The Mind Boggles

I’m always dubious and so far right…

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

“When men chose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They then become capable of believing in anything.”

-Emile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G.K. Chesterton

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

A politician with ideas, a plan, purpose and courage in their convictions, and good arguments to justify their direction, would put themselves in front of someone like @afneil to make their case.

A politician who thinks they’re a celebrity first, & not wishing to be tested would go speak to a footballer (@GaryLineker)…

Which approach did @andyburnham take…

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

@MrHarryCole We elect such muppets - surely real change starts there…

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

No, Al.

You terminal morons are dividing us. Parliament’s constituent MPs are levelling down with every GE and by election. The absolute least qualified least experienced people possible are running the apparatus of state.

The progressives endless identity politics and wokery is dividing us. The two tier justice is dividing us. The giving away social housing to foreigners and having us foot the bill is dividing us. The removal of the 2 child benefit cap that - per the data- which goes overwhelmingly to foreign families is dividing us. The censoring of long held and hard won free speech is dividing us. The removal of right to trial by jury since Magna Carta is dividing us. The vandalism on our independent school system is dividing us. The attempt to block us from using VPNs to keep our data secure and stop the deep state from spying on us - whist we pay for it - is dividing us. Your failures to spend on defence and protect the realm is dividing us. Your refusal to bin net zero, drill North Sea oil and gas, and build a fleet of nuclear power plants to take us from most expensive energy in the OECD where we can’t build anything - to energy abundance and widespread disinflation of goods and services is dividing us and making us all unnecessarily poorer. Your closure of steel plants is dividing us and making us weaker as we can’t make our own virgin steel - much of it for infrastructure and defence. Your inability to build anything - from housing to hospitals to prisons to energy infra to reservoirs to rail is dividing us. Your desire to tax the ever-shrinking productive tax base ever more to fund growing nationwide welfare dependency and indolence is dividing us. And most of all your collective cretinous dogmatic abject stupidity, fiscal innumeracy, economic illiteracy - as a political class - agnostic of party - is dividing us and destroying Britain in real time for some 30 years and counting.

And if we thought this was bad enough… Burnham will be the worst yet.

Moreover whilst all this unnecessary nonsense unfolds, Britain is being locked out of the AI revolution. There are 2 years left to get in the game or we will become a vassal at best and second world underclass at worst. That you spend time on this irrelevant bollocks whilst the US and China runaway with the arms race for AI Sovereignty proves my fucking point.

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

@clim8resistance They stab him in the back and applaud him as he leaves... they should re-invoke the non-clapping rule, it's so cringeworthy

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD. They called the territory Britannia and administered it as a province (later subdivided into multiple provinces, such as Britannia Superior and Inferior, then four under Diocletian). It was “unified” only in the limited sense of being part of the Roman Empire.

[Matt Cronin @MattCronin68]

🕷️ 🕸️ 🎶 Spider-cam, spider-cam, can it help England, yes it can 🎶🕸️🕷️

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

1/
21 years in Policing, my career ended in 2020 due to injuries sustained on duty.
I do not recognise what British policing has become.
It stopped asking "is this right?" and started asking "how will this look?" Two tier policing on race, religion and the police being used as a political tool.
Here is what that costs. 🧵

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

@KingBobIIV @PaulPitt1967 Omg that’s awful!

I always loved his early morning lyrics and dry humour! RIP legend 💔

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

We’ve had decades of the comprehensive system. But nothing shows up our political failure more than how much better private education (still) is.

So rather than try harder, they do what they can to close private schools - hiding the evidence - and reduce any chance of social mobility to those who can afford to move to areas where the best comprehensive schools are.

So better-off parents are still paying for better education.

[Anna Turley MP @annaturley]

You don’t get it do you?!
I saw privilege that people paid for & didn’t earn. And instead I want an education system that gives everyone the opportunities I & others had. You clearly can’t understand that concept because you want to preserve privilege for those who can afford it.

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

@MaryVogwell @EmilyThornberry @NormanBrennan I believe he has successfully and inoffensively navigated both, and explained as such in a response

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

@EmilyThornberry @NormanBrennan So he's not allowed to criticise you, because you're a woman?

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

She celebrates “A landslide majority” which was won with less votes in total than the “worst defeat in modern history”, and this lady wonders why she’s roundly ridiculed, and soon to be out of work…

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

From taking our party from the worst defeat in modern history, @Keir_Starmer turned it around and delivered a landslide majority just four years later.

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

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[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

This must be the “free speech” @Keir_Starmer so proudly told Trump about…

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: The government is preparing to force social media platforms to make content from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 more prominent on users feeds in an attempt to combat "misinformation"

[@Telegraph]

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

If we are insisting on calling Ivory Coast, “Côte d'Ivoire”, why aren’t we calling Germany, “Deutschland”

🇨🇮 🇩🇪

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

The only mandate Burnham has right now, is to deliver as a constituency MP for Makerfield.

Should he challenge and beat Starmer for the party leadership, then his mandate is the same as Starmer's; the last election manifesto.

If he wants to deviate from that, he should call for a GE

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

Literally everything which has been bad about British politics (and probably, Britain in general) in the last few decades, started with the election of Tony Blair.

[Dr Philip Kiszely @KiszelyPhilip]

Burnham will become prime minister and the usual suspects will cheer as the ‘grown-up’ enters the Downing Street room.

Then, in Groundhog Day Britain, Prime Minister Andy (for f*ck’s sake!) will prove himself the biggest car crash since the last one — No-Idea Keir.

We’ll waltz through the same chaos, witness the same two-tier travesty, and watch the same attack on our freedoms; only this time it’ll be more savage, more intense, and far more relentless. It will take us that much nearer the brink — if not beyond it.

Stupidity in short order.

It’s difficult not to feel creeping despair at the mind-boggling insanity of the Labour voter, the Green loon, the Lib Dem, and the divide across the right.

The latter, I suppose, poses little or no threat after last night. Even so…

We live in a sectarian society. Identity politics on all sides will ensure our economy grinds to a halt while we wage a tribal warfare that obliterates our future.

It’s the inevitable result of 30 years’ insanity, of course:
• open borders
• asymmetric multiculturalism
• race obsession
• unchecked Islamism
• the queering of everything
• liberal self-loathing

Those responsible should stand trial and do hard time.

But we should be responsible too - and stop the rot through the vote. It’s our last chance. The alternative is unthinkable.

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

I would respectfully argue that it isn't necessarily for @FUDdaily to have the answers. However, he is having a damn good crack at creating a manifesto, which shouldn't be ignored.

His observations are usually spot-on, but my feeling is that he is as frustrated as the rest of us that we're in this state, hoping for something better, and recoginising that Reform and Restore are still a long way short of being able to deliver.

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

@MatthewStadlen Holy crap, I find myself agreeing with @MatthewStadlen. Although in our system, we vote for a local MP, they group together and determine who they want to lead.

The issue would be if Burnham wants to swerve away from the Labour manifesto, then he should get a new mandate.

[The Mind Boggles @the_boggles]

@AdrianSage4 @johnafish @GoodwinMJ … just to understand, you want these “dregs of society, the thicko’s, the underbelly” to vote Reform?

To be honest, I’m not sure calling them names will help sway them…