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May 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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As depressing and cynical as British politics so often is, you have to admit that very few electoral systems anywhere allow for stuff like the below.

I've spent the last 10 minutes in tears of mirth just looking at these images. 😂😂😂

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Jan 28
UNPOPULAR OPINION (among the left and probably many of my followers): the modern liberal left, of whom I've always been a card carrying member, got it VERY wrong on mass immigration.

And all because it didn't try to remake society after Thatcher wrecked it and the working class.
What the UK has been crying out for for many decades now has been huge investment across the country.

When Johnson spoke of 'levelling up', he was more than onto something. He'd hit the nail on the head. But because the Tories are a bunch of shysters and crooks, nothing happened
Britain's has been a quite ludicrously unbalanced, unsustainable economy for as long as I can remember now.

Skewed completely towards property, financial services, speculators and billionaire leeches. And quite unbelievably skewed towards south-east England too.
Read 53 tweets
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Jan 13
While Andrew Neil - who played more than a minor part in turning Britain into an ungovernable failed state through his complete non-journalism over Brexit: which had no consequences for him but terrible ones for most - wets himself in excitement, a note.

About the UK media.
You'll recall the hysterical cries of LABOUR CRASHED THE ECONOMY LABOUR SPENT ALL THE MONEY when Gordon Brown actually *rescued* the economy.

And the hysterical cries of WE'RE GOING TO TURN INTO GREECE when the coalition negotiations weren't allowed to run their proper course.
And the hysterical cries of WE HAVE TO LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS IT WOULD BE IMMORAL TO LEAVE OUR DEBTS TO OUR CHILDREN as Cameron and Osborne set about state-sponsored manslaughter of the poor and disabled, and devastated the supply side of the economy.

While INCREASING the debt.
Read 13 tweets
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Jan 7
Imagine you were a Muslim living in Britain.

For almost a quarter of a century, you've had to put up with fear and hatred for the crime of your being a Muslim.

You've been stigmatised, you've been stopped and searched, and going through airport immigration is a nightmare.
Everyone else walks through customs with no problem at all. You don't. You randomly get stopped by officials again and again and again.

And you know why. It's because you're brown. It's because you're a Muslim.
Through the 2000s, amid horrific terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, Bali, Madrid, London and elsewhere, the Labour government says "our quarrel is not with Islam" - but it bombs Iraq, it bombs Afghanistan and it kills many, many, many Muslims there.
Read 59 tweets
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Jun 23, 2024
THREAD: Scotland's men's national football team.

Ireland have qualified for 6 major tournaments. They reached the knockout stages 4 times.

Wales have qualified for 4. They reached the KO stages 3 times.

Northern Ireland have qualified for 4. They reached the KO stages 3 times.
(Technically, twice in their case - because of FIFA's daft format of four groups of three in the 1982 second phase - but Northern Ireland reached the last 12 and BEAT HOSTS SPAIN, so we'll ignore that).

Scotland have qualified for 12 major tournaments in their history.
This being the twelfth. They have NEVER reached the knockout stages. Is today, Sunday June 23 2024, when the interminable, excruciating wait finally ends?

By the way: they've actually qualified for 13. But in 1950, they refused to take up their place!
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May 25, 2024
Emily, of course, knows exactly why Newsnight is being deliberately run down. She's just too decent a human to spell it out.

So I'll spell it out instead. The reason why Newsnight, probably the best current affairs programme on the planet for decades, is being destroyed is:
- The same reason as Emily was raked over the coals by her CBC (no typo) bosses for the crime of asking Rod Liddle whether he considered himself a racist and highlighting his never-ending racism.

For having depicted a racist as a racist, she had "failed to be even-handed".
- And the same reason as when she declared that Dominic Cummings had broken the rules during lockdown when he'd... broken the rules during lockdown.

A journalist stating facts sent the CBC into fits of apoplexy.
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May 22, 2024
I don't think Sunak's chucked it exactly. He's not a complete idiot; he does, contrary to many appearances, know what reality is. It looks like this:

1. This election is unwinnable with any strategy or for any Tory leader. It's been that way since the mini-budget in 2022.
2. The Tory party is also completely unmanageable - especially under anyone who even vaguely tries to look for the centre ground. Just as it was between 1993 and 2005.

3. Waiting till the end of the year would've meant EVEN MORE public fury and disgust.
There's no rabbits out of hats that can be pulled here. Any Tory MP who thinks there are is plain delusional. Which brings me to:

4. The currents of the Conservative Party are drifting ever further rightwards: towards Badenoch or even Braverman. Ever further away from reality.
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