@Nigel_Farage Keir Starmer isn’t the CPS or the judiciary you throbbing phallus. You think so little of your supporters that you think they will buy this and repeat it, only to sound as stupid as you do right now.
@elonmusk I’m breaking my self imposed Twitter ban to invite you over to the UK, I would be happy to spend some time with you to show you and educate you about our country. Nobody is being arrested for posting memes.
@s8mb Cull them all. I’m terrified of dogs around my child, and anyone willing to look into the frequency of dog attacks on children and has children would be too.
@michael_merrick I disagree with parents taking children out of school for holidays. We know that higher attendance reaps better outcomes. There is plenty enough school holidays to take children away on holiday, is fining parents the right thing though? I don’t know.
Some quick rebuttals/responses:
America has had organised hostility to immigrants for most of the past century, sufficiently intense to keep millions of long term residents shut out of access to basic rights and services.
Britain does indeed have a huge planning problem and weak industry but it also has lower inequality and a stronger safety net than the US.
Britain responded to its most recent gun massacre - 30 years ago - by banning guns. America has gun massacres so often they no longer even make the news and its politicians can’t even criticise guns in public
Britain never had an opioid epidemic because it has central purchasing strong regulation of pharma - the US has the Sackler family and a drugs epidemic triggered by corrupt prescribing so severe it has knocked literal years off US life expectancy.
The NHS is dysfunctional but at least it is there. There is nowhere in the developed world worse to get sick while poor than the US.
Antisemitism on the radical left was/is a problem but our current PM was elected as leader promising - and delivering - a zero tolerance approach. He threw Corbyn out of the Labour Party.
By contrast you have a white nationalist former president promising autocracy and mobilising people promoting race war - and he’s still favourite to return to office.
Might be nice if @Noahpinion considered some of the above and some of the other replies from British followers. A post comparing US and UK problems would be great to see.
@montie Blimey I’m finding myself agreeing with you a lot in the last few days. It shows how far away the centre left and centre right are. We’re the mainstream of British politics and need to remember how much we have in common.
@montie What a fair minded tweet, this place is a cesspit so I welcome this sort of thinking, leaving tribalism aside the PM works in all out interests so it’s best if he isn’t knackered.
Luke’s focus group of working class voters in Leigh found that their number one priority was enforcing the law on rioters.
It’s not ‘woke’ to decry rioters, racism, and violence. If you think it is, you’ve lost your way and have become unstuck from the British working class.
You get the sense that a few grifter commentators are starting to panic that they've swum out too far, and they're not going to be able to make it back to land where all the vaguely respectable paydays are.
This whole story is microcosm of much of our politics. Debate dominated by eccentric political figures with eccentric and sometime extreme views who believe themselves to be mainstream, claim they’re speaking on behalf of all working class (white) people. Actual mainstream/liberal political voices over time too afraid to take those views on, and/or talk to voters directly about their concerns. That vacuum
filled by more extreme voices. Throw in online misinformation aided by this website and used by far right (and legitimised by people with big followings who should know better) and we are where we are.