The whole refugee ‘sponsorship’ scheme is just a ruse to allow communities of migrants to invite over more people from their homelands: expect lots of ‘sponsorship’ from foreign funded mosques and religious institutions, councils that have been captured by ethno-separatists etc.
@peter_sarris One glorious last hurrah from shitty universities founded in the 2000s with campuses in Tower Hamlets, before the deportations begin in earnest.
Even if you voted labour last time, which 80% of us did not, I don't think you voted for Manchester.
It feels like an aspiration towards devolution for the whole country, when it's already apparent that devolution is practice is quite crap.
"The change will be the biggest change in our lifetimes to the way the country is run," Andy Burnham says
"The change will be driven through the prime minister's office, in an extended operation based here in Manchester," he adds
Live: https://t.co/evPJBstcNe
Journalism at its dumbest: Someone hacks into the guest list of a "secret exclusive right-wing Thiel-associated cabal which plots 'navigating WWIII' with 'their sex lives on the agenda.'" Turns out the meeting is not secretive, not right-wing, has nothing to do with Thiel, has had hundreds of journalists, bloggers, academics, artists, musicians politicians, scientists, etc., from all over the political spectrum, discussing thousands of topics. But no matter - someone said there was a furor, therefore there must have been a furor, therefore let's make it a furor!
https://t.co/yggS5erVzF
@memeticsisyphus "You don't have freedom from consequences" is a ridiculous argument. From what can one possibly have freedom, if not consequences?
"You're free, as long as that freedom is expressed entirely outside of the basic causal structure of the universe"
At one point, when talking to the police officers yesterday, they explained they may not be able to deal with the threat, to cut my throat, immediately because they had a specific task that centred around violence against women and girls in Hyde park and so might need to take a statement later.....
Not even joking.
Yes, one of the very few options that we have that would make things noticeably worse. Almost anything would be an improvement, except that. It ranks alongside "more islamism" with changes we definitely don't need.
@calvinrobinson Under the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Bill of Rights 1689, the British monarch is legally required to "join in communion with the Church of England" and explicitly swears to maintain the Protestant succession.
Every institution, every business, every charity, every local authority.
EVERYTHING can be made a vector for our replacement. The ideology is already set in stone. All it requires is a little bit of legislation and some designated cash.
Strategically, the foie gras climbdown is a disaster because it hands Starmer’s critics a concrete case study of EU leverage over UK domestic policy.
Negotiations over a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement were sold as technocratic tweaks to “reduce checks”; yet the EU has already used them to force a reversal on a core Labour manifesto commitment, by insisting the UK cannot “pick and choose” which parts of its food rulebook to adopt.
The message to Brussels is that hardball works: threaten to block the deal unless Britain drops a democratically endorsed ban on a cruel product, and this government will quietly fold – not just once, but as a template for every future contentious file.
The message to UK voters is worse: what you vote for on standards, ethics and welfare is now subordinate to a foreign regulatory regime that regards your concerns about cruelty as an irritant – and regards your Prime Minister as someone who will abandon them for a smoother press release about “resetting relations with the EU.”
@mythPloughman@justalexoki AGPs have really high intelligence on average. Higher than any other demographic sub groups apparently, including Ashkenazi jews.
@SebastianEPayne@thetimes So you spastic wankers have decided to ask him about it every single time he's anywhere, right?
And you think that will damage him. Perhaps you're correct, but I guarantee it'll make us hate you far more.