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FYI, I'm now writing a weekly wrap based on my posts here and elsewhere. Latest edition below 👇
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The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on “anti-Muslim hostility”.
The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam.
Under this guidance, criticism of Islam could have been recorded as an anti-social behaviour incident and potentially appeared on DBS checks, affecting someone’s ability to work as a teacher, carer, or in other regulated professions.
South Wales Police has backed down because the Free Speech Union threatened them with a judicial review if it chose to press ahead with the policy.
The force has described this move as a “pause” to the guidance — but we think it is highly unlikely to return.
We must also thank Shadow Equalities Minister @ClaireCoutinho for referring South Wales Police to the Equality and Human Rights Commission after we brought this issue to her attention.
Blasphemy laws were abolished by Parliament 18 years ago. We must not allow them to return through the back door.
Let this be a warning to any other public body — particularly police forces — considering the adoption of its own blasphemy laws.
Watch Lord Young below 👇
It’s not social media that’s “inflaming tensions”.
It’s not Elon Musk.
It’s not Nigel Farage.
It’s not the ‘far-right’.
It is the very deliberate policy of mass uncontrolled immigration & open borders.
This policy has to end or it will destroy Western nations.
Belfast Tonight. Britain Tomorrow. The Trajectory Is Set.
On Monday night a man was pinned to a residential street in north Belfast and stabbed repeatedly in the face and neck. Members of the public intervened. One used a hurling stick. By Tuesday night three houses and a Middle Eastern supermarket were burning. Infants were carried from neighbouring properties. A police vehicle was set alight. Politicians called for calm.
Remember this night. Not because it is exceptional. Because it is not.
This is where the road leads. Not in twenty years. Now. Belfast has experienced serious immigration-related disorder for three consecutive years. The same cycle every time. Attack. Outrage. Disorder. Calls for calm. Nothing. The next incident. What is playing out in Belfast is not a malfunction. It is the destination. A state that cannot name the cause manages the consequence instead, and calls it governance.
Now project forward. Not with imagination. With arithmetic. Over 200,000 people have arrived by small boat since 2018. The majority are unvetted young men from countries with no cultural alignment with the host society. They are housed in communities without consent. Dispersed without warning. The removal rate is four percent. The government knows the other ninety-six percent are staying. It has decided to manage that fact rather than reverse it. Every year the number grows. Every year the concentration deepens. Every year the friction increases.
In ten years those concentrations will not be streets. They will be districts. In twenty years they will be cities within cities, governed by parallel authority, answering to parallel loyalties. We have watched this happen in France. The banlieues were built accommodation by accommodation, retreat by retreat, until the French state no longer entered them except in force. Britain is on the same road, travelling faster.
The trigger events will multiply. One policing incident. One foreign conflict landing on a British street. One court case, one arrest, one viral video. Any spark will do because the kindling has been laid by policy and left to dry by neglect. The riots will not be contained to one city for one night. They will spread, as they spread in France, as they spread across England last summer, because the grievance is not local. It is national. And the anger on both sides will harden with every cycle.
Public order will not hold at current trajectory. The police already negotiate where they once enforced. Investigations are quietly dropped. Reports go unfiled. The state keeps the peace by lowering the bar for what constitutes peace. That bar will keep falling because the alternative requires confronting what the political class has spent thirty years refusing to confront.
The political system will bend to the new demography. It already has. Candidates selected on foreign conflicts. Councils controlled by sectarian bloc voting. Representatives answering to communal leaderships rather than constituents. That process will accelerate as the demographic weight shifts.
And somewhere in this trajectory a trigger event will occur that cannot be managed. A mass casualty attack. A riot that becomes an insurrection. A video so barbaric it breaks the remaining political consensus around managed silence. After that the response will be less controlled, less proportionate and less reversible than anything a government could have delivered by acting fifteen years earlier when the choice still existed.
Britain is not sleepwalking into this. The eyes are wide open. The trajectory is known. The choices being made are deliberate. Every week that passes without a closed border, a functioning removal system and an honest political reckoning is a week in which the future described above becomes more certain and less avoidable.
Belfast on Monday night is not a warning. The warnings came years ago and were ignored. Belfast on Monday night is the bill beginning to arrive.
@Keir_Starmer This is the direct result of policies of immigration and “multiculturalism you and the rest of the metroelite political and media classes celebrate.
Take your faux outrage and shove it up your arse.
You are fooling no one.
This is simply not true @Keir_Starmer.
You absolutely DO tolerate abhorrent scenes of violence like this attack. Just like you tolerate all the rapes and sexual assaults of women and girls by illegal migrants.
You - and most of the political class - decided long ago that these crimes are a price worth paying in return for achieving your multicultural, diverse, open bordered nirvana.
So don't pretend to be shocked and don't wring your hands in sadness. This is the predictable (and predicted) result of the policies YOU support.
He flew from Paris (safe) to Dublin (safe) then got a bus into Britain (unsafe now!).
Then was given leave to remain.
Astonishing incompetence.
General election now.
BLOOMBERG DEBUNKS THE NBER 8%
Bloomberg Economics have studied the NBER paper that proposed that Brexit had cost the UK 8% of its GDP - and found the model to be misleading.
The number just keeps getting smaller and smaller.
https://t.co/bP3s5k9Ixf
Has it never occurred to you that one of the main reasons that’s true (largely) is that the UK is no longer subject to the sort of Brussels’ prudential regulatory regimes that have already stymied AI in the European Union and are turning the EU into a mid-tech backwater? No? Never?
There is overwhelming evidence that increasing CGT rates reduces CGT revenues & cutting rates increases CGT revenues. Brian Monteith sets out that evidence both domestic & international in a must-read article for @MoneyTelegraph.
"What does it take for dim-witted politicians like Streeting & Burnham to understand the policy of hiking GCT rates to income tax levels is a dud? Do we have to experiment with it another four times over 30 years?" asks Brian.
Evidence in the thread..
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I’ve seen this video.
Made me sick to the pit of my stomach. I’m hoping the victim is ok🙏🏻.
Also makes me feel a rage too about what has been done to this country.
And no, I don’t feel that way because Farage or anyone else told me to.
I feel that way because I am human.
@andrewhesselden New polling? That article is a month old. Why lie? Do you think your followers too stupid to read the date on an article?
Here is the latest polling.
You're welcome.
@andrewhesselden Reminder: for 99.99% of Brits, not being able to stay in the EU for more than 3 months in a row is not now nor will ever be of the slightest concern to them - let alone a large enough concern for it to add pressure to the Government to enact change.
Since the UKs annual contributions to the EU would now exceed £30bn a year if the UK were to rejoin after 2028, what @b_judah is unintentionally saying here is that the cost of membership is higher than the returns, so we should stay out.
Thanks for that Ben. Much appreciated.
‘The police have been engaged in DEI-style thinking for so long that they’re now attracting woke recruits. If you want to get on and be promoted, you have no choice but to subscribe to the ideas that led to Henry Nowak’s arrest’
Former officer Paul Birch on two-tier policing: