"We had a good thing going you stupid son of a bitch! We had colonies. We had trade. We had our spheres of influence... We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork.
But no, you just had to blow it up! You and your pride, and your ego! You just had to be the man!"
"Why was police presence so lacking in Birmingham, despite large crowds, some of which were armed?"
"We spoke with the 'community' organising the counter protest and they said they didn't need a big police presence."
🥴
West Midlands Police discuss disorder that kicked off after misinformation spread online. The Sky News crew covering the unrest in Birmingham were followed by a man holding a knife and wearing a balaclava after broadcasting live.
A woman has been found guilty for terrorism charges..
Tasnia Ahmed, 21 of east London was found guilty of two counts of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism to the police, contrary to section 38B of the Terrorism Act 2000.
You need to be diasporamaxxing. You need to be importing more obscure ethnic conflicts. You need Somaliland independence activists mobilising in intra-Democratic politics. You need Dua Lipa MP threatening to glass Serbia
Breaking 🚨🚨
While speaking to Somalian crowd, US congresswoman Ilhan Omar said
"As Somalis, one day we will go after our missing territories" in reference to somali inhibited regions in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Please note Ilhan's father was a military officer in Siyad barre army
Third Worldism might be the most contemptible ideology going. All losers. No vision beyond bitching about richer countries, and blaming them for their own self-inflicted disasters
Latest in British politics: a Canine Underground Railroad taking inbred pitbull murder hounds from England to Scotland (Scotland has not committed to an XL Bully Ban)
OPERATION SAVE THE XL BULLIES ‼️❤️🐾
Today 6 XL's were transported to
#Scotland
where they were ADOPTED!!! 🎉🎉🎉
HUGE THANKS to Kelsey of Bedlay Gardens - Dog Day Care, Dog Walking & Home Boarding Manchester, United Kingdom!!
TRUE
#RESCUE
#HERO
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It is disturbing that grooming gangs are using vapes to exploit minors.
Labour will introduce tough new laws to stop gangs exploiting children and come down hard on anyone marketing vapes to under-18s.
Germany is the world’s worst performing major economy.
Popular anger and the AfD are rising in response to austerity.
FT editorial board recommends softening the debt brake and public investment. And warns: “The rise of the far right ought to focus the minds.”
Heartbreaking. A woman with so much more to give and live, two children left without a mother. The reckless driver doing 50 in a 20 zone had 20 previous convictions and was out on bail (I can't find the details of his criminal record)
Nope, I want Sharia because:
No taxes
No electricity bills
No gas bills
Free education
Free health
No sexual objectification of women
ہور کوئی ساڈے لائق؟ 🙂
It's almost like certain groups that are implicitly recognised by the state as belonging to legitimate 'communities' get different treatment from those that don't, even when they shouldn't.
If only there was a catchy name for this phenomenon
The Bulgarian copper who alerted the British government about this fraud has probably saved the taxpayer hundreds of millions. He ought to be given a medal
The Manchester bombing is beyond even Houellebecq. Asylum seekers turned terrorists, their mum fleecing taxpayers an equivalent of a professional salary *even after going home*, and our response to butchered little girls was to mate mate mate village halls with more BS paperwork
> Ozempic making Americans thinner, more fertile
> American consumer economy beating expectations
> China's economy slowing, ordinary Chinese not having kids
"Did you ever doubt, Anon?"
Bleakly funny if just as we were thanking our luck the riots hadn't yet spread to London, the deposed(?) strongwoman of Bangladesh arrives and ignites Whitechapel and Tower Hamlets
I've said many times before, it's going to be very funny when Europe (in some cases under left/centre-left governments) gets much firmer on migration and asylum than the UK.
Labour scraps Rwanda and Scholz is already flying people to Kabul!
Germany has deported 28 people on a flight to Afghanistan. This is the first deportation of Afghans since the Taliban took power in 2021.
They were "were convicted offenders... against whom deportation orders had been issued," the government said.
A common theme is that the British state seems extremely relaxed about granting ILR and citizenship to almost anyone (no matter how fiscally dubious) if they're willing to wait long enough while spending much effort making things tedious for more qualified and mobile people
@AFraserUrq
Alastair, a core argument is that "housing need" cannot be determined by politicians/specialists. The bedroom standard is one starting point for discussion. Ultimately this has to be decided by the public, e.g. in a citizens assembly (like climate assemblies).
In another timeline it was England eclipsed by her enemies while the Netherlands became the world's hegemonic maritime empire; and it would be us, not them, mocked on Twitter dot com for how silly our "weird Dutch" language looks too foreigners
A man who repeatedly stabbed a woman in front of her young children before fleeing to France has been jailed.
Bodrul Alam, of Orde Hall Street, Bloomsbury, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday (August 2) a year after being extradited.
The 25-year-old was sentenced to 25 years
Putting aside the more technical economic and legal arguments of the Next case is the hilarious fact that the warehouse workforce was nearly 50-50 anyway!!
A quarter of asylum seekers from a European holiday destination like Albania getting approved is helpfully absurd: the entire system needs to be dynamited, and this is a convenient, brief demonstration of why.
just found out starting salary for my field in the uk is 35£k—>36$k???? in the US 70$k is considered a bad salary and 80$k the average. what’s going on over there
Been in Italy 4 years, decided to try his luck, got to the UK via France within a fortnight, raped a Brit within 6 weeks
During his time in Italy managed to find time to visit his wife and son for several months back in (presumably very dangerous!) Egypt
If you told someone still in Nigeria, India, Malaysia (or indeed any non-Commonwealth country) that they could vote in British elections, on any visa, without reciprocity they'd look at you like you'd sprouted a second head
Reuters article on commonwealth citizens voting in the upcoming election
"Oyinkansola Dirisu said she was looking forward to voting for Labour, and said she wanted whoever won power to make it easier for people like her to move to Britain."
UK + Mexico are case studies of how Political Economy doesn't really matter that much when it comes to economic growth.
The UK is a hyper liberalized and unregulated economy already (no matter what /pol/ commentators say).
EXCL w/
@AnshelPfeffer
A Hamas fugitive who served on its politburo from 2013-17 and “ran its West Bank terrorist operations" lives in a London council home he recently bought with a £120k discount.
Muhammed Sawalha went on Hamas visit to Russia in 2019.
"Rapist chased down street by victim after attack jailed for seven years
"Mohammed Abdullah targeted the 18-year-old woman after she left a nightclub."
Women with Black African ancestry ‘at greater risk when plague hit London’
First thing that jumps out is they literally used skull analysis to count "African" bodies- did they not consider DNA?
Second is 9/49 plague victims were apparently "African"
Quite a few people in the comments justifying shoplifting or calling Charlie a narc while completely ignoring the woman's purse that fell out of the thief's rucksack
Popped out to get some milk last night and busted this fella pinching bottles of olive oil. I started filming after I saw him sneak three more bottles into his coat.
I showed security and we worked together to intervene and prevent the theft. He abandoned his bag in the scuffle,
Yes well I'd argue that Henry VIII and the Reformation matter quite a lot more to English history and national identity so I fully support schools teaching it over the minefield of Israel and Palestine
A generation of kids not learning about history of Israel Palestine conflict as deemed too controversial+emotive. But as a teacher says: “This isn’t history, it’s happening today, and if we don’t learn from our past and our histories we won’t move forward.”
Turns out "40% of British GDP and fraction of Chinese manpower" was not enough to beat Britain, America, China, and the Soviet Union in a horrifying industrial war
According to the GMC doctors who qualified outside the UK are 3x more likely to be referred to them by employers v UK trained doctors
The GMC apparently has no thoughts about this beyond it being a disparate outcome to be remedied by DEI policy 😬
"Keir Stürmer is pledging to bring migration back down to the 'high hundreds of thousands', another normal day on Rainy Fascist Island." - every annoying leftist poster in 2029
is there a political party in the UK that thinks immigration is a good thing that enriches our communities? Or is it all just different flavours of repackaged BNP policies
"Forrun court bad, forrun court loves crims and terrorists."
"Noooo the ECHR is a plank of the democratic European order, as well as a foundation of the Good Friday Agreement in NI and -"
"Foreign court bad."
I thought Timothy meant "four similar cases of violent men absconding from psychiatric care" but no it's literally the SAME GUY running away FOUR TIMES in THREE YEARS
One violent man who presents a risk to women.
Four near-identical stories in three years. Just look at the dates.
We need to start putting the safety of the public before the rights of dangerous criminals.
Two men & a woman have been convicted for their roles in the violent disorder in
#Sunderland
.
Today, Leanne Hodgson, Josh Kellett and Andrew Smith all pleaded guilty following the disgraceful scenes on Friday evening.
They've been remanded in custody until sentencing. (1/3)
"Building more housing where the market is screaming demand is too hard, we should simply completely reorientate the country's economic geography" is a remarkably common brain-dead take
The work of ECHR courts in stretching the meaning of human rights to absurdity leads to the topsy turvy world where a convicted murderer who chased his victim into the back of an ambulance can't be deported partly *because* he is a dangerous paranoiac
In the real world of course Britain is extremely open by international standards with respect to both non-citizens voting and residents becoming citizens; too open I'd argue - Commonwealth voting isn't even reciprocal!
A reminder that despite living in the UK for 66 years and having fully assimilated into British culture, to the point where he literally abandoned his name in favour of an English train station, Paddington cannot legally vote in England, because his passport is the wrong colour
The average annual salary in London in 2022 was £33,581.
Genuinely do not understand how people can afford to live there when incomes are that low and housing costs are that high.
@echetus
100%
I'm open to arguments that I'm retrospect Britain shouldn't have intervened but I can't see how Germany (and Austria) can possibly escape taking the blame
> ended an 8 year relationship because "I'm adamant I can't bring children into a world like this"
Doomerism (presumably climate) and socially reinforced neuroticism have so much to answer for. One only hopes that like the rest of Reddit this is fake
There are risks our military families face while deployed overseas.
Being imprisoned for a car accident caused by an unforeseen medical emergency shouldn’t be one of them.
America owes the Alkonis family a debt of gratitude.
Japan owes the family—and the U.S.—an apology.
HAPPENING NOW: Palestine and climate activists are occupying the British Museum over its new 10-year partnership with BP - a company profiting from Israel’s genocide in Palestine.
Gaza has gas. Sudan has gold. Congo has cobalt. Haiti has limestone. Afghanistan has copper. West Papua has crude oil. Every nation suffering from some form of genocide or intense suffering is attractive in the eyes of the western imperial machine of consumer capitalism.
I am pro Foreign Sec Cameron on the grounds that a norm you can appoint outsiders over the heads of your dribbling MPs would be good, but mostly because I want a sequel to this
My advice for Rishi Sunak is "you should bank the two years as prime minister that you know you can have," Prof Sir John Curtice says
He adds if the PM gets through his proposed smoking ban, he'd gain "a legacy that many a prime minister would die for"
Some states most fear disorder from the majority as the greatest political-social threat (sometime Soviet discourse about Russian chauvinism)
But I wonder also if this is institutional culture formed by longstanding twin strategies for handling Islamism and football hooliganism
AFAICT the state response to Islamism was broadly:
- maintain "community relations" to maintain cooperation, get intel
- nab dangerous ppl in low-key sting operations
- suppress expressions of post-terror anger
For less organised hooligans: batons and passport confiscations
This guy is head of Goldsmith's Law department, literally has a book called "Judicial Independence Under Threat" while cheerleading the encroachment of law into democratic politics via embarrassingly specious legal reasoning
I’m in awe of our Visiting Prof,
@JMPSimor
KC, and
@gardencourtlaw
colleague,
@mwillersqc
, who led on seismic
@KlimaSeniorin
case, working closely with experts & activists to safeguard our fundamental human right to be protected from “serious adverse effects of climate change”.
Perfect case of terrible/perverse outcome generated by nice sounding legislation or judgements imposed on the private sector, never turned back because opposing equal pay claims or Modern Slavery legislation is a bad look
Anyway I look forward to Labour's Race Equality Act
Something almost endearing about these people. Not a true Vanguardist, nor cynic who chooses the path of least resistance
Vibes "unimaginative middle manager with trendy concept they just learned yesterday, thrilled to inflict yet another initiative on their long-suffering team"
I went to a conference on whiteness last autumn. It was very good, very interesting and made me realise: whiteness is to race as patriarchy is to gender.
So yes, let’s have anti whiteness, & let’s smash the patriarchy.
That’s not anti-white, or anti-men, it’s anti-oppression.
(Int. students washing cars for tips)
It does feel like the current migration moment is on the cusp of rewriting a lot of received wisdom. The successful East-West EU labour market integration project just doesn't look comparable to the macro migration demand of 2024
This is a really funny thread where it seemingly doesn't occur to MacKenzie that one might be sceptical that this kind of research has sufficient rigour or might achieve their own stated goals, let alone even loftier goals like solving climate-driven issues or bigotry in Myanmar
The thing is, if you want fewer refugees coming to Britain, you probably need to have greater climate resilience in places like Uganda and Myanmar and less discrimination against gender non conformity across the world. I dunno, it’s almost like social science is pretty useful.
Insane marginal tax rates ought to be one of those things that attract broad agreement so it's particularly bad we've let them linger so long
Who is the constituency or interest group for accidental 85% marginal taxes?
The brilliance of the UK tax system means that a social worker is paying an 85% marginal tax rate.
Or rather they aren't, because they're not stupid. They're just turning away work.
HMRC don't get the tax. We don't get the social work. Everybody loses.
You turned a first world country into a hole while the Koreans and Chinese went from war-scarred hellscape to the cutting edge of industrial modernity. Skill issue!
Scottish Law allowed to remain separate from English Law under the Act of Union
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1 in 5 Scottish toddlers lost to roving packs of XL Bully dogs with names like "Princess"
You can see how individual policy choices and incentives of various agents get you there but you have to marvel at the INSANE end result: "British dentist/doctor training places capped well below demand to 'protect standards' (and/or guild interests) WHILE juicing immigration"
Hard to square this "lock them up for life!" reaction to Butler's opposition to existing Joint Enterprise laws which have helped put away exactly these sort of knifemen
This video is just horrific. I fail to understand how somebody can be so violent. I hope and pray that the victim is ok.
Sick sick sick lock them up for life!
Also hope that those who witnessed it are seeking help.
Bring back train guards, needed more than ever.