1. Civil service should have a legal obligation to put this country first
2. Ban all devolved assemblies from any sort of foreign policy
3. Cancel net zero
4. Cap inward migration at 50K net
5. Remove the degree requirement for all nursing and policing roles

1/ 6. Ban all political symbols and activism from all public bodies
7. Zone near all major towns for temporary high density shipping container homes
8. Sign for al 20 small modular nuclear reactions with the manufacturer paying for mods for the first 5 years

2/

I don't feel happy over the Cass review - I feel terribly sad for the thousands of kids who've had their lives ruined - but more than that I feel absolute fury towards the politicians, journalists and professionals who didn't do their jobs

1/ Most of whom either knew it was wrong or didn't ask in case they found an uncomfortable answer - they went along one way or other with the systematic abuse of children on an industrial scale because it was convenient to them - I can't think of anything worse in my life

2/

It's an exciting time to be alive - we are living through a political and economic realignment that happens once every 40 years or so - this could go any way with enough effort except for in the same direction

1/ Most of the current sub par political class will be finished within less than a decade - they are products of a system which is finished - they know it which is why so many look utterly out of their depth and panicked - they know it can't hold

2/

British elite classes have become hopelessly detached from the majority of the public - we are now sitting on a bomb which is starting to go off - it shouldn't have been this way - Brexit was a wake up call but the message was too unpopular with our betters and ignored

1/ Instead our elite classes continue to gaslight on the issues of the day - talk about illegal migration when the issue is all migration - talk about Islamophobia instead of Islamist violence and on and on

2/

Why am I happy that the supreme court has given this ruling?

I'm a democrat and after reading "Ruling the Void" by Peter Mair I've long since realised that democracy has been robbed of its substance by the liberal settlement.
1/ How?

When powers are passed from politicians to unelected bureaucrats like the EU, courts or QUANGOS it removes it from the democratic system and effectively shrinks the debate.

2/

The UK is mess but I'm grateful for the following things:

1. British people are generally intolerant of arseholes - which is why the political class are disliked at the moment - that makes society naturally quite stable

1/ 2. We are still a very safe country though the authorities are trying hard to change that - your chances of being attacked, robbed etc etc are vanishingly small - see point 1

3. We have good allies worldwide - from the USA to parts of Europe etc etc - we have options

2/

This is High Holborn from the tube to the viaduct - a stretch of road about 2/3 of a mile long - it's prime real estate in London

This is what it looks like before the forthcoming recession

Absolutely booming

1/ 2/

The no borders thing is just a bit weird - the left who support it seem to think that citizens should have no say over who enters a country - in fact they deny that there is even a settled population - instead they just say "We are all migrants" which is just plain silly

1/ I mean technically the human race migrated from Africa several million years ago - but beyond that no - they also deny the links between high migration and lower wages especially for those on lowest wages - apparently supply and demand doesn't function in the labour market

2/

Doesn't mention that per capita GDP collapsed around 2010 because of the ridiculous austerity programme that the Tories instigated - Germany's did exactly the same as well - Brexit has zero to with inflation it's a global phenomenons
and it's mainly a supply shock

1/

https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1664394020448088066

Which is why inflation is dropping around the world even though monetary policy has yet to be even felt by the economy - the UK will be no different, ours will simply take an extra month or so due to our dysfunctional energy market and some statistical aberrations

2/

Europe is undergoing a series of political shocks with each birthing the next - the first was the GFC and austerity which hit the left behind the most angering many and preparing the way - next came the migration crisis which combined with the first

1/ This generated a surge in support for the new right - nationally focused parties which fed on raising concerns over a broken economic model and concerns over elites which not only didn't control migration but seemed to actively to encourage it

2/

@markbishopuk @thinkdefence

Broadly there is a majority in this country which is social democratic

They believe in a state that protects which has an active but restrained role in the economy

They don't dislike the free market but they worry about its excesses

1/ They value individual rights but think that these must be tempered against the rights of society

That British people in Britain should come first

They aren't anti migration but think that there is a limit and we are probably there

2/

The only two groups that benefit from mass migration are business - it allows them to avoid paying higher wages and investing in staff - the Treasury - they get to claim debt to GDP is lower - everything is negatively impacted

Don't believe me - think about it

1/ Pressures on healthcare
Educational places
Water and sewerage use
Energy consumption
House prices
Rent prices
Road and rail congestion
Benefits bill
Etc etc

All would be improved with less people

That's not anti people it's just basic logic

2/

Dear Tories

I am a floating voter - you got my vote in 2019 - I didn't vote this time - you won't stand up for our culture - you do zero about illegal migration - you are flooding the country with legal migration

1/ The state of the realm is a disgrace - it is dirty, broken, unloved and 'unconserved - you seem to hate the family - you don't stand up for the Union - you are more interested in defending the EU than the UK

2/

I have found the responses to this tweet very illuminating because they cut to the heart of the schism which has erupted across most of the west in recent years because they demonstrate the differing worldviews which underpin it

1/

https://twitter.com/Danjsalt/status/1653646468530548736

On one side you have liberal globalists who appear to see countries as nothing more than economic entities and support large scale migration - they are happy for anyone in the country to vote as they are being taxed - the classic no taxation without representation

2/

Is human society in crisis due to digitisation?

We are more connected than ever but those connections are thin and wide not narrow and deep

We live lives more and more mediated through devices

1/ We struggle to form meaningful memories because that mediation robs life of the texture which allows the human mind to create deep memories

Even pictures are less meaningful because they are plentiful - digitisation allows us to take 100 when we would have taken 1

2/

I grew up in a politically engaged family with parents who were both members of a party and stood as councillors. I first really got interested in politics when I was about 12 and have for 3 decades obsessed over the subject.

1/ I used to watch Daily Politics and Newsnight every day, loved This Week, tuned in each week for PMQ's and followed every major announcement especially on budgets. I knew all of the major political big beasts in each party.

2/

It's good to see some Tories are saying they have wasted the last 12 years - an admission of fault is always worthwhile - but it's actually worse than a wasted opportunity - on pretty much every single metric the country is worse off for them - you name and it's a mess

1/ Health, education, transport, the military, the economy, poverty, homelessness - don't even get me started on local government where their tender mercies have left the country looking terrible - they didn't waste 12 years -they used them to run the country into the ground

2/

I've realised that much of the expert class are hopelessly afflicted with linear bias which makes them incapable of rational analysis

"It's done XYZ for the last 20 years and thus it will keep doing it"

1/ The Soviet Union existed for 50 years - then suddenly it didn't - most didn't see it coming because they couldn't see beyond the fact that it had existed for so long - so all the egg heads missed the biggest geopolitical event in the last 100 years

2/

Most people are not really interested in Westminster anymore - they largely despise all the parties - they vote through gritted teeth for one or other but with no belief anything will change - why would they it never does

1/ The die hards cheer on their own but when asked what will change can't point at much - it is politics on autopilot with the end destination pre-programmed with the controls long since torn out - the bubble and politicians are irrelevant to us - so we ignore them

2/

So a possible outcome is that Johnson goes - the Tories at least partially repudiate the shift by Johnson - they put off the working class support - Labour don't feel pressurised to change - they squeak a win and then fall to pieces in government

1/ This is roughly what you are seeing in the US - the Democrats managed to win by not being Trump but also by not changing - this has allowed the extremes of their ideological nonsense to flourish - now you are likely to see them get taken to the woodshed in the midterms

2/

Look if you want to defend Johnson - fair enough - if you think he is badly treated by the media - I agree - if you worry about who will come next - that's reasonable - but most of his issues are self inflicted - he loads gun after gun and gives it to his opponents

1/ Then when he is found out he lies - seemingly without grasping that people might check what he has said - then he sends out his ministers, friends and colleagues to defend him and his woeful judgement - then his lies are found out which shames everyone

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