Michael

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

@ArmstrongT97969 Unionists shouldn't even be indulging this crap.

[Michael @MichaelT1992_]

@JChimirie66677 Labour won the 2024 GE by default too, thanks to dear old Nigel. He did so knowing that he had no chance of winning himself and that it could only help Labour. His sole aim was to hurt the Conservatives. It's very hard to come to an understanding with a man like that.

[Michael @MichaelT1992_]

@larabirdsnp @theSNP "What do transport, social care and housing all have in common?"

They're all devolved competences for which the Scottish Parliament is responsible?

[Michael @MichaelT1992_]

No but @vivamjm blocked me after replying to my post so I can't reply to the thread anymore.

[Chris David @ChrisDa52995613]

@MichaelT1992_ @vivamjm @EFTA4UK Rubbish. Are you a bot?

[West End Girl @BucketsOf_Rain]

I'm at the stage of really realising that Britain is not only not responsible for the behaviour of other cultures, but is almost inherently unable, due to the sort of people we are and the culture we inherit, of policing them or bringing them into line with our own standards.

[Tom @tomwhx]

Has there ever been a proper reckoning with polling companies and the media about how badly wrong they called the 2024 General Election?

Many projections were blatantly false but played a huge part in driving coverage - and therefore voters - to write off the Tories completely

[Latimer Alder @latimeralder]

I can never understand any elected politician who wants to join the EU

Effectively they are saying that they know they personally are useless at governing and so would like to surrender to the Brussels Bastards. To let them make the laws. For them to have the supreme power.

So why did they bother to stand for office in the first place?

[max tempers @maxtempers]

This is the woman that drones on about how our fiscal rules are fake and we just need to break them all so we can borrow to invest in ‘infrastructure’. This is how she defines it.

[MrHobbes @VintageMrHobbes]

I actually can't even

This person is advising the PM on economics?

[Richard Calhoun @richardcalhoun]

How about we withdraw all taxpayer subsidies, grants, privileges and any other way they might find of giving our money away and just let them fund it themselves?

[MB @markbishopuk]

There probably are denser substances than Mariana Mazzucato, but scientists have yet to discover them

[Augustus Melmotte @EnriqueDiazAlva]

State capacity is when you funnel taxpayer money to Mazzucato's friends and call it "infrastructure".

[Eggroll🏯🇬🇧 @EggrollShogun]

> looking for pro-growth infrastructure
> ask leftist if her proposal is really infrastructure or just gibs for left-wing coalition
> she doesn't understand
> pull out diagram, explain ROI, bottlenecks, infra
> laughs "it's good infrastructure sir"
> fund proposal
> it's gibs

[Michael @MichaelT1992_]

@steenekampcarl @SpeedicutRugby @codybutleruk No, it was Truss alone who did that. Partygate did some damage to the Tories but nothing terminal. They were still within touching distance of Labour in the polls.

The increase in the Tory vote in 2017 came almost entirely from 2015 Ukip voters. And BJ won 44% of the vote.

[Michael @MichaelT1992_]

@salexander30 @MathieuH_684 @alemannoEU Have you completely memory-holed the events of 2016-19? The pro-EU lobby in Britain went to great lengths to force a second referendum and kneecap the government in EU negotiations. It took a second snap election in 2019 (which they lost) to shut them up for a few years.

[Mathieu (chaotic good) @MathieuH_684]

Lol, the cope is hard today. But hey, the EU has never let itself be stopped by something as trivial as what the population thinks of it. Every single negative outcome from every referendum ever held on the matter of European integration, has either been ignored or repeatedly resubmitted until the populace votes Correctly™. This will also be the case here. European integration is a python around your neck. Once it starts squeezing, the outcome is inevitable.

[Summerisle @LairdSummerisle]

@Danjsalt You're right. The EEA will eventually unravel because the sociopaths running the EU have a messianic belief in their right to govern 700 million people, and they'll use the EEA as a back door to broaden the scope of the single market to include all their imperial pretensions.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

By every metric the Falklands are British. 
-It has been under British administration for nearly two centuries. 
-Its people are British. 
-Fewer than 1% are Argentina-born. 
-In the 2013 referendum (92% of islanders took part) only 3 people voted to cease being part of a British Overseas Territory,
(that means 27 of the 30 Argentina-born residents also voted to remain British)
-In the 262 years since the Falklands were first permanently settled, the islands have been directly administered by independent Argentina for only about four years (plus the 74-day occupation in 1982.)

To believe Argentina should be allowed to take over the islands would mean overriding the crystal clear wishes of virtually 100% of a nearly 200 year old community in favour of foreigners with virtually no presence or history in those islands. 

This isn’t a grey area. It is black and white.
The Falklands are British and its people need and deserve unconditional support from Britain and all civilised nations.

[Michael @MichaelT1992_]

I'm not the one with an undying loyalty to a foreign power.

Labour certainly treated the matter as settled before the last election - see their manifesto (of course, like everything else this government said to win power, it has turned out to be a lie).

[Sumarumi @sumarumi]

@MichaelT1992_ @vivamjm @EFTA4UK “Most of us (and I voted Remain) moved on and treated the matter as settled after the 2019 General Election.”

Liar.

That’s a blatant lie that Brexiters use to try to justify their treasonous behaviour.

[Sparky W @westyweb]

@TeaLovingGent @Jenx123_ Rubbish. It was the EU fan boys that didn't know what they were voting for: Covid common debt issuance, EU army, removal of the veto... you need to reprogram the bot.