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[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

A referendum is not a temporary inconvenience for the people who lost it.

Tony Blair’s institute now wants rejoining a “reformed” EU set as a public objective within a decade and made a cornerstone of Burnham’s 10-year plan. The paper even treats free movement and a financial contribution as the likely price of entry.

Trade with Europe is one question. Treating 17.4 million votes as a problem to be managed out of existence is another. If the public is to be asked again, say so. If not, this is not a new relationship. It is an attempt to reverse a decision without winning it.

Consent is not a red line you redraw when the polls look friendlier.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Tony Blair urges Labour to overturn Brexit and rejoin EU within a decade
https://t.co/P4CaDlI76p

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

A government that fights foreign forgeries is one thing. A government that decides which British arguments are “distorted” is another.

Burnham has ordered a National Centre for Information Defence to detect and disrupt hostile-state operations: bots, fake websites, forged branding. That work can be justified. The problem is the next step: new laws if ministers think they need them, and a brief that also talks of stopping untrue narratives about Britain.

Foreign interference is a security question. Public dissent is not. Once the state becomes the referee of the information space, the argument no longer belongs to the public.

Defence against Moscow must not become a licence to police Britain.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The new radical leftist Prime Minister in Britain, Andy Burnham, has announced his plans to create a "Ministry of Truth" to control news media and eliminate news or opinions that the government disagrees with.

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[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

You cannot keep failing to stop the boats and then act surprised when people try to stop them themselves.

You don't approve of what Danny Tommo did. Fine.

But a country that refuses to enforce its own borders should ask why ordinary people feel driven to intervene.

That's the warning. Deal with the cause, not just the consequence.

[THE TRUTH SCOPE @scopethetruth]

🚨BREAKING:Danny Tommo has been arrested.Charged with criminal damage and recklessly endangering life after he tried to stop small boats in the Channel.Police found the manpower to arrest him but not to stop the crossings.Two-tier policing in real time.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@benonwine Yes, and they won't hesitate to put him in prison.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@visegrad24 “May Allah kill all the Jews” ended in a smile and a victory sign. He stalked kippah-wearing Jews through Times Square, called for Hamas to kill more of them, and punched an Israeli tourist in the head. He got 90 days. That sentence is the incentive.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@TRobinsonNewEra @ezralevant The Home Secretary promised the full force of the law against the man who knifed a dinghy. The dinghies keep coming. That is the enforcement split. Activists become the target because they make the failure visible.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@GBNEWS A country without a border is not a safe country. Drones over the Channel are the minimum. The crossings continue because the state treats them as administration, not as a breach. That is being ruled, not governed.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@PolitlcsUK This is what a refused border produces. A man is under arrest for knifing a migrant boat in the Channel. The crossings that put that boat there are still treated as a processing task. The state chose the easier target.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@TheInsiderPaper Blood tests near the Thornton-Cleveleys plant found “really high levels” of a cancer-causing forever chemical. Dozens of residents now have it in their blood. The factory next door was the obvious source. That is a control failure, not a mystery.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@GBPolitcs The state moved faster on a slashed dinghy than it does on the Channel. A man is under arrest for criminal damage and endangering life. The crossings that produced the boat keep coming. That is the priority order.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@realMaalouf Mamdani’s outrage has a filter. He called Netanyahu a war criminal and demanded an arrest. He said nothing when the president of the regime that killed 100,000 Iranians, including 50,000 children, landed in New York. That silence is the tell.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@gatewaypundit This is where failed border policy leads. When citizens believe the state has abandoned its most basic duty, anger spills into direct action. Britain needs control restored before frustration escalates further. Stop the boats. Enforce the border.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@TheInsiderPaper “Extreme care” is exactly right. AI could transform medicine, science and productivity, but racing ahead without serious safeguards would be reckless. The West needs to lead this revolution without losing control of what it creates.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@realBrandonGill “We have no way of knowing if Jesus really existed” isn’t merely progressive theology. It rejects a figure whose historical existence is accepted by the overwhelming majority of scholars. Christians are entitled to ask what exactly is being preached in their name.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@GBNEWS @Jacob_Rees_Mogg “People are fed up with it.” Exactly. Governments should be extremely careful about blaming public anger on bots and disinformation. Sometimes voters are angry because they genuinely reject the policies being imposed on them.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@GBNEWS A government agency deciding what counts as “disinformation” demands fierce scrutiny. Burnham says it will target hostile-state information attacks, but mission creep is the danger. Britain must defend itself without creating a Ministry of Truth. 🇬🇧

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@bennyjohnson DEI deserves scrutiny on principle: opportunity should never become a system of judging people by race or sex. Political parties should choose candidates on their record, ideas and ability to win public support, not demographic box-ticking.

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

While Britain argues endlessly about small boats, alleged smuggling networks have apparently been working on a rather more sophisticated route.

Genuine passports. Tourist visas. Counterfeit identities. Commercial flights.

Europol says one cell alone distributed more than 1,000 fraudulent identity documents.

Border security doesn't begin and end in the Channel.

https://t.co/h8iqsm82K8

[Dissenting Citizen @VoxDissent]

@GuntherEagleman Why should proving who you are before casting a ballot be controversial? Secure elections require both access and public confidence. America should be capable of protecting every eligible citizen’s vote while verifying the identity of the person casting it.