The City Dissident

Law; the Rolling Stones; cheese; America; Los Angeles; pro wrestling. Cooks a good pork chop.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@TheAliceSmith And the big problem that the country has is that not only do most people not understand this, they don't want to either. If it says 'conservative' on the tin, the contents must be conservative. They cannot and will not move beyond that.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@policylaila @RyvesWilliam Because they are not perceived as political enemies of the regime. It’s quite simple.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@trevgoes4th A race that the British political establishment loves to win.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@BeastmodeBox They are the types who have wrought so much political damage on this country.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

It amuses me to see that common-as-muck communist Rayner (of all people) has approved this, just to rub it into the snooty, middle-class, Lib Dem-voting harridans of Piddington. Learn the heard way, ladies, that playing along with leftist politics because it makes you feel virtuous and superior can really bite you on the arse.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

BREAKING

Angela Rayner has approved plans to house up to 1,256 single male migrants at MOD Bicester in Oxfordshire - next to the village of Piddington - despite the overwhelming opposition of the local community

The decision comes after Andy Burnham said that people in more affluent areas of the UK must 'play their part' in housing asylum seekers

Piddington was so incensed that it even held a symbolic referendum on leaving the UK as a protest against the plans. The government has decided to override their concerns

This is the letter sent to Greg Smith, the local Tory MP: 'Application by the Home Office for full planning permission for the temporary change of use of the former defence storage & distribution centre site in connection with the phased provision of non-detained asylum accommodation at MOD Bicester (A-site), Bicester Garrison, Launton Road, OX25 1AE.

'I am writing to inform you that today the Secretary of State has granted planning permission, subject to conditions, for the Home Office’s application described above'

Doesn't sound like a decision has been made yet on RAF Barnham or RAF Linton-on-Ouse

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@londinburgh Indeed not, although there are clearly plenty of people who would like to apply precisely that standard in a court of law.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@NoticingThem @michelletandler I was thinking the same thing.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@londinburgh The power of social judgment and censure is enormous!

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@BWLH_ Exactly right. They are deadly serious people, and that is why they have decades of continuous political victory behind them. Midwit commentators like Walsh don’t have a clue, if they’re still calling them ‘not serious’.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@ollieparrot @baylissbaghdad @TheCriticMag Yes. Gormless Indian banker presuming to prescribe cures for the nation’s ills. He encapsulates British political failure perfectly.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@londinburgh @Saskiaaa_____ The police in that video are pathetic. Not saying they should have shot the little shit - although I’d be fine if they did - but standing there like lemons is absurd. Probably wouldn’t have done so if he were white.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@LairdSummerisle Pol Pot did not intend to leave Cambodia in any way unchanged and Britain’s lanyard revolutionaries act with the same fervour.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@therealbigjonno I suspect that is right. They know the SF won’t fight for them so they are happy to demoralise them.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

The very same nonsense that the Tories did nothing about for 14 years. The regime will start treating British soldiers with more respect when it realises it wants to use them on British streets against British people, but until then, this will continue.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This will be Labour’s legacy unless Andy Burnham stops this nonsense.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

I think it is still the belief of the regime that it can crush native resistance to its agenda through propaganda, control of media, and police/judicial intimidation. The prospect of needing the army is viewed as unlikely and so not taken very seriously (hence treating the military badly, in general terms).

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@rorymeakin What did Elgar do to deserve being lumped together with those three rogues?

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

‘Fighting for your country’ is a phrase that made sense and could properly motivate men when the country had a government that recognised and pursued what could reasonably be described as the national interest. In 21st century Britain, that is no longer the case. Quite what these soldiers imagine they’re doing, and for whom they’re doing it, I cannot say, but it’s certainly not acting for people who have genuine British interests at heart.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

@CutMyTaxUK The people you really want to exclude from decent society are those who work at HM Treasury, but that’s a group much harder to identify and enforce against than a gaggle of stupid MPs who rubber-stamp the Treasury’s vindictive nonsense once a year.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

Life was better when the signs used the old freeway names instead of just the numbers, as now; a stronger sense of place, of where you were going/coming from. And fascinated to learn that the 405 North in LA used to be signposted to Bakersfield. I can only recall Sacramento, as is used now.

[Freeways of Los Angeles @FreewaysLA]

Feb 1967 - New freeway guide signs at various Los Angeles area freeways. Captions under each picture provide details.

Note that some signs still provided freeway names (ACSC News Pictorial).