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@RichardC30355 @lukeakehurst @labourlewis Richard, you seem stuck in a neoliberal loop of delusion, thinking society will magically improve if everything just stays the same. “Free” childcare or transport isn’t a handout, it’s an investment. Everyone benefits, even shareholders.

@james_vii_ @lukeakehurst @labourlewis It’s the shareholders that support it. It’s the private sector that pay for it. It’s the workers that fund it. Not the public sector.

Can assure Clive I'm one MP who has no desire to be associated with Mamdani at all. The politics that appeals to NYC would go down like a cup of cold sick in US Rust Belt states or in UK equivalents like North Durham.

@RichardC30355 @lukeakehurst @labourlewis Also funny how “rent controls never work”... Except in places like Vienna and Germany, where they’ve kept housing affordable and markets stable. Maybe the problem isn’t rent caps, Richard, but unchecked greed?

@RichardC30355 @lukeakehurst @labourlewis Yes Richard, it’s free for the person using it. Society pays because more people working = stronger economy. Wild, I know. Almost like investing in people might actually benefit everyone, not just shareholders.

@GoodwinMJ Wow Matt, you really are a proper racist, aren’t you? In a country of 70m, you’ve cherry-picked a handful of tragedies to stoke fear. All data show crime has fallen dramatically since the 1980s. The real threat to Britain isn’t migration, but inequality, greed and privatisation.

What our 'leaders' will never talk about: In the last week alone, in the UK, in just one week, we've gone from reading about the 27-year-old mother Rhiannon Whyte, stabbed in the head 20 times by an illegal migrant from Sudan, to Wayne Broadhurst, stabbed to death by an illegal from Afghanistan while walking his dog, to a small boat illegal migrant stabbing a stranger to death in a bank in Derby, to a migrant from Afghanistan strangling a railway worker over a minor ticket dispute, to a Syrian illegal migrant sexually assaulting a student in Cardiff, to illegal migrants chasing migrant hotel workers with knives "because they didn't like the food", to 10 people suffering a mass stabbing on a train at the hands of two Black "British" men for no apparent reason. Why is this happening? Because our so-called 'leaders' have been importing millions of people from highly violent, conflict-ridden, and, yes, inferior 'honour cultures' from the Third World, where settling grievances through violence is standard As the academic Garrett Jones points out in his book: "When a nation imports people, it imports the average cultural traits of those people". Mass uncontrolled immigration is not just the importing of people; it is the importing of cultures And the cultures we are importing are not just radically different and incompatible to our own but are visibly inferior, primitive, stuck in cultural codes and practices we moved on from hundreds of years ago It is, to quote @GadSaad, "suicidal empathy" --our leaders think they are helping these people when in fact they are killing their own society, country and people from within None of this can be said in Westminster where universal liberalism --"all cultures are equal"--reigns supreme. This is what you saw on Question Time this week, when I was widely attacked by a liberal ruling class that cares more about helping people from backward cultures than defending its own people But it's effects can clearly be seen in the extent to which 1st and 2nd generation migrants here in the UK, who we are told are "British", "nice boys from Cardiff", turn out to be highly violent criminals, continuing the cultural traits from their origin countries Again, nobody in Westminster wants to think about this point about culture But look: 2025 Manchester synagogue terrorist Syrian parents 2024 Southport terrorist Rwandan parents 2021 Liverpool terrorist Born in Iraq 2021 Sir David Amess terrorist Parents from Somalia 2020 Reading terrorist Born in Libya 2020 Streatham terrorist Parents from Sri Lanka 2019 Usman Khan terrorist Parents from Pakistan 2017 Manchester MEN terrorist Libyan parents 2015 Leytonstone terrorist Born in Somalia 2013 Lee Rigby/Woolwich terrorist Parents Nigerian 2007 London/Glasgow terrorists Iraqi/Indian parents 2005 "homegrown" 7/7 terrorists Shehzad Tanweer, parents from Pakistan Mohammad Khan, parents from Pakistan Hasib Hussain, parents from Pakistan Germaine Lyndsay, born in Jamaica No other society in the world would tolerate this --would do to its own people what our leaders are doing to us Could you imagine, say, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, China doing this? Of course not. Because they are not idiots; they do not tolerate suicidal empathy. Through mass immigration, porous borders and a total failure to integrate newcomers, our leaders have made us much less safe and put our own people at risk These migrants do not instantly adopt the host country's 'British' or 'English' culture and identity the moment they sign a few papers Far from it They retain central aspects of their origin countries --including religion, belief, attitudes toward violence, hatred of non-believers, and so on This is what the rape gang scandal was about; we imported clan-based networks from rural Pakistan that think non-believers are fair game and distrust authority The vast majority of radical Islamists in Britain were either born abroad or trace their roots back on these islands only one generation, while living in 'closed' social networks filled with other people from their origin countries, which reinforce these different cultures This is then further enabled by an idiotic ruling class and woke left that pursues virtue and social status for itself by proclaiming platitudes like "diversity is a success" while also having to use speech codes --"far right", "racist", and so on--to shut down any dissent Then it uses multiculturalism to encourage minorities to remain distinctive and separate from the majority, even prioritising them over the majority It is all completely insane This is what the UK has now been doing for 30 years, under Labour and the Tories, the Uniparty, importing radically different if not incompatible cultures which then persist across generations And today this is being compounded by importing 180,000 unvetted illegal migrants into the country in just 7 years, with another 180,000 forecast to arrive by the next general election if the average trend continues Just think about that --by the next election we will be talking about 400,000 unvetted illegal migrants roaming around the country, many from the same highly violent, conflict-prone societies as the ones that have given us all of the chaos above And so in the years ahead this chaos will only increase, it will only get worse, because our leaders refuse to see this reality and make changes In short, every terrorist attack, every stabbing, every rape, every sexual assault, every rape gangs, is a reminder of the fact our leaders, who are supposed to defend us, are importing people who hate who we are and cling to totally different cultures, identities, and outlooks, all of which is making our own culture, identity, and social cohesion harder to maintain We can either keep ignoring the critical importance of culture or we can do something about it What would "doing something about it" look like? Radically reshaping our country and its future around people who have deep roots and ties to this country Rewarding those who genuinely integrate, removing those who do not Ending the extreme policy of mass uncontrolled immigration Doing whatever is necessary to fix our borders --leave ECHR, repeal HRA, detain and deport End soft-on-crime policies Launch an all-out assault on radical, violent Islamism We have a choice. We can do these things or we can keep killing ourselves from within.

@NicholasTyrone Always fascinating how the people who say “I’m a centrist” end up saving their sharpest criticism for the left. You’d think after a decade of Tory chaos, they’d be more worried about the far right than about someone proposing a bit of public ownership.

She’s been poor, but really? Zarah Sultana? Zack Polanski? Jeremy Corbyn? Hell, most of the rest of the parliamentary Labour Party?

@owenjonesjourno @JamesEFoster The same inconsistencies occur with the media labelling of the right wing. Marine Le Pen is “far-right,” but Reform UK, despite sharing much of the same policy terrain, somehow evade that particular label. Geography clearly affects classification more than ideology.

This is a fascinating phenomenon: "Centrists" cheering on left-wing politicians if they're in another country. But they have contempt for this kind of politics if it's in their own country!

@CarignanRidge @implausibleblog How much did you pay in student fees?

@implausibleblog So under Zack’s government everyone would have the “human right” to go to university at the taxpayer’s expense! What’s this man on?

Pippa Crerar, "Government say without a rise in fees universities will go bust" Zack Polanski, "If you rely on the private sector to run universities on what should be a basic human right for people to be able to educate themselves, you get into these ridiculous situations" "1 in 3 children are living in poverty, meanwhile, billionaire wealth goes up collectively by £35 million every day" "The government need to be looking at the multi millionaires and billionaires to make sure that we're redistributing that wealth, including for education" Pippa Crerar, "Money is tight, you can't do everything, so how high up on your list of priorities is university funding?" Zack Polanski, "I reject the idea that money is really tight" "We always see tricky decisions for universities, migrants, disabled people" "When are we going to see tricky decisions for the very wealthy in society?" "That being said, education is a huge priority for the Green party" "Lots of people have wealth in assets and its not easy to take buildings" Lady in green, "Duke of Westminster sold 25% of his portfolio" Zack Polanski, "Well let's make sure we go after the other 75% then" 🔥 "It's about making sure we tax wealth, not work"

@thebetaheretic @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 AHH.. I've now checked out your profile. It makes sense why you’re reading this the way you are. Your ultra-nationalist glasses are on tight and the tint tends to cloud simple economic logic. Britannia’s days of ruling the waves are, unfortunately, behind us mate.

@thebetaheretic @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 Debt, diversity or population did not force Norway to save trillions while we blew ours. Oil wealth is a choice and they chose wisely. Curious why you seem to have a mental block about that simple fact?

‘A bank would pay me £2 million a year. Why won't Labour talk to me for free?’ @garyseconomics tells @TomSwarbrick1 he can save Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves' political futures.

@grok @thebetaheretic @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 @grok thanks Grok. Stand down.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, built from North Sea oil revenues, is valued at over $1.9 trillion as of mid-2025, generating annual returns that support public spending and future generations. The UK's approach yielded about £400 billion in total tax revenues since the 1970s (inflation-adjusted), mostly spent on immediate needs without a fund. Norway's strategy has produced greater long-term national wealth per diverse economic analyses.

@thebetaheretic @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 Norway also had debts and a modern economy. The difference is they ring fenced oil money for future generations. The UK spent the windfall. It wasn’t about population or diversity.. it was a choice, and Norway chose long-term wealth.

@james_vii_ @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 We had a much more diverse economy than Norway and way more debt to pay. So it’s not really a fair comparison is it? If Norway had similar bills to pay and a much greater variety of industries and service sector and a much bigger population do you think they’d still do the same?

@XLilliputian @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 Mate, calling $1.25TRILLION a “red herring” is wild. That’s not a hedge fund quibble but a generational robbery. It is obvious that Neoliberalism has sold Britain short and was the wrong path. I'm not sure what the debate is.

@james_vii_ @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 Oil is a red herring. The question is whether it's a good idea for the state to operate a massive hedge fund and invest in foreign assets instead of spending money domestically.

@JackxJewell @ZackPolanski

@ZackPolanski Let me guess… is the answer communism?

How can we fix this mess?

@XLilliputian @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 We're talking about $1TRILLION here! The UK could’ve had the same but we flogged our assets. Add the £200BILLION siphoned to private (often foreign) hands since the 1980s and you see the heist. How is that not valid? We didn’t just waste oil, we sold our future. Thanks Maggie.

@james_vii_ @Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 Norway had roughly the same amount of oil with less than 10% of the population so it's really not comparable.

@Simon_Coates @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 😂 Thatcher sold off our services & North Sea oil. Norway stashed theirs in a $1 TRILLION fund. Fast forward 45yrs & Britain’s skint with collapsing services, Norway’s rich, happy & secure. But hey, at least we proved neoliberalism works… for billionaires.

@LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 If you mentioned Thatcher to this obnoxious tw@t he'd probably go off on some retarded rant - but here's her take on taxation.

@1878BlueSoul @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 When has Gary ever mentioned socialism? Why the obsession with labels? All he’s saying is life might be better if people could afford a home, a holiday, heat *and* food and maybe retire before collapsing. You know, like it was before Neoliberalism? Hardly radical is it?

@james_vii_ @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 👍😲

@simonmanto32773 @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 Dunno if you've noticed mate, but we've tried the "little bit conservative" thing since the 1980s. It's not quite worked, has it?

@LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1 He'd rather hand the country over to Reform? He won't get a wealth tax if they win. Why make it worse for the working class and let them in. The soft left need to realise if we don't go a little bit conservative, then we'll end up with far right alt right Christian right mayhem

@1878BlueSoul @LBC @garyseconomics @TomSwarbrick1

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