Fool me twice, of course, and it's shame on ME. Now let's have a round of applause for Olukemi Badenoch, who's betting the Tories can fool us all on immigration for a record-breaking FIFTH time.
Anyone believing the Conservative Party's manifesto promises at this stage is seriously retarded. It's like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown's foot, sending him flying EVERY SINGLE TIME! And he still goes back for more! This time, she won't do it, he trusts her....this time.....AAAARRRGGGHHH
A very accurate summary of the mess that is now our country I'd say, and all in just 28 years. Who says politicians can't get anything done. The conservatives are never to be trusted again, and the Labour official's comment "to rub the Right's nose in diversity" leaves me nothing short of furious. The gross deceit and irresponsibility of it all. Below is something related I mused over yesterday whilst thinking about the future for my children and their children, if they choose to start families in England.
The “UK’s Demographic Revolution”. I still find it quite staggering that both the largest and unprecedented influx of migrants into our modestly sized islands, in our entire history, has taken place without a political mandate and totally against our will. Staggering.
But here we are. The levels of migration into the UK and the subsequent birth rates to migrant mothers once settled here, are two separate parts of a three part issue, the third part being birth rates to white British mothers. This raises a fundamental question over the future of our culture and country; namely, do we accept that over time we will be replaced as the majority in our homeland, or not?
This question needs to be asked across most of the Western world. I recently watched a clip of a Muslim cleric in Sweden telling his congregation, quite jovially, that due to much higher birth rates
amongst Muslims in Sweden, they can expect to be the majority within a couple of generations. Perhaps he’s right, but the same question arises, do the Swedes accept that outcome?
Regarding our own birth rates, the population explosion surely has played a role in the reduction of our own. By importing so many millions of people, the state has put enormous pressure on the housing market, pushing up values and rents and making home ownership almost impossible for young people. This affects birth rates; would you want to start a family whilst living with your parents? I wouldn’t have. Build more! The Fraser Nelsons of the liberals would cry, but why? Why cover our green and pleasant land with houses and to what end, to import more people from cultures with little or no compatibility with the host population? And, cultural issues aside, does anybody really enjoy living in the complete competition-fest that life has become through overpopulation; Competing for housing, competing for healthcare, competing for dental care, competing for education places for our children, competing for a space on the road to drive your car.
It seems to me that there are two paths to choose from but no middle ground. If I am correct in this conclusion then sensibilities will be challenged, but then ideology and reality have always had a habit of crashing headlong into each other.
We either accept that, even if immigration were to be halted to zero, at the current pace of reproduction we will be replaced, or we don’t.
If this is predictable, then it is preventable.
I am of the view that each generation must act as custodians of our culture, to see it as precious and pass it on and on. That’s what makes a people and a country with a shared identity. For politicians to choose to change a country and make it in some areas literally unrecognisable, is to give away something precious that was not theirs to give.
The question remains, do we accept the replacement of us and our culture, or do we reject it?
I agree. The idea that we can just keep bringing in immigrants is ludicrous. Even under Labour’s unachievable house-building plans we won’t even come close to keeping up with the inflow. And people aren’t just interchangeable economic units. The more people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria or Somalia come here, the more Britain will come to look and function like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Somalia - which are all countries people want to leave.
We need to stop the inflow from incompatible cultures, and start encouraging recent immigrants to return home. It’s now an existential crisis, and I want my country to continue existing.
Nothing will ever make me believe a word that comes out of a Tory/ Labour politician again. The Greens and Lib -dems are a joke, so the only party left is Reform as far as I’m concerned.
Worse, the terrifying situation mass immigration has inflicted on my country has actually hardened my attitudes towards any appeals to show compassion or give aid to any country other than our own. I am 75 and have had a lifetime of watching billions of our tax money being thrown at corrupt and incompetent regimes. Enough.
We all know the stories and we all know the outcome.
The only real slim chance we have of a future is to back Reform, who are achieving a huge leap forward in membership as more and more of the indoctrinated are waking up.
There will be negative talk about Reform to try and dissuade us but don't waver, stay strong!
Reform is not perfect but it's 100% better than what we've had for the last 20+ years.
Summed up very well Alan. If we can’t get a Reform government into No10 in 2029 we’re buggered. As you and I have said in other places Reform aren’t perfect and maybe don’t go far enough but the fringe parties are a distraction nothing more.
Rounding up a few thousand illegals working in curry houses, nail bars and car washes, again the low hanging fruit, Yvette Cooper and her officials must think we are as dumb and innumerate as they are. But with a bent mainstream news media and four hundred red clapping seals in Parliament, the truth is dependent on independent journalism like this, good work, keep it up!
No offence to Badenoch herself but the very fact that the Conservatives chose a Nigerian for their leader at this very moment in history, shows how insensitive they truly are to the white ethnic British people who are feeling under threat.
I really don’t care for someone who walked into this country when she was 16 years old. I have seen true Patriots like Lady Thatcher and I will only trust people like her who were born Patriots as a foreign born person myself. I voted for Cameron, I voted begrudgingly for May, I voted for Johnson and I was terribly disappointed. Especially Johnson who changed so much to wreak havoc once he got the votes.
We won’t trust the Tories again Fergus and they’re doomed as a serious political party thank goodness. More worrying for me is the sinister red brigade under hard left Starmer which is still polling one in every four voters. How f’ing bad do Labour have to f up before they drain all support?
After three decades abroad, I returned to UK with my family in 2017.
For 2-3yrs before that date and 2-3yrs afterwards, my wife was jumping through multiple hoops, submitting reams of paperwork and paying £9,000 in fees.
The long-established wife of a British citizen, and the mother of a British kid was subjected to substantial procedures, pressure and payments. She had to prove that she would not be a burden on the British taxpayer.
Aren’t we all supposed to be equal?
Why have so many people (and THEIR families) been allowed in without similar procedures, pressure and payments?
That's absolutely crazy, how is that possible? People breaking the law are rewarded with hotels, free health care etc..yet those who have a genuine right to immigrate have to face such hurdles! Bonkers!
I don't trust a word Badenoch says I'm afraid. There's just something about her I don't like, I don't exactly know what, I intuitively don't trust or like her. I don't think she'll even be tory leader come the next general election. I can see more defections to Reform (Braverman is a natural fit for Reform). Meanwhile the Labour Party is on a mission to self destruction it seems.....Winder how many more dodgy WhatsApp groups there are? Loads is my bet.
I'm Canadian..so as an observer my personal choice is to not believe a change of heart until proven beyond doubt. I also have been forced to appear a bit racist in that I no longer trust Asians or black cultures to operate in any important government for society infrastructures of white and European cultures.
I was a lifelong Conservative voter. Now, even if the Conservatives said exactly what I wanted to hear about immigration, I would never trust them. They say what everyone wants to hear, in order to gain power, and then do the opposite.
And Badenoch is both thick & over-confident, a terrible combination. Notwithstanding the fact that she's essentially a Nigerian whose parents took advantage of the system. Yeah, a real English patriot. I hope the Conservatives are completely obliterated, preferably in a pit of hellfire, screaming as they go. They deserve it 10 million times over.
I fail to see how brought how this woman is representative of Anglo Saxon, white, Christian and in the main socialist Britain. Our democracy is based on our history. The Crusaders fought to liberate Jerusalem from the infidels. Saladin had captured Jerusalem, the birth place of Christ and as disbelievers in God, were heretics who needed to be evicted and by force. For centuries, we, as an island nation have fought for freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of democracy, freedom of choice, voice and thought. Most of freedom from oppression. It seems to me every politician, is intent on oppressing us, the people. Not one policy that I’ve seen being followed today was voted for by the people. Open borders: No. Green and carbon funds to other countries: No tax on farmers: No Pensioners heating removed: No Ukraine : No. local election postponed: No. Going back into Europe: No. I think it’s time for change
Anyone believing the Conservative Party's manifesto promises at this stage is seriously retarded. It's like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown's foot, sending him flying EVERY SINGLE TIME! And he still goes back for more! This time, she won't do it, he trusts her....this time.....AAAARRRGGGHHH
A very accurate summary of the mess that is now our country I'd say, and all in just 28 years. Who says politicians can't get anything done. The conservatives are never to be trusted again, and the Labour official's comment "to rub the Right's nose in diversity" leaves me nothing short of furious. The gross deceit and irresponsibility of it all. Below is something related I mused over yesterday whilst thinking about the future for my children and their children, if they choose to start families in England.
The “UK’s Demographic Revolution”. I still find it quite staggering that both the largest and unprecedented influx of migrants into our modestly sized islands, in our entire history, has taken place without a political mandate and totally against our will. Staggering.
But here we are. The levels of migration into the UK and the subsequent birth rates to migrant mothers once settled here, are two separate parts of a three part issue, the third part being birth rates to white British mothers. This raises a fundamental question over the future of our culture and country; namely, do we accept that over time we will be replaced as the majority in our homeland, or not?
This question needs to be asked across most of the Western world. I recently watched a clip of a Muslim cleric in Sweden telling his congregation, quite jovially, that due to much higher birth rates
amongst Muslims in Sweden, they can expect to be the majority within a couple of generations. Perhaps he’s right, but the same question arises, do the Swedes accept that outcome?
Regarding our own birth rates, the population explosion surely has played a role in the reduction of our own. By importing so many millions of people, the state has put enormous pressure on the housing market, pushing up values and rents and making home ownership almost impossible for young people. This affects birth rates; would you want to start a family whilst living with your parents? I wouldn’t have. Build more! The Fraser Nelsons of the liberals would cry, but why? Why cover our green and pleasant land with houses and to what end, to import more people from cultures with little or no compatibility with the host population? And, cultural issues aside, does anybody really enjoy living in the complete competition-fest that life has become through overpopulation; Competing for housing, competing for healthcare, competing for dental care, competing for education places for our children, competing for a space on the road to drive your car.
It seems to me that there are two paths to choose from but no middle ground. If I am correct in this conclusion then sensibilities will be challenged, but then ideology and reality have always had a habit of crashing headlong into each other.
We either accept that, even if immigration were to be halted to zero, at the current pace of reproduction we will be replaced, or we don’t.
If this is predictable, then it is preventable.
I am of the view that each generation must act as custodians of our culture, to see it as precious and pass it on and on. That’s what makes a people and a country with a shared identity. For politicians to choose to change a country and make it in some areas literally unrecognisable, is to give away something precious that was not theirs to give.
The question remains, do we accept the replacement of us and our culture, or do we reject it?
There is no middle ground.
I agree. The idea that we can just keep bringing in immigrants is ludicrous. Even under Labour’s unachievable house-building plans we won’t even come close to keeping up with the inflow. And people aren’t just interchangeable economic units. The more people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria or Somalia come here, the more Britain will come to look and function like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Somalia - which are all countries people want to leave.
We need to stop the inflow from incompatible cultures, and start encouraging recent immigrants to return home. It’s now an existential crisis, and I want my country to continue existing.
“Hear, hear”
Absolutely spot on! This comment really hit the nail on the head and actually made me quite emotional.
Nothing will ever make me believe a word that comes out of a Tory/ Labour politician again. The Greens and Lib -dems are a joke, so the only party left is Reform as far as I’m concerned.
Worse, the terrifying situation mass immigration has inflicted on my country has actually hardened my attitudes towards any appeals to show compassion or give aid to any country other than our own. I am 75 and have had a lifetime of watching billions of our tax money being thrown at corrupt and incompetent regimes. Enough.
Thanks Fergus.
We all know the stories and we all know the outcome.
The only real slim chance we have of a future is to back Reform, who are achieving a huge leap forward in membership as more and more of the indoctrinated are waking up.
There will be negative talk about Reform to try and dissuade us but don't waver, stay strong!
Reform is not perfect but it's 100% better than what we've had for the last 20+ years.
British lives matter.
Summed up very well Alan. If we can’t get a Reform government into No10 in 2029 we’re buggered. As you and I have said in other places Reform aren’t perfect and maybe don’t go far enough but the fringe parties are a distraction nothing more.
Rounding up a few thousand illegals working in curry houses, nail bars and car washes, again the low hanging fruit, Yvette Cooper and her officials must think we are as dumb and innumerate as they are. But with a bent mainstream news media and four hundred red clapping seals in Parliament, the truth is dependent on independent journalism like this, good work, keep it up!
No offence to Badenoch herself but the very fact that the Conservatives chose a Nigerian for their leader at this very moment in history, shows how insensitive they truly are to the white ethnic British people who are feeling under threat.
Yes. They don’t care what the British think anymore - but still have the arrogance to demand we re-elect them.
I really don’t care for someone who walked into this country when she was 16 years old. I have seen true Patriots like Lady Thatcher and I will only trust people like her who were born Patriots as a foreign born person myself. I voted for Cameron, I voted begrudgingly for May, I voted for Johnson and I was terribly disappointed. Especially Johnson who changed so much to wreak havoc once he got the votes.
We won’t trust the Tories again Fergus and they’re doomed as a serious political party thank goodness. More worrying for me is the sinister red brigade under hard left Starmer which is still polling one in every four voters. How f’ing bad do Labour have to f up before they drain all support?
My wife of over 20yrs, is a foreign national.
After three decades abroad, I returned to UK with my family in 2017.
For 2-3yrs before that date and 2-3yrs afterwards, my wife was jumping through multiple hoops, submitting reams of paperwork and paying £9,000 in fees.
The long-established wife of a British citizen, and the mother of a British kid was subjected to substantial procedures, pressure and payments. She had to prove that she would not be a burden on the British taxpayer.
Aren’t we all supposed to be equal?
Why have so many people (and THEIR families) been allowed in without similar procedures, pressure and payments?
That's absolutely crazy, how is that possible? People breaking the law are rewarded with hotels, free health care etc..yet those who have a genuine right to immigrate have to face such hurdles! Bonkers!
I don't trust a word Badenoch says I'm afraid. There's just something about her I don't like, I don't exactly know what, I intuitively don't trust or like her. I don't think she'll even be tory leader come the next general election. I can see more defections to Reform (Braverman is a natural fit for Reform). Meanwhile the Labour Party is on a mission to self destruction it seems.....Winder how many more dodgy WhatsApp groups there are? Loads is my bet.
I'm Canadian..so as an observer my personal choice is to not believe a change of heart until proven beyond doubt. I also have been forced to appear a bit racist in that I no longer trust Asians or black cultures to operate in any important government for society infrastructures of white and European cultures.
Been screwed too many times
Badenoch is an ‘anchor’ baby - why should we trust her?
I can’t think of any reason at all.
I will never trust them again.
Politicians do nothing but lie. At all times.
I was a lifelong Conservative voter. Now, even if the Conservatives said exactly what I wanted to hear about immigration, I would never trust them. They say what everyone wants to hear, in order to gain power, and then do the opposite.
And Badenoch is both thick & over-confident, a terrible combination. Notwithstanding the fact that she's essentially a Nigerian whose parents took advantage of the system. Yeah, a real English patriot. I hope the Conservatives are completely obliterated, preferably in a pit of hellfire, screaming as they go. They deserve it 10 million times over.
I fail to see how brought how this woman is representative of Anglo Saxon, white, Christian and in the main socialist Britain. Our democracy is based on our history. The Crusaders fought to liberate Jerusalem from the infidels. Saladin had captured Jerusalem, the birth place of Christ and as disbelievers in God, were heretics who needed to be evicted and by force. For centuries, we, as an island nation have fought for freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of democracy, freedom of choice, voice and thought. Most of freedom from oppression. It seems to me every politician, is intent on oppressing us, the people. Not one policy that I’ve seen being followed today was voted for by the people. Open borders: No. Green and carbon funds to other countries: No tax on farmers: No Pensioners heating removed: No Ukraine : No. local election postponed: No. Going back into Europe: No. I think it’s time for change
Totally agree Mark, very well articulated. Where's Richard the first when you need him ?