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Paul Hildreth retweeted
Jeff Banks never fails to say it straight.
While everyone else tiptoes around it, he just says what everyone can see: clerics on TV teaching kids to hate Jews and glorify the people who blow up buses and cafés.
Gaza sits right next to one of the most successful countries on earth a democracy with high-tech industry and farming in the desert and has spent decades choosing the opposite.
He’s right about Camp David. Clinton offered a deal in 2002. Arafat walked away. Same pattern for decades: reject the offer, start the war, then scream when Israel hits back.
Palestine could have lived as a peaceful neighbour. Instead it chose corruption and endless war. And the truth is, Palestine doesn’t exist. Never has. It was rejected in 1947, never built after that, and still isn’t a state today.
Until Hamas is gone, nothing changes. Jeff’s been saying this for years while everyone else pretends the history started last week. He’s absolutely right.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
This gentleman here is 100% our only hope of getting out of this uncontrollable mess that we are in. He WILL do what he says. He is not CONTROLLED. We NEED this man to take control otherwise we are finished. FULL STOP! FACT! @RestoreBritain
Insanity
What is about to happen to Britain is truly INSANE.
Thanks to Andy Burnham's Labour, all kinds of community & "faith" groups will now be able to "sponsor" refugees who will be identified by ... the United Nations, which is not accountable to the British people and has no connection to our democracy.
A distant, unelected, unaccountable, and international group of woke bureaucrats will now wield enormous influence over our supposedly sovereign immigration policy here in Britain.
Those refugees will then automatically be given Indefinite Leave to Remain, including full access to housing, the NHS, medical and social services, and will almost certainly be able to bring in their relatives, too, such as the Gaza-born mother who recently brought a family of 18 into Britain under "human rights" laws.
Remember all those kebab shops and fraudulent businesses that were sponsoring visas for migrant workers during the Boriswave? Well, this is what we about to witness on an entirely new level with all those "community sponsors". Woke charities, foundations, mosques, secretive "faith groups" bringing in whoever they choose and then putting them in housing that, apparently, we do not have enough of for British people.
Ask yourself: do you really trust the British state to properly scrutinise these "community sponsors" when it cannot even control our own borders?
And remember all those credible studies showing how the Boriswave is about to impose a bill of roughly £600 BILLION on the British people? Well, expect that bill to get bigger and bigger because most of the people Labour will now bring in will be low-wage, low-skill migrants from the likes of Afghanistan and Gaza.
And what about the hardworking British people? Where are they in all this? They are once again being treated like second-class citizens in their own country, forced to live with a policy they never voted for, or asked for.
They will now end up having to subsidise yet more waves of migration including endless amounts of "chain migration" through family reunification.
The British people are generous and tolerant but enough is enough. They have already supported 400,000 refugees from Hong Kong & Ukraine, and provided billions in support for illegal migrants and Boriswave 'deliveroo' workers, who take more out of the economy than they put in.
Don't the British people deserve decent schools, hospitals, more prisons, and borders that work? Don't they deserve politicians who put them first before opening the door to yet more migration from radically different nations and cultures?
If you feel outraged by what is happening to your country then vote Reform. There is no other alternative. It was the Tories who ENDORSED the UN migration pact in the first place, and while Restore voters are right to feel angry they are dividing the Right and handing Labour the keys to the country for another five years.
If the broad patriotic majority does not consolidate and reject these changes then they will lose heavily and this policy will not just become permanent but it will utterly transform the country and its population.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
🔴 Civil palestino describe la masacre del 7 de octubre
¿Qué hicieron con las cabezas - de los asesinados-?
«Les cortaron las cabezas y las dejaron a su lado».
¿Y las mujeres que secuestraron?
«Violarlas, abusarlas, agredirlas, interrogarlas. Cada uno tenía su idea. Los violaron».
¿También a los niños?
«A los niños también los violaron. Los secuestraron. Los agredieron. Los mataron».
Esto es Hamás.
Esto es lo que celebraron en las calles de Gaza.
Esto es lo que la izquierda española, en El País, en la SER, en La Sexta y en Moncloa siguen llamando «resistencia», «contexto» y «niños de Gaza».
Quien hoy ondea el trapo palestino y calla esto no está defendiendo a civiles. Está tapando una orgía de asesinato, violación y decapitación.
Que lo vean. Que lo oigan. Y que no digan que no sabían.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
They Called It Replacement Migration In 2001. In 2026 Mahmood Is Delivering It Into Your Home
In 2001 the United Nations Population Division published a report titled Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations? It was not a secret document. It is on the UN's own website. It examined whether mass immigration could offset demographic decline in ageing Western nations and calculated, in its most extreme scenario, that the European Union would require 674 million net migrants between 1995 and 2050, at an average of 13 million per year, to maintain worker-to-retiree ratios at 1995 levels. The report's own authors and subsequent academic literature acknowledged those numbers were not practically achievable. What the report did was establish mass immigration as the primary policy tool for managing an ageing population. That framing has never been withdrawn.
In 2015 Britain signed the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Its target 10.7 commits signatory nations to facilitating orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration. In 2018 the Marrakech Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, adopted by 152 countries including Britain, normalised mass immigration as the standing policy response to demographic decline. Most people have never heard of the Teal Book. They should. It is the British government's own project delivery guidance, and it states explicitly that British equality, diversity and inclusion policy is governed by the UN's 2030 Agenda.
The line from 2001 to 2026 is unbroken. Each document builds on the last. Each commits signatory governments more specifically to the same direction. And each was adopted without a referendum, without a manifesto commitment, and without the public being told what was being signed in their name.
This week Shabana Mahmood announced the Community Sponsorship Scheme. Under the scheme, British families, community groups, employers and universities will sponsor refugees directly, committing to support their financial, emotional and settlement needs for the first year. Refugees will be referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The nationalities prioritised are Sudanese and Eritrean nationals, chosen specifically because they currently represent some of the largest groups crossing the Channel illegally. Mahmood described community sponsorship as the new norm for refugees entering Britain.
The 2001 UN report identified the problem. The 2015 Agenda committed governments to address it through migration. The 2018 Marrakech compact normalised that commitment. The Teal Book embedded it in British institutional policy. And in 2026 the Home Secretary is asking British families to provide the infrastructure.
Each step was presented as a separate, unconnected policy decision. The timeline says otherwise. The framing has been consistent for twenty-five years. The delivery mechanism has simply become more direct.
And then there are the boats. Over 200,000 people have crossed the Channel illegally since 2018. The removal rate is four percent. Accommodation contracts are signed until 2039. Twelve new asylum centres opened this week without informing MPs. The community sponsorship scheme creates a parallel legal pipeline for the same nationalities currently crossing illegally. Every tough speech, every announced crackdown, every promise to "smash the gangs" has been followed by more arrivals, more contracts and more infrastructure.
The boats are not a crisis the government is failing to solve. They are a delivery mechanism it has spent twenty-five years building the infrastructure to receive. The rhetoric exists to manage public anger. The contracts, the centres and the sponsorship scheme exist to manage the arrivals. Both serve the same purpose. One is for public consumption. The other is the policy.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
When I was a Muslim kid in public elementary school, before I left Islam, we learned migration jihad.
It's a theological and geopolitical truth, which I see manifesting in the West today.
Islamophobia is FAKE.
In 8 minutes, you will understand the strategic overview of migration jihad, who benefits, and why you need to GET OUT and VOTE.
Vote like your civilization depends on it, because believe me when I tell you.. it does.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
One In Five Prisoners Is Now Muslim. The Data Shows Why
Muslims now make up roughly 1 in 5 prisoners in England and Wales, close to three times their share of the general population, where they account for around 6.7 per cent. This is not a new trend. Government analysts have been tracking it for over a decade, and part of the driver behind it is migration.
A 2013 Ministry of Justice analysis found that a significant proportion of Muslim prisoners were foreign nationals from predominantly Muslim countries, chiefly Pakistan and Somalia at the time. Today the picture has shifted again. Albanians, who are overwhelmingly Muslim, now form the largest single group of foreign nationals in UK prisons. Iranians, Iraqis and Somalis, nationalities associated with high volumes of recent asylum claims, appear among the top fifteen nationalities in the prison population despite having comparatively small resident populations in the UK, according to the Migration Observatory's own analysis of December 2025 figures.
That last detail matters more than it first appears. When a nationality with a small overall UK population shows up disproportionately in prison statistics, it points to a recent, fast-growing cohort rather than a long-settled community whose numbers have simply kept pace with the country as a whole. Iranian, Iraqi and Somali nationals fit that description precisely, arriving in large numbers only in recent years, chiefly through asylum and small boat routes, and already appearing in the prison population at a rate out of step with how long they have actually been resident in Britain.
Foreign nationals make up nearly double their general population share among drug offence prisoners, at 19.7 per cent. Sexual offence convictions have risen 62 per cent among foreign nationals in four years, against 39 per cent for British nationals over the same period. These are the categories the data singles out most sharply, and they are the categories where the missing nationality breakdown matters most. The aggregate picture is more mixed: non-citizens are slightly underrepresented in the prison population overall once age is accounted for, and specifically underrepresented for violent offences, but averaging across all offence types obscures exactly the pattern that matters here.
The growth in foreign national prisoners generally has been striking on its own terms too. Numbers rose 111 per cent between 1999 and 2009, against a 21 per cent rise among British nationals over the same period, a gap wide enough that it cannot be explained by population growth alone. Foreign nationals now sit at around 12 per cent of the total prison population, drawn from more than 160 countries, with the top ten nationalities accounting for roughly half of all foreign offenders in custody.
This is where the debate about Muslim prisoner numbers actually needs to be had, not in the register of prison gang dynamics or coercive conversion, the practice of vulnerable inmates being pressured into Islam for protection, which is a separate and genuine problem in its own right, but in the plainer register of who Britain has been admitting, in what numbers, from which countries, and how that has translated into custodial statistics in specific, measurable categories. The Ministry of Justice has had this data since at least 2013. It has not, in that time, published a full, routine breakdown connecting nationality, migration route and offence type in a way the public can actually scrutinise.
That silence is a choice, the same one now stuck in a tribunal after the Ministry of Justice appealed a ruling to release conviction data by nationality. The prison population already tells part of this story in outline. What is missing is the will to publish it in full, and let the public see what their own government has spent over a decade quietly compiling.
"Albanians, who are overwhelmingly Muslim, now form the largest single group of foreign nationals in UK prisons."
Funny how they never mention this, eh?
The surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet gained 518 billion tons of new ice over the past year, which is 40% above the 1981-2020 average. Ice gain has been above average in six of the last nine years.
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Paul Hildreth retweeted
🇺🇸 Metropolitan Police just dragged a man off Westminster Bridge in handcuffs for holding a sign that said “Hamas are terrorists.”
His name is Mark Birbeck.
Union Jack beanie. White tape over his mouth. Signs reading “Save our kids” and “Hamas are terrorists.”
Officers cuffed him and walked him away while people in the crowd kept asking the same question: “What’s he done wrong?”
Nothing. That’s the point.
Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000. Saying so is a statement of British law, not a crime.
Birbeck and others have been doing this for months , standing near the weekly pro-Palestine marches with a simple factual banner.
The response from the Met has been consistent: detain the person stating the law, not the people marching in sympathy with the group the law bans.
This isn’t the first time.
Birbeck has been arrested before for the same sign.
He was given bail conditions that banned him from Westminster on protest days, so he stood on the Lambeth side of the bridge to stay legal.
They still came for him. He was later accused of assaulting officers during an arrest , charges the CPS quietly dropped after video showed otherwise.
Watch the pattern. Large, disruptive marches that treat Hamas as “resistance” get police escorts and kid-glove treatment.
A lone man with a Union Jack and a legally accurate placard gets the cuffs. Stewards from the other side complain, officers move in, and the person telling the truth is removed “to prevent a breach of the peace.”
This is what two-tier policing looks like in practice.
One set of rules for those who align with a banned terrorist group.
Another set for those who refuse to pretend otherwise.
Britain still has a law that names Hamas as terrorists.
The police just appear more comfortable enforcing everything except that one.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
🚨 TAXING SCENERY AND DRIVEWAYS: LABOUR SENDS SNOOPERS TO CHARGE HOMEOWNERS FOR HAVING A NICE VIEW!
Welcome to modern Britain, where looking out your window at a field is now considered a taxable luxury by the state.
Secret government documents reveal HMRC valuation agents are being armed with an AI checklist to deliberately push family properties into Labour's new mansion tax bracket!
Inspectors will officially rate your house higher if you have a driveway, a conservatory, extra bathrooms, or a scenic view of the countryside.
Even living in a low crime area with good local schools will be logged by state computers to extract up to 7,500 pounds a year in extra surcharges!
They are even going after family farmers by counting the agricultural acreage attached to their homes.
You spend your entire life grafting to buy a home in a safe, decent neighbourhood, and the government treats your success like a punishable offence.
RT and SHARE this everywhere to expose Labour's insane war on British homeowners! 🇬🇧🔥
Paul Hildreth retweeted
The rapidly changing demographics of our country mean that the Muslim population of our country is set to grow and grow and grow - a process that will only get faster. This is the honest truth no other politician will dare to mention.
Demands for political Islam will spread alongside that. We’re already seeing that process accelerate. The British people will be further expected to have our way of life changed, permanently, to tolerate those who would not show us the same respect.
I don’t want that. Restore Britain does not want that.
We have been quite clear that a Restore Britain Government would be far more muscular in our approach to Islam.
This is a Christian country. Under a Restore Britain Government, it would stay that way.
Halal slaughter would be banned, along with cousin marriage and the wearing of the burqa/niqab.
Sharia courts outlawed, with any foreign nationals attempting to promote Islamism removed from our country.
Mass dominating Islamic prayer in public spaces will not be tolerated.
Islamic call to prayer blaring out across British towns will be banned.
Unfettered immigration from Islamic countries will come to an end.
Foreign nationals who cannot speak English, refuse to work, claim benefits, live in social housing, or hate Britain will also be deported.
Under a Restore Britain Government, the British state would not bend over backwards to accommodate practices that would have been unwelcome in medieval England.
The islamification of Britain will end.
For making these demands, I have received numerous death threats.
I want to be really clear - we will not be intimidated.
Starmer panders to the Muslim vote, hoping the crocodile will eat him last. Farage has pathetically said if we ‘alienate’ Islam we ‘will lose’. The Tories had their chance, they accelerated the process. It’s all too weak, it’s all too late. And the hour is late.
Because if we continue on our current trajectory, the size of the Muslim population will reach a point where they will no longer be asking. Just look at Lebanon.
I will be hounded for stating these facts. And they are all facts.
My response? Go to Tower Hamlets. Bradford. Rochdale. Leicester. Blackburn. Birmingham. Walk around.
You could be living in an Islamic country. It’s not even multiculturalism. It’s one culture. Islam. And British people in those areas are expected to sit back and accept it, or leave.
Colonisation is the right word.
That is not an acceptable state of affairs.
What has happened in those towns will happen elsewhere. It is simply a matter of time. We can all already see it developing. It is demographic reality.
I’m 68. It will not impact me. I will be long gone. But my one objective with Restore Britain is to leave the country in a better state than the one my generation was gifted. I want my grandchildren, and your grandchildren, to grow up in a cohesive, prosperous and confident Christian country which treats women with respect. That will require decent British men and women to stand up for our way of life in a far more assertive manner than has so far happened.
I am absolutely determined to offer the British people a democratic route out.
There is finally a serious political party with the courage to do what needs to be done.
Restore Britain.
Join us.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
There was a girl in Rotherham. Twelve when the first man raped her. Fourteen when social services pulled her from school and called it "consensual." She was doused in petrol and told to burn if she talked.
She was one of 1,400.
Between 1997 and 2013, while the Alexis Jay Report later confirmed industrial-scale child sexual exploitation in Rotherham Metropolitan Borough, John Healey sat in Parliament representing that same borough. Twenty-nine years. Three constituencies. Same streets. Same schools. Same suffering.
In September 2012, The Times broke the story nationally and demanded an inquiry. Healey opposed it. His own website preserves the excuse: "I had an open mind but was not convinced this would help the abused girls."
Not convinced. While the men kept raping and the state kept not looking, Healey wanted more time. Two years later, the number was still 1,400.
Then came the money.
In 2014, UKIP MEP Jane Collins stood in Doncaster and accused Healey and two other Labour MPs of knowing about the abuse and doing nothing. They sued her for libel. In February 2017, Mr Justice Warby ruled in their favour. Collins was ordered to pay £54,000 to each MP. Healey pocketed fifty-four thousand pounds from a woman who accused him of failing those girls.
Total damages: £162,000. Total costs: over £670,000 billed to UKIP.
He did not hand it back. He did not donate it to survivors. He kept it.
Now look at the donors.
While positioning for Defence Secretary, Healey accepted £40,000 from two individuals, Nigel Grinyer and Barbara Follett, whose addresses the Register of Members' Financial Interests lists simply as "private." £40,000 in shadowy cheques while he prepared to accuse Nigel Farage of "secret donations."
Then the tax.
November 2025. Defence Secretary Healey failed to pay council tax on his London second home. An "administrative error," his office claimed. Sources confirmed he intended to claim the £1,469 back through parliamentary expenses. The man setting the national budget planned to bill you for his own oversight while his party stripped nine million pensioners of Winter Fuel Payments.
Then the charity.
Kin Kids. A Rotherham support group for kinship carers. Healey publicly backed it, pushed for its charitable status, attached his name to it. Its founder, Vicki MacGregor, was later convicted of child sexual abuse offences. Healey vouched for a paedophile's charity in the same borough where 1,400 children were raped on his watch.
Then the regicide.
June 2026. Healey resigns as Defence Secretary with a public letter damning Starmer as "unable" and the Treasury "unwilling" to defend the nation. Six weeks later, Starmer is gone. Andy Burnham is Prime Minister. Burnham makes Healey Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The knife goes in. The chair is warm.
Now the legacy.
The Child Trust Fund: Healey's brainchild. Promised as a gift to every British child. Today it sits as £1.6 billion of children's own money gathering dust in forgotten accounts, while fund managers extract £100 million annually in fees. A scheme that became an annuity for the City.
Housing: As Minister for Housing, Healey declared that more people renting rather than owning was "a good thing." The man now drafting the national budget opposes the concept of working families owning their homes.
The ledger:
∘ 1,400 confirmed victims during his tenure.
∘ "Not convinced" an inquiry would help them.
∘ £54,000 from a UKIP MEP for being called out.
∘ £40,000 from private donors while demanding Farage's transparency.
∘ £1,469 in unpaid tax, billed to you.
∘ £1.6 billion of children's money left to rot.
∘ One paedophile's charity, vouched for.
∘ One coup. One promotion. One Chancellorship.
St Peter's School, York. Founded 627 AD. Christ's College, Cambridge. Fabian Society. TUC campaigns. Twenty-nine years on the taxpayer. Zero days in a real job. Zero days answering to anyone outside the machine.
That girl in Rotherham? She's thirty-seven now. She lives with it every day.
John Healey lives in Downing Street. He signs your cheques. He decides how much of your money you keep.
Every signature from the man who was "not convinced" an inquiry into her rape would help her.
That's your Chancellor.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
🚨 "I SAID I WANTED TO JOIN. THEY SAID TO COME TO THE MOSQUE TO TRAIN."
Went undercover in London. Told people I thought Sharia should run Britain.
Told them I wanted to join a group.
Told them I wanted to fight.
Asked about ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
“Definitely, bro.”
“100%.”
“Inshallah one day we bring the caliphate to this country.”
Not one person told me I was wrong. Not one person said that wasn’t Islam. They pointed me inside.
At the mosque the man running things didn’t flinch either.
He talked about conversions like it was a quota. Sixty, seventy people. Then he mentioned the training they run at 2 o’clock.
New arrivals. New believers. They start them immediately.
This is what “community” looks like when no one is allowed to notice.
Parallel institutions.
Parallel law. Parallel loyalty.
They convert, they train, they wait.
The rest of the country is told it’s Islamophobia to even describe what is happening in its own capital.
London already has neighborhoods where British norms are optional and Islamic ones are enforced.
The video didn’t invent that.
It just recorded people saying it out loud because they no longer feel the need to hide it.
They are not integrating. They are building. And every official who calls this “diversity” is lying to you on purpose.
Watch it. Then ask why the people in charge still pretend this is a mystery.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
The Birmingham policing scandal has crossed a line. What began as cowardice has curdled into something far worse.
It has now emerged that a Birmingham mosque was involved in interviewing and appointing the police chief whose force later excluded Jewish football supporters from public life. This is not a minor procedural curiosity. It goes to the heart of why the truth was bent, why the threat was inverted, and why the victims were removed instead of protected.
Craig Guildford, the head of West Midlands Police, was appointed after a process that included Kamran Hussain, then chief executive of Green Lane mosque, sitting on an interview panel. That same mosque was later consulted by the force ahead of the decision to exclude Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from Villa Park. The same force then claimed, falsely, that the threat came from Jewish fans rather than from local extremists preparing violence.
Individually, each of these facts can be brushed aside. Together, they form a pattern that can no longer be ignored.
Green Lane mosque is not an abstract "community partner". It has hosted preachers who promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories and sectarian intolerance. Government funding was suspended after videos surfaced of sermons excusing discrimination and endorsing physical "discipline" of wives. These are not marginal details. They are the backdrop.
And yet this institution was treated as a stakeholder in policing decisions affecting Jews. Its former chief executive helped vet the man now presiding over a force accused of lying to Parliament, concealing intelligence, and rewriting events to protect its reputation.
This is not an accusation of crude conspiracy. It is something more corrosive. It is the exposure of a system in which authority is shaped by appeasement networks. Where those most capable of causing unrest are granted influence. Where enforcement becomes negotiable and truth becomes inconvenient.
That is how we arrived at a position where police logs recorded masked groups gathering, youths "looking to fight", and intelligence that the Israeli team was being tracked online. And yet the public was told the day was "largely peaceful" to avoid "over-dramatisation". This was not reassurance. It was deception.
When Keir Starmer called the ban wrong, he was right. When Kemi Badenoch demanded Guildford's dismissal, she was right. When critics said this reeked of political pressure rather than policing necessity, they were right again.
The most revealing detail is not who sat on which panel. It is what followed. A police force that consults mosques hosting extremist rhetoric. A leadership culture shaped by "community engagement" where the loudest voices are treated as veto-holders. A decision to exclude Jews "for their own safety". And then a cover-up to make it all look routine.
This is how equal policing is dismantled. Not through open prejudice, but through institutional fear. Not because officers hate Jews, but because the system rewards accommodation and punishes enforcement. Because it is easier to manage the victims than confront the threat.
The defenders of this arrangement will say there is nothing sinister here. That processes were followed. That panels were broad. That no single individual decided anything. That is precisely the problem. When responsibility is so diffused that no one is accountable, injustice becomes frictionless.
A country that allows sectarian pressure to shape police leadership and operational decisions is no longer policing by consent. It is policing by concession.
Birmingham did not stumble into this outcome. It arrived there by design. And until that design is dismantled, this will not be the last time a minority is told to stay away quietly so others do not have to behave. That is not the rule of law. It is governance by fear.
"Craig Guildford was appointed after a process that included Kamran Hussain, then chief executive of Green Lane mosque, sitting on an interview panel."
Paul Hildreth retweeted
The dumbest thing I did was be a 'good boy' for my entire working life: work hard and pay my taxes. 45 years of being systematically and arbitrarily robbed by criminals, some wearing blue ties, some wearing red, and even some sporting a splash of yellow.
I now struggle to pay my bills in retirement and I am still being fleeced via tax by the same clowns.
Meanwhile, these crooks choose to send cash abroad, squander it on insane initiatives such as 'net zero' and DEI, pay themselves tidy expenses, fund wars, and welcome with open arms anyone illegally entering the country, people they are happy to spend billions of pounds on whilst simultaneously making those of us who paid a fair whack into the system, struggle.
People often ask me why I don't vote any more ... and I think it should be fairly obvious. None of these 'senior politicians', across all parties, have any interest in the wellbeing of the common man or woman. They are only interested in their own self-promotion and pressing ahead with whatever harebrained agendas they support whilst in power.
It's only the window dressing that changes ... what awaits in the shop is always the same bullshit that shafts the good, honest folk of this country.
Paul Hildreth retweeted
Britain Is Pricing Out Its Own Young While Opening The Door To Everyone Else
Pat McFadden flew to Rotterdam to find out why British youth cannot find work. He came home with a plan for youth hubs and a column blaming the death of the paper round. He did not need the flight. The answer was sitting in his own department's data: 27 young non-EU migrants hired in Britain for every one young British worker since 2020. Non-EU youth employment up 355 percent. The young British workforce grew by 0.3 percent over the same period. His own figures describe displacement. His own review, led by Alan Milburn, concluded there was no evidence immigration played any role. The same department wrote both documents. They cannot both be right.
Now Andy Burnham proposes to widen the door McFadden's department has just spent a review pretending does not exist. A youth mobility scheme with the EU could bring up to 100,000 young Europeans into Britain to work, study and live, with reciprocal rights for young Britons who, on current form, will be competing for jobs that do not exist at home either. Strip away the language of partnership and what remains is a bargaining chip, traded for access to an EU industrial scheme a "well-placed European source" would only call a vibe.
Alongside it sits a plan to cut tuition fees for EU students from £38,000 to £9,535, brought back from the dead after Sir Keir Starmer shelved it on his way out of Downing Street. The timing could not be worse chosen. The Student Loans Company has just admitted it has lost track of more than 370,000 graduates owing almost £13 billion, many of them EU nationals who took a British loan and left the country beyond reach of the taxman. Britain already cannot collect from the EU students it has funded. The proposed answer is to fund more of them, at a steeper discount, then hand the same cohort a formal route into the labour market once the degree is done.
Each piece of this, taken alone, might survive scrutiny. Taken together, they describe a government working against its own stated priority in three directions at once. Entry-level jobs were made more expensive by October's budget, through the employer National Insurance rise and a near twenty percent jump in the youth minimum wage. The government spends twenty-five times more paying young people to stay unemployed than it spends helping them into work. Youth unemployment stands at 16.2 percent. Nearly one million young Britons are not in education, employment or training. Against that backdrop, ministers are simultaneously discounting the entry price for foreign students and negotiating a treaty to bring more foreign workers in.
McFadden calls this an oversight of technology and habit. Burnham calls it a step-change in relations. Neither has explained why a government that cannot find jobs for its own school leavers is competing for the ones that remain against a subsidised, mobile, and untraceable cohort of its own making. The paper round did not disappear because of Deliveroo. It disappeared into a labour market Westminster has spent two years quietly stacking against the young people it was elected to serve. That is the real reset on offer this autumn. Not of Britain's relationship with Europe, but of who Britain's economy is actually run for.
"Andy Burnham is negotiating access to EU trade schemes at the cost of Britain's own youth labour market"
Paul Hildreth retweeted
I grew up with a ‘get them all out’ dad, and a ‘live and let live’ mum.
I was a mammy’s girl; I grew up very ‘live and let live’.
So how did I end up a firm ‘get them all out’ adult?
I had no opinions of transpeople, until I was told I ‘had’ to enforce their fantasies.
I had no issue with people coming here from Pakistan, until their ‘rights’ became more important than mine, until we got to a point where they were able to rape thousands of little girls, but I wasn’t able to talk about it.
I had no issue with people coming here from India, until it became cheaper for employers to hire them, than it was to hire me, and people like me.
I didn’t begrudge paying tax to support those with disabilities or those who couldn’t find work, until it became evident that I was working my days away to provide others with a better quality of life than I had myself.
So you can call me a racist fascist, or a transphobic bigot, but I wasn’t born this way, I wasn’t raised this way, I was pushed this way by an inept government who has spent years pandering to a liberal left.
People will only be pushed so far before they start pushing back, and I'm pushing back.