The Macedonian

Presbyterian

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

Nothing is more of a testament to the fact that Restore has abandoned it's original purpose of shifting British politics to the right than Restore shills gloating about Burnham's victory and the part that they played in it. Completely useless and subversive movement.

[Cal @Cal_III]

@Nigel_Farage You lost 16% of your voteshare. You can’t blame us for splitting it. Cry about it.

[Animepodean @animepodean765]

@veryfrenly You are intellectually raped if you do not see the ways in which Australia needs a Reform. One Nation is closest to Restore, a senile idiotic head who has no care for the state of the party - or it being laundered to serve ulterior motives for the mainstream conservative party.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines I don't think that he really cares about anyone knifing Britain in the back given that he has nothing but praise for Kemi Badenoch, who was a pro-immigration member of the Johnson cabinet. He also had nothing but praise for other Boriswave Tory MP's before they joined Reform.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines If Lowe is more willing to make a pact with the Tories, a party ostensibly to the left of Reform, and is willing to lie about how dangerous Burnham is in order to spoil the Reform vote in Makerfield, one has to ask how driven he is by ideology rather than spite.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines Yeah. All the good that is being done by Restore challenging Reform from the right is being undone by splitting the vote to allow an emergent radical left to bridge the divide. Burnham is far worse than Starmer and it's only because of spite against Reform that Lowe denies this.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines Hopefully they will given that Restore are running a confidence and supply agreement with Reform's Norfolk county council admin, but the issue is Lowe himself, who is driven more by spite than anything else. Maybe justified, but at this point it's party above country on his part.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines You also have to appreciate that everyone criticising Lowe now was with him back when he was removed. Lowe has (contrary to his twitter) only ever wanted to deport foreign residents, which Reform has now wholeheartedly adopted. His raison d'etre has expired.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines It's not just "possible", there is plenty of interview material from much earlier this year where he directly says that he never said it. His pivot to "actually I was talking about communities of foreign residents" was an intentional shift in rhetoric.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines That wasn't what his twitter said and he previously denied the charge of ever using the term at all. Seems more likely that his twitter went off the rails and he's now doing damage control for the same posts that got him removed from Reform in the first place.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines I think that one clear example of this is how the "we have to work with Islam" quote is still dug up but Reform have, since 2025, pledged to ban converting Churches into Mosques, to crack down on public Muslim prayer and they want to ban Halal, among other things.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines A lot of the quotes and clips people pull to attack Farage as soft are from the run up to the 2024 election (before the Southport riots), which was a far less radical time in British politics. He has since gone back on basically all of it.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines It is common knowledge in British politics that Lowe does not run his own twitter page btw. "Whole communities" would obviously include children born here which is why both Lowe and Farage object to the idea, but Lowe doesn't seem to be aware that his twitter supports it.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines He didn't "choose" to interpret it that way, Lowe's twitter was directly implying that he would deport "whole communities" without discretion as to citizenship, which is why there's a million clips of Lowe protesting that he never said that he'd "deport whole communities."

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines You have to appreciate that Farage is trying to win an entire general election & a lot of the public are still afraid of being called racist. Reform's policy is demonstrably to denounce "nationalism" and then to adopt nationalist policies and elect nationalist politicians.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@HistoricLines Lowe was removed because his twitter handler implied that he would deport citizens, which neither Reform nor Restore have ever planned to do. Reform have been committed to mass deportations for a year now, long before Restore was a party. The issue was never mass deportations.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

Deporting pakistani teenagers for love bombing

[Samyaza @rwvalefar]

Why is the Lowe Inquiry chockfull of random tangential details? “with what is known as “love-bombing’”???

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

British officials were reluctant to help Armenians, or to give Armenians positions of authority in the post-WW1 Caucuses because the Dashnaks were a left-wing & socialist (but not Communist) party. Instead, they were expected to reconcile with the landed Azerbaijani aristocracy.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

You still see the occasional "Anglo-Jewry" conspiracy theory being thrown about, but in the immediate aftermath of WW1, no country did more to halt the spread of Bolshevism than right-wing British military advisors. In Siberia and the Caucuses respectively:

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

While there was a 19th & early 20th British foreign policy interest in spreading liberal democracy to encourage laissez faire, this was not a universal experience. Britain had Azerbaijani anti-communist aristocrats - "Our traditional friends" - placed in charge of the Caucuses.

[The Macedonian @GlassPalestine]

@sambambamz They were originally going to get KC's and lawyers involved, which was going to take at least a year or more, but instead they rushed it from first draft to publication in one night because they wanted it out before the by-election. https://t.co/ZZDFcA1f4p

[Harrison Pitt @Harry_pitt]

First draft finalised late last night, final version published today.

Read the Rape Gang Inquiry Report below.

I am honoured to have helped on the editorial side with @JoshFerme and @cfdownes_, together with the expert assistance of @officialsammyuk, @MarlonTag, @natenderby, and Debra Sudbury.