@martthegooner@UKHSA Martyn. This is precisely the kind of vital information that prevents people like @RodHayes14 going outside and getting severe sunburn. Shame on you.
@richy_goonerr It actually wouldn't have. Eze would have still been wandering around our penalty area like an extra from Cool Runnings when that ball was played in.
@imzftbi Ask any palace fan and they will tell you he has 10 mins tops in any game where he does stuff you will notice. The rest of the time he's missing. Hopefully Arteta knocks that out of him.
I loved this as a child.
(No, I was not a boy, although I suspect if I showed an interest in it today, I would be on blockers in a hot minute!)
I mentioned this to a friend and they had no idea what I was talking about. I cannot be the only child in the UK who had one….
Digital ID for every adult is not progress. It is the end of a free society dressed up as convenience.
I am a cyber security specialist. This is my take.
They are selling it as a fix for illegal migration. That is bollocks.
We spend hundreds of billions a year on cyber security and yet the volume of breaches is breaking records. The threat is growing faster than the spend.
Digital ID will not stop boats. It will not stop trafficking gangs. It will not fix a broken border.
Criminals will work around it.
Honest citizens will pay the price.
It builds giant data banks that track where you go, what you buy, what you read and who you speak to.
It links your identity to every checkpoint in daily life.
One breach and your life is exposed.
Look at Jaguar Land Rover and the airports in recent weeks. Now imagine that at national scale on an ID system tied to everything you need to live your daily life.
Here is the risk that ministers will not admit.
Ransomware seeded through a supplier or an insider:
It lies quiet for months. It rolls through the backups. On trigger day the register and the recovery sets are both encrypted.
Payments fail. Health and benefits stall. Borders slow. Citizens are frozen out until a ransom is paid or the state rebuilds from scratch.
Centralise identity and you centralise failure.
Do not fall for the pitch.
Function creep is certain. It starts as login.
It becomes access to money, travel, speech and public services.
It turns rights into permissions controlled by the state and its contractors.
It creates a single point of failure for criminals, insiders and hostile states to target.
It will punish the elderly, the poor and anyone who is not always online.
It will centralise risk and outsource blame.
It will not stop fraud.
It will not stop illegal migration.
It will build the machinery for a social credit system by stealth.
If ministers cared about the border, they would enforce current laws, resource patrols and processing, close loopholes and remove those with no right to stay.
You do not need a national ID to do any of that.
We scrapped ID cards in 2010 for a reason.
Britain does not need a central register to prove age or status.
Yes to privacy first proofs. No to a database state.
I want to speak honestly and frankly about something that almost everybody in British politics is too frightened to even brush past: the growing influence of Islam in Britain, and what that means for our culture, our laws and most importantly - our future.
We have to look at the reality of what is happening at a societal level, and the way in which a political and cultural ideology is shaping large parts of our country.
Britain was built on a strong Christian moral foundation.
Our freedoms, our laws, our institutions - they are all rooted in that heritage.
What we are seeing today is something very different.
Entire areas where British culture has been pushed aside. Parallel systems of law and authority operating quietly, although increasingly loudly, in the shadows.
Fear and intimidation silencing criticism, even in Parliament and the media. It’s not even multiculturalism in many areas of Britain, there is one culture - Islam.
Sharia law roles being openly advertised on Government platforms, 85 Sharia courts operating around the country, millions of animals brutally butchered alive. All to avoid offending Muslims?
I don’t care about that. This is Britain. We do things a certain way. We must not change that to appease one religion.
When elected politicians are afraid to speak the truth about the rape gangs because they fear being accused of ‘Islamophobia’, that tells you that something is profoundly wrong. Local councils and police pathetically bend over backwards to avoid upsetting ‘community leaders’.
This attitude helped to enable the mass rape of thousands and thousands of white British girls, mainly by gangs of Pakistani Muslim men in towns and cities all across the UK.
If we had the courage to confront these facts then, it would not have happened on such a vast scale. I promise you that.
I am deeply concerned that we are sleepwalking into a future where our own culture and laws are gradually eroded, not through a sudden revolution, but drip by drip through cowardice, appeasement, and political convenience. The growth of the Muslim population means on current trajectory - this is a question of when, not if.
Look at how part of England have changed already, in just a few decades. Rochdale, Bradford, Luton, large parts of East London. I could go on.
The Government’s entire approach to Gaza is driven by a desperate attempt to cling on to the Muslim vote in dozens and dozens of these constituencies. The agenda is being driven by an organised, religiously-driven bloc vote. That's just a fact.
Starmer will evidently do nothing. Farage talks of an inevitable loss if we alienate Islam, he doesn’t even believe halal slaughter should be prohibited. It's weak and it's pathetic. The Tories? These issues disappointingly spread so widely and deeply under their watch.
And you think it’s bad now? After the next election, it will get worse. And the election after that? Worse again.
We need to protect our culture and legal system without apology. We need to draw a clear line. One law for all - no parallel systems, no special exemptions for Islam.
We need to assert that Britain is a Christian country, built on Christian values, and that will not change to accommodate any other ideology.
Ban Halal slaughter. Ban Sharia courts. Ban the burqa. Ban hate-preachers. Be assertive, set an example.
Deport those foreign Islamists who hate our way of life and want to do us harm - we will not tolerate such intolerance anymore.
Stop appeasing cultural practices that clash with British law and values. Halt malign foreign funding of mosques. Strip citizenship from dual nationals involved in Islamist extremism, and deport them too.
Above all, we need to be honest. Because if we cannot even speak about this issue openly, we have already lost.
Restore Britain will do just that. I hope you consider joining if you want to support us in that mission.
We must unapologetically restore confidence and belief in our own identity, our own culture and our own laws.
@EddieBarstool I once got dumped with a random 4th who was playing his first round since he'd had a heart attack. I shit myself every time we went up a hill.