Pascal

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

The most damning detail in this entire saga is not about British law, but Pakistani caution: Islamabad has already told UK officials it is “extremely difficult” to take back Rochdale grooming ringleaders because they are such dangerous criminals and have renounced their citizenship – there is “no basis to accept them.”

In other words, Pakistan’s interior ministry looks at men like Ahmed, Rauf and Khan, convicted of industrial‑scale child rape, and decides they pose too great a threat to Pakistani children to allow them onto their streets, while Britain’s solution is to dump them in bail hostels and exclusion zones near the communities they preyed on.

The country that produced these offenders thinks they’re too toxic to take back; the country that failed to protect its own girls is apparently comfortable letting them live “under strict conditions” down the road.

If that isn’t a one‑sentence indictment of the British state’s priorities, I don’t know what is.

[The Mercian @TheMercianNews]

🚨BREAKING: The British government is forcing YouTube to kill off independent journalism by pushing them down the algorithm and giving government approved media organisations (such as BBC, ITV, Channel 4) "privileged position."

This is unprecedented for a non-dictatorial country to pursue.

Especially considering we are now going to have a government that only 24,927 people from Makerfield voted for.

[The City Dissident @EC2man]

It is certain that the regime and its assorted NGO and media allies are gearing up to ban X in the UK. Right now, the only thing really preventing them is fear of Washington's reaction. If the Democrats return to the White House in America, I predict X in the UK will be gone within weeks.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

Read the details slowly.

Three times the Parole Board looks at the Rochdale grooming ringleader and says: no remorse; refuses rehab; believes child abuse is acceptable; has tried to seriously injure another prisoner.

Three times they judge him too dangerous for discretionary release.

And yet, after the magic “two‑thirds” point in his sentence, the Ministry of Justice shrugs and presses the automatic release button anyway.

This isn’t a tragic one‑off, it’s how the system is designed to work: public protection is conditional, automatic release is absolute.

If the law can’t distinguish between a shoplifter and a man who still fantasises about raping children, the law needs to change – now, not after the next headline.

[Pascal @fu2zi]

@NeelamDesai3000 @Devon_Eriksen_ Agree, but realistically, universal suffrage is not going away without civil war. It's more likely that prison is abolished.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Devon_Eriksen_ I have wised up

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Fucking McMegaLOL. The poster child for why we should have inifity Somalians in the UK doesn't even live here. Because it's too shit.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Absolutely nobody on earth is more petulant or self-involved than UK Labour politicians. They genuinely believe that the worst problem the world faces is that social media forces them to hear from their peasants who are angry with them, and they never stop whining about it.🇬🇧

[Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Landeur]

No it wasn't.

Britain was built by the British. English, Scottish, and Welsh boys going down the coal mines, labouring as masons, or tending to crops.

Pakistanis, Indians, Africans, did absolutely nothing.

Get over it.

[Spike Brehm @spikebrehm]

they did it. the mad lads actually did it.

i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?)

early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem.

processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet.

each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago.

since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up.

to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it.

when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor.

the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned.

we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch.

it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it.

huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality.

while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together.

what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

[Alan @A1an_M]

Soreen lunchbox loaves are mainly eaten by primary school age children in their packed lunches, or at morning snack time.

Why do they contain folic acid?

Not, I suspect, because the manufacturer of Soreens thought it was a good idea.

No, they contain it because the Uniparty government, at the behest of some faceless global bureaucrats, passed a law in 2024 which said that all non wholemeal flour must contain folic acid, to protect babies in the womb from developing neural tube defects.

Is primary school children having babies with spina bifida a big problem in the UK?

I do like to fact check my posts before posting, so I asked an AI how many newborns were born with neural tube defects to primary school age children in 2025 and it said, with barely disguised contempt for my question "zero".

I think the actual problem here is that we are governed top-down by lunatic ideologues who don't consider the consequences of their decisions.

Folic acid seems to have magically become something that is seen as completely benign and can be given to everyone and anyone, when the reality is rather different.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Suicidal empathy is forcing the British people to send Pakistan £111 million to buy condoms & support “family planning” while British politicians shrug their shoulders as Pakistan refuses to take back a grooming gang ringleader.

[Pascal @fu2zi]

@JamieHalse @MerrynSW The same people who thought it would be a good idea to have neverending lockdowns or have a neverending Ukraine dependency.

[Pascal @fu2zi]

@RollingHedge @RichardBentall @bas3dp0tat6 "I wanted Singapore on Thames and got Leningrad on Thames and the Boriswave". 😂

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Oh for fuck’s sake give it a rest…

Brexit was FACTUALLY a de minimis footnote (I voted remain in 2016 so don’t even start…) when compared with a raft of the worst policy decisions imaginable since the end of WW2 across virtually all policy areas, by fuckwit politicians…

To name some of the biggest offenders:

- Most expensive energy in the developed world fuelling inflation across every good and service going - and net zero cultish insanity crippling our economy; we now make virgin steel only via emergency nationalisation in all but name - mainly because windmills and solar don’t produce the joules to produce concrete or steel, to build stuff

- Shuttering North Sea oil whilst buying the same stuff from the Norwegians who banked the oil: two trillion in the tank, three hundred grand a head, a quarter of the budget paid forever

- PFI. Blair and Brown fancied hospitals that didn’t trouble the books, so they put them on tick with loan sharks. £60b of buildings, £300b out the door, NHS still paying through the nose for a car park and a leaky roof.

- Tories borrowed the best part of £400bn at 0%, the cheapest money in three hundred years, and what have we got for it? Furlough, a fortune in PPE that didn’t work, and ~£20b handed to chancers with fake ltd co’s. Nothing built. Nothing that pays you back. The lot, gone. And here’s the one nobody says out loud… Money was free. Risk free. Rates at zero for the best part of a fucking decade. If a govt or their perm secs had any sense that was the moment to issue a 30y infra bond and build the grid, the reactors, the track, the housing, lock the cost in at basically nothing and let it pay for itself for two generations. Norway would’ve had it done by lunch. We didn’t issue a penny of it. Now the long end’s at 5.5 and the door’s now bolted shut. We had the cheapest money in history and spaffed it all.

- Capital markets that don’t work since Blair and Brown’s various legislative and regulatory changes, making pension fund allocations lower going into British companies, and making it harder and more costly to raise capital to grow and keep businesses here paying taxes and employing people - the collective cost of this to British households is conservatively estimated to be around £20trillion (per @andyroocraig’s figures) and countries that were literally communist within living memory are on track to overtake us this decade, on the IMF’s own numbers. Oh, and Mississippi HAS already overtaken us on GDP per capita basis (they are the butt of all poverty jokes in the US)

- Brown flogged 395 tonnes of gold, over half the national reserve, in 17 auctions between 1999 and 2002, at about $275 an ounce, near a twenty-year structural low. They call it “Brown’s Bottom” for a reason. Pocketed $3.5b but I t’d be worth around $52b today. So that socialist genius cleared the lot at the bottom of the market and torched the thick end of £40b in one decision (because he like many politicians since the 90s is a retard with no real world understanding)

- P90/P10 wage compression under social democracy is demonstrably worse than even the Soviets managed under Gosplan ffs

- Selling off and sweating various other national assets to fund our absurd debt borrowing pile that has mostly been spaffed up the wall on zero return or loss making initiatives / welfare socialism etc

- Series of the worst trade deals imaginable (pre and post Brexit)

- Too much of people’s money tied up in the resi property Ponzi scheme doing nothing (other than now: losing value in realtime)

- Planning laws that stop anyone building infrastructure on housing

I could go on…

Plus we have rising long yields now, which are (TL;DR) the price of having destroyed your own structural buyer base and then issuing into the gap while the central bank sells on top. Brexit doesn’t appear anywhere in that mechanism either.

So, this creepy obsession you have with Brexit is weird, lame and entirely worn out.

Bin.
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[Sam @saminbelize]

@MerrynSW This is mainly due to the harebrained folly of Coronamania but because so many people supported it they will never talk about it honestly and admit they were wrong, they just blame it on something else like Brexit.

[Merryn Somerset Webb @MerrynSW]

urgh..."British families have suffered the biggest fall in wealth in the rich world since the pandemic. The average Briton’s wealth has fallen by 23% (both mean and median) over the past 5 years, in real terms, UBS calculates."

[DeVory Darkins @devorydarkins]

Dr. Gad Saad deconstructs the immature yet timelessly deceptive allure of socialism:

“So the reason why socialism, as an alluring idea, never goes away is that with every new generation of imbeciles born, there are new people who decide they like this idea. Although it is very much rooted in kindergarten, infantile logic, it's because it caters to some of our most basal, dark sentiments—envy and covetousness.”

@GadSaad

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Given that Rachel Reeves, the first female Chancellor, turned out to be the worst Chancellor in my lifetime, it would be better for the country for Labour to stop being fixated on gender and give jobs to the most competent people.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🇬🇧 The UK government has responded to the petition regarding folic acid in flour.

The UK Government is forcing synthetic folic acid into all non-wholemeal wheat flour from the end of 2026.

This affects 70 million people to supposedly prevent just 200 neural tube defect cases a year.

It’s not just bread it means almost every everyday product made with white or brown flour: pasta, pizza bases, cakes, biscuits, pastries, pies, crackers, and most processed baked goods. Men and children get zero benefit, yet studies have linked higher folic acid intake to increased prostate cancer risk in men.

They’re choosing mass medication of the entire population through our staple foods instead of targeted supplements for women who actually need it.

This is being forced on us without real choice. It will appear in the ingredients list, but there’ll be no clear warning on the front of the pack.

Natural folate from food is one thing this unnatural synthetic chemical is another.

Sign the petition in the comments we need to at least have a debate on this.

Please share with as many people as possible.