I genuinely can’t believe I’m reading this correctly!!!
Why should being on benefits entitle someone to a near free trip to some of London’s biggest tourist attractions? These are places that thousands of working people pay full price for every single day.
People who work hard are already struggling with the cost of living and often can’t even afford to take their own children to these places. Yet somehow, those on Universal Credit are being given access at a fraction of the cost.
And then people wonder why more and more are claiming benefits. When the system starts rewarding those who aren’t working over those who are, something has clearly gone very wrong.
Hate is a human emotion. You can’t ban hate with a law. You just want that power so you can go after your political critics by calling them “hateful”.
You refuse to address actual crimes — assault, trespass, shootings. Because you know the criminals are part of your voter base.
@OnGhost65679 @bt_frank@realMaalouf To most people it's not, to some who believe an ancient narrative it may be, but even they have a choice to see it for what it is and just ignore.
@switchon2remote @skbytes@Keir_Starmer Just use the @grok prompt to find out the truth on any post. I've already asked on those one, the details as is so often the case are over stated.
Some of you are asking why, when Reform is so close to a historic victory, anyone should start up a rival party. I can sum it up in one word. Trust. I simply do not trust Reform. Farage has said that mass deportations is a "political impossibility" and when questioned about British people becoming a minority, Tice said "I'll be dead by then".
There we have a complete clash of values. Farage has essentially surrendered. He believes it is too late to take robust action and he's not up for the fight. Tice, meanwhile, does not care about his generation's legacy or what we pass on to the next generation. I find both positions absolutely abhorrent.
Moreover, Reform is very cautious when talking abut immigration. Routinely they focus on illegal immigration as proxy for deep and structural problems with mass immigration that predate the Boriswave by decades. Dealing with illegal immigration doesn't even begin to address the issues, and while Reform is courting the moslem vote, we can't even trust that he will take robust civic nationalist measures to enforce British values.
Essentially, Farage accepts the leftist framing that Britain is irreversibly a multicultural country, nothing can or should be done about it, and as such, he is moving his party towards the centre, while spitting on the party base. Why would anyone invest time and energy into a party that's essentially going to abandon the very issue is was set up to address?
Moreover, the reality of the situation is that there are millions of people who are here legally who are a drain in every sense, who will never contribute more than they take out, are not needed, and are not wanted. This was done without our consent and we as a people are entitled to reverse it - whether they are here legally or not. The scale and depravity of the grooming scandal would mean in any other country that Pakistanis have forfeited any right to residence. Why should the British people passively accept what was done to our own kids?
This is the clear distinction between Restore and Reform. For the first time in a long time there is a viable alternative to the liberal consensus, and now we have a party that will not surrender to the extinction trend. Being that it carries a cost in terms of reputation, we can believe that Rupert Lowe is sincere, and that these principles will not be abandoned for expediency. Reform have repeatedly demonstrated that they will compromise on any issue at any time in order to win, which makes it no different to the very parties we seek to depose.
I don't know about you but after multiple betrayals, my trust is not given freely. I simply cannot comprehend why anyone (in the face of mounting evidence that Reform is a liberal party) would entrust their vote to these people. Maybe their half-baked policies would temporarily arrest the decline, but we are way past half-measures. Reform might have been the right party circa 2012, but these times require an unequivocal and uncompromising policy response. Farage could change tack, but at this point, I simply wouldn't believe him - especially now he's stuffing his party with all the people who did this to us in the first place. We've been taken for fools once too often.
@MahyarTousi I employed staff for most of my working life, I would never have let any of them WFH. It would be interesting to see some statistical analysis on the productivity between the two.