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In History Novice’s Britain, these people would be the first to have their Visa’s cancelled and escorted out. Imagine the gall to turn up to a foreign country, demand permanent residence as a “right”, all the while flying foreign flags. Weak, weak country.
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Got to have a pretty limited concept of history, politics or economics to make such an inane comment.
'Leaving the European Union was the biggest act of economic self harm any country has ever committed' Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told #BBCBreakfast Andy Burnham 'is spot on' about having an "honest discussion" ove the prospect of returning to free movement between the UK and European Union bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e3…
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Amazing Framing. Basically, what I’m going to take from this is that the Economist set out to disprove the claims that migrants commit sex crimes at higher rates than Brits, found that they do infact do that, even adjusting for age, and are now trying to play it down. Lmao.
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The Personal Allowance should be abolished, or near abolished. It completely warps economic incentive structures and is a huge untapped tax base which would allow for huge net-positive reforms all throughout the economy. Every party is spineless and clueless on this issue.
He should do as Reform would and raise the tax free Personal Allowance to £15,000. No-one would pay income tax on the state pension. And 40 million people would get a tax cut. But then he’d have to cut wasteful spending. Which he won’t.
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They will do ANYTHING, literally *anything* except actually confront the glaring fiscal inconsistencies they have created in order to please their favoured patronage groups. A country ran by and for the economically inactive and unproductive. Screw the rest of us.
🚨 NEW: John Healey will announce pensioners will be protected from paying income tax in the Budget The state pension will rise by £489 to £13,036 with the tax-free allowance rising to match
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Something I’ve noticed about “femosphere” podcasts is that literally all they talk about is men and relationships. Joe Rogan, the biggest male coded podcast, is known for talking about drugs and wild animals and random shit-talk with the odd bit of spicy political stuff. Women are ingesting absolute poison on a level equivalent with the very worst of the “Manosphere” and the asymmetry in the way each is received in polite society is so vast to be a chasm.
Go to a yoga class, ask her out, make dinner reservations, buy her flowers, hold the door.
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FT comments never miss. I don’t think I’ve read such a rational analysis of the situation we’re in for a long time.
I've been in France since 2002 and have never seen the streets so violent nor the politics so extreme. From the sacking of the supermarket on my street to the prospect of Présidente Le Pen, here's me @FT including thoughts from 2 French Nobel laureates as.ft.com/r/addcad57-0f9d-4e…
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Literal case in point. This lad is going to jail for 16 months because he went on to a football pitch and waved his arms at other supporters to come on with him. The police absolutely still do this in Britain. xitter.cf/psosgreaterglas/status…
The police *still* do this in the UK. They just pick and choose who and what they target, rather than applying the same operating principle equally.
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Amazing self-own here
I wonder if our @RoyalFamily have studied history and learned why there’s no Royal Family in France these days.
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The idea that STEM degrees don’t teach critical thinking lmao
Translation: defund any degree that teaches critical thinking so that we can give more money to STEM.
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Why are British Trade Unions, who’s existence is predicated on protecting the interests of the British worker, actively undermining the bargaining power for improved pay and working conditions of the British worker by advocating for the importation of a foreign underclass?
💥exc: Major row over Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms Talks between Home Sec and key union break down after Mahmood blocks Unison boss from bringing migrant care worker to meeting Deepens Labour rift over indefinite leave to remain inews.co.uk/news/politics/ma…
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Schrodinger’s Jackdaw Simultaneously significant enough that it will apparently cause 8,000 deaths due to overheating while somehow doing nothing to provide Britain with energy security, jobs or increased exports. Remarkable!
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“If capitalism is so great, why do <insert lots of expressly non-capitalist government interventions that distort prices and prevent the market from working properly>” What you are describing is not capitalism, buddy
If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?
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Rather counterintuitively, women are extremely conservative and superstitious in many respects, especially when sufficiently propagandised to be so.
Same gender gap with nuclear power.
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The police *still* do this in the UK. They just pick and choose who and what they target, rather than applying the same operating principle equally.
The UK had the same issue with hooligans back when it was a real state. What they did was that after every "riot" they would identify and arrest tens if not hundreds of them. Directly from their houses in front of their friends and families. Then they would swiftly send them to jail for 20 years. The UK now has no fences on its football pitches.
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Combined Pro-Indy vote sitting at…33% Combined right wing vote now consistently sitting at about the same level or higher. Scotland nowhere near the country it is often presented as.
Westminster Voting Intention: SNP: 30% (-1) LAB: 24% (+7) RFM: 16% (-5) CON: 13% (+2) LDM: 8% (-3) RES: 5% (New) GRN: 3% (-3) Via @Moreincommon_, 9-13 Oct. Changes w/ 21 Aug - 1 Sep 2025.
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Putting aside the fact that if sufficient market conditions exist (ie better conditions and wages) then of course British people will do these jobs:- Why are so many pro-migration people in favour of importing an underclass to do horrible jobs for shit pay? Disgusting.
90% of these jobs will be ones Brits think they're too good for anyway. Cleaning ect
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I went into Waterstones yesterday, looked at the Economics section and it was about 30% non economics slop, 60% general centre-left to left slop, 9% Marx and 1% Adam Smith. There was no Austrian school, no Friedman, not even Keynes. You know, stuff that we broadly know works.
Marx is basically the closest real life equivalent to "forbidden knowledge they don't want you to be reading about"
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