Hi Gary, sorry to keep ratioing you, and I suspect I will do it again.
I only had to listen to 29 seconds to put this together because you revealed yourself by calling Reform the "far-right party". Perhaps after 29 seconds there is some sense in there, maybe I'll come back to it, anyway....
Let me first say, I am not a huge fan of Reform, but I am also not a fan of branding everything you dislike as far-right.
Far-right politics, historically, means authoritarianism, racial supremacy, political violence, suppression of opposition and/or rejection of democracy itself. Agreed?
So Reform then, well they support elections, free speech, lower taxes, border control and reducing the size of the state. You can dislike those ideas all you want, but they are mainstream positions held by millions of voters across democratic countries.
Ironically Gary, or perhaps not, but parts of the modern far-left openly flirt with some of what you have branded:
- Censorship and deplatforming
- Punishing dissent
- Political intimidation
- Opponents as morally illegitimate (what you are doing here lad)
- Expanding state control
You can see this in support for speech laws, attempts to silence academics and journalists, aggressive cancellation campaigns and the belief that certain views should be excluded from public debate entirely.
Please stop this stunted intellectual crusade, it is embarrassing. We know the agenda, you just want to expand the state, give more control to incompetency and loot the voters.
Init.
NEW: STARMER’S DIGITAL ID BACKLASH ERUPTS
Even Labour MPs are panicking.
Number 10 is holding private Zoom calls trying to “win them round” to Starmer’s digital ID plan — and it’s backfiring spectacularly. MPs are fuming, calling it a “reverse Midas touch.”
Why? Because Britain doesn’t want it.
Two-thirds of voters reject digital ID.
Nearly 3 million have signed petitions against it.
It was never in Labour’s manifesto.
This isn’t policy — it’s globalist coercion dressed as convenience.
Starmer says it will “make life easier.” Translation? Comply or pay £85 every time you need to prove who you are.
He’s not talking about safety. He’s talking about control.
Britain didn’t fight tyranny for centuries just to be scanned like barcodes.
We’re not lab rats in a digital experiment.
We are a free people — and we must stay that way. 🇬🇧
This is dictatorship! We the British people 🇬🇧 are not safe! Almost 3 million signatures and the UK government respond: they are still going ahead with digital ID 🪪 what’s your thoughts on this?
I am pleased to sign @RupertLowe10’s letter to Keir Starmer against Digital ID.
We don’t want it.
We don’t need it.
We didn’t vote for it.
#NoDigitalID
With John Lamont's (@John2Win) support, we now have over 30 MPs on our cross-party letter opposing Digital ID.
We have all made it abundantly clear to Starmer that he will not be able to introduce Digital ID without enormous resistance in Parliament. This is just the start.
Just a reminder that social media isn’t a place to express yourself, it’s a data-collection tool for elitists to track and collect your likes, political views, possible dissident opinions, etc., and hand them over to whoever will pay the highest price (government).
Every tapped heart is recorded. And they know how you’ve evolved over the years. Probably better than you know yourself.
It’s unclear to me how we resist digital ID while participating in this necessary algorithmic foundation daily.
Vanguard refused customers access to the best-performing ETF in history because Bitcoin didn’t “align with their philosophy.”
Now, they’re finally bending the knee.
Everybody gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve. 🟧🔥
I’ve spent thousands of hours talking to people who’ve been swallowed by their phones. Most didn’t start out looking for conspiracy theories or hate groups. They were just scrolling. Killing time, avoiding homework, procrastinating at wrk, lying in bed unable to sleep. Normal people doing normal things.
But the algorithm was watching, learning, taking notes. It noticed they lingered a few extra seconds on that angry political post. It saw them click on that weird health claim. It tracked how their eyes moved, when they paused, what made them engage.
So it fed them more. Angrier posts. Weirder claims. Deeper rabbit holes. It learned their insecurities faster than their therapists did and exploited them more efficiently than any cult leader ever could. It turned their boredom into obsession, their curiosity into paranoia, their loneliness into rage against strangers they’d never meet.
They lost friends who stopped recognizing them. They destroyed family relationships over dinner table arguments about things that weren’t even real. They got fired for posting increasingly deranged content. They found themselves believing ideas they would have mocked six months earlier, defending positions that made no logical sense, convinced they were the only ones who really understood what was happening.
The platforms promised them “community” and delivered isolation. They promised truth and delivered delusion. They promised connection and delivered addiction. Because your misery is their business model. They’ve figured out how to monetize your worst impulses and then convinced you it was your choice all along.
This is what happens when human psychology (evolved for small tribes and face-to-face conversation) meets machine learning optimized for engagement at any cost.
The algorithm doesn’t care if you’re happy, healthy, or sane. It only cares if you keep scrolling. And everyone thinks they’re too smart for this to happen to them. That’s exactly what makes it work.
Being happy is a hotness magnifier. People feel that energy radiating from you like heat.
Laugh at your own jokes. Wear colors that make you feel alive. Get excited about mundane things — the way morning light hits your coffee cup, the satisfying click of a good pen, that perfect parking spot that opened up right when you needed it.
You’re not performing happiness for anyone else, you’re just letting your natural enthusiasm spill over.
Strike up conversations with strangers about whatever’s making you smile. Share your weird little victories. Get genuinely curious about people’s stories. This joy becomes its own gravitational force, pulling interesting experiences and connections toward you like a magnet.
Notice how doors seem to open easier, how people linger in conversations with you, how opportunities start presenting themselves in the most unexpected places.
It’s not about being positive all the time - it’s about being authentically delighted by the simple fact that you’re here, doing this thing called living. The universe has a funny way of matching your energy and sending it right back to you, multiplied.