Potentate of town

Just a way of following Jesus in the 21st century, despite everything

[Tim (still totally unremarkable) @forwardnotback]

Today’s political lesson from Tim

“populist” and “popular” are not the same thing

Please remember this because it is very important

Class dismissed

[British Indians Voice 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @BritIndianVoice]

We are British Indians.

And apparently we are the problem.

🚗 They overturn cars after a football match.

We dance at the airport on my first trip abroad.

Guess who lacks civic sense.

💼 They move factories to tax havens overnight.

We studied. Competed. Earned a visa.

Work 18 hours a day.

Guess who is stealing jobs.
🏥 we treat your sick.
💻 we build your software.
📚 we teach your children.
🛒 we open stores nobody else would.

Apparently — our presence is the problem.

🍛 The world smells of hatred and division.

We carry my grandmother’s spices.

Guess what offends people.

🌙 we sent missions to the Moon.

We built vaccines for the world.

I run companies on every continent.

But one viral video of one fool— becomes evidence against a billion people.

My wedding is too loud.

My festival is too bright.

My accent is too strong.

My food is too fragrant.

My culture is too old.

Too much of everything.

Except —
Never too much when you need
a doctor at 3am.
Never too much when you need
a trade deal.
Never too much when your NHS
is on its knees.
I am not ashamed.

I come from a civilisation that:
🔢 Invented zero
♟️ Invented chess
🧘 Invented yoga
💊 Invented surgery
🌍 Told the world it was one family
Before your nations had alphabets.

Yes we have flaws.
Every people do.
But judge me by my actions.
Not your assumptions.

Before you tell me what is wrong with me —
Look honestly at what you have
normalised in yourself.

We are British Indian.
We stand here.
We always stood here.
We always will.

🇬🇧🇮🇳 #BritishIndians

[Potentate of town @Geoffread6]

Why is this not being looked at, no way did he win all swing states

[Jenni @hashjenni]

So we really are just going to ignore the fact that Elon confessed to helping trump rig the 2024 election

[Potentate of town @Geoffread6]

So true......

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Truth for racists

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Big up, Uncle Ian Wright for speaking up, and he's 100% correct.

Look how Qatar got dragged when they were hosting the World Cup.

[Philip O'Connor @PhilipOConnor5]

If you, like me, feel that we are fortunate to have @Keir_Starmer as our Prime Minister please repost. I am not even a member of the Labour Party.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

The government should force companies and civil servants to WFH until oil is back under $80 again. And they should make all public transport free for the people who can't WFH, massively reducing our fuel demand.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.

It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.

A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.

At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.

Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.

On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

No, of course not.

Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

Yes, of course he was.

He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.

His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.

Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.

This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.

And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.

END RANT.

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

Every day, we're trapped in the paradox of the "Schrödinger’s immigrant", a mythical outsider who exists simultaneously as a lazy welfare dependent & an unstoppable machine taking all the jobs(both skilled & unskilled).

The immigrant remains a highly convenient shape shifting scapegoat designed to explain away ALL complex, systemic domestic failures.
Keeping this paradox alive ensures politicians never have to answer for a decade of chronic underinvestment, flatlining productivity, & broken infrastructure.

[Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @TedUrchin]

I have so much admiration for Keir Starmer in the face of such continued onslaught by the media.
Quite simply, he doesn’t deserve it, and a pity that so many cannot see the wood for the trees, so to speak.
Inexorably, he is turning this country around, and that’s not something you do easily or overnight.
It’s been less than 2 years for fuck sakes.
We need to stick with him.
Now is ABSOLUTELY NOT the time for a change of Prime Minister.
End of.
@UKLabour
#StandWithStarmer
#StickWithStarmer
#BackOffBurnham, you disloyal and silly little opportunist, you.

[Ross___Mack @Ross___Mack]

@johnredwood You did this, John. You and your party. You made the catastrophic decision to sell off our water industry

[Gee to the Bee @Baggieglenn]

How the feck can the ceo of @nextofficial stand up and say they are struggling to pay 16-24 yr olds MINIMUM wage whilst the group makes profits of nearly £1.25 billion. Corporate greed at its absolute worst. The world is going to hell in a handcart

[Mister Majestik @MrMajestikness]

So, If I've understood correctly, a Prime Minister doing a cracking job, must resign, because he's not brilliant at telling people what a cracking job he's doing? Let it sink in, just how much bullshit the UK media is feeding the public. Dog shit. #starmermuststay

[Erdmute Wendlinger @wendlingere49]

Keir Starmer prosecuted Murdoch, & took the press to Court,jailing some & closing the News of the World.What the press have done to Keir Starmer is bitter revenge .They set out to destroy him from day 1, starting with specs & suits.The same press who ignores Farge's 5 million

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Labour are doing a much better job than the tories did over the last decade of their time in charge

FACT

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Election wins May 7th / 8th were his last public media appearances.
Since then
- video interview with Harry Cole
- popped in for Kings Speech
- video making in Makerfield

Otherwise missing
- event cancelled in Sunderland
- events cancelled in Makerfield

No public comment on
- David Bull sackng
- ongoing issues of the £5million
- ongoing issues of house purchase for £1.4million
- ongoing threat to sue Habib
- the public disagreements in his Party on immigration
- the abysmal vetting of the Makerfield candidate and very public disclosure of accounts
- the 'overtime policy'
- the issues with Lowe

Only comments very limited on social media or not at all

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Russia announces that it will systematically bomb Kyiv, including diplomatic missions.
Trump & the US do not even protest.
Trump is the greatest coward the US has ever had as president.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Some notes on my work ethic:

-I last voted in Parliament on 18 March, so I haven’t done my job for ten weeks.
-I’ve never held any face-to-face constituency surgeries, despite apparently having £5 million to spend on security.
-I refuse to do interviews or face press scrutiny of any sort.
-when I was in the European Parliament I had the 4th worst attendance record out of 748 MEPs.
-although I did manage to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation.
-I was on the Fisheries Committee but I only turned up to ONE out of 42 meetings.
-but I will of course be taking my £73,000 EU pension.

Vote Reform, get lazy, grifting, self-serving sacks of shit.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

“The war in Gaza” is actually “the Genocide in Gaza”

“The war in Lebanon” is actually “the Genocide in Lebanon”

“The not war in Iran” is actually “the illegal war in Iran”

“The heightened tensions with Cuba” is actually “the unilateral U.S. aggression against Cuba”

“Collateral damage and human shields” is actually “murder children and innocent civilians”

The media uses euphemisms to control the narrative. The media is complicit