John Chivers

EV driver since 2014 and EV biker since 2016. Advanced motorcyclist, drummer, linguist. First electric motorbike End-to-Ender.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

The story of recreating my 2017 electric motorcycle trip from Land's End to John O'Groats to Skaw, but this time with @KateFantom, on a pair of DC rapid-charging Energica EVA Ribelle bikes. Nearly 2000 all-electric miles. #lejogskaw

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[John Chivers @jtchivers]

If you think anything you celebrate as "diverse" or prefix "multi-" can exist without creating the literal divisions this describes, you're a bit simple.

If you don't want division, you should strive for homogeneity.

Don't pursue policies which wilfully manufacture divisions in society and then gormlessly feign surprise at these divisions when they inevitably surface.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

Not only are you sufficiently low information about a poorly implemented EU system that you think it fit to blame the UK for this system, but you also appear to believe that the UK economy is fairing worse than the EU, but most bizarrely that we also left the continent of Europe.

It's only confused types who wrap their identity in a supranational organisation who feel they have lost their European identity. I'm still culturally European, as indeed Britain has been for centuries.

Lesson - Don't listen to numpties.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

Your best argument for the EU is the death of people who have decades of experience and their replacement by a generation who, raised on a diet of leftist nuttery, are apparently the most predisposed to vote for the bizarre and world-ignorant values of the Greens?

Well, that figures.

Anything but a coherent argument over the facts, eh?

[Outpost Studios @OutpostStudios]

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[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Are the jury blind?

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

There's an ethicity and a civic nationality. The two are different.

One can have English nationality with a non-English ethnicity. One can be ethnically English with a different nationality.

Where we draw the bounds of ethnicity is somewhat arbitrary.

The ethno-nationalist purists themselves will have to draw an arbitrary judgement as to what makes someone ethnically English too. Is it based purely on family ancestry or DNA analysis? In both cases is it a percentage game?

And then, beyond all that, there is the central thing which matters above all else… cultural behaviours and values.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

The BBC doing a puff piece about fathers selling their child daughters so they can be raped by other men. Your licence fee pays for this.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

@HankCampbell They'd still report his actions as "disproportionate" and "genocide".

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Calling everyone you disagree with “far right” has destroyed the meaning of the term.

I’m sick of seeing serious labels abused to smear ordinary people with legitimate concerns.

In 2015, before Brexit, over 50% of the country was concerned about immigration. Does that make half the country “far right”?

Throwing these labels around is reckless, dishonest, and damaging to public debate.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

"You didn't have to kill the dog." Useful idiots get shown what they're supporting.

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Hi Gary, sorry to keep ratioing you, and I suspect I will do it again.

I only had to listen to 29 seconds to put this together because you revealed yourself by calling Reform the "far-right party". Perhaps after 29 seconds there is some sense in there, maybe I'll come back to it, anyway....

Let me first say, I am not a huge fan of Reform, but I am also not a fan of branding everything you dislike as far-right.

Far-right politics, historically, means authoritarianism, racial supremacy, political violence, suppression of opposition and/or rejection of democracy itself. Agreed?

So Reform then, well they support elections, free speech, lower taxes, border control and reducing the size of the state. You can dislike those ideas all you want, but they are mainstream positions held by millions of voters across democratic countries.

Ironically Gary, or perhaps not, but parts of the modern far-left openly flirt with some of what you have branded:
- Censorship and deplatforming
- Punishing dissent
- Political intimidation
- Opponents as morally illegitimate (what you are doing here lad)
- Expanding state control

You can see this in support for speech laws, attempts to silence academics and journalists, aggressive cancellation campaigns and the belief that certain views should be excluded from public debate entirely.

Please stop this stunted intellectual crusade, it is embarrassing. We know the agenda, you just want to expand the state, give more control to incompetency and loot the voters.

Init.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 Economist Richard Werner makes a pointed argument: the EU was modeled on the Soviet Union.

The USSR had a parliament that looked democratic but couldn't initiate laws. Those came from the unelected Politburo.

The EU has the same structure: the European Parliament mostly approves and amends, while the unelected European Commission holds the monopoly on initiating legislation.

He also notes the timing. The Maastricht Treaty and the euro were rushed into existence almost immediately after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

Werner isn't fringe. He's the economist who coined quantitative easing and predicted the 2008 financial crisis.

Agree or not, the democratic deficit argument is hard to dismiss.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

Men who come to Britain to rape children are welcomed in and given a hotel room, lawyers, food, money, and can even use their child rape to stay here because they'd be "persecuted" if they were returned.

But Labour bans civilised right-wing women, philosophers, politicians, who want to come and talk and share ideas, because those ideas threaten Labour's grip on power.

You've almost got to admire how transparent they are. By showing us that they can ban people, they're showing us that the child rapists are allowed in deliberately.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

How are your freedom fighters doing, @owenjonesjourno ?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

This Government is entirely wrong to ban foreign commentators from speaking at Robinson’s rally on Saturday

I will be formally challenging the Home Office, again, on the decision to prevent these individuals from entering.

I won’t be there myself, but many patriots will be and they deserve to hear lawful views in order to decide for themselves if they agree or not.

That is free speech.

Islamist extremists are personally welcomed by the Prime Minister, yet this group is banned.

It stinks.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Labour has moved to ban seven “far-Right” commentators from entering the UK, claiming their presence is “not conducive to the public good”.

The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has barred seven individuals — all outspoken on immigration — from entering the country ahead of Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally on Saturday. Some have previously attended events in the UK without issue.

During his “reset” speech on Monday, the Prime Minister announced the crackdown on conservative voices and criticised the Unite the Kingdom rally, claiming it was designed to “confront and intimidate this diverse city and this diverse country”.

He went on to say: “This is why this Labour Government will block far-Right agitators from travelling to Britain for that event. Because we will not allow people to come to the UK and spread hate on our streets.”

American conservatives should no more be banned from entering Britain than British socialists should be banned from entering the United States.

Keir Starmer’s Government should be prepared to defend its policies in the face of criticism from conservative voices — both domestic and foreign — rather than banning critics from entering the country.

The Labour Party did not seem too bothered about Labour staffers travelling to the US to campaign for Kamala Harris.

This is a poor decision.

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[John Chivers @jtchivers]

@clumf @KaleyGoode @grok @esjesjesj @elonmusk Nah, that would involve expecting someone else to pay for it.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

You see it as a row; I see it as discussion. I've explained pretty clearly why I appreciate the exchanges with AI over humans incapable of discussing subjects dispassionately.

I paid for the blue tick because I appreciate the extras and don't feel like freeloading. I pay a far more expensive TV licence fee for the very occasional programme, but ultimately get far less out of that.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

@clumf @KaleyGoode @grok @esjesjesj @elonmusk Yep. I could watch a soap opera, of course. But outside family stuff, motorcycling, music-making/listening, and keeping my brain active are fine to be going on with.

[John Chivers @jtchivers]

Yes, I generally get a better class of discussion with a "computer program" and get my own views challenged in a far more objective and constructive way than I do with people who pretend not to understand things… or are genuinely dense.

It is nice on the rare occasions I get to have a discussion with someone with whom I disagree in good faith and on good terms, but since the so many other people's judgement of me is so often hyperbolic (and hyper bollocks), I have to sharpen my mind in other ways and I appreciate primary sources especially in discussions when it comes to forming opinions, rather than someone else's off-the-peg, ready-made opinion. The latter may be convenient but it's lazy and frankly uninteresting.

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