Ian Butler

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget.
For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet...
Apparently I'm a #FarRightThug :-I

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

@andrew_lilico The idea that our climate, which results from complex, ever-changing interactions between thousands of variables, can be explained by simply reducing it to the interactions between two variables: levels of CO2 and global average temperatures is stupid beyond belief.

[Filipp Piatov @fpiatov]

Brutaler Leitartikel im konservativen Le Figaro. Eine Abrechnung mit Frankreichs politischem System und seiner Elite.

„Eine Justiz, die gegenüber Straftätern nachsichtig ist, gegenüber anständigen Bürgern aber unerbittlich. Das unbegreifliche Privileg dieser linksextremen Milizen, die ungestraft zerstören, Brände legen und töten. Eine unkontrollierte Einwanderung, bei der sich ein Teil der Einwanderer gegen das Land auflehnt, das sie aufgenommen hat. (…) Eine politische Klasse – die verschiedenen Spielarten des Sozialismus, die uns seit fünfzehn Jahren regieren –, die sich Leichtfertigkeit, Blindheit, wenn nicht sogar wohlwollende Duldung vorwerfen lassen muss.
Die Ermahnungen Emmanuel Macrons an eine Polizei, die seiner Ansicht nach nicht genügend „Empathie“ gegenüber jenen zeigt, die sie mit Schrauben, Pflastersteinen oder Feuerwerksmörsern angreifen, werden als unauslöschlicher Makel in Erinnerung bleiben. (…)
Wenn die extreme Linke, Straftäter und Plünderer Frankreich innerhalb weniger Stunden völlig auf den Kopf stellen können, dann liegt das vor allem daran, dass eine von sich selbst berauschte technokratische Monarchie systematisch sämtliche moralischen, sicherheitsbezogenen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Schutzmechanismen eingeebnet hat, die eine Gesellschaft zusammenhalten. Die nützlichen Idioten Jean-Luc Mélenchons tragen nicht nur die Kufiya, sondern auch die Krawatte.“

[Olly Parramore 🇬🇧 @OllyParramore]

Someone buy this woman a very large wine… a bottle… the whole fucking vineyard…👏👏👏👏👏

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

@AvonandsomerRob Model 3 LR Premium, summer 80% charge gives me 310ish, with the heater on in colder temps, 80% gives me 290ish.
Wltp reckons 460 in the summer, might be possible driving like Miss Daisy in either Lincolnshire or Norfolk, but we have a lot of hills where I live and work!

[John Galt @BristolGalt]

Tracking Britain’s decline from a high-trust nation to a low-trust, multiracial economic zone.

High-trust societies - defined by a high willingness to trust and cooperate with strangers, plus a trust in formal institutions - were* exclusive to ethnically homogeneous North/Western European populations.
With ethnically homogeneous Japan as the only major outlier.

*This is in rapid decline, as you will see. Immigration and “multiculturalism” are destroying what was the pinnacle of human civilisation.

First graph:
I’ve used blood donations to indicate stranger cooperation / altruism.
Trust in Parliament to indicate trust in formal institutions.
Non-white population % to show the decline in ethnic homogeneity, plus just one of the heinous crimes that has increased since their arrival.

Second graph:
Blood donations vs non-white population.
This shows the stark reduction in cooperation as Britain becomes less ethnically homogenous.
Multicultural societies don’t just lower trust and cooperation with the out-group (foreigners). They also lower trust and cooperation with the in-group (our own people).

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

96% of businesses do not export to the EU.

92% of our economy is not related to the EU.

99% of people never used FoM.

50% of France is in flames.

£35bn would be cost each year to rejoin.

Don't let the Remoaners tell more fibs.

#GrubbyBurnham #Brexit

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

@MrHarryCole Bonkers scenario where the European Union is now aiding both sides of a war on the European continent. And worryingly unsustainable.

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

@dean_teach @MrHarryCole Europe paid around €7.88 billion for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia’s Arctic energy project in the first nine months of 2026:
https://t.co/RKPUtqCG78

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Andy Burnham is rushing through a plan to drop photo ID checks at elections.

All you will need now is a bank card displaying initials — not even your full first name.

Even the Electoral Commission is “concerned”.

Labour is going to rig the next election in their favour

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

@Landeur I'm getting to the point where I'd be quite happy to see some 2000 AD Judge Dredd style justice meted out...

[Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarino]

Islamists have a problem with music, with dogs, with women, with gay people, with Christians, with free speech, with democracy.

But if I have a problem with Islamists, I'm the intolerant one.

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

@FarRightSkip How about the old Mason Verger plan, being eaten by bacon would seem poetic...

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

Quite an eye-opening thread

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

NEW: Brentford FC co-owner bankrolled Andy Burnham’s leadership campaign.

As the Prime Minister comes under pressure over potential UAE links, more details of his funding arrangements emerge.

Burnham’s position is becoming increasingly untenable. Here’s what I’ve discovered:🧵

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

I knew Gorton & Denton was rigged.

Hannah Spencer’s campaign manager today being revealed in The Times to have broken the law by forging deals with mosques just confirms what I said at the time.

When the BBC’s Chris Mason asked me immediately after the result what happened I said it in one word:

“sectarianism”.

People said I was a bad loser. But look at what they are literally telling us themselves.

They rigged the election with local mosques.

We were told early on that “deals had been made” with the mosques.

I saw the “community elders” in action myself.

Then we watched the Greens campaign in different languages.

Whip up tensions between Hindus and Muslims.

Obsess over Gaza.

Call anybody who disagreed with them “far-right” and “divisive”.

Hannah Spencer even downplayed Islamism, suggesting during one hustings that “right-wing politicians” were responsible for the Islamist bombing of Manchester, in 2017.

All journalists saw was the weird dress sense and thought “nice fluffy Greens” and they didn’t ask any more questions.

They failed to tell the real story of that campaign.

Then we got the independent report showing 68% of polling stations experienced illegal family voting, which is what happens when a Muslim father or husband tells their entire family how to vote.

Did the Greens call any of it out?

Of course not.

They denied it all.

So did Greater Manchester Police.

But then the election interference became so unavoidable they had to start arresting people two months after the by-election.

And then the Mail uncovered similar election interference in FIFTY polling stations in Birmingham.

I’m glad I got to run in that by-election because at least I got to tell the British people the TRUTH about what is happening in our country.

Wake up people.

The Greens are extremists.

They are antisemites.

They are unBritish.

And they are a Trojan Horse for Islamism and Muslim sectarianism.

Just look at their latest racist vote at conference, to deny Jews a homeland of their own.

And how did Hannah Spencer vote?

While some Green MPs opposed it, she’s not said anything about it.

No doubt the mosques pulling her strings have aired their view.

The Greens are a major threat to our democracy and country.

They must be stopped.

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

The last four sentences of this post sum up perfectly how so many of us feel, but struggle to articulate clearly, well done Sir!

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

I listened to the Badenoch speech for as long as I could bear it. I've always had misgivings about her because I don't believe she is meaningfully British. Whatever her travel document says, her formative years were not spent in this country. She is not a product of this country or its culture. And though she may physically inhabit this island, she does not live in any contemporary version of it that I recognise.

This was the sort of speech I might have been impressed with twenty years ago, but Britain is not just in the doldrums from a spell of mismanagement. While everyday life ticks over as normal, normality is increasingly expensive and unsustainable. What lies beneath, though, is a systemic and catastrophic dysfunction - where anyone even vaguely switched on recognises it as an existential national emergency.

I certainly didn't get the impression that Badenoch understands this. This was a speech for those Tory types who are well off enough to be insulated from the more immediate symptoms, who live in the places yet to be blighted by "diversity". People who think it's talking the country down to discuss the state of emergency we're in.

I was listening mainly to see if there were any signs that this party gets it, and for any sign of a policy agenda that recognises the scale of the tasks ahead. What we got, though, was dismal managerialism - the kind that would have made David Cameron proud. What I needed to hear was some kind of reassurance that they are as angry as I am about the state of the country.

I'm not going to list what ails this country. You know the list as well as I do. You also know what is at stake and how little time we have to prevent a cataclysm. I would expect a politician who understood this to be speaking in more sombre, serious tones, impressing upon the nation the urgency of our collective cause. But Badenoch could just as easily have been reading out her shopping list for all the passion she put into it.

But then I simply wouldn't expect anything different from someone who hasn't really lived here long enough to understand just how far we have fallen, or really experienced what we're in danger of losing forever. Badenoch is a hand-picked and groomed-for-politics citizen of nowhere, who can never be motivated to save a country she herself does not really know. The problem isn't that she's a Nigerian, per se. It's that she's not really one of us at all. If she were, she'd have a lot more to say that was worth hearing. She has only ever known Britain as a declining multicultural shit tip. She can never feel our profound sense of loss - or the anger that goes with it.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

You used to walk into a bank and hand a human a bit of paper. They understood what it was. Now the same transaction requires three apps, a password you last knew in 2023, a text code that arrives after the app lockout, a captcha gameshow contest in which you must correctly identify every blurred bicycle and a chatbot that glibly says “I understand your frustration”.

Buying a sandwich used to involve money and a person. It now often requires Wi-Fi, a QR code that expired forty-seven seconds ago, two-factor authentication, and a phone perilously lurking at 1% battery while the app decides whether your own face looks sufficiently human enough actually to pass off as you.

We used to lose our keys and get locked out. Now we get locked out of our own phone if we lose a password or it doesn’t even recognise our own face.

You used to get lost and ask a stranger. Now you stare at a blue dot until the signal dies and realise you have no idea which way is north and the the satellite navigation map would like to know your precise location forever in exchange for the privilege of being wrong.

Customer service used to be a person. It is now a massive FAQ articulated b a robot who has never seen the product, followed by “was this helpful?”, then a survey about the survey on the standard of customer service. The queue had people in it. The chatbot has a script and an inability to deal with specific questions.

We swapped paper maps for phones that need signal, paper tickets for apps that crash at the barrier and paper books for subscriptions that vanish the moment a company “updates its terms.” Meanwhile, the countryside is being paved with data centres so an algorithm can generate a picture of a cat in a tiny hat and you still get a hosepipe ban because it was sunny for four days despite the data centre guzzling vast resources of water.

Friends now socialise primarily through a group chat in which nobody has suggested the pub since March. The elderly require an adult child, a login and an IT degree just to see a doctor. Banks close. GPs go app-only. Parking, menus, council tax, pensions and the electricity bill all demand another code, another verification, another proof that you are not a robot trying to pay for your own heating bill.

We are less free, more tracked, constantly interrupted and still late because the parking app crashed because of poor wifi signal in the street. But at least we correctly identified the online traffic lights in a captcha grid to prove we are human. Progress. Apparently.

[Kate Dellor @Kayyvon65]

@Jenny_1884

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

@Danjsalt It’ll bee attached somewhere, you need something like this:
https://t.co/sexRTRzvW1

[Darren Selkus Reform UK @DarrenSelkus]

Focus on what we agree on and…

GET LABOUR OUT?

[Ian Butler @ianbstag]

@Inevitablewest 6:57 never did mess about...

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

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These are the 364 MP's who voted against a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation and Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs.
They deserve to be named and shamed . Never forget their betrayal in which they placed the Muslim block vote before children’s safety!