy. I wish you a good weekend in your comfy zone. 😊

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 I don't think you can be enlightened. Enjoy your weekend.

What I don’t get is why 1 person is being allowed to destroy a whole country & nobody is stopping him?

@IanMWelsh @Jenny_1884 Yes

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 No

@IanMWelsh @Jenny_1884 We still had sovereignty though. Fact.

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 I’m a historian. We ruled the Empire by brutal force. Fact.

@IanMWelsh @Jenny_1884 Enlighten me on yours

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 You're right. We do have different definitions of sovereignty.

Ah, your dismissing it again without justifying your dismissal. That ai probably has more information to hand than you do. It searches through posted papers on the internet to locate the answers. It doesn't have a brain to work it out. So It appears that even though you have Dr in your profile, you just dismiss any arguments put forward without actually thinking about the argument being made. You say Great Britain has never been sovereign, and I disagree with you. So does history and so does the ai system that searches through the Internet to locate the information thats there. It cross references that information to check its accuracy before giving an answer. The only way I can think of your argument about sovereignty being valid in your eyes is that you have a different definition of sovereignty than I do. What do you think sovereignty is?

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 Btw, AI responses are a joke when it comes to the granularity and complexity of national governance and international interdependencies…

@IanMWelsh @Jenny_1884 Like I said, sovereignty is priceless. So the cost, in my eyes is worth it. Your use of the phrase brutal force let's me know your thoughts on our past. We did have sovereignty during those times. You are being wilfully ignorant of this.

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 It's an illusion with/without the US and plenty of academic and industry expert analyses demonstrate our trading losses post-Brexit. You should read them instead of expostulating a policy of wish-fulfilment. We didn't have sovereignty in the British Empire. We had brutal force!

You mentioned the illusion before I mentioned the US, but nice try. You also have no idea what deals we could do with the US. You appear to be just making statements without any facts to back them up. We have had sovereignty in the past and we can have it again. It just takes someone with the will and energy to get in power to pave the way. Don't you think we had sovereignty when we had the biggest empire in the world?

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 America is NOT and will not offer us so much more and that's the illusion. Sovereignty may be priceless to you but, in reality, you can't have it now and have never had it in the past

@owenjonesjourno Imagine how jews feel with the pro Palestinian marches. Every week for a couple of years. At least try to see both sides you bigot

Thing is, the 'United the Kingdom' march literally turns central London into a 'no go zone'. I'd be literally risking my safety if I went into central London. Now think about, say, Muslim families. It's a march defined by unapologetic hatred of Muslims.

You cant just call something you disagree with an illusion. Thats just trying to dismiss the argument without providing any evidence to the argument laid out. Most people who voted for brexit voted that way because of sovereignty rather than economic reasons. Thats of the people i know and have spoken about it. Sovereignty in my view is priceless. But for example the us has outgrown the eu by approximately 3x. Why on earth would kier starmer want to move closer to the eu when America can offer so much more. I also think you are overstating yhe cost by calling it an economic catastrophe. We have outgrown both Germany and Italy in the economic sense.

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 That's an illusion and the period after Brexit has demonstrably shown that those so-called 'bespoke' deals are collectively worth far less to us than what we already had in Europe. An economic catastrophe.

Not dominated? But those countries that do cede a bit of their sovereignty, only cede it to that country they're trading with, and its that countries responsibility. Not 27 different countries. No deal will suit that many seperate countries. Much better deals, bespoke to the uk's needs is a much better option. Trying to find a deal that suits 27 countries would be impossible without being enforced on those countries that the deal may be detrimental to...

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 Not 'dominated' and every country in the world cedes a bit of sovereignty against trade security.

@silkiecarlo Tommy has asked that no masks are worn. I wonder if the other demo's have the same requirement...

Reportedly police claim they’re using it to find people who committed offences at a September event. The press and public will rightly question why police have waited well over six months to find those people

Shocking decision for police to use live facial recognition cameras specifically for Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” protest. It’s policing you’d expect in China. Not Britain And it clearly plays into perceptions of two tier policing. BUT shouldn’t be used at ANY protest🧵

I disagree with you. Maybe it's time to bring back sovereignty. It did our country the world of good when we had it (historically speaking). According to the brexit referendum most people agree with me. Certainly if they wanted the ability to make our own laws and not be dominated by laws passed by a trading partnership that has got too big for its boots.

@bryreyn @Jenny_1884 This is false rhetoric. There is no 'destruction', Britain isn't 'broken' ( although badly damaged economically by Brexit), there is no 'sovereignty' in our time only mutual interdependence ...

I agree about the way the tories harmed the country but it started before that with the Blair gment. As far as brexit goes I believe sovereignty is priceless. The country is still being destroyed under this government but the pace of "destruction" has increased over the last few years. Starmer keeps saying he won't walk away, despite most people wanting him to. The man, and party are blind to what the people of this country want.

@Jenny_1884 Nobody is 'destroying' this country. It is being steadily rebuilt after 14 years of dereliction and the disastrous Brexit consequences.

@NXT4EU Having your own sovereignty is priceless.

Keir Starmer is the first British PM in years that isn't destroying the UK. Aligning with Europe, making the economy more competitive again, reducing red tape, lowering migration, nuclear & renewable energy investments, putting a halt to Americanisation and delivering growth!