Adelaide Sprung

No agenda. Interested in ideas. Sometimes respond, but mostly just enjoy the contributions of others - even those with whom I disagree.

[ByNiels @by_niels21222]

When you have no winnable logic arguments, you resort to lies, name-calling, re-definition of terms, censorship, suppression of free speech, lawfare, and ultimately, physical violence. That is what the left does. They are sore losers, who have no respect for democracy. Their very ideology is based on robbing those who invent, innovate and produce, a thief's charter.

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@Fiat__Justitia @peterrhague @anotherfish759 It's one step back: British policing by consent tradition was dependent on a homogenous demographic + a trad of majority compliance and support. The policy of mass immigration (not the ind involved) has changed police culture + action, but public expectations from past remain.

[Jonathan Smith @Fiat__Justitia]

@peterrhague By alluding to ‘first order connections’, @anotherfish759 is politely highlighting the deficiencies in your analysis and he is right to do so.

Multicultural/two-tier policing is the second order effect of the first order effect of mass migration.

Vance’s comment was bang on.

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@DennisGran19399 @KatieAmess Your distaste may be sincere, but being 'respectfully silent' means no hard questions being asked about HOW + WHY this awful event played out as it did.
Henry is beyond pain now; like it or not, this is a political issue (inst capture) rather than ' just another knife incident'.

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@wordsbyliam @afneil @BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire A by-election is inconsequential for a govt with a huge majority - it changes nothing in HofC. Burnham is Sig as Lab trying to propel him straight to No10 - 650 MPs with not a media 'fault' between them! So little ability on front bench, too.
VD may avoid appearing a bully!

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@DPJHodges @RestoreLich @ramonagusta The country was rioting and burning.

The jury discounted the medical evidence which cast doubt on asphyxia as the cause of death.

Might be a connection?

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@JohDomne1 @politicshome @UEL_News @Place2Be Policy objective was worthy but not working. SS was used most by those who needed it least - failed value for money test.

[Jennifer Fleming @Jennife01964470]

@implmaterial @ckspeakie_kent A lovely post. What a stunning looking woman. I'm so sorry. Age doesn't make a difference to grief and loss. She was your mother. May she Rest in Peace.

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@Cunning_Stunt3 @KemiBadenoch @DLumsden_MSP Several different administrations in that 14 years plus PM sets agenda

Immigration error was corrected by Sunak- numbers coming down now.

KB as a baby had no control over her parents' choice of domicile; she has chosen to be in UK since age 16 and formed a British family.

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@davjam8 @afneil @BBCNewsnight Envy and resentment are not good forces for guiding policy development: money does not make people 'stink' but envy does.

Import poor people and 'poverty' will never be eradicated. Post war rising living standards are going backwards because of imbalance in immigration

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@wordsbyliam @afneil @BBCNewsnight @vicderbyshire Reform's candidate will never be PM. That's the difference. He is an ordinary by-election candidate to be a back bencher gaining experience - hundreds of them in HofC.
Burnham aims to be PM by Christmas.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

This is a belter. Measured, eloquent and thoughtful. Worth half an hour of anyone's time.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

A thoughtful take by Tony Sewell. Most people just want fairness. The job of the police is to catch criminals and prevent crime not to address historic social harms

One of the things I think that's getting lost in the current "two tier" discussions is the growing perception that the police are more interested in culture than crime...

So five armed officers go to arrest a comedian getting off a plane (one of the few places you can be confident your "suspect" won't be armed)

Heavy handed responses to what people write on X rather than dealing with violent shoplifting

People getting shorter sentences for the worst crimes against children than for "hate" speech

Allowing pro Palestinian marches to go through Jewish communities but restricting Reform marches

Then we have politicians agitating about the "far right" when for the most part it's people saying r@pe gangs should be properly investigated and illegal immigrants shouldn't get a better standard of living with luxury hotels and same day dental care than British citizens do

Until @UKLabour recognises the real anger is because people increasingly feel the criminal justice system and so many aspects of the way the state interacts with them has become essentially unfair the anger will grow

It doesn't need stoking. People aren't angry because @Nigel_Farage told them to be. They are angry because the state isn't working and when they complain, the government essentially calls them Nazis

https://t.co/UygNEtjVSp

[Sebastian Steele @SebSteele0]

@defossardf Indeed - a people is defined primarily by a deep and continuous shared culture which very closely tracks ancestry.

https://t.co/r3KrYTfUya

[Rich Stewart 🔰 @richdstew]

@JChimirie66677 @hannahskerritt0 Unfortunately we have a country full of Hannah’s who serve as useful idiots to the lefts slow creeping erasure of the UK’s identity. This is the reaction they want, ‘we’ve got bigger things to worry about’ until everything has gone then Hannah notices all too late sadly.

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@JChimirie66677 @DreamerBFC True.
It also partly explains Brexit: older voters had seen the EU sales pitch and also the less-impressive reality. Civil Service careers have all been shaped by EU - for everyone under age 50 it is just reality. They have little if any knowledge of what has been lost from UK

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Totally get what you're saying. The 1970s were economically chaotic and politically turbulent. But you're right that something held. A shared sense of who we were, what we stood for, what was worth arguing about and what was beyond argument. The strikes were bitter but they were conducted between people who fundamentally agreed on what country they were fighting over.

That's what's been whittled away. Not prosperity or stability, those come and go. The shared story. The common reference points. The unspoken agreement about what Britain is and what it's for.

At 70 you've watched it happen in real time, which gives you something the generation that inherited the damage does not have: the memory of what was there before. That memory is not sentiment. It's evidence. And it matters.

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@ADOBrien88 650 seats in the HoC and Labour hold 402 of them.
That leaves 248 non-Lab MPs to oppose and vote out a government. This is not a usual situation within the Commons.
Numbers matter - this govt can only be ended before 2029 if that 248 plus 78+ Lab rebels oppose together.
Unlikely

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@_imey @garrypickles @nicholaswatt 'beyond the Pale'. Given the origin of that phrase, is that an intentional or accidental joke?

[Adelaide Sprung @AdelaideSprung]

@benitopacketo @emergenteffects The wealthy have always had the freedom to 'update' relationships at will because they can pay substantial financial compensation as they walk away.
Most of us can afford only one family; responsibility for financial vulnerability of a partner becomes more acute. Hence marriage.