Rob

Freedom: just around the corner for you; but with truth so far off, what good will it do?

[Rob @robn1980]

@ALANMYERSMEDIA Whoever decided the watching public wanted to hear from a referee analyst should be sent to do fifteen years of hard labour in Siberia.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Defence secretary Healey authorised hundreds of UK spy flights for Israeli intelligence during a genocide.

He was never seriously questioned on this let alone held to account, and now freely leaves office.

The real issue here is our governance: one national media won’t tell.

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@DarrellChaloner @ZackPolanski @medialens I see you're trying to win an argument that can't be won, as like I've said, the "data" or "statistics" that are available are not particularly reliable for drawing a legitimate conclusion, and the dataset that is actually required is not kept.

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@DarrellChaloner @ZackPolanski @medialens Replace "intuition does" with "evidence that you see every day as part of your job".

[Rob @robn1980]

@cashandcarrots @ZackPolanski @medialens Precisely. That's the argument the right can't grapple with. They cheer on the wars, the propping up of despots and socially conservative elements overseas, the burning of the planet. Then they whine when the consequences come home.

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@DarrellChaloner @ZackPolanski @medialens Like I said, tone deaf. It doesn't even require surveys to understand that people arriving here in the UK from countries devastated by war, corruption, and myriad other societal ills, are going to be suffering from a bit of mental fog.

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@medialens But it's fair to say there are lots of people arriving in the socially liberal West from countries and societies that are socially conservative (ironically propped up by the West) and that is - rightly or wrongly - causing friction.

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@medialens A big part of the problem is there are no statistics collected by the criminal justice system to determine the prevalence of "migrant crime". In that vacuum ambiguity and falsehoods can reign.

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@medialens Obviously it is difficult to conclude definitively because the UK doesn't maintain a national linked dataset that combines immigration status with GP diagnoses and prescriptions etc. But it is clear that this is an issue that has to be front and centre of policy.

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@medialens Ok, so a more recent report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists summarises that "there is substantial evidence that refugees and asylum seekers experience higher rates of mental illness than the general population..." https://t.co/3rsiPf2Wls

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@ZackPolanski @medialens The left has to win the argument as to *why* these people are fleeing their countries: often (not always) because of policies pursued by the West that destabilise the country of origin. But the left has to understand that this isn't predominantly a racist issue.

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@ZackPolanski @medialens This is tone deaf. The left have to accept that two things can be true at once:
1. The UK should have a compassionate immigration policy.
2. There is undoubtedly a huge number of immigrants arriving in the UK with mental health & other issues, making them more prone to violence.

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@ALANMYERSMEDIA Very droll of Burnley to suggest that Everton gained a sporting advantage by signing Nathan Patterson and Vitaly Mykolenko.

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@henrywinter @GodEngland96297 "Elite" is a stretch. We are hardly talking Giggs, Robben, Overmars et al are we. There's a touch of the Lampard's about Gordon - drive and will to succeed overcoming natural ability, but in all honesty Gordon will never reach the standards Lampard did. Downed tools at #EFC #NUFC

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@alexdsmiff @ALANMYERSMEDIA How can anybody watch Beto and Barry and seriously suggest any other position on the pitch is a priority 😂 The pair of them could be replaced by a fan in the crowd most weeks. That can't be said of any other position on the pitch.

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@MediaSOI @ElectionMapsUK Predominantly White British, or as you like to call it: 'the master race'. 😂

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Dan Burn making an England World Cup squad. 😂 Nurse! 🤒

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@MxVivianWulf @medialens Starmer would not have taken on Westminster if he'd have been mayor of Manchester. I see Burnham as the radical end of the Overton Window - which as we know isn't radical at all, but likely to be tolerated *to some extent* by the political and media establishment.

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@CBeesleyEcho @LivEchoEFC @Tony_Scott11 @Iancroll1 Notwithstanding @GavinBuckland1 point about the centre of power at football clubs now, it is undeniable that Moyes is accountable for the players recruited. Has the squad seriously improved? If it has, you'd use it. The evidence points in the opposite direction. The squad is crap

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@CBeesleyEcho @LivEchoEFC @Tony_Scott11 @Iancroll1 Can anybody seriously say that signing Rohl on loan with an obligation to buy *if we stayed up* was the transfer dealings of a serious, ambitious football club? If we had the option to send him back following his loan, I am certain we would as we've seen almost nothing of him.