The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.
Keir Starmer has gone full tilt
He knows how unpopular he is. He wants his ‘legacy’
Forcing the entire nation of adults to digitally ID verify to participate , Spyware & facial scans
1984 writ large
Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.
But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.
That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.
There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.
The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”
Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.
That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.
Police in the UK impaled a teenager by the throat on a fence. Initially the police cleared the police of any wrongdoing. But the people complained so they opened an investigation and yeah okay nothing came of that either.
Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.
George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.
Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.
And we all know why.
During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.
They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.
And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.
This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.
This needs to stop.
My 5 year old boy does football training. At the end of the session they do a ‘man of the match’ type thing.
My boy is always desperate to win it. He often doesn’t.
I explained to him the other day that he didn’t win simply because he wasn’t good enough. That he deffo could win, but he just needs to be better, try harder, be more focused etc.
One of the other mums heard me & was aghast at what I said. She told me she is going to get ‘runner-up stickers’ for all the kids who don’t make it.
I said no thanks, not for my son.
Kids need to learn that they can be the best, but they must apply themselves & dust themselves off when it doesn’t go their way. No consolation prizes, no ‘everyone’s a winner’ etc. There are winners & losers. Wanna win - do your best. Can’t make it? Don’t worry, go & smash something else. Play to your strengths & never, ever play the victim.
If more parents & institutions had this attitude, the country would be in a better place - if I say so myself 😉
Cc @KonstantinKisin
A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses.
I’ll explain for the economically illiterate.
Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add:
- 12.07% holiday
- Sick pay
- Maternity pay if and when required
- National insurance
- Pension contributions
These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up.
Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t.
Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics.
Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs.
There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay.
So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost.
Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes.
The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.
The trial of the Ukrainian "ahem" male models who set fire to various private property associated with Keir Starmer, has been told that the trial will exclude any mention of the reasons why they did it.
Now there's a shock.
3 men set fire to 2 properties and a car owned by the PM of the UK and the public are forbidden from knowing what the hell is going on.
This is the UK right now.
This isn’t freedom.
This is information we have the right to know about.
This is media suppression
Imagine being a family where both parents work full time, pay tax, pay their own full council tax bill, and still can’t afford a trip to the Tower of London or a day at the zoo.
Next door, a family on benefits can take the kids to the same attractions for £1 or a few pounds a ticket – the Easter “treats” that are a major financial stretch for working households become “remarkably affordable” if you happen to be on Universal Credit.
Ticketing platforms now openly advertise “Universal Credit days out” with massive discounts and special offers, while websites compile lists of the “top outings” for benefit recipients – the welfare state has mutated from basic support into a lifestyle loyalty scheme with its own privileges, perks and VIP access.
Politicians claim this is compassion, but there’s nothing compassionate about telling low‑paid workers they must pay full price while funding other people’s beach huts, bargain spa days and cut‑price leisure memberships.
That’s not social justice.
That’s a state‑sanctioned insult to the people who keep the system running.
A family on full benefits in the UK can take home the equivalent of a £60-70K salary when you add up housing, council tax support, child benefit, free prescriptions, and everything else they don't pay for.
Meanwhile you're commuting 2 hours a day to gross £35K before they take a third of it.
Still think the system rewards the people who show up?
You know what I think is broken
That children of working parents have to pay for holiday club, breakfast club and after school club, in order to be able to keep working when children are off school etc
But the children of parents who don’t work, get those things for free even though they don’t need them because they’re home and can look after their children
These ‘benefits’ should be for those who work full time. Not the other way round
“One of the main problems in the countryside is dogs. Muslims don’t like dogs.”
Liberal commentator complains the British countryside is racist and Muslims avoid going there because too many people walk their dogs, which are haram in Islam.
These people are really insane.