@NadiaWhittomeMP Actually the focus should be on their cause, which is to encourage the police and politicians in this country to DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS and stop hundreds of illegal immigrants from coming into the country to live off taxpayer funds.
@SundaySpectator@GBNT1952 14% of our budget every year is for interest on our debt, and its getting worse every year. We need to cut something and entitlements are the single largest item by far because large segments of society use them as a lifestyle choice.
🚨 I have a very simple question for the authorities.
If a migrant boat is still afloat and the people on board are not actually in the water or in immediate danger, on what legal basis is the RNLI collecting them and transporting them to the UK?
Section 25 of the Immigration Act 1971 makes facilitating a breach of immigration law a criminal offence.
And under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, the maximum sentence was increased to life imprisonment.
Yes, there are statutory protections for genuine rescue operations. I accept that.
But that makes the question even more important:
Where does rescue end and facilitation begin?
If these people are being rescued from genuine danger, show us the evidence.
If they aren’t in danger and are instead being transported towards the UK, then the public deserves to know exactly why that does not amount to facilitation under Section 25.
Nobody should be above the law.
Not the Government. Not people smugglers. And not anyone else.
Investigate it. Apply the law. And if a criminal offence has been committed, prosecute whoever is responsible.
@GavinBarwell You do need to be born in a country that shares our cultural heritage to be able to adequately and accurately represent us in the halls of power though. What's the point of having a British culture at all if those who represent us are merely citizens of the world?
@DAaronovitch Good, the Overton window needs to shift to the point where we violently oppose having our culture replaced by those who are in no way culturally compatible with the indigenous people of the British isles. You would call it colonization if it were a British person in Somalia.
@piersmorgan@nadhimzahawi How is this racism? Do the British people not deserve to have their representatives in the halls of power actually understand their culture and represent it faithfully? How can a refugee from Somalia possibly represent the indigenous culture of these isles?
@EdwardJDavey It's anti British, and anti white racism, that's what it actually is. How can a refugee from a foreign culture possibly be expected to represent British culture in the halls of British power? Unless of course you are trying to replace British culture with something else.
@DPJHodges It is, why is a non indigenous person from a culture with completely different values being foisted on a predominately white population?
Please continue to speak up about anti white racism.
Venice sits on 10 million tree trunks that were hammered into mud over 1,000 years ago. They never rotted, because the Venetians stumbled onto the one loophole in how wood dies.
Rot is a biological process. Fungi and bacteria eat wood, and nearly all of them need oxygen to survive. The Venetians drove their piles through the soft lagoon floor into dense clay, fully below the waterline, where the mud is packed so tight oxygen can't reach. The organisms that destroy wood simply starve down there.
Then the water does something stranger. Minerals in the seawater seep into the submerged trunks year after year, filling the wood's cells and slowly hardening them. Give it enough centuries and the wood drifts toward stone.
The wet-dry zone at the surface, where rot actually thrives, never touches the wood at all. Venetians capped every pile below the low-tide line with slabs of Istrian limestone, a stone so dense it barely absorbs water, then built the brick and marble on top of that. The wood stays drowned forever. Drowned is the safe state.
When the bell tower in St. Mark's Square collapsed in 1902, engineers dug in expecting a rotten foundation. They found piles roughly 1,000 years old still intact, and reinforced them rather than replace them.
Records from the Salute church claim 1,106,657 piles were driven for that single building, over about two years of continuous hammering. The Rialto Bridge sits on 12,000 more.
Venice is a petrified forest planted upside down, and the water everyone assumes is killing the city has spent ten centuries preserving its foundations.
In her latest sciolistic letter to me, @SenWarren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking.
What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error.
To reiterate: under @POTUS, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners.
For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.
I think that Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is pointless and stupid.
Wanna know what else I think is dumb?
The fact left-wingers are triggered about this after they spent the last decade plus renaming sports teams, public schools and universities, streets and highways, food and condiment brands, and redefining half the dictionary altogether.
Here’s a list of some in case you forgot:
• Washington Redskins ➡️ Commanders
• Cleveland Indians ➡️ Guardians
• Stanford Indians ➡️ Cardinals
• Loudoun County Raiders ➡️ Captains
• Edmonton Eskimos ➡️ Elks
• Columbus Day ➡️ Indigenous Peoples’ Day
• Lee–Jackson Day ➡️ eliminated
• Robert E. Lee High School ➡️ John Lewis High
• Jefferson Davis Highway ➡️ Richmond Highway
• Mount McKinley ➡️ Denali
• Fort Bragg ➡️ Fort Liberty
• Fort Hood ➡️ Fort Cavazos
• Boy Scouts of America ➡️ Scouting America
• Aunt Jemima ➡️ Pearl Milling Company
• Uncle Ben’s Rice ➡️ Ben’s Original
• Eskimo Pie ice cream bars ➡️ Edy’s Pie
• Land O’Lakes ➡️ removed the Indian, but kept the land
• Illegal alien ➡️ undocumented worker
• Hispanic ➡️ Latinx (a term Hispanics did not want and do not use)
• Mother ➡️ birthing person
• Anchor baby ➡️ child of noncitizens
• black ➡️ Black
• Breastfeeding ➡️ chest feeding
• Inmate / prisoner / convict / felon ➡️ justice-involved person
• Ex-con / ex-felon ➡️ returning citizen
• “Gender” as a biological fact interchangeable with “sex” to being a social construct
• Fat ➡️ plus-sized
• Master bedroom ➡️ primary bedroom
• Manhole ➡️ utility hole
And so on and so on. . .
The "insanity" argument for Lindsay Clancy is just this: 1) She had the thought and desire to strangle her children to death. 2) Only an insane person would have those thoughts and desires. Therefore, 3) she was insane.
If the jury is stupid enough to buy this line of logic, it will set a precedent that if applied consistently would exonerate literally every murderer, past or future. Every murderer has murderous desires. Every murderer has "intrusive thoughts" about murdering the person they murdered. Lindsay Clancy's whole case rests on the supposition that it's essentially impossible by definition for a sane person to murder someone.
This is a very important verdict. The implications of "not guilty" in this case are dire.
@zarahussain999@GBPolitcs@StevenEdginton Perhaps if the flag of the country that has taken you in is offensive to you, then this country might not be the right place for you, and you should seek refuge somewhere that shares your values, perhaps a majority muslim country would be better suited to your sensibilities.