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[JD Vance @JDVance]

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

The Education and Skills Act (2008) effectively raised the school leaving age to 18.

It created a legal duty for 16 and 17 year olds to participate in “appropriate” full time education - apprenticeships or schooling.

Will the new government be repealing this legislation?

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

I was brought up in the Black Country by parents who possessed a deep English working-class patriotism.

That sense of national togetherness is now being torn to shreds as unprecedented levels of mass migration transform parts of our country beyond recognition.

The disorienting rate of change is rarely discussed by our media elite, so the numbers bear repeating. According to ONS census data, in central Bradford 50 per cent of people were born outside of the UK. In central Luton 46 per cent of all residents arrived in the past decade. Between 2001 and 2021 the proportion of the white British population in Dagenham fell by 51 per cent; in Slough by 35 per cent; and in Peterborough by 27 per cent. There is no historical precedent – or democratic mandate – for this.

Contrary to popular myth, the UK’s demographics have remained remarkably stable for most of our island story. Yes, we have experienced waves of migration, for instance the Huguenots in the late 17th century, but we are not, like our American friends, a nation of immigrants. Stability has served us well. It enabled a high-trust, cohesive society with a unifying national identity.

Few in Westminster dare acknowledge what is happening. They see the success stories – for instance, the politicians from immigrant backgrounds who have risen to the top of Government – which distorts their perceptions. They reap the benefits of mass migration and are wealthy enough to avoid the costs ordinary Brits face in their daily lives.

In 2016 it was found that there are 416 schools where 50 per cent or more pupils are from Pakistani and Bangladeshi ethnic backgrounds. How many politicians send their children to those schools? If they left their ivory towers, they would see a very different picture – one where mass migration has led to fractured cities, isolated communities, and growing sectarianism.

What I saw recently in Handsworth, Birmingham showed just how far things have declined. Palestinian flags fluttered on lampposts; the Union Flag or St George’s Cross couldn’t be seen. Men outnumbered women on the street, shop signs and posters were emblazoned in foreign languages (with 1 in 7 unable to speak English well) and over half of the population are out of work.

In this ward 45 per cent of the population were not born in Britain and 92 per cent are ethnic minorities. This is not the diversity liberals celebrate as “enriching”, but a monolithic block of first, second and third generation migrants living culturally divergent lives.

It’s impossible to integrate areas like this, as the host society is absent. I challenge even the most devoted pro-migration campaigners to visit and describe it as a success story. It is anything but.

Out of sight, the shameful failures of mass migration are even more concerning. Cousin marriage remains common among some South Asian minorities, with the most recent data showing that in three inner-city Bradford wards almost half of mothers from the Pakistani community were married to a first or second cousin.

There are an estimated 85 Sharia Councils across the country – we simply do not know the full details, other than that they are growing in number. This is despite reports that many of these Councils condone wife-beating, and ignore marital rape and forced marriage. That is a stain on our country that should anger us all.

We have imported ethnic and religious tensions, meaning that conflicts on the other side of the world play out on Britain’s streets. In 2023, for instance, four police officers were injured after tensions in the Eritrean community led to clashes. We cannot accept that as normal.

A nation without a common language or cultural reference points to bind people together ceases to be a nation. In the UK today nearly a million people can’t speak English or can’t speak it well – a situation made worse by government translation services that allow people to get by without it.

Successive governments have rightly been criticised for failing to prevent this. In honesty, there hasn’t really been an integration policy worthy of the name. Cowardly politicians have turned a blind eye and allowed problems to fester. Often they’ve made it worse. Instead of encouraging assimilation, the British state has enforced differences through state-sponsored DEI. Rather than demand immigrants buy into the values, customs, and institutions that attracted them here in the first place, we have tolerated unacceptable practices that offend the British way of life.

Most appallingly of all, the British state has bungled programmes like Prevent which are designed to counter the biggest failures of integration, misallocating resources away from Islamist extremism.

A decade ago, in an independent review into integration, Baroness Casey gave a clarion call for change. But not one of her recommendations mentioned the need to end mass migration. The truth is it’s impossible to absorb the number of people coming into the country and retain a strong sense of national identity. On current trends, by 2050 as many as one in three of the UK population will have been born abroad. Like those who have come before, most of them will settle in urban centres, exacerbating our ongoing challenges. How can we possibly hope to integrate new arrivals into our way of life if there is nothing to integrate into?

That is why we desperately need to end mass migration. I resigned from the previous Government after I couldn’t secure any more reductions. The need for those changes are more urgent than ever.

In Casey’s report she mounted a spirited defence of so-called “British values” (which are, in reality, common Western values) like freedom of speech, freedom of religion and respect for one another. But only tackling extreme behaviour is a low bar for an integration strategy.

We must aspire for more. I want to raise my children, as my parents did, in a country bound by a strong sense of national community, shared customs and tradition, and pride in our history, landscape and literature. One in which people, regardless of their skin colour or faith, live side by side, never ghettoised. It will not be the Britain of yesteryear; however it can still have what Roger Scruton called a love of home.

At an event last week in the Midlands a man rose to ask me a question. He said he was a proud British Sikh, but then corrected himself and said he was, above all, proudly British. He went on to make a powerful speech for a more united country. He called for an end to religious prayers on our streets – explaining there are no shortages of mosques, gurdwaras, and temples – and despaired at the multitude of business groups he was invited to in the West Midlands which divide people by skin colour or faith.

“I am Sikh and a businessman”, he said. “I do not need a Sikh business association to express my views”. He ended by saying, in reference to the foreign flags flying in his neighbourhood that for him, “the Union Flag is the flag I live under and am loyal to, not the Palestinian flag.” Have pride in Britain he said. A standing ovation followed.

We must capture his spirit, and make ourselves one country, under one flag.

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

The government is hosting Iftars in Parliament.

Immigration is over a million a year.

The grooming gangs scandal is still going on.

And the one party many are pinning their hopes upon to stop it have called the police on their most popular MP for some mean words.

The day after the media manufactured a scandal and accused him of criticising the leader.

This is bad. It looks bad to Reform supporters.

I'm already seeing people transparently hoping to climb the ladder in Reform saying we should "move past" Rupert and throw him under the bus.

Reform cannot be losing its best man like this. It will just set back any chances of saving the country from economic, cultural, and demographic collapse another decade, when we don’t have time for this.

I want to have a family soon. I want some bloody hope.

For the good of the country: sort it out. There's too much at stake.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Reform now four points ahead in the latest polling.

We are going to win the next election.

Real change is coming.

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

The Conservative Party are proud of their disastrous record on immigration — and would do it again.

Please share this video far and wide.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I am asking the Home Office some questions this morning.

Will they commit to a full, free and fair national inquiry into the mass rape gang scandal? Publication of ALL detail, so the British people can see for themselves the extent of the horror.

Will they commit to deporting ALL foreign nationals involved? Including family members who were aware of the crimes, and therefore complicit.

Will they commit to stripping citizenship from dual nationals implicated, and deport them too?

Will they undertake a full investigation into officials who had knowledge of these crimes, yet failed to act? Even worse, proactively covering it up?

How many girls do they estimate have been affected?

What is the Home Office currently doing in order to prevent ongoing grooming, rape, exploitation or abuse of young British girls? How many girls are estimated to still be involved with these gangs?

Will they publish a full nationality breakdown of those convicted for such offences, along with the location of their crimes?

Will they publish a breakdown of the immigration status of those involved? On what grounds were they in the UK? Do they have previous convictions? How many foreign nationals found guilty have been released, but not deported? How many reoffences have occurred?

How many children have been born following a rape from these men? How many have been given access to the child, against the mother's wishes? How many have used the child as a route to remain in the UK? Will the Home Office commit to preventing this in the future?

Will the Home Secretary officially apologise to all those affected for the state's failure to act? And look to provide a comprehensive compensation scheme.

Will life-long sentences now be considered? For those British citizens involved in the crimes, but also those in positions of power who acted to cover up the scale of the abuse.

Which politicians, local and national, had knowledge of these events, but failed to act? Again, going as far to actively conceal what was truly happening.

This a debate that needs to happen, and it has been disgracefully ignored and suppressed for too long.

We will fight for answers in Parliament

[Reform UK @reformparty_uk]

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[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

Cancelling elections in some areas of the country where Reform are gaining momentum is the act of a desperate government.

They have the audacity to call us a “threat to democracy” whilst they act like third world dictators.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

We are not 'a threat to democracy' @HarrietHarman.

We ARE a threat to bureaucracy.

When we win the next election, the quango bonfire will be visible from space. Big Government slashed back. DEI gone OVERNIGHT.

It will be a glorious day!

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Media: No FBI employees at Jan 6

Media: No FBI employees at Jan 6

Media: No FBI employees at Jan 6

“What about the 26 paid informants?”

Media: *crickets*

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

Angela Rayner: "We have a housing crisis."

Trevor Phillips: "Are you content that 5 out of 7 new homes will go to new immigrants?"

Angela Rayner: "Well, that's not the reality... there's plenty of housing in the UK."

We are governed by liars and idiots
https://t.co/EQ6Kj7gTQI

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Incredible listening to Reeves and her minions yesterday on National Insurance hikes, and threshold cuts.

I've been thinking about it. I honestly don't think she knows what she's doing - there is no other explanation.

It's that, or she is deliberately trying to bankrupt thousands of British businesses, restrict pay rises for millions and push up costs for the entire population.

Her tax on employment is going to suffocate the British economy. I asked her to shoulder that responsibility. She looked me in the eye, and repeated that same black hole nonsense we're all sick and tired of hearing.

Reeves DOES NOT KNOW what she's doing.

Speak to almost anyone in charge of running a business that actually employs people - Labour's employment tax will prevent pay rises, withhold investment and drive up prices. It's going to kill countless firms.

Trying to generate economic growth and prosperity through tax rises is so brainlessly stupid it hurts.

People didn't vote Labour for this madness, in fact they specifically said they wouldn't raise taxes.

They were elected on a lie.

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

Nobody voted for this.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

You act surprised. We are reaping what you sowed.

This is what happens when a Prime Minister spends 9 years pushing toxic woke identity politics, dividing and subdividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion, region, age, wealth, etc.

On top of driving people apart, you systematically break what used to bring us together, saying Canada is a “post-national state” with “no core identity.”

You erased our veterans and military, the Famous Five and even Terry Fox from our passport to replace them with meaningless squirrels, snowflakes and a drawing of yourself swimming as a boy.

You opened the borders to terrorists and lawbreakers and called anyone who questioned it racist.

You send out your MPs to say one thing in a mosque and the opposite in a synagogue, one thing in a mandir and the opposite in a gurdwara.

You have made Canada a playground for foreign interference. You allowed Iran’s IRGC terrorists to legally operate here for four years after they murdered 55 of our citizens in a major unprovoked attack.

You passed laws that release rampant offenders from prison within hours of their 80th arrest.

And what is the result? Assassinations on Canadian soil, firebombings of synagogues, extremist violence against mandirs and gurdwaras, over 100 churches burned or vandalized (with barely any condemnation from you), all for a total 251% more hate crime.

And, while you were dancing, Montreal was burning.

We won’t let you divide us anymore. Call an election now.

We will fire you and reclaim our citizenship, our values, our lives, our freedom and, most of all, our country.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I respectfully submit this as a valid update:

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The story so far.
1. I am not a racist.
2. I didn’t post a racist tweet.
3. My tweet did not incite violence against any protected characteristic.
4. My fairly innocuous tweet was deleted a year ago.
5. Senior lawyers say my tweet does “not come near the threshold for criminal prosecution”.
6. But Essex Police upgraded the accusation from Non-Crime Hate Incident to offence under the Public order Act. Why?
7. Essex Police visited my home but refused to specify either the accusation or the accuser.
8. Under pressure, Essex Police deployed the terrorist-fighting Gold Command to investigate a solitary Welsh journalist 5ft 4 inches who still believes in freedom of speech. Weird, I know.
9. This is all nonsense. Deeply sinister, frightening nonsense and wholly disproportionate police over-reach if you ask me.
10. Last night, I realised I no longer feel safe in my own country. A terrible moment.
As Elon Musk said, “This must stop.” It really must.
@elonmusk

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

HOW INDEED.