🇬🇧 Happy Independence Day patriots 🇬🇧
Its Day 1 outside the #EU so we wanted to remind you of all the things Remainers told you would happen on #Brexit day.
Never in the history of political movements has one side fibbed so spectacularly and (at times) hilariously.
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A big thank you from us and all the local farmers to West Oxfordshire District Council for letting us have a proper car park at The Farmer’s Dog. Let’s hope this marks the start of a new and more cordial relationship. #backbritishfarming
I lived in the United Arab Emirates for 12 years and never saw anything like this. Why was it necessary in Trafalgar Square? What was it trying to prove?
Labour are about to raise your taxes because Labour don’t want to stop spending £15 billion on asylum hotels, £13 billion a year on foreign aid, £12 billion on Net Zero, £10 billion on welfare for people who aren’t even British, £7 billion importing Afghans, £6 billion subsidising social housing for people who also aren’t British, £4 billion on welfare for people with “anxiety”, £1 billion policing the small boats, £600 million looking after foreign criminals, and £250 million translating NHS material into other languages for people who cannot even be bothered to learn English.
Labour could make different choices; but Labour don’t want to.
A huge number of migrants, legal and illegal, need to leave the country.
We must urgently move away from this idea that one entry enables a migrant to stay forever, with no questions asked.
Stopping mass immigration is not enough.
We must reverse it.
@Number10cat@antmiddleton All before ‘centrist dads’ like you welcomed mass migration.
You ruined pleasant, thoughtful and limited migration and replaced it with open borders.
Time to reap the whirlwind ‘Larry’.
Great! @ApsanaBegumMP confirming that all asylum seekers and refugees can head to Poplar and Limehouse - to be paid for and housed by her and those in the local area.
Let’s start with 6 of them in her spare bedroom…
In Poplar and Limehouse, we are clear: refugees are welcome here.
In the face of relentless demonisation and targeting, we continue to stand with migrants for their rights to safety and dignity.
It’s the far-right and their hateful ideology that are not welcome here.
@PhilipProudfoot This is going to be so amusing when you’re being taxed to the eyeballs and public services collapse even further.
When the rich leave, you become the rich.
Imagine being jealous of people with more than you.
Then imagine wanting those people to be taxed more because you think punishing them will make you feel better.
Then imagine finding out that your own basic rate of tax has gone up because some of those with more than you left.
You’re poorer now than when you started.
And you cheered for it.
Imagine being that dim.
The ONLY way to lift people out of poverty is more jobs and higher wages.
The ONLY way to sustainably achieve that is with a strong growing economy creating jobs and prosperity.
The best way to STOP that happening is to tax jobs and tax the job creators.
The policies being imposed and suggested are mathematically certain to make the country poorer.
The country’s largest employers all wrote to the government and warned them what would happen if employers NI was increased. They were ignored.
Now we see cratering employment, flatlining wages and no prospects of any new growth anywhere.
And those worst affected are cheering for policies that will make it worse.
They’re not doing the maths and they don’t understand how an economy works.
The turkeys really are voting for Christmas.
Britain has become a jealous and bitter place where success is resented. So the successful are taking their job creating talents elsewhere.
And it’s going to make the housing crisis worse.
It’s so very sad.
Goodnight all.
Gilt rates are higher than they were in October 2022.
Yet there is no media outcry or negative commentary from the @bankofengland.
Britain's institutions are complicit in this huge economic failure.
All these things happened to me in London today
I paid nearly £30 for a train ticket to take me into London from a town just 30 miles away —on a Saturday
The first person I sat next to, I think from India, decided to have a FaceTime conversation with his friend on speakerphone so we all had to listen to it
The train was late by 40 minutes due to unexplained “signalling issues”. It was also filthy.
I paid nearly £8 for a pint
I offered a woman my seat on the tube without realising she was with a man who intervened and said “no man”. He was not from the UK. I think he took my gesture as an insult.
I was asked for money by homeless people 3 times in one day
I noticed several people who are paid to give information to taxpayers and tourists over the tannoy on the London Tube cannot speak English properly
A cabbie told me “London is dead most nights”, unless you are the global high net worth set or top 1%
Restaurants are visibly struggling and often hideously overpriced
I had dinner in a neighbourhood where the average rent is £3,663 per month while half of all local social housing has gone to people who were not even born in the UK
I was constantly aware I should not get my phone out on the street as 80,000 were stolen last year
I also read on the way back while checking that stat that there were 90,000 shoplifting offences in London last year, up 54%
My train back —delayed—was suddenly changed at the last minute with all passengers on board. They were told it would no longer be stopping at all stops.
I bought a tin of instant coffee on the way home and it had a security tag on it
Maybe I���m in a bad mood and perhaps it’s amusing to think how somebody of my political outlook is “triggered” but to me there is a deeper point here
London is over —it’s so over
It’s a city in visible decline with deteriorating standards and no real sense of identity or belonging
Going in and out of our capital city is a truly miserable experience
Infrastructure is falling apart, as is the social contract
I’ve been coming in and out of London since 1981
I simply cannot remember a time when it’s been this visibly dire and when so many things just do not work as they should
NHS spending 2015/16: 151.5bn
NHS spending 2025/26 204.3bn
In 2024 prices.
That’s £52.8 billion more.
Or more than *an extra billion pounds* spent on the service every single week.
Fact check: the EU carbon price is higher than ours.
This policy means energy bills are going up - according to analysts by £112 per household per year.
This statistic just blows my mind
Of the 3.6 million visas the UK issued in recent years, just 5% went to migrants on the high skilled worker route who are net contributors to the UK economy
Just think about that
Just think about what that means
🗳️ First come the migrants, then the papers, then the votes. The left is attempting to engineer Europe’s political future, one citizenship at a time. This isn't integration - 🔁 it's substitution - let's not pretend we're blind to it. We won’t trade our Christian roots for a manufactured future.
Everyone understands the righteous indignation the majority of Canadians feel when told they should join the federation of states to their south, threatened by arbitrary trade barriers if they disagree.
That same understanding is not often extended to Brits in the same position.
Lots of very upset FBPE crybabies this evening, unable to cope with the "might of the EU" resulting in them getting treated worse than the newly independent UK.
Seems "having a seat at the table" means nothing on the world stage. Zilch. Nada. Bupkiss.
Brexit for the win!
@campbellclaret Eurgh yeah, 20% tariffs!!!
Oh no wait, that’s the EU. Thank goodness we don’t have that level of friction with our biggest trading partner ey?
Al - the gift that keeps on giving