Jay

Enjoy running, mountaineering, trekking, geopolitics, politics, current affairs, (80s/90s) music, and of course, the world of medicine.

[Dr. Calum Miller @DrCalumMiller]

I am a medical doctor and I can say clearly: this is not good enough.

Henry Nowak was murdered and the police let him die.

When someone tells you they've been stabbed and are struggling to breathe, unless they pose an obvious risk to your own life, you make sure they are OK before you do anything else.

You don't pause to think about whether they might be racist, or whether they could be making it up.

There must be justice for Henry.

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@MarcherReborn Russia has the largest Islamic population in Europe you utter retard

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@FUDdaily 1917

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My monologue on ‘Tories in the land of the living dead’ on The Times at One with Andrew Neil on @TimesRadio

As the Tories gather in Manchester for a conference they hope will rescue them from the land of the living dead one fact is salient above all others. 

In the general election of July 2024 they scored their lowest share of the vote ever, at 24%. Just when they thought it couldn’t get worse than that — it did. 

The Tories are now around 16% in the polls. Far from challenging a deeply unpopular Labour government for first place they’re struggling to avoid fourth place, behind the Liberal Democrats.

At Manchester Kemi Badenoch is abandoning her ‘slow burn’ approach to policies with a raft of new initiatives, many of them with more than a hint of the Reform song sheet. 

But the Tories face a systemic problem which is not easily resolved. Nearly everything voters dislike about the current government — high taxes, slow to no growth, mass legal immigration, uncontrolled illegal immigration, net zero, wokery — started under the last Tory government. 

The Tories are now in full retreat from nearly all of that. But, to use a good Scottish word, if you’re really scunnered with Starmer, why would you seek salvation in the Tories, the original source of your misery?

If you think net zero was a mistake — which the Tories are now saying — are you not more likely to look to Nigel Farage, who always opposed it, than the Tories, who enthusiastically implemented it for over 14 years?

Ditto large-scale immigration or high taxes or identity politics. All matters the Tories rail about now, all prospered under a Tory government. All opposed by Reform. 

At least the Tories can claim to be the only party serious about cutting public spending, as shadow chancellor Mel Stride illustrated in Manchester today. Labour has given up the ghost and Reform’s fiscal plans verge on fantasy. 

But not that long ago the Tories were the high spenders. So is anybody inclined to listen to them now? And there’s the rub. 

It’s not that voters don’t necessarily like what the Tories are now saying. It’s just that they’re not interested, not listening, don’t regard them as relevant to the current political discourse. 

And when that happens to a political party, there’s the real risk that oblivion awaits just round the corner.

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@Rickie99_ @IntelDoge I hope you’re right!

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@Mr_Andrew_Fox Could they have a nuke? Genuine question…

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@MarcherReborn How does Putin’s arse taste?

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@charlesblunden I’d suggest you get off twitter for the morning, Charles, and do something productive with your day. It would do good for the emotional state you’re in right now.

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@MarcherReborn So we should just match aggression with appeasement? How did that turn out for ol’ Neville in 1939?

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@MarcherReborn The already infamous ‘Borei’ class that repeatedly failed trials of its primary weapon system. Sure thing.

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@MarcherReborn It’d be a genuine miracle if it got that far without sinking. *cough* Losharik 2019 … *cough* Kursk 2000 …

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@FUDdaily Bullying an ally in front of the media - to the delight of your adversaries - seems like pretty juvenile behaviour to me.

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@blake_neil @MarcherReborn Absolutely no credible evidence of that happening at all. Stop spouting Russian propaganda.

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@MarcherReborn I think it’s a disgrace that you openly shill for Putin, a dictator responsible for murdering British citizens and destabilising our country.

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@blake_neil @MarcherReborn Ah yes, the very Serbs who were ethnically cleansing Kosovar Albanians?
I also don’t recall NATO invading Ukraine, so no, I don’t blame them.
BJ was right. You don’t capitulate to an aggressor and reward them.

[Jay @Jay__S_01]

@blake_neil @MarcherReborn NATO ‘encroachment’ wouldn’t be a thing if Russia didn’t constantly invade and destabilise its neighbours. Funny that you mention Zelenskyy’s previous career…you do realise that Trump was a reality TV star? Reagan an actor? That argument falls flat I’m afraid.