The British are being turned into a different people. I’ll stop that. /2.
🔹Asylum seekers have rehearsed - to play the system.
Also, asylum & crime must be mentioned together as much as possible. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Britain is a soft touch. /3.
🔹It’s common sense that Britain must be a soft touch if asylum seekers come here instead of claiming asylum in a European country they’ve been in.
We’re not bigoted.
We’re proud of our country. /4.
🔹Britain is the greatest.
World War I. World War II. Empire. And other greatness.
People who, according to me, disagree with me (& you), despise our great country. /5.
🔹The EU, aided by fifth-columnists in Britain, is destroying our country’s independence.
And robbing you, the true, honest folk of Britain, of your sovereignty. /6.
🔹If you don’t vote Conservative, your future right to vote for your government, & to live in an independent country, will be stolen.
By foreigners & their British collaborators. /7.
🔹Your country has been stolen from you. It’s being dismantled. And you, the true people, threatened with extinction. Sorry: “the currency of our people threatened with extinction”. A totally different point.
Vote for me. Vote Conservative. We’ll give you your country back. /8.
Here’s the full speech. I wouldn’t want you to think I might have been trying to mislead by taking things out of context.
🤡 If you wonder how the UK got itself into such a disastrous position, look no further than @SirSocks & @NJ_Timothy.
🤡 One, an ex Downing St press secretary & ambassador to the US.
🤡 The other, an ex Downing St co-chief of staff. /1.
🤡 Neither, if you credit what they say, understands the NI Protocol or the Good Friday Agreement. Or what was said by those they seek to mock for not understanding precisely those agreements.
🤡 I’d try to help out. But I know each is well past listening.
🤡 It’s deeply depressing & more than a little disturbing to realise, as they foolishly reveal themselves by how they now sound off in public, the nature of some of the individuals who were entrusted with advising ministers over the years. /3.
Talking of the narrow, perceived advantage which makes the eyes of certain politicians become round with fear & excitement, this recent poll of 2019 Conservative voters explains a lot of recent government behaviour. /3.
Northern Ireland is benefitting economically from the NI Protocol. The data are clear. So are the reasons for them.
A short 🧵.
(i) relative to GB, NI business is doing well because NI hasn’t been ripped out of the EU single market & customs union /1.
(ii) additionally, GB business is being diverted to/via NI, to avoid damage being caused in GB by it having being ripped out of the EU single market & customs union
So, NI is benefitting substantially.
Is this a reason to celebrate the NI Protocol? /2.
No.
The NIP is the result of the disastrous decision to go for the Johnson-Frost Brexit. What did that do? Oh yes: ripped the country out of the EU single market & customs union.
It’s reassuring & welcome that NI is doing well under the NIP arrangements. /3.
“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔵An overwhelming majority of the British public support people being able to take refuge here.
A 🧵/1.
“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔵This century* there’s never been a British majority negative toward immigration. The current figure is 26%.
*Since the European Social Survey began in 2002. /2.
“The British public demand a clamp-down on migration”
🌍The truth
🔵In the last 30 years* there’s never been a British majority worried about immigration as a key issue. Except for one brief moment in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum.
A. Go it alone
B. Be civilised
C. Control your border
B+C: needs intense, sustained, multilateral, international cooperation. Forget A.
A+B: no effective border regime. Forget C.
A+C: be like East Germany. Forget civilisation.
P.S. I know: East Germany was, infamously, trying to keep people in, perhaps more than keep others out. (Actually it was both).
But the point’s the same: how do you “control” a border?
And stay civilised.
P.P.S. For the avoidance of doubt: I don’t just make this stuff up. I know you’d never think that …
Over many years, I worked at various times (mainly as a government official) on: asylum/migration; frontier controls; organised crime; maritime law; international development.