Sam Ashworth-Hayes
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Leader writer and business columnist @Telegraph. Opinions my own and should be yours too.
Joined October 2014
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Parents who attempted to rescue their children were arrested when the police arrived
What happened if you went to the police for help? . You got told to shut up.
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Not in Britain, you can't
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By the way, grooming gang leaders were allowed to stay in the UK when it was decided that deporting them would breach their human rights.
It's worth remembering that when cases came to the attention of the authorities, they leapt into action. They buried them in case investigating inflamed 'racial tensions'. Maintaining the lie that everything was fine was more important than children's safety.
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When a child in Bradford "married" her abuser in a traditional Islamic wedding, her social worker attended the ceremony. The council then arranged for the girl to be fostered by his parents.
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A brief summary of life in the UK: . 27 million private sector workers support 9 million economically inactive people aged 16-64, 6 million public sector workers, and 13 million pensioners. If you suggest any part of this is unsustainable, people compare you to Hitler.
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What happened if you went to the police for help? . You got told to shut up.
It's worth remembering that when cases came to the attention of the authorities, they leapt into action. They buried them in case investigating inflamed 'racial tensions'. Maintaining the lie that everything was fine was more important than children's safety.
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A friend visiting London has had their phone snatched. The phone is at a hotel six minutes walk from a police station, and the thief is using it to order delivery food, make trips on Uber, etc. He will absolutely be on CCTV. The police have decided its not worth following up.
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When the police learned that gangs were approaching children at school gates, they hid the information from parents in case it led to "community tensions".
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When people ask how young men were radicalised, it's worth considering the idea that they weren't and we're just not good at recognising liberal pathologies. If an object appears to be moving away from you, it could be stationary while you're in motion. Chart ages 18-29 via @FT
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Bus driver with limited, heavily accented English has stopped to yell at a passenger with limited, heavily accented English. He can't understand their answers and they don't understand his questions. This is presumably good for GDP in some way.
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Police officers dismissed grooming gang victims who came to them for help. The authorities simply didn't want to know. The story was too inconvenient.
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The USA realising it can brain drain the top 10 per cent of Brits dirt cheap with no assimilation issues would be an actual catastrophe for the UK. Instant fiscal crisis - this group provides 60% of the income tax take - and loads would go.
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Upsetting the French is surely a core function of the Royal Navy.
🚨 NEW: The Royal Navy has renamed the submarine ‘HMS Agincourt’ as ‘HMS Achilles’ after concerns that the previous name may upset the French. [@thetimes]
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It's worth remembering that when cases came to the attention of the authorities, they leapt into action. They buried them in case investigating inflamed 'racial tensions'. Maintaining the lie that everything was fine was more important than children's safety.
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Children suffered and died because the British state thought it was better they were raped than to risk 'racism' by drawing attention to their abuse. If Britain is a multicultural success story, what would failure look like?.
15-year-old Rochdale grooming gang victim who died after being injected with heroin: How Victoria Agoglia was repeatedly ignored despite telling police she was being abused, raped and plied with drugs by predatory pedophiles.
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"Stop being communist and enjoy catch-up growth".
Has anyone seen a report or a paper explaining how Poland pulled this off?
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While these scandals were unfolding, judges were handing out harsher sentences to paedophiles who chose non-white victims because they would feel greater 'shame'.
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'Napoleonic hit proves necessity of strong naval forces'
'Netflix hit proves necessity of male role models'
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After all the sacrifices of lockdown, the Conservative party believes the way to repay Britain’s young people is to ramp up taxes, enlist them into mandatory service in care homes, and use their hard-earned income to fund a "quadruple lock" for pensioners. The one common thread.
🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak will declare tomorrow that pensions will never be taxed under the Tories as he announces a new "quadruple lock" on pensions.
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They're literally angrier that Elon Musk is drawing attention to the grooming gangs then they are about the gangs themselves.
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It's hard to overstate the extent to which the state has fought attempts to release information on this issue. It's much more convenient to keep the public in the dark.
Exclusive: Labour has rejected Oldham Council's request for a government inquiry into grooming gangs. GB News has seen a letter from Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips urging the council to organise their own inquiry.
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I think people underappreciate the extent to which the British diaspora still feels connected to Britain, and that it actively pains many to see their homeland fail. To me, it's apparent Elon Musk doesn't just hate Starmer. He loves England, and that's why he's so furious.
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When police found a missing victim in a car with her abusers, they told her she'd get the men in trouble. When her mother told police her child was being "abused by Asian males", they called her "racist" and said she "should be happy" she was being "taught a different culture."
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Rotten beyond repair, and never fully reckoned with. In the end, it was decided that there were only 14 cases of police misconduct to answer for. No officers were sacked. The most severe sanction was a written warning.
Police had gone around to the house, they found this 13-year-old girl with another young girl, she was almost completely naked, she was blind drunk, and she was with 7 adult Pakistani men, she was drunk and leery. Police arrested the 13yo girl for being drunk and disorderly.
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When people went to the police, in some cases the perpetrators mysteriously seemed to know.
What happened if you went to the police for help? . You got told to shut up.
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Migrants did not build Britain. They came because it was better than staying home, it was better because Britain was rich, and they were allowed to share in that prosperity. 'We built this' is just an assertion to make it a right, something owed, rather than something given.
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It's called diversity and it's your strength, actually.
What do you MEAN white people are moving to Mexico and trying to BAN mariachi and closing restaurants cus it's a "noise" complaint :(.
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This makes more sense when you realise he's addressing it to Mauritius.
We are putting more money in your pocket. From April, millions of working people will get a pay rise.
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What I want to emphasise about this is that turning a blind eye to grooming gangs was just one example of how Britain's “multicultural success story” actually works: the state and its allies repeatedly lying to the public to maintain the idea that all is well. It happens when we.
It's worth remembering that when cases came to the attention of the authorities, they leapt into action. They buried them in case investigating inflamed 'racial tensions'. Maintaining the lie that everything was fine was more important than children's safety.
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The British social contract: your taxes go up so the Government can use your money to outbid you for housing in its quest to provide free accommodation to every illegal migrant it ferries in from the Channel
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The degree to which your quality of life depends on your willingness to make yourself as large a burden as possible is hard to overstate. If you work, you're robbed blind to pay for those who won't. You can't have the family life you'd like to because you need to pay for the
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Canada: record immigration 2022, GDP per capita falling for 6 consecutive quarters. Australia: record immigration 2023, GDP per capita falling for 7 consecutive quarters. UK: record immigration 2023, GDP per capita falling/stagnant for 7 consecutive quarters. Spot the pattern.
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The American Dream is working hard and making it to the top. The British Dream is a London council flat, £50k Motability car and full PIP and UC awards.
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Working through some documents. Here, a 2003 South Yorkshire police report sets out how a 15 year old was found guilty of prostitution by the same man police found her having sex with.
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How does Britain respond to hotel migrants loitering by a primary school? By telling them about "cultural expectations", and warning parents against "taking this matter into their own hands":.
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Revealed preference seems to be that European politicians prefer the uninhibited flow of third world migration to everything else. Public safety, free speech, free association, fiscal balance, economic growth, and democracy fail to register next to this overarching goal.
BREAKING: Germany’s domestic intelligence service has officially classified the entire Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as right-wing extremist
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When American kids shoot up schools we have long conversations about how insane it is that they don't do something, anything about it. When this happens over and over again, we shuffle our feet and say there's nothing to be done.
A car ploughed into a crowd at a German Christmas market on Friday, injuring between 60 and 80 people and killing one in a suspected terror attack. Follow the latest here ⬇️.
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As I've said before, living in a high trust society is fantastic. Europe can have nice galleries which are minimally intrusive because we trust people to treat them with respect, and that trust is repaid. Protesters who violate that trust need to be punished severely. Every time.
Climate change activist VANDALIZES priceless Claude Monet painting in Paris. The activist stuck a piece of painted cloth over ‘The Poppy Field’ painting at the Orsay Museum in Paris demanding climate change action.
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Migrants absolutely drain money from the public purse. From 1995-2011, non-EU migrants cost the UK £118 billion net - about 17 per cent of the deficit over that period. The British state offers vast subsidies to the low skilled of the world. We pay for it. It's got to change.
Migrants don’t drain billions from the public purse — tax dodgers do. They don’t drive down wages or exploit workers — greedy bosses do. And they don’t starve schools or hospitals of funding — political choices do. Labour won’t defeat the far-right by parroting their myths.
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It's a genuine privilege to live in a country where people are trusted to behave decently. Politicians walk around without US level security, art galleries allow people right up to paintings, cricket matches assume spectators have goodwill. Stunts like this are deeply costly.
You look good in orange @George_Osborne — congratulations to the newlyweds.
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The British social contract is one where you pay taxes so the government can outbid you for housing in its quest to move people from around the world here to live on welfare.
According to the Times, @YvetteCooperMP is planning a mass procurement of HMOs, family properties, former care homes & student accommodation for small boat arrivals. This will push up rents & squeeze accommodation in private rented sector. Will also be very expensive. Makes a.
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Keir Starmer: no inquiry into grooming gangs, everyone calling for one is far-Right, know your place, your betters have spoken.
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Strip aside the obfuscating language, and Parliament has voted to give the NHS the right to kill the sick rather than treat them. A shameful day.
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It's hard to overstate the contempt European governments feel for their populations, and how desperate they are to avoid the justified backlash to their actions.
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A brief recap of the last week. A convicted sex offender, twice denied asylum, was granted it. He is now wanted on suspicion of a chemical attack. The police are unable to trace him. Ministers insist it's nothing to do with asylum. It's emerged that Brianna Ghey was murdered by.
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Sweden has had this law for 248 years. Now, mysteriously, Swedish people are using it to commit acts of violence. As you can't go back on multiculturalism, the law - and the high trust society Sweden had before it was enriched with diversity - must make way instead.
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Utterly shameless from the BBC this morning. It doesn't matter if everyone saw what happened, or what the jury decided: they have one ideologically approved narrative and they're sticking to it.
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This happened while police refused to enter “no-go areas", while police faced multiple allegations of corruption and favouritism towards the Pakistani community. How are local authorities meant to investigate this without the aid of central government? .
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It's worth noting the UK public sector can pay decent wages, it just does so for its priorities. The head of cybersecurity at the Treasury gets £58,000, but "Strategic Director Housing" at Hackney Council gets £149,000. Putting people in subsidised homes (and in particular,
The UK is not a serious country
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Police let abusers hand over children in exchange for walking free. They told parents they couldn't act because of "racial tensions". They turned a blind eye to the abuse of 11-year-olds. Not a single officer lost their job or was prosecuted.
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As far as metaphors for the modern left go, burning yourself alive over the fate of a country thousands of miles away only to have fellow leftists spend their time arguing that as a white male you were an oppressor unworthy of the term 'rest in power' is pretty perfect. No notes.
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The man who has been charged for burning a Koran has been remanded in custody. The man who has been charged for actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon has been bailed. And we're supposed to be furious JD Vance thinks we're an authoritarian mess?.
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Can we also just reflect on the insanity of doing this at precisely the point when ChatGPT and other AI tools have made traditional closed book exams by far the most reliable assessment method
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Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in Bangladesh, Germany, Turkey, and every Arab country but three. When its supporters scream "Jihad" you know perfectly well what they mean. You just don't want to deal with the "community tensions" that would result if you actually did your job.
@hurryupharry The word jihad has a number of meanings but we know the public will most commonly associate it with terrorism. We have specialist counter terrorism officers here in the operations room who have particular knowledge in this area. They have assessed this video, filmed at the Hizb.
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The police chose to leave grooming gangs on the streets in order to "try and get other ethnicities". This stuff is just poisonous.
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Living in unsafe, crime-ridden cities is a choice. It's one that's being made for you by politicians, safely insulated from the conditions they create, who believe your safety takes second place to the second chances of violent criminals. A staggeringly large proportion of all.
Happened on Friday a group of men armed with weapons tried to enter a ( Marquis Cornwallis ) pub near Russell Square station where they tried to rob customers in the pub and a person was hit on the head with a bat.
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What happened when a child went to the police? . Someone tipped her abusers off while she was still in the station. She was scared into silence.
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When councils became aware that grooming gangs were using taxis to lure in children, they stopped policing taxi drivers in case they were accused of racism.
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I keep thinking about Pitcairn. We were willing to ask New Zealand to send judges and lawyers to administer a trial half the world away because the thought of what was happening to those children was intolerable. When it happened here on a scale that was orders of magnitude.
Lucy Powell: “Oh, you want to blow that little trumpet now, do you? Let's get that dog whistle out, shall we, yeah” .- ironic choice of words to dismiss and belittle this horror
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In Telford, abusers used the murder of a pregnant child and her family as a threat against victims. The police were worried that acting against these gangs would see them labelled racist.
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A 12-year-old girl is molested. She goes to the police, who tell her off for being drunk. While in the police station, she's invited into a car by two other men. They rape her. She's dropped off, and asks a man for directions. He invites her into his house, and rapes her. She is
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When school shootings happen in America, Europeans talk about the insanity of a country that accepts this as a consequence of gun ownership. When children are murdered in Europe by extremists we gave shelter, we go silent. Just one of those things. Nothing to be done about it.
This is the result of policy choices. Remember that, every time it happens. Europe doesn't have to keep repeating mistakes over and over.
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"There was a sense that [Rotherham's] Pakistani heritage councillors alone 'dealt' with that community. a view. that relations with the Pakistani heritage community needed to be 'brokered' through the Pakistani heritage councillors". Catastrophic institutional failure.
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Because the text messages were plotting murder/GBH?
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The great immigration myth is that we need to import a million people a year or the economy falls apart. Of the 955,000 visas issued last year, just 210,000 were for main work applicants, many of whom are temporary or unskilled workers . A brief thread:.
1.2 million people came to the UK in 2023. About 30,000 were doctors or nurses. However you cut it, the NHS is not a major driver of immigration and wouldn't be particularly affected even by very harsh caps.
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NEW: an immigration tribunal judge has ruled that a Palestinian family can come to Britain through the Ukraine scheme, despite warnings it could open the floodgates, declaring their situation outweighed the "public interest" of migration rules.
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A string of independent MPs winning on Gaza is a huge, flashing warning sign for the future of the country. Total, utter failures of integration.
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You can be a member of a literal grooming gang and get less time than this.
Tommy Robinson has been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for committing contempt of court, in breach of an injunction. The judge said breaches had a "corrosive effect" on the application of justice. Robinson shakes his head. He will now likely go to solitary confinement.
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If you are attempting to downplay or diminish Anglo-Saxon history in England, or the relationship between the English and their predecessors, that's not decolonisation. It's the other one.
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Britain has de facto blasphemy laws because it's the easiest way to suppress "community tensions". Having imported groups that don't sign up to liberal tenets, it finds it easier to police everyone else's behaviour than to assimilate them. This is why the rules only go one way.
BREAKING Man arrested after live video of Quran being burned in Manchester
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Keir Starmer and his government are blocking an inquiry into grooming gangs, but that doesn't mean they're doing nothing. They're working on a definition of Islamophobia that could see discussing the gangs labelled Islamophobic - exactly the attitude that led to the cover ups.
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I didn't receive 15 years of notice that my taxes were going up to fund the retirements the WASPI generation failed to save for. My friends learned about 18 months in advance that going to university would cost them £9k a year rather than £3k. I also don't recall ministers.
Youth Against State Pension Inequality, for those fed up with paying for the ungrateful generation. The triple lock and reshaping the immigration system to provide for their health and social care just isn't enough; they need compensation for state pension age rises, too.
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For a group of people supposedly unable to work in front of a screen because of their conditions, the most vocal PIP activists seem curiously able to mobilise themselves if someone suggests they don't deserve £800/month of your money.
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The PIP problem is a good example of a wider issue: the British state is totally unable/unwilling to tackle those who break the rules, so in order to manage the scale of its workload it creates harsher procedures that shift the burden onto the rule-abiding. It punishes honesty.
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A word to the Labour party: he's in a safe Tory seat. You aren't going to win it and the country desperately needs housing. It's the perfect place to put 500,000 new homes at no political cost to you. You know you want to.
Today, Rachel Reeves announced Labour’s changes to planning and housing - and name-checked a proposed site at Worcestershire Parkway within my Droitwich and Evesham constituency. During the election campaign I expressed grave concerns about Labour's instincts to make top-down
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If you recognise the idea of a distinctly Scottish, Welsh and Irish identity then you implicitly concede the existence of an English identity as the remainder. It's not particularly controversial outside of the small circle of people who work in media/politics.
"I am going to interrupt you, what is English identity?" - @MattBarbet. Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick MP gives his view on the importance of English identity. 📺 Sky 501, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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If you earn £60,000 in London, you pay £17,000 in direct taxes, another £4,300 in indirect taxes, and your rent. Even living further out, you have a lower standard of living than a socially housed family of benefits claimants. And if they get PIP, you'll drive a worse car too.
A friend of mine earning six figures just commented that they have never owned a new car and between mortgage and childcare they don't expect to any time soon. Perhaps they should start claiming benefits?
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Far too many people simply did not want what was going on to be known. 2004: campaign to stop TV documentary which raised the issue
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Sorry but if your family has lived next to a cricket ground with balls coming over for longer than the eighty you've been alive you have forfeited the right to complain about it. Shut up or move out.
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I find it absolutely mad when politicians talk about our "international reputation" as a reason for self-damaging madness like that Chagos giveaway. The UK's "international reputation" is arresting people for mean words online while letting paedophiles walk free.
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Honestly Britain needs to take a leaf from Javier Milei's book. "Charities" that live off government funding and use it to block deportations? Afuera!. Civil servants that refuse to protect our borders? Afuera!. Illegal migrants convicted of sex offences? Afuera!
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People should be able to own nice things without being robbed at knifepoint
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I don't think people realise quite how bad the UK fiscal picture is. Spending is set to cross 60% of GDP, compared to 53% during furlough. That's not realistic, and young, high income workers are likely to bear the brunt of the correction. Offer them a way out and they'll go.
The USA realising it can brain drain the top 10 per cent of Brits dirt cheap with no assimilation issues would be an actual catastrophe for the UK. Instant fiscal crisis - this group provides 60% of the income tax take - and loads would go.
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Starmer hates accusations of two tier policing because they are plainly, obviously, true. My latest column on how the government suppresses free speech to minimise the consequences of migration insanity:
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Since 2021, the UK has imported 144,000 low paid care workers. Many will soon be eligible for permanent residency. Each one that stays could cost as much as £421,000 net over their lifetimes. We're running out of time to fix a £61 billion mistake:
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What I really like about Italy is the way the customer is always wrong. Extremely refreshing. "Can I have a caffé latte please?"."No."."Oh.".
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The UK is currently trialling an innovative combination of building no homes, opening the borders, raising taxes, and letting public services rot. The party which has done this is then going to ask a coalition of social conservatives and free marketeers to vote for it next year.
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Fortnightly hate marches: fine.Post-football celebrations: baton time.
An anti-social behaviour dispersal order is in place in #Westminster [see map] until 2am on 15 Jul. Crowds of people gathering and drinking in central London streets could be in breach of this order. We encourage those to enjoy themselves safely at local licenced premises.
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Alternatively we could buy enough South Korean designed nuclear plants to meet 100% of our needs, cover just 0.065% of the UK's land area, avoid all the intermittancy issues, and spend considerably less.
If UK used 10% of its exclusive economic zone for wind power at sea, 5% of its land area & 2% of land for solar, it could supply twice as much energy as it needed: @_HannahRitchie
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An awful lot of commentators who spent the last few years calling for reparations for events centuries ago suddenly coming around to the correct view that racialised collective guilt is bad.
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Britain's apparent integration success turns out to be based on a willingness to simply ignore the catastrophic failures.
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It is possible to love your country and detest the state.
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Remarkable how many progressive activist groups and "independent" organisations in Europe suddenly seem to be short of funds.
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There's a nasty little trend in which police forces start attempting to police behaviour that is totally legal because it looks a bit like behaviour that isn't; driving under the limit, saying mean things online under that limit, etc.
The driver of this car had one pint after work. He was stopped at 4am this morning and provided a breath sample of 20mg. The legal limit is 22mg. He was very lucky not to be over - you might not be. #DontRiskIt
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I'm 32 and I can't retire and live off my career earnings yet either. Who will end this injustice?.
England footballer Lucy Bronze has told Sky News that 99.9% of female players couldn't afford to retire and live off their earnings. Read more ⬇️.
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By the standards of most of their respective histories today's 'sensible progressive settlement' could be seen as quite extreme in the UK and US. Men in women's sports, all borders are racist, no humans are illegal, decarceration, etc.
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