Alan

Not all eejits wear blue ticks

[dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @mrdavemacleod]

people say the government haven’t achieved anything yet but they have made Isabel Oakeshott leave the country

[Alan @Alan115824]

@AaronBastani Goddard's in Greenwich is good.
Chilli vinegar is key to making it work though.
Cockney's on Portobello used to do meat gravy at weekends; not been in a few years though.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@elonmusk It's been tried. The breaks aren't enough to make the math math.
Try not trying to kill remote work and high wages - RTO & H1-B visa proliferation isn't going to help your birthrate.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@TinyWriterLaura Remember 'the quiet'?

[Alan @Alan115824]

@PhilJones33 @jamessmith36471 @AaronBastani We don't need confessions - the left needs to win over some liberals. Most of the culture war stuff comes from the right, & they do it bc it's effective. Sometimes the only way not to lose is not to play.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@Mokele_mbembe @jamessmith36471 @AaronBastani Pretty much. People are reluctant to talk about politics with their offline friends thesedays.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@AaronBastani I'm deeply unsurprised.
I'm pretty sure Trump was supposed to be the UK's saviour 8 years ago.
They love quoting Orwell, but they seem to forget what Britain was called in Oceania.
#FellForItAgain

[Alan @Alan115824]

@Mokele_mbembe @jamessmith36471 @AaronBastani Tbf they see he's on GBNews a lot, & then they see him make anti-lib talking points. And there's form of other people doing the 'I left the left' schtick. So it's pattern matching of a sort. It just falls apart under sensible analysis.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@PendasSus17711 @jamessmith36471 @AaronBastani No. That's not it at all.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@eggonface123 @Danjsalt But fair enough on not voting for him. I do remember how jubilant the Brexiers were though - Johnson was like Trump to most of them. All things must pass I guess. But I think it's reasonable to smirk at Oakeshitt upping sticks to be an 'expat' in Dubai.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@eggonface123 @Danjsalt The EU has immigration issues sure, but the UK voted to take back control & this is what they did with it. And it wasn't lawyers or courts that opened the floodgates. Brexit is the distal cause of much of this - & it's happened now so little point crying about it. But.....

[Alan @Alan115824]

@jamessmith36471 @AaronBastani The left is leaving liberalism. This will confuse some people.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@eggonface123 @Danjsalt It's really not like there weren't any Remainers saying that Brexit would not infact reduce immigration. There were, because I was one of them. Lo & behold....& you were going to have to face a Labour govt. at some point - & they could certainly have been more pro-EU than this 1.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@eggonface123 @Danjsalt Less than 5 years really....& well Brexit was never going to take place in some perfect world, it took place in a messy reality as it always would & it was Johnson, who you guys seemed into at the time, that really opened the floodgates. So I don't know about that tbh.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@NoSwayze Well my age is probably a factor here, but it still feels like a lot of 00s stuff will be quite playable in a way that 80s stuff wasn't even in the mid 90s.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@eggonface123 @Danjsalt Tbf I've mostly seen it used as an attack on Oakeshott personally, which although petty is fairly legitimate. That said, there does seem to be a lot of Brexiters who now seem to want to move elsewhere - & there is some irony in that somewhere I think many would agree.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@PerniciousDeed_ @OrientEngland @mondestereo @RossMcCaff "Any "limit" would be artificial and based purely on speculation that stems from the same place everything else trash like you pretends to believe as cover for your bigotry"

You think you know me, you don't & it's sad but at the same time funny.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@PerniciousDeed_ @OrientEngland @mondestereo @RossMcCaff There can be good reasons why people pattern-match like that, but that doesn't mean it is sensible.
The UK is, as things stand, in no way capable of taking 500-900K immigrants a year. If you think otherwise, I'd be curious to know what you think the limit might be.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@Maximumchungis @AaronBastani @OGRolandRat AA needs careful handling but it would probably be amusing to see.

[Alan @Alan115824]

@joebatesss @meadwaj Aaron is probably being a bit naughty, but a recent thread on immigration definitely sees quite a few on the left caricature anyone who dares to think that there might be a point where immigration numbers become an issue.