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It is the honour of my life to be standing as Restore Britain's parliamentary candidate for Sittingbourne and Sheppey. These towns were once at the heart of the British Empire. Under the leadership of Restore Britain, that greatness and prosperity will return.

If Marx were alive he'd describe these new classes in the West: 1. The Welfare class (don't pay tax, take benefits) 2. The Working class (Nick 30 ans, paypigs, do not take benefits) 3. The Rich class (don't pay tax, no benefits) Political parties will reflect these in time

"Just before it was nationalised 94 per cent of its [c2c's] trains arrived within five minutes of the scheduled time. The latest available data from this August showed this had dropped to just under 71.5 per cent of trains."

When I first learned about WW1, something surprised me. This war was basically Armageddon. War to end all wars. The zombie apocalypse. Famine. Revolution. Bloodbaths. Human sacrifice on a scale that would horrify the Aztecs. Multiple empires collapsing - Romanov, Hapsburg, Ottoman, Hohenzollern. But somehow Britain is still a functioning polity. It even continues to meddle in world affairs, with post-war foreign policy objectives ranging from the Balkans to Lake Baku to China to Israel-Palestine. It still has a functioning government able to pursue interests overseas. Of course, you can argue that it was like the USA - never actually invaded. But then again, Germany itself wasn't invaded either. It just suffered enormous losses that strained the social fabric. When those stormtroopers marched home in 1918, there was the Kiel Mutiny, the Bavarian Soviet, the Spartacist League in Berlin and all kinds of craziness happening. Britain seemed to be unscathed. Elections still being held, Bolshevism held at bay, the empire still holding together (WW2 would end the empire). I think the only answer is that states and other political entities differ widely in their resilience and capacity to endure loss. Early 20th-century Britain must have been a remarkably resilient state. Able to be bankrupted and take casualties in the millions while still functioning. Let me compare it to another example - China in the 19th century. This was a state with extremely low resilience. The Opium Wars were basically gunboat diplomacy - the Brits bombarded the coastline and landed a small expeditionary force - but this was enough for the embattled Qing dynasty to hand over 5 treaty ports, mountains of money and accept humiliating trade deals. In contrast, Afghanistan was invaded by the British around the same time and won. So it's not even about landmass, resources and population. Resilience is something else entirely. Now when we get to modern wargaming, especially for PME purposes, state resilience is really hard to model. The Russia-Ukraine war is showing us that Russia is perhaps more resilient than we had thought - sanctions aren't hurting it much, the state is still functioning (even continuing to kill off its internal dissidents) and the military still functions. I remember people saying that Russia was close to collapse in 2023. Not true. China is hard to model in this regard as well. How resilient is the state apparatus of the CCP? Sure, it has its problems, but I would bet fairly high. Certainly higher than the Qing dynasty in the 1840's! But I wouldn't count on it enduring something like WW1. In this regard, WW1 Britain is a great case study. It stands out as being a state uniquely able to endure the maelstrom of war and still function more as less as usual after such devastation. Are there any states like this today?

Aside from the very obvious lesson "don't start wars for Israel", the midterms result is a stark reminder that you cannot ignore the economy if you want to get things done. Since any serious attempt at remigration is sure to tank the economy in the short term you better have a solid plan for how to deal with this. Most of the right tries to ignore this problem as best as they can, even pretending we'd immediately be better off due to reduced welfare spending. Remigrating millions will destroy the current European economies in the short term because they are built around cheap labor and subsidized consumer cattle. There is no way around this. We are very likely going to be better off in the long term, but it is all but guaranteed that the economy cannot adapt to this within a single election cycle. Plan accordingly.

agents are going to cause a breakdown of human behavior assumptions underlying today's systems. i've started thinking about it as friction collapse. without friction, a number of norms will collapse. consider selling tickets to a concert/event. today, you can post them at a certain time and it's first come first serve. soon everyone's agent will persistently monitor, and as soon as they are posted for sale, thousands of people will instantaneously be trying to buy the same ticket. how do you even resolve this? sell the ticket to the person whose agent gets there fractions of a second before? we're seeing the same thing with job applications, restaurant reservations, but basically anything that relies on participation requiring effort is going to break down. sales emails/calls, participation in government benefits, apartment rentals, doctors appointments, RFP responses. customer support won't be able to handle the user who will not drop their point of dissatisfaction. with no friction, these systems just don't work anymore. business models will break down: - flights/hotels will be consistently cancelled and rebooked at the lowest price (great use case for your agent if you don't have this already set up) - subscriptions will be cancelled - retailers won't be able to arbitrage price differences as the agent will find the cheapest place to buy anything - insurance denials (health/auto/home/etc.) will be fought tooth and nail - bank interest rates will be optimized and avoidable charges will be avoided a lot of what we perceive as stable social coordination is actually an equilibrium sustained by human inefficiency. rationing is a product of human slowness. signaling effort/interest/intent is a key part of our social infrastructure. inertia is a key to many business models. information asymmetry is everywhere. and attention is monetized thoroughly. with agents, none of these things are true. humans will simply demand what they want and have their agents get it for them. there is going to be a fundamental renegotiation of how markets allocate resources, how people signal intent, and how businesses capture value.

Identity is the central question of our age. While the present regime encourages every other group to celebrate and politically organise around its identity, it does everything in its power to prevent the native British people - and Europeans in general - from doing the same. That ends now. Before anything else, our first consideration must be "how does this benefit our people?" If something benefits us, we do it. If something hurts us, we crush it. It's that simple.

Why are the DWP paying benefits for polygamous marriages when polygamy is illegal in the UK?

🚨NEW: It has been recently revealed that Plaid Cymru spent £25,000 on beekeeping classes for disabled Ugandans

The swings tonight among groups that swung right in 2024.

As a Brit, House AND Senate go Democrat today and it's not even close Why? X lies entirely outside of the normie social groups whose identity partly relies on voting against Trump. "Did you go vote today? NO?! Wtf bro don't you wanna stop Trump?" will be a household convo today

On the BURNHAM BLUE LABOUR BETRAYAL narrative that is forming: I think the quoted Tweet below still stands. Broad normie populist vibes still stand. The Labour Party is not a BL Party and we need to get real about that fact. Ultimately, BL sympathisers all ~agree on what Labour should be, but we have to reckon with what it actually is first. We can’t abandon C2DE/manual/blue collar/"traditional working class" voters (or whatever your preferred term is) OFC. BUT there was a 2-year experiment in consciously pursuing a vibes/signalling strategy that alienated a lot of other LAB voters, and we ended up with a PM who was almost universally despised (less popular than Truss according to some polls). On N Sea, migration, Europe etc there’s give and take. A lot of the progressive Left will remain VERY squeamish about even the watered down ILR reforms, about Jackdaw/Rosebank, & about any welfare action post-Milburn. But the brutal fact is that the Lefties are half right when they say “you can’t out-Reform Reform”, in the sense that a too obviously conservative-coded social democracy just takes a sledgehammer to your coalition in the same way that full-on open borders-adjacent Greta-Gaza or Jezbollah politics would/did. You've got to tread a very fine line quite deftly. The Left is what it is. Labour’s contemporary sociology is what it is. And we have to be honest about the fact that (FOR NOW) the Burnham pivot is working, not just by "consolidating the Left bloc" but ALSO by winning back more Reform voters than Starmer managed with his awkward, insincere invocations of vaguely Right-coded abstract nouns. (This is perhaps paradoxical — but the personality is strangely composite, and political demands/political imaginaries/political identities are heteroclite, and not binary. Burnham is simply a more believable and adept leader. And guess what? Leadership is important.) *Also: If you think Keir could have got Shabana's unfiltered reforms past the PLP you're delusional.

🚨 NEW: Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is reportedly set to reject Rosebank for oil drilling in the North Sea She believes it would do less for UK energy security than Jackdaw as most of its oil would be exported

I cannot think of a more counter-productive take on this. The Boriswave was not a rational response to a native workforce that would rather malinger on the dole. It was a deliberate intervention to push the native workforce out of certain occupational categories.

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One of the young girls who was involved in the Machete Migrant incident on Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester Just listen to her, the upset in her voice.