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[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

Britain saw less immigration between 1066 and the Second World War than we have since 1997.

Nobody asked for it. They voted against it at every election. Foreigners were imposed upon them by treasonous governments anyway.

We should not adapt to this change by enforcing a secular, flexible “British” identity using state power.

That will not produce a recognisable nation at the end of it,

We should reverse it.

[givarche @givarche]

@ukJ0N @doveyymargeauxx @1_pat @55Massey @5haronl @AWills1995 @BeckyVeal2003 @Beth_MBGA @Boo65864 @BornToReform @BritishValuesGC @Brunte84 @Bryn1914088 👍

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Navy That Cannot. The Lawyer Who Will Not.

Two weeks ago Keir Starmer stood at a multinational summit in Helsinki and promised Britain would go after Putin's shadow fleet, closing the Channel to sanctioned vessels and starving his war machine of dirty profits. Since that promise was made, dozens of sanctioned Russian tankers have passed through British waters. Britain has seized none of them. The Royal Navy has followed behind and issued statements.

The explanation is now on the record. Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, has advised that each boarding operation requires an individual legal case to be made before it can proceed. Every interdiction must be justified separately under international maritime law. The Navy is ready. The law is not. So Putin's ships sail through and Britain watches.

Lewis Page, a former Royal Navy officer writing in the Telegraph, has identified the sharpest comparison available. The English Channel is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point. The Strait of Hormuz is 21 to 30 miles wide. Britain announced the Channel was closed to sanctioned vessels. Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz was closed. The difference in outcomes requires no elaboration.

Iran has shore-launched drones, missile stockpiles and the will to use them. Britain has a legal framework, a defence investment plan that missed its deadline and, according to Page, just three warships currently capable of firing anti-ship missiles. A Russian frigate armed with cruise missiles and surface-to-air systems escorted sanctioned tankers through those 21 miles without a single British vessel prepared to intercept.

The pattern running through this entire period is now visible in its complete form. Hermer blocked Diego Garcia. Hermer's advice constrained the response to Iran. Hermer's framework is now the reason Putin can sail armed frigates through British waters while the Navy follows at a respectful distance. An unelected Attorney General, accountable to no voter, is the single most consequential figure in British national security. The Prime Minister who appointed him has outsourced every hard decision to a legal opinion and called the result principled leadership.

Boris Johnson, whose many failings are a matter of public record, called the government's response pathetic and demanded to know why Britain was not boarding sanction-busting ships fuelling the slaughter of innocent Ukrainians. The former Prime Minister whose judgment Starmer spent years forensically prosecuting has arrived at a clearer understanding of what the moment requires than the man currently in Downing Street. History will find that irony amusing, if not particularly reassuring.

John Healey said on Thursday that Russia's decision to escort the tankers with a warship showed Britain had successfully diverted Putin's resources away from Ukraine. A Russian frigate diverted from Ukraine to escort oil tankers through the English Channel past the white cliffs of Dover while Britain follows behind in a support vessel staffed by civilians. If that is the definition of success, the bar has been set at a height that even this government should be embarrassed to celebrate.

Starmer promised sovereignty would always be defended. Putin sent a warship to test that promise in Britain's own waters. The answer came back in the form of a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker trailing at a distance. Britain's adversaries have now had their answer to every question they needed answered. In the Gulf, in the Channel, in Helsinki and in Riyadh. The promises are made. The legal advice arrives. The ships sail through.

"Hermer blocked Diego Garcia. Hermer's advice constrained the response to Iran. Hermer's framework is now the reason Putin can sail armed frigates through British waters while the Navy follows at a respectful distance."

[Neil Hughes @BlobWarriorUK]

Mosques get £18000 pounds each from the government for security.

Churches get £199 each.

Never forget how much our political elites hate you.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Why is there a Ramadan question on the UK citizenship test!

What does this have to do with British Culture and Citizenship.

[givarche @givarche]

@FarageFan1963 @CrookSofm @JamesBennettUK @Margaret101959 @WelshReformer @DennisG195959 @Jon47lyzb @claire_adams694 @seanmatthewsRUK @MJSquiresReform @Frankie_1643 @KevinMa43586424 👍

[Sedd @SeddSezz]

Labour is killing pubs.

Labour is killing restaurants.

Labour is killing farmers.

Labour is killing high streets.

Labour is killing our pockets.

Labour is killing our national identity.

Labour is an anti-Britain party and whoever voted for them lacks, like our Chancellor, a functioning brain.

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

Of all the dreadful actions of this Labour Government the treatment of the Chagossians must be near the top of the list @Keir_Starmer has behaved shamefully- Paying to give away British territory to Mauritius and then treating British citizens as criminals for wishing to return to their homes from which they were forcefully removed in the 60’s

[Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl]

In 2024 an Indian national was convicted of a crime every 5 hours.

A Pakistani and Nigerian every 10 hours.

An Iraqi every 12 hours, an Algerian every 14, an Afghan and Somalian every 16.

Open borders are having a direct impact on public safety.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

Imagine you are 70 years old and driving your husband in East Yorkshire.

You come to a junction where you have right of way and an Audi A6 comes ploughing into the side of you, having failed to stop and give way.

This happened to Susan Whittles. She died at the scene and her husband was airlifted to hospital with major injuries.

And who was this irresponsible driver?

Yup, you have guessed it, a Nigerian immigrant called Timothy Kusemi.

Kusemi had already failed his driving test twice and went on to fail it four more times before finally passing it 2.5 years after becoming a UK resident.

So why was he on the road at all with no driving license? Because there is a loophole. Drivers from countries with inferior standards can drive alone, without any notices or L Plates, for 12 months after arriving in the UK. Even if they have failed their test multiple times.

This is a terrible tale for Susan and her husband but what strong punishment did Kusemi receive?

Six years. And banned from driving for 11 years.

For killing a grandmother and leaving her bereaved husband with multiple injuries.

A shameful verdict.

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

France has said no to UK Border Force boats operating in their waters to intercept and return small boat migrants.

Here’s the dirty secret they don’t want you to know:

For every 500 migrants who successfully leave France and cross the Channel to the UK, France saves roughly €5 million (£4.2 million) in asylum processing, housing, daily allowances, healthcare and reception centre costs.

(That’s based on official French government figures.)

They get to dump the problem on Britain, avoid the long-term welfare and integration bills, and still pocket hundreds of millions of pounds from UK taxpayers every year for “patrols” (we’ve handed over £700m+ since 2018, funding nearly two-thirds of their northern France operations).

This is the real reason France refuses proper returns and blocks joint operations in their waters.

They’re not just uncooperative — they’re financially incentivised to let them go.

While British taxpayers foot the bill on both ends.

Time to stop the handouts and demand real action. 🇬🇧

#StopTheBoats #ChannelCrisis #FranceFirstForFrance

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

The Prime Minister and Defence Secretary have both gone on holiday amid the tensions with Iran.

In opposition, Keir Starmer criticised Boris and Dominic Raab for staying “on holiday whilst Kabul was falling.”

There’s always a tweet.
There’s always a clip.
Hypocrites!

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

So the Green Party want to open borders, make drugs legal & abolish prisons! Wow. I genuinely think you need to be missing your marbles if you vote for this.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Future Was Being Built in the North East. Then It Saw the Energy Bill.

Keir Starmer does not have many cards left to play. Growth has not arrived. The fiscal position is worse than advertised. The public is paying more for energy than almost any comparable nation. Into that landscape, the Prime Minister placed one flagship bet: artificial intelligence. Britain would lead the AI revolution. Stargate UK, a £31 billion data centre investment announced during Donald Trump's state visit, was the proof. OpenAI was coming. The future was being built in the North East. Now, OpenAI has paused the project. The reasons are on the record. High energy costs. Regulatory uncertainty. Both are made in Britain.

The energy cost problem has an author. Ed Miliband's Net Zero agenda has made Britain one of the most expensive places in the developed world to consume industrial electricity. Even before the Iran war sent prices rocketing, Britain ranked among the highest in Europe and across International Energy Agency members. Ofgem has warned that the data centres required for AI will need more energy than the entire country currently uses. Around 140 data centres have come forward for grid connections, requiring 50 gigawatts of capacity at peak. Peak electricity demand across the whole of Britain is 45 gigawatts. The grid cannot physically support the ambition Starmer is selling. The man responsible for fixing that is the same man whose policy made the energy too expensive to use in the first place.

The regulatory uncertainty problem also has an author. Twenty months into office, this government has not created the conditions that serious long-term investors require. OpenAI did not cite a global downturn or a change in commercial strategy. It cited Britain specifically. That specificity matters. Investors are not avoiding AI infrastructure. They are avoiding Britain.

The government's response was to note that the AI sector has attracted more than £100 billion in private investment since taking office. That figure deserves scrutiny before it is repeated. Announced investment and deployed investment are different things. A project paused before ground is broken is counted in the announcement. The jobs, the infrastructure, the economic activity: none of that has appeared. Britain Remade's chief executive put it plainly: you cannot deliver growth or become an AI superpower with some of the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world. Investors will simply go elsewhere. They are going elsewhere.

The internal contradiction in Labour's position is now structural. Miliband's energy policy and Starmer's growth strategy are pulling in opposite directions with considerable force. Cheap, reliable, abundant energy is the foundation of a modern industrial economy, and a data centre economy in particular. Net Zero, as currently designed and implemented, makes energy expensive and unreliable. A government cannot pursue both simultaneously without one destroying the other. On the evidence of the last twenty months, it is the growth strategy that is losing.

Starmer stood next to Donald Trump and told the world that Britain was open for business. OpenAI has now told him the terms on which it would be prepared to agree. Lower energy costs. Clearer regulation. Conditions that exist elsewhere and do not yet exist here. OpenAI is not asking for the impossible. It is asking for the basics. A government serious about growth would treat that statement as an emergency. This one issued a press release.

"Ed Miliband's Net Zero agenda has made Britain one of the most expensive places in the developed world to consume industrial electricity."

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

A Labour peer and former Bristol Mayor just showed exactly what Labour really thinks about illegal migration👇

“The movement of people leads to economic prosperity. We just need to make it ‘humane’.”

Really? Humane to whom?

To the young girl who was raped, to the British family waiting years for a home?
To the nurse priced out of the city she works in?
To the taxpayer funding asylum hotels £8 million a day. Every single day?

Labour never asks those questions.
Their compassion flows one way and it is not towards us.

Now let’s look at the Mayors Migration Council , the global network this peer boasts about working with.
Funded by George Soros.

Their belief?
Cities must house, employ, and provide services to whoever arrives, no questions, no limits, whether local people like it or not.

And it all starts to make sense.

This is what Labour and the Greens mean when they say “Refugees Welcome”.

Welcome at whose expense?
Welcome over whom?

Every home allocated is a British family pushed down the list.
Every school place taken is one a local child waited for.
Every GP appointment, every council service, every hotel room paid for by taxpayers who were never agreed or even given a choice.

They guilt-trip anyone who dares disagree as having no compassion. It is not compassion.
It is virtue signalling paid for by people who had no say in it.

The British people are not evil to want their borders enforced.
They are not heartless for wanting housing prioritised.
They are not racist for asking one simple question:
For God’s sake, what about us ?

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Have you noticed a pattern?

France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously recognize Palestine at exactly the same time.

France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously demand a ceasefire with Hamas.

France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously demand a ceasefire with Iran.

France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously demand a two state solution.

France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously consistently condemn any action taken by Israel to defend itself.

France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously refuse to help the US in the Strait of Hormuz.

France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously call for Lebanon to be part of this ceasefire.

Time after time after time, France, UK, Australia and Canada all simultaneously stand with terrorists and against the west.

[God Save Great Britain @GSGB01]

🚨BREAKING: It's been revealed that Britain’s churches now endure more than 10 crimes against them EVERY DAY.

Instead of prioritising them, Starmer gave £117 million to protect mosques instead.

Let that sink in.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2004, the BBC warned the Maldives were "soon to be uninhabitable," claiming sea levels were rising 0.9 cm per year and that 80% of the islands could vanish within a century.

More than two decades later though, reality says otherwise.

The Maldives haven't sunk, they've exploded with growth: 12 new airports, expanded international terminals, record tourism of over 2 million visitors a year, and more than 170 resorts, with 7 added in 2024.

Instead of disappearing under the waves, this so-called "paradise in peril" has shown no statistically significant sea level rise since the 1980s, according to satellite data.

Here we have another 'climate catastrophe' headline completely undone by time.

[David Starkey @DrDStarkeyCBE]

When speaking to members of the governing class, I’m often struck by the sheer array of topics that are raised as being of pre-eminent importance.

The list is almost endless: climate change, democracy in Togo, trans rights in Bolivia…

The last thing that ever comes up is the British national interest.

I’m not entirely convinced many of them know such a thing even exists.

And I’m not talking about the diffuse nonsense that claims Britain ultimately benefits when it spreads human rights around the world.

No.

There are, at any moment in time, clear, specific objectives that will need to be taken to secure the safety and prosperity of the British people.

It is the job of our governing class to discern them and work to achieve them.

What else do they think they’re there for?

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

A British university student is facing prosecution after comparing a Keffiyeh worn by a pro-Palestinian activist to a “tea towel” during Freshers’ Fair at @RoyalHolloway.

20-year-old Brodie Mitchell told the President of the Friends of Palestine Society, Huda El-Jamal, that her keffiyeh looked like a “tea towel” after she called him a “wannabe Jew” because he was defending Israel and mocked him for not wearing a Jewish “hat”.

In a classic case of double standards on campus, Brodie was handed a nine-week suspension the following day “for alleged conduct that could be considered hate speech”. He was told his comments were “Islamophobic”, “racist”, and “anti-Palestinian” and was barred from campus and forced to leave his student accommodation.

Surrey Police have now confirmed they have sent a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision — meaning Brodie could face prosecution for saying El-Jamal’s headscarf looked like a “tea towel”. Meanwhile, she faced no disciplinary action and continued her studies as normal.

Welcome to two-tier Britain.

The case could be the first of many, given the Government’s decision to publish an official definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” and encourage universities to embed it in their speech policies. The definition is already being used to silence legitimate criticism of Islam.

The Free Speech Union is supporting Brodie. With our help, he has been allowed back on campus, but under conditions that dictate who he can speak to and what he’s allowed to say.

With our support, Brodie is taking Royal Holloway to the High Court, arguing he was unfairly forced to miss seven weeks of teaching, potentially delaying completion of his degree. We’ve also provided him with a top-notch criminal legal team in case the CPS decides to prosecute him.

His own university, Royal Holloway, is spending nearly three-quarters of a million pounds defending its actions. At a recent hearing, it initially said its total costs could be as high as £734,000, with the risk that Brodie will have to pay them if he loses.

In other words, the university is trying to scare him into dropping the case. But we’ve got his back.

Welcome to the reality of free speech on English university campuses. In the absence of the complaints scheme that was legislated for in the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act being activated by Bridget Phillipson – she has delayed doing so for 18 months now – these are the ruinous costs facing students who want to stand up for their right to free speech.

On this week’s episode of the FSU Podcast, Brodie Mitchell (@BrodieMitchell1) shares his story with @_ConnieShaw.

The full episode is available on the FSU YouTube channel (link in first reply).