Sam Bidwell
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Director of the Next Generation Centre at @ASI ▪️Associate Fellow, @hjs_org ▪️Views my own▪️Personal enquiries to: s.bidwell.gb @gmail .com▪️🇬🇧
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Libertine boomers realising that the comfortable, liberal, Christian ethical framework that they spent decades tearing down is now being replaced by something far worse.
"If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I'd choose Christianity every single time."
Self-proclaimed 'cultural Christian', ＠RichardDawkins, tells
@RachelSJohnson
he's 'slightly horrified' to hear Ramadan lights were hung on Oxford Street rather than Easter lights.
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The average person born in 1956 will receive about £291,000 more in state benefits than they paid in across their lifetime.
Very amusing to watch baby boomers stigmatise state handouts, while swearing blind that THEIR special state handout is, in fact, not a handout.
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As Britain carries out strikes against the Houthis, a thread on Lt. Col. Colin Mitchell - a.k.a. "Mad Mitch" - who led the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in Yemen during the Aden Emergency of the mid-1960s 🇬🇧
A fascinating and flamboyant figure of the late British Empire... 🧵
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The average person born in 1956 will receive £291,000 more in benefits from the state than they paid in across their lives.
That's on top of a rigged housing market, lockdown to protect the elderly, and free travel.
You cannot please these people. Maybe we should stop trying.
State pension 'triple lock plus' tax cut slammed amid older Britons 'struggles': 'Too little, too late!'
#pensions
#triplelock
#statepension
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The UK has a rule of law crisis.
Police are failing to enforce the law. Official statistics are increasingly unreliable. The state's desire to create new rules is increasing, as its ability to enforce those rules declines.
A short 🧵 of examples of Britain's rule of law crisis:
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Between 2010 and 2021, 348,000 UK-based applicants were refused a place on a nursing course.
The House of Lords found that, in 2016 alone, 770 straight-A students were rejected from all medical courses to which they applied.
The NHS doesn't need to be dependent on migration.
Third, the NHS is heavily dependent on migration. There is a strong moral argument that we should train our own doctors and nurses, not recruit from other countries where they are desperately needed, but that can't be done overnight - it will take years 6/10
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The global British diaspora amounts to some 200 million people worldwide 🇬🇧
That's much larger than the Irish 🇮🇪 (80 million), the Italians 🇮🇹 (80 million), the Chinese 🇨🇳 (60 million), and the Indians 🇮🇳 (32 million).
Bizarrely under-studied and under-utilised.
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Who could have foreseen this?! Lutfur Rahman's Tower Hamlets Council has been placed under review by government inspectors over concerns about its financial and professional conduct.
A short 🧵 on the third-world levels of corruption in Tower Hamlets.
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Anglofuturism is within reach 🇬🇧
Walk around the clean, progressive bits of London, and you can feel it.
Vernacular architecture and reminders of industrial heritage framed by striking modernity and urban greenery.
Time to seize the future! 🚀
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People aged 22-29 are earning LESS in real terms than they were in 2002.
That's on top of frozen student loan repayment thresholds - more graduates are repaying more student loan on lower incomes.
Is it any wonder that young people are losing faith in our economic system?
Graduates in their 20s are earning less in real terms than they were before the 2008 financial crash, and are £1,200 worse off than they were at the start of the pandemic on average
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Hearing that Rishi is going to announce mandatory blood donations for under-30s tomorrow, in order to give new, fresh blood to over-65s.
We'll also be entering under-30s into an 'organ lottery', with the organs of a few lucky young folks to be harvested to maintain NHS stocks.
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Like others in his mould, Mitchell was a man out of time in the 1970s and 80s. He grew up in a different world, and fought for an Empire that had disintegrated almost entirely within his lifetime.
Soon, there will be nobody left alive who lived a life like Colin Mitchell's.
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Presented without comment: this year's SUBMARINE THEMED Pembroke May Ball
In honour of...
Wait for it...
The actual submarine guy, who is now at the bottom of the ocean
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Since the triple lock was introduced in 2011/12, the cost of the state pension has risen by more than £78bn.
This has been funded by increased taxes on working age people - a classic ponzi scheme.
If we want to restore economic dynamism in Britain, the triple lock must go.
🚨 Jeremy Hunt confirms pensions triple lock will be in the Tory manifesto
Comes after he suggested it was ‘under review’ in the long term - and after worries on the Tory side of a pensions backlash since the spring budget
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The Brazilianisation of Britain 🇧🇷
Petty theft, low-level disorder, dirty streets.
Police nowhere to be seen, and official stats failing to report rise in criminality.
Won't be long before private security/vigilantism picks up the slack. This is what decline looks like.
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These are great places to visit for a long weekend.
They're also hollowed-out toy-towns, full of pensioners and students. High house prices, no job opportunities, economies reliant on tourism and subsidy.
London is perhaps the only functioning bit of the British economy.
🏴 Hereford, Durham, York and Lincoln are four beautiful English cities that don’t really get much attention. The lack of focus on England’s cities other than London (sometimes Birmingham and Manchester) is criminal.
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The UK has:
🇬🇧 Highest housing costs in the OECD, relative to overall price levels
🇬🇧 Less residential floor space than 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇯🇵
🇬🇧 Highest proportion of pre-war housing stock in Europe (38%)
...at least we consulted those stakeholders though, right?
Britain found to offer worst-value housing of advanced economies
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Two letters from George Galloway.
On the left, an "Old Labour" populist appeal that wouldn't look out of place from Maurice Glasman.
On the right, an explicit appeal to Muslim voters, framed around Gaza.
Sectarian microtargeting is a sign of integration gone badly wrong.
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Games Workshop (£445.4 million) saw more income last year than the Royal Opera House (£133 million), British Film Institute (£127 million), National Theatre (£89 million), Southbank Centre (£53 million), and Glyndebourne (£33 million) COMBINED.
Great piece from
@arisroussinos
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The British culture industry has been captured by people who are worse than political enemies: they are simply boring. My case for Warhammer Britain:
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52% of UK Muslims want to outlaw depictions of the Prophet Muhammad
46% of UK Muslims sympathise with Hamas
32% of UK Muslims want Shariah Law implemented in Britain
🔴 Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel, report reveals
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Until final British withdrawal in November '67, Mitchell ruled the Crater with an iron fist, imposing his 'Argyll Law' upon the local population. He infamously compared the killing of Arab insurgents to "shooting grouse".
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After 16 years of lost growth, Europe is becoming an open air museum.
Low growth, no innovation, aging populations - a continent which used to be prosperous, preserved for the benefit of Asian and American tourists.
Impossible to understand 🇪🇺 without understanding this.
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Banning cousin marriage is NOT a step towards dictatorship - it's deeply compassionate. Cousin marriage doubles the risk of genetic defects!
This is a big problem - last year, 46% of births in Bradford's Pakistani community were from cousin marriages.
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We English are unbelievably fortunate to live in a country where this tradition, dating back to 1393, endures in every village across the land.
Not many nations can claim to be truly organic in this way. Even more reason to be so protective of it! 🏴
In 1393 King Richard II decreed pubs must have signs so the examiner or tester of ales would know the location of each pub. The pictorial sign was developed with a majority of the population, illiterate & needing something large, simple & bright to recognise.
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Total profits from the slave trade, had they been invested entirely in 🇬🇧, would have accounted for just 3% of all capital formation in 1770.
Big profits for some, but claims that 🇬🇧 was "built by slavery" are about justifying modern inter-ethnic grievances, plain and simple.
"The idea that slavery and imperialism kickstarted Britain’s Industrial Revolution serves as an “original sin” story for them [the Left] in a dual sense: it is the original sin of modern Britain, which also doubles up as the original sin of capitalism."
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For most of its history, London was homogenous - 87% White British in 1971.
London's cosmopolitanism was the result of high internal migration, plus a relatively small number of int'l businessmen, academics, artists, etc.
We can have this without mass low-skilled migration.
"What makes London great? Migration ... We should be encouraging more of it."
Do you agree with
@jimmycarr
? Let us know 💭
Link ⬇️
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Britain is moving towards an Ottoman-style millet system, with religious communities allowed to police their own affairs. It won't be long before bodies like these are acting with government approval.
Time for politicians to stand up for a single, consistent body of law.
A swearing in ceremony was held this weekend at the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn for the launch of the Sikh Court in the UK.
The Sikh Court is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) forum created by Sikh lawyers and Judges for resolving disputes in the Sikh community.
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"The Muslim Vote" presents a list of 18 policy demands.
Includes provision of Sharia-compliant pensions, a system for Sharia-compliant student finance, and changes to Ofcom extremism rules.
This was never just about Gaza - Muslim voters are emerging as a distinct bloc.
Ok
@Keir_Starmer
if you're serious here are our demands:
1. Apologise for your comments greenlighting a genocide and for not backing the ceasefire in Oct/Nov 2023.
2. Sanctions on companies operating in occup. territories. Sanctions on settlers.
3. Recognise Palestine state
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The Conservative Party is now losing to the Greens amongst under-50s, and is tied with Reform. Extinction-level event.
Turns out that "tax cuts for pensioners, conscription for the young" isn't particularly popular amongst working-age people. Maybe it's time to change direction?
🚨 NEW: YouGov's under-50 voting intention
Labour: 59%
Greens: 12%
Conservatives: 8%
Reform: 8%
Lib Dems: 6%
YouGov's over-50 voting intention
Labour: 36%
Conservatives: 30%
Reform: 15%
Lib Dems: 10%
Greens: 3%
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We have become a country in which the state is expected to pay compensation to people who fail to plan for policy changes that they have years to prepare for.
This is absurd, and will discourage future Governments from undertaking much-needed reforms to the state pension.
UK government should "do the right thing" and compensate women born in 1950s hit by state pension age change, report says - follow live
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Then, just before sunset on 3rd July 1967, Mitchell ordered a surprise night invasion of the Crater. The enemy was taken totally by surprise; not a single British soldier was killed.
The troops were accompanied by 15 bagpipers, playing 'Scotland The Brave' and 'Monymusk' 🏴
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In Britain, we like to think of our institutional infrastructure as very old. As a result, we're often cautious about reform.
The OBR is a great example - this view is wrong!
A short 🧵 on just how new many of the most important parts of the modern British state are:
Times weekend read:
How fiscal picture for Spring Budget deteriorated - and with it hopes of game-changing package of tax cuts
* Senior govt figures say OBR is ‘killing’ Tory plans; one suggests they are ‘group of left wing economists’ intent on ‘screwing’ Tories
* Tensions
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Looking at the country of origin data from the 2021 Census - about 15% of people in the UK were born abroad, but there are six London boroughs where a MAJORITY of people were born abroad.
Highest is Brent (56.1%). This is unprecedented, recent change on a massive scale.
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Why do people find it impossible to grasp the idea that two things can be true at once?
Housebuilding has been far too low.
Immigration has been far too high.
Restricting supply while artificially driving up demand is obviously stupid. It's actually very simple!
"We have to build one new dwelling every two minutes…just to cope with the sheer increase in numbers"
"This is not because of migrants"
“Of course it is!”
Nigel Farage and Rt Rev'd Rose Hudson-Wilkin clash while discussing the housing shortage
#bbcqt
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In the lobby speculating about an early election with a bunch of Government insiders. They're all just out of frame, speculating too.
For what it is worth, I think an earlier election is on. I can’t tell you why I now think that. This is not 100% certain but close enough for me to mention to you
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"Whoever runs Wetherspoons must have that iron in him, or give it up!
This is not a game of cards! This is your pint or mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down."
The radical message of Wetherspoons is that, through sheer force of corporate will, many boring industries can have their prices halved with no discernible drop in quality
So many things can be so much better
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As Israel continues its campaign against Hamas in Gaza, a thread on John Bagot Glubb - a.k.a. Glubb Pasha -, the British officer who led Arab troops against Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. 🇬🇧🇯🇴
A tale of intrigue, betrayal, martial prowess and, of course, the desert...🧵
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In wards where more than 10% of voters are Muslim, the Labour vote is down by an average of 8%.
At the same time, white working class voters are ditching the Tories for localists and Reform.
Quietly, sectarian voting is becoming the norm - the Lebanonization of the North 🏴
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Removing criminals from society reduces crime? Wow, that's amazing, I didn't know that.
Thanks to Bukele, El Salvador now has a lower murder rate than Canada or New Zealand 🇸🇻
Why are people still shocked by basic administrative truths that we've known for thousands of years?
Thanks to its gang crackdown, El Salvador closed out 2023 as one of the safest countries in the Americas.
That safety hasn't gone away.
As of a few days ago, El Salvador is doing better than it was this time last year.
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People are reacting to this like it's a charming little anecdote - it is not. The Chancellor of one of the world's largest economies should not be wasting time on replacing a flea-ridden carpet in his flat, at personal expense.
We are not a serious country.
Responding to a claim in Liz Truss's memoir that Downing Street is infested with fleas,
@Jeremy_Hunt
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@lizrhoffman
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"I'm pleased to say that the Hunt family has not had the flea problem," he adds.
#WES2024
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After the war, he spent three years fighting Jewish guerrillas in Palestine. He was almost killed in the King David Hotel Bombing, and led the arrest of Moshe Sharrett, who would go on to become Israeli Prime Minister in 1953. The two men enjoyed a cordial relationship 🇮🇱
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Colin Campbell Mitchell was born in 1925 to Scottish parents, in Croydon. His father's family had been Argyllshire fishermen, and his mother came from Glaswegian farming stock. Though he spoke with a cut-glass English accent, Mitchell always self-described as "a Scot" 🏴
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A regular reminder of the Imperial Monumental Halls and Tower, a Gothic complex proposed in 1904 which would have housed an archival complex and monuments to national heroes 🇬🇧
If only we'd built it! Let's embody the confidence of generations past! 🚀
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🇬🇧 had an empire because it got rich and industrialised early. It got rich and industrialised because of native institutions and human capital.
Prosperity was built over centuries, not pulled out of the ground. This is race-baiting drivel designed to justify anti-🇬🇧 sentiment.
This is a gross erasure of how the UK built its wealth. The C of E, Guardian and Lloyds are prominent examples that openly show how our church, media and financial systems are rooted in colonialism and slavery
This is not a matter of conjecture, but fact
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A 13.5% pay rise for the Night Czar, from £117,000 to £133,000, is an insult to the taxpayer.
As recent
@ASI
research has highlighted, 3,011 bars, pubs, and clubs have closed across London since the pandemic. In any other job, you'd get fired for a record like that!
Khan’s “Night Czar” Given Disproportionate 14% Pay Rise
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The cost of the state pension is about £124bn for 2023/24, set to rise to about £147bn in 2027/28.
That's a £23bn spending increase over 5 years.
Labour recently ditched its £28bn green investment pledge on the grounds that it wasn't financially viable...
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In 1943, at the age of 17, he enlisted as a Private in the Royal West Kent Regiment, soon rising to the rank of Lance-Corporal.
He was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1944, and fought in the final battles of the Italian campaign 🇮🇹
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While with the KAR, Mitchell was apparently instrumental in obtaining a commission for Idi Amin, who rose to the rank of lieutenant 🇺🇬
Mitchell claimed that his knowledge of the Scottish clan system made him well-suited to understanding inter-tribal conflict in Africa.
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Heathrow is the world's 4th busiest airport - behind only Atlanta, Dubai and New York.
This is a great national asset, but maintaining that position means competing with other global cities.
Our politicians would rather pander to middle-class curtain-twitchers. Decline!
It’s 6:30am, and planes have already been overhead for two hours.
It’s time to end the 16 flights a night coming into Heathrow.
Particularly now that Heathrow is reviving its third runway proposal.
Sign my petition ✍️ 👇
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The Argylls were posted to Cyprus, in the midst of a Greek nationalist uprising. He was stationed in the town of Paphos, and charged with counter-insurgency operations. The Cyprus Emergency ended in 1959; Mitchell was subsequently posted to the British Army on the Rhine 🇨🇾
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And then came Aden, which was to be where Colin Mitchell would make his name as "Mad Mitch".
Since 1839, the city of Aden and the surrounding areas had been ruled by the British. In 1962, the territory was given a degree of self-government as 'the Federation of South Arabia' 🇾🇪
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As a civilian, he (unsuccessfully) led the Save the Argylls campaign, published a set of memoirs, and became the Conservative candidate for the seat of Aberdeenshire West.
At the 1970 General Election, he beat Laura Grimond, wife of Liberal Leader Jo Grimond, by some 5,500 votes
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In 1950, he was posted to Korea, where he gained a reputation as a man of action; it also became clear that he had little respect for authority. He was withdrawn in 1951, and spent 6 years in Britain before returning to the Argylls as a company commander with the 1st battalion 🇰🇷
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In 1989, Mitchell co-founded the HALO Trust, a not-for-profit undertaking demining operations in former war zones. HALO became active around the world in areas such as Mozambique and Afghanistan, giving Mitchell an outlet after his failure to return to Conservative politics
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In 1960, he joined the King's African Rifles, and spent time in East Africa. He was involved in putting down riots in Zanzibar in 1961, and saw action against Somali guerrillas on Kenya's northern frontier 🇰🇪🇹🇿
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He gravitated firmly towards the Right of the party, opposing British membership of the EEC and becoming a prominent member of the 'Anglo-Rhodesian Society'. He was one of 39 Conservatives who defied the Party whip to vote against entry to the EEC in October 1971.
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After leaving Kenya, Mitchell rejoined the Argylls, and spent six months in the jungles of Borneo, fighting in the border dispute between Malaya and Indonesia 🇲🇾
He was promoted to substantive Lt. Col. in 1966, and made CO of the 1st Battalion of the Argylls in Jan 1967
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In Britain, Mitchell divided opinion. Newspapers took him to be a popular hero, a plain-spoken and confrontational army officer in an age of imperial decline. Critics, including in senior command, feared that his brutal enforcement of law and order would only provoke more trouble
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Upon returning to Britain, Mitchell was not decorated, unlike other battalion commanders at Aden - it was made clear that he would advance no further. In 1968, reports began to circle that the Argylls would be disbanded; in July of that year, Mitchell resigned his commission.
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Since 1963, Aden had been subject to a low-level insurgency from Arab nationalist groups, known as the "Aden Emergency".
In June 1967, the Argylls were due to take over responsibility from the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers for policing Aden's Crater District
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After a short illness, Mitchell died on 20 July 1996. Labour MP and close friend Tam Dalyell remembered him as such:
"In perspective the "Mad Mitch" image had ruined his prospects of a serious senior military career, and had deprived him of being taken seriously as a politician"
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54% of over-65s say that Tory plans for a quadruple lock "don't go far enough".
What now? Quintuple lock? State pension to rise at the same speed as the inflation rate in Argentina? Cash transfers to old people?
Maybe we shouldn't build a coalition around these voters!
The Conservatives are trying to woo the older vote with their pension proposals - but 54% of over-65s say Tory plans don't go far enough
All Britons on Tory plans to help pensioners
Go too far: 12%
Don't go far enough: 36%
Are about right: 21%
Over-65s
Go too far: 4%
Don't go
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"The Crater" is the centre of Aden, so-called because it is situated in the crater of an ancient volcano. Unsurprisingly, guerrillas delighted in ambushing British troops from bases in the surrounding mountains.
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Mitchell was considered to be an effective constituency MP, and became PPS to the Secretary of State for Scotland. However, his "Mad Mitch" reputation and narrow obsession with the British Army saw him passed over for ministerial promotion.
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10 days before the Argylls were due to take over policing, elements of the locally recruited Aden Police mutinied, seizing control of the Crater with the help of Arab nationalists.
British patrols were suddenly subject to ambushes from all sides. A tense stand-off ensued.
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"The hard realities of keeping the peace between man and man and between authority and the individual can be more accurately described if the phrase were inverted to “order and law”, for without order the operation of law is impossible."
- Lee Kuan Yew, 1962 🇸🇬
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Young Britons are facing soaring house prices, stagnant wages, massive student debt, and a state which appears to hate them simply for existing.
Stealing a year of their lives to turn them into glorified care home workers is not the answer to declining social cohesion.
🪖 Tories will bring back National Service if they win election – with EVERY 18-year-old man and woman expected to serve
In armed forces or as a volunteer elsewhere —
@kateferguson4
reports
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MET POLICE STOPS ACTION AGAINST FARE EVASION (May 2024)
"Since this incident happened, we have stopped our involvement in supporting Transport for London fare evasion operations, but we continue our presence on the bus network tackling violent crime."
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Age UK thinks that politicians are "morally bound to keep the triple lock", which has increased the cost of the state pension by £78 billion since 2011/12.
Personally, I think that we're "morally bound" to stop taxing working-age people in order to fund elderly millionaires.
The
#GeneralElection
will be on the 4th July, which means that we have 6 weeks to ensure the next Government commits to making life better for older people.
Read and share our blueprint for improving the lives of older people:
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This is insulting. Licensing policy shouldn't be decided on the basis of political whim.
In a sensible country, pubs would be able to stay open for as long as consumers wanted, all year round.
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MET POLICE FAILS TO SOLVE 82 PERCENT OF BURGLARIES (Jul 2023)
"An average of 129 burglaries a day – or a total of 47,050 – were closed without a suspect being identified...just six per cent of cases resulted in a suspect being charged or summonsed."
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Mitchell did not stand in the general election of February 1974, instead taking up a post at a doomed sporting estate in Scotland. For the next few decades, he drifted between failed seat selections and a series of consultancies, mostly in security
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MET POLICE ATTENDS LESS THAN HALF OF SHOPLIFTING REPORTS (Dec 2023)
"Data shows that the percentage of shoplifting reports attended by police since April 2023 had improved to 44%...the rate has not been above 50% since at least 2018, the data showed."
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I avoid using the word "evil" to describe people that I disagree with, but this is plain evil.
Young people are not "workshy". They're stifled by an anti-growth, anti-risk culture.
If you're going to ruin the country at least have the decency to not gloat about it.
✍️ 'We should welcome rising house prices as a much needed incentive for the workshy generation' | Writes
@MrTCHarris
Read his comment here ⤵️
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ALMOST 90% OF ENGLISH BIKE THEFTS GO UNSOLVED (Jun 2023)
"No suspect was identified in 89.2% of the 77,201 cases, while there were charges in 1,071 (1.7%) of thefts. It is a slight increase on 2021 when 89% of 73,979 bike thefts were unsolved."
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The "cap" would be set by the unaccountable Migration Advisory Committee rather than by ministers, and there's no plan to cap student or graduate visas.
This is not a cap in any meaningful sense, and would only reinforce the role of quangos in deciding our immigration policy.
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By 1500, England's annual homicide rate was consistently below that of the Americas and Africa in 2021 (15 per 100,000 and 12.7 per 100,000 respectively).
That's despite widespread poverty and limited state capacity. Turns out that culture has an impact on development!
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KNIFE CRIME REPEAT OFFENDERS AVOID JAIL TIME (Apr 2024)
"Out of more than 4,000 adults caught carrying a knife or offensive weapon for at least the second time, nearly 4 in 10 were spared an immediate jail sentence...in the year ending September 2023."
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50 years of election-winning promises on immigration.
A short 🧵 on the main manifesto pledges made by the winning party in each election since 1974, on the subject of immigration and asylum.
Promises made, promises kept? Let's find out.
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POLICE FAIL TO SOLVE ANY BURGLARIES AT ALL IN HALF OF THE COUNTRY (Mar 2024)
"Telegraph analysis of police data shows that no burglaries were solved in 48 per cent of neighbourhoods...in the past three years."
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POLICE FAIL TO SOLVE 90 PERCENT OF ALL CRIME (Aug 2023)
"The proportion of recorded crimes remaining unsolved by police has increased from 74.8 per cent in 2015 when officials started compiling the figures to 90.2 per cent in the year to March 2023."
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These are pretty shocking numbers, right?
Amongst under-35s, you're looking at 70% Labour, 7% Conservative.
The left is now winning with young people by Saddam Hussein-style margins. Maybe we should try building some housing? Just an idea! 🏡
🚨New Voting Intention🚨
Labour lead increases to twenty-three points in our latest results.
Con 23% (-4)
Lab 46% (+2)
Lib Dem 9% (-1)
Reform 12% (+1)
SNP 2% (-)
Green 5% (+1)
Other 3% (+1)
Fieldwork: 15th-18th March 2024
Sample: 2,072 GB adults
(Changes from 8th-11th March 2024)
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The emergence of kleptocratic, extremist-adjacent ethnic politics is a reminder of how poorly this country has managed immigration and integration.
Our existing laws are not designed to deal with this. If we don't change things now, Tower Hamlets will not be an isolated case.
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POLICE FAIL TO ATTEND 70 PERCENT OF CAR THEFTS (Apr 2024)
"Some 30,900 car thefts had no police officer attending the scene in 2023, accounting for 72 per cent of all cases...up 32 per cent on 2021, which saw 22,979 unattended car theft incidents."
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The list goes on - crimes unreported, unrecorded, and unattended to. Add your own examples below!
This worrying disintegration in the rule of law subjects ordinary citizens to the tyranny of criminals, and erodes faith in the state. Our high-trust society is fast disappearing.
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On this - fascinating trend of self-identified "Londoners" who are comfortable with immigration from abroad, but resent internal migration of UK graduates.
Citizens of a nation state have a right to live in the nation's capital - particularly if that's where all the jobs are!
Some very interesting discussions about London & its place in the UK this weekend, including debates around housing & immigration.
Quite taken aback by extent to which people seem to find the idea of nation states, citizenship & the existence of national borders controversial.
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ASYLUM SEEKER ACCUSED OF 68 CRIMES ALLOWED TO REMAIN IN COUNTRY (May 2024)
"Zimbabwean Ashley Simbarashe Maparura has racked up a staggering 68 convictions across several countries...involved in serious crimes including drugs, robbery and assault."
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GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE FAIL TO RECORD 80,000 CRIMES IN A YEAR (Dec 2020)
"HMIC's report, external said about one in five of all crimes and one in four violent crimes reported to GMP were not recorded."
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DLUHC now has an opportunity to recognise the fact that a single ethnic/religious group has been able to monopolise power by manipulating our existing local government structures and charities legislation.
Time to sound the alarm.
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TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE REFUSED ASYLUM HAVE NOT ACTUALLY LEFT UK (Apr 2024)
"55,273 people, who were refused asylum were not recorded as having left the UK in the decade from 2011...could be even higher as it does not include partners or children."
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@MikeDiplockre
Top 10 British Companies by Value (Forbes, 2022)
1. Shell (oil and gas)
2. HSBC (banking)
3. BP (oil and gas)
4. Rio Tinto (mining)
5. Lloyds (banking)
6. British American Tobacco 🚬
7. Unilever
8. GlaxoSmithKline (pharma)
9. Barclays (banking)
10. Anglo American (mining)
🇬🇧🦁
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SUSSEX POLICE FAIL TO RECORD 20,000 CRIMES IN A YEAR (Apr 2023)
"85.6% of all crime was being recorded, excluding fraud. A total of 20,200 crimes were not recorded over a 12-month period from 2021-22."
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Last I checked, the Chancellor kept the pension triple lock, which has increased the cost of the state pension by £78 billion since 2011/12.
In April '24, the state pension will receive an 8.5% uplift.
We should welcome the steps taken to support working-age people.
Was interesting the pensioners in our focus group in Whitby last night were dismayed there was nothing for them in the budget, will be interested to see if it becomes a theme.
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I encourage others to add examples of this phenomenon, as there are plenty of ALBs, quangos, and legal changes that I've missed here.
The key point is this - the current shape of the British state is very new, and we shouldn't be precious about reforming when it doesn't work.
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It's very simple.
Tower Hamlets' Sylheti Bangladeshi community, which makes up 35% of the population, has monopolised Borough politics. Patronage and electoral fraud have been used to maintain the position of a Mayor who surrounds himself almost exclusively with Bangladeshis.
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MORE THAN 1,000 SEX CRIMES COMMITTED BY REPEAT OFFENDERS WHO PREVIOUSLY DODGED JAIL (Oct 2023)
"In the past four years, 1,057 sex offences were dealt with by courts where the offender avoided jail the first time they were caught."
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WEST MIDLANDS POLICE FAILS TO RECORD 16,000 VIOLENT CRIMES (Jan 2019)
"The force was rated inadequate by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary...only 78% of violent crime and 89% of sexual offences reported were recorded, it found."
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"Conscription for the young, tax cuts for the elderly" is an interesting line to take.
In trying to appeal to a core voter base of Reform-facing pensioners, the Conservative Party risks destroying itself forever amongst younger voters.
🚨 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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Happy St. George's Day! 🏴
St. George was born in Lincolnshire. He loved a pie and a pint after a long day of dragon-slaying, and always got his round in. He voted Leave at the referendum, and his favourite composer was Elgar.
A great English hero 🏴🏴🏴
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