Rory OSullivan

Southerner now based in Gods own country. Not thrilled by Brexit

[Tony @TonyB_1997]

Working class boys should find themselves a rich foreign donor to pay them 1m quid a year to be a political leader for an entire parliamentary term.

They should then get a tax adviser to suggest it is treated as a gift, so no tax is paid. Because that would take half of it, and that’s no good.

Then get a friendly constitutional expert to write down that you have no need to tell anyone about this “gift”. A third expert will concoct a story about “Russian hackers” should the story leak to the media somehow. A fourth expert will insist the investigation into the “Russian hackers” is handled internally, and not by the police.

Being poor is a choice. All you need is a rich friend and some compliant lawyers. Why isn’t everyone doing this?

[Colonel Panick @FlackJimmmy]

It’s got fuck all to do with the Equality act. It’s a deep seated cultural issue of low aspirations and a contempt for what are perceived as ‘posh’ or nerdy pursuits.

White working class and black working class Caribbean households have always been physically and culturally close and they have for decades and remain two of the most poorly performing demographics in the country. In fact as a second generation ‘Windrush’ era man myself, my parents warned me not to be held back by the low aspirations working class kids in my orbit but to emulate the middle classes. It was sound advice.

Only when you can accurately diagnose the problem (with evidence) can you begin to solve the problem. Because you’re a vacuous populist, you have neither the ability nor the will to genuinely tackle the issues that the British people face.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

On a platform far, far away, one far more sane and civil than this, someone I consider a friend… wrote this.

Genius. 👏

[Home Office @ukhomeoffice]

Net migration has fallen by 82% since its peak.

Some are claiming that emigration is the reason - but it isn't.

[Ian Ridley 💙 @IanRidley1]

Perspective? To heck with that.
Labour have made mistakes and #Starmer short of charisma but as a serious leader - with integrity - of a compassionate party he deserves more time after austerity and clown show of previous 14 years. Reform UK just a dangerous, devious mirage.

[Kate Wilton @KateWilton1]

And just like that, the very wealthiest party in the U.K. backed by foreign billionaires is supported by the very poorest members of society who dislike foreigners. You couldn’t make this shit up.

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

All over England today, hundreds of new councillors with remits that cover potholes, bins and adult social care are going to be meeting to figure out how to stop the boats.

[RobbieScowlz @RobbieScowlz]

@PeterMcCormack “Silly employment rights”

You shouldn’t even be allowed to work with humans let alone employ them.

Ghoul

[Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social @RichardBentall]

Let's be clear about this:

A large personal gift to a politician is a bribe.

[John & Margaret @ukboomers]

People say boomers had it easy on the property ladder. We didn't. In 1982 this house was on the market down the road. Eight bedrooms. 14 acres. £65,000. We couldn't stretch to it on a postman's wage. We had to settle for our five bed with half an acre for £28,000 instead. We had to compromise. Nobody handed us anything.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Just in case you’re having a bad day, remember this is how they weigh koalas 😍

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Everything rotten in Britain stems from this period. Everything.
Landlord rents. Shit in the rivers. Zero work hours. No British industry. Gas, electric bills through the roof,
No affordable housing.
All of it.

[Sam @SamCKx]

I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out the truth – and exactly why you’re being fed all this poison.

Britain was never a sealed white island. From Roman times there were African soldiers stationed on Hadrian’s Wall and living in British towns, people from across the empire walking these roads nearly 2,000 years ago. Through the Middle Ages and Tudor England you still find Black people in the records – sailors, craftsmen, servants, musicians – even Black musicians at the royal court and Africans being baptised, marrying and being buried in English parishes like anyone else. This isn’t some modern experiment; it’s older than half the castles people visit on their bank‑holiday tours.

As Britain went out into the world, the world came here. Sailors and traders from India, Yemen and beyond were arriving in British ports from the 1600s. Some of those men were practising a new faith to most Britons at the time, praying quietly in boarding houses near the docks while they worked brutal shifts in the engine rooms of British ships. Over the centuries, more people from North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia passed through and settled, bringing their languages, foods and beliefs into port cities that were far more mixed than today’s nostalgia merchants like to admit.

After two world wars, the truth is simple: this country asked the Commonwealth to come and rebuild it. People from the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia didn’t sneak in; they were recruited. They came to drive buses and trains, staff the NHS, work in mills and foundries, clean offices, run corner shops, open takeaways and small businesses, and yes, build prayer spaces and community centres alongside churches and temples in the neighbourhoods everyone now pretends were always “traditional” and “unchanged”. They did the work that kept Britain going while being told to go home, refused housing, and treated as permanent outsiders.

And what have they been paid back with? Scandals where people who’ve lived, worked and paid taxes here for decades get told they don’t belong. Policies designed to make life so hostile that some give up and leave. A media that uses their names, accents, clothes or places of worship as props in endless scare stories. The message is always the same: you might toil for this country, but you will never fully be of it.

So when you hear that “Britain was white until recently” or that the country has been “overrun”, understand that you don’t arrive at that belief by accident. You get there because your history has been deliberately ripped out and replaced with a comforting myth: that “real” Britain is white, homogenous, and constantly under siege from people who look, speak or pray differently.

Now look at when this myth has been turned up to max volume. Wages frozen. Housing a sick joke. Energy and food prices out of control. Public services hacked to pieces. At the same time, the number of people hoarding unimaginable wealth at the top has exploded. Funny, isn’t it, how every front page is about boats and “swarms” and “our culture”, and almost never about the landlords, hedge funds, private equity and offshore trusts quietly buying up your city and your future.

That’s because this isn’t just prejudice; it’s a strategy. If you’re sitting on a mountain of wealth, the last thing you want is ordinary people – of every colour and background – realising they have the same problems and the same enemy. Much safer if the factory worker is furious at the new family down the road. Much safer if the person who can’t see a doctor blames the nurse with an accent instead of the minister who cut the funding. Much safer if a man who can’t afford his rent spends his rage on the woman in a headscarf at the bus stop instead of the billionaire who owns half his city.

Racist rhetoric, religious dog‑whistling, all of it, exists to break solidarity. It turns neighbours into enemies and stops people seeing that Black, brown and white working‑class communities have far more in common with each other than any of them will ever have with the people flying in on private jets. It keeps you so busy policing skin colour, passports and prayer mats that you never get round to asking why your kids can’t afford a home, why your parents can’t get a hospital bed, why you’re working harder and standing still.

The real story of Britain is this: a crossroads, not a fortress. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall. Black people in Tudor courts and city streets. Sailors, traders and workers from South Asia, the Middle East and beyond in the ports. Caribbean, African and Asian workers rebuilding the country after the war, staffing surgeries and hospitals, driving cabs, running shops, cooking food, teaching kids. Today’s multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith working class is not a glitch; it is Britain. It built this place and it keeps it running.

If you’re genuinely angry about what’s happening to this country, good. You should be. But aim it where it belongs. Britain was never pure, never untouched, never “theirs” to take back. The people ruining your standard of living are not the ones risking their lives to get here, or the ones whose names you struggle to pronounce. They’re the ones buying politicians, owning media outlets, writing the story of this country so you never learn your own – and never realise who is standing beside you.

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

Probably having only two active aircraft carriers.

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

The Clacton Resident's Association attempting to recover their MP from Donald Trump.

[Niz @NizMhani]

🚨BREAKING:

The "Board of Peace" launches its first war....

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

The “why won’t this fucking drawer open” starter pack.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

How could the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize possibly be doing this?

[Joss Sheldon @JossSheldon]

Congratulations to Matt Goodwin on his appointment as Shadow MP for Gorton and Denton.