Laura Kuenssberg, "Rejoining the EU.. Which Streeting and Burnham have mentioned"
Wil Self, "I think the public would be much happier if Streeting stood up and said we have a problem with governmental legitimacy, because of the way the vote on Europe is still perceived"
"We need a need to have a national debate on the mismatch on our electoral systems between Proportional Representation and FPTP"
"We need to educate the British public again on our own constitution"
"The real issue is we have a war with Russia"
"I have blood cancer, the blood testing service last year was attacked by Russian hackers"
"We have a low intensity conflict, its all over the place now"
"NATO is falling apart"
"The issue about the EU is about existential defence in Europe"
"Don't people understand that?"
"Talk about fiddling while Rome burns"
Well said @wself 👏
Read this and then tell me if I’m a bigot.
I am a gay man.
I believe that sex is biological.
I believe men can be whatever type of man they want.
I believe women can be whatever type of woman they want.
I believe men can be camp/feminine.
I believe women can be butch/masculine.
I believe homosexuals should be allowed to live freely, including being able to get civilly partnered and marry.
However, I do not believe in Transgenderism ideology or ‘gender identities’.
Humans cannot change sex.
I believe that ‘trans people’ need proper psychological help.
We should not be affirming delusion or self harm.
‘Trans’ is obsessed with ‘gender identity’ which is another way to say ‘sex-based stereotypes’.
No one has a ‘gender identity’.
We are either male or female.
It doesn’t matter how masculine/feminine we are or what stereotypes we do or don’t conform to.
We are all INDIVIDUALS.
There have always been a small cohort of people who feel ‘wrong’.
I have massive sympathy for those people.
I do not have sympathy, though, for people forcing me to participate in someone else’s delusions.
The modern ‘Transgenderism’ is socially engineered psychosis.
Men can just ‘identify’ as women.
Women can just ‘identify’ as men.
Women can just ‘identify’ as gay men.
Men can just ‘identify’ as lesbians.
With ‘trans’ words have no meaning.
It’s regressive, sexist, misogynistic and homophobic.
Trampling all over the right to single-sex spaces, the rights of women, gays, lesbians and everyone to legally describe themselves and to freedom of expression.
Men are adult human males.
Women are adult human females.
Heterosexual= Opposite sex attracted.
Homosexual= Same sex attracted.
Sex= The reality of being born with a male or female body.
Sexuality= The sex to which you are sexually attracted.
Sex and sexuality are immutable realities.
‘Gender’ is meaningless and ‘trans’ is delusion.
I am a gay man who believes in LGB rights, biological reality and that we can all be whatever type of people we want.
But I bet I’ll still get called a ‘bigot’.
@simonlevans@roisinmurphy That’s a very London centric view of the issue, if I may be so bold Simon. I personally find the high jacking of the word reductive. I hate it. Maybe if we left it for a couple more generations. It makes my blood boil when GenXers refer to AIDS victims as such.
I want to say something many will hate but it needs to be said. I have met Nigel Farage. I do not know him well but I know the world he moves in. We move in similar circles sometimes. The kind of private rooms and members clubs that most people in Britain will never see. I know how the rich speak about ordinary people. They laugh. They joke about how easy it is to wind you up. They know exactly which buttons to press. They know you are angry and tired and struggling and they know you want someone to blame. That is why they point at boats while they pick your pockets.
I did not grow up rich. I did not grow up in privilege. I understand struggle and the real world. But my life changed and now I see both sides. I sit with billionaires and politicians and decision makers and I hear conversations you never will. I know the truth. They do not care about you. They do not care about your future. They care about profit and control. They see ordinary people as tools or distractions. I am telling you this because I am tired of watching good people being manipulated.
Look at your life before Brexit and look at it now. Look at your shopping bills. Look at what food costs in Europe right now. Look at how much tax you pay on imports. Look at your wages and energy prices and mortgages. Look at the 10,000 NHS staff we lost when freedom of movement ended. Look at the ambulances that do not arrive. Look at nurses and teachers using food banks. Tell me honestly. Are you better off?
Nigel helped build the crisis you are living in. Then he pointed at immigrants and told you to blame them. That is the con. He pulled the UK out of the Dublin III agreement which means we cannot return asylum seekers to Europe anymore. He created the boat chaos then told you to panic about it. Someone who worked in immigration for more than ten years told me they saw it coming. It was planned. It is a strategy. And you are falling for it.
Now he wants austerity again. He wants to cut wages for young people. He wants to rip up workers rights. He wants private health insurance and a French style NHS where the rich get treated first and the poor get nothing. He wants you fighting each other so you never see who is robbing you. If you vote for him you are voting to destroy your own life. Not mine. Yours.
None of this affects me personally. I drink champagne with the people who control the money. I will be fine no matter what. Reform will not hurt me. Reform will hurt you. It will hurt your children. Your parents. Your future. I am telling you because I care. If I did not care I would stay silent and watch you suffer.
You think I am your enemy because I make you uncomfortable. I am not. Your enemy is the one who lies to you and blames the vulnerable while he empties your pockets.
Reform will not save you. Reform will finish you.
Think. Before they take everything.
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Nigel farage wants you to think that Britain has an immigration problem.
It doesn't.
Britain had a problem with millionaires hoarding wealth, egged on by politicians and the press.
Britain has a problem with racism.
Britain has a @Nigel_Farage problem.
RT if you agree.