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Matt Goodwin Profile picture
@GoodwinMJ
Aug 2, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Lib Dems win by-election. Con majority now 1.

Results confirm national polls. Resurgent Lib Dems are making Labour life far harder. Is a Boris Bounce but not enough. Brexit Party still a viable threat on 10%. Most likely cost Boris an early victory.
Only way forward for Johnson & team is to find a way of really squeezing that Brexit Party vote all the way down. Meanwhile, lots of reasons for @joswinson to be confident about next GE, even though divided opposition helps Johnson
*Treat by-elections with caution* but on these kinds of shifts the Lib Dems will start to seize seats like Lewes, St Ives, North Cornwall, North Devon, Wells, Hazel Grove, Cheadle, Cheltenham, Richmond Park, (also Lab's Sheffield Hallam)
As I've been saying for a while, one of the things Johnson & team really need to think hard about (among many other things!) is how to defend the Blue Wall in the South West, which was integral to Cameron's 2015 surprise majority. Especially amid resurgent Lib Dems.

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Jun 6
The United Kingdom, or England, more accurately, has the longest and deepest tradition of protecting fundamental rights, going back nearly 1000 years to Magna Carta. We do not need some strange, regional court like the ECHR to protect our freedoms and rights.
A huge problem with the ECHR is that it’s simply no longer what we joined in the 1950s.

From climate change to immigration, it’s massively expanded the definition of “rights” in ways that are deeply political —not judicial.

These debates and decisions should be happening within our representative democracy, making them accountable to the people, not distant courts that are not accountable to anybody and are dominated by distant elites who lean strongly to the cultural left.

Those who say “Churchill supported it” are gaslighting you. Neither Churchill nor Thatcher for that matter would have supported the current expansion of the ECHR. It’s a totally different beast from what it was in the immediate postwar era.
By belonging to the ECHR we are not simply belonging to a static convention which does not change.

We are being forced to remain in something that actually believes it is “a living instrument” that changes over time, hence its expansion and belief it has the right to change what it is over time, irrespective of what citizens think.

Like the EU, which morphed into something very different from what the Brits signed in 1973, the ECHR has morphed into something that is totally different from what its creators envisaged and intended
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Mar 28
I cannot remember the last time I saw six police officers together in Britain. But here they are, arresting two parents, in front of their children, for complaining about their local school in a Whatsapp group. Britain is completely and utterly lost. It used to be the home of individual liberty; now it’s morphing before our very eyes into an Orwellian nightmare. We need a political revolution to restore common sense. And we need it now.
This is not random. This is all part of the crackdown on free speech in the UK which I write about here:

-Hate laws
-Non-crime hate incidents
-Expanded definition of “Islamophobia”

We have completely lost our way
mattgoodwin.org/p/here-comes-t…
Here’s how the new definition of “Islamophobia” will be used to clamp down on free speech and debate
mattgoodwin.org/p/labours-crac…
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Mar 4
Here are 3 maps and a thread which show you what is now unfolding in some parts of England 🧵

1. Let me introduce you to St Matthews and Highfields in Leicester.

In this part of Leicester more than 80% of people who are living in social housing were born outside of the UK, of whom only half are currently in work.

More people in this area were born in the Middle East or Asia than in the UK. Three-quarters of residents are Muslim. Not even two-thirds identify as British or English while close to one in three identify with a 'non-UK identity only'. More than four in ten people here live in households that contain NO adults who speak English as their main language.Image
2. Here's Tokyngton or Monks Park in Wembley. In this area, nearly 73% of people who live in scarce social housing were not born in the UK, of whom only 43% are in work. In this area, only 40% of people were born in the UK while about one in three have lived in the UK for less than a decade. More than one-third of people here refuse to identify with a British or English identity. Fully one-quarter live in households that contain no adults who speak English as their main language.Image
3. And here's Alexandra Park in Oldham. In this part of Oldham, close to 70% of people who live in social housing were born outside the UK, of whom only one in three are in work. Close to one-third of people who live here were born in the Middle East, Asia or Africa (compared to an average in England of 6%). More than 83% are Muslim and only four in ten people here live in households where all adults speak English.Image
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Nov 15, 2024
UPDATE. We recently demanded Keir Starmer's gvt stop hiding information from people about how mass immigration is impacting the country

We asked British people what they think

Here's what they said 1/

cc @Nigel_Farage @TiceRichard @RupertLowe10 @LeeAndersonMP_ @JamesReform
1/ We asked a representative sample of (2,000) Brits if they'd support or oppose the govt being required to publish data on arrest rates by nationality

Support: 57%
Oppose 16%
2/ We asked if they'd support or oppose the govt being required to publish data on arrest rates by immigration status

Support 62%
Oppose 14%
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Jul 4, 2024
Election day. Here are some of our most read (and right!) pieces on the UK 2024 general election. 1/ we called the summer election #GE2024 #GeneralElection2024
mattgoodwin.org/p/are-we-headi…
2/ In July 2022 we explained why Rishi Sunak would likely be a disaster for post-Brexit conservatism
#ge2024 #GeneralElection2024
mattgoodwin.org/p/would-rishi-…
3/ In August 2023, we highlighted the enormous space in British politics that exists for a party like ... Nigel Farage and Reform #ge2024 #GeneralElection2024
mattgoodwin.org/p/a-reply-to-d…
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Feb 7, 2024
NEW POST. Them Vs. US. Elites are now dangerously out-of-touch from millions of people who surround them. Findings from a new study
mattgoodwin.org/p/them-vs-us
On climate change, willingness to pay for Net Zero, individual freedom, trust in government, support for the expert class, & political loyalties, the gulf between the Elites & Masses is enormous (esp. between elite uni grads & voters). As I argued 👇
amazon.co.uk/Values-Voice-V…
I write a lot about out-of-touch elites, about how we are now in the hands of a new ruling class, a "luxury belief class" (ht @robkhenderson) which simply does not share the values of ordinary people and does not make room for their voice in our national debate.
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