Matt Shouler🌍🇪🇺

Xenophile, patriot, barrister. Served🇬🇧in🇮🇶🇺🇸🇨🇳🇧🇭🇫🇰🇬🇳🇸🇦🇦🇴🇸🇹. Languages: 🇨🇳🇫🇷🇵🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. Pro-🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

[Sadiq Khan @SadiqKhan]

The case for rejoining the EU has never been stronger.

It’s now the only path for securing our long-term prosperity.

And we mustn’t delay. Labour must start making the case - and then use the next election to secure a mandate to rejoin.

https://t.co/BhjtsJ8jfY

[Scott @sc0ttfb]

Boomers absolutely trashed my life and for what

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

New YouGov survey map: All but four British constituencies support rejoining the EU

[Matt Shouler🌍🇪🇺 @MShouler]

@WalkerMarcus NATO SecGen, EU High Rep, any UN HR, WTO Sec Gen, …

[Matt Shouler🌍🇪🇺 @MShouler]

@theiaincameron Darvaza?

[Frid 🇪🇺🦌 @Frid45]

According to Bloomberg, the EU is now prioritising Canada over the UK.

Britain left the EU to build “Global Britain” and an Anglosphere.

Canada is turning towards Europe, Washington towards itself, Australia is 15000 km away.

Global Britain may end up as Britain Alone.

[Wild Wasteland Memes @Wasteland_Memes]

One moment to leave my box then I'll get back in it.

If you're uneducated enough to have an issue with the British government rightly making this statement, lemme put it very simply:

-49,000 slave owners, approx 0.19% of the population at the time, were given money to buy them out of owning slaves. British taxpayers paid to free the slaves.

-For decades during the 19th century, Britain dedicated 1/6th of it's entire Navy specifically to seek and capture other nations' slave ships to free the slaves on board. The economic cost was bore by the taxpayer. 2,000 British sailors lost their lives.

-During the US Civil War, Pres Lincoln blockaded Cotton exports from the USA. This put more than half a million working Britons out of already very poorly paid work. After months, the mill owners worked a deal with the US govt to reopen trading. More than half a million working class Britons voted AGAINST the deal citing that they didn't ever want to work with goods produced from slavery again.

About half as many (24,000 ish) Brits died from malnourishment, disease etc in the affected cotton factory communities as a direct result of that action as ever owned slaves.

-Britain paid £400,000 to Spain to convince it to stop its slave trade. It also placed diplomatic pressure on France to stop them too.

Of every empire that ever took part in slavery, Britain is the ONLY ONE that grew a conscience, stopped its own, and then set out to stop everybody else without any outside encouragement.

And it is also the only one that has maintained a successful and genuinely beneficial diplomatic network to lift up and empower its former territories- the Commonwealth- which has helped ex-colonies outperform their peer nations in almost every way ever since.

Not to mention endless and unwavering humanitarian relief when a hurricane rips through their islands every season, or when an earthquake buries their brothers and sisters under their own houses.

The British taxpayer has bore the cost of all of that. Britons voted in favour of that responsibility in the 19th century, decades before anybody else grew a conscience of their own- even African Kingdoms such as the Asanti Empire who only stopped slaving when Britain took over Ghana and made it illegal.

You reparationsit types don't harass modern-day Turks over the 6-8 million slaves that passed through the Ottoman Slave trade, or modern-day Ghanaians for the millions that the Ghana and Asanti empires captured, abused, and traded in the Trans-Sharan and Transatlantic trades. You don't even get on at the Arab and African countries who still enable slavery today. Why?

There is no other demographic/nation/country for which people feel so empowered to blame the crimes of the most miniscule proportion of its ancestry, which were undone and atoned for by exponentially more of its ancestry, on an entire diaspora that has lived for generations with no direct culpability in said crimes.

Every population in the world has been a victim to another population at a given time. The following paragraph should be the one that sticks from this whole rant:

The working class, poor, destitute British man and woman who rotted in workhouses for centuries had more in common with their African slave counterparts than they ever did their compatriot masters. That's exactly why they bloody well did something about it. British people en masse stood WITH the slaves. Not with their feet on their necks.

Reparationism towards the British nation is just politics of division, meant to absolve commonwealth governments of their own failures towards their people at the expense of a population who have never committed the crime they are demanding reparations for, and whose ancestors paid the human and economic price for for the last 2 centuries.

This is the last post I'll make on the matter.

[Madelaine Hanson @MadelaineLucyH]

I want to live in a country where men don’t assault a woman for her views, drag her across the floor, touch her inappropriately, and stick their fingers in her mouth. I don’t want that to be my culture.

Never Reform.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

The fact the UK has not placed any mechanism to stop foreign influence and interference in the democratic process, especially after Brexit is mind bogglingly incompetent. The fact Reform exists and Farage is still free, is proof of that failure.

[Matt Shouler🌍🇪🇺 @MShouler]

@CWilson_FCDO @eu_eeas The EU: “Our Good Friend” 🇬🇧🇪🇺

[U.S. Embassy London @USAinUK]

A very 🇬🇧 tribute to a 🇺🇸 icon ❤️ Here at the Embassy, our flag is at half staff while our thoughts are with Dolly Parton's family, friends, & fans in the U.S., UK, & around the world.

[Vince @Vince_Clorotho]

@archer_rs It will be painful and unpopular but it's a trap we voluntarily walked into. I am ashamed at how easily we were misled... 🤨

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

As a Retired US Army paratrooper, pictures like these hit hard. Trump never had the courage to pick up a rifle and man a post when he was called to serve.

Yet he has the nerve to promote AI pictures like this showing him wearing things like Parachutist badges, and rows of ribbons he never had to courage to obtain. Anyone who has ever served should be pissed at garbage like this.

His father paid a doctor’s note so he wouldn't have to serve. But remember that for every one of the draft deferments, someone else had to go in his place.

A pure disgrace.

[Matt Shouler🌍🇪🇺 @MShouler]

@b_judah In my experience, anyone joining the FCO with a degree in Chinese, Chinese-speaking family, or time spent in China (including Taiwan) can expect a detrimental effect on their security vetting, and hence limited career opportunities.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Ten years after Brexit referendum, the House of Commons Library has assessed the evidence in advance of a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday 2 September led by @PeteWishart

Its conclusion?

There is a broad consensus among economists that Brexit has made the UK economy smaller than it otherwise would have been.

Estimates of the GDP loss: 2–8%.

OBR long-term assumption: 4%.

Expected hit to UK trade: 15%.

Meanwhile EU net migration fell below zero but non-EU migration surged, peaking above 1 million.

We sacrificed freedom of movement, erected barriers with our largest market and made ourselves poorer.

And overall migration went UP.

Ten years of evidence.

How much more evidence do we need before Britain changes course?

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

If a drink has only two ingredients, then it's not a fucking cocktail, it's a drink with a mixer.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Ed Davey, "The small boats crisis has been caused by Reform UK and the Conservatives, and their Brexit support"

"Before we left the EU we could return people and now we can't"

"But if we join the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact, we could return every single person who came over on a small boat"

"That would recreate the deterrent effect we used to have"

"Labour's one-in-one-out scheme has failed. Only 4% of people who came over on small boats have returned. We want it to be 100%'

"That's why our scheme would work, it would get the number down to zero, and it would say the taxpayer billions"

"This is a deal that Labour must look at"

"And I'm afraid Reform UK and the Conservatives should hang their heads in shame for having caused this problem and now exploiting it"

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger delivered brutal Brexit truths last year:

“Putin would’ve been absolutely delighted by our decision [to leave the EU] and so would Xi.”

“We’ve made ourselves irrelevant.”

“France has effectively eclipsed us.”

“Brexit has marginalised us.”

Brexit wasn’t Britain taking back control. It was Britain voluntarily surrendering influence, while Putin and Xi watched with delight.

[Matt Shouler🌍🇪🇺 @MShouler]

@AndrewPRLevi @AnthonyGlees If only we could be part of some sort of multilateral arrangement, pooling our sovereignty with France and others, for mutual benefit... 🤡🇪🇺

[Matt Shouler🌍🇪🇺 @MShouler]

@AllisonPearson @WalkerMarcus this rings true. It is a huge disservice to intended beneficiaries of diversity initiatives (which are a good thing), if fraudsters and charlatans are allowed to abuse them (which is not a good thing).