Free thinking, living on my well-earned state pension, retired shorthand secretary. The Band disciple

West London, England
Just seen the latest terrible tat at Battersea Power Station on tv. Should've been preserved as a museum with all the wonderful machinery inside 😠
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.@UKLabour Gives 5 million to one of the most corrupt regimes on earth but gives nothing to tens of thousands of raped and tortured British children abused by subhumans.
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They Called It Replacement Migration In 2001. In 2026 Mahmood Is Delivering It Into Your Home In 2001 the United Nations Population Division published a report titled Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations? It was not a secret document. It is on the UN's own website. It examined whether mass immigration could offset demographic decline in ageing Western nations and calculated, in its most extreme scenario, that the European Union would require 674 million net migrants between 1995 and 2050, at an average of 13 million per year, to maintain worker-to-retiree ratios at 1995 levels. The report's own authors and subsequent academic literature acknowledged those numbers were not practically achievable. What the report did was establish mass immigration as the primary policy tool for managing an ageing population. That framing has never been withdrawn. In 2015 Britain signed the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Its target 10.7 commits signatory nations to facilitating orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration. In 2018 the Marrakech Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, adopted by 152 countries including Britain, normalised mass immigration as the standing policy response to demographic decline. Most people have never heard of the Teal Book. They should. It is the British government's own project delivery guidance, and it states explicitly that British equality, diversity and inclusion policy is governed by the UN's 2030 Agenda. The line from 2001 to 2026 is unbroken. Each document builds on the last. Each commits signatory governments more specifically to the same direction. And each was adopted without a referendum, without a manifesto commitment, and without the public being told what was being signed in their name. This week Shabana Mahmood announced the Community Sponsorship Scheme. Under the scheme, British families, community groups, employers and universities will sponsor refugees directly, committing to support their financial, emotional and settlement needs for the first year. Refugees will be referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The nationalities prioritised are Sudanese and Eritrean nationals, chosen specifically because they currently represent some of the largest groups crossing the Channel illegally. Mahmood described community sponsorship as the new norm for refugees entering Britain. The 2001 UN report identified the problem. The 2015 Agenda committed governments to address it through migration. The 2018 Marrakech compact normalised that commitment. The Teal Book embedded it in British institutional policy. And in 2026 the Home Secretary is asking British families to provide the infrastructure. Each step was presented as a separate, unconnected policy decision. The timeline says otherwise. The framing has been consistent for twenty-five years. The delivery mechanism has simply become more direct. And then there are the boats. Over 200,000 people have crossed the Channel illegally since 2018. The removal rate is four percent. Accommodation contracts are signed until 2039. Twelve new asylum centres opened this week without informing MPs. The community sponsorship scheme creates a parallel legal pipeline for the same nationalities currently crossing illegally. Every tough speech, every announced crackdown, every promise to "smash the gangs" has been followed by more arrivals, more contracts and more infrastructure. The boats are not a crisis the government is failing to solve. They are a delivery mechanism it has spent twenty-five years building the infrastructure to receive. The rhetoric exists to manage public anger. The contracts, the centres and the sponsorship scheme exist to manage the arrivals. Both serve the same purpose. One is for public consumption. The other is the policy.
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Police confiscate & destroy e-scooters for misuse. Why don’t they confiscate & destroy dinghies for the same reason? Or is a man riding an e-scooter illegally on the pavement considered worse than 100 men entering Britain illegally on the coast?
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🚨BREAKING: Activist Danny Tommo has been arrested on suspicion of "criminal damage" after bursting a migrant dinghy which had no migrants on board The government is taking citizens to court for damaging boats used by fighting age men to invade the country. Let that sink in.
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A very good question 💔
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If this bunch of thick Islamist thugs can stop John Cleese from performing then the country is truly finished.
"John Cleese, you’re not a comedian - you’re a hate preacher. Birmingham and its community outright reject your so-called 'comedy.' You aren't welcome here." Muslim activists in Birmingham have released a video condemning British comedian John Cleese ahead of his visit to perform in the city. The activists accuse Cleese of promoting anti-Muslim and anti-Islam views, pointing to a series of controversial comments he has made about Islam and Muslims on X. In March, Cleese claimed that the Qur’an’s teaching was “ALL about acquiring power, killing ‘infidels’ and imposing Islam on everyone”, while arguing that Britain’s Christian tradition was superior. Cleese has rejected accusations of Islamophobia, describing himself instead as “Islamosceptic”. He is due to perform at Birmingham Town Hall on September 20 as part of his John Cleese and the Holy Grail tour, which is visiting 18 venues across England. Several of the cities on the tour, including Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Bedford, are home to substantial Muslim communities. @deen1fied
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This is a really sad true story. A young man is interested in working but is effectively prevented from doing so by a system which would make his household poorer if he does.
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Replying to @UKLabour
One fee stands apart from the rest. Propertymark, a trade body representing the property sector, paid Rayner £20,000 for a two-hour speaking engagement. That is £10,000 an hour, from an industry lobby group, paid to a former Housing Secretary weeks before she was reappointed Housing Secretary. Nobody pays that rate for after-dinner charm. They pay it for access, and they got exactly what they paid for. This is not a speaking fee. It is a retainer with a lectern attached.
Rayner's £182,000 Masterclass In Hypocrisy Angela Rayner spent years telling the country that MPs' second jobs were a racket. In March 2023 she wrote that being an MP "isn't a second job. It is the job." Labour, she promised, would put an end to the practice. Eighteen months later she resigned from Cabinet in disgrace over her own financial affairs. Within a year she had earned £182,376 from speeches, book advances and a severance payment she had no obligation to keep. Then she walked straight back into the job she had left. The figures are not subtle. She earned £104,000 from speaking fees in ten months, on top of an MP's salary that rose to £98,599 in April. She took £61,500 as a book advance for a memoir about her own life. She kept a £16,876 exit payment while Wes Streeting, reappointed to Cabinet the same week, is serving his first three months for nothing. One fee stands apart from the rest. Propertymark, a trade body representing the property sector, paid Rayner £20,000 for a two-hour speaking engagement. That is £10,000 an hour, from an industry lobby group, paid to a former Housing Secretary weeks before she was reappointed Housing Secretary. Nobody pays that rate for after-dinner charm. They pay it for access, and they got exactly what they paid for. This is not a speaking fee. It is a retainer with a lectern attached. The woman collecting these cheques left the department with a housebuilding record to be ashamed of. Official figures published by the Ministry of Housing in November show England delivered 208,600 net additional dwellings in 2024-25, a fall of 6 per cent on the year before. New build completions dropped from 198,610 to 190,600. Labour's manifesto promised 1.5 million homes over the Parliament, a rate of 300,000 a year. Rayner delivered barely two-thirds of that. Housebuilding did not accelerate under her stewardship. It slowed. She has an answer ready for all of it. The severance payment was earned, she told BBC Radio 5 Live, because she had genuinely left government for a period of time. That defence collapses under its own logic. The payment exists to cushion ministers against sudden unemployment. Rayner was not unemployed. She was the best-paid backbencher in Britain, drawing more from four speeches than most of her constituents earn in three years. Joanna Marchong of the think tank Onward put it plainly: Rayner built her brand attacking Tory sleaze and demanding a ban on MPs' outside earnings, then pocketed £180,000 the moment the rules stopped applying to her. Lee Anderson called her year out a good little earner. Both are right, and neither goes far enough. The deeper failure sits in the housing numbers, where the gap between rhetoric and delivery is measured not in pounds but in homes that were never built. Labour came to power promising a government that would look different from what came before it. Rayner's year off shows how quickly that promise curdles into the same old story: rules for the public, exemptions for the powerful, and a lobby group's cheque book standing in for genuine accountability. She missed her housing target by a third and was rewarded with reappointment. She broke her own stated principle on second jobs and was rewarded with £182,376. The voters who elected this government on a promise of change deserve to know that the change stopped at the Cabinet door. "Rayner's year off shows how quickly that promise curdles into the same old story: rules for the public, exemptions for the powerful"
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Thora Webber retweeted
So let’s get this right Hegseth. You and your boss start a war against Iran without even informing never mind consulting your European allies, during which Iran seizes the Strait of Hormuz — which you’re now struggling to wrest back. And now you say it’s Europe’s fight rather than America’s. No. You broke it. You fix it.
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'If there were a prize for the UK’s biggest champagne socialist, I’d nominate Justine Simons OBE, London’s £151,465 per year Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries (one of Sadiq Khan’s NINE deputy mayors)' @CharlotteCGill open.substack.com/pub/gillc/…
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The British people do not want to “play their part” in accommodating thousands of undocumented male migrants. No one voted for this. Piddington speaks for us all. Today is the 86th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The RAF did not fight and die for an illegal invasion.
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Armed French police held me and my @GBNEWS team at gunpoint and allowed a load of illegal immigrants to invade Britain
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I demand a retrospective law banning anyone without basic GCSE’s from entering Government.
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“We’ve wrote to…” It’s written to!!!! You imbecilic tramp!
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Elon Musk sat on Joe Rogan’s podcast in an Occupy Mars shirt and said AI is less of a worry than it used to be. Joe told him he scares the shit out of him when he talks about AI. Between Elon and Sam Harris, it made him shit his pants. Once the genie is out of the bottle, you’re never getting it back in. And he asked if you shouldn’t kick robots. Elon said it’s probably not wise. For retribution. Their memory is very good. And getting better every day. Joe asked if AI is one of his main worries for the future. Elon gave his thoughts: "Yes. It’s less of a worry than it used to be, mostly due to taking more of a fatalistic attitude. It’s not necessarily bad. It’s just definitely going to be outside of human control. The thing that’s going to be tricky is it’s going to be very tempting to use AI as a weapon. On the on-ramp to serious AI, the danger is going to be more humans using it against each other. That’ll be the danger."
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THIS is what should be on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square if you ask me. It was meant for a figure on a horse, so what better place is there to commemorate our greatest Monarch! 🇬🇧
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London 2026 vs Rome 1499.
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If tax payers money funded this then where do I file a petition for a refund? 1. It’s fuckin hideous 2. Use my money for defence
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Excuse me if I think I'm going mad but our London Mayor has just turned St. Paul's Cathedral into a night club. HELP ... @JohnGrugan
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Portsmouth is the home of the Royal Navy.. for over 200 years, the most powerful navy in the world. They refuse to defend our shores from foreign invaders. But a patriotic grandma in a kayak will.
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