Comments by "Acid Joke" (@PWMoze) on "Richard The Fourth"
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As soon as he started saying 'London is great' he lost me.
Try being part of a traditional white working class community being squeezed out of your own neighbourhood by a combination of gentrification and mass immigration, shopping at local shops where you are served by people who can't talk English, who no longer sell the products you want, where you are treated with suspicion and sometimes outright hostility because of your race, religion or ethnicity. Try holding on to your traditional cultural values when, not only the people surrounding you don't share them, but they are being denigrated in local schools, by local councils, by the media and the broader community. Try spending some time in any average London Secondary School. Try getting a council flat. Try finding a fair rent. Try buying a house. Try having your home regulalrly burgled, or your bike stolen, or your car broken into, knowing that the police will do nothing. Try finding someone who is prepared to be a witness when a crimes occurs, even in broad daylight. Try walking around at night when you are constantly at risk of being mugged, having to avoid gang related drug and knife crime, random violent attacks, imported ethnic conflicts, two tier policing and anti white racism. Try objecting to a Palestinian or Rainbow flag being strung up outside your house. Try complaining about your Nigerian neighbours' anti-social behaviour to your Nigerian local council housing officer. Try driving around London regularly, trying to avoid all the parking restrictions, bus lanes, cycle lanes and traffic flow restrictions. Try to avoid getting a parking ticket or an extortionate Transport for London driving fine Try objecting to Ramadam and Eid being observed and celebrated, to the exclusion of Easter, in your work place. Try asking for help if you are elderly or disabled. Try getting an appointment with your local dentist or GP. Try getting a place for your kid at the only decent school in your neighbourhood.
Just try asking for directions and you'll see the social disconnect that currently exists in London: no one knows the city beyond their own ghetto, no one speaks the language properly, no one knows the social history of their own area. Try riding on the tube or catching a bus late at night. Try talking to a stranger in a shop or in a neighbourhood you do not know. Try avoiding the needles and the homeless winos when you go to your local park. Try finding a swimming pool, library or local pub that is still open.
Talk about luxury values; he hasn't got a clue. London is great when you are millionaire celebrity Jimmy Carr, not so great for everyone else.
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The opinions held by this young man are regularly platformed and validated in our manistream media. People like Ash Sarkar, Yasmin Alibah-Brown, Dr Shola Mos-Obamimu have regular spots on tv and radio, but the anti-white, anti-British narrative they promote is never pushed back against. Note how delicately Jeremy Vine deals with Nerinda Kour when she is ranting about how 'the British committed genocide all across its Empire'. Note the BBC host, in the clip you included, deliberately allows the young man his platform and remember, it is no accident that people such as these are allowed to air these opinions, they have been deliberately invited in to speak in this way by the producers who book them. None of this is an accident, it is by design.
Also note that the person brought in to 'balance' his opinion is also from an ethnic minority group. There is never a white Anglo Saxon there to defend themselves or their nation's history. White people are never platformed, nor their values properly expressed. They have to be represented by a sympathetic person of colour such as Nana Akua. This is also no accident.
Working class white people are only included in these discussions to belittle and dismiss them, usually as 'racist' and ignorant. Accurate historic detail is never presented, context is never provided and certain ideologies are never challenged. Especially not on the BBC.
White people, on the other hand, are only validated if they are adjacent to non white people, such as in the adverts; their opinions are only valid if expressed by people of other ethnicities, their values only valued if others express them. We are never invited to argue our own case against people such as the man you included because it would be seen as far too problematic and too provocative.
This is the reason why violence at a St George's Day gathering can be shown live on Sky News, complete with a commentary of criticism and disapproval; but violence, arrests and hate specch at a pro-Palestine march can not.
We are simply given no platform to confront the narrative, if we do, we are told that we are wrong. We are being removed from the centre of our own poltical culture, written out of our own history, denied access to our own mythos and sidelined. And meanwhile people like Ash Sarkar are smiling all the way to the bank. The 'global majority' win, we lose.
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If providing 'easy answers to real problems' and then not being able to deliver them undermines trust in democracy, then Harriet Harmon's description could more accurately apply to the Labour Party, the Lib Dems or the Tories.
Case in point: Brexit, controls on immigration, controlling our own borders, the Rwanda scheme, smashing the gangs, regaining our soveriegnty, not raising taxes, delivering economic growth etc etc, blah blah blah.
Rishi Sunak's five pledges comes to mind or Starmer's milestones or or pledges or whatever he calls them at the moment. All simple solutions that buy time but are never delivered.
And who is Harmon to say Reform won't fulfill their manifesto? And, if they were to fail, why would their failuire be any more desructiven than decades of uni-party failures?
What Harman thinks of as 'democracy' is far from what the rest of us expect or deserve, with all the: unelected senior civil servants, various Bank of England officials, European law courts, Quangos, lobbyists, think tank consultants, the Supreme Court, the House of Lords, billionaire party contributors, privately employed political advisors and even the PM's wife directly influencing policy making.
That's not even including shadowy, undemocratic, globalist interest groups like the WEF and Davos.
If that is what democracy trully is in this country I hope someone like Farage is a threat to it.
Drain the Swamp!
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I followed Ash Sarkar promoting her book with interest and, although she always starts off with criticizing the left for how fragile and divided they have become (because of 'victimhood' and identity politics) her principle gripe seems to be that the 'far right' (as she calls everyone but the progressive left) have become too good at using the same tactic of 'victimhood equals virtue' against them.
She constantly refers to the 'White Working Class' as undeserving of the right to describe themselves as the victims of racist oppression for example, while simultaneously being racist about them. She still sees racism in terms of institutions rather than an individual's predjudice while she ignores her own. She still thinks women can have male genitals, she still thinks in terms of 'the patriarchy' and 'the hierachy of oppression', she still wants to destroy the British class system, decolonize the culture and redistribute power wealth and ownership.
So, despite her supposed change of attitude, she still sees the world throuh the same old lens of race, sex, gender, sexuality and class. Nothing has changed in other words. She's still literally a communist however she has simply realised that she needs to moderate her schtick if she is ever going to win anybody over! Good luck with that.
One thing you do notice however is that, amongst the left wing media outlets she is always welcomed by, they all see each other as part of the same team. Unlike the people on the right, they actively support each other and readily amplify each other's messages. This is why we need Jordan Peterson's ARC, and the alternative media. We need to support and promote each other even though we may have slight ideological differences, just like the left do.
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@fredblogs Hope you don't mind this comment being massive but once I started I couldn't stop:
I know Morden very well, my sister lives there. It has a huge South Korean community nowadays. That's not so bad, they are mostly hard working, conservative and Christian and although they don't make much effort to intergrate socially, they don't cause any social problems.
However, even though I have a load of mates who live in Thornton Heath, I don't go there unless I absolutely have to, from Streatham southwards the traffic is awful, the shops are mostly 'ethnic', there's a lot of gang related knife crime and if you find yourself as far down as the London Rd in West Croydon it is like being in a Middle Eastern bazaar. Very hostile, very intimidating, especially for English girls. Put it this way, I wouldn't want my Mrs or my teenage daughters walking around there after dark.
Over the last twenty years or so, in most of those suburban areas (where accomodation was reletively cheap and work was available in unregulated foreign owned businesses) things have been transformed. Not for the better.They no longer feel British. The low skilled, lowly paid immigrants are distinctly different in their attitudes and manners from traditional working class people. They live much of their lives out on the street, especially the young men, presumably because they have very poor housing conditions. The areas tend to look scruffy because the (usually foreign) landlords do not maintain their properties when they are occupied by recently arrived migrants. Often they are houses with multiple occupants, not families, not young couples, just single men. Alternatively these properties are sometimes used as brothels, exploiting young girls who have been trafficked and smuggled into the country. All of this in what used to be quiet suburban streets.
Given this backdrop there is little to no civic pride, no social engagement, litter and refuse is dumped on the streets, which are generally dirtier and more chaotic. There is no social trust and no social cohesion. Many can't even speak English.
As an example of how bad things have become, in Tooting Broadway there is a homeless African couple who have lived, wrapped in sleeping bags, on a bench on the High Road for over eight years. They never leave the bench. People just ignore them and leave them to it. Personally I find it disturbing that our supposedly civilised society can not find a better solution for two obviously mentally ill, homeless immigrants, rather than allowing them to live out in the open, in all weathers, on a public bench, for eight years. But local people now treat this situation as normal, as they pass by doing their shopping. One wonders whether they might not be happier going back to where ever they came from but that kind of thinking is 'racist' and 'far right'.
You could blame this genral situation on 14 years of Tory mis-management, or on London's Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, but I think the problem goes much further than that. In many areas of Greater London nowadays the British simply don't live there any more, they've given up and moved on, in huge numbers, leaving once pleasant neighbourhoods to the 'new-comers', whoever they may be.
In Stockwell and Kennington it's Portuguese, in Clapham Junction its Ghanaians and Nigerians, in Tooting it's Bengalis and Punjabis, in Kingston it's Koreans and the wealthier Middle Easterners and in Croydon it's Afghans, Somalis, Syrians, Libyans, Kurds and God knows who else .
Even the traditional immigrant communities, like the Indian Sikhs in Southall or West Indians in Brixton, are being swamped by mass immigration. Neighbourhood after neighbourhood is being transformed. The rich in their modern, usually high rised, gated, appartment blocks, protected from the social dis-harmony and keeping safely out of the way. The developers buying every green space, playing field, unused council building, empty office blocks, old schools, swimming pools, libraries; all for luxury apartments. Council estates -mostly occupied by people who were born outside of the UK. And on the streets; the lowly paid or unemployed, alienated, disenfranchised immigrants, migrants and asylum seekers rubbing shoulders with the young post code gangs, fighting with knives over their horrible territories.
It's a mess.
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Excellent point. Working class Brits have always been quite socially conservative, they have always wanted low and controlled immigration, equal opportunities not outcomes, to secure working people's rights to a fair wage, fair rents, reasonable conditions, equality under the law, the protection of our social institutions and the right to speak out when they experience injustice. Traditionally they have also been proud to be British and Christian, unlike the middle class, liberal intelligensia.
Bit by bit all of those expectations have been undermined over the last 35 year or so. Mass immigration undermines half of those aspirations (low wages, poor working conditions, high rents, exploitation of workers, poor housing conditions etc) and progressive liberalism undermines the other half (hate speech laws, two tier policing, protected identities, anti-white, anti nation messaging etc).
Meanwhile the national institutions we used to be so proud of have been hollowed out, devalued and undermined.
Is it any wonder white working class people are simultaneously rejecting the progresive left and the liberal values of the conservatives?
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By the way, the reason why this guy doesn't want to go back to Eritrea is because, if he did, he would be forced to do National Service and join the army by the brutal autocratic dictator that currently runs the place. He would be forced to defend his country in the on-going border dispute that exists between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Why is there a dispute? Because Eritrea controls the two ports that allow them access to the world trade that goes up and down the Suez Canal, trade that the British developed and protected for decades. Why is that whole region continually in conflict? Because of the Marxists regimes that ruined them after the colonial era, because of traditional tribal emnity that pre-existed colonisation, because of the endemic corruption, the lack of democracy and because the war lords, who dominate their regional politics, are incapable of brokering peace with each other.
Just like all the other war-torn African states.
In other words, the guy knows nothing or he's lying. By the way, I almost forgot, Eritrea was an Italian colony, not British. That says it all really.
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The problem is, we wil not be asked to defened ourselves against Russia, China, Iran or North Korea or some other external threat. The conflict will be within our own borders. It won't be an armed struggle either, it will be a war of ideologies, of values, of cultures.
So the question is, to what extent are British people ready to defend their values against those who would destroy them?
If you look at the areas of our cities that have already been colonised and the way Brits have simply removed themselves from those neighbourhoods and settled elsewhere, you would be forgiven for thinking they had already surrendered.
For a cultural movement to be effective it needs to have the youth behind it. Sadly the young people of Britain are more likely to hold the woke values of the progressive ideologies, despite the fact that they are mostly likely to lose out because of them.
Otherwise, if you want a cultural shift back towards traditional values, where is it going to come from?
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If you try phoning in to any discussion show on LBC or on the BBC etc. to express your concerns about mass Immigration (the socio/political economic phenomena, not the individual people involved in that process) just see how quickly the host dismisses your concerns, suspecting that you must be a racist.
To even be concerned about such a thing, they think, you must be full of racial hatred and therefore a ‘bad person’ not worthy of having an opinion. So they don't let you express it or belittle you for doing so.
Try expressing the opinion that the 'asylum seekers' are economic migrants or that they are breaking the law by unfairly jumping the queue and you will be told that they have the right to seek 'protection' anywhere they choose, especially in the UK, with its shameful history of colonialism, even though those guys rarely come from former British colonies and have passed through many safe countries on their way to ours.
If you go so far as to say that those unskilled young men from war torn, unstable, failed states (such as Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Sub Saharan Africa etc. etc.) may not share our cultural values, or that they do not even want to share them, or may not even be able to integrate into our society, but instead they intend to take advantage of our system and do, you will be told that to deny them those benefits would be to infringe upon their human rights. The implication being that morally the cost of respecting their human rights comes before the needs of UK citizens.
Try pointing out that recent ONS statistics indicate that some immigrant groups (specifically those called MENATs: Middle Eastern, North African and Turkish) represent a net loss to our economy; claiming more benefits for them and their dependents, than the net value of the taxes they pay . This has also been found to be the case in other European countries who have done the same analysis.
You could add statistics concerned with the pressure this whole process places upon housing, rents, school places, hospital beds, policing, prisons and add a few local and national crime stats. If you were to point all this out, despite the fact that this is based upon government statistics, you will instantly be closed down. Some facts are just too unpalatable.
If you were to point out that the most productive immigrant groups come from the Anglo-sphere (Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians and Americas etc.) and that perhaps this is because they share our culture and values, that they do not come to this country to claim benefits but rather to work and contribute, this would be dismissed as a toxic interpretation of the data.
Try suggesting that multi-culturalism seems to create ethnic ghettos and that this is not in fact surprising, as nationally we have no mechanism (or 'rubric' as J.P. calls it) for ensuring that immigrant communities are encouraged, or made, to integrate so, on the whole, they don't. You will certainly be dismissed as 'far right'.
If you were to express the concern that not all cultures seem 'equal', as some may have values that are undemocratic, misogynistic, homophobic and religiously intolerant, you will certainly be told that your concerns are needlessly extreme and prejudiced. In other words, motivated by an underlying racism. It seems that the young liberal political elite think we have ‘magic soil’ that somehow convinces new-comers to instantly exchange their values upon contact. Don’t try questioning that naive point of view either.
Don't even try to suggest that English culture, history, language, law and social customs may be something we can justifiably feel proud of and want to protect. That will be dismissed as nationalistic rhetoric or a right wing dog whistle.
God forbid if you were to point out that the rise of Islamism represents a threat to our British traditions, you would of course be given a lecture about how 'diversity is our strength' and that Britain was 'built by immigration', neither of which are factually true.
The irony is that people who host radio phone-in shows are more than happy for other national, ethnic, racial groups to protect their identity, their culture, their language, their flags, their customs, to seek to further their own political and social influence and to demand that their religion is treated with extra respect. But they don’t like it when English people ask for exactly the same rights and respect.
In fact, is there any platform, other than posting comments on YouTube, where English people are allowed to discuss this in public, without being shut down, dismissed or gas lit? Even then, be careful what you write folks, half your comments will be removed.
It occurs to me that we have to either redefine what these dismissive terms mean, like progressives have done with words such as; racism, diversity, equity, inclusion, harm, hate and violence, or simply own them, embrace them and shrug them off.
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The dedication shown by sincere and devout Muslims can be quite inspiring, especially when you travel around Islamic countries. To witness societies that are not enrirely governed by commercialism and consumerism can be quite refreshing. Concepts such as Zakat (charity) the Haj (pilgimage) and Ramadam (the yearly fast to remind the faithful of how it feels to be poor and vunerable) are quite admirable.
However the hatred, disrespect and predjudice with which Muslims are taught to treat non-muslims (especially Jews) is extremely shocking when you are first exposed to it and realise the full depth of it. Muslims tend to deny this when amongst people of other faiths or in the secular world, but in private they don't feel ashamed to admit it. On the contrary, they consider it part of their obligation to Allah. Visit any Wahabi mosque and listen to what is being taught behind closed doors and you soon see how deep this hatred and suspicion goes. Witness the persecution of Christians throughout the Islamic world. Read the doctrine of any of the proscribed terrorist groups.
The fact that Islam produces so many violently extremist groups, dedicated to 'Jihad' and the Muslim brotherhood at the expense of all else, is obviously a great concern too.
The Quran is certainly not a book of peace, it teaches a methodology for overcoming and conquering other faiths. Islam teaches that women are chattels owned by men, it accepts slavery especially of non muslims, it ecourages polygamy and demands homophobic behaviour from its adherents, it also disregards the notion of an age of consent for women and contains within it the entirely illiberal notion of Shariah law. It does not value 'diversity' and specifically teaches against 'inclusion'. There is no concept of 'equality' with non muslims in Islam. It does however encourage matyrdom amongst the faithful in the pursuit of an Islamic world.
In fact, if you had to choose a religion to be phobic about, it would indeed have to be Islam. However I would say that, from a Western liberal point of view, it is entirely rational to be critical of Islam and the fanatics that find it so appealing. It's spread in the West brings with it all kinds of dangers regarless of how many liberal, modern muslims deny it or attempt to diminish the fact.
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'London is great'.
Is living in London great? Try being part of a traditional white working class community being squeezed out of your own neighbourhood by a combination of gentrification and mass immigration, shopping at local shops where you are served by people who can't talk English, who no longer sell the products you want, where you are treated with suspicion and sometimes outright hostility because of your race, religion or ethnicity.
Try holding on to your traditional cultural values when, not only the people surrounding you don't share them, but they are being denigrated in local schools, by local councils, by the media and the broader community. Try getting a council flat. Try finding a fair rent. Try buying a house. Try having your house regularly burgled, or your bike stolen, or your car broken into, knowing that the police will do nothing. Try finding someone who is prepared to be a witness when a crimes occurs, even in broad daylight. Try walking around at night when you are constantly at risk of being mugged, having to avoid gang related drug and knife crime, random violent attacks, imported ethnic conflicts, two tier policing and anti white racism.
Try objecting to a Palestinian or Rainbow flag being strung up outside your house. Try complaining about your Nigerian neighbours' anti-social behaviour to your Nigerian local council housing officer. Try driving around London regularly, trying to avoid all the parking restrictions, bus lanes, cycle lanes and traffic flow restrictions. Try to avoid getting a parking ticket or an extortionate Transport for London driving fine Try objecting to Ramadan and Eid being observed and celebrated, to the exclusion of Easter, in your work place. Try asking for help if you are elderly or disabled. Try getting an appointment with your local dentist or GP. Try getting a place for your kid at the only decent school in your neighbourhood. Try spending some time in any average London Secondary School or listening to their pupils talking on the back seat of a bus
Try riding on the tube or a night bus late into the night. Try talking to a stranger in a shop or in a neighbourhood you do not know. Try ignoring the constant background noise of dissatisfaction, frustration, friction, bad manners and hostility. Try avoiding the discarded hyper dermic needles, the litter and the homeless winos when you go to your local park. Try finding a way through the Eastern European pick pockets, the professional beggars and the fraudsters in the busy shopping streets in the West End. Try finding a swimming pool, a library or local pub that is still open. Try finding a pint that does not cost a fortune. Try protecting your children from all the casual violence, the verbal abuse and the discourtesy everyone is constantly exposed to in public spaces.
Just try asking for directions and you'll see the social disconnect that currently exists in London: it seems like no one knows the city beyond their own ghetto, no one speaks the language properly, no one knows the social history of their own area and most depressingly, no one cares.
London is great when you are a millionaire celebrity or a high earning professional, not so great for everyone else. Most people living in London do not take pride in it, they do not see the area they live in as belonging to them or see their future there. They are passing through, on their way to somewhere better; somewhere less chaotic, less aggressive, quieter, more functional.
The rest of the people living in London are those who are stuck there, through no fault of their own and are unable to find a route out. This especially applies to the white working class people who have remained despite the ‘white flight’. They are now like an embattled minority, clinging to the idea of a community that disappeared years ago, unappreciated, anachronistic and out of place.
It feels like giving up, coming to the conclusion that London is lost, but equally, it’s hard not to.
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Good question. I agree with you, I think its more likely that they are simply conformists, with one eye on their salary and the other on what their superiors in the MSM are currently endorsing. As well as this, they are all drawn from the same university educated class, live in expensive London suburbs and are entirely sheltered from the effects of the opinions they hold. In other words they all endorse luxury values.
They love a controversial race-baiter like Narinder Kaur or Dr Shola Mos-Obamimu, despite all the evidence of their racial biases, but despise TR and his supporters, despite having no evidence to prove their's.
They openly mock Farage while allowing representatives of the progressive ideologies to go unchallenged. They are not ashamed to voice their own poorly thought through opinions because they think that those opinions prove their virtue. They trully believe that people from minority groups are inherently virtuous while simultaneously believing that white people, with different values from theirs, don't deserve a voice. They are therefore happy to ridicule them on or off air and deny them a platform.
And finally, as you point out, they are not especially well-read or well informed, despite their university degrees. When pressed their opinions usually falter.
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As well as using Jews and LGBTQ+ vs conservative Muslims as an example of people from different backgrounds not rubbing up against each other particularly well in London, how about:
The two factions of Eritreans who had a riot with each other on the streets Camberwell a few months ago,
The Sunni vs Shia muslims who had a riot with each other on the streets of Swiss Cottage.
The Muslim men who rioted in Southall, West London, to celebrate the end of Ramadan.
The Islamists who intimidate and bully teachers and children in various local schools to force them to toe the Islamic line.
The BLM supporters endlessly pushing CRT ideology to politically attack white society and the police.
Criminal migrants gangs pick pocketing and scamming shoppers and tourists in Central London.
Random muderous attacks on the public by Islamists.
Prominant politicians receiving death threats on a daily basis.
The black youths using social media to rob West End shops en masse, sell drugs as well as the standard muggings, phone theft, car theft, bike theft, burglaries etc.
Human trafficking gangs using houses of multiple occupancy in quiet suburban neighbourhoods as brothels and to accomodate their victims.
Jamaican Yardies intimidating vunerable people into using their homes as grow houses.
Muslims vs Christians values, or Muslims vs Sikhs, or Muslims vs Hindus.
Middle Class Progressive Leftists vs conservative working classes.
LGBTQ+ vs 'hetro normativity', the Trans lobby vs TERFs, Gay Pride vs conservative Christain values.
Environmentalists vs everyone else, Car drivers vs Cyclists.
County lines drug gangs vs the police and local communities,
Newly arrived immigrants vs traditional communities,
Traditional London communitites having to deal with; rape culture, gang culture, gun culture, post code knife crime, FGM, honour killings, grooming gangs and general social distrust.
The liberal political elite dismantling the disenfranchised white working class communities with hostle housing policy, high rents, impossible house prices and more generally through the denigration of white working class cultural values.
The liberal metropolitan elite don't feel it so they don't just fail to acknowledge it in the media, they actively create the narrative that nothing is going wrong, 'Nothing to see here, everybody's fine,'
They simply haven't got a clue.
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London is great when you are a millionaire celebrity or a high earning professional. The liberal elite love it, mostly because they are largely sheltered from the reality of it. It is not so great for everyone else. Most people who live in London do not take pride in it, they do not see the area they live in as belonging to them or see their future there. They are passing through, on their way to somewhere better; somewhere less chaotic, less aggressive, quieter, more functional. Presumably they aspire to living in 'The Shire' as you put it.
It seems only logical that aspirant minority groups, abitious immigrants and optimistic migrants want to get out of London too, after all, it's just as unpleasant, chaotic and dangerous for them too. Of course they would now have their eyes on areas outside of the M25 and if that is the case, why should they not 'prepare the ground'?
The rest of the people living in London are those who are stuck there, through no fault of their own and are unable to find a route out. This especially applies to the white working class people who have remained despite the ‘white flight’. They are now like an embattled minority, clinging to the idea of a community that disappeared years ago, unappreciated, anachronistic and out of place.
With that in mind It feels a little like capitulation, coming to the conclusion that London is lost, but equally, it’s hard not to. We have to face the facts, with four more years of Mr Khan, it is unlikely to get any better anytime soon.
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Why are the BBC using research done by Hope Not Hate to deliberately undermine Reform candidates and their supporters? Because they are worried. They are finally beginning to see that there is a great re-set approaching. The progressive, liberal, metropolitan elite are losing their control of the narrative. Their endless virtue signalling, woke dogma and luxury opinions are simply not working any more. People are rejecting all of that stuff and the insufferable BBC progressive liberals who broadcast it.
Let's start with Nick Robinson who did his disengenuous best to mischaracterise Farage and his various political positions in the recent tv interview. He tried his best to reframe various Farage quotes, he quoted Reform candidates entirely without context, he interrupted Farage's replies and denied him the time to fully defend himself by claiming "time is short".
At times Robinson was both dismissive and rude and this was deliberate, not accidental and entirely pre-planned. By linking him to Trump, Truss and Putin he implied that Farage admired 'illegitimate' political figures and therefore held unacceptable opinions, making him appear toxic by association. Robinson then accused him of 'wriggling out of it' whenever Farage tried to clarify his position.
In conflating immigrants with the process of immigration it was both deliberately defamatory and dishonest, by mischaracterising Farage's criticism of Sunak the explicit implication was that if Farage isn't a racist then his supporters certainly must be.
So many unsubstantiated presumptions.
Robinson was performative and virtue signalling, not balanced or fair. It reminded me of Maitliss vs Prince Andrew; it was intended as a political ambush. However, in this case it didn't work, it simply exposed the BBC's blatant bias against Farage, Reform and their supporters.
To his credit Farage seemed to successfully deflect most of it and came away with his reputation entirely intact.
The same can't be said of Robinson or the BBC, they both simply reflect the metropolitan, liberal elite's globalist agenda and the extent to which the mainstream media seeks to control the narrative. In this case it didn't work.
Vote Reform and let's dismante this elitist cabal.
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The liberal globalists in government, in the media and in our civil service know that mass immigration creates cheap labour and more demand, which is effectively a cheap fix for lack of economic growth.
They will say it keeps taxes down (not true, as we all know) and of course it also provides huge demand for homes and property, which they have invested in. It also keeps rents high, which they also profit from, and it creates enough economic activity to make it seem like the GDP is going up. Of course per capita, more people sharing no extra wealth, means that we actually all worse off. Ordinary people can see this clearly, the political elites, not so much.
The university educated progressives also believe that they are redressing centuries of 'white supremacy', Western colonial 'oppression' and therefore they see immigration as morally correct too.
They also see immigrants as morally virtuous, like innocent children, that have to be protected by the state. Much more than the white English majority.
Let's be honest, they also seem to have an ideological hatred for anything to do with the 'capitalist' Western societies. They don't mind too much if it all gets dismantled bit by bit or even ultimately destroyed. Hence the obsession with diversity, inclusion and equity.
Of course, none of these elite groups really feel the social costs of mass immigration, so they can dismiss the concerns of those who do as 'racist' or 'far right'. To them it is a kind of virtuous, moral pass-time.
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Connor Tomlinson says what Farage doesn't dare say. Unfortunately young men like him, TR, Carl Benjamin, Calvin Robinson, Lawrence Fox etc simply get demonized, mischaracterized and smeared by the mainstream media (usually after having been targetted by Hope Not Hate) and their opinions declared illegitimate.
Mathew Goodwin sums it up quite accurately in his book 'Values, Voice and Virtue'; you must have the 'correct' values otherwise you are denied a voice and potrayed as without virtue. People like Tomlinson are denied a mainstream platform in an attempt to silence them, just like the protestors after the Southport stabbings. You will not see him, or anyone like him, invited to sit opposite Ash Sarkar on the BBC's Question Time, mostly because he is a young white, English male and unapologetic about it.
Farage knows this and is trying to walk the tightrope between speaking the truth and saying what the media will allow him to say. This is not the case with the European populist leaders like Kurt Wilders, they are now speaking freely. Perhaps we need things to get worse before our politicians will do the same? In the meantime we rely upon people like yourself, Douglas Murray and the Lotus Eaters.
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Yes, another example of a well loved IP getting a thorough kicking by the woke revisionists. In this case, doubling down on the franchise bashing.
You didn't mention the fact that because the 're-booted' Dr Who is now mostly funded by Disney, it means Russell T Davies and the writers no longer consider themselves connected to the legacy of the intellectual property. From now on they will be free to pursue the various progressive agendas with impunity in an effort to 'reclaim' the iconic tv series. After all, they trully believe that what the world needs is for Dr Who to be 're-imagined' for 'modern audiences' and Disney will actively encourage them to do so.
With Disney at the helm they will have bigger budgets and bigger audiences whatever they do, so why should they worry about what the 'conservative' traditional legacy audience thinks? Why even worry what audiences think at all, given Hollywood's current obsession with what the Critical Drinker calls 'The Message'? Going broke is not a problem as long as you are sufficiently woke, look at what they have already done to Star Wars, Marvel, Disney's own legacy IPs and even Scooby Doo!
Christopher Eccleston has already distanced himself from the whole franchise, so too have fans of his and the previous incarnations.
I predict that in a couple of years even Disney and the BBC will realise that they have ruined the whole thing and dump it. Then, hopefully, the traditionalists will reclaim it?
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Trump does not do the subject justice. He was poorly prepared and (typically) made exaggerated cliams that are based on rumours rather than the truth. This is a wasted opportunity because his inaccuracies mask the fact that, because of the recent arrival of huge numbers of Haitians and the subsequent culture clashes, the people of Springfield Ohio are facing exactly the same issues that the British public are currently dealing with: rising violent crime rates, rising rental prices and shrinking housing stock, lower wages, lack of job opportunities, housing over crowding, the increased dumping of litter and refuse, increased competition for finite resources especially state benefits, an increase in illegal and dangerous driving, a general lack of social trust and a deterioration of standards of public behaviour.
The rumoured goose thing is based on one picture posted on Facebook showing a migrant carrying a dead bird and the cat thing is based on one van being pulled over by the Springfield police in which migrants had gathered up an unspecified number of cats. Everything else (that Trump didn't mention), the car crashes, the taking over of neighbour hoods, the welfare lines, the culture clashes are true and can easily be fact checked by the BBC if necessary.
The take away is that it is very sad that we all have to reply upon Trump to fight our corner.
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Kamala is a woke empty suit who seems to have failed upwards throughout her career, largely for reasons of DEI. She seems happy to bend the truth in order to portray Trump in the worst possible terms as well as having very little honesty about her record in office. She seems to have been involved in a terrible conspiracy to hide how incapacitated Joe Biden was from the US citizens only to then unceremonially oust him when the facts were exposed. She is not qualified to run nor does she have a popular mandate to be the Democratic candidate. She is personally responsible for the Southern border and the sanctuary city chaos the US are now experiencing. She represents a particularly undemocratic Democratic elite who bring with them all the Trans ideology, Critical Race Theory intended, ultimately, to undermine Western values.
On the other hand Trump is an erratic narcissist without any real ideology who is quite happy to lie to the public when necessary. Mostly he seems to want to protect America's richest people, like himself and, because of this, he does have a reasonably good economic record. He has been quite strong on immigration and borders but he remains eccentric and unpredictable. However, internationally, he does project a certain strength that Harris would entirely lack.
What a crap choice the Americans have!
Given that Trump seems much less vigorous and able than he was in 2016, I would probably vote for him, hoping that J.D.Vance (supported by RFK and Tulsi Gabbard) will be stepping in quite soon.
I expect Trump to win by a narrow margin and for the Democrats to widely imply that the election was 'stolen', just like Hilary Clinton did in 2016.
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Our political elite have been propping up a failing economy by importing consumers to boost demand and depress wages.They also argue that mass immigration keeps taxes down too, but we all know that isn't happening. They are globalists and don't actually experience the impact of mass immigration. That is why they can cling to their luxury beliefs, silence or shame the voices of dissent and cling to their anti -British, globalist values.
The idealistic 'woke' progressives of the cultural left see criticising this model as an expression of racism. But it actually has nothing to do with race: If you imported 1.2 million Australians each year, or Belgians, or Swedes, it would just as damaging to the nation's social fabric. It places unsustainable pressure upon social housing, house prices, rents, the NHS, GP appointments, dentists, beds in hospitals, places in schools, care for the elderly, homes for the homeless, council services, benefits and of course jobs. That's not to mention the cultural friction that also follows.
As you mention, it also has a worrying religious aspect too.
I would refer anyone who is interested in deconstructing this political model to the work of Prof. Mathew Goodwin in his book 'Values, Voice and Virtue'.
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The roots of modern Western Civilisation (especially in the UK) predate Islam and lie in the classical Greek civilisation, the Roman period and the rise of Christianity. Post Islam the West was able to, quite independently from the Islamic world, create the agricultural revolution, common law, the Enlightenment, constitutional monarchy, the development of its own science, engineering, medicine and the Industrial revolution, theatre, art, literature, liberal reform, trade unions and eventually universal suffrage. None of those cultural developments owe anything to Islam, 'golden age' or otherwise.
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Progressive, identity politics have been able to 'march through the institutions' for at least a couple of decades now. The whole philosophy riddles our schools, colleges, universities, the civil service, the MSM, the management classes and pretty much most of our national institutions.
It is like a religious cult or a mind virus and as such will take decades to flush it all out of our Western societies, if indeed that is even possible.
Trump's victory will not kill it or even push it back, on the contrary, the woke will take his success as justification for their beliefs and double down on their efforts to move us towards their non-binary, non-racist, non-patriarchal, impossible future utopia despite how illogical and paradoxical it may in reality be.
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If Satan did exist he'd be pretty dissppointed in the callibre of converts he is attracting nowadays. He'd probably think they were a bunch of twats like everyone else does, complaining to his minions, "Is this the best we can do? I was hoping for the heads of state and the monarchs!".
To which his chief minion would reply, "Don't worry Boss, we've had that lot for decades!"
Seriously though,
If you are 'queer' (whatever that means) and you have rejected Christian values, you're hardly likely to adopt Islam, so Satanism (whatever that is) is the most logical alternative belief system ( if indeed it is anything more than a fashion statement). Possibly, in the 'Eurovision zone' (unlike in the UK) there is still a significant conservative Christian lobby that they think they are 'pushing back' against?
The Church of England, on the other hand, pretty much condones the 'queer' sexual content and would happily tolerate the messaging, after all 'diversity is our strength' and, in the intersectional pyramid of oppression, you can never be 'too queer', can you? The Satanic imagery isn't problematic to today's Christian Church either, no more than Hallowe'en anyway. As for Madonna, well she's always been a bit of a slag hasn't she? That's nothing new.
To my jaded eyes it hardly even seems rebellious nowadays, after all, it's only music, sexual deviancy, costumes, make-up and hairspray isn't it? Elton John has been doing that for as long as I can remember and he's pretty much a national treasure! In fact he's probably their spiritual leader? Him or Freddy Mercury?
Rest assured, tomorrow's rebels will be rejecting all this as nothing more than meaningless, self indulgent, narcissisism and probably want to adopt a more meaningful, puritan style of moral and social conservativism?
Their songs will still be crap though.
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