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@RupertLowe10 I only know about Denmark. My sister has lived there for 30 of her 60 years and she and her community consider her to be Danish. I’m still English and live near Hastinngs. We can trace our family tree to the Normans who moved to France from Scandinavia before the conquest.

If I moved to Japan, and lived in Japan for decades, speaking the language, integrating into society, contributing to the economy. Would I be ethnically Japanese? No. No I would not. I would never pretend to be. Nor would that apply to India, Thailand, Mexico, Denmark or anywhere else. So why is England different? Of course there is an English ethnicity. I am entirely bemused by how so many argue against that. It’s just a fact. Politicians who say otherwise are cowards. This is painfully obvious. Restore Britain’s position is clear. English ethnicity exists - it’s the only sodding data point that the Government collects on anything. Of course someone who is not of that ethnicity can be British, obviously. But it equally does not mean that the English ethnicity is imaginary. Those two things can be true at the same time. I got in trouble years ago for suggesting that the footballer Paul Pogba was French, but not ethnically French. It’s insanity. That is just a factual position. Common sense, clearly. Separately, Restore Britain has said from the very start - owning a British passport does not make you British. We have seen how lazily those documents have been frittered away. Holding that piece of paper does not automatically make you British, we are very clear on that. Is the Egyptian lunatic Alaa Abd El-Fattah British? He has a passport. Restore Britain says NO. No, he is not and he should be stripped of that paper and deported. Being British encompasses so much more than that, it means so much more than that. It is not simply a piece of paper. It is culture, shared beliefs, patriotism, language, a common understanding of what is right and wrong. That has nothing to do with ethnicity, obviously. But for even daring to suggest that English ethnicity exists I’ll be roundly attacked. It is just a fact. Every other country in the world manages to acknowledge ethnicities exist without descending into hysteria. England should be able to do the same.

@rcbregman OpenAI is yesterdays tech - Claude and Gemini wipe the floor with it.

Sam Altman is such an incredible backstabber, liar and traitor. While your competitor is taking a heroic and principled stand, you swoop in to make your deal. Imagine working for this guy - is there a greater shame? This should lead to a mass exodus from OpenAI.

@Dominic2306 …and you think @Nigel_Farage will be the man to resolve all this?

Reminder 4 years in. I said at the start yookay/NATO/EU UKR 'policy' wd be a disaster & China wd be the big winner. 99.9% of the SW1 ecosystem swallowed & generated bullshit propaganda. Every big aspect of official claims has been bullshit. The old media has churned out millions of words that, if you look back at them, show a totally delusional picture of the war. The 'expert' analytical community has been at least as embarrassing as the public health 'experts' in covid who were much worse than supermodel Caprice. 'Russia's about to run out of everything'. NATO ran out. 'Russia's about to collapse'. Russia advances. 'The UKR counteroffensive is a genius success.' Every UKR counteroffensive has failed (except as Twitter campaign case studies: 'strategic eyewash for fools'). 'More sanctions will collapse the Russian economy.' More sanctions & energy policy have collapsed EUROPE'S industrial production, pushed econ abroad, and - tragi-comedy - empowered the precise fringe parties the old regime is most frightened of. The farce of our sanctions means we buy Russian stuff at inflated prices via third party countries while claiming 'whatever it takes'. Outside NATO they laugh at us and take our money. 'Putin blew up the pipeline.' Me at the time: this makes no sense. 'Putin stooge!' Now? The CIA has briefed the NYT and Der Spiegel it was UKR which blew up the pipeline. Poland says 'good!' SW1 NPCs do narrative whiplash and switch instantly to the new line. 'NATO is strengthening!' NATO credibility is shattered, they're reduced to farcical scenes of sending a handful of troops as tripwires to *Greenland* then bringing them home in panic. 'We will reform procurement!' Procurement and MoD are an even bigger and more corrupt shitshow than before 2022. 'The world will support democracy.' The world outside the NATO media zone think we are dangerous morons who've shot ourselves in both feet. We've totally lost the argument on UKR outside regime media. 'China will support us!' Remember this from the charlatans like Phillips Obrien?! It did not need Sun Tzu to figure out China could get paid inflated prices by Russia to blow our stuff up for free while sending special forces embeds to watch all our systems and take the lessons home. Meanwhile UK SF who have observed the UKR battle explain in Whitehall what's happening with drones and if the British Army shows up as they are now and as they train now they will be vapourised, and are told by bosses - shut up, don't talk about the drones, we can't disrupt the budgets and procurement, MORE BIGGER TANKS, MORE TO BaE! (where they'll be going for their next job having negotiated duff contracts). 'As long as it takes, whatever it takes, we're serious!'. Reality: parts of the MoD and Cabinet Office are waging lawfare against British Special Forces, sending cops to arrest SAS as they get off choppers post-mission in Syria etc, opening up inquests to keep J Powell's friends in the IRA happy, demonstrating to the entire world the profound lack of seriousness and moral rot of our old regime. Yookay has become a global meme. Our regime has made us a global laughing stock. Our friends pity us. They watch Tories and Labour cover up the grooming gangs and Starmer claim it's a 'far right conspiracy theory' and 'the real story is Elon's tweets'. Then run to Kiev and shove billions more at Zelensky's mafia. On and on and on. Total and utter failure from the entire SW1 ecosystem. Not ONE official figure has been able to set out an ends-ways-means document which makes sense. NATO has no strategy. The war has failed like most disastrous wars because the politicians could not define *political ends* that make sense. Even more retarded, demonstrating again our slide to uselessness, our regime repeatedly said it's 'up to Ukraine to define the ends' -- one of the most corrupt countries on earth run by a Twitter-savvy TV star -- to define the political ends of the war! So the mafia-KGB regime in Kiev has been given the role of defining the political goals of the war we are paying for!! Then our MPs are 'shocked' our cash turns up in gold toilets and Bugattis in the south of France. The MoD 'strategy' is another farce which has already imploded in fraudulent budgets and HMT/MoD infighting. They can't publish an equipment plan without exposing more lies and failure and dodgy accounting. MoD can't even keep the vast nuclear shitshow secret any more, their best ally here is our MPs have no interest in defence and won't insist on the truth from the MoD -- and the TENS of billions in hidden costs on yellow paper which is cannibalising the conventional budgets. SW1 memed themselves into a war with Twitter hysterics then expected Russia to collapse out of shame because the talented TV guy was way better on Twitter than the boomers running Russian social media. West politicians trained themselves to think social media bullshit was reality because of the farce OUR politics has become. They're learning the hard way - the rest of the world hasn't followed our cultural trajectory. They've wrecked another country, we'll be paying for decades in 100 ways, and they can't face their abject failure so now Europe just sabotages peace discussions and encourages the TV guy to keep playing at Churchill while the senior people wait to leave their jobs then blame successors for not trying hard enough, 'we could have won if only we'd been prepared to pretend nuclear war is impossible!' - after which they'll scam millions in 'reconstruction' funds from Europe's taxpayers who will get screwed again. Monumental folly, monumental failure - reflecting a rotten poisonous political class sitting in pathological institutions across the west which has tried to pretend a political culture which has deliberately broken their own borders can and should fix the borders of one of the most corrupt places on earth. IDIOCRACY. LIES. DELUSIONS. SYSTEMIC FAILURE. MORE DELUSIONS... Meanwhile Wang Huning is smiling at his predictions and flicking through more Leo Strauss...

@piersmorgan I don’t think you can generalise what Britain has become from one case reported in the Daily Mail who support Farage who’d like to privatise the NHS

This is absolutely disgusting. What the hell has Britain become when we treat our elderly so appallingly? Having myself been through a similar fractured femur injury recently, she must have been in agony, the poor woman. Shameful.

@StandUpForTrmp A.

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@g_gosden @wild_ted He is a cad and a boundah

He’s the antithesis of a decent Englishman. He’s sly, he’s divisive, he has, at best, a tenuous relationship with the truth. His avarice for wealth and power knows no bounds. Many of his acquaintances have friends who wish this country ill. Yet, the ignorant fawn over him.

@TorstenBell Some good things indeed. Number 1 on the list of must do better is youth unemployment. This is very bad.

@RobertJenrick @reformparty_uk This is just the conservatives policy. If this is what voters want it would be better to vote for the real deal who have the added advantage of a lot less fruitcakes and swivel eyed loons than Reform.

Our economy’s broken. Here’s how Reform will fix it.

For those in a state of panic, I want you to watch this and listen carefully, because there are some vital points here made by stay_human who created this exceptional piece. As someone who has a deep understanding of this space and the power of AI, I want to reassure those feeling very nervous right now that in the real world there’s a way to go and I think there will need to be some structural changes that come before AI finds its real place in society. It’s not going away though, so you have to wrap your head around that, but I would suggest people keep an eye on the way the Chinese are rolling it out, because theirs is not a shareholder centric approach. There will be opportunities to democratise its use, people will just have to be smart in where they source the models and how they put them to work. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRPdKYUY/

#Reform’s Matt Goodwin ; £10,000 A MONTH from #Russia, channelled through a Hungarian Far Right organisation. A #Traitor to his country, and a #Traitor to the West. thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026…

@HackedOffHugh @djbradshaw64 I do strongly ageee that we need to prevent the rich from making it a monopoly from which they extract rent. That very much the job of our governments to ensure and the have clearly failed in this with the last generation of technology

@HackedOffHugh @djbradshaw64 my more optimistic take is we’ll take some years to automate a lot of processes. This will lead to less people employed in things like finance law medicine and government but we’ll be employing people to automate. We’ll need to work on the new economy but it will be fine

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph. I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it destroys millions of jobs with the prosperity, dignity and community that goes with them. The worst scenario is the destruction of the human race - a fear openly expressed by an increasing number of senior and experienced AI engineers who are leaving the industry. And somewhere in between a myriad of horrors such as yet more screen learning and screen addiction for our children. But I do see that it will make rich men even richer. And that’s the most important thing of course.

@AllisonPearson You are being unfair here - he did say that we need the US too but we need to diversify and be less dependant on the US. He said it’s not a rupture with the US will need to work more with our near neighbours.

Forget Europe. There is no British security without the USA which literally holds the key to our nuclear deterrent, The Trump administration thinks you are letting down Western values with your appalling anti-free speech crackdown and collusion with Islamists.

Nigel Farage has kindly asked we stop sharing this video of him talking about why we should privatise the NHS 💙 You know what to do!

@AlistairCarns But you’d have to admit that if the ball came loose at the back of the scrum you’d be an excellent alternative

Keir Starmer has spent his career serving our country. Being the Prime Minister is the hardest job in politics - there are no easy days but our country needs stability. Integrity, duty and resilience are the foundations of serious leadership. The PM is a genuinely good man and has my support - and my loyalty.

@narindertweets @sincesixaneagle Finally something I agree with Nigel Farage on.

Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance "People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense" Get to Clacton and clock in 40hrs a week. We're not paying you 90k a year for nowt.

@Anna_Soubry @Keir_Starmer Yes he should start by firing mcsweeney

Getting aside the mistakes - accepting some serious failures of judgement @Keir_Starmer has integrity & a deep sense of serving the country rather than pursuing his own self interest. Those 2 qualities should not be forgotten by his #Labour colleagues. #Starmer needs a fundamental reset, the offer of a clear vision of the country he seeks to change & the offer of hope to voters increasingly sick of all mainstream politicians.

@RoKhanna @Scaramucci @RepThomasMassie We still have standards - thank fuck!

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because @RepThomasMassie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

@OliDugmore Oil Dugmore for PM !

As a minimum, we should scrap interest charged on student debt

Wherever there is 💩 there is Farage.