
Rand Hardy
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@Donna_Rachel_ No!
But you are close.
It is the the author and perfecter of that faith.
Well, that's my very strong conviction and confidence.
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This is a very interesting post, and not wrong. Christian Britain was destroyed by liberalism first. Islam is simply filling the vacuum.
If we want our country back, we first need a strong sense of ourselves.
Ayesha Ijaz Khan@ayeshaijazkhan
You can scaremonger against Muslims all you want. But you can’t return to a “Christian Britain” because that doesn’t exist. The churches are empty. That’s not because of the Muslims. So when the only choice is between hedonism and Islam, who do you think will win?
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@Femi_Mohammed1 @Donna_Rachel_ There is a big difference between faith and religion which most people are ignorant about. The Greek root of 'faith' is to trust, whilst religion is from the Latin and means to be bound again. Genuine Christianity is indeed to hear what Jesus has to say and do what He says.
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Totally agree! When faith is taken away, the foundations of society are weakened. A strong faith gives you a solid sense of self and helps build a supportive community. The problem is that many people, when seeking to reclaim their faith, think that simply calling themselves Christian, without truly living it, will solve all their problems. Christianity is not just about Easter and Christmas, it is a way of life. Until people make it a genuine part of how they live, the current status quo will remain unchanged.
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@Donna_Rachel_ "So you stop taking. But you're still observing." Wisdom indeed. Hard discipline to listen what is really being said, and to limited ones own words to those which will count. That though is wisdom that few have discovered.
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@GHWTowler In the last book of the Bible, Jesus told one church that when He tried to get in they locked him out. Perhaps that why so many institutional churches today don't tell people they can come in and find Him. Look outside for Him is good advice right now.
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@Donna_Rachel_ Did you pick up this from this country? "Potholes blamed after retired police officer, 90, dies following a fall on a bus" tinyurl.com/22fh4m7g Read carefully to see that within 48 hrs she was was put on on palliative care, due to her age. The reports were only about potholes.
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@Fox_Claire Appreciate you swimming against a very strong tide in your speech, and for keeping going. As you said "for the children's sake" all to easily becomes a free passage for very bad legislation. Parents need to reclaim their parenthood, not surrender what remains to the State.
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At the final ping-pong stage of the Schools Bill, I was barracked and interrupted because I opposed the Tories' ban on social media for under-16s and Labour's power grab to allow ministers to introduce online curfews/restrictions on youth access to the whole internet (I was pretty isolated in opposing it too). I'd written a proper speech but in the end it was a bit of a barney. Hope I made some sense...
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@Donna_Rachel_ There are 27 books in a standard Christian New Testament; 25 of them were written by Jews; most of them quote directly from the Jewish Scriptures; all allude to them in one way or another. The word 'Christian' means follower of The Anointed (Jew) - those who don't aren't.
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The Old Testament is word-for-word the Jewish Bible. Jesus was a Jewish rabbi, teaching Judaism to Jews in Judea, so the New Testament is pretty soaked in Judaism too.
If you believe Britain is a Christian country, then you have to accept that it is founded on Jewish principles.
Will Coleshill@WillColeshill
Britain is obviously not founded on jewish principles as we are not and have never been, in whole or in part, whether de jure or de facto, a jewish land. What's next? Hindu? Islamic? Shinto? Pastafarian? This is perverse ahistorical nonsense.
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@Fox_Claire Did you spot this: "We will focus, too, on protecting young people from those who want to warp their minds with hatred and introduce more effective regulation of home education, with the first ever register of children not in school..." @NatWei raised Prevent at 2nd Reading
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Later on, I found an excuse to have a few digs at the government's new social cohesion strategy. It matters who gets to label others 'extremists'; especially when the basis for such a judgement can be partisan. Will those who wave England flags be demonised (again)? Will the new Islamophobia Tsar be able to silence any critics of Islam (radical or otherwise) by dubbing them extremists?...
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@NatWei It is a conversation which need to be had; is the Children's Commissioner actually on the side of children or the state? @pietas_et_actio
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Insightful article in the takeover of parenting by government. The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduces Digital ID by the back door and represents a major constitutional attack on parenting itself. thecritic.co.uk/are-you-listen…
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@ScotUnionEd No 'potential' about it. Like so many things (e.g. breakfast clubs) this is one more step to parents acting in Loco Civitatis. It has been a long journey, but its almost complete. The only outliers left are home educators. @stopthecwsbill @NatWei @hidvoicesspeak
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I would like to make the argument against the under-16s social media ban. Not because I love social media or want kids to be glued to their phones all day, but because if we accept this ban, we are accepting an in loco parentis role for the state – potentially even above our role as parents. @StuartWaiton bit.ly/sue145news
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@Donna_Rachel_ You may have noticed it in 2012, but it smelt bad to me back in the mid-1970s. I suspect the roots of the rottenness go back well before that though. Western societies have been jerking towards collapse since so it may have been one of those tremors you noticed.
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When you were growing up in the 70s / 80s / 90s / 00s, and you spent your weekends at the cinema watching America save the world & your week day evenings watching Roseanne, did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine we lived in a world in which Hollywood, America and the Western world were governed by an elite paedophile spy ring network?
I feel like sometime around 2012 the world took a massive left turn and everything we thought we knew got dumped and replaced by pure evil.
I remember back in April 2020, the early days of Covid, I had this really weird experience for about three weeks straight. I was living in an apartment with no windows, which didn't help, but - you know how sometimes when you have a nightmare and wake up suddenly, it takes a few moments to realise that it was just a dream? I kept having that experience in reverse: waking up from dreams of a normal world to find myself trapped in a nightmare.
That feeling has been coming back very strongly lately. How did we land in a universe in which the Britain is being replaced by their own leaders with the Muslim nation of al-Britanni? In which the British people are being ethnically cleansed from their own land?
What the fuck happened there? We seem to have taken a massive swerve into insanity and now find ourselves trapped in this surreal parallel universe.
Can we wake up now please?

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@MatthewH_books @MelanieLatest Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah)
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Melanie, as a young barrister in the early and mid 90s I regularly both prosecuted and defended offences under the Obscene Publications Act.
The law has not changed.
When Labour were elected in '97 prosecutions ceased.
Pornography was legalised not by Act of Parliament but by a political decision to encourage the CPS not to prosecute. It obliged.
The law provides an excellent test. Material is illegal if it 'tends to deprave and corrupt'. In other words, if it negatively changes behaviour and thought patterns.
Ubiquitous pornography, a click away, has depraved and corrupted for 30 years, completely altering minds, behaviour and morality for the worse.
We are a degraded, self-loathing and unhappy society and the exploitation of (mostly) women through pornography is a massive contributory factor.
Secular Utopians, I am afraid, always have sexual licence in their programme. This always means the exploitation and degradation of young women.
Mandelson and Blair wanted to sweep away the old 'stuffy' morality. It was an idea from the 1960s - hippy morality dressed in a smart suit.
We are reaping the consequences.
Time for a massive reappraisal of our collective morality.
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@Donna_Rachel_ After a month of asking for a detailed list of the work that was being proposed on our property neither the council or the contractor, Broad Oak, could provide me with one. It very much looks like the plan was to allow them into our home so they could make it up on the hoof!
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@rand_hardy I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that all of this is corruption. Someone, somewhere is getting rich off these schemes at the taxpayer’s expense
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Shropshire Council's CEO stepped down in September.
Last week the council released a report admitting it was £130 MILLION short on it's budget for this year alone.
Today long-standing CFO James Walton abruptly stands down. Friday will be his last day.
And we're supposed to believe that everything is above board?
I've been a councillor for nearly nine months now, and from what I've seen, all the pathologies of modern governance are on full display at Shropshire's Guildhall.
- Completely unresponsive staff. I can't get them to even answer an email to me.
- Nonsensical, panic driven decision making.
- A complete disconnect between what the people of Shropshire want and what the council does
- Total lack of first principles thinking. No one knows what they're doing, but more importantly, they don't know why they're doing it.
- Staff who can only speak in 'councilese'. Ask them to explain how they're tackling a problem and they'll tell you what policy they've put in place. When you ask how that answers the question, they stare blankly.
- Oh, and to top it all off, they've been routinely breaking the law by delivering reports for council meetings with minutes to spare before the meeting starts. They're supposed to be publicly available a clear week beforehand.
I've been biding my time because I wanted to get the lay of the land, but I won't stay quiet forever. Shropshire's residents deserve so much better. And I'm determined to make sure this all gets fixed.

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@Donna_Rachel_ Another example of how the state trains it's employees to treat parent's as so utterly dangerous to their own children, that those employees end up believing that they have an overwhelming responsibility to override parental responsibility. @stopthecwsbill
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This is every parent’s absolutely worst nightmare.
Laurence Fox’s son was forcibly jabbed WITHOUT his parents’ consent - in fact, against explicit non-consent - and has had a reaction to whichever jab was administered.
I can’t bear to think how he must be feeling, although you can see it in his face: terror, rage, the impotency of knowing that nothing can be done to reverse it and that the entire state is on the teacher’s side.
He’s right, it is pure evil. And you should absolutely take your kids out of school if you can.
Laurence Fox@LozzaFox
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@Fox_Claire Another example of the state acting as if most parents are incapable of brining up children and therefore taking agency away from them, and investing it in guess who... the state. Glad you were there to remind Peers of what used to be 'common' sense but is now rare sense.
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A bit of a lone voice against cross-party fervour of Lords baying to ban social media for the under 16s. It really won't keep kids safe and could create a range of unintended consequences. But also it makes ADULT age-gating ID checks compulsory, for all user to user services. Such was the 'ban it' mood that, when I spoke, there were lots of groaning around me. Let me know what you think.
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@Donna_Rachel_ "Trump thinks NATO is a joke, and frankly he’s not wrong." Agreed it's as simple as that - he knows the European side of NATO is morally and military bankrupt, so talk big and deliver nothing. The scary thing is so does the man in the Kremlin.
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If Denmark’s pitch on Greenland is ‘don’t worry, NATO’s got this’ then the defence minister would have been better off not attending the meeting in Washington.
Trump thinks NATO is a joke, and frankly he’s not wrong. Russia spent about 7% of its GDP on military spending last year. America is aiming for 4%. Most of NATO is struggling to hit the old 2% target, and has no intention of meeting the new 5% target.
Does anyone really think that if Albania was hit by a missile tomorrow, Spain and Italy would leap to its defence? Of course not. They’d compose a strongly worded tweet and head off to lunch.
Denmark isn’t even fully signed up to NATO anymore. Along with Iceland and Norway they brokered an opt out clause so that they wouldn’t have to maintain peacetime bases, and allied presence on their land is by invitation only.
NATO, like the UN, made sense as a pact between western nations post-war because none of them could afford a third world war on the scale of the first two. But 80 years later, the world has changed. The post-war consensus is over. The world has moved on.
Trump knows that, which is why he is now busily fortifying his own hemisphere. Denmark’s defence minister, whoever he is, apparently hasn’t got the memo yet. Presumably it will be delivered at the White House this week by JD Vance.

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The CWSB says "School is considered a protective environment for most children.” Yet @ChildrenSociety household survey 2025 “highlights that school is the area of life where children and young people most commonly feel unhappy."
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