Donna S

Critical thinker, anti group-think, open to reason and debate. Usually polite. No DMs.

[Donna S @Boo65864]

Practice with the little fireballs

[Gassy @Gasseous_Clay]

Lance, capitalism isn’t “let the vultures asset-strip and walk away with the cash while 11,000 jobs and high streets burn.”
Tice isn’t calling for a taxpayer bailout. He’s calling for the owners (Gordon Brothers) to stop starving a viable retailer of its own cash so they can flip the corpse.
Reform gets it. You don’t.

[Cllr Luke Evans - KCC @CllrLukeEvans]

Been canvassing today in Manston and I didn't meet a single person voting Conservative so I don't believe The Telegraph poll one little bit. Needless to say ReformUK had a great deal of support on the doors 😀

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@TheTVGrump @ZiaYusufUK Barring a democratically elected representative for a different viewpoint appears also to escape her.
Here's what he said - precisely.

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@T2002David40151 @stevebell01 @ZiaYusufUK Not 'worded differently'. The money collected as 'contributions' benefits only other Islamic students as it will be ring-fenced to help future students on the sharia-compliant loans programme.
It is, effectively a two-tier system.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

I just got a note from a Jewish mother in Leeds who took her kids to the Vue cinema at The Light for a birthday on Remembrance Sunday.

The staff member checking tickets was wearing a Palestinian badge, and she told him she didn't think staff should wear political badges that can make customers feel uncomfortable.

She says two managers were called, her family was refused entry, and one manager told her she wouldn't get a refund if she kept complaining.

@vuecinemas, can you confirm your version? Are your staff allowed to wear political badges on shift, and what happens to a customer who comes in with her children and says a badge makes her feel intimidated?

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@DHKITCH His exact words for which he was barred
Which part do you disagree with?

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@Nocapitulating @TimeForReform29 @danwootton Men make the worst rabid leftists.
Bloody misogynist.
Restore no doubt.

[Haryan Glaeddyv - Elder Zianist @Haryan_Glaeddyv]

God, someone please take his phone off him.

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@stevebell01 @ZiaYusufUK That would be you.
These interest free loans aren't available to anybody yet.
Neither will they be for all - only those unable to access normal loans due to their Islamic religion, developed in conjunction with, and managed by the Islamic Finance Council.

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the fighting stopped.

Today, in Clacton, I honour the courage and bravery of those who never came home.

May their sacrifice never be forgotten.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

There is a distinct, morbid comedy in watching the Conservative Party roleplay as a radical fiscal opposition to the exact welfare apparatus they spent fourteen years meticulously constructing.

Kemi Badenoch and CCHQ have proudly published a slide deck promising £36 billion in welfare savings. The centrepiece of this fiscal renaissance? Saving £13.7 billion by "ending claims for mild mental health conditions and routine back pain".

It requires a staggering level of institutional amnesia to publish this without blushing. It was the Conservative government that designed the Universal Credit rollout and the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) frameworks. It was Conservative Chancellors who utilized the Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) designation as a dumping ground to park millions of working-age Britons on permanent sickness benefits, deliberately hiding the true scale of economic inactivity from the headline unemployment statistics. Having deliberately engineered a dependency trap that ballooned the disability rolls to 3.5 million people, they now expect the electorate to applaud them for discovering the cost.

But the true administrative cowardice is buried in the small print. CCHQ promises to end benefit access for foreign nationals to save £9.5 billion, but explicitly includes the caveat: "(excluding EUSS)".

Even in opposition, the modern Conservative Party cannot bring itself to close the borders of the British Treasury. The EU Settlement Scheme is the largest structural vulnerability in our welfare system, granting over 6.1 million approvals and facilitating over 740,000 current Universal Credit claims. By explicitly exempting the EUSS, CCHQ is confirming they have zero intention of shutting down the exact bureaucratic backdoor that transformed Britain into a staging ground for transnational dependency.

This is the grim reality of the legacy uniparty. The Conservatives spend a decade expanding the administrative state and inflating the welfare ledger. They hand the broken, bankrupt machinery over to a paralyzed Labour government, wait a few years, and then publish focus-grouped graphics promising to dismantle their own legacy.

This is exactly why @RobertJenrick severed ties with this exhausted syndicate. You cannot reform a structurally bankrupt welfare model using the same civil servants, the same legacy chancellors, and the same focus-group cowardice that built it. Until a government is willing to gut the EUSS loophole and permanently disconnect foreign nationals from the British exchequer, these announcements are nothing but opposition theatre. @reformparty_uk @Conservatives @UKLabour

[Angus MacIntyre @AngusReform]

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 108 years ago the fighting ceased on the Western Front.

It’s really important to take a moment today to recognise and honour all those who lost their lives in defence of our nation and those who made the ultimate sacrifice more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We will remember them.

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@baz_zigar @Luis_Cook1 @reformparty_uk @RestoreBritain Luis is one of ours - Reform.

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@ceedubbayou @GoodwinMJ Much variation between pollsters and their methods
Including past-vote weighting - which evidently is no longer appropriate.
I will NEVER return to the Tories. Ex lifelong member and donor.

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Rubbish. Your bill is called the "English ETHNIC Identity Bill"

You criticised the flying of the English flag. Now you seek to deny the English their unique ethnicity, their ultimate & most intrinsic identity

Denying a group their ethnic heritage contributes to "cultural genocide" or "ethnocide" according to the 1944 definition

Polling shows that ALMOST ALL ethnic minorities in England still understand that "English" is a fundamentally ethnic identity to which they do not belong

It is only certain parts of the White British community - and activists like yourself - who seek to engage in ethnic erasure

Such a large percentage of White British people disagree with you, that it is dangerous to go down this needless path

Acts like yours are the reason for the growth of ethno-nationalism, not to mention political extremism. Their rise is a direct reaction to needless provocation from leftist elites

If one is born and raised in England, a person may be culturally English -- but that is wholly distinct and separate from being ethnically English. The two should not be conflated.

The two identities - ethnically English and culturally English - have happily co-existed for generations - with the historically tiny culturally English understanding their status and preferring to identity as civically and legally "British" rather than English.

This was done partly out of respect for the ethnic English, who accounted for 92% of the population of England as recently as 1991. But it was also because they naturally identified with their own ethnic group.

This is the only correct view. By way of illustration:

An Englishman born and raised in Japan, who was brought up in Japanese culture and who speaks Japanese with a flawless Japanese accent is clearly culturally Japanese -- but he remains ethnically English. That is an immutable characteristic.

In contrast with England, however, an immigrant to Japan can also be legally Japanese. Japan is a sovereign country of which he is a passport-holding citizen.

So this Englishman is culturally and legally Japanese but he is clearly not ethnically Japanese. I'd wager that 99%+ of Japanese people would agree with this - they'd say it was blindingly obvious

There is such an Englishman in Japan, actually. His name is Joshua Thomson, and he is a sensation for precisely this reason. He identifies as culturally Japanese but acknowledges he is not ethnically Japanese

But Englishness is an even more exceptional case. Unlike Japan, England is not a sovereign nation. It has no citizenship or passports. There is no nationality law.

One may be culturally English - as, say, the footballer Ian Wright is. But Ian Wright can no more be ethnically English than he (or anyone) can be legally English.

So that begs the question: what is the point of doing this?

What is behind this dangerous, provocative and completely unnecessary desire to erase / undermine English ethnicity, by far the most historically significant and consequential identity for creating the England we know and love?

Ethnic minorities are not calling for it. Poling shows that a mere 10% identify as English. The rest identify either as British or of the ethnicity of their ancestral homeland.

If anyone still believes the myth that the Liberal Democrats are a "centrist" party of "moderates" - falling somewhere between the Tories and Labour - this reprehensible policy by one of their MPs must surely blast it to smithereens.

Economically they may be more centrist than Labour - but culturally they are every bit as reckless and dangerous.

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@DarrenJEvans @RUKWales @LlyrPowell @HelenJennerMS @joemartin1066 What was the question?

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@jim_nauseum2 @RUKWales @LlyrPowell @HelenJennerMS @joemartin1066 It's the right way to deal with agenda-driven journos who want to push their own narrative. A world apart from asking questions in Parliament.

[Reform UK Wales @RUKWales]

To show our support for Joe Martin and to defend free speech, Reform will boycott Senedd Plenary.

We will not let our voters be silenced.

[Donna S @Boo65864]

@MaggiesMole @christiancalgie Don't be silly.
This is admin.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Exc: Raheem Kassam to launch 12-man strong website, aimed at taking disillusioned Telegraph subscribers

Former Farage aide expected to base it on the old Breitbart London model

https://t.co/wxwAe9zKAY