🍏Lou Forbes🍏

Optimist (daydreamer more elegantly spelled)

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Diversity is not our strength.

A clip 👇 from the Strictly Education episode where I explain the concept of the title of my book - Diversity is not our strength.

It is out next Thursday - November 12th!

You can pre-order it on Amazon:

https://t.co/Ps9BmLrnI8

[Catherine Blaiklock @blaiklockBP]

For 25 years people in Britain have been actively fighting for less immigration.
Ignored and ignored and ignored.

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

I can’t believe Burnham would be stupid enough to give British citizenship to 400,000 people just 6 years after they came here.

That would cost us hundreds of billions of pounds if they stay forever.

It would go down as one of the worst decisions in modern British history.

[Isabel Oakeshott @IsabelOakeshott]

Yesterday @EmilyThornberry revealed a Pakistani man who came to Islington to work as carer is "relieved" his family will all be allowed to stay forever. The family has now been joined by "a little boy with a rare genetic condition." She asked @ShabanaMahmood if the lad can have UK taxpayer funded benefits. Of course we all want the best for him but this begs so many questions. Is he their son? Did they just abandon him till now? How many other low paid carers are bringing relatives who are partly or wholly dependent on the state? It's completely unaffordable!

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The pattern that is seen all over Britain.

The A91 between Cupar and St Andrews is no longer a road. It is a two-year social experiment in whether humans can still feel time.

Two years of traffic cones, temporary lights and men in high-vis staring into holes with the mañana calm of people who have made peace with eternity.

Fife Council has been digging this stretch longer than some wars last. What began as “essential works” has become a heritage industry. Generations have now come of age believing the natural state of the A91 is a red light that stays on red so long that drivers can listen to entire albums on their car stereo while waiting at the traffic lights. Drivers grow old on this road.

First it was underground pipes. Then cables. Then more cables, because the first lot of cables clearly weren’t enough. You don’t drive from Cupar to St Andrews. You slalom.

At one point Cupar was running something like fourteen separate sets of works at once. It would have been quicker to list the roads that didn’t have cones on them.

By the time the last cone is finally lifted, children will be old enough to ask why their parents ever thought “just nipping into Cupar” was a sentence that a fully functioning adult would say.

The A91 was once a road. It is now a waiting car room with traffic lights and traffic cones.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

This Labour member of the Scottish Parliament, in appalling English, criticises pubs for not being spaces for 'religious minorities'.

Who cares? I am so sick of this entitled bullshit.

The Scots love a pub. That won't change, nor should it, to satisfy any 'religious minority'.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

It’s official. Burnham is going to take £40million of our hard-earned money and give it to folk in the Caribbean to “ atone” for slavery.
How about giving it to the Royal Surrey hospital in Guilford to “atone” for the state of the NHS?
The fastest we throw out this dud the better.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Let's not forget who is ultimately responsible for handing out those millions of visas to people to come to Britain since 2021 to do low paid, low skilled work - and bring their many dependants - while young Brits were left to rot on the welfare scrap heap.

This wasn't just economic madness, set to cost British taxpayers BILLIONS over decades, it was an immoral act directly contradicting the clear and expressed wishes of the British people for lower migration.

The person responsible was the then PM @BorisJohnson. Shame on you.

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

Breaking 🚨 Shabana Mahmood has finally - and predictably - u-turned on her phoney get tough on immigration rhetoric. It must have lasted all of a year until her natural instincts kicked in and she realised she didn't really want to extend indefinite leave to remain from 5 to 15 years and stop the 1.6 million migrants waiting for UK citizenship. 

She talked tough for a while - some were even taken in - but people mustn’t forget she was one of the signatories of the letter to halt a Home Office flight to Jamaica in 2020 to return foreign nationals who had committed murder, rape and drug offences. 

She was never going to get tough on immigration.  It was all talk.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

This is MIND BLOWING. This Labour Government is making migrant policy to suit the wishes of foreigners and not those of British citizens. This is a national outrage.

[Dan Wootton @danwootton]

Something HUGE is happening out there after the treacherous new management of the Daily Telegraph sacked their most popular columnist Allison Pearson.
This morning I hear mass cancellations are underway, with thousands ending their subscriptions.
One reader is 35th in the queue!

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

Seriously…

UK PLC is going bust, debt is soaring

Real disposable income is falling

We face blackouts & ruinous electricity bills

Yet news dominated by absurd debate over slavery reparations & apologies

Idiotic

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

1400 people have broken into Britain by boat since Thursday.

That's more than a battalion's worth of military-age men arriving on our beaches.

We already saw one wielding a knife.

We already know terrorists and murderers have come this way.

Burnham cannot tell you who they are or where they'll be sleeping tonight.

We can’t go on like this.

Reform will reverse this invasion.

We will put the Royal Navy in the Channel so not one more makes it to our shores.

We will deport everyone Labour and the Tories allowed in illegally.

[Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green @MPIainDS]

What an extraordinary statement. Apparently, according to Labour, employers aren't working people. Tell that to the small business owners working 60-hour weeks, risking their savings, paying their staff and keeping their businesses afloat. Labour can play with definitions and indulge in endless whataboutery, but it cannot escape the consequences of its decisions. Taxing employers affects jobs, wages and the very people Labour claims to protect.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

I’ve been Self employed or run a small limited company all my life, at one time employing 2 people full time & 2 part time. The longest I took off when I had my 3 children was a week. Becuase if I didn’t work I didn’t earn. Labour have absolutely no idea what private sector work is! It’s so insulting

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

It all suddenly makes sense why the @Telegraph ditched the only writers we bothered to read it for.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

This is quite simply brilliant.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

This is what state failure looks like. More on debt interest than education.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Riots and looting in Frankfurt tonight.

You had enough yet?