Conservatives failed, Labour are failing. The "common problem" appears to be the Civil Servants. Reform will have to address the "common problem" before it can move forward.
Reform will certainly have to address the civil service. As someone with experience of the public sector, the failings of the Home Office come as no surprise. The office-based public sector is riddled with inefficiency and deadwood. A compete clear out would be a good start and only re-employing those who are effective and committed to actually enacting policy (of which there will be a good number). The unions will call for strikes and try to cause hell - let them. It would do the country some good to have the striking types absent.
Political failure is true. They make the big decisions and too many of the small ones. Civil servants? Let’s have a closer look at the situation. Problem one: the law and what it requires to be done. Problem two: administrative processes are what they are - procedures involving checking here, there and everywhere which takes time. Problem three: the bombardment rate. How many incoming cases are there, compared with the number of staff available to deal with them?
I nearly wrote problem four: staff. But just a minute - what do we know about the people, their skills and abilities, the social attitudes they bring with them? Professional development? Are they all that different to those I remember from two short years in the service over fifty years ago - conscientious, honest, intelligent, deferential to authority?
I agree that people are policy: if you want to change the policy you may need to change the people - the policy makers. Provide the right leadership and the poor bloody infantry will follow behind.
I’m not sure that the system is the problem, but the people in the system are. It is the same in all the institutions. But, this is missing the point in my opinion.
To me, it is now pointless wasting time coming up with solutions, when we have to wait four years to carry them out. ALL our effort should be going in to removing this government from power. They may say they want to solve the problems but it’s obvious by now that they want to break the system.
Every word out of the governments mouthpieces are lies, every thing they try and do is a total disaster, they all appear neck deep in one scandal after another, the people in positions of high office are not fit to run the local boy scouts - it is a catastrophe the likes of which we have never seen before.
The government must be removed. That’s where our focus must lie.
But how ? A no confidence vote would never pass given the size of Labours majority and they won’t go if we ask nicely . Am not even sure they would step down in the event of economic collapse, which leaves civil disorder ? Or what ?
You were brilliant on dewbs and co last night Matt, thank you. If it wasn’t for you and others like you I’d be in total despair. As Aayan Hirsi Ali has stated, the fall of Europe is her worst nightmare and the UK is very near the tipping point.
People vote to put councils and governments in charge to manage things . It is a voluntary transfer of power . When they fail spectacularly and progressively to manage , people will start to take their power back . What is often described as taking the law into their own hands . We are seeing this in Ireland , and the seeds of it over here . Without a turnaround on immigration and the economy, both of which I believe are beyond the ability of this government , it’s a question of which will come first . A Reform government where people take pause to see what they can do, or progressive violence and civil disobedience . Can’t predict which way it will go , but with every child we hear of bring assaulted, and more economic injustice served up in the budget , the latter is looking more likely . Can’t see us getting through four years of more of this
Thanks Matt. Instead of protesting individual issues, we need the country to come together as one and begin mass protests against this hideous government.
We can all feel it, things are falling apart. For years our governments have been moribund and self serving. The Labour government excels only at ineptitude and ineffectiveness. The current debacle over the utter mismanagement of the Grooming Gangs Inquiry is their crowning glory. What are they thinking? Their total inability to read the room is incredible! One in one out is a sick joke. It is no wonder people have completely lost patience with the Uniparty.
They're thinking that they - Labour - will be shown to be at massive fault if the truth about the gangs comes out. It's no surprise they are acting as they are!
That the Home Office is not fit for for purpose is not a new revelation. One of Tony Blair's Home Secretarys said it wasn't fit for purpose back in the noughties. It didn't take a report to find out it has got worse.
Nooo, Matt, my Labour MP blames Lucy Connolly and Mr Coskun.
They lie to our faces, they laugh in our faces, they hunker down in their only safe space, the House of Commons, where under the protection of Mr Speaker the cowards are allowed to abuse and malign Reform UK knowing there will be no comeback permitted.
Hopefully the good folk of Caerphilly will wipe the smiles off their smug and complacent faces today.
The British state has long been noted for its secrecy as many historians have pointed out. Getting information is like getting blood out of a stone. But, enough information is now established for Reform to seriously embarrass and expose Labour at the next election. Let's hope they do that and with some skill.
A previous article celebrated that the Met will no longer investigate non crime hate but missed the point. Reports will still be recorded and there is now even less chance of anyone knowing they have been reported and recorded thus increasing secrecy. Non Hate Crime recording has not been abolished. It just goes underground like much of the rest of the state's activity.
Even more concerning is the possibility the Elite know exactly what they're doing, and the only problem they see is that we've started to recognise what they're doing (deliberately destroying "Britain" as a concept) and are starting to push back. We are perhaps reaching the point where they will only be able to continue by ending their deception and openly ending democracy. They're already cancelling elections to retain power in some places.
Chaos is the right word to describe our Home Office and borders. Boris got nearly everything wrong but he was right about calling Starmer “Captain Chaos”.
Do they want to control the border? The recent attack on Brexit being the cause of economic woes and black holes are part of a plan. Starmer tried to overthrow democracy and certainly wants to re-join the EU. The 4% lie is accompanied by a "This proves the need for close alignment" policy. They claim that if we were in the EU illegals could have been returned - except we were never in Schengen. This is bigger than Immigration.
Many people I speak to no longer believe in democracy. They no longer believe that turning out to vote makes any difference to their lives. Matt, you talk about the social contract being at risk of breaking down. As I see it, it is already broken and many of those of us wealthy enough to be paying significant taxes appear to be literally walking away from the UK. I would class myself as a moderate Thatcherite but even I am now wondering how long it will be before civil war erupts on our streets; I fear it may be the only way to bring about change. I have serious doubts about Reform and their ability to turn any of this round - they are still a part of the establishment, simply a 'radical' (what we would have thought of as Tories in the 1980's) wing of it!
I fear this is only half the problem, Matt. What you might call the 'elite' or 'the chattering classes', mostly people who are over-educated but not terribly intelligent, seem actively to dislike their own country - oikophobia. Their relative prosperity insulates them from the worst effects of these policies, and that allows them to look down on people who do not share their world view. A real divide seems to have opened up between the 'somewheres' and the 'anywheres' and we have no-one offering leadership on a unifying theme. Hence nothing ever gets done. Electing Reform may be necessary, but it will certainly not be sufficient until we change this.
I agree Reform may not be enough. They need someone with the balls to do what ever it takes. I nominate Rupert Lowe. I was dismayed when reform decided to ditch him on some spurious charge , my thoughts on this are that he was getting too far ahead and they didnt want him to frighten the horses too soon. Since then what he is and has been saying is becoming less 'extreme' and more common sense. In some ways it was a good thing he became independent because it has allowed him to say what Reform were afraid to say. Please support him at Restore Britain and lets get this done. https://www.restorebritain.org.uk/join_us
There was clear roars of support for Lowe's statements in Reform. So he wasn't ahead. The public were ready, Farage wasn't. He doesn't believe in the nation state, a people a country a heritage and place to call their home, to defend and preserve.
Farage seems more interested in practical matters such as the economy rather than the fundamental importance of culture and values. I keep hoping that he’s holding fire so that he doesn’t give the opposition even more reason to attack him. I’d be happy to see Matt in charge.
I always respect your comments because i know how much you keep up where some areas i don't. I have a growing respect for Matt, he would be better than Farage and i respect that he reads the comments. But we can't vote Farage out. Yusuf will be shoved in.
This is where Farage is just thick. The two are vitally connected surely.
How much would we save if we were not paying for millions of benefit dependant third world immigrants, DEI racist twaddle causing incompetence, and the crimes of recent imports? Prison costs, court time, police time, translation NHS delays, road traffic slowing businesses etc
It is precisely the culture and Christian morality that created the ethic for economic success in the first place. Anglo saxon Catholic (end to tribalism, rise of high trust connectedness, universities and hospitals), then Protestant, personal responsibility, property rights, capitalist model, small state. You can't create economic prosperity without a cohesive society. A low trust high crime tribalist multi cultural morally and spiritually relativistic mess is the problem.
Every day children are getting raped. I'm so incensed if there was a vote to hang the rapists i'd say yes. Those poor girls are the mothers of the future..
Thanks Natasha and very well said, I agree with all that. The more I study Islam, the more puzzled I am that anyone decent follows it. You’re right, the success of the West is built on Christian values which were turbo charged when the pope banned cousin marriage in the 6th century. Sounds a small point but it destroyed the tribal mentality which puts blood ties above the good of the nation state. Islam is built on tribal lines with the ideology mimicking blood ties and with anyone outside the tribe being the enemy….us.
I am so very relieved for your positive reception. Honestly I wonder if i have any sanity left!! Rafe HM is good on those points. He calls it Western exceptionalism.
I am simple minded, look at the root and the fruits. I am not convinced Islam has a place in the west, the numbers should be severely restricted. Integration is a waste of time. 70 years on and it's got worse. By all accounts it seems violently expansionist and imperialistic, antithetical to democracy and free speech and hostile to non believers.
And of course the ban on inbreeding raised the IQ of the west. I read the other day a little muslim child was raped by father 2 brothers and grandfather. In Heaven's name what have we come to.
'Doormat' Christianity is partly to blame for where we are , loving everyone despite their barbarous natures and cultures was plain stupid. We might all bleed red but that is where it ends .England and later the UK became 'civilised 'centuries ago , thats why we have been such a soft touch , we had been taught that all humans were equals. That clearly is not so it depends on the culture which bore them.
Am not sure that Christianity is as much the problem as progressive liberalism which for many has become the new religion . Certainly the Christianity I was brought up with was very strict about how people behaved and not very forgiving
Well, to be fair, we can hardly ever begin to dismiss the absolutely crucial significance of "practical matters such as the economy". If you have no idea about managing the economy you haven't got a hope of running a country. How would you make properly informed decisions in the interests of the population? How would you do anything about inflation, unemployment, running any administration or legal and policy matters, or public well-being generally? If you don't ensure you have the money, you don't get to have people working for you because you end up not paying them! I'm certainly not dismissing your point about the "culture and values", which in Western civilization are virtually on life support, so I do appreciate you have to be able to breathe and survive before you worry about the contents of your purse or wallet. But no efficient economic governance means quick collapse and chaos, and anyone heading for the position of Prime Minister has got to pay attention to a lot of important things. Unless his name is Starmer, of course, but hopefully he's heading away from it rather than towards it!
I was not minimising the economy but economies can be fixed, our culture, values and identity can’t be restored once they’ve been destroyed. And as a female I’m extremely concerned that a Muslim takeover would mean the destruction of our rights. This country is predicted to be Muslim majority in thirty or so years when Sharia law would operate. I don’t think the economy will be the prime consideration at that point,
You are correct. I would rather live in a decent British society and be poor than the Muslim sharia alternative. The economy is important but secondary to the problems brought by immigration. The economy cannot be fixed until immigration is fixed, the latter is a huge drain on the former
Understood! One can only agree that if it ever descended to anything like a Civil War, managing inflation and unemployment statistics would hardly be a priority either! (God, a Muslim majority Great Britain! It hardly bears even considering! Think of the people "rolling in their graves", all the monarchs of the last thousand years for a start - not counting Charles III here, as I couldn't rely on him - and all those writers and statesmen and philosophers and military leaders! Imagine Admiral Nelson coming back and saying "OK I understand you more or less get on with the French these days, but what the hell do you think I fought all those battles for, a flag with the star and crescent on it held aloft by an English citizen clutching a Koran!! Jesus!!")
agreed Farage was behind , whether genuinely or as I said earlier afraid to go too far too soon or bad advice from Yusuf , who knows but there was a real and obvious 'rowing' back.
I agree - which will also reveal whether any politician in any party will be willing to answer a simple question - albeit then confront a hugely difficult topic.
Just a random thought. If many think that “Islam and immigration” are at the heart of the U.K.’s challenges, should one be better to focus criticism on (1) Islam and immigration or (2) just Islam or (3) just immigration? The simplicity of just one avoids some blurring and gives more focus on both sides of the debate.
I think they’re inextricably linked although if asked to choose I’d say that Islam was by far the greater and more immediate threat. Mass immigration needs to come down hugely but at least the damage from excessive numbers can be repaired. The damage from the loss of our culture, values and democracy may never be repaired. It took the Spanish 800 years to take back Spain. So to answer your question, we should focus on Islam first and that will help reduce the numbers anyway.
The desperation is rising. This is an excellent article, but Pew research figure is from 2017. The illegals are more likely 2 million plus. Farage is not the strong leader we need. He won't deport all of them.
The first duty of the state is to look after women and children and national security.
We know the laws that need to go. As far as i'm concerned i now want mass immigration reversed, not ended, reversed, not indiscriminately but under clear parameters. Only Ben Habib has talked about this. I want to be safe.
I want to live in the decent civilised courteous law abiding prosperous society we had before Blair. We need food and energy security and there is a limit to the population these islands can sustain.
Basic common sense. Lowe is courageous and tough with a clear vision, Farage isn't. Stupid to get rid of Lowe and Habib, they were both tougher than him and could have done the heavy lifting for him. Reform will bring in managed decline only.
Farage is weak sauce.. I wish he'd never come back and stayed in America.
Conservatives failed, Labour are failing. The "common problem" appears to be the Civil Servants. Reform will have to address the "common problem" before it can move forward.
Reform will certainly have to address the civil service. As someone with experience of the public sector, the failings of the Home Office come as no surprise. The office-based public sector is riddled with inefficiency and deadwood. A compete clear out would be a good start and only re-employing those who are effective and committed to actually enacting policy (of which there will be a good number). The unions will call for strikes and try to cause hell - let them. It would do the country some good to have the striking types absent.
Well said.
There's nobody in charge of the Civil Service. The head and his immediate subordinates must be sacked at once.
Political failure is true. They make the big decisions and too many of the small ones. Civil servants? Let’s have a closer look at the situation. Problem one: the law and what it requires to be done. Problem two: administrative processes are what they are - procedures involving checking here, there and everywhere which takes time. Problem three: the bombardment rate. How many incoming cases are there, compared with the number of staff available to deal with them?
I nearly wrote problem four: staff. But just a minute - what do we know about the people, their skills and abilities, the social attitudes they bring with them? Professional development? Are they all that different to those I remember from two short years in the service over fifty years ago - conscientious, honest, intelligent, deferential to authority?
I agree that people are policy: if you want to change the policy you may need to change the people - the policy makers. Provide the right leadership and the poor bloody infantry will follow behind.
In other words, 'the blob'. Quite right.
I’m not sure that the system is the problem, but the people in the system are. It is the same in all the institutions. But, this is missing the point in my opinion.
To me, it is now pointless wasting time coming up with solutions, when we have to wait four years to carry them out. ALL our effort should be going in to removing this government from power. They may say they want to solve the problems but it’s obvious by now that they want to break the system.
Every word out of the governments mouthpieces are lies, every thing they try and do is a total disaster, they all appear neck deep in one scandal after another, the people in positions of high office are not fit to run the local boy scouts - it is a catastrophe the likes of which we have never seen before.
The government must be removed. That’s where our focus must lie.
It's clearly the system because its happening in ALL Western Countries ( across all of the Global American Empire) and whoever the Governments are.
But how ? A no confidence vote would never pass given the size of Labours majority and they won’t go if we ask nicely . Am not even sure they would step down in the event of economic collapse, which leaves civil disorder ? Or what ?
Not sure, that’s my point - 10 million letters to the king;
Mass refusal to pay council tax;
Mass sit in at parliament? I genuinely don’t know, but we must think about it. We have a rogue government, intent on destroying our nation.
Liberal Democracy is just rule by international finance capitalism and the Merchant Class.
Wasn't it Cicero who ended every speech with (well, roughly) "Starmer regimen delendum est"?
Cato the Elder said it “Carthago delenda est
Carthage Must be destroyed just before the 3rd Punic War
Read the Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
You were brilliant on dewbs and co last night Matt, thank you. If it wasn’t for you and others like you I’d be in total despair. As Aayan Hirsi Ali has stated, the fall of Europe is her worst nightmare and the UK is very near the tipping point.
I am in despair
I am really, I’m just clutching at straws.
People vote to put councils and governments in charge to manage things . It is a voluntary transfer of power . When they fail spectacularly and progressively to manage , people will start to take their power back . What is often described as taking the law into their own hands . We are seeing this in Ireland , and the seeds of it over here . Without a turnaround on immigration and the economy, both of which I believe are beyond the ability of this government , it’s a question of which will come first . A Reform government where people take pause to see what they can do, or progressive violence and civil disobedience . Can’t predict which way it will go , but with every child we hear of bring assaulted, and more economic injustice served up in the budget , the latter is looking more likely . Can’t see us getting through four years of more of this
Thanks Matt. Instead of protesting individual issues, we need the country to come together as one and begin mass protests against this hideous government.
We can all feel it, things are falling apart. For years our governments have been moribund and self serving. The Labour government excels only at ineptitude and ineffectiveness. The current debacle over the utter mismanagement of the Grooming Gangs Inquiry is their crowning glory. What are they thinking? Their total inability to read the room is incredible! One in one out is a sick joke. It is no wonder people have completely lost patience with the Uniparty.
They're thinking that they - Labour - will be shown to be at massive fault if the truth about the gangs comes out. It's no surprise they are acting as they are!
That the Home Office is not fit for for purpose is not a new revelation. One of Tony Blair's Home Secretarys said it wasn't fit for purpose back in the noughties. It didn't take a report to find out it has got worse.
Pots do tend to call kettles black, don’t they.
Nooo, Matt, my Labour MP blames Lucy Connolly and Mr Coskun.
They lie to our faces, they laugh in our faces, they hunker down in their only safe space, the House of Commons, where under the protection of Mr Speaker the cowards are allowed to abuse and malign Reform UK knowing there will be no comeback permitted.
Hopefully the good folk of Caerphilly will wipe the smiles off their smug and complacent faces today.
The British state has long been noted for its secrecy as many historians have pointed out. Getting information is like getting blood out of a stone. But, enough information is now established for Reform to seriously embarrass and expose Labour at the next election. Let's hope they do that and with some skill.
A previous article celebrated that the Met will no longer investigate non crime hate but missed the point. Reports will still be recorded and there is now even less chance of anyone knowing they have been reported and recorded thus increasing secrecy. Non Hate Crime recording has not been abolished. It just goes underground like much of the rest of the state's activity.
The fundamental principles at stage are so obvious that I am deeply concerned that our Elite cannot comprehend or refuse to accept them.
We are close to a watershed moment in political history.
Even more concerning is the possibility the Elite know exactly what they're doing, and the only problem they see is that we've started to recognise what they're doing (deliberately destroying "Britain" as a concept) and are starting to push back. We are perhaps reaching the point where they will only be able to continue by ending their deception and openly ending democracy. They're already cancelling elections to retain power in some places.
Chaos is the right word to describe our Home Office and borders. Boris got nearly everything wrong but he was right about calling Starmer “Captain Chaos”.
Do they want to control the border? The recent attack on Brexit being the cause of economic woes and black holes are part of a plan. Starmer tried to overthrow democracy and certainly wants to re-join the EU. The 4% lie is accompanied by a "This proves the need for close alignment" policy. They claim that if we were in the EU illegals could have been returned - except we were never in Schengen. This is bigger than Immigration.
https://www.brugesgroup.com/blog/rachel-stop-digging
The Labour Rejoin EU plan was due to happen in their second term. That’s now been blown up.
Many people I speak to no longer believe in democracy. They no longer believe that turning out to vote makes any difference to their lives. Matt, you talk about the social contract being at risk of breaking down. As I see it, it is already broken and many of those of us wealthy enough to be paying significant taxes appear to be literally walking away from the UK. I would class myself as a moderate Thatcherite but even I am now wondering how long it will be before civil war erupts on our streets; I fear it may be the only way to bring about change. I have serious doubts about Reform and their ability to turn any of this round - they are still a part of the establishment, simply a 'radical' (what we would have thought of as Tories in the 1980's) wing of it!
There are three main reasons for all of our country's governance failures in the past 20 years:
1. A ruling class with the attitude, rules are made to be broken by me but not by thee.
2. A total lack of accountability for failures and illegality (especially on immigration/horizon/covid, etc.) throughout government and judiciary.
3. A strain of collective-cowardice in government never seen nor tolerated before in UK history.
The taste of disgust in the mouths of the majority for these traitors is becoming increasingly sickening.
Great points.
Ultimately our nation has been captured by international finance capitalism and the forces of open borders Globalisation.
Liberalism is the ideology.
I fear this is only half the problem, Matt. What you might call the 'elite' or 'the chattering classes', mostly people who are over-educated but not terribly intelligent, seem actively to dislike their own country - oikophobia. Their relative prosperity insulates them from the worst effects of these policies, and that allows them to look down on people who do not share their world view. A real divide seems to have opened up between the 'somewheres' and the 'anywheres' and we have no-one offering leadership on a unifying theme. Hence nothing ever gets done. Electing Reform may be necessary, but it will certainly not be sufficient until we change this.
I agree Reform may not be enough. They need someone with the balls to do what ever it takes. I nominate Rupert Lowe. I was dismayed when reform decided to ditch him on some spurious charge , my thoughts on this are that he was getting too far ahead and they didnt want him to frighten the horses too soon. Since then what he is and has been saying is becoming less 'extreme' and more common sense. In some ways it was a good thing he became independent because it has allowed him to say what Reform were afraid to say. Please support him at Restore Britain and lets get this done. https://www.restorebritain.org.uk/join_us
There was clear roars of support for Lowe's statements in Reform. So he wasn't ahead. The public were ready, Farage wasn't. He doesn't believe in the nation state, a people a country a heritage and place to call their home, to defend and preserve.
Farage seems more interested in practical matters such as the economy rather than the fundamental importance of culture and values. I keep hoping that he’s holding fire so that he doesn’t give the opposition even more reason to attack him. I’d be happy to see Matt in charge.
I always respect your comments because i know how much you keep up where some areas i don't. I have a growing respect for Matt, he would be better than Farage and i respect that he reads the comments. But we can't vote Farage out. Yusuf will be shoved in.
This is where Farage is just thick. The two are vitally connected surely.
How much would we save if we were not paying for millions of benefit dependant third world immigrants, DEI racist twaddle causing incompetence, and the crimes of recent imports? Prison costs, court time, police time, translation NHS delays, road traffic slowing businesses etc
It is precisely the culture and Christian morality that created the ethic for economic success in the first place. Anglo saxon Catholic (end to tribalism, rise of high trust connectedness, universities and hospitals), then Protestant, personal responsibility, property rights, capitalist model, small state. You can't create economic prosperity without a cohesive society. A low trust high crime tribalist multi cultural morally and spiritually relativistic mess is the problem.
Every day children are getting raped. I'm so incensed if there was a vote to hang the rapists i'd say yes. Those poor girls are the mothers of the future..
Thanks Natasha and very well said, I agree with all that. The more I study Islam, the more puzzled I am that anyone decent follows it. You’re right, the success of the West is built on Christian values which were turbo charged when the pope banned cousin marriage in the 6th century. Sounds a small point but it destroyed the tribal mentality which puts blood ties above the good of the nation state. Islam is built on tribal lines with the ideology mimicking blood ties and with anyone outside the tribe being the enemy….us.
I am so very relieved for your positive reception. Honestly I wonder if i have any sanity left!! Rafe HM is good on those points. He calls it Western exceptionalism.
I am simple minded, look at the root and the fruits. I am not convinced Islam has a place in the west, the numbers should be severely restricted. Integration is a waste of time. 70 years on and it's got worse. By all accounts it seems violently expansionist and imperialistic, antithetical to democracy and free speech and hostile to non believers.
And of course the ban on inbreeding raised the IQ of the west. I read the other day a little muslim child was raped by father 2 brothers and grandfather. In Heaven's name what have we come to.
'Doormat' Christianity is partly to blame for where we are , loving everyone despite their barbarous natures and cultures was plain stupid. We might all bleed red but that is where it ends .England and later the UK became 'civilised 'centuries ago , thats why we have been such a soft touch , we had been taught that all humans were equals. That clearly is not so it depends on the culture which bore them.
Am not sure that Christianity is as much the problem as progressive liberalism which for many has become the new religion . Certainly the Christianity I was brought up with was very strict about how people behaved and not very forgiving
Well, to be fair, we can hardly ever begin to dismiss the absolutely crucial significance of "practical matters such as the economy". If you have no idea about managing the economy you haven't got a hope of running a country. How would you make properly informed decisions in the interests of the population? How would you do anything about inflation, unemployment, running any administration or legal and policy matters, or public well-being generally? If you don't ensure you have the money, you don't get to have people working for you because you end up not paying them! I'm certainly not dismissing your point about the "culture and values", which in Western civilization are virtually on life support, so I do appreciate you have to be able to breathe and survive before you worry about the contents of your purse or wallet. But no efficient economic governance means quick collapse and chaos, and anyone heading for the position of Prime Minister has got to pay attention to a lot of important things. Unless his name is Starmer, of course, but hopefully he's heading away from it rather than towards it!
I was not minimising the economy but economies can be fixed, our culture, values and identity can’t be restored once they’ve been destroyed. And as a female I’m extremely concerned that a Muslim takeover would mean the destruction of our rights. This country is predicted to be Muslim majority in thirty or so years when Sharia law would operate. I don’t think the economy will be the prime consideration at that point,
You are correct. I would rather live in a decent British society and be poor than the Muslim sharia alternative. The economy is important but secondary to the problems brought by immigration. The economy cannot be fixed until immigration is fixed, the latter is a huge drain on the former
Understood! One can only agree that if it ever descended to anything like a Civil War, managing inflation and unemployment statistics would hardly be a priority either! (God, a Muslim majority Great Britain! It hardly bears even considering! Think of the people "rolling in their graves", all the monarchs of the last thousand years for a start - not counting Charles III here, as I couldn't rely on him - and all those writers and statesmen and philosophers and military leaders! Imagine Admiral Nelson coming back and saying "OK I understand you more or less get on with the French these days, but what the hell do you think I fought all those battles for, a flag with the star and crescent on it held aloft by an English citizen clutching a Koran!! Jesus!!")
agreed Farage was behind , whether genuinely or as I said earlier afraid to go too far too soon or bad advice from Yusuf , who knows but there was a real and obvious 'rowing' back.
Anyone with good intentions would have sacked Yusuf. This party is compromised.
I agree - which will also reveal whether any politician in any party will be willing to answer a simple question - albeit then confront a hugely difficult topic.
Just a random thought. If many think that “Islam and immigration” are at the heart of the U.K.’s challenges, should one be better to focus criticism on (1) Islam and immigration or (2) just Islam or (3) just immigration? The simplicity of just one avoids some blurring and gives more focus on both sides of the debate.
I think they’re inextricably linked although if asked to choose I’d say that Islam was by far the greater and more immediate threat. Mass immigration needs to come down hugely but at least the damage from excessive numbers can be repaired. The damage from the loss of our culture, values and democracy may never be repaired. It took the Spanish 800 years to take back Spain. So to answer your question, we should focus on Islam first and that will help reduce the numbers anyway.
The desperation is rising. This is an excellent article, but Pew research figure is from 2017. The illegals are more likely 2 million plus. Farage is not the strong leader we need. He won't deport all of them.
The first duty of the state is to look after women and children and national security.
We know the laws that need to go. As far as i'm concerned i now want mass immigration reversed, not ended, reversed, not indiscriminately but under clear parameters. Only Ben Habib has talked about this. I want to be safe.
I want to live in the decent civilised courteous law abiding prosperous society we had before Blair. We need food and energy security and there is a limit to the population these islands can sustain.
Rupert Lowe too is saying these things.
Basic common sense. Lowe is courageous and tough with a clear vision, Farage isn't. Stupid to get rid of Lowe and Habib, they were both tougher than him and could have done the heavy lifting for him. Reform will bring in managed decline only.
Farage is weak sauce.. I wish he'd never come back and stayed in America.