The road to hell is paved by progressives, paid for by conservatives, and walked by the blindfolded masses

Joined March 2017
Took my daughter to look around a well known University. The business lecturer has purple hair and talked about human rights and DEI. Went to Marketing, the slides looked like they'd been put together by a 4 year old girl. Conclusion save £25k a year and get a job.
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Europe riots 🤐 Noise on buses ✅ Man City 🤐 Fuel finder app ✅ Cost of living help 🤐 Increase prices of meal deals ✅ Benefits bill cuts 🤐 Triple lock axed ✅ Boats stopped 🤐 Small villages overwhelmed ✅ Home grown terrorists 🤐 Bus fare cap ✅ Prison places built 🤐 Dangerous prisoners released ✅ Mass blackouts imminent 🤐 Ticket resale ban ✅ So, so many more examples of big things that are very, very wrong or at least questionable and we hear a big fat 0️⃣ Meanwhile more tinkering, more regulation, more costs and more dangers piled onto the strivers and workers who do the right thing. Absolute shower of a government. 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
This is unbelievable.👇 My very first thought when I heard this policy was “they won’t pay” and the second was “who’s going to fine them?”. Yet we have a government that hasn’t thought about either of those very obvious and basic issues. We already have laws. They are not enforced and the public are too scared to self enforce as this Minister suggests. This a 10/10 example of gesture politics. Performative nonsense that bears no scrutiny whatsoever. Meanwhile, a policeman has been shot, over 150 schools closed by Islamist threats, the economy is on the brink, dangerous prisoners are being released and the boats keep coming. 😡
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'It's fucked, mate'
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Cor blimey guvnor, it’s Cunty Poppins
Britain on the world stage, acting in our national interest.
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Are these the same public that are: 🟡 age checked when buying energy drinks 🟡 age checked when buying kitchen tools 🟡 age checked when buying glue 🟡 age checked when buying tobacco/vapes 🟡 age checked when buying video games 🟡 age checked when buying DVD/Bluray 🟡 age checked when buying paint 🟡 age checked when buying petrol/diesel 🟡 require age verification to use our iPhones They continue to treat us as children and a danger to ourselves yet need our help. They can’t have both.
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There isn’t any evidence to support this outlandish claim. Our Prime Minister repeating a lie from crazy Carole Cadwalladr. Awful.
Andy Burnham becomes first PM to confirm Russian interference in Brexit referendum @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK's exclusive interview with @andyburnham on tomorrow's episode of Leading is out in full at midnight.
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Dear Andy Burnham, the Oxford Internet Institute examined social media after the Brexit vote. Their conclusion was that Russian traffic made up around a one thousandth of just one percent of Brexit traffic. Thus, I suspect you're lying; so put up your evidence or shut up.
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If Andy Burnham is suggesting that Russia influenced so many votes that it swung the 2016 EU Referendum, he now needs to publish the evidence. It is too serious for innuendo. And while he's at it, he might also publish the evidence of US interference in the 1975 EEC referendum.
Andy Burnham becomes first PM to confirm Russian interference in Brexit referendum @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK's exclusive interview with @andyburnham on tomorrow's episode of Leading is out in full at midnight.
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Get ready, everybody. Burnham wants us closer to the EU, and, like magic, the “Russian interference” stories are doing the rounds again.
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Le grand problème de la plupart des gens qui votent à gauche, ce n'est pas qu'ils sont méchants. C'est qu'ils ne sont pas assez cyniques. Ils croient que l'homme est naturellement bon et que c'est le système qui le corrompt. Tout leur projet politique repose sur ce postulat. Et ce postulat est faux. L'être humain est, par essence, orienté vers son propre intérêt. Pas forcément méchant. Pas forcément cupide. Mais d'abord tourné vers lui-même, sa famille, sa tribu. C'est le produit de millions d'années d'évolution : ceux qui ne se préoccupaient pas d'eux-mêmes en premier ne sont pas nos ancêtres. On peut le regretter. On ne peut pas le changer. Et c'est là que tout bascule. Si tu refuses d'accepter cette nature, il ne te reste qu'une option : la corriger. Rééduquer. Amoindrir l'intérêt personnel par la loi, la morale d'État, la pression collective. Fabriquer un homme nouveau. Tous les collectivismes ont tenté ça. L'homo sovieticus. La Révolution culturelle. L'année zéro des Khmers rouges. Chaque fois le même scénario : l'homme réel résiste à l'homme rêvé, alors le système accuse l'homme réel. Il devient saboteur, koulak, ennemi du peuple. Et on finit par éliminer ceux qui refusent d'être corrigés. Les collectivismes ne finissent pas en boucherie par accident. Ils finissent en boucherie par construction. Quand ton projet exige de changer la nature humaine, la nature humaine devient ton ennemie. La bonne question n'est donc pas "comment rendre les gens altruistes ?" mais : sachant que chacun cherchera d'abord à maximiser son propre intérêt, quel système transforme cet intérêt individuel en prospérité collective ? Adam Smith l'avait déjà formulé en 1776 : ce n'est pas de la bienveillance du boucher, du brasseur ou du boulanger que nous attendons notre dîner, mais du soin qu'ils apportent à leurs propres intérêts. L'école autrichienne a poussé le raisonnement jusqu'au bout. Et la démonstration se fait par A + B. A. La valeur est subjective (Menger). Personne ne peut savoir à ta place ce qui compte pour toi. B. Le savoir est dispersé (Hayek). Il est éparpillé dans la tête de millions d'individus. Le boulanger sait combien de pain il vendra demain. L'agriculteur sait quand sa terre est prête. Aucun planificateur, aussi brillant soit-il, ne peut centraliser ça. C. Le prix est le seul mécanisme capable d'agréger ce savoir. Un prix qui monte dit "il en manque, produis-en plus" à des millions de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, sans qu'aucun d'eux n'ait besoin d'être altruiste. D. Sans propriété privée et sans prix libres, le calcul économique devient impossible (Mises, 1920). Le planificateur pilote à l'aveugle. Ce n'est pas un problème de mauvaise volonté ou d'incompétence. C'est un problème d'information. Et il est insoluble. Conclusion : la liberté économique n'est pas une idéologie. C'est la seule architecture qui épouse la nature humaine au lieu de la combattre. Chacun poursuit son intérêt, et pour l'atteindre, il doit servir celui des autres. C'est une symphonie sans chef d'orchestre, où chaque musicien joue sa partition et où l'ensemble sonne juste. Aucun système dans l'histoire n'a sorti autant d'êtres humains de la misère. Mais accepter ce système implique d'accepter trois choses que la gauche a énormément de mal à avaler. Un : l'individu exceptionnel existe. Certains créent plus de valeur que des milliers d'autres. Un entrepreneur, un chercheur, un inventeur peuvent changer la vie de millions de personnes. Une société qui traite l'exception comme une anomalie à corriger se condamne à la médiocrité. Une société qui la laisse émerger tire tout le monde vers le haut. Deux : confondre égalité des chances et égalité des résultats est le pire des cocktails. L'égalité des chances, c'est donner à chacun la possibilité de jouer. L'égalité des résultats, c'est truquer le score à la fin. Les individus étant différents en talent, en effort, en choix, des chances égales produisent forcément des résultats inégaux. Et pour imposer des résultats égaux, il faut une force capable de prendre aux uns pour donner aux autres en permanence. On retombe sur l'homme nouveau. Par une autre porte. Trois : il faut accepter que certains se comportent mal. Dans tout système libre, il y aura des fraudeurs, des profiteurs, des tricheurs. C'est le prix de la liberté. La réponse saine : sanctionner les fraudeurs et ajuster les règles. La réponse malade : punir tout le monde préventivement. Chaque abus devient une nouvelle norme, un nouveau formulaire, un nouveau contrôle, qui pèse sur l'immense majorité qui jouait le jeu honnêtement. Couche après couche, on construit une bureaucratie qui étouffe ceux qui créent pour se protéger de ceux qui trichent. C'est exactement ce qu'est devenue l'Europe. Le libéralisme n'est pas une doctrine pour ceux qui méprisent l'humain. C'est une doctrine pour ceux qui l'acceptent tel qu'il est. La gauche aime l'homme tel qu'il devrait être. Le libéral compose avec l'homme tel qu'il est. Et l'histoire a déjà tranché.
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This billboard wasn’t allowed in public incase it offended anyone so please do not repost it. Thanks.
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Nationalism and the failure to engage with it sonarjetlens.substack.com/p/…
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He's not wrong
This story has broken me. It has unleashed a rage so strong I can barely express it, but allow me to try. Above all, I am angry with the decades-long malevolent incompetence of the British state: politicians of all parties, the judiciary, the civil service. Their collective uselessness has shattered the social contract and made us all poorer and less safe. In just 25 years, they have led us from an affluent, high-trust society to a broken, low-trust one. I am sickened by the growth in sectarian politics. I am appalled by the foreign ghettos in our cities and imported, bent voting practices and resultant corruption in some of our councils. I hate seeing the clothing of female oppression on our streets. I am sickened by the fact our Jewish community lives under siege. I no longer wish to pay tax to support those who have come here illegally and should be removed immediately. It is to our shame that we have accepted mass immigration without insisting on integration. I am tired of being told that a British passport makes a foreigner as British as me. I assure you that the “British citizen” in this story is not. I am saddened that for so many people, the concept of “British” is essentially meaningless. I am sick of the obsession with a minor war 2,500 miles away that barely affects us. I despise that £88m of our tax money is going to Hamas (because it will), when the tax burden is a record high, everything is expensive, welfare spending is out of control and we can’t even pay for our own defences when the global risk of conflict is the highest it has been since the end of the Cold War. And in spite of how much of our money the government steals from our pockets, nothing, at all, in this country works. Healthcare, transport, education - all broken. It is a stain on our national politics that we have five Gaza MPs. It is our national shame that our government is intent on sucking up to the Palestinian entity which contains some of the worst monsters on the face of planet. It is a disgrace that our Foreign Secretary shook the hand of the representative of the Iranian regime that has slaughtered tens of thousands of its own people, and that he doesn’t seem to understand why that photograph will damn him forever. It is embarrassing that we had a Foreign Office minister dancing with and hugging the representative of the Palestinian Authority. The lack of serious statesmanship is mind-boggling and indicative of how far we have fallen. They say the past is a foreign country, but my goodness, do I miss the country I grew up in. I feel so sorry for the generation that grew up after 2000 and will never know how good it was. It’s not coming back. I have no time for the demagogues and grifters who exploit this anger. I know other people feel the same as I do, and my goodness, do I understand why people are angry. For decades, those we have elected to govern in our interests have instead run our country into the ground. And to cap it all, now we are led by fatuous, asinine, deeply unserious airheads who think serious governance is a TikTok video about pork scratchings, as the last vestiges of a coherent society die under the weight of their malignant frivolity. The worst part of it is that there is absolutely nothing any of us can do about it. I just want to live in a happy, stable, prosperous country like we used to be, instead of one that is run by a state apparatus that does nothing but beat us down, obsess over irrelevances, take our money, and leave us poorer and less safe.
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Under these rules, if you leave YOUR property, that YOU OWN, empty for just six months, the state can *seize it*. This is a horrifying attack on private property rights. Your property belongs to you. This Government is going to steal it if they don't like how you use it.
It’s not a silver bullet but bringing more empty homes back into use can help solve the housing crisis. Today, we’re announcing strengthened powers for councils to take control of long-term empty homes and use them to house families in need.
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When they tell you they're totalitarian you must listen
I said it in 2020 and I’ll say it again. If you leave a home empty long-term in the middle of a housing crisis, it should be seized. Today’s announcement is great news.
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Gettin' strong Robespierre vibes from this here man...
London is facing a dark blizzard of disinformation, driven by extremist groups and hostile state actors. We can't ignore the damage it’s causing to our communities, safety and trust. It’s why London’s leading the way in tackling this threat, so I welcome the Government's announcement of a National Centre for Information Defence.
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