Simon deGroot🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇾🇪 Any nuanced convo?

@Jacsiss @campbellclaret Also simply because London/Heathrow is one of the two most important tourist cities and airports in Europe, and Amsterdam/Schipol is the second...hence the Dutch adjusted figures being very similar to ours...This thing was distributed by travellers!!

@JamesMelville People having to live further and further away from where they work, due to high property prices…more time wasted…

@JamesMelville It’s a sort of “law of diminishing returns” as far as efficiency and productivity versus population rise goes, I suspect…just look at the M25/roads around the Thames Valley here, they are log jammed and slow much of the time…overloaded infrastructure wasting time+productivity?

“I just don’t get it Keir. We’ve put up taxes to record levels, massively increased government borrowing, spent even more money on useless things like carbon capture machines, bought £40bn worth of oil and gas from Norway from the same North Sea that we have banned new oil and gas licenses, given Ukraine £3bn a year, punished small businesses into closures and yet the economy just won’t grow. It’s an absolute mystery why not.“

@EntsPeter @TimC09613794 @ThreeJacques @PaulEmbery Tribalism always looks for simple labels…the simpler the criteria, the easier it is to place the “other” into the out group or in group…In fact, oversimplifying and ignoring the nuance of the out group’s members arguments is the essence of tribalism, once they’re identified😏

@TimC09613794 @ThreeJacques @PaulEmbery You can be a right-wing authoritarian or a left-wing libertarian. Size of government isn't the decisive distinction between left and right.

I have taken part in counter-demonstrations against the real far right. We were protesting against genuine Nazis and fascists - usually a rag bag of a few dozen skinheads doing the 'Sieg Heil'. If you think that today's march of over 150,000 was a 'far right' demonstration, you really need to reassess your entire political outlook.

@PorcGuy @sanjay0864 @Vitsafe77 @EricLDaugh I’m familiar with common culture among Muslims as I live in an area with a high proportion…Differences maybe subtle but they lead to big effects….ie. “The labourer is worthy of his wage” is really about exploitation of vulnerability, which, for them, is common and sensible!

I don’t share the Old Testament, Jesus or any testament with anyone. I’m talking about how his wife will get repeatedly raped for doing exactly what I described. They don’t share the same basic values the rest of us do. Look at the exponential increase of rapes in Britain which can be attributed exclusively to immigrants from Muslim nations.

WOW. Ben Shapiro made the audience ERUPT after stating a simple fact. x.com/realDailyWire/… BILL MAHER: “The Bible is full of nonsense and wickedness.” SHAPIRO: “But you and I agree a lot on morality, right? Because we were born in a society built by the Bible. You can think you formed your own morality, but you were born morally on third base.” 👏🏻 👏🏻

@WorldByWolf “Foreigners” can’t vote!🤔😏

If the left wins the next British General Election but we have evidence that the winning margin was made up entirely of foreign voters would you consider that election legitimate?

@TimesRadio @FraserNelson Just 3 things… “Community” has collapsed, relative to 50 yrs ago, many hubs like pubs, churches…gone. Therefore trust has gone. I would drive on Mways/local roads in SE London at 70/40 mph, get to work quickly…now it’s 30/10 mph, if lucky and no accident! A&E here…8hr wait!

Watch more with @FraserNelson youtu.be/L6_6xe_mnaU

“I would make the rather unpopular argument that this is an amazing country and broadly speaking, there has never been a better time to live in it.” @FraserNelson explores why the right are depicting Britain as lawless, despite progress made in reducing crime. @ChloeTilley

@Bungo20816364 @AssalRad It’s basically a death cult…it only ends when they’re all dead, including the non combatants!

“Escalation of war” They’re starving the population, want to force Palestinians into concentration camps and slaughter whoever doesn’t go. STOP WHITEWASHING GENOCIDE.

@csljohnkirby @CPhilpOfficial @Conservatives The French *are* ignoring their own laws though, as these vessels come under EU safety rules for vessels which are effectively carrying paying passengers, and clearly they don’t comply! They are supposed to be arrested to the nearest port, such as Calais, and impounded…😏

@csljohnkirby @CPhilpOfficial @Conservatives He’s wrong of course,because the “new deal” doesn’t ensure vessels suspected of carrying “illegal” migrants will be stopped by French authorities at sea… But then the constantly going back to Tory narrative is wrong also?..after all, he’s paid to be opposition, and now is now!!

Really, day one? @CPhilpOfficial How many @Conservatives policies worked day one? How long did the complete and utter failure Rwanda policy take? Do you not realise how stupid this makes the Tories look? 14/15 years of failure behind you, the problems you left, and this is what you do.

@TheGreenParty I suspect they know where we are on the “laffer curve”, (after all, they employ informed statisticians to advise them!) and they might well know that this will reduce the tax take? ….how do we know?

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has warned that Rachel Reeves will have to raise taxes in the Autumn Budget. The Chancellor has a choice - continue to penalise people on the lowest incomes or tax the super-rich fairly. We know what we would do 🤑

@Vox_Lacertae @toadmeister I think they know where we are on the curve, after all, the government employ statisticians to tell them that as well…that’s why they’re not coming with the much discussed “wealth tax”…they know better…😏

They're aware of the Laffer curve, the question is where are we on it. In my view we're past the point of further revenue from taxation and tax incidence likely means any further constraints will be passed to the middle class. The easy solution is to stop throwing money at illegals.

I hope Rachel Reeves understands that raising taxes won't raise any more tax revenue. It will just mean more net contributors leaving the country. I know the BBC hasn't heard of the Laffer Curve, but surely the Chancellor of the Exchequer has?

@GeneralKim_J @jurgen_nauditt The areas where the Russians have occupied have often been flatted in the process of doing that though…and the Ukrainians defending weren’t even in tunnels…so your comparison isn’t really invalid…

@jurgen_nauditt Atleast he isn't k!lling kids like Satanyahu ... last time i checked, Kiev is not flattened to the ground like Gaza

Can you imagine shaking the bloody hand of a mass murderer? Kremlin releases video footage of Witkoff's meeting with putin The russian dictator greeted the US special envoy with a brief "welcome." putin's adviser Yuri Ushakov, who was previously part of the US-russian negotiating team, is also present at the talks.

@ArrowsmithLiam @baselessassert @ICohen2000 How am I “ramming my beliefs down everyone’s throats” exactly? …I’m just politely putting my point on a discussion thread! …take it or leave it, no forcing involved whatsoever!😁

@Simonde_groot @baselessassert @ICohen2000 Or it’s your opinion that the meat is tasteless? It has nothing to do with group conformity, some people like to eat meat some don’t, it’s that simple 🤣 stop trying to ram your beliefs down everyone’s throats.

There is only one strong argument against veganism. “I’m a selfish person and I don’t care about animals” I can’t argue against that. But I can demolish every other argument you throw at me.

@ClennellMick @kathrynhall_ It’s like golf courses…there is a myth that they are “middle and upper class”, but most golfers I know have working class backgrounds…even here in Surrey. Our golf courses are major community hubs…

@kathrynhall_ Allotments are middle class

@JohnyReid1 @BlueEyedBoy2000 @kathrynhall_ If they attempt to “enter” the UK, beyond the beach, jetty place of arrival…they become “illegal”… Distressed foreign mariners and those claiming refugee status need to declare themselves and claim their status by attracting attention at the authorities at beach or port etc.

@BlueEyedBoy2000 @kathrynhall_ Define Illegals and why you think someone seeking asylum is illegal?

@DLRogKingston @RolandBasilides Allotments are, strangely enough, similar to golf courses, in that they are important community “hubs” for all classes, in declining community…(pub,church, closures, etc. (I have known many golfers from “working class” backgrounds, here in Surrey, contrary to popular belief!)

All you say is true. The public should make it abundantly clear that councils who attempt to sell off allotments will be thrown out by the voters. So too will government that passes legislation allowing sale of allotments by councils instead of funding them properly

@ArrowsmithLiam @baselessassert @ICohen2000 Even in dishes where the meat is tasteless, just tastes of the condiments or sauce, or where the meat alternative tastes better, meat eaters will still go for the meat! …so it’s generally a much deeper question, mostly to do with tribalism and group conformity…

@baselessassert @ICohen2000 Or maybe we just really really like the taste of meat?

@baselessassert @ICohen2000 …preventing them becoming a vegan, if their supporting networks are meat eating by orthodoxy…

@baselessassert @ICohen2000 Indeed…It’s interesting to study the tribalism aspect… The “tribal subconscious” is quite cognitively dissonant…a perfectly reasonable person may acknowledge the sense in veganism and even like the food, but the tribal instinct will “override” logical thoughts and actions!

@CatoThistlewood @GiggyTuffs @AaronBastani Where I think diversity is going to end in tears is when much work is taken over by AI + enviro. constraints… Ultimately there will have to be more “sharing” via higher taxes,benefits,UBI, and subsidised “non jobs” etc., so will enough empathy to support “fellow folk” be there?

You speak of a "national community" and the value of supporting families, but that idea only holds weight when such a community actually exists. For most of history, nations—in the older, ancestral sense—preceded the state and had real cultural, ethnic, and familial continuity. The people were the nation/nacioun. Today, that continuity is broken. There’s no longer a cohesive national community in Britain. Instead, we have a state—a bureaucratic economic zone—managing multiple communities that often live side-by-side but separately, with vastly different values, loyalties, and birthrates. When someone who can’t afford a family herself, is taxed to fund large families from groups like the Mirpuris—often culturally and socially distinct from the native English—she’s not supporting her nation. She’s subsidizing its replacement. For context: In 2023, 31.8% of all live births in the UK were to non-UK-born mothers, a rise from 30.3% in 2022. In English primary schools, less than 64% of students are English; 36% are from foreign backgrounds. This isn’t some gradual change—it’s a rapid transformation. In another decade or so, English children will become a minority in English schools, and soon after, the English themselves will be a minority in England. Demographic replacement is not conservatism. The traditional conservative view emphasized stewardship of one's own people, the organic transmission of culture, language, and land. But what we’re seeing today is an enforced demographic shift—paid for by those who have been economically locked out of family life themselves. So the question isn't why people should support children—it’s why they should be compelled to support the children of other peoples, especially when those populations are growing in ways that reshape and, ultimately, replace the original nation. If conservatism is to mean anything at all, it should begin with the conservation of one's own people.

Because we are part of a national community that should value family life, and understands the centrality of children in the future reproduction of society. This was a basic tenet of conservatism for a few thousand years - until about 40 years ago.