A small village of just 800 people in Palestine is set to receive 3,750 Jewish settlers, outnumbering the locals 5:1.
This is genocide! 🤬
Oh, they're Africans being moved into an English village? Then it's totally fine 🤗
🚨NEWS: Lib Dem MP Callum Miller has complained about illegal migrants being housed in his constituency despite the lib dems supporting more illegal migrants coming to the UK
Hot take that will get me crucified in the UK 🇬🇧💀:
The NHS costs $255 billion a year. That’s more than the entire national budgets of Egypt, Bangladesh, and Pakistan combined - three countries running health, education, defence, and everything else for 550 million people - and they’re still $40 billion short of matching what Britain spends on “free” GP appointments and hip replacements for 65 million.
It’s not a health service. It’s a bureaucratic Godzilla in a hospital gown, devouring the economy one billion at a time.
The UK can’t tax its way out of this. You can squeeze the rich until they flee (they already are), hike taxes until no one bothers earning (getting there), and the beast will still be hungry next fiscal year, asking for another 5%.
The NHS isn’t free. It’s just invoiced to your grandchildren.
Break it up. Privatise it. Sell it off in pieces over 10 years. Use the proceeds to pay down the debt before it hits 200% of GDP and Britain becomes a museum of its former self.
“But healthcare is a right!” Sure. So is food … and Tesco seems to manage without a £200 billion state bureaucracy and an 18-month waiting list for a sandwich!
One of my favorite copes in new archeology is the great "Zimbabwe Ruins" which we're supposed to be told they built these Greco style walls and towers to guard mudhuts.
Isn’t it mad how religion can overrule animal rights laws, security laws on covering your face, noise nuisance laws, and even laws on carrying a dangerous weapon.
No religion should afford you extra rights, none.
LAWS SHOULD BE FOR ALL, NOT WHAT GOD YOU BELIEVE IN.
If an English guy says that Bangladesh has a culture of raping kids, he goes to jail. If a Bangladeshi guy says that Bangladesh has a culture of raping kids, he gets out of jail.
After WW2 didn’t the UK do well under a more socialist government - it built the NHS, the welfare state and home ownership boomed.
Well yes and no.
The UK under a more socialist government went from the largest empire in history to needing an IMF bailout in the space of a single lifetime.
All western democracies built out a healthcare service and a welfare state in the 1900s. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Western Europe, the Nordics, Japan, Singapore… All of them have sophisticated health services and welfare systems.
The UK didn’t actually do anything remarkable with the NHS relative to its peers. The standout system is the USA which chose a more commercial approach but it also contributes about 40x more medical breakthroughs.
Home ownership rates boomed across the western world too as banks relished lending to the two-income household for the first time in history.
Here’s what is remarkable…After WW2 Germany and Japan were in total ruin. They embraced capitalism and their economies grew larger than the UKs. Singapore and Hong Kong leaned into capitalism and became beacons of prosperity in an otherwise poorer region.
It could be argued that if the UK had of adopted an aggressively free-market capitalist approach after WW2 we would have had an amazing health service and a welfare system sitting on top of a powerhouse economy with a higher standard of living.
As Germany has swung back towards socialism, their economy has gone into decline. Prior to WW2 the UK was a global producer of manufactured goods of all kinds - today it’s nearly impossible to find things made in Britain because the regulations make it near impossible.
Socialism didn’t build the NHS. A health service was going to happen anyway. Socialism simply held back the productive economy when the UK needed it most.
Port Talbot’s blast furnaces are closed. 2,000 workers have paid the price.
The political class calls it climate progress.
But if steel is made in India instead of Britain, emissions haven’t disappeared they’ve just been outsourced.
UK gets poorer. The climate gets no benefit.
Poor guy. Really hope that stabbing someone to death helped him with his trauma. I'm so glad my government secretly airlifted 35,000 of these guys in without telling us.