Almost the entirety of the British Highstreet is now made up of 3 types of businesses: 1) Private Equity owned companies (Pizza Express, Burger King, Cafe Rouge, The Body Shop, Wagamamas, Zizzi, New Look, Bella Italia, Boots, WH Smith, etc) 2) Foreign owned businesses acting as fronts for skilled visa migrant scams and/or money laundering enterprises (Hairdressers, Kebab Shops, Vape Shops, etc) 3) Charity Shops. Largely in existence to sell off items left when people die. It's difficult to imagine anything more dystopian than this.

Almost every announced government position feels disorientating in its profoundly harmful stupidity. In almost every area and in every way, the positions are so clearly destructive. It's disheartening to witness continuously when our existing trajectory is already catastrophic. So what's going on? Can our politicians really all be that blind, ill informed and stupid? No. Sure, they are largely unimpressive mid wits but that doesn't explain the degree to which they get everything so incredibly and reliably wrong. The real issue is one of misaligned intentions and incentives. Collectively, the State is serving their own purposes and that is the root of the schism between Citizens and the establishment. The State, which can be described as a sprawling network of MPs, the civil service, the Public sector, NGOs, Quangos, Charities, the BBC, the Judiciary, etc, are primarily interested in their continued survival and proliferation. Growth and protection of the State. That's their priority. Not the people. Not improved living conditions. The priority is increasing state control and power. MPs are just the current visible figureheads that sit atop the same continuous self serving state establishment. A few brief examples: - Mass migration creates state dependent voters - Unsustainable Welfare does the same - ID checks for social media generates state power and control - Endlessly proliferating regulations do the same Whether or not any of this is good for the Citizens is irrelevant. When any policy position is released; instead of assuming that the government is working to better your life, ask how it benefits the state. At least then there's a certain coherence to the unfolding insanity we're witnessing. To solve this; implement private sector style objective performance practices that roll up into manifesto commitments and then roll them down through every government and public sector department, linked to pay. Manage out underperformers. This would force alignment between voters' wishes and what the state establishment delivers.

I stand in solidarity with French patriots who must be feeling physically sick witnessing what is happening to their once great nation. I'd even fight alongside them to protect the wider great European culture against invaders and left wing retards.

'Cost of living protesters'

Foreign aid of any kind should only ever be considered within a balanced government budget. It's charity. You don't take on debt with interest to pay charity. Idiots.

Reform and Restore must now unite to take on the Conservatives. Stop fucking around. I don't want to hear anymore pathetic 'he did, she did' nonsense. Grow up.

The EU and British government must be so excited about how they can regulate the new Tesla Roadster to not exist in Europe.

Right Bridget, because it's the right thing to do to let in anyone and everyone that turns up at our borders and then force citizens to pay for them for life, right? We absolutely must allow the limitless and complete infiltration of our nation by all means because it's mean and nasty to apply force. You need to stop your pearl clutching and grow up. The real world is not all care bears, rainbows and unicorns as it exists in your imagination. You should have grown out of this decades ago but it's been maintained by 'working' in charities (your mother's charity) and then local government, etc. Much of the real world is barbaric. We must protect our culture and our country from the barbarism. Not invite it in. It will overwhelm our fragile high trust culture that was developed through thousands of years of struggle and suffering. In fact, that's already very much underway. Obviously, nations must protect their borders with whatever force is necessary to do so. That is the primary responsibility of government. It safeguards the fairness and rules based order upon which the nation and the system depends. Something you never realized in your haze of champagne socialism, luxury beliefs, moralizing and virtue signaling. When you dismantle order in the name of apparent kindness, you break the social contract which put you in the position you're currently in. That's not kind. So yes, we should apply whatever force is necessary to defend our borders, obviously. That is the morally correct thing to do. Every generation understood this right up until things got so good here that it became possible for large volumes of fantasists to live in a make believe world in their minds without ever having to confront harsh truths and the actions necessary for such luxury conditions to be maintained. Those luxury belief fantasists are now in charge and are attempting to implement their make believe utopia. But because their mental model of human behavior and the world in general is so detached from actual practical reality, it's resulting in a dystopia.

Yes. All asylum seekers should be turned away. It is the correct thing to do morally. Only mid wits who have not properly considered the situation and/or are oblivious to the demographic and cultural ramifications of our current trajectory do not understand this. Let me explain. A very large proportion of the world is a dump with horrific living conditions and barbaric cultural practices. Much of this would qualify for refugee status in Britain. Billions of people. That opens us up to a vast quantity of people that may or may not be genuinely in need. Qualifying is a subjective process after all. We already know the net fiscal burden that these people place on our economy. Further, we know the disastrous cultural impact. This is how ill considered 'nice' ideas actually cause a very great deal of harm. Britain has done more for the world than any other nation per capita. The agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, enlightenment values, etc. This led to the invention of antibiotics, antiseptic, vaccines, electricity, etc, etc, etc. The entire modern world. It raised more people out of poverty than any other system in human history. In order to deliver these incredible benefits for the world, we must thrive. British culture, British people, British ingenuity must thrive. But we're not thriving. Instead a sizable number of idiots have become convinced that the greatest virtue is prioritizing anything and everyone that is not British. Surface dwelling, 100 IQ virtue signalers like Matthew who have not properly considered and are likely unaware of the true impact of the asylum and migration systems are to blame for a great deal of harm. Not only to British people but people all around the world. Much of which is impossible to accurately quantify as it manifests as lost opportunity. We help the world through innovation just as we have done throughout history. What we're doing now is hammering away the foundations that underpin the machine that has given rise to such innovation in the past.

Andy Burnham is a simple man in a complex world. He has no philosophical systems theory for the complex world. He's simple. That's comfortable and comforting. This is why he's liked. It allows people to avoid confronting harsh and complex truths for which there are no simple solutions. So he focusses on simple ideas because confronting the depth and complexity of the world is uncomfortable. Simple is nice. Simple feels good. £2 bus fares. Drinking cups of tea. Limiting cost of school uniforms. Simple solutions to simple problems. All whilst we face multiple concurrent existential problems and the failure of a system that's been in place since the end of WW2. It is a good thing to find seemingly simple solutions to complex problems. That requires true intelligence and a deep understanding of the world and reality. We see this within philosophers throughout history. Boiling down complex realities into deeply meaningful truths. That's not what people like Andy Burnham are doing. They lack the capacity to wrangle with complexity and so, they just play make believe that none of it exists. It feels good because it denies complexity. It feels safe. This is the exact opposite of what we truly need in political leadership. We need deeply considered and brutally competent philosopher kings.

I think that Charlie Downes is a future Prime Minister of Britain.