Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
As somebody who voted Remain in the Brexit referendum, I’d be happy to have the debate again if it were even vaguely honest.
The truth about the European Union is that being part of the single market obviously brings considerable benefits. But the EU is much more than a single market. It’s a political project committed to ever-closer union, one that progressively strips nation states of their sovereignty.
And you either believe in sovereign nation states or you don’t.
I voted Remain because the EU’s progressivism chimed with my worldview at the time. But world events, not least the pandemic and the authorities’ response to it, have opened my eyes and shifted my political outlook.
And those waving the flag for the EU today should ask themselves a simple question: would they still be so enthusiastic about membership if the EU evolved into something they profoundly disliked?
Because that’s the crux of the matter.
You either want to live in a country where your vote matters, where there’s a direct line between the ballot box and the laws of the land, or you’re happy to sacrifice that democratic accountability to a bureaucratic, supranational body that takes powers away, slice by slice.
Why do you think the European Union has its own flag, anthem and currency? Its architects have long envisaged a political union that goes far beyond economic cooperation, potentially culminating in a federal United States of Europe.
And look what’s happening in the actual United States. A country increasingly divided into two bitterly opposed political camps, united under one flag but profoundly divided over values, identity and the direction of their country. There’s even been serious talk of civil unrest as political polarisation deepens.
Do we really want to replicate that on a continent of countries with different languages, histories, cultures and political traditions?
Why not focus instead on making the United Kingdom sovereign, strong and resilient? A country that cooperates with its neighbours, trades freely with the world and negotiates agreements without surrendering democratic control over its own affairs.
Why is that such a controversial ambition?
Why has the perfectly reasonable desire for democratic self-government become something that so many supposedly progressive people regard with suspicion, even contempt?
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
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Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
🚨📉THE SLOW DEATH OF BRITAIN:
We have shit water companies so we buy bottled water.
We have rubbish police so we hire private security.
We have terrible healthcare so we pay private hospitals instead.
Airbnbs in Cornwall pay council tax but get no rubbish collection, so they pay Biffa on top.
An awful lot of firemen are now volunteers.
NHS dentists don’t really work anymore, so you go private or you pull it out yourself.
Our roads are littered with potholes nobody fills. Your privately funded tyres and suspension are the collateral.
You are forced under threat of criminal prosecution to fund the BBC, and it’s so bad you pay for streaming to get news or entertainment anyway.
Your bins are collected fortnightly, so you drive to the tip. The tip now requires a booking, a permit and proof you live in the county.
Garden waste is a separate annual subscription. On top of the council tax that used to cover it.
Your GP surgery is an 8am phone lottery, so you pay £40 to an app to speak to a doctor in a different time zone.
CAMHS has a two year waiting list, so parents remortgage for private assessments.
Your child’s SEN provision is a legal entitlement, so you hire a solicitor to sue the council for it. The council spends more fighting you than the support would have cost.
Physio is a forty week wait. Your back does not have forty weeks.
Schools teach in portable cabins bolted to the playground because the actual building is held up by aerated concrete and hope.
Half of them are technically insolvent.
Parents fund the reading books, the glue sticks, the photocopier, the roof and increasingly the teachers wages - all via a PTA raffle and local fundraisers.
The state offers “free” childcare hours that don’t cover the nursery’s costs, so the nursery bills you a “top up fee” for the free thing.
Shoplifting under £200 is functionally legal, so Tesco hires guards - who crucially don’t even try to stop it - and you pay for them in the price of the milk.
999 takes an hour, so you buy the Ring doorbell, gather the evidence, file the report and get a crime number for the insurance you also pay for.
Court backlogs run to years, so anyone with money settles privately and everyone else gets nothing.
Legal aid is gone. Represent yourself.
Passport and DVLA backlogs are chronic, so the state sells you a fast track service to escape the queue the state created.
The trains are late whoever owns them, so you drive on the roads with the potholes.
Public toilets are shut, so you buy a coffee you don’t want.
The library is staffed by pensioners working for free.
Street lights are switched off at midnight to save money in a country with a burglary charge rate near zero.
You pay National Insurance for fifty years and they move the pension age.
You pay the adult social care precept every year and then sell your mother’s house to pay for adult social care.
Leaseholders pay for a “waking watch” because the state signed off the cladding and then billed the residents to fix it.
Social housing sits on the most valuable land in Britain, allocated by need rather than proximity to work, 48% of zone 1 social housing is occupied by foreigners mostly welfare dependent - while the nurses, teachers and other workers who keep zone 1 running commute ninety minutes each way from Kent because we stopped building anything in 1979.
Every one of these is a service you have already bought. The receipt is your payslip.
The tax burden is heading for its highest sustained level since the 1940s. The service level is the worst in living memory.
You are not overtaxed or underserved. You are actually BOTH, simultaneously, and the gap between the two is where your standard of living went.
The state has become a subscription you cannot cancel and cannot use.
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
If you think it's practical that the population of the area shown in white on this map, ALL have the right to asylum, free homes, free healthcare, free dentistry and free money in the area on this map shown in red. You are an absolute imbecile.
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
Never mind the 6 weeks off for summer. What about the other 12 -16 weeks a year parliament doesn't sit? Their time off comes to 18-22 weeks per year, so at best they are doing their job (sitting in parliament "representing" their constituency for 34 weeks a year. £98,599/34= £2,899.97 A WEEK! Now, assuming they do a 40 hour week (I know, rarely that much) that's over £72 an hour, for what? If you could find a job paying £72 an hour in the private sector, would your employer let you turn up and knock off when you feel like it? Pay for you to have a flat closer to work? Give you an unlimited expense account? Allow you to have 18 weeks holiday a year?
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
The rest of the world must think the UK has gone round the bend and off with the fairies.
The deluded PM can't see how big a divide has been created.
Name calling is his debate level. – at Bourne, England
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
This is the best analogy yet with a solution for the mess that the UK is now in economically.
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it in my back garden and filled it with seed.
Within a week we had lots of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started… Building nests in the shed, in the eaves,in the fences and in my garden bushes.
Then came the shit. It was everywhere,on the patio,on the chairs,the table,windows..everywhere!
Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.
And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night And demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.
After a while,I couldn't even sit in my own back garden anymore. So I took down the Bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the garden.
Soon,the back yard was like It used to be ..... Quiet,serene.... And no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
Now let's see......
Our government gives out Free food,subsidised housing,free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
Then the illegal’s came by the hundreds of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services,small apartments are housing 5 families,you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor,your child's second grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.
Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box,I have to
press one to hear my bank talk to me in English,and people waving flags other than ”ours” are squawking and screaming in the streets,demanding more rights and free liberties.
Just my opinion,but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
Wouldn’t it be nice to see Keir Starmer hold a press conference today telling people how they should behave when they come here instead of the one we’re going to get tomorrow telling us how to behave while people are trying to cut our heads off.
Watching the classic touring car racing on @itvmotorsport @BTCC from @Oulton_Park and @PaulONeill29 mentions time warps...
Never mind time warps, get these guys ( and cars!) on the support package for the whole season...
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
Remember the workplace rules:
Muslims protest a police station after Muslim men are arrested for punching a police woman in the face, breaking her nose?
- Authentic, valid expression of grievances.
Brits protest a police station after a white teenager dies in police custody while the police assist his killers?
- Violent far-right thuggery.
Please tell us the umbrella held over @AdamMorgan33 on the @BTCC grid are available for purchase @PlatoRacing @jasonplato 🏖️
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
For the first time in decades, a generation of people genuinely believes they may live worse than their parents.
They work hard, pay more tax, face higher rents, higher bills and feel further away from home ownership, family life and stability than the generation before them.
A lot of working people feel punished for doing the right thing. They get up early, go to work, try to build a decent life and watch more of what they earn disappear every year.
And they are all asking a simple question now: where is all the money going?
Towns do not feel safer. Their quality of life has declined. Their children do not feel more secure. Public services cost more and deliver less.
Many workers no longer feel represented by a political class that seems more comfortable talking about redistribution than wealth creation.
People don’t feel politics works for them anymore because for years both major parties protected the same economic model: high migration, expensive housing, expensive energy, stagnant wages and declining living standards.
For years both major parties signed off on massive government spending and years of quantitative easing that fuelled inflation and eroded living standards. People feel it every day at the supermarket, in their rent, in energy bills and in the cost of raising a family. They work harder, yet their money buys less.
That’s why governments now collapse so quickly because daily life is getting harder and nobody in Westminster seems willing to change course.
Six Prime Ministers in sixteen years.
Not one with the spine to cut the state.
We need to take a chainsaw to the planning system, cut regulation, build homes at scale, drill our own oil and gas and reward work again.
That means lower taxes on workers and businesses. It means making it easier to hire, build, invest and start companies in Britain instead of burying everything under endless forms, delays and compliance costs. We regulated growth out of the economy.
It means stopping mass low-wage migration that suppresses wages, inflates housing demand and causes infrastructure to collapse under the immense pressure.
We know the parties that created this mess will not be the ones to fix it. They still cannot even admit how badly they failed the country.
What's with all the posts about fully paid for cars recently...saw two recently from @justineclaire75 and @alexthedarklord
Genuine or scam posts 🤔
All this controversy about Kanye, ( personally I'm not a fan of his music) but here's the thing, he's not running amok in the UK with weapons attacking UK people is he 🤔🤦
Kenny🇬🇧 retweeted
Mr Starmer,
The world is watching. And for once, I’m not here to play nice or balance both sides. This is the one shot I get to say what millions already know in their bones.
You are not Britain’s Prime Minister.
You are a man who won an election and immediately began dismantling the very things the British people voted for in 2016. You are squatting in Downing Street while steering the country back into the arms of the institution it explicitly rejected.
If you will not stand down, the British people will make you.
Here is every claim you made today, stripped bare, no spin, no mercy:
1. “The Middle East conflict has now entered its second month.”
Thank you for the calendar update. While you counted months, the IRGC a group formally designated as terrorists by the United States, Canada, and others, continued running its London operations from 16 Prince’s Gate, Knightsbridge. You did nothing.
2. “The UK is working at pace for de-escalation and peace.”
Translation: we issued strongly worded statements. Results: zero. Your “pace” is the speed of a snail on tranquillisers.
3. “The war will affect the future of our country, energy and cost of living.”
It already is. Your green ideology and EU realignment have left Britain with some of the highest energy prices in the developed world. Pensioners choose between heating and eating. That’s not “the war.” That’s policy.
4. “We are well-placed with a long-term plan to emerge stronger and more secure.”
Record taxes. 7.5 million people on NHS waiting lists. Record small-boat crossings. Energy bills that could bankrupt households. If this is your definition of “stronger and more secure,” the English language just filed for divorce.
5. “I held meetings with business leaders…”
Photo opportunities. They warned you. You smiled for the cameras and carried on regardless.
6. “Energy bills will be cut today and fixed until July.”
A £117 cap that your own NI increases and green levies have already vaporised. It’s not relief. It’s an insult dressed up as compassion.
7. “The most effective way to support the cost of living is to push for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.”
Then why did you help shut down North Sea production and make us dependent on foreign energy? The hypocrisy is so thick you could spread it on toast.
8. “The UK is taking back control of our energy security by investing in clean British energy.”
Britain now pays the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe. Blackouts are on the menu. This is not “taking back control.” This is self-sabotage with better PR.
9. “Because the world is volatile, Britain’s long-term national interest now requires closer partnership with the EU.”
Let’s be honest for once: you are using a foreign crisis as cover to hand sovereignty, money, and decision-making back to Brussels without asking the British people. That is not statesmanship. That is betrayal by stealth.
10. “I will announce a new summit with the EU later this year…”
Re-joining by the back door while an Iranian terror-linked operation sits in one of London’s most expensive postcodes. The sheer gall is almost impressive.
You stood at the podium today and spoke of “British interests” while actively working against them. You swore you wouldn’t rejoin the EU. You are doing it anyway. You talk of security while leaving a designated terror network untouched in central London. You lecture about the cost of living while your policies make it worse.
The mask is not slipping, Keir. It has fallen off and shattered on the floor.
The British people see you clearly now: a politician who values international approval and Brussels goodwill more than the nation that elected him. You are not leading Britain. You are managing its managed decline.
The clock is ticking. Not in secret. Not in silence. Out loud, in broad daylight, across every pub, every kitchen table, every X feed and every street in this country.
History does not forgive those who sell their own people’s sovereignty for applause.
Britain did not vote for this.
Britain does not want this.
And Britain will not tolerate this forever.
The reckoning is coming.
And it will not be kind.
Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧
Oi twitter, X or whatever you're called....
STOP with the annoying page jumping when you open the app...
