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[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

We owe £3 trillion. We spend more on working-age benefits than we raise in income tax. Our social security budget is five times our actual security budget. And these two are pretending to be gap-year vloggers in Bangkok.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

So he r*ped someone
Went to jail
Didn’t get deported
Got out
R*ped again
Back in jail
Will be released again

What are we doing here?

[Rare | ♻️🇬🇧 @RareRestore]

I'm looking at a list of 142,712 UK Visa Sponsors 🔍🤔

That is, a list of every company who can legally bring skilled workers into the United Kingdom 🗝️🇬🇧

I note a minimum of:

‣ 465 pizza parlours
‣ 285 halal butchers
‣ 158 kebab vans
‣ 144 curry houses
‣ 67 vape shops
‣ 62 taxi firms
‣ 53 newsagents
‣ 33 with "786" in their name
‣ 15 car washes
‣ 4 valeters

Not one of the above requires a skilled worker, let alone the importation of said skilled worker.

With the above in mind you should ask yourself:

What the actual F is going on here?????

[LBC @LBC]

UK spent £1.1 trillion more on benefits than infrastructure since 2006, as Burnham urged to get a grip on welfare bill https://t.co/X1vbDVF2Bu

[GBTT — Great British Think Tank @GreatBritishTT]

Check out our handy calculator and remind @andyburnham why fuel is so expensive

https://t.co/VhzUmIN0Jo

[J @roundtripj]

@moving_charlie Rates continue to rise over next few years? Or something changes? All doom and gloom? What’s the data suggest

[Charlie Peters @CDP1882]

It’s unclear who is behind this but the Iranians have made clear their intent on Fairford.

The PM said that national security cannot come at the cost of social security.

But by resettling unvetted Iranians, the government is giving social security to national security threats.

[J @roundtripj]

@George1Trader Nice! Needs something to drive the narrative

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

25 years after the terror attacks that changed our nation forever, we honor our fallen by demanding transparency, accountability and reform.
Declassify all 9/11 documents, end our wars of choice in the Middle East, and focus our resources on protecting our nation.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Epstein’s actual painting.

Never forget.

[Dux @DuxVul]

61% of people with jobs voted AfD

It’s really just benefit scroungers and immigrants that vote left

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

George Orwell, in 1984, describes how the Party keeps the Proletarians sedated with “five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”

[John the Cliff Dweller @STFUabtChicago]

@SketchesbyBoze

[MrDigit @MrDigit]

My dad saved $80,000 by never upgrading anything. Same couch for 25 years. Same car until it had 280,000 miles. Never took a real vacation, "next year" always came first.

Had a heart attack at 61. Never made it to retirement.

The $80,000 paid for his funeral and split three ways after that.

He worked every single day of his healthy years to save for years he never got to have.

Nobody tells you the math can end like that too.

[Adio @Adiofreak]

Just saw an Instagram reel that said:

“At some point you become the age that your parents were in your childhood memories, only you don’t feel like an adult, and you realize your parents were still just kids trying to figure it out too”

And that shit just fucked me up.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Four months later, the Epstein Files still have vanished from the conversation, as if one of the biggest scandals in American and Israeli politics never happened.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

in europe, you can have air conditioning but only if you are among the political elite. and even then, you have to be elite enough

[Aleph @woke8yearold]

The European Commission shutting off air conditioning for everyone but the higher level bureaucrats is unreal. Like reading this I want to say it cannot be true.

….

[Charlie @btc_charlie]

Earn money? Taxed.

Save earned money that you've already been taxed on? Taxed again.

Die? Taxed.

What do you get in return? Paying for immigrants and scroungers benefits and to wait in a queue in the NHS next to those same people.

Great system 👍

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Keir Starmer's successor, whoever that will be, will fail just like he did.

The United Kingdom is ungovernable at this point because the elected government no longer controls the state apparatus. The unholy blob that Tony Blair constructed runs everything, and they answer to no one. Starmer himself literally said that he pulls a lever and nothing happens. His replacement will find those levers still do nothing.

Without a massive purge of the NGOs, the Quangos, the courts, the civil service, and the administrative state, changing Prime Ministers will do about as much good as swapping out a kid's steering-wheel toy in a car that's hurdling off a cliff.