Ruby Madder

'The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.'
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Bloody brilliant. Always been a @ColinBrazierTV fan; he's a master of monologues. Thks to @OutpostStudios we get to hear him weekly. But this one on BREXIT is v special, v personal. Every word resonates. I even cried a bit. So humane. Related to Jo's story. If you voted Leave OR Remain please listen

[Ruby Madder @RubyMadder]

@CharlotteCGill 😂

[Nick Dixon @NickDixon]

I enjoy Kemi destroying Starmer as much as the next man, but being told British ethnicity doesn’t matter by someone from another country (who only gained British citizenship due to a law that was abolished very shortly after) is fundamentally obscene.

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

I couldn’t care less about the King’s Speech, Kier Starmer’s fate, or who takes over the helm in No 10 next. It’s low theatre at this point because none of them can, or show any sign of wishing, to steer the ship away from violent collision with reality.

Britain was decisively and obviously off course from anything functionally democratic or economically viable long before Gordon Brown snuck the Lisbon Treaty through Parliament in the dead of night.

By then the rot was already advanced, but that act of constitutional sleight-of-hand crystallised it: sovereignty quietly auctioned off to Brussels while the public was told to look the other way.

The 2008 crash slammed a lid on real wage growth for anyone not already in the asset-owning class; the military, hollowed out by endless expeditionary wars and procurement disasters, was in a shit state fifteen years ago and has only atrophied further.

By 2012 the writing was on the wall with mass migration—its demographic, cultural and economic effects plain to anyone not paid to ignore them.

Police quality has been systematically trashed by Theresa May’s reforms and the deliberate evisceration of Special Branch, turning what was once a recognisably British constabulary into something closer to a politically compliant and social-work bureaucracy, parts of which played a vile and still unpunished role in the rape gangs

The 2016 Brexit referendum was not some xenophobic spasm; it was a national demand for a government that would finally put the interests of the people of these islands first.

Instead the political establishment and the permanent bureaucracy launched a decade-long campaign of sabotage and rearguard action, determined that nothing fundamental would change.

Keir Starmer is not a good man and he is certainly not a good Prime Minister, but the brutal truth is that none of them will be better. The system cannot fix itself. It is too incompetent, too captured, and too corrupt.

The local election results last week confirmed precisely the political and social dynamics I have been diagnosing for years.

Voters in traditional Labour and Conservative heartlands delivered a stinging rebuke to the establishment parties that presided over high migration, cultural displacement and stagnant living standards.

Reform UK became the vehicle for native discontent, its gains in working-class northern and Midlands seats signalling exactly the cross-class, regional backlash I have described: a tripartite divide between those who still believe in the nation and those who do not.

Polarisation, fragmentation, the splintering of the old two-party cartel, all of it illustrates the breakdown of democratic consent and the rise of identity-driven politics that are the classic preconditions for deeper conflict.

One could pretend this is healthy democratic pressure relief. It is not. Electoral revolt is an early symptom, not a cure.

The structural drivers, including mass migration, elite refusal to acknowledge cultural incompatibility, economic decline, are too deeply embedded for conventional politics to address.

Reform may win seats, but the unelected bureaucracy, the courts, the media and the NGOs will obstruct, delay and dilute any real change.

The establishment’s preferred candidate is now the one-time “controlled opposition” because the system is that desperate. Meanwhile the problems metastasise faster than any promised reform can catch up.

Hard to get excited, then, about whatever announcements limp out of the King’s Speech. They will not survive contact with reality if we ever get an actually British government staffed by competent, responsible people accountable to the country and to duty rather than to supranational ideology or personal advancement. If we do not get that government, the country will not survive in any recognisable form.

[Ruby Madder @RubyMadder]

@Con_Tomlinson @firasmodad Wonderful Connor! Congratulations x

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

Amelda Chlamyds votes Green

[Ruby Madder @RubyMadder]

@CharlotteCGill @KarenJukes2 Love it Charlotte! 😂🎯😂

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Pass it on if you feel the same.

[Ruby Madder @RubyMadder]

@DreyfusJames Keep going James 💪

[Ruby Madder @RubyMadder]

@Sargon_of_Akkad Disappointing Carl.
I'm not a well-off pensioner by any stretch. OAPs seem to be an easy target for your dissatisfaction.
Stop scapegoating us and go after the welfare scroungers instead!!

[@WasSamLowryEsq @WasSamLowryEsq]

By all means, means-test pensions.

But arguing that a frail 80 year old widower that's paid NI for 50 years should be denied £200 a week is very, er, selfish.

This fixation the right has on blaming the elderly for 50 year old government policies is just plain weird.

[Ruby Madder @RubyMadder]

@johnredwood @LOVillaJavea It is a cult and the cult leader, Mad Ed, is running the show

[Luke Johnson @LukeJohnsonRCP]

Just as it was clear in 2020 that Britain's lockdown policies were a social, economic, moral, educational and scientific disaster, so every day it becomes ever clearer that Labour/Miliband's NetZero mania is a national mistake of epic proportions. Our energy policies are suicidal

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Britain has paid Norway over £100 billion for gas since 2021.

For gas they’re drilling in the North Sea, the same sea Ed Miliband has banned new drilling in on the British side.

Madness.

[Lembit Öpik @lembitopik]

Britain has enough oil, coal & gas to last generations. Sadly, we haven’t got politicians smart enough to use it. Carbon dioxide isn’t killing our way of life. Government is

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Watch this 👇💥
Here is the brilliant economist Liam Halligan laying waste to the idiots currently running our country.
One day, Liam will help guide our economy and our poor country will be rescued from Socialism and be back in business. 🙏

[Edward Dutton @jollyheretic]

We shouldn't worry about jury trials. Any sensible government elected in 2029 will pass an Act of Oblivion over-turning all laws passed since 2024 and, preferably, since 2nd May 1997. But will the British finally elect a sensible government?

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Matt Ridley, former science editor at The Economist, thoroughly dismantles the "climate crisis" narrative:

"We know that in the medieval period, it was warmer than today... So we're not in a period of unprecedented warmth."

"We're not in a period of unprecedentedly fast warmth. We're not in a period of increasing extreme weather, floods, droughts, storms."

"The carbon dioxide we're putting in the air is having a very measurable effect that's beneficial... And that is global greening."