Great news! And now all those undocumented young men who arrived in the UK illegally are on their way home. Oh, wait, no they're not. They've been moved into bedsits in residential streets next door to families. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
@NUFCMurph Does Eddie transcend into Elangas body when he plays? He puts him out there and its Elangas job to show what he can do. If he plays shite that's on him.
China restricts VPNs.
Iran restricts VPNs.
Russia restricts VPNs.
Now Britain is looking at doing the same.
The fact we're even having this conversation should alarm everyone who values privacy and freedom online.
Keir Starmer has completely lost the plot.
The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.
The last sentence is the real meat and potatoes of this.
What's being promoted as a 'social media ban for children', is really an ID check for every adult.
Listen to this smart woman. It’s why the silent majority is not being heard right now. But history shows us this over & over, yet still we haven’t learnt.
Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.
But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.
That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.
There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.
The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”
Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.
That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.
I don't condone any of what I've seen in Belfast. I mean, I'd go to prison if I did, but all the same, it's not my preferred way of doing things. But then my preferred way of doing things (voting and public debate) hasn't made the slightest impact on the decision-making of the state. As such, there was a certain inevitability about this.
Moreover, it's not really my place to judge. I am an extremely fortunate individual who happens to live in a 99% white area, miles from any "diversity" and thanks to my self-employed status, I don't have to self-censor or live a double life at work. I don't have to bottle up my opinions. I actually make a modest income by expressing them.
Most low income working class people, meanwhile, have to live in close proximity to diversity and the squalor that goes with it. Their votes are even more worthless as mine, and they can't speak their minds freely because there'll be some HR ghoul in the mix who will fire them. Ordinary people bear the burden of potentially losing everything for having the wrong opinions.
Meanwhile, they can work hard to carve out a little corner of peace for themselves, just for the local authority to turn next door into a migrant HMO with illegal Deliveroo drivers coming and going at all hours. It's their communities being turned into alien, hostile and violent slums. To then say there is no justification for riots is to tell them they simply have to suck it up - even when they run the risk of an African savage beheading them. What are they supposed to do? Write to their MP? Everyone has a breaking point.
While politicians call for calm, they can only expect to be heeded if they actually do something, but remaining calm when the politicians continue to sit on their hands as people are butchered in the street is absolutely bovine. Ultimately these riots are a consequence of the wilful deafness of politicians, and the blame for what we've seen tonight lies squarely in their shop.