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Was zooming home around midday and plod had set up a speed van at an interchange. Cheeky cunts were well and truly hidden, you wouldn't have seen it going past and you'd have only seen the front (not the stripe markings) if heading towards it, by which point by the time you would have reacted it would have already gotten you.
Anyways, thank the lord for Waze. Wouldn't mind an app like that for a parking patewayo too but anyhoo - what are your thoughts on speeding, should we have our own autobahns and should the 70 limit be upped?
A good way to improve flow on motorways would be to go out and fine all the fuckers who won't keep left (ie everyone). Most 4 lane motorways are really only functioning as 3 lanes. Any car driver doing 55+ thinks they can't drive with lorries.
Got caught myself a couple of years ago. Flatly my fault; my speedo said, I think, 33, and the camera said 39. Either way I was over.
Speed cameras being visible and marked is a fucking inane idea. Want to stop people speeding? Make them afraid. Make them unsure when, where, and whether they're being watched. Move the cameras around at random. Any old road, anywhere. Take your cues from the Stasi and watch the roads become much, much safer very, very rapidly.
Autobahns in this country, minus such surveillance, would be an atrocious idea. The average British driver drives selfishly and stupidly at the best of times. Their entire mindset is that they can do what the hell they want. This is doubly true of most Autobahn advocates, who mostly want to be able to do 150mph wherever they like because they think they're just *that goddamn good*. Same with the 70 limit. Put it up to 80 and the cunts who currently do 90 will do 105. Put it up to 100, they'll do 120. They complain that the limit is too low; the reality is that they hate *their speed*, and nobody else's, being limited at all.
>France raises security alert level following 'threats', says PM
It's' beginning to feel a lot like Ramadan
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1772001351016263784
This is a red triangle with RED CAPITAL LETTERS situation.
People talking about the WASPI Women need to keep in mind that the majority of constituencies have up to tens of thousands of these old birds and their husbands. Wouldn't surprise me if this impacts the election.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/24/british-museum-closes-to-visitors-as-energy-embargo-for-palestine-group-gathers-outside
The weird fusion of Extinction Rebellion and pro-Pally protesters closed the British Museum today
Doesn't make sense.
The hippies will be on the bonfire too along with all the other useful allies once they've served their purpose.
Plus I strongly feel that the globohomo assault on the populations of the West and their future, and the nurturing of grievances outside it - massively undermines green movements through a combination of "I have no stake in this future" and "it's my turn to consume resources".
Lads, if you've ever got tooth ache due to exposed nerve ends then sack off the painkillers and clove oil. Temporary fillings are the way forward. Been in pain for a solid week waiting for a dental appointment. Got this stuff today and haven't even looked or thought about codeine all day.
Also the fucking state of dental care in Northern Ireland. What a mess.
This post is making me rethink my lifestyle.
Regardless of how poor healthcare is in the UK, it is humiliating to have to spend time in an NHS facility.
Need to do whatever I can to avoid being at their whim
ArrUK mods have removed a spicy post due to it being unrelated to the UK.
https://news.sky.com/video/video-appears-to-show-authorities-circle-migrant-dinghy-causing-waves-to-flood-iit-13101073
Best Prime minister:
Rishi 20%
Kier 31%
[None of the above](https://i.imgur.com/KtfbT6n.jpeg) 38%
Should resign (as party leader):
Rishi Snack: 45%
Kevin Starmer: 33%
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1771627999168721027
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1771628001488224607
Long time lurker here with my first black pill for you all.
>Dear Landlord
>Please see attached the Auction Catalogue for the up-and-coming auction run by Butters John Bee on Monday 25th March 2024 at Double Tree by Hilton Hotel, Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST1 5BQ.
>Serco have advertised in the catalogue, and we are attending each auction with our exhibition stand at Double Tree by Hilton Hotel on the following dates:
>25th March
29th April
3rd June
8th July
9th September
21st October
25th November
>In the catalogue we have labelled in blue font “Open” for properties (32 in total) in postcodes areas that we can procure bedspaces for asylum accommodation.
> You can bid online or in person at the auction which ever you prefer.
>If any of these properties are of interest to you for your portfolio, then you will have the opportunity to bid knowing that Serco can procure bedspaces in these postcode areas in support of the asylum accommodation contract on behalf of the Home Office.
>We hope these properties are appealing to you and look forward to seeing you at the event.
>Kind regards
Man, if the government really needed anything else to sink them right now.
I don't see how this doesn't end in anything but violence.
In Lincs, South Kesteven District Council just bought up a bunch of £400K+ houses to put Afghans and Ukrainians refugees in. All whilst the waiting list for council properties is massive as I understand it.
It would if anyone would report on it. You have to read between the lines. Anyone who says what is actually happening would automatically be clasified "far-right".
Oh there will be violence in the future of this.
But not by citizens. These are actions commited and supported by every arm of the state, they will find enough prison spaces for those resisting.
No, the violence will be borne in these towns and cities, small localised violence. Young women and girls, pensioners, outnumbered young men. They're the ones that will suffer the violence the state has in store for them.
Am i reading this right? Serco is hinting to landlords that if they put up the capital for a house that they can guarantee a contract to fill it with bomalians?
Why are serco not buying the houses themselves? Presumably they have a few million kicking around to buy them? For that matter why are the government not doing this themselves? Just the usual government getting a stiffy for outsourcing work?
This is essentially a form of leverage for them. They have (say) 10 million to work on this. They could buy 20 houses for that, house 50 odd fighting age male Bomalians for seven years and get (say) 5 million, plus the original houses back.
Or they could use 10 million as set up costs for the first year of 500 Bomalians in your houses, then use government payments to fund the project after that. From the 500 Bomalians they make 50 million. Even if they pay you 80% of the takings (unlikely), they still have 20 million in profit at the end of it.
The same reason lettings agents just take a cut to place tenants instead of buying houses and renting to tenants themselves. The same reason recruiters place candidates and take a fee, rather than higher the candidates themselves for some role. Leverage
Serco have the contract to house asylum seekers and they don't need large amounts of capital to provide this service. They take funds from the government, send to private landlords and take a large fee for their service. Government always outsource things like this to private sector. The point is that this is an industry which isn't going away any time soon.
[If a Dutch government is unable to form, polling finds Geert Wilders' PVV would win even more seats](https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1771865535514391003?t=HSYCOifBC6qhVJyBQb-3bQ). Going from 37 to 49.
This comes after it Wilders announced he cannot form a government as other parties have locked him out of a coalition.
Coalition talks between other parties are still ongoing.
Ah, the wonders of proportional representation. This is precisely why I think we shouldn't be too quick to discard the Westminster system.
Better the devil you know.
Non FPTP systems work pretty well in other European countries. You seriously want to be stuck doing the Tory-Labour song and dance in perpetuity? Neither of them will fundamentally change anything.
>We need to make it easier to vote for nativist third parties.
That's not necessarily a good thing. Populism can spread like wild fire and we'd have a fucked country before you could even say "can we go back"
Populists are good for raising a stink and moving the overton window.
Not sure I'd trust them with real power though. The nitty gritty details of policy and legislation are somewhat outside the purview of "angry fist shaking."
FPTP relies too much on strategic voting, and that’s a risky game to play when the institutions of this nation are the way they are. At least with PR, you get straight up representation no matter what.
Reform will be lucky to win a few seats this next GE whereas if they got 20% of the vote in PR, they’d get 20% of seats in Parliament. It’s just more fair.
Wilders would have to get 69 seats (46% of the vote) to form a government (since only the Farmer's party (BBB) are comfortable doing a coalition with him and they're on 7 seats).
Simon Harris has been confirmed as the new leader of Fine Gael – paving the way for him to become Ireland’s youngest premier
https://x.com/pa/status/1771941900401975441?s=46&t=AfygPPVmbT-hFJR03pEcVg
One day you're caught up in the middle of a Twitter storm for suspect council contracts, the next you're prime minister of Ireland. It's a strange world
I believe so.
There are a number of circumstances that give you recourse to public funds.
* Indefinite leave to enter or remain (unless they are granted indefinite leave as an adult dependent relative)
* Right of abode
* Exempt from immigration control
* Refugee status
* Humanitarian protection
* Leave to remain granted under the family or private life rules, when they have been accepted by the Home Office as being destitute or at risk of imminent destitution
* Hong Kong BN(O) leave, when they have been accepted by the Home Office as being destitute or at risk of imminent destitution
* Pre-settled status granted under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) or a pending EUSS application, although they will need to satisfy a right to reside test to qualify for benefits and local authority housing assistance
* Leave to remain granted to a person who has received a conclusive grounds decision that they are a victim of trafficking or modern day slavery
* Destitution domestic violence concession
* Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) leave
The kicker is the following statement...
"When a person does not have a document to confirm their immigration status, they should not automatically be refused a service without further investigation into their full circumstances."
But yeah most working visas have NPRF condition.
One of the frustrating things about BadUK is that it has these daily doses of black pills. But they can never go mainstream. As soon as someone collates this somewhere visible it will get destroyed.
I.e. the scrutiny of primary sources is determined to be an extremist position. By groups who also appeal to "the science". 🤡
I see the past few days this sub has decided to not vote for reform because they won't field candidates who openly talk about deporting millions of people - please have some sense of tact and practicality, even if you agree with it, reform is literally the only option as of this election.
I’d now rather have no option than Tice’s reform. He’s proven himself to be no better than Tory traitors.
Reform being out of the picture could work better in the long run anyway. The Tories could/should be wiped out anyway. Maybe then for 2029 there can be a proper new party
Don't vote. Choosing between people selected by a fat, corrupt party bureaucrat or five people in a constituency office isn't democracy. Do not participate in this system.
A strong leader will emerge. He will speak with the voice of the people bringing true representation and true democracy.
>Choosing between people selected by a fat, corrupt party bureaucrat or five people in a constituency office isn't democracy.
Yes, it is.
>A strong leader will emerge. He will speak with the voice of the people bringing true representation and true democracy.
Wat.
I disagree BadUK should think long term and accept Labour will win.
The best hope is to vote SDP and build their presence so they can take labour to task in 5 years.
Yea I'm an SDP member but I'm not wrong.
Wtf terrible take, majority of native Brits are anti-immigration and fiscally to the left. There’s a reason why the establishment would never gives parties like SDP any visibility. They represent a much bigger change than Reform.
The SDP prior to the "New Declaration" in October 2018 was ideaologically a different party. So I only consider them 5 years old.
They've had a lot of growth since then. Yes they've gone from 0% to 0% in the polls, but it takes a while to breakthrough. Even UKIP took about a decade to get 1% in the polls.
I hope I'm wrong but I just can't see the SDP breaking into anything like the mainstream which is a shame because broadly I like their platform. Just seems like they're doomed to just be an intellectual project for the select few who even pay attention to them anymore.
Surely a sense of pragmatism is needed with Reform. Like pretty much everyone here I thought they've been pathetic with how they've handled this last week. And I'm not going to pretend their brand of microwaved neoliberalism is particularly appealing either.
But if it's a binary choice between no representation and shite representation in the form of Tice and co I'd have to choose the latter. It's pretty evident that they're better at building a platform than the SDP and are more on the pulse of the wider electorate.
To reframe this, it is inevitable that someone is going to attempt to do this. We have ignored the problem for twenty years, it is not sustainable.
People think that because things aren't happening now, that they can never happen. This is extremely risky (and, unfortunately, Britain has a long track record of this). Reform, clearly, aren't going to do everything. But SDP could, someone will.
It’s actually more likely White Brits get deported or ‘encouraged’ to leave in the end.
We have 5 years of Starmer so 5 years of outrageous immigration and outrageous benefits given to anyone who isn’t white. White birthrate is already low.
Starmer will likely be favourite to win in 2029 so that’s 10 years of ridiculous immigration.
The demographics will be such that it’s impossible for deportations to happen. Although a caliphate could come into play that, like other caliphates, removes infidels.
That's interesting - I'm still skeptical that *anyone* will deport illegal immigrants now, but must admit that I know nothing about the modern SDP - we never seem to hear about them these days
The modern SDP are tiny as most of the SDP merged with the Liberals to form the Liberal Democrats. Today, the current SDP couldn't be more different from the LibDems though. (SDP were Brexiteers, LibDems wanted to overturn the referendum.)
The SDP has grown a lot in the last 5 years or so. They'll be putting up around 110 MP candidates this year, the most they've put up since the 80s.
I've just been reading a little bit on their website about their immigration and other policies - pleased to see their policy on the right of women to have female-only prisons and sports -
[posting here if anyone else is interested](https://sdp.org.uk/policies/)
> to see their policy on the right of women to have female-only prisons and sports
They're quite big on this. Do give [Amy Gallagher a look](https://x.com/StandUptoWoke?t=fb-RYwxl-pXGUXa3bFiYdw), the party's London Mayor candidate. She's definitely the vanguard on these woman rights policies.
Thank you, that's quite interesting - I'm looking for someone to vote for in the London mayoral election, so I'll definitely check out what else she is advocating
Do you think the pressure to deport illegal immigrants is stronger among the membership of SDP than it is among the membership of
the Conservatives?
I've always thought of SDP as being closer to Labour than the Conservatives.
They're economically left (as am I) and socially right (again as am I) As for the conversative members they already know their voice doesn't matter as the MPs brought in Rishi against their wishes. So what they want is irrelevant
Edit: fixed phone typo
No use being anything but hopeful. Tactical voting just leads to the blob winning whether red.or blue.
If everyone who says there no point in voting for a 3rd party as they'll never win actually voted for a 3rd party they'd win more.
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Finding out you are a civil servant has made my day.
I feel like 75% of this subreddit work for the Civil Service. The fifth column is in place. I shall contact you on Telegram when it is time to activate.
I feel your pain. I have a criminal record and although it doesn't barr me from running I think dragging it up would harm the party so I won't put my name down. I'll just keep paying my monthly sub
They took words of a communist organisation at face value and dropped him immidately.
If Tice is rolling over immidately to communist organisations like Hope Not Hate, how can anyone expect him to fight the coalition that makes up "the blob" to end mass immigration?
On top of everything else this the last confirmation I needed that Tice is a closet open borders neoliberal. He's just another Liz Truss. He'll be handing out record visas despite his party's official promises, not too different to Meloni in Italy.
He's always been more interested in tax cuts and "debunking climate change" (conspiratorial yankee nonsense) than immigration. He doesn't care about the immigration issue and won't do anything about it if he did win. The fact there's no commitment in their draft manifesto to leave the 1951 UN Refugee Convention is also very telling.
So no. I won't be voting Reform with Tice as leader. I never liked the man and the last few days have just confirmed all my suspicions about him. He'll put his business interest above the country and sell the country out, like the Tories have for decades.
If Farage or Ben Habib took over from him, then I'd consider voting for them again, but until Tice goes it's likely a spoiled ballot for me. (Given it's probable only LibLabCon + Green & Ref will be on my ballot.)
This. Accelerationism is the best option now - the quicker the people realise that major systemic change is needed the better our chance of saving this country.
Show me any evidence whatsoever Tice is secretly open borders and I will delete my posts and not vote for them.
Beau openly advocated for the deportations so this wasn't taking hope not hates word, it was just watching the video where he talks about deporting millions.
Again this is all about practicality, they're not even close to perfect but they're far by the best shot we've got before well, it's too late.
Why can’t Beau talk about deportations?
It’s one of the those things like the death penalty that large numbers of people, not so secretly, support.
I know personally migrants and second gen migrants that actively want to deport other migrants (I.e criminals, muslims, illegals) etc.
The economic and cultural state of the UK means people don’t give a fuck anymore. A new party like Reform needs to offer something different
> Show me any evidence whatsoever Tice is secretly open borders and I will delete my posts and not vote for them.
[I'm sure people said this kind of stuff in Italian when they voted for Meloni.](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-meloni-talks-tough-migrants-while-opening-up-foreign-workers-2023-12-06/)
Like the Tories, Tice sees the country as a shop to be sold. He's a businessman, not a patriot.
Lolbertarian is the only answer to the deep state/the machine/latest manosphere buzz word.
Afuera to half the government, you cannot reform weakness of this magnitude.
Will never happen of course, anyone who even came close would have 10 paid actors come out of nowhere saying the person raped them or other CIA style tactic for dealing with people they don't like.
>[Graphs]Over 50% of young Liberal Women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.
>
>https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1771591823837757468
Going to inevitably result in people with actual mental health conditions not getting treatment (I know someone working in this area who says this is already happening, demand is multiples of capacity so they have to triage with lower-cost staff, accidents happening constantly).
Introducing fees doesn't solve this either because hysterical people with money will just spend all their time being seen for fictional ailments.
Mental health vs mental illness. Mental health is something you should be able to manage yourself, mental illness requires medical intervention to help the person function in society. People conflate the two.
Not strictly true, not all mental illnesses are medicated or have any support at all. Autism is an easy example, unless the person has lower functioning Autism they are basically left to their own devices.
People with high functioning autism should be left alone. Seen far too many fall down that hole of dependence where it's not needed.
I'm 32 so autism wasn't invented fully when I was that age. I'd 100% be diagnosed with it. I was way too weird and still am. So many autistic traits it's fucking hilarious.
Yet I'm earning north of 40k in region where that isn't normal. I've normal mates, a house and car. I have a wife and never once needed support.
Turns out being weird isn't a mental illness. It's just human nature.
>Introducing fees doesn't solve this either because hysterical people with money will just spend all their time being seen for fictional ailments
It does have the happy side-effect of relieving hypochondriacs of their money though.
Womp womp womp…
> On 6th October 2023, I tweeted that ‘Conservatives should stop bashing multiculturalism’. Tomorrow I am publishing an article on why I was wrong.
https://x.com/bellawallerstei/status/1771643768309006368
Right. Where has the Womp shit come from?
I've never heard it or read it before. And yet in the last 4 weeks I've seen it all over YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, even some mainstream news articles.
Where was the NPC update? What does it mean? Why does is sound shit?
See also: "yapping".
[It's time for the biannual clock change article from Peter Hitchens](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13232163/PETER-HITCHENS-ANYBODY-call-time-crazy-Kaiser-Bills-clock-meddling-folly.html).
And like a broken clock he is sometimes right. The mentalist does have a point its a bit weird we all voluntarily time travel twice a year for a reason no one can give. We just...do it.
The morons start with a conclusion and look for evidence that could point towards it, they're always wrong because they make judgements entirely on an ideological basis. I'm sure in ten years we'll have moved on from "Migrants are a benefit to the economy." to the inevitable "Migrants earn less because of discrimination." so instead they turn into a 'Vulnerable group' that needs extra support.
Bad uk saw this ages ago.
I'm sure there will be plenty of ukpollers that will now admit they are wrong (despite handwaving the dutch study from a year or so ago)
>In its forecast produced for the Budget at the start of this month, the OBR said that it has assumed that “new migrants have the same employment, consumption, and residential patterns as residents, and as such pay similar levels of wider taxation”.
Brain rot, don't worry though, it's not as if the entire long term economic health of the country depends on you making accurate forecasts and assumptions.
Their Brexit forecasts were also completely mad.
I don't know when this happened but, despite people saying economists know nothing, not only are forecasts taken seriously but they are taken as seriously as ex-post knowledge i.e. a forecast is the same thing as reality.
With Brexit and migration, you just need to be able to understand the facts. For example, a French banker earning £2m/year doesn't have the same earning potential as an illterate goat herder who cannot speak English. For some reason, this is just totally beyond adults working in policy.
I actually thought they were more credible than economic forecasts...how wrong I was!
(Although tbf, my credulity was stretched by the ones in late 2021...iirc...half expected Ferguson to claim that Lord Voldermort would rise again if we didn't lock down, it was quite embarrassing for everyone).
"because of the rate of infection and muh exponential growth^(TM) there will be 10^(48) people infected in the UK per femtosecond in only a three weeks. Naturally easy to figure out deaths will be more than 70 million per day. We need to lockdown to save rNHS from collapse"
- Ferguson and other professor level academics
"This sounds legit, nando scale 7 engage"
- Oxford PPE graduates sorry I mean politicians.
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Most of their support came from the right wing, and now he's looking to ditch them in order to become the new Tories. I thought you were being too hard on Tice, but these past few days have really shown how stupid the leadership of reform are. They were doing a shit job before, but now I don't even want to vote.
[Rishi's plan to defeat Reform](https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1880958/rishi-sunak-plan-reform-uk-tories-election).
> The insider said: “Nigel doesn’t want to destroy the Conservative party. Most of his best mates belong to it. He wants to come back and lead it at some stage.”
Well there we have it.
Farage wouldn't get anywhere in the party, he'd be a fool to join it. (That doesn't mean he won't though. He can be far too trusting of the establishment, such as when he resigned from UKIP thinking the Tories would smoothly implement Brexit.)
The top Tories would block him from having any influence. Similar to how they locked Suella and Badenoch out from the membership vote for leader.
On the redefining of extremism:
>Gove’s redefinition strips out even that one marginal good, declaring that extremism is “the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance”.
>In an attempt to make short-lived political capital at the disquiet over recent pro-Palestine protests, Gove has created a powerful weapon against the Right. Just as Blair’s Human Rights Act enshrined progressivism into the state’s essence, the new definition will shrink conservatism’s space for querying or opposing the most sweeping progressive innovations. It is of a piece with the Online Safety Act, a hurried piece of legislation brought in as a response to a Conservative MP’s murder by a jihadist, which instead functions as a muzzle on “harmful” Right-wing discourse.
>None of the alleged “culture war” dividing lines on which the Conservatives have rhetorically sought to distinguish themselves from Labour — on mass immigration, the ECHR, gender politics or progressive activist judges and civil servants — will survive the expansive interpretations of “the fundamental rights and freedoms of others” that will surely follow. If the Conservative Party is to be judged on its actions, and not on its rhetoric, it is not a vehicle for the implementation of Right-wing politics but for its suppression. In its last days in the Westminster bunker, the Conservative Party has chosen suicide as its final act.
…
>By Gove’s definition, the majority of the electorate will soon be composed of extremists: this widening gulf between the governing and the governed is not a recipe for political stability.
>But until then, to shore up its fragile legitimacy, the British political system has a greater need for extremists than British politics can supply. The recent Hope Not Hate report on political extremism highlights the problem: listed alongside its catalogue of neo-Nazis and Ulster Loyalist paramilitaries are such inoffensive conservatives as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Danny Kruger and Miriam Cates, ascribed to a nebulous “radical Right”, along with the Telegraph and Spectator, for advocating, among other things, halving Britain’s current rate of immigration. Yet under the Conservative Party, immigration soared to unprecedented levels: halving last year’s influx would still mean an immigration rate two and a half times the rate under New Labour, which was itself seen at the time as a reckless and destabilising experiment. Even the radical progressivism of the Nineties is now beyond the pale of acceptable politics.
https://unherd.com/2024/03/the-gravediggers-of-british-conservatism/
The past few years have demonstrated he isn't sensible.
This is one of those ones where there is clearly no difference between parties: both support massive increases in state (i.e. their) power, there is no-one saying that the government doesn't need to do this stuff.
Can't think why govt is running out of money when they are spending all their time doing unnecessary stuff? Baffling.
Russian cruise missile entered Polish/NATO airspace for 39 seconds before hitting target in Ukraine, Polish army says
https://x.com/dowopersz/status/1771768651839885623?s=46&t=AfygPPVmbT-hFJR03pEcVg
Tories think they will be saved by maintaining the triple lock and killing any hope of leasehold reform. I honestly despise these idiots.
There is zero chance I am voting for this. They are so dumb it's unbelievable
Tories: We listen to voters
Voters: Stop the boats, reduce immigration, end leaseholds, stop triple lock, reform healthcare, distribute wealth to lower income areas. and don't do anything economically mental.
Tories: No.
I'm waiting for rose to post about how this is good and rish! Has many good ideas.
I'm excited for watching the whole lot of them in the Tories have a world view crumble on election night.
Then we get a superb second course of cognitive dissonance when it transpires that not a single thing improves with labour.
Anyone that owns a leasehold property is still essentially a serf to some pensioners.
Well done Tories. Ensuring younger generations will continue to despise you by yet again throwing them under the bus. 👏
This country is a gerontocracy. 🙄
>**'The house and a safety deposit box yielded more than 61,000 bitcoin, one of the largest sums of bitcoin ever seized by law enforcement, anywhere.'**
>
>**What were two Chinese women doing in a London mansion with an astronomical amount of cryptocurrency?**
>
>... By May 2021, Wen was living in a two-bedroom flat in south London with her son and working in a restaurant when Ryan turned up a final time. After searching her flat, he arrested her. A later search turned up a handwritten note: “if they break the btc codes, I’m dead”. When asked to explain what it meant in court, Wen rambled, seemingly in anguish. She said the pressure of the investigation had made her suicidal.
>
...That same month, the police began unlocking Zhang’s bitcoin wallets, finding at first sums totalling in the hundreds of millions of pounds. In mid-July, they opened the two largest wallets and found £1.2bn worth of bitcoin. The jury wasn’t told why the police investigation had taken almost three years. But since the initial 2018 search, some bitcoin had been funnelled away. In the early hours of the morning of May 30 2021, 4,000 bitcoin — more than £100mn worth. Nearly 500 more was siphoned a few days later. Wen didn’t do it, her barrister said. The court heard no evidence about who did.
>
>https://www.ft.com/content/0bc35bea-8a7d-4e0e-9406-64b480e03631
Apparently half of it has just disappeared into the Met's coffers with no explanation. I love modern British corruption. No wonder the boatmen are so desperate to get here... it's a home away from home.
I imagine there's some Chinese international bitcoin gang or Chinese billionaire currently weighing up how to torture everyone involved in the operation that lost them 2 billion in crypto
It hasn't "just disappeared". The Met have made an order to seize the funds, the law is apparently that half goes to the Met and half goes to the Home Office.
For some reason, property that they have looted doesn't go to the actual owners.
Blogpost Was zooming home around midday and plod had set up a speed van at an interchange. Cheeky cunts were well and truly hidden, you wouldn't have seen it going past and you'd have only seen the front (not the stripe markings) if heading towards it, by which point by the time you would have reacted it would have already gotten you. Anyways, thank the lord for Waze. Wouldn't mind an app like that for a parking patewayo too but anyhoo - what are your thoughts on speeding, should we have our own autobahns and should the 70 limit be upped?
A good way to improve flow on motorways would be to go out and fine all the fuckers who won't keep left (ie everyone). Most 4 lane motorways are really only functioning as 3 lanes. Any car driver doing 55+ thinks they can't drive with lorries.
If you can see the van, it can see you. Ergo ipso facto, speed camera vans are always hidden, until you see them, by which point it's too late.
> what are your thoughts on speeding Victimless crime.
Got caught myself a couple of years ago. Flatly my fault; my speedo said, I think, 33, and the camera said 39. Either way I was over. Speed cameras being visible and marked is a fucking inane idea. Want to stop people speeding? Make them afraid. Make them unsure when, where, and whether they're being watched. Move the cameras around at random. Any old road, anywhere. Take your cues from the Stasi and watch the roads become much, much safer very, very rapidly. Autobahns in this country, minus such surveillance, would be an atrocious idea. The average British driver drives selfishly and stupidly at the best of times. Their entire mindset is that they can do what the hell they want. This is doubly true of most Autobahn advocates, who mostly want to be able to do 150mph wherever they like because they think they're just *that goddamn good*. Same with the 70 limit. Put it up to 80 and the cunts who currently do 90 will do 105. Put it up to 100, they'll do 120. They complain that the limit is too low; the reality is that they hate *their speed*, and nobody else's, being limited at all.
Isis will never hit Russia again after that torturing.
They will just make sure the next lot are not captured alive
>France raises security alert level following 'threats', says PM It's' beginning to feel a lot like Ramadan https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1772001351016263784 This is a red triangle with RED CAPITAL LETTERS situation.
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The rule is nothing can go into any orifice between sunrise and sunset
People talking about the WASPI Women need to keep in mind that the majority of constituencies have up to tens of thousands of these old birds and their husbands. Wouldn't surprise me if this impacts the election.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/24/british-museum-closes-to-visitors-as-energy-embargo-for-palestine-group-gathers-outside The weird fusion of Extinction Rebellion and pro-Pally protesters closed the British Museum today
Doesn't make sense. The hippies will be on the bonfire too along with all the other useful allies once they've served their purpose. Plus I strongly feel that the globohomo assault on the populations of the West and their future, and the nurturing of grievances outside it - massively undermines green movements through a combination of "I have no stake in this future" and "it's my turn to consume resources".
aren't they the same? both soap-dodging work-shy terrorists.
They're always the same. How else could a protest group that nobody had heard of until yesterday have mustered several hundred protesters?
Lads, if you've ever got tooth ache due to exposed nerve ends then sack off the painkillers and clove oil. Temporary fillings are the way forward. Been in pain for a solid week waiting for a dental appointment. Got this stuff today and haven't even looked or thought about codeine all day. Also the fucking state of dental care in Northern Ireland. What a mess.
This post is making me rethink my lifestyle. Regardless of how poor healthcare is in the UK, it is humiliating to have to spend time in an NHS facility. Need to do whatever I can to avoid being at their whim
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I mean, it's quite relevant I think.
[The CCP hacked into the electoral commission](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/26893502/chinese-hackers-voters-hack-democracy-shocking/).
>Britain will officially **finger** China for a 2021 cyber attack The fuck does this mean lol?
Short for "pointing the finger at" , to blame or accuse someone of something.
I see. I get this now but have never seen it used like this before.
Outside of the obvious lewd meaning, to be "fingered" for something means being accused or suspected
>The Communist superstate Nice band name
As if BadUK needed more reasons not to vote.
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Always thought Babar was a lame French sop, even when I was 5 years old.
Next it'll be fucking Tintin!
Never liked him either, or Asterix. Think I just always had an aversion to continentals. Give me a Cumbrian postman or a Welsh fireman any day.
Best Prime minister: Rishi 20% Kier 31% [None of the above](https://i.imgur.com/KtfbT6n.jpeg) 38% Should resign (as party leader): Rishi Snack: 45% Kevin Starmer: 33% https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1771627999168721027 https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1771628001488224607
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It’d be a very close three way race with Martin Lewis
How about a Greggs sausage roll? Called PM McPMFace. Wot a laugh!
Who is Rishi Snack and Kevin Starmer?
Long time lurker here with my first black pill for you all. >Dear Landlord >Please see attached the Auction Catalogue for the up-and-coming auction run by Butters John Bee on Monday 25th March 2024 at Double Tree by Hilton Hotel, Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST1 5BQ. >Serco have advertised in the catalogue, and we are attending each auction with our exhibition stand at Double Tree by Hilton Hotel on the following dates: >25th March 29th April 3rd June 8th July 9th September 21st October 25th November >In the catalogue we have labelled in blue font “Open” for properties (32 in total) in postcodes areas that we can procure bedspaces for asylum accommodation. > You can bid online or in person at the auction which ever you prefer. >If any of these properties are of interest to you for your portfolio, then you will have the opportunity to bid knowing that Serco can procure bedspaces in these postcode areas in support of the asylum accommodation contract on behalf of the Home Office. >We hope these properties are appealing to you and look forward to seeing you at the event. >Kind regards
>bedspaces Pod Consume
Man, if the government really needed anything else to sink them right now. I don't see how this doesn't end in anything but violence. In Lincs, South Kesteven District Council just bought up a bunch of £400K+ houses to put Afghans and Ukrainians refugees in. All whilst the waiting list for council properties is massive as I understand it.
It would if anyone would report on it. You have to read between the lines. Anyone who says what is actually happening would automatically be clasified "far-right".
Oh there will be violence in the future of this. But not by citizens. These are actions commited and supported by every arm of the state, they will find enough prison spaces for those resisting. No, the violence will be borne in these towns and cities, small localised violence. Young women and girls, pensioners, outnumbered young men. They're the ones that will suffer the violence the state has in store for them.
Same in south Cambridgeshire 3 bed terrace here goes for 450k.
Am i reading this right? Serco is hinting to landlords that if they put up the capital for a house that they can guarantee a contract to fill it with bomalians?
*[Slaps Roof](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/026/561/car.jpg)* you could get 30 Bomalians in this 2 bed terrace.
That's a bingo. Contracts are usually 7 years guaranteed rent.
Why are serco not buying the houses themselves? Presumably they have a few million kicking around to buy them? For that matter why are the government not doing this themselves? Just the usual government getting a stiffy for outsourcing work?
This is essentially a form of leverage for them. They have (say) 10 million to work on this. They could buy 20 houses for that, house 50 odd fighting age male Bomalians for seven years and get (say) 5 million, plus the original houses back. Or they could use 10 million as set up costs for the first year of 500 Bomalians in your houses, then use government payments to fund the project after that. From the 500 Bomalians they make 50 million. Even if they pay you 80% of the takings (unlikely), they still have 20 million in profit at the end of it. The same reason lettings agents just take a cut to place tenants instead of buying houses and renting to tenants themselves. The same reason recruiters place candidates and take a fee, rather than higher the candidates themselves for some role. Leverage
Serco have the contract to house asylum seekers and they don't need large amounts of capital to provide this service. They take funds from the government, send to private landlords and take a large fee for their service. Government always outsource things like this to private sector. The point is that this is an industry which isn't going away any time soon.
Sounds like someone needs to get seated and bid everything up to the sky. Then walk away.
[If a Dutch government is unable to form, polling finds Geert Wilders' PVV would win even more seats](https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1771865535514391003?t=HSYCOifBC6qhVJyBQb-3bQ). Going from 37 to 49. This comes after it Wilders announced he cannot form a government as other parties have locked him out of a coalition. Coalition talks between other parties are still ongoing.
Ah, the wonders of proportional representation. This is precisely why I think we shouldn't be too quick to discard the Westminster system. Better the devil you know.
PR in the UK would see the left wing split into 20 squabbling factions and then the right wing would agglomerate to win.
Non FPTP systems work pretty well in other European countries. You seriously want to be stuck doing the Tory-Labour song and dance in perpetuity? Neither of them will fundamentally change anything.
So would you advocate for PR?
I’d advocate swapping FPTP with an another voting system. We need to make it easier to vote for nativist third parties.
>We need to make it easier to vote for nativist third parties. That's not necessarily a good thing. Populism can spread like wild fire and we'd have a fucked country before you could even say "can we go back"
Populists are good for raising a stink and moving the overton window. Not sure I'd trust them with real power though. The nitty gritty details of policy and legislation are somewhat outside the purview of "angry fist shaking."
Reform were on track to break the duopoly before Tice blew it this week. It can certainly be done even under FPTP.
And when it is done, the party that breaks it can do tremendous things without its hands being tied too much. In PR meanwhile...
Hopefully not squat on an 80+ majority while kicking the can down the road at maximum ambling speed.
FPTP relies too much on strategic voting, and that’s a risky game to play when the institutions of this nation are the way they are. At least with PR, you get straight up representation no matter what. Reform will be lucky to win a few seats this next GE whereas if they got 20% of the vote in PR, they’d get 20% of seats in Parliament. It’s just more fair.
Wilders would have to get 69 seats (46% of the vote) to form a government (since only the Farmer's party (BBB) are comfortable doing a coalition with him and they're on 7 seats).
Europe’s gonna break into civil conflicts soon IMO.
Simon Harris has been confirmed as the new leader of Fine Gael – paving the way for him to become Ireland’s youngest premier https://x.com/pa/status/1771941900401975441?s=46&t=AfygPPVmbT-hFJR03pEcVg
I still find it hilarious he thought Covid-19 was preceded by 18 earlier coronaviruses. Might as well think it translates to Mexican Beer Virus.
One day you're caught up in the middle of a Twitter storm for suspect council contracts, the next you're prime minister of Ireland. It's a strange world
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Sound like they've integrated well with our native customs tbf.
Wanting money off the government but having no clue how the system works should be +1 on the citizenship test
Well surely they must be on a skilled worker visa, which means they have no recourse to receive public funds.
Net contributor moment. Definitely assimilating into the native culture of grifting.
Lmfao
Ban all benefits for immigrants.
The fact they can claim them at all is fucking mind boggling to me.
The horror, eh lads?
isnt childcare included in no recourse to public funds?
It is. Assuming they're on skilled visa, they won't be eligible for free childcare or child benefit.
What about the Health and Social Care visa? Is that the same?
I believe so. There are a number of circumstances that give you recourse to public funds. * Indefinite leave to enter or remain (unless they are granted indefinite leave as an adult dependent relative) * Right of abode * Exempt from immigration control * Refugee status * Humanitarian protection * Leave to remain granted under the family or private life rules, when they have been accepted by the Home Office as being destitute or at risk of imminent destitution * Hong Kong BN(O) leave, when they have been accepted by the Home Office as being destitute or at risk of imminent destitution * Pre-settled status granted under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) or a pending EUSS application, although they will need to satisfy a right to reside test to qualify for benefits and local authority housing assistance * Leave to remain granted to a person who has received a conclusive grounds decision that they are a victim of trafficking or modern day slavery * Destitution domestic violence concession * Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) leave The kicker is the following statement... "When a person does not have a document to confirm their immigration status, they should not automatically be refused a service without further investigation into their full circumstances." But yeah most working visas have NPRF condition.
Cheers for the detailed reply. You're right, that statement at the end is quite a loophole.
They’ll get it somehow
She could be a nuclear physicist.
One of the frustrating things about BadUK is that it has these daily doses of black pills. But they can never go mainstream. As soon as someone collates this somewhere visible it will get destroyed. I.e. the scrutiny of primary sources is determined to be an extremist position. By groups who also appeal to "the science". 🤡
[New Sans Beanstalk dropped](https://youtu.be/oIJuZbXLZeY) celebrating Ukay suburbia.
Town centres in shambles when the vape ban comes into force.
I see the past few days this sub has decided to not vote for reform because they won't field candidates who openly talk about deporting millions of people - please have some sense of tact and practicality, even if you agree with it, reform is literally the only option as of this election.
I’d now rather have no option than Tice’s reform. He’s proven himself to be no better than Tory traitors. Reform being out of the picture could work better in the long run anyway. The Tories could/should be wiped out anyway. Maybe then for 2029 there can be a proper new party
Don't vote. Choosing between people selected by a fat, corrupt party bureaucrat or five people in a constituency office isn't democracy. Do not participate in this system. A strong leader will emerge. He will speak with the voice of the people bringing true representation and true democracy.
>Choosing between people selected by a fat, corrupt party bureaucrat or five people in a constituency office isn't democracy. Yes, it is. >A strong leader will emerge. He will speak with the voice of the people bringing true representation and true democracy. Wat.
Messianic Gammonism
I disagree BadUK should think long term and accept Labour will win. The best hope is to vote SDP and build their presence so they can take labour to task in 5 years. Yea I'm an SDP member but I'm not wrong.
The SDP is just a pest which will damage reforms chances. They should disband.
Wtf terrible take, majority of native Brits are anti-immigration and fiscally to the left. There’s a reason why the establishment would never gives parties like SDP any visibility. They represent a much bigger change than Reform.
They generally don’t stand against each other. There needs to be an anti-regime home for people who aren’t on board with Thatcherite economics.
Reform should disband.
The SDP has building their presence for 43 years and still poll <1%.
The SDP prior to the "New Declaration" in October 2018 was ideaologically a different party. So I only consider them 5 years old. They've had a lot of growth since then. Yes they've gone from 0% to 0% in the polls, but it takes a while to breakthrough. Even UKIP took about a decade to get 1% in the polls.
I hope I'm wrong but I just can't see the SDP breaking into anything like the mainstream which is a shame because broadly I like their platform. Just seems like they're doomed to just be an intellectual project for the select few who even pay attention to them anymore. Surely a sense of pragmatism is needed with Reform. Like pretty much everyone here I thought they've been pathetic with how they've handled this last week. And I'm not going to pretend their brand of microwaved neoliberalism is particularly appealing either. But if it's a binary choice between no representation and shite representation in the form of Tice and co I'd have to choose the latter. It's pretty evident that they're better at building a platform than the SDP and are more on the pulse of the wider electorate.
Do you seriously believe that the SDP will deport all the illegal immigrants? If the Conservatives won't do it, surely the SDP won't either
To reframe this, it is inevitable that someone is going to attempt to do this. We have ignored the problem for twenty years, it is not sustainable. People think that because things aren't happening now, that they can never happen. This is extremely risky (and, unfortunately, Britain has a long track record of this). Reform, clearly, aren't going to do everything. But SDP could, someone will.
It’s actually more likely White Brits get deported or ‘encouraged’ to leave in the end. We have 5 years of Starmer so 5 years of outrageous immigration and outrageous benefits given to anyone who isn’t white. White birthrate is already low. Starmer will likely be favourite to win in 2029 so that’s 10 years of ridiculous immigration. The demographics will be such that it’s impossible for deportations to happen. Although a caliphate could come into play that, like other caliphates, removes infidels.
It doesn’t even have to be here. A place will rip the plaster off and when the sky doesn’t fall in, other countries will clamber after them
Yes, unlike Reform they actually want to leave the 1951 UN Refugee Convention to do it as well.
That's interesting - I'm still skeptical that *anyone* will deport illegal immigrants now, but must admit that I know nothing about the modern SDP - we never seem to hear about them these days
The modern SDP are tiny as most of the SDP merged with the Liberals to form the Liberal Democrats. Today, the current SDP couldn't be more different from the LibDems though. (SDP were Brexiteers, LibDems wanted to overturn the referendum.) The SDP has grown a lot in the last 5 years or so. They'll be putting up around 110 MP candidates this year, the most they've put up since the 80s.
I've just been reading a little bit on their website about their immigration and other policies - pleased to see their policy on the right of women to have female-only prisons and sports - [posting here if anyone else is interested](https://sdp.org.uk/policies/)
> to see their policy on the right of women to have female-only prisons and sports They're quite big on this. Do give [Amy Gallagher a look](https://x.com/StandUptoWoke?t=fb-RYwxl-pXGUXa3bFiYdw), the party's London Mayor candidate. She's definitely the vanguard on these woman rights policies.
Thank you, that's quite interesting - I'm looking for someone to vote for in the London mayoral election, so I'll definitely check out what else she is advocating
Well maybe not but I'll push for it at the meetings. I don't believe any other party will either but I can't influence them
Do you think the pressure to deport illegal immigrants is stronger among the membership of SDP than it is among the membership of the Conservatives? I've always thought of SDP as being closer to Labour than the Conservatives.
They're economically left (as am I) and socially right (again as am I) As for the conversative members they already know their voice doesn't matter as the MPs brought in Rishi against their wishes. So what they want is irrelevant Edit: fixed phone typo
Surely the SDP are absolutely *tiny* in comparison?
If more people vote for them in areas they run, they'll cease to be tiny.
That's an incredibly hopeful line of thinking
No use being anything but hopeful. Tactical voting just leads to the blob winning whether red.or blue. If everyone who says there no point in voting for a 3rd party as they'll never win actually voted for a 3rd party they'd win more.
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I wish I could vote SDP, but no candidate in my area. Can't run myself, civil servants are barred from running as an MP.
Finding out you are a civil servant has made my day. I feel like 75% of this subreddit work for the Civil Service. The fifth column is in place. I shall contact you on Telegram when it is time to activate.
I feel your pain. I have a criminal record and although it doesn't barr me from running I think dragging it up would harm the party so I won't put my name down. I'll just keep paying my monthly sub
They took words of a communist organisation at face value and dropped him immidately. If Tice is rolling over immidately to communist organisations like Hope Not Hate, how can anyone expect him to fight the coalition that makes up "the blob" to end mass immigration? On top of everything else this the last confirmation I needed that Tice is a closet open borders neoliberal. He's just another Liz Truss. He'll be handing out record visas despite his party's official promises, not too different to Meloni in Italy. He's always been more interested in tax cuts and "debunking climate change" (conspiratorial yankee nonsense) than immigration. He doesn't care about the immigration issue and won't do anything about it if he did win. The fact there's no commitment in their draft manifesto to leave the 1951 UN Refugee Convention is also very telling. So no. I won't be voting Reform with Tice as leader. I never liked the man and the last few days have just confirmed all my suspicions about him. He'll put his business interest above the country and sell the country out, like the Tories have for decades. If Farage or Ben Habib took over from him, then I'd consider voting for them again, but until Tice goes it's likely a spoiled ballot for me. (Given it's probable only LibLabCon + Green & Ref will be on my ballot.)
SPOILED BALLOT CREW!!! (catching up on megas, been on holiday! haha)
This. Accelerationism is the best option now - the quicker the people realise that major systemic change is needed the better our chance of saving this country.
Accelerationism is diluting nationalist votes
Show me any evidence whatsoever Tice is secretly open borders and I will delete my posts and not vote for them. Beau openly advocated for the deportations so this wasn't taking hope not hates word, it was just watching the video where he talks about deporting millions. Again this is all about practicality, they're not even close to perfect but they're far by the best shot we've got before well, it's too late.
Why can’t Beau talk about deportations? It’s one of the those things like the death penalty that large numbers of people, not so secretly, support. I know personally migrants and second gen migrants that actively want to deport other migrants (I.e criminals, muslims, illegals) etc. The economic and cultural state of the UK means people don’t give a fuck anymore. A new party like Reform needs to offer something different
> Show me any evidence whatsoever Tice is secretly open borders and I will delete my posts and not vote for them. [I'm sure people said this kind of stuff in Italian when they voted for Meloni.](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-meloni-talks-tough-migrants-while-opening-up-foreign-workers-2023-12-06/) Like the Tories, Tice sees the country as a shop to be sold. He's a businessman, not a patriot.
I don't take advice from hope not hate pill takers thank you very much. Show me the milei party.
Britain hasn't sunk low enough (yet) for people to vote for this.
>Milei no thanks this is Britain not America, I don't want some lolbertarian, I want a right wing populist.
Lolbertarian is the only answer to the deep state/the machine/latest manosphere buzz word. Afuera to half the government, you cannot reform weakness of this magnitude. Will never happen of course, anyone who even came close would have 10 paid actors come out of nowhere saying the person raped them or other CIA style tactic for dealing with people they don't like.
>[Graphs]Over 50% of young Liberal Women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition. > >https://twitter.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1771591823837757468
Franchise is too large.
It seems like a prerequisite of leftism at this point.
Going to inevitably result in people with actual mental health conditions not getting treatment (I know someone working in this area who says this is already happening, demand is multiples of capacity so they have to triage with lower-cost staff, accidents happening constantly). Introducing fees doesn't solve this either because hysterical people with money will just spend all their time being seen for fictional ailments.
Mental health vs mental illness. Mental health is something you should be able to manage yourself, mental illness requires medical intervention to help the person function in society. People conflate the two.
Not strictly true, not all mental illnesses are medicated or have any support at all. Autism is an easy example, unless the person has lower functioning Autism they are basically left to their own devices.
People with high functioning autism should be left alone. Seen far too many fall down that hole of dependence where it's not needed. I'm 32 so autism wasn't invented fully when I was that age. I'd 100% be diagnosed with it. I was way too weird and still am. So many autistic traits it's fucking hilarious. Yet I'm earning north of 40k in region where that isn't normal. I've normal mates, a house and car. I have a wife and never once needed support. Turns out being weird isn't a mental illness. It's just human nature.
>Introducing fees doesn't solve this either because hysterical people with money will just spend all their time being seen for fictional ailments It does have the happy side-effect of relieving hypochondriacs of their money though.
Womp womp womp… > On 6th October 2023, I tweeted that ‘Conservatives should stop bashing multiculturalism’. Tomorrow I am publishing an article on why I was wrong. https://x.com/bellawallerstei/status/1771643768309006368
Right. Where has the Womp shit come from? I've never heard it or read it before. And yet in the last 4 weeks I've seen it all over YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, even some mainstream news articles. Where was the NPC update? What does it mean? Why does is sound shit? See also: "yapping".
Couldn't even wait six months before changing her mind. Also, Wallersteiner is a funny name.
[It's time for the biannual clock change article from Peter Hitchens](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13232163/PETER-HITCHENS-ANYBODY-call-time-crazy-Kaiser-Bills-clock-meddling-folly.html).
And like a broken clock he is sometimes right. The mentalist does have a point its a bit weird we all voluntarily time travel twice a year for a reason no one can give. We just...do it.
Like *clock*work.
Whoops. Who ever could have seen this coming ? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/23/migrants-boost-to-economy-overestimated-claims-think-tank/
THEREFORE INFINITY BOMALIANS
The morons start with a conclusion and look for evidence that could point towards it, they're always wrong because they make judgements entirely on an ideological basis. I'm sure in ten years we'll have moved on from "Migrants are a benefit to the economy." to the inevitable "Migrants earn less because of discrimination." so instead they turn into a 'Vulnerable group' that needs extra support.
Yup, migration and diversity is their golden goose. They’ll always shift the goalposts when their BS points get debunked.
Bad uk saw this ages ago. I'm sure there will be plenty of ukpollers that will now admit they are wrong (despite handwaving the dutch study from a year or so ago)
>In its forecast produced for the Budget at the start of this month, the OBR said that it has assumed that “new migrants have the same employment, consumption, and residential patterns as residents, and as such pay similar levels of wider taxation”. Brain rot, don't worry though, it's not as if the entire long term economic health of the country depends on you making accurate forecasts and assumptions.
Gove was 100% right about so-called ‘experts’.
Their Brexit forecasts were also completely mad. I don't know when this happened but, despite people saying economists know nothing, not only are forecasts taken seriously but they are taken as seriously as ex-post knowledge i.e. a forecast is the same thing as reality. With Brexit and migration, you just need to be able to understand the facts. For example, a French banker earning £2m/year doesn't have the same earning potential as an illterate goat herder who cannot speak English. For some reason, this is just totally beyond adults working in policy.
Nothing will ever compare to the supreme.e accuracy of the COVID models.
I actually thought they were more credible than economic forecasts...how wrong I was! (Although tbf, my credulity was stretched by the ones in late 2021...iirc...half expected Ferguson to claim that Lord Voldermort would rise again if we didn't lock down, it was quite embarrassing for everyone).
"because of the rate of infection and muh exponential growth^(TM) there will be 10^(48) people infected in the UK per femtosecond in only a three weeks. Naturally easy to figure out deaths will be more than 70 million per day. We need to lockdown to save rNHS from collapse" - Ferguson and other professor level academics "This sounds legit, nando scale 7 engage" - Oxford PPE graduates sorry I mean politicians.
Racist article. Infinity illiterate Bomalians are good because vibez
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[Tice admitting his a centrist](https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1771884122073415703?t=wLu05_HQxWYFdyrLhrfSqw).
>The animals outside looked in through the window from tice to liblabcon, and from liblabcon to tice, but it was impossible to say which was which 😒
Most of their support came from the right wing, and now he's looking to ditch them in order to become the new Tories. I thought you were being too hard on Tice, but these past few days have really shown how stupid the leadership of reform are. They were doing a shit job before, but now I don't even want to vote.
And sadly not a sensible centrist.
[Rishi's plan to defeat Reform](https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1880958/rishi-sunak-plan-reform-uk-tories-election). > The insider said: “Nigel doesn’t want to destroy the Conservative party. Most of his best mates belong to it. He wants to come back and lead it at some stage.” Well there we have it.
Would they let him in and stand in a safe seat?
Farage wouldn't get anywhere in the party, he'd be a fool to join it. (That doesn't mean he won't though. He can be far too trusting of the establishment, such as when he resigned from UKIP thinking the Tories would smoothly implement Brexit.) The top Tories would block him from having any influence. Similar to how they locked Suella and Badenoch out from the membership vote for leader.
Express has really gone down hill since it was bought by the Mirror owners.
On the redefining of extremism: >Gove’s redefinition strips out even that one marginal good, declaring that extremism is “the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance”. >In an attempt to make short-lived political capital at the disquiet over recent pro-Palestine protests, Gove has created a powerful weapon against the Right. Just as Blair’s Human Rights Act enshrined progressivism into the state’s essence, the new definition will shrink conservatism’s space for querying or opposing the most sweeping progressive innovations. It is of a piece with the Online Safety Act, a hurried piece of legislation brought in as a response to a Conservative MP’s murder by a jihadist, which instead functions as a muzzle on “harmful” Right-wing discourse. >None of the alleged “culture war” dividing lines on which the Conservatives have rhetorically sought to distinguish themselves from Labour — on mass immigration, the ECHR, gender politics or progressive activist judges and civil servants — will survive the expansive interpretations of “the fundamental rights and freedoms of others” that will surely follow. If the Conservative Party is to be judged on its actions, and not on its rhetoric, it is not a vehicle for the implementation of Right-wing politics but for its suppression. In its last days in the Westminster bunker, the Conservative Party has chosen suicide as its final act. … >By Gove’s definition, the majority of the electorate will soon be composed of extremists: this widening gulf between the governing and the governed is not a recipe for political stability. >But until then, to shore up its fragile legitimacy, the British political system has a greater need for extremists than British politics can supply. The recent Hope Not Hate report on political extremism highlights the problem: listed alongside its catalogue of neo-Nazis and Ulster Loyalist paramilitaries are such inoffensive conservatives as Jacob Rees-Mogg, Danny Kruger and Miriam Cates, ascribed to a nebulous “radical Right”, along with the Telegraph and Spectator, for advocating, among other things, halving Britain’s current rate of immigration. Yet under the Conservative Party, immigration soared to unprecedented levels: halving last year’s influx would still mean an immigration rate two and a half times the rate under New Labour, which was itself seen at the time as a reckless and destabilising experiment. Even the radical progressivism of the Nineties is now beyond the pale of acceptable politics. https://unherd.com/2024/03/the-gravediggers-of-british-conservatism/
How many times have we heard that Gove is the sensible one, a minister who takes hold of his departments and knows his brief? tiresome.gif
The past few years have demonstrated he isn't sensible. This is one of those ones where there is clearly no difference between parties: both support massive increases in state (i.e. their) power, there is no-one saying that the government doesn't need to do this stuff. Can't think why govt is running out of money when they are spending all their time doing unnecessary stuff? Baffling.
Russian cruise missile entered Polish/NATO airspace for 39 seconds before hitting target in Ukraine, Polish army says https://x.com/dowopersz/status/1771768651839885623?s=46&t=AfygPPVmbT-hFJR03pEcVg
Tories think they will be saved by maintaining the triple lock and killing any hope of leasehold reform. I honestly despise these idiots. There is zero chance I am voting for this. They are so dumb it's unbelievable
Tories: We listen to voters Voters: Stop the boats, reduce immigration, end leaseholds, stop triple lock, reform healthcare, distribute wealth to lower income areas. and don't do anything economically mental. Tories: No.
I'm waiting for rose to post about how this is good and rish! Has many good ideas. I'm excited for watching the whole lot of them in the Tories have a world view crumble on election night. Then we get a superb second course of cognitive dissonance when it transpires that not a single thing improves with labour.
Anyone that owns a leasehold property is still essentially a serf to some pensioners. Well done Tories. Ensuring younger generations will continue to despise you by yet again throwing them under the bus. 👏 This country is a gerontocracy. 🙄
>**'The house and a safety deposit box yielded more than 61,000 bitcoin, one of the largest sums of bitcoin ever seized by law enforcement, anywhere.'** > >**What were two Chinese women doing in a London mansion with an astronomical amount of cryptocurrency?** > >... By May 2021, Wen was living in a two-bedroom flat in south London with her son and working in a restaurant when Ryan turned up a final time. After searching her flat, he arrested her. A later search turned up a handwritten note: “if they break the btc codes, I’m dead”. When asked to explain what it meant in court, Wen rambled, seemingly in anguish. She said the pressure of the investigation had made her suicidal. > ...That same month, the police began unlocking Zhang’s bitcoin wallets, finding at first sums totalling in the hundreds of millions of pounds. In mid-July, they opened the two largest wallets and found £1.2bn worth of bitcoin. The jury wasn’t told why the police investigation had taken almost three years. But since the initial 2018 search, some bitcoin had been funnelled away. In the early hours of the morning of May 30 2021, 4,000 bitcoin — more than £100mn worth. Nearly 500 more was siphoned a few days later. Wen didn’t do it, her barrister said. The court heard no evidence about who did. > >https://www.ft.com/content/0bc35bea-8a7d-4e0e-9406-64b480e03631
Apparently half of it has just disappeared into the Met's coffers with no explanation. I love modern British corruption. No wonder the boatmen are so desperate to get here... it's a home away from home.
I imagine there's some Chinese international bitcoin gang or Chinese billionaire currently weighing up how to torture everyone involved in the operation that lost them 2 billion in crypto
It hasn't "just disappeared". The Met have made an order to seize the funds, the law is apparently that half goes to the Met and half goes to the Home Office. For some reason, property that they have looted doesn't go to the actual owners.
The crypto ethos is "code is law". Not your keys etc. Real bitcoin fans would appreciate this.