What employment rights? What decent employment rights do not exist? Have you stopped to consider that flooding the jobs market with millions of cheap foreign workers removes the incentives for employers to improve the working environment? If it was a worker's market the employers would be bending over backwards to attract staff and they would volunteer employee benefits that you wouldn't even dream of asking for. Instead you backed Labour when they fought against toughening migration laws.

Englishness in a nutshell.

Foreign national students debt in the UK has gone from £93 million to £1.21 billion in under 10 years. When i saw that i knew i had to break down the data by nationality: 🧵

Some of the most insane figures you’ll read this year. Simply put, you cannot accurately understand British life, or British politics, if you aren’t aware of them. I say this as someone who’s descended from immigrants btw: ‘From June 2021 to June 2025 approximately 4 million migrants of various types came to Britain. According to the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory, more people moved to Britain in those four years than the entire population of Wales. To give this some grounding in our country’s deep and ancient history, the Welsh are the ethnic group most closely descended from the original Brythonic inhabitants of the British Isles. They are now outnumbered by migrants who arrived in just those four years. The incomprehensible scale of this migration is comparable in size to England’s entire 17th century population. To call these figures incomprehensible is not rhetorical flourish; people quite literally don’t understand the numbers. Research from the thinktank Onward published in 2024 found that voters believed that about 70,000 migrants had entered England in the preceding year. Net migration in 2023 had in fact been 672,000. Between 2001 and 2020 the size of Britain’s foreign-born population doubled. By 2025 one in 30 people living in Britain had arrived as a migrant in the previous four years under the Tory government. Strikingly, 10% of all residents of England do not identify with any UK national identity. Between 1975 and 2025 the white British population of London declined from 85% to 37%… While legal migration soared, Britain’s southern coast was beset by illegal immigration in the small boat crisis. Between January and April 2025 more than 10,000 illegal immigrants arrived. This is about as many men of fighting age as were in William the Conqueror’s army at the Battle of Hastings. In 2022 45,000 illegal migrants came ashore in Britain in small boats. This is a larger group of men than the Roman Army that conquered Britain in 43 AD. These changes are without precedent in the entirety of English history. They are not incidental migrations, they will reconfigure the country forever. This is a lengthy quote from @BenBarryJones’ Island of Strangers.

When you have Dan suggesting that you should vote Conservative over Reform you have to wonder just how conservative they really are.

Jacob Rees-Mogg sounding like he’s been given an absurd prompt on a comedy panel show. ‘You have one minute to justify illegal migration in conservative terms. The clock starts now!’

Okay Lefties. You got your way and the billionaires are fleeing. You'll call them "traitors" etc. But what is your plan now to replace the lost tax revenue? I assume you'll start talking about millionaires again but how does that sit with your millionaire party members?

Will border force be prosecuted for destroying these dinghies, I wonder? 🤔

What the Greens actually voted for was the option to label people "Zionist" in order to discriminate against them. In much the same way that they label people "racist" to justify their violent actions against their victims. For the Islamists in the Green party it is a bonus that they can discriminate against all Jews under the cover of perceived Zionism.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves." @WilliamClouston and I recently discussed how refusing to manage immigration is a process of demoralisation. Governing for ‘the global good’ is not morally superior. It’s a vanity for people who have forgotten what democracy is. A government that serves in the national interest is the only way forward for our country. Nothing - from the economy to the border to how we respond to AI - will improve until we have such a government. And it will feel strange. Because we haven't had one in decades.

Apologies to my conservative friends but the best thing that could happen to the Conservative Party would be a wipe out that means they have to rebuild from the ground up. It's no good offering all the same failed politicians that were pivotal during their 14 years in government. They'll never be able to regain trust while it employs the people who lied the first time round. And Reform are in danger of falling into the same trap. I'm fed up of being offered the least worse option when we really need a complete change. It's just not a compelling argument to say "do you want another 5 years of Labour?" Of course I don't but then I don't want another 14 years of Lib Dems wearing blue ties either. At this moment in time I just see a lot of parties saying what they think people want to hear but with zero intention of following through. It makes civil war seem quite attractive.

I think the most irritating part of the current identity argument is that the premise is that one group is allowed as many identities as they like and we aren't allowed to have any at all. The contradiction is that even those that are choosing identities are still selecting an identity from a range of "presets". They get to decide which identities are "good" and which identities are "bad" while ignoring hard coded things like biology and ancestry. One of the most jarring contradictions is that you're bad for being English followed by the suggestion that English doesn't even exist. As if being English was a choice in the first place. If it is a choice then I choose to be English and if it was never a choice then I'm still English. It doesn't matter where the goalposts are moved the outcome is still the same because it's the truth.

At the dawn of globalisation, around 2000, I believed that markets, in their ceaseless search for efficiency, were capable of driving global prosperity. I worked for years for a highly professional global oil company. It was imperfect, of course, but run by clever people who ceaselessly searched for better ways of doing things. I felt the temptation to echo the view of my colleagues that governments should cushion the impact of change, but as far as possible get out of the way and let globalist efficiency deliver global prosperity. I still believe that private business, under competitive pressure, will outperform state enterprises. However, private businesses owe no allegiance to any political entity. They guarantee no particular citizen’s interest. And that, in an age of fragile supply chains, is a challenge to our national economic model. 2008 was the first big eye-opener for me. When the globalised banks failed, it was the state that had to step in and bail them out, because some banking is a vital utility in the economy. That was the first cry in the night. Global supply chains work brilliantly, and then fail suddenly. Often, they fail with the force of an economic heart attack to the nation. We saw it again in 2020, as Covid put enormous strain on global vaccine supply chains, and caused a race to hoard vaccines within borders. Those with the best pharma skills got the vaccines first. Covid was bad, but the next pandemic could be 10x worse. Right now, we see it in the fuel supply system. Private oil operators, behaving perfectly rationally from their point of view, have reduced 9 UK oil refineries twenty years ago, to 4 now. As a result, the UK has gone from producing 85% of our diesel needs in 2000, to only 45% today. It is diesel which fuels our farms, factories, HGVs etc, and acts as the real life blood of our economy. The Straits of Hormuz constriction, and damage to Russian and Ukrainian oil refineries, have made global supply of diesel very short : and left the Uk particularly exposed. What made global sense for private oil companies does not make sense for the British economy when global supply chains stumble. In 2000, at the dawn of globalisation, the world basked in a unipolar moment, a Pax Americana which policed global supply chains. In 2026, history is back - and none of this can be relied upon. So strategic national needs, once again, have become the legitimate interest of government. Global supply chains are efficient : but national supplies are reliable. That is why all political parties need to begin to think hard, once again, about how genuinely strategic industries can be maintained onshore. The future must be a world of global markets where there is wide diversity and abundance of supply, but more government-assured ownership of truly strategic industries. This will carry an efficiency cost. We can mitigate that cost if we change the British habits of a lifetime and run national industries well, of course, but insurance is never free. Market fundamentalism is dying. Lumpen state socialism died in the 20th century. Pragmatic, strategic, risk-based thinking and industrial policy are lessons we must learn again. And no political party in the Uk - except the tiny SDP - has really grasped this.

Probably right because, as the left likes to keep telling us, tea isn't from England. Yorkshire tea specifically is made with tea leaves from Africa and Assam. Ali, by his own admission, is an import that has been rebranded to give the impression of being local.

This is not sustainable. For £40bn a year the government could own social housing and it would be a profitable venture for the creation and distribution of housing. Government is like a trust: it never dies. It can build and own property that it can sell in 10, 20 or 30 years time and use the money to build more. This is the balance when private building doesn't fulfill all the needs. I'm not saying the government should build all the housing and not even build a large percentage. But first and foremost we need to remove the demand for housing by not allowing millions around the globe to come and live here. Once we re-establish the baseline for demand without the extraneous pressure from around the world we can build effectively and efficiently.

SDP interim leader, @ross_baglin, tells GBTT they would always prioritise the defence of Britain first.

Look, it's okay to not be English. But it's not okay to wear our ethnic identity as a skinsuit or to deny its existence entirely. We exist as a distinct ethnic group and acknowledging that doesn't mean other ethnic groups are inferior. Isn't it mad to think that if you changed "English" for any other ethnicity in the world the left would be clapping and cheering this statement.

In the days of old the local lords, and kings of the kingdoms if you go back further, would raise militias from the ordinary people to defend their lands from incursions and expansionism by other territory rulers. It's coded in our DNA to band together and defend our land. Our ancestors did it many times and across many generations.

Why are we being made answerable (by proxy) to someone else's god?

My hope is that one day the state isn't hopelessly inefficient. I hope that the state minimises its interfering in my everyday life. I hope that the government chooses to support what I want to do instead of telling me what I should be doing. I think my idea of "hope" is the complete opposite to Labour's idea of "hope".