Iain Pickard

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@leather_desires @CurtisHouck Utter crap; 6% of the uk population is ‘muslin’ (sic). At this rate we’ll be Muslim majority in 2245

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@Stu_Lyle @RDPHistory @MtarfaL Complete tosh; COIN doctrine was developed first by us in the 50's and deployed - v successfully - to end the Malaya (as was) communist insurgency. Read Kitson's "Bunch of Five".

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

I put it down to Americans eating too much fast food and sugary drinks...

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@glennbeck Idiot, the Muslim percentage of the UK population is 6%

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@friendschurches Not correct, a late medieval rood screen survives intact and in situ in St Michaels and All Angels church in Stokenham in Devon

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@RealGunLobbyist Pernicious misinformation

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@indyfor45th47th 11x is the difference between US and UK homicide rates. Guess why?

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@RealJamesWoods Pernicious misinformation

[Per Sommarström @Sommarstrom]

@2A_Freedom

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@2A_Freedom 11x - the US homicide rate compared with the UK. Guess why?

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@CCFR_CCDAF @gunrights Claptrap; the US homicide rate is 11x the UK, because we have strict gun control laws

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@elonmusk The US homicide rate is 11x the UK. Do you wonder why? Perhaps the strict UK gun laws have something to do with it?

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@BGatesIsaPyscho Cyber attacks, physical sabotage, chemical weapon attacks (Salisbury), subsea cable surveillance and attack, incursions into our airspace... what other evidence do you want?

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@saras76 The US has 11x the homicide rate of the UK. The UK has strict gun controls, get the connection?

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@elonmusk It’s crystal clear; it’s an aggressive, revanchist, Russia. Are you completely ignorant of what they have done and continue to do in Ukraine?

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@ElonClipsX You ignoramus, you know nothing about my country

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@elonmusk The US has 11x the homicide rate as the UK, get your own house in order with half sensible gun laws before you start criticising us!

[Iain Pickard @IainPickard1]

@MilitaryCooI I think you mean ‘was killed’

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

‘Why The British Don’t Like Trump’🇬🇧

- Written by Nate White🇬🇧

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

I’m wondering @JDVance and @PeteHegseth

After reading your messages from Signal.

Did you call it “Freeloading” when 636 British soldiers died for America’s freedoms after 9/11.

Did we call it “Bailing you out” when these 636 Men and Women never returned home to their families?