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Centre right, brexit supporter, want English independence, respect for the rights of actual women and an end to net zero madness.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

What is a serious policy response to the sickening scenes in Belfast?

1. Ban all visas for anybody coming to the UK from Sudan.

2. Leave the ECHR so we can control our own borders & laws.

3. Repeal Human Rights Act so the ECHR no longer enshrined in UK.

4. Derogate from Refugee Convention - no longer fit for purpose.

5. Points 2-4 disempower activist army of lawyers.

6. Now, detain & deport all illegals, foreign criminals, & review all asylum decisions of last 5 years.

7. Use foreign aid & visa penalties to force nations to comply.

8. Abolish indefinite leave to remain, reverse the Boriswave & end all welfare benefits and social housing subsidies for people who aren’t British.

9. Start holding public officials to account for decisions they make.

10. End low-skill, low-wage, non-European migration that makes us poorer, is a net cost, & drives crime.

11. Reshape entire migration policy around very small amount of high skill workers from culturally compatible nations.

12. Until then, slash welfare benefits & get Brits back to work.

All this is possible at the next general election.

Because almost all of it is Reform party policy.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Tensions were not inflamed by social media or the ‘far right’… tensions were inflamed by foreign monsters raping, sexually assaulting and killing Brits.

The End.

No argument.

[Innocent Bystander @supertolerant]

I’m sitting laughing at all these racists complaining about a Sudanese man trying to saw someone’s head off in the street in Belfast.

At the end of the day, you do all realise that St George was Turkish, right?

[Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip]

A year before 7/7 I was stabbed, beaten and left for dead on a street in Manchester. It was a gang of Somali youths. My colleagues - I was working at a university - couldn’t bring themselves to blame the perpetrators. It was poverty, it was me, it was anything. But it wasn’t the masked thugs with stanley knives.

7/7 was the same. London Mayor Ken Livingstone urged us not to apportion blame. Even now the MSM refuses to acknowledge the Islamist nature of the crime. It’s an extraordinary state of affairs.

Years later, in 2017, when twenty-two people, some of them children, were killed in the Manchester Arena attack, history repeated itself. Don’t look back in anger. One Love. Shit poetry.

The stabbing I got over. But it took me years to come to terms with the pathetic reaction from the hand-wringing identitarians. That was really, really damaging. So I understand full well the harm we do to ourselves when we pretend 7/7 was some bizarre and contextless tragedy.

It was Islamist terror - and there’s more to come.

And you know what? We have absolutely no hope of effectively dealing with it.

[Alex Barnicoat @AlexBarnicoat_]

For years I've not been vocal enough about the UK and immigration over fears of being arrested.

But now, I've changed my mind.

Immigration, legal and illegal, is the number one threat to the United Kingdom.

After what happened in Belfast yesterday, I am happy to go to jail for speaking up about it.

With over 2 million followers, there is a serious risk I could be arrested for saying what I'm about to say but I do not care.

Every single immigrant to the UK must be deported, if they are not a net positive on our country.

Keir Starmer must immediately release the nationality and details of this terrorist, who tried beheading a man.

Time and time again, almost every week, a tragic terrorist attack is brushed under the rug because it's carried out by an immigrant.

Whether it's foolish religious rights allowing Henry Nowak to bleed to death, Axel Rudakubana massacring young girls and being given free reign in prison or now this tragedy in Belfast.

If you don't speak English, you must go.

If you don't like our country, you must go.

If million must go, then millions must go.

The only fix is mass deportations, and I do not care about the consequences of saying that.

Britain has never been more dangerous, and the real numbers of foreigners in this country are far beyond what we believe.

If I am not in prison, I will be running in the next general election and will be at the forefront of trying to save our United Kingdom.

I hope to run alongside @RupertLowe10 and @RestoreBritain if you will allow me.

May God Save our once Great Nation.

[🇬🇧British and Proud🇬🇧 @unionjackspirit]

Starmers world

[Phil Merson @therealpmbo]

@Keir_Starmer

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

He’s dating Kim Kardashian, who has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion. He's worth nearly $500 million and lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK.

Remarkable lack of self-awareness.

[Rush @exRAF_Al]

The same Lewis Hamilton who used a corporate leasing structure to save money on taxes (around £3.3 million in VAT) when acquiring his Bombardier Challenger 605 private jet in 2013? The same Lewis Hamilton who bought the £16.5 million jet through his British Virgin Islands company (Stealth Aviation Ltd) and who then set up an Isle of Man leasing company (Stealth (IOM) Ltd, to import it into the EU and sub-leased it to a UK jet management firm (TAG Aviation), which in turn provided it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company under charter agreements? *That* Lewis Hamilton?

[Debate Facts @DebateOnFacts]

@PikettyWIL Communism on steroids. And meth.

This is utter lunacy.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.

Hampshire Police had that tape.

They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.

Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.

Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.

Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.

This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.

That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.

Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.

- @Banksycat

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Labour risks being forced to seek emergency help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Britain lurches toward a debt crisis, leading economists are now warning.

Former IMF chief economist Ken Rogoff says, in a new interview, that there is “more than 50:50 chance” of a major UK debt crisis before the end of this decade.

He is joined by Sir Charlie Bean, a former senior official at both the Bank of England and the Office for Budget Responsibility, who says the need for an IMF bail-out is now a “material risk” for the British economy.

I not only firmly agree with Ken Rogoff and Sir Charlie Bean – but have been repeatedly issuing the very same warnings for a very long time.

Because the grave risk of a major fiscal meltdown has been apparent for at least the last two years – to anyone who combines serious knowledge of UK economics and politics and global debt markets with an open mind.

The UK's public finances were already fragile when Labour took office back in July 2024.

But this government's misguided, ideologically-driven statist policies have made a bad situation much worse, seriously increasing the danger of a deep fiscal crisis - which would cause a disastrous state funding shortfall and a very nasty inflation spike.

That would result in Downing Street being forced to follow the orders of unelected technocrats flown in from Washington and elsewhere.

It would be a very major national humiliation combined with a deep economic slump and an even more intense cost-of-living crisis – in which low-income households, as ever, would suffer the most.

Yet those of us that have shown the brains and courage to point out these inconvenient truths over recent months and years have long been dismissed and derided for our trouble - not only by ignorant politicians and approval-seeking journalists but also the overwhelming majority of "leading economists".

Ahead of the general election in mid-2024, with Labour on course to win, the conventional wisdom among the great sages of broadsheet journalism and the economics establishment was that "the adults would soon be back in charge" ... Labour would "get lucky with the economy" ... and "Britain would now enjoy an extended period of political and fiscal stability".

I thought that was total nonsense – not least as I was well aware Labour's plans irresponsibly to increase borrowing and spending would be met with deep scepticism by the global pensions funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors that lend governments serious money.

My weekly @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column of 23rd June 2024, a fortnight ahead of the general election, was a total outlier. I recounted the disaster of 1976 – when Britain was forced to go "cap in hand" to the IMF for a bailout – and warned that "The Ghosts of the 1970s" would haunt Labour's (so-called) economic resurrection".

Six months later, after the October 2024 "Hallowen" budget in which Chancellor Rachel Reeves did indeed sharply hike borrowing and spending, I assessed the market reaction then doubled-down – warning more assertively in my column of 12th January 2025 that "The UK risks a return to 1976 unless Reeves changes course".

And then again on 20th July 2025, as Labour's policies raised the costs of doing business, translating into price pressures which pushed up government borrowing costs even more, I again cautioned that "Inflation risks are taking Britain to the debt-crisis cliff edge".

"It’s now screamingly obvious that Labour’s crude Keynesianism – “pump priming” the economy by upping state borrowing and spending – isn’t working," I wrote in that column last July.

"Worse than that, this Government’s actions are pushing Britain towards a budgetary crisis every bit as serious as that in 1976 – when the UK was forced to go “cap in hand” to the IMF for a bail-out".

It's been a lonely task issuing these warnings. I've been hounded in public debates, slagged off by senior civil servants and often dismissed by "leading economists" as "alarmist".

So what do these same "leading economists" now say to Rogoff (Harvard Professor, Former IMF Chief Economist) and Bean (LSE Professor and Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England)?

The "economics establishment" – with very few honourable exceptions, the brilliant @jagjit_chadha among them – has been and remains extremely reluctant to point out the deeply unsustainable nature of this government's addiction to ever more borrowing.

The systemic fiscal dangers of evermore "tax and spend" – and the prospect of a serious spike in gilt yields and related fiscal meltdown – are now so real and present as to be completely undeniable.

Yet the UK government is about to shift even further to the left, pushing up borrowing and spending even more under a new leader, in a bid to appease the massed ranks of economic illiterates among Labour's Parliamentary party and activist base – making those dangers even more acute.

Yet, still, the silence among "public intellectual" economists is deafening.

I'm glad the likes of Ken Rogoff and Charlie Bean are now issuing clear warnings. So where is the rest of the "economics establishment" - those who purport to understand fiscal management and financial markets, and often funded by taxpayers' money?

Britain is now clearly in the crosshairs of a very serious danger. The government's creditors are increasingly fickle and based overseas – with no regulatory or cultural obligations to lend money to the UK government.

Those holding UK gilts are increasingly "speculative" rather than "strategic" long-term investors – looking for quick returns, financing their government bond purchases with "leverage" (money borrowed from elsewhere), which will quickly be withdrawn when senitment decisively shifts, causing a plunge in gilt prices and a sharp additional surge in government borrowing costs, setting up a vicious circle.

The UK government is very heavily indebted – and the global investors we rely on to bankroll a huge slice of our state spending are alarmed that of the £132bn the government borrowed last year, no less than £110bn was spent on debt interest – as I wrote in a column on 17th May 2026, "As Labour lurches further left, the markets are calling time".

Global investors are alarmed the UK has consistently had the highest inflation in the G7 (which pushes up borrowing costs) and has easily the highest share of index-linked debt (which magnifies the burden of inflation on the state's balance sheet).

And they are deeply, deeply alarmed that when Labour came to power in mid-2024, the Office for Budget Responsibility was forecasting additional state borrowing of £323bn by 2029, the scheduled end of this Parliament.

But Labour’s runaway spending and growth-crushing tax rises mean that the same five-year borrowing forecast is now £583bn – 80pc higher. And still, the trade unions, MPs and Labour activists who will choose Starmer’s successor now want even more.

It is not too late to pull the UK back from the fiscal brink, to avoid the extremely painful and deep, lingering damage of being forced to go to the IMF and perhaps other multi-lateral creditors for a bailout.

It is not too late to avoid the inflation surge, the currency crash, the shocking blow to consumer and business confidence alongside the sky-high interest rates that will seriously whack our economy – or the perhaps even deeper damage of yet more of the British electorate losing faith in the ability of our establishment to manage the country in a manner that avoids imposing serious hardship on so many hard-working people simply trying to make their way.

But our political and media class needs to start acknowledging the economic and financial truth – that the UK government is borrowing and spending too much, taxation is now so high that it's hammering growth and employment, and that trying to finally get the economy moving by "moving further left", borrowing and spending even more, will result in a fiscal collapse.

Smart, experienced, high-profile economists need to start speaking out – as Rogoff and Bean just have – raising the alarm in a bid to force the broader establishment to face reality. Before it's too late.

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[Debate Facts @DebateOnFacts]

@RandomIndivid01 @RabbiPoupko Name one since 1994 when they signed a peace treaty with Jordan.

[Debate Facts @DebateOnFacts]

@RandomIndivid01 @RabbiPoupko I'm sure any minute now you can show where they've attacked Egypt or Jordan.

Any minute now.

That'll show me.

Oh.

[Debate Facts @DebateOnFacts]

@RandomIndivid01 @RabbiPoupko The Iranian proxy forces firing on Israel are deliberately targeting civilians.

But regardless, Israel is entitled to defend its civilian and military targets.

You'll note they never need to attack Egypt or Jordan.

[Debate Facts @DebateOnFacts]

@unknownjourny @6igantuar Amongst the gibberish of your reply...

You do know Egypt is actually in Africa, right?

[6igantuar @6igantuar]

"Not all Sikhs are responsible for the behaviour of the bad Sikhs"

"You owe us reparations for slavery because some white people owned slaves"

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Every single left wing account on here is like:

George Floyd = "I can understand the rage and fury"

Henry Nowak = "Don't be divisive"

[Donna Rachel - The Dissident Councillor 🕊️ @Donna_Rachel_]

Jesus, the footage of the guy pulled off the wall gets worse and worse. This shows the lead up to it. He’s sitting on the wall and they just start pounding him.

This has to be it now. No more backing down. Britain has become a totalitarian state.

[Debate Facts @DebateOnFacts]

@8eardedMan @JuliaHB1 Well you're a stupid cunt.