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Tom B. N. Large 🇬🇧
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England, United Kingdom Sumali Nisan 2023
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The study fundamentally is predicated on the notion that all/most immigrants are a net benefit for society and use very few state services, both of which have been shown to be untrue. The UK taxpayer pays millions of pounds towards just housing asylum seekers and migrants, without taking into account the burden on the NHS, which, unless privatised, almost certainly won't cope with the consistent stream of unfettered immigration.
Coming from one of the country's most celebrated institution as well. The voluminous evidence to show how much money the taxpayer contributes to funding immigration housing and state-sponsored benefits towards immigrants doesn't seem to affect the average Oxford boffin.
There's nothing wrong with SOME immigration, so long as A) They largely subscribe to the nation's, albeit now wavering, notion of christian law and private property and B) They have a high likelihood of being a net-good for the economy.
More importantly, the study fails to realise the benefits of net-zero migration. For example, the US, under Calvin Coolidge in 1924, implemented one of the strictest immigration policies that lasted until repealed in 1965. And in those four decades, the US economy consistently grew, along with average incomes, being by the end of the Second World War, the predominant economic powerhouse.
The Telegraph@Telegraph
💸 Oxford Economics has forecast that GDP will shrink by 15pc if migration flatlines at zero for the next three decades, as the Government misses out on key tax revenues 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.
'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.
If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.
Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.
Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.
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This is an astonishing fact from today’s Sunday Times. At least 224 out of 257 new Labour MPs elected in July 2024 came from either charities or communications/lobbying agencies, or were formerly “political employees”. It explains so much about Labour backbenchers’ priorities.
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You used to have your bet ideas in the shower, now you have a waterproof speaker. You used to get lost in thought waiting for the train, now you have a phone to fill the gap. You used to daydream on long flights, now there's a screen in your hand and on the seat in front of you. You used to think on your morning commute, now you have a podcast playing before you leave the house.
We used to stare in to the sky or into a fire and let our minds drift, now we have TVs and phone to replace that. We filled every silence and lost all of our peace, creativity and ideas that lived within that silence.
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20.7% of UK adults between the ages of 16 and 64 are said to be economically inactive, meaning they aren’t in work and are not actively looking for work
Full stats:
ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
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This happened under a “conservative” government
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet
Isn't it ironic that many Brits voted for Brexit because they wanted immigration to go down? How did this happen?
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A weird thing is that whenever I post criticism of AI, the majority of the people agreeing with me seem to be leftists. It’s pretty much the only position I hold that seems to be more popular with the left than the right. It should be the opposite. My whole point about AI (especially AI in creative fields) is that it isn’t human, it doesn’t have a soul, and we cannot surrender our society to an unhuman soulless algorithm even if it makes our lives easier in some ways. It’s very strange that an argument predicated on the existence of the soul resonates with the left while conservatives tend to scoff at it.
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Update on that Starmer-Reeves growth project:
Growth in November 2025: 0.2%
Growth in December 2025: 0.1%
Growth in January 2026: 0.0%
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Why did Ludwig von Mises love gold? He loved it because politicians hate it.
Gold has one specific virtue: It cannot be printed by a government bureau. It is a geological constraint on the state's ability to rob you. Mises viewed the gold standard as part of the Bill of Rights.
It separates money from the state, just like we separate church and state. If the government controls the ledger, they own you. If the ledger is anchored in reality (gold), you own yourself.
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Keir Starmer was warned that Peter Mandelson posed a ‘reputational risk’ before appointing him as ambassador to the US in an official ‘due diligence’ document drawn up in Dec 2024.
The dossier includes a link to a Telegraph story from Jan 2024 that detailed the links ‘extensively’. It notes that Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein was a ‘general reputational risk’.
Even Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser and a Blairite who might have been thought sympathetic to Mandelson, saw it as a ‘weirdly rushed’ process for appointing Mandelson.
There were objections from Philip Barton, the most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office.
Yet Starmer appointed Mandelson as US ambassador at the end of 2024 despite knowing that he had maintained numerous ties with Epstein after the financier was convicted of child sex offences.
The PM has nobody to blame but himself.
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British decline: slowly, then all at once
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The sheer stupidity of the British ruling class at a time of crisis. They make the French aristocracy in 1789 look responsible!!
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4
Strictly come dancing practice in parliament today! Lindsay Hoyle and Angela Rippon lead the class
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If ethnicity exists at all, which it obviously does, then English is an ethnicity.
This is a simple statement of fact. It is possible to be culturally English or French or Japanese, etc, but ethnically be different. The first is “software”, the other is “hardware”.
This should not be license to be cruel or unfair to people of a different ethnicity. I believe we should be fair to all ethnicities, but not pretend that one or another does not exist.
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
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.
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This is insane. Regime change will result in a bloody civil war, killing hundreds of thousands and creating another massive Muslim refugee crisis. Topping a leader is NEVER as easy you think. It almost always results in further involvement, a civil war, and chaos. Resist this!
TheBlaze@theblaze
Lindsey Graham: "I would like to see this regime fall. If we don't take out their nuclear program now, we'll all regret it. We're very close. Be all in, Mr. President, in helping Israel finish the job."
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The Green Party just won a by-election despite their new leader being unable to articulate a coherent position on economics.
The pitch was basically “be kind” and a bit of dancing.
We’re in serious trouble.
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@Keir_Starmer How on earth can you blubber on about diversity and simultaneously talk about the "values that bring us together"? You can't have "diversity" and values that bring us together.
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Wishing a happy Shrove Tuesday to everyone who is celebrating.
Rooted in Christian tradition, today is an opportunity to reflect on the values that bring us together.
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