Septuagenarian, ex Merchant Navy Radio Officer then Foreign Office. I am entitled to my opinion. If you don't agree with it you are also entitled to say so. 🤓
@GoodwinMJ
Foreign Aid. It’s not so long ago that our policy was to give goods (tractors/etc) rather than money to stop it being siphoned off. What happened they just rotted on the quayside. They just want cash.
Day 1 homework set by @realDonaldTrump for @Keir_Starmer
Drill in the North Sea
Ditch Net Zero
Enforce our borders
Deport all illegal migrants
Ditch DEI
Freeze govt hiring
Order everyone back to the office
Slash foreign aid budget
Protect free speech
The Hundred
As the league table now shows all 8 teams have played 7 games - ie all played each other - how can there be 4 games left prior to the Eliminator and Final?
I'll be honest with you. Most of us have very little interaction with Muslims. You increasingly live apart from us. There is little we can say in favour of your religion and its contribution to British life, and it was never wanted to begin with. We weren't asked and your faith was further imposed on us without our consent. The expansion of Islam in Britain has made Britain less free and less safe, and it has eroded the foundations upon which our society is based.
I am angry that a mosque was targeted last night. This was mob action on the basis of rumour and speculation. But all the same, Islam is a growing problem in Britain. Not least the rising sectarianism and third worldism creeping into our politics. Not forgetting that Islamic terrorism is the primary domestic threat facing the UK. It's inevitable that we will see yet another Islamic atrocity on British soil. There are thousands of you on the terror watch list.
As such, when it happens, I would expect the suspect's mosque to be investigated for extremism, and if found, I would expect and demand it be shuttered at the very least. We should be doing this as a matter of course because the very worst racial hatred in this country is proliferated through British mosques. Antisemitism is endemic to Pakistani culture in Britain. If, however, the British state will not act, then the British public most certainly will eventually. Yesterday's events are the writing on the wall.
I feel a great sadness that it has come to this, and I do not condone any of it, and you have my sympathy. But there must be some renewed dialogue in British Islamic circles. It's simply not acceptable to conduct electioneering in a foreign language. It's not acceptable to drape women in a black sack. It's not acceptable to wear tribal garments from the subcontinent on the streets of our cities. It's not acceptable to marry your first cousins. It's not acceptable to demand blasphemy laws and intimidate politicians, etc. etc. etc.
The British people are tolerant, but that tolerance is not finite. There will come a point where the breakdown of relations between the British public, the state, and British muslims is simply irrecoverable, after which there is no telling which way this goes. I'm sad to say it, but you are right to feel afraid. It's not incumbent on us to change though. Islam in Britain must reform or expect at some point to be removed.
It's Robbery.
So Labour want to give away £13 million to other countries to chase their climate change agenda.
But the good news is they are robbing pensioners of their winter fuel payments.
My words in @TheSun newspaper today:
Reform UK has turned the election into a referendum on the corrupt political establishment.
If you want more of the same, just vote for either side of the same establishment coin, Tory or Labour.
But if you love your country and want real change? If you want to Stop the Boats and freeze immigration? Then join the people’s revolt and vote with your heart for Reform UK.
Britain’s elites are happy to see Keir Starmer replace Rishi Sunak because it’s not a change of government.
It’s just a change of middle management. Why else would snobby voices like the Financial Times and the Economist endorse Starmer’s Labour?
I am serious about breaking up their rotten two-party system. After Thursday, Reform UK can be the real opposition in parliament.
We will hold Starmer to account over his plans to open Britain’s borders to even more immigration and betray Brexit by taking the knee to the EU.
And this is just the start. Over the next five years I am serious about building a mass movement for real change.
A vote for Reform UK is not a protest vote, it’s not a fantasy vote, it’s not a wasted vote. It’s a vote to change Britain for good.
Something remarkable is happening out there. Now we need you to put your X where your heart is.
Do you want a leader who is unashamedly patriotic, proud of Britain’s past and optimistic about our future?
Then make your voice heard, join the people’s revolt and vote Reform UK.
Based on the latest YouGov national poll, this is the Electoral Calculus forecast for Wellingborough and Rushden, the constituency in which I am standing.
@reformparty_uk wins. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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To mark #StGeorgesDay🏴, here is Laurence Olivier reciting "This Earth, this Realm, This England" against a backdrop of idyllic scenes of this green & pleasant land.
This was recorded in 1953 as the intro to the technicolor video of The Coronation. I've loved it since childhood.