acucobol

Man of Legend

[TaxPayers' Alliance @the_tpa]

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[WasAcop @WasAcop]

The alert the country needs. 👇

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

Walking down the average UK high street now is one of the most blackpilling experiences imaginable. Barely any local businesses left, just endless vape shops, tacky nail salons, dodgy phone retailers and the obligatory Turkish barbers, most of which never see a single customer and barely even bother to maintain the pretence of being legit anymore.
A palpable atmosphere of quiet despair and resignation amongst the trickle of shoppers wandering aimlessly around. Its like living in a country that just lost a war without firing a single shot. Never seen anything like it in my lifetime.

[acucobol @acucobol]

@Airports_ZA

[acucobol @acucobol]

@capetownint when are the toilets working again? It is unacceptable for an airport to have no working toliets

[acucobol @acucobol]

@capetownint when are the toilets working again? It is unacceptable for an airport to have no working toliets

[Andrew Lawrence @andrewlawrence]

By far the shittest production of 'The Wizard of Oz' ever attempted.

[Andrew Lawrence @andrewlawrence]

You know you're living in a healthy democracy when everyone has to pay for a VPN to stop the state from spying on them.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My monologue on what the new world order means for Britain, from @TimesRadio today:

For those of you who’ve not yet copped that we’re at a watershed in global politics I suggest you have a read of Mark Carney’s speech in Davos yesterday. It’s not often a Canadian prime minister charts a seminal change in world politics. But Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, has. 

This is the key passage:

“Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions—that they must develop greater strategic autonomy: in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable. A country that can’t feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.”

Coming from a fully-paid up member of the liberal global elite, this is dynamite. Carney says the era of global integration is over and that what he calls ‘middle powers’, like Canada and the UK, who benefitted from it and got used to working through global institutions — like the WTO, the UN, COP, NATO, the EU — need to realise the game is up. 

If you can’t feed, fuel and defend yourself in this new world of rupture you’re finished. So these are his priorities for Canada. He’s junked a lot of his net zero baggage to increase Canada’s energy security. He’s moving from multilateral to bilateral deals he thinks will benefit Canada, most recently with China. And he’s doubling spending on defence. 

The British government should take stock. Carney’s world of rupture has been brought about by Donald Trump’s wrecking ball approach to the rules-based world order that has served us so well these past 80 years. 

It’s played into the hands of the autocrats of Moscow, Beijing and elsewhere who want to replace that world order with a system far more attuned to their interests. Trump is obliging them. 

Food. Fuel. Defence. These are Carney’s watchwords for a scary new world in which middle powers need to seek strategic autonomy when old alliances and multinational institutions no longer work. They should guide British policy too. 

We need to be able to feed ourselves better. To be able to count on cheap, secure sources of energy. And to be able to defend ourselves from multiple and growing threats. At the moment the Starmer government is doing none of the above. 

Instead it is lumbering business with the most expensive energy costs in the world and households with the second or third most expensive domestic energy in the world. 

It is pursuing a multi-billion pound dash to net zero while adding only a few crumbs to the defence budget. 

And it’s covering good farming land with solar panels. 

It would be hard to think of a set of policies less designed to give us the strategic autonomy Carney thinks middle powers must strive for. 

Britain needs a step change in its energy, food and defence policies. The billions earmarked for net zero need to be diverted to rearming the nation. 

We need an energy policy that couples secure supplies with lower prices so that we can start to rebuild some of our heavy industry, essential to defence. 

And we need a farm policy that champions growing food once more rather than prioritising various fashionable environmental wheezes. 

None of this is likely to happen under the Starmer government. The PM has no vision or aptitude for such a strategy. His party is a prisoner to old 20th century ways of thinking, as is much of British politics on the left and right. 

But unless the Carney challenge is recognised and policy changed in radical ways to meet it, we risk not only further economic decline in the rest of this decade but growing vulnerability to the evil intent of our enemies. And without America at our back to protect us.

[acucobol @acucobol]

@10DowningStreet @darrenpjones FO

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Can you believe our media are seriously reporting the story of a second migrant deported to France?
That’s a grand total of TWO.
France will send two over.
This is not a returns deal it’s a farce. An insult to the British people.

[The Sun @TheSun]

First ‘one in, one out’ Channel migrant flight to Paris CANCELLED https://t.co/SXwz4anRp7

[Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage]

The government has used ECHR against the people of Epping.

Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

Coinbase have released a brilliant advert that rips the piss out of the current dire state of the UK.

Let's be honest, it's funny and feels pretty accurate.

This is what this disastrous Labour has reduced us to. We're now a global laughing stock.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

We were assured by Conservative and Labour politicians that the Online Safety Act was designed to protect children. In the last few days, its real, more sinister purpose has become, writes Andrew Doyle. https://t.co/ZDH4I7YKYr

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Britain's growth rate in 1997 was 4.9%.

4.9%.

Just unimaginable to anyone of my generation.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

You know what I’ve not been able to get out of my mind this week? That at the very same time, after the Southport atrocity, Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and much of the political establishment in this country were willingly accusing the British people of “misinformation”, they all KNEW the UK state was actively misinforming the British people by secretly flooding the country with thousands of Afghans while gagging media, avoiding any democratic scrutiny, and hiding it all from the very people they were accusing of being thick, stupid, and misinformed.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

If the UK state can secretly relocate thousands of Afghans into our country while gagging media, with no democratic accountability, no vote, no scrutiny, no transparency, while committing billions that are not shown in the budget then it makes you wonder

What else is it doing?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Trump prides himself on the art of the deal.
Starmer has perfected the art of the steal:
Giving the EU everything it wants for next to nothing.

https://t.co/q1CK80du3c

[Tim Price 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ✝️ @TimPrice1969]

I recently watched a documentary called 'V for Vendetta' about a tyrannical government ultimately overthrown by its own people and I think it should be shown in all of our schools.