8 lines every flag-shagging plastic “patriot” has in their playbook
1.“I want my country back” - From what? You voted for the party that ran it for 14 years.
2.“Our grandads didn’t fight for this” - Your grandads would be ashamed that you can’t find Normandy on a map. They fought with Poles, Sikhs, Gurkhas, and West Indians beside them. They’d have more in common with the immigrants you hate than plastic patriots sharing memes about them.
3.“This isn’t the Britain I grew up in” - Correct. It has lower crime, longer life expectancy, and better healthcare than the 1970s you’re romanticising. You just don’t remember the power cuts and three-day weeks.
4.“Britain is broken” - The most unpatriotic sentence in the English language, repeated daily by people say they love their country.
5. “We’re full” - The Netherlands has twice the population density and somehow manages. The UK is not full. It’s just had 14 years of no housebuilding and you need someone darker than you to blame for it.
6.“We look after our own first” - You vote for parties that cut disability benefits, froze nurses’ pay, gave tax breaks to the rich and closed Sure Start centres. You don’t look after anyone.
7.“Stop the boats” - The Tories spent £700 million on Rwanda to deport four people. Zero boats were stopped. You cheered anyway.
8.“Starmer is a traitor” - The man prosecuted terrorists, paedophile rings, and war criminals as DPP. You import American culture war propaganda from people who openly despise our allies, trash your own country 24/7, and follow convicted fraudsters who lied about where they were born. The only ones treacherously trashing Britain’s reputation daily are you.
For the love of God, boycott Amazon. Stop buying things you dint need from that damb cursed platform and use alternative legitimate sites that aren't contributing to the exploitation and inhumane treatment of workers, and not contributing to makinv this dumb clown richer.
Last year, the Telegraph published a long, detailed piece by Georgina Fuller, entitled:
'We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays — Labour’s VAT raid forces six-figure families to make lifestyle sacrifices'
It was all FAKE!
Made up, every single last word of it, including the stock photos of a happy smiley family.
The author had concocted a family from thin air to take a swipe at the Labour government's VAT addition to private schooling.
In hindsight, when we look at the names she came up with, perhaps alarm bells should have rung — Al, Alexander and Ali Moy. That's the names of the family. Oh, and Harry!
It was removed fairly swiftly after some complaints but, the article was incredibly detailed about the fake family:
“The Moys, who are originally from Singapore but also lived in New York for 20 years, have decided that rather than disrupt their children’s education, they will make sacrifices in other areas of their lives.”
The bit that riles me in particular is that IPSO have today ruled that the Telegraph must publish an apology and display the ruling on their homepage for all to see, and they have ...
way, way down the page, under an article entitled “The best and worst supermarket barn flakes”.
This is such a monumental breach of the rules, but they can file it so far away so that no one even sees it.
I write so often about the failings of our journalistic standards, but this work of fiction is a disgrace. To make up such a ludicrous article with that level of detail.
If you want to read the IPSO ruling, it's here: https://t.co/Did5sGsREL
And if you want to read the original article, it's here: https://t.co/qrXejV9UrU
An incredible retraction by the Daily Telegraph today. They have apologised for publishing an article last year headlined: “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t afford to go on five holidays.” The entire story was fabricated; the family did not exist.
The biggest tax avoiding companies:
Amazon
Meta Platforms (Facebook)
Alphabet (Google)
Netflix
Apple
Microsoft
Tesla
Gilead Sciences
Nike
Starbucks
These people are not on our side.
You have now been at war for 232 out of 249 years of your existence. You are the largest arms exporter on earth (40%), with 800+ military bases across 70+ countries. You are the greatest enemy of peace the world has ever known.
UK govt finances better than expected in January.
Ridiculous single statistic obsession.
Must prioritize public welfare.
Unemployment rising, millions in poverty, unfit roads, unaffordable housing, NHS queues, deindustrialization, endemic profiteering.
https://t.co/VD7sohUii5
We’ve all had enough of politicians lying to us, right?
Reckon on that we can all agree
Which is why I’m absolutely buzzing for this legislation that would criminalise lying in politics
…”punishable by up to two years in jail!”
GAME-CHANGER
https://t.co/IGsDkMzE1G
This week it was announced that inflation fell from 3.4% to 3.0%
This means the base rate will probably be reduced again from current level of 3.75%
When Labour took office it was 5.25%
NHS waiting lists are down & continue to fall
Growth up in 2025
The media - “Chagos!”