“@Conservatives trust the judgment of the British people.” - Suella Braverman at #NatCon.
Is that why they introduced Voter ID, ignore the 71% of the electorate who didn't vote Tory in 2019, & why nobody outside of the Tory Party has had any say in Britain's last two PMs? 🇬🇧
Braverman says “We cannot have immigration without integration. And if we lack the confidence to promote our culture… than we have nothing to integrate people into.”
Neofascist Braverman will never "integrate" into the everyday aspects of "British culture" I love & experience.
Braverman says "The ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators is the sort of fact that has become unfashionable in some quarters."
I see one of the far-right's preferred UK academics, Matt Goodwin, was spouting his usual misleading, infantile reality-denying shite at the National Conservatism conference, captured in this now deleted tweet.
Here's another response to Matt Goodwin's abusurd, misleading, & frankly unhinged claims made at the deeply concerning National Conservatism conference, from @ewangibbs:
Another now deleted tweet from another of the far-right's, #TuftonStreet's, & GB News's preferred academics, David Starkey, who said 'slavery wasn't genocide because there are so many damn blacks', & after the 2011 riots, 'Enoch Powell was right, the whites have become black'. 🙋♂️
"The interview came after a particular troubling run of tweets for Musk, in which he promoted conspiracy theories about a mass shooting in Texas, was accused of antisemitism after claiming that George Soros “hates humanity,” & retweeted discredited theories about crime & race."🤪
Ignorant radicalised adolescent, Elon Musk, was asked why he tweets conspiracy theories & makes statements that are criticized as racist & antisemitic by normal, decent people, especially when they could lose him customers & hurt the companies he runs.
After an extremely long & uncomfortable pause, Musk referenced a scene from the 1987 movie The Princess Bride, in which Mandy Patinkin’s Inigo Montoya character confronts the man who killed his father.
Musk said: “He says, ‘Offer me money. Offer me power, I don’t care.’”
Some good news from the US: Democrat Donna Deegan has caused a major upset by beating Ron DeSantis backed Republican, Daniel Davis (who significantly outspent her) to win the mayor’s race in Jacksonville, Florida, becoming the first female mayor in Jacksonville history.
Her opponent had the backing of the Republican Party of Florida & the endorsement of Gov. Ron DeSantis.“Everybody said it could not be done in Jacksonville,” said Deegan, who said the campaign and its volunteers had worked for a year and a half ahead of the election.
Davis — a former legislator & CEO of the local Chamber of Commerce — & his allies strongly criticised Deegan over her participation in #BlackLivesMatter protests, & the local sheriff said she would install “radical policies” if elected.
Commentng on the UK Govt's desire for #ECHR reforms, the President of the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly has said Britain could end up like Russia & face exclusion if it chooses to ignore obligations to abide by the Strasbourg-based court.
Sunak, who is in Iceland for the first Council of Europe Summit in 15 years, is to call for a reform of the #ECHR’s rule 39, which was used to issue last-minute injunctions to ground the flights of migrants to #Rwanda last year.
The Govt has said it is amending the draconian illegal immigration bill, currently going through parliament, to include a provision allowing the home secretary to ignore rule 39 injunctions.
The President of the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly lowered expectations.
As predicted, the President of the opaquely-funded & extremely influential ultra-right free-market US 'think tank' Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, has delivered arguably the most unhinged speech so far at the deeply disturbing National Conservatism #NatC conference.
Founded in 1973, the opaquely funded Heritage Foundation's stated mission is to formulate & promote policies based on the principles of "free enterprise, limited Govt, individual freedom, traditional American values, & a strong national defense."
It is widely considered one of the world's most influential public policy research institutes, maintaining strong ties with #Tuftonstreet's IEA, the Mont Pelerin Society (the organisation coining 'neoliberalism'), &, significantly, the UK Government.
Low birthrate is UK’s top priority, Tory MP Miriam Cates tells right-wing National Conservatism conference in London; ‘Cultural Marxism’ & 'excessive education' are among factors causing existential threat! 🙋♂️ 🇬🇧