Clive Pinder

TransAtlantic Englishman. Host of In Search of Sanity. Columnist. Principled Non-Partisan Irritant. Better communities begin with better conversations.

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

I understand Iain. That said, to many in your audience I believe it is fair to say that their takeaway from your exchange was that once you get ILR you cannot be deported. That is incorrect. As someone who’s wife has ILR, as a Green Card holder in the U.S. and with a resident visa in Tanzania, I am perhaps more alert and pedantic about this issue. Unlike citizenship, resident visas are not a guarantee of residency! We are guests of our hosts and must accept the laws as they are or indeed the laws as they may be written in the future.
As always, appreciate your contribution to try to make sense of the madness we live in.

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

@nickyfreeman19 @LBC @IainDale Iain stated that you cannot deport people who have ILR. That is NOT correct. If they are convicted of an offense they can be deported. That is the point Iain’s guest was partly making.

[sean thomas knox @thomasknox]

This may indeed be the worst minute of political interview in the history of idiots

[LBC @LBC]

'It would have been better to just have a review and make some cuts.'

Sir Richard Barrons spent much of the last year on a strategic defence review, only to have to it rejected by the government, and @AndrewMarr9 thinks he sounds 'angry' about it.

[sean thomas knox @thomasknox]

What’s the betting “illegal content” includes real, legitimate videos of actual events?

This is their last line of defence. Prevent people from finding out the truth. This is the battle of our times, and if we lose we are lost, forever

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

Two things can be true at once. Ordinary Britons can be angry, and perfectly entitled to be angry, with a metropolitan elite that treats them with a mixture of contempt and incomprehension. And some of the people expressing that anger can still be thugs.

The brick-throwers are easy to spot. The people who spent twenty years creating the conditions for the riot, then retreated to Hampstead dinner parties to discuss “community cohesion”, are rather less obvious. But that doesn’t mean they’re innocent.

Some people throw petrol bombs. Others simply spend decades pouring the petrol. The result is remarkably similar.

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

Two things can be true at once. Ordinary Britons can be angry, and perfectly entitled to be angry, with a metropolitan elite that treats them with a mixture of contempt and incomprehension. And some of the people expressing that anger can still be thugs.

The brick-throwers are easy to spot. The people who spent twenty years creating the conditions for the riot, then retreated to Hampstead dinner parties to discuss “community cohesion”, are rather less obvious. But that doesn’t mean they’re innocent.

Some people throw petrol bombs. Others simply spend decades pouring the petrol. The result is remarkably similar.

[sean thomas knox @thomasknox]

One must condemn the violent riots in Belfast and Southampton. And yet the uncomfortable fact remains: recent UK history shows that violence WORKS. The authorities are terrified of Muslim violence so they yield to Muslim wishes - eg the Tel Aviv football match. Many other cases

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

@BstokeLabCllrs @BasingLabour @BstokeLabour @Keir_Starmer @KemiBadenoch Help me understand how the UK Labour government (that’s the US equivalent to the Democrats) plan to ban social media for anyone under 16 then….wait for it….give the vote to 16 year olds. Apparently for the Labour Party ignorance really is bliss!

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

Thank you for the review. I particularly enjoyed the part where you critiqued both my politics and my prose in the same paragraph. It’s efficient. Rather like condemning the chef, the menu and the wallpaper. All the starters arrive.

On the substance? You’re probably right that the Conservatives helped create the mess. In fact, that was rather the point.

On the style? I’ll take the criticism on board. Though if the article felt crowded, it may simply be that twenty years of political failure is quite a lot to squeeze into 800 words.

Still, thank you for reading it closely enough to be annoyed by it. Indifference is much harder to work with.

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

If George Floyd forced Britain and America to ask difficult questions about race, will Henry Nowak do the same?

Or are some tragedies only allowed to tell one story? My latest column for The Daily Sceptic.

https://t.co/YIur2IDF1p

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

@KemiBadenoch @MPGeorgeFreeman https://t.co/YIur2IDF1p

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

Many things can be true at once. For example many more businesses would survive if this government didn’t cause the most expensive energy costs on the planet. Or if they didn’t burden business with absurd regulations and excessive taxes. Blaming supply is overly simplistic and unhelpful.

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

@campbellclaret Seriously, this from the man whose ‘dodgy dossier’ led us into a war on a lie….anyone who takes this man seriously is part of the problem not part of the solution. @RoryStewartUK

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

Thought for the day. India, a country that has 1.4BN people compared to California and is 8 times larger, counts all its votes in a day. In California it takes weeks. That is insane.

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

@thomasknox Curious why nobody seems to be talking about the fact that the Police & Crime Commissioner responsible for Governing Hampshire Constabulary when the DEI programmes were initiated was a Conservative and has been a Conservative for the last 10 years?

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

@KemiBadenoch I agree Kemi BUT your appeal, both on this matter and to your overall leadership credibility, would carry more weight if you acknowledged that the Police & Crime Commissioner that governed Hampshire Police has been an elected Conservative for the last 20 years.

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

Curious why nobody has noted, least of all @KemiBadenoch, that the Police & Crime Commisioner for Hampshire for the last 10 years has been a Conservative. As such Conservative leadership had meaningful statutory leverage over Hampshire police on the development and implementation of their DEI. The program that had a direct impact on Henry Nowak’s death.

[Clive Pinder @iSoSClive]

Curious why nobody has noted, least of all @KemiBadenoch, that the Police & Crime Commisioner for Hampshire for the last 10 years has been a Conservative. As such Conservative leadership had meaningful statutory leverage over Hampshire police on the development and implementation of their DEI. The program that had a direct impact on Henry Nowak’s death.