Andy Burnham said this week IF he was to re-enter parliament and be elected PM, one of the main objectives would be to stop Farage and Reform being elected in the next general election. Surveys have shown that previous Labour voters are so anti Starmer they will vote Reform rather than Labour in the next election, but Burnham could alter that...especially in the north, where he is a popular figure.
It seems many Labour MP's are still backing Starmer though, so who knows what will happen.
I will never vote Labour or Conservative ever. Reform for me.
Starmer is scared because he knows Reform will win an election.
I'm sick of it being a two horse race, Cons or Lab. It will be refreshing to have a different party in power.
A new party would be good to shake things up, imo Reform won't be the party to help matters.
Farage was the one who mostly lied about how immigration would improve if we voted for Brexit....it's a lot worse.
He is doing the same thing now...vote Reform, solve the immigration crisis. He made it worse in the first place.
If he gets in and it's proven he and his policies dont work, he will do another disappearing act, just like he did after Brexit.
It would have been if the Conservatives had taken a tough stance against the human rights lawyers and been more determined to get immigration under control. We all know they've been lax with this and most people believe that actually, neither Labour nor the Conservatives wanted it stopped at all. Almost the whole of Europe are now clamping right down except us
I have no idea why governments here are so pathetically weak about immigration. The last government lost favour because of it, and this government are even worse.
We have border force and military that are well equipped to deal with small boats, but still they come in ever increasing numbers.
We pay France millions o direct them over here, we must be a bloody laughing stock the way UK authorities bend over to be shafted time and time again.
Vam said
Sep 27 11:13 AM, 2025
Fwiw, I’m still rooting for Syl’s guy - Andy Burnham From what I can remember of him, he’s always struck me as impressively down-to-earth who talked a lot of sense. He’s certainly got the credentials and experience.
I imagine his plain-speaking would blast right through ‘Jaws‘ Farage’s braying bullshit.
I have no doubt that Farage as PM would be disastrous for the UK. Okay - he’ll make a big flashy trumpy-style show of dealing with brown and black interlopers.
Then what…? 🤷🏻♀️
Syl said
Sep 27 11:40 AM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Fwiw, I’m still rooting for Syl’s guy - Andy Burnham From what I can remember of him, he’s always struck me as impressively down-to-earth who talked a lot of sense. He’s certainly got the credentials and experience.
I imagine his plain-speaking would blast right through ‘Jaws‘ Farage’s braying bullshit.
I have no doubt that Farage as PM would be disastrous for the UK. Okay - he’ll make a big flashy trumpy-style show of dealing with brown and black interlopers.
Then what…? 🤷🏻♀️
The predictable knives are out in some quarters for Andy now, people crawling out of the woodwork telling of the times he made mistakes. The problem is, the media is so powerful today, and people listen without doing their own research (Something Maddog also mentioned last week in regard to Charlie Kirk)
Vam, for years, every week Andy Burnham has done a live Q and A broadcast on local Greater Manchester Radio. He is in the hot seat as ordinary members of the public ask questions and talk about problems that he may be able to help with...everything from the police, to the local bus routes. He answers every question honestly. He also takes criticism fairly, if he is wrong he says so, if he can help he takes their numbers and deals with it, and throughout it all he deals with everything with kindness and humour.
Something he has done for years is donate part of his own wage to help the homeless...OK, he can afford it, so can millions, but they don't.
He started bed for a night for people living on the streets here.
He commissioned a local enquiry into the grooming gangs when central government refused. With his perseverance, central government have now announced there will (at last) be a national enquiry.
It was he who pushed for the cover-up of the Hillsborough disaster to be investigated. Eventually proving it was the authorities, not the fans who were to blame.
I could go on...but his past record is all on line somewhere.
Digger said
Sep 27 11:42 AM, 2025
Syl wrote:
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
Andy Burnham said this week IF he was to re-enter parliament and be elected PM, one of the main objectives would be to stop Farage and Reform being elected in the next general election. Surveys have shown that previous Labour voters are so anti Starmer they will vote Reform rather than Labour in the next election, but Burnham could alter that...especially in the north, where he is a popular figure.
It seems many Labour MP's are still backing Starmer though, so who knows what will happen.
I will never vote Labour or Conservative ever. Reform for me.
Starmer is scared because he knows Reform will win an election.
I'm sick of it being a two horse race, Cons or Lab. It will be refreshing to have a different party in power.
A new party would be good to shake things up, imo Reform won't be the party to help matters.
Farage was the one who mostly lied about how immigration would improve if we voted for Brexit....it's a lot worse.
He is doing the same thing now...vote Reform, solve the immigration crisis. He made it worse in the first place.
If he gets in and it's proven he and his policies dont work, he will do another disappearing act, just like he did after Brexit.
It would have been if the Conservatives had taken a tough stance against the human rights lawyers and been more determined to get immigration under control. We all know they've been lax with this and most people believe that actually, neither Labour nor the Conservatives wanted it stopped at all. Almost the whole of Europe are now clamping right down except us
I have no idea why governments here are so pathetically weak about immigration. The last government lost favour because of it, and this government are even worse.
We have border force and military that are well equipped to deal with small boats, but still they come in ever increasing numbers.
We pay France millions o direct them over here, we must be a bloody laughing stock the way UK authorities bend over to be shafted time and time again.
Because they are globalists. Why would our politicians want this? Globalisation concentrates wealth in the hands of a few, and we kind of suspect we know who, leading to a growing gap between the rich and the poor both within and between countries. Corporate greed being the most visible.
Companies move operations to countries with cheaper labour, causing job losses in countries that were previously home to the operations. Again, we've seen this with our complete loss of industry.
Cultural homogenisation - human nature strongly leans towards culture and tradition. It keeps us happy with a sense of identity. This becomes eroded with globalisation.
The influx of foreign products and competition can undermine domestic businesses, leading to a decline in local economic activity. We're all guilty of buying from Temu instead of seeking out local UK artisan makers on sites like Folksy or The British Craft House.
Globalisation facilitates the movement of illegal activities, such as human trafficking, drug smuggling, and terrorism.
The UK has a trade imbalance we spend more on imports than we make on exports. This creates a shortfall in capital that the country must make up for either by borrowing money from foreign lenders or permitting foreign investments in its assets. This is a typical result of globalisation.
Globalisation has its advantages but not at the cost of the freedom of a country's people.
Vam said
Sep 27 11:55 AM, 2025
Syl wrote:
Vam wrote:
Fwiw, I’m still rooting for Syl’s guy - Andy Burnham From what I can remember of him, he’s always struck me as impressively down-to-earth who talked a lot of sense. He’s certainly got the credentials and experience.
I imagine his plain-speaking would blast right through ‘Jaws‘ Farage’s braying bullshit.
I have no doubt that Farage as PM would be disastrous for the UK. Okay - he’ll make a big flashy trumpy-style show of dealing with brown and black interlopers.
Then what…? 🤷🏻♀️
The predictable knives are out in some quarters for Andy now, people crawling out of the woodwork telling of the times he made mistakes. The problem is, the media is so powerful today, and people listen without doing their own research (Something Maddog also mentioned last week in regard to Charlie Kirk)
Vam, for years, every week Andy Burnham has done a live Q and A broadcast on local Greater Manchester Radio. He is in the hot seat as ordinary members of the public ask questions and talk about problems that he may be able to help with...everything from the police, to the local bus routes. He answers every question honestly. He also takes criticism fairly, if he is wrong he says so, if he can help he takes their numbers and deals with it, and throughout it all he deals with everything with kindness and humour.
Something he has done for years is donate part of his own wage to help the homeless...OK, he can afford it, so can millions, but they don't.
He started bed for a night for people living on the streets here.
He commissioned a local enquiry into the grooming gangs when central government refused. With his perseverance, central government have now announced there will (at last) be a national enquiry.
It was he who pushed for the cover-up of the Hillsborough disaster to be investigated. Eventually proving it was the authorities, not the fans who were to blame.
I could go on...but his past record is all on line somewhere.
Wow, Syl, he’s even more impressive than I thought!
I also believe he’s savvy enough to ‘read the room‘ and pick up on what the people are clamouring for. So, as PM, I believe he would quickly get very proactive in dealing with the UK’s anti-immigration issues.
Anonymous said
Sep 27 12:11 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Syl wrote:
Vam wrote:
Fwiw, I’m still rooting for Syl’s guy - Andy Burnham From what I can remember of him, he’s always struck me as impressively down-to-earth who talked a lot of sense. He’s certainly got the credentials and experience.
I imagine his plain-speaking would blast right through ‘Jaws‘ Farage’s braying bullshit.
I have no doubt that Farage as PM would be disastrous for the UK. Okay - he’ll make a big flashy trumpy-style show of dealing with brown and black interlopers.
Then what…? 🤷🏻♀️
The predictable knives are out in some quarters for Andy now, people crawling out of the woodwork telling of the times he made mistakes. The problem is, the media is so powerful today, and people listen without doing their own research (Something Maddog also mentioned last week in regard to Charlie Kirk)
Vam, for years, every week Andy Burnham has done a live Q and A broadcast on local Greater Manchester Radio. He is in the hot seat as ordinary members of the public ask questions and talk about problems that he may be able to help with...everything from the police, to the local bus routes. He answers every question honestly. He also takes criticism fairly, if he is wrong he says so, if he can help he takes their numbers and deals with it, and throughout it all he deals with everything with kindness and humour.
Something he has done for years is donate part of his own wage to help the homeless...OK, he can afford it, so can millions, but they don't.
He started bed for a night for people living on the streets here.
He commissioned a local enquiry into the grooming gangs when central government refused. With his perseverance, central government have now announced there will (at last) be a national enquiry.
It was he who pushed for the cover-up of the Hillsborough disaster to be investigated. Eventually proving it was the authorities, not the fans who were to blame.
I could go on...but his past record is all on line somewhere.
Wow, Syl, he’s even more impressive than I thought!
I also believe he’s savvy enough to ‘read the room‘ and pick up on what the people are clamouring for. So, as PM, I believe he would quickly get very proactive in dealing with the UK’s anti-immigration issues.
Isn't there a stumbling block though - don't you have to be an MP to put in a leadership challenge?
Digger said
Sep 27 12:20 PM, 2025
No surprise really....
The Britcard will be run on an App made by Multiverse, a multi national company founded by EUAN BLAIR! Yep, son of the four-faced war mongering LIAR, Tony Blair. His shares are about a £375m.
Digger said
Sep 27 12:22 PM, 2025
This guy sums it up really regarding the Britcard and why it's being implemented.
This is how the system really works: it’s not about democracy, it’s about dynasty. The same tiny network of elites hand each other the levers of control — Blair drags us into war, and now his son gets to build the digital cage we’re all meant to live in. They call it ‘progress’, but it’s just the same families recycling power and wealth, generation after generation. It’s an echo chamber at the very top — insulated, incestuous, and totally detached from the people. And they wonder why trust in politics has collapsed.
Digger said
Sep 27 12:30 PM, 2025
And let's not forget who Tony Blair really was, and is....
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, better known as Tony Blair, found himself in trouble back in 1983 when he was charged at Bow Street Magistrates Court for something called "cottaging." He was caught by police who were keeping an eye on public restrooms, where he was allegedly soliciting another man for sexual favours. Blair ended up with a £500 fine but managed to leave the court without anyone recognizing him, thanks to using his middle names and having some connections in the courtroom. So, if you ever had any doubts about Tony Blair's less-than-stellar past.
Syl said
Sep 27 12:38 PM, 2025
Anonymous wrote:
Vam wrote:
Syl wrote:
Vam wrote:
Fwiw, I’m still rooting for Syl’s guy - Andy Burnham From what I can remember of him, he’s always struck me as impressively down-to-earth who talked a lot of sense. He’s certainly got the credentials and experience.
I imagine his plain-speaking would blast right through ‘Jaws‘ Farage’s braying bullshit.
I have no doubt that Farage as PM would be disastrous for the UK. Okay - he’ll make a big flashy trumpy-style show of dealing with brown and black interlopers.
Then what…? 🤷🏻♀️
The predictable knives are out in some quarters for Andy now, people crawling out of the woodwork telling of the times he made mistakes. The problem is, the media is so powerful today, and people listen without doing their own research (Something Maddog also mentioned last week in regard to Charlie Kirk)
Vam, for years, every week Andy Burnham has done a live Q and A broadcast on local Greater Manchester Radio. He is in the hot seat as ordinary members of the public ask questions and talk about problems that he may be able to help with...everything from the police, to the local bus routes. He answers every question honestly. He also takes criticism fairly, if he is wrong he says so, if he can help he takes their numbers and deals with it, and throughout it all he deals with everything with kindness and humour.
Something he has done for years is donate part of his own wage to help the homeless...OK, he can afford it, so can millions, but they don't.
He started bed for a night for people living on the streets here.
He commissioned a local enquiry into the grooming gangs when central government refused. With his perseverance, central government have now announced there will (at last) be a national enquiry.
It was he who pushed for the cover-up of the Hillsborough disaster to be investigated. Eventually proving it was the authorities, not the fans who were to blame.
I could go on...but his past record is all on line somewhere.
Wow, Syl, he’s even more impressive than I thought!
I also believe he’s savvy enough to ‘read the room‘ and pick up on what the people are clamouring for. So, as PM, I believe he would quickly get very proactive in dealing with the UK’s anti-immigration issues.
Isn't there a stumbling block though - don't you have to be an MP to put in a leadership challenge?
Obviously he would have to be reinstated as an MP, and there has been talk of several existing MP's who would give up their seats if and when he decides that is what he wants to do. He would then have to win a by-election, then get backing of 80 MP's, before he could even challenge Starmer for leadership.
A great uphill challenge for Burnham, and he hasn't yet confirmed that he will try.
What started it all off was, he was asked if any MP's had contacted him to advise him to challenge the Labour leader, and he admitted that some MP's already had.
This guy sums it up really regarding the Britcard and why it's being implemented.
This is how the system really works: it’s not about democracy, it’s about dynasty. The same tiny network of elites hand each other the levers of control — Blair drags us into war, and now his son gets to build the digital cage we’re all meant to live in. They call it ‘progress’, but it’s just the same families recycling power and wealth, generation after generation. It’s an echo chamber at the very top — insulated, incestuous, and totally detached from the people. And they wonder why trust in politics has collapsed.
🎯 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Not that far removed from what’s happening in the US. Palantir Technologies is currently in the throes of data mining on an epic scale.
Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel, the gazillionaire who bought JD Vance’s Vice Presidency.
JD is 100% Musk and Thiel’s boy. And imo, if he ever gets upgraded to POTUS, he‘d be every bit as catastrophic as Trump.
Syl said
Sep 27 1:21 PM, 2025
Digger wrote:
And let's not forget who Tony Blair really was, and is....
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, better known as Tony Blair, found himself in trouble back in 1983 when he was charged at Bow Street Magistrates Court for something called "cottaging." He was caught by police who were keeping an eye on public restrooms, where he was allegedly soliciting another man for sexual favours. Blair ended up with a £500 fine but managed to leave the court without anyone recognizing him, thanks to using his middle names and having some connections in the courtroom. So, if you ever had any doubts about Tony Blair's less-than-stellar past.
Is that really true?
Apart from a couple of social media posts, where is any official documentation that proves it was him?
Digger said
Sep 27 1:58 PM, 2025
Syl wrote:
Digger wrote:
And let's not forget who Tony Blair really was, and is....
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, better known as Tony Blair, found himself in trouble back in 1983 when he was charged at Bow Street Magistrates Court for something called "cottaging." He was caught by police who were keeping an eye on public restrooms, where he was allegedly soliciting another man for sexual favours. Blair ended up with a £500 fine but managed to leave the court without anyone recognizing him, thanks to using his middle names and having some connections in the courtroom. So, if you ever had any doubts about Tony Blair's less-than-stellar past.
Is that really true?
Apart from a couple of social media posts, where is any official documentation that proves it was him?
It's probably speculation, who knows. For years and years the crimes of people like Cyril Smith, Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile was covered up. I'd laugh my head off if it was true though. He's definitely committed war crimes as far as I'm concerned and should be locked up.
-- Edited by Digger on Saturday 27th of September 2025 02:00:02 PM
Digger said
Sep 27 2:06 PM, 2025
Yes it’s true, charged under his middle names, Charles Lynton, to protect his future political career. It was well known he was a cross dressing bisexual in his college days. He also appeared in the Elm Guest House visitor book numerous times under the name “Miranda”.
The allegations are supported in part by the dodgy dealings around the Dunblane shooting. It was obvious enough that Heath was as queer as a three pound note. Mandelson's liking for his Brazilian boy's bottom is known worldwide. Not all the allegations are necessarily true but there are hot embers visible under the cloud of smoke.
Magica said
Sep 27 3:46 PM, 2025
Digger wrote:
Yes it’s true, charged under his middle names, Charles Lynton, to protect his future political career. It was well known he was a cross dressing bisexual in his college days. He also appeared in the Elm Guest House visitor book numerous times under the name “Miranda”.
The allegations are supported in part by the dodgy dealings around the Dunblane shooting. It was obvious enough that Heath was as queer as a three pound note. Mandelson's liking for his Brazilian boy's bottom is known worldwide. Not all the allegations are necessarily true but there are hot embers visible under the cloud of smoke.
I read about this year's ago. I do believe Bliar was charged then brushed over. I'm sure he's the devil in human form.
I detest him. He should be in prison for lying over wmd in Iraq, an excuse for him and Bush to invade for oil.
Syl said
Sep 27 3:50 PM, 2025
Digger wrote:
Yes it’s true, charged under his middle names, Charles Lynton, to protect his future political career. It was well known he was a cross dressing bisexual in his college days. He also appeared in the Elm Guest House visitor book numerous times under the name “Miranda”.
The allegations are supported in part by the dodgy dealings around the Dunblane shooting. It was obvious enough that Heath was as queer as a three pound note. Mandelson's liking for his Brazilian boy's bottom is known worldwide. Not all the allegations are necessarily true but there are hot embers visible under the cloud of smoke.
I have my doubts about Tony 'Miranda' Blair, amusing though it may be to think of it.
The cover ups of Cyril Smith, Saville, and to a lesser extent Rolf Harris and others...so many people knew what they were doing, and so many people, including the BBC, police, child care authorities, and in the case of Saville, so many NHS workers, from nurses upwards, al kept quiet for years, decades even.
That's what I don't understand.
Digger said
Sep 28 11:47 AM, 2025
Fluffy wrote:
OMG Farage has finally lost it!
The Royal Parks have rejected Nigel Farage’s claims that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds.
The Reform UK leader suggested that eastern European migrants are taking swans from Royal Parks and carp from ponds across the UK to eat.
I've cut and pasted this because the actual page is locked for non paying members in the Mail.
Sky One’s Emergency Animal Rescue programme filmed the welfare officer visiting the Romanian family at their home, where she discovered the meat and bones of an unknown bird simmering in a cooking pot.
As the officer inspects the contents of the casserole pot, she says: ‘You see the bones in this bird, because it’s not a chicken... I’m a bit concerned.’
The footage also shows the officer retrieving white feathers and a distinctly swan-like beak from a bin in the back garden.
The clip was recently reposted on social media by, among others, Turning Point UK, a British offshoot of the Right-wing American student pressure group run by the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk, where it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
It reported in 2003, just as mass migration from the EU was beginning to increase, that at least 100 swans had gone missing from stretches of water in East London, including the River Lea.
A ‘strong line of inquiry’ was that they had been stolen for food, according to Scotland Yard.
Ten years later it was clear that the problem had not gone away, with the prestigious Time magazine running a piece under the headline: ‘Someone is kidnapping and eating Britain’s swans.’
The incidents in question occurred at Lincoln’s iconic Brayford Pool, where the city’s swans have nested for centuries.
Time’s colourful dispatch revealed: ‘Witnesses told investigating officers that they saw a team of five men attacking one of the snowy white birds with a nail-studded implement.’
In the succeeding days, a further three carcasses were recovered.
Seven months after that outbreak of swan-related violence, there was an even more graphic story in London’s Evening Standard newspaper.
‘Queen’s swan “killed, barbecued, eaten and dumped on riverbank”,’ blared the headline.
‘It was just a carcass, it was all burnt,’ Wendy Hermon, 46, of the charity Swan Lifeline was quoted as saying. ‘We could see that whoever did this had taken the breast out. It was done neatly, presumably to get at the meat.
‘They had skinned it as well and possibly barbecued it there, on a disposable barbecue.’ When the Covid pandemic struck in 2020 – and many people found themselves in straitened circumstances – there was a spike in the number of similar incidents.
Attacks on swans, ducks and geese, with a range of weapons ranging from air guns to fireworks, soared by 59 per cent, according to The Times.
Now, I’m not for one moment suggesting that dozens of these majestic beasts are being snatched from British lakes and rivers on a daily basis. And it is true that many reports make no reference to the nationalities of offenders due to a lack of eyewitnesses.
.But for Nigel Farage’s detractors to pretend that no migrants have ever engaged in poaching of wildfowl or fish is, at the very least, presumptuous.
Two years later, the Evening Standard reported that an angler on London’s River Lea came across a man – whose accent suggested he was an Eastern European immigrant – in a makeshift tent cooking his evening meal surrounded by the bodies of slaughtered swans.
One of the earliest reports about swans disappearing appeared in, of all places, The Guardian newspaper, that favourite of paid-up members of the metropolitan elite.
Syl said
Sep 28 12:11 PM, 2025
Thinking about it, it's not outside the realms of possibility, that if someone can't afford food, and comes from a country where it's more natural, they will do it unlawfully here.
Perhaps someone could direct them to food banks instead.
Red Okktober said
Sep 28 12:35 PM, 2025
Despite people flocking to Reform in their droves, Starmer has said on the BBC that Reform's plans to remove immigrants are 'immoral and racist' - way to go Sir Keir and alienate yourself even further from the electorate! He looks even more pro-migrant now than before - which isn't a good look to have in the current climate.
"Responding to Sir Keir's comments, Reform UK's Zia Yusuf said: "Labour's message to the country is clear: pay hundreds of billions for foreign nationals to live off the state forever, or Labour will call you racist."
"Reform's plan will ensure only British people can access welfare and that migrants contribute to society."
I have no idea why governments here are so pathetically weak about immigration. The last government lost favour because of it, and this government are even worse.
We have border force and military that are well equipped to deal with small boats, but still they come in ever increasing numbers.
We pay France millions o direct them over here, we must be a bloody laughing stock the way UK authorities bend over to be shafted time and time again.
Fwiw, I’m still rooting for Syl’s guy - Andy Burnham
From what I can remember of him, he’s always struck me as impressively down-to-earth who talked a lot of sense. He’s certainly got the credentials and experience.
I imagine his plain-speaking would blast right through ‘Jaws‘ Farage’s braying bullshit.
I have no doubt that Farage as PM would be disastrous for the UK. Okay - he’ll make a big flashy trumpy-style show of dealing with brown and black interlopers.
Then what…? 🤷🏻♀️
The predictable knives are out in some quarters for Andy now, people crawling out of the woodwork telling of the times he made mistakes. The problem is, the media is so powerful today, and people listen without doing their own research (Something Maddog also mentioned last week in regard to Charlie Kirk)
Vam, for years, every week Andy Burnham has done a live Q and A broadcast on local Greater Manchester Radio. He is in the hot seat as ordinary members of the public ask questions and talk about problems that he may be able to help with...everything from the police, to the local bus routes. He answers every question honestly. He also takes criticism fairly, if he is wrong he says so, if he can help he takes their numbers and deals with it, and throughout it all he deals with everything with kindness and humour.
Something he has done for years is donate part of his own wage to help the homeless...OK, he can afford it, so can millions, but they don't.
He started bed for a night for people living on the streets here.
He commissioned a local enquiry into the grooming gangs when central government refused. With his perseverance, central government have now announced there will (at last) be a national enquiry.
It was he who pushed for the cover-up of the Hillsborough disaster to be investigated. Eventually proving it was the authorities, not the fans who were to blame.
I could go on...but his past record is all on line somewhere.
Because they are globalists. Why would our politicians want this? Globalisation concentrates wealth in the hands of a few, and we kind of suspect we know who, leading to a growing gap between the rich and the poor both within and between countries. Corporate greed being the most visible.
Companies move operations to countries with cheaper labour, causing job losses in countries that were previously home to the operations. Again, we've seen this with our complete loss of industry.
Cultural homogenisation - human nature strongly leans towards culture and tradition. It keeps us happy with a sense of identity. This becomes eroded with globalisation.
The influx of foreign products and competition can undermine domestic businesses, leading to a decline in local economic activity. We're all guilty of buying from Temu instead of seeking out local UK artisan makers on sites like Folksy or The British Craft House.
Globalisation facilitates the movement of illegal activities, such as human trafficking, drug smuggling, and terrorism.
The UK has a trade imbalance we spend more on imports than we make on exports. This creates a shortfall in capital that the country must make up for either by borrowing money from foreign lenders or permitting foreign investments in its assets. This is a typical result of globalisation.
Globalisation has its advantages but not at the cost of the freedom of a country's people.
Wow, Syl, he’s even more impressive than I thought!
I also believe he’s savvy enough to ‘read the room‘ and pick up on what the people are clamouring for. So, as PM, I believe he would quickly get very proactive in dealing with the UK’s anti-immigration issues.
Isn't there a stumbling block though - don't you have to be an MP to put in a leadership challenge?
No surprise really....
The Britcard will be run on an App made by Multiverse, a multi national company founded by EUAN BLAIR! Yep, son of the four-faced war mongering LIAR, Tony Blair. His shares are about a £375m.
This guy sums it up really regarding the Britcard and why it's being implemented.
This is how the system really works: it’s not about democracy, it’s about dynasty. The same tiny network of elites hand each other the levers of control — Blair drags us into war, and now his son gets to build the digital cage we’re all meant to live in. They call it ‘progress’, but it’s just the same families recycling power and wealth, generation after generation. It’s an echo chamber at the very top — insulated, incestuous, and totally detached from the people. And they wonder why trust in politics has collapsed.
And let's not forget who Tony Blair really was, and is....
Obviously he would have to be reinstated as an MP, and there has been talk of several existing MP's who would give up their seats if and when he decides that is what he wants to do. He would then have to win a by-election, then get backing of 80 MP's, before he could even challenge Starmer for leadership.
A great uphill challenge for Burnham, and he hasn't yet confirmed that he will try.
What started it all off was, he was asked if any MP's had contacted him to advise him to challenge the Labour leader, and he admitted that some MP's already had.
Blair has been pushing for ID cards for decades.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-laid-bare-the-article-that-may-get-you-arrested-6096842.html
🎯 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Not that far removed from what’s happening in the US. Palantir Technologies is currently in the throes of data mining on an epic scale.
Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel, the gazillionaire who bought JD Vance’s Vice Presidency.
JD is 100% Musk and Thiel’s boy. And imo, if he ever gets upgraded to POTUS, he‘d be every bit as catastrophic as Trump.
Is that really true?
Apart from a couple of social media posts, where is any official documentation that proves it was him?
It's probably speculation, who knows. For years and years the crimes of people like Cyril Smith, Rolf Harris and Jimmy Savile was covered up. I'd laugh my head off if it was true though. He's definitely committed war crimes as far as I'm concerned and should be locked up.
-- Edited by Digger on Saturday 27th of September 2025 02:00:02 PM
Yes it’s true, charged under his middle names, Charles Lynton, to protect his future political career. It was well known he was a cross dressing bisexual in his college days. He also appeared in the Elm Guest House visitor book numerous times under the name “Miranda”.
The allegations are supported in part by the dodgy dealings around the
Dunblane shooting. It was obvious enough that Heath was as queer as a
three pound note. Mandelson's liking for his Brazilian boy's bottom
is known worldwide. Not all the allegations are necessarily true but
there are hot embers visible under the cloud of smoke.
I read about this year's ago. I do believe Bliar was charged then brushed over. I'm sure he's the devil in human form.
I detest him. He should be in prison for lying over wmd in Iraq, an excuse for him and Bush to invade for oil.
I have my doubts about Tony 'Miranda' Blair, amusing though it may be to think of it.
The cover ups of Cyril Smith, Saville, and to a lesser extent Rolf Harris and others...so many people knew what they were doing, and so many people, including the BBC, police, child care authorities, and in the case of Saville, so many NHS workers, from nurses upwards, al kept quiet for years, decades even.
That's what I don't understand.
There rarely smoke without fire
I've cut and pasted this because the actual page is locked for non paying members in the Mail.
Sky One’s Emergency Animal Rescue programme filmed the welfare officer visiting the Romanian family at their home, where she discovered the meat and bones of an unknown bird simmering in a cooking pot.
As the officer inspects the contents of the casserole pot, she says: ‘You see the bones in this bird, because it’s not a chicken... I’m a bit concerned.’
The footage also shows the officer retrieving white feathers and a distinctly swan-like beak from a bin in the back garden.
The clip was recently reposted on social media by, among others, Turning Point UK, a British offshoot of the Right-wing American student pressure group run by the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk, where it has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
It reported in 2003, just as mass migration from the EU was beginning to increase, that at least 100 swans had gone missing from stretches of water in East London, including the River Lea.
A ‘strong line of inquiry’ was that they had been stolen for food, according to Scotland Yard.
Ten years later it was clear that the problem had not gone away, with the prestigious Time magazine running a piece under the headline: ‘Someone is kidnapping and eating Britain’s swans.’
The incidents in question occurred at Lincoln’s iconic Brayford Pool, where the city’s swans have nested for centuries.
Time’s colourful dispatch revealed: ‘Witnesses told investigating officers that they saw a team of five men attacking one of the snowy white birds with a nail-studded implement.’
In the succeeding days, a further three carcasses were recovered.
Seven months after that outbreak of swan-related violence, there was an even more graphic story in London’s Evening Standard newspaper.
‘Queen’s swan “killed, barbecued, eaten and dumped on riverbank”,’ blared the headline.
‘It was just a carcass, it was all burnt,’ Wendy Hermon, 46, of the charity Swan Lifeline was quoted as saying. ‘We could see that whoever did this had taken the breast out. It was done neatly, presumably to get at the meat.
‘They had skinned it as well and possibly barbecued it there, on a disposable barbecue.’ When the Covid pandemic struck in 2020 – and many people found themselves in straitened circumstances – there was a spike in the number of similar incidents.
Attacks on swans, ducks and geese, with a range of weapons ranging from air guns to fireworks, soared by 59 per cent, according to The Times.
Now, I’m not for one moment suggesting that dozens of these majestic beasts are being snatched from British lakes and rivers on a daily basis. And it is true that many reports make no reference to the nationalities of offenders due to a lack of eyewitnesses.
.But for Nigel Farage’s detractors to pretend that no migrants have ever engaged in poaching of wildfowl or fish is, at the very least, presumptuous.
Two years later, the Evening Standard reported that an angler on London’s River Lea came across a man – whose accent suggested he was an Eastern European immigrant – in a makeshift tent cooking his evening meal surrounded by the bodies of slaughtered swans.
One of the earliest reports about swans disappearing appeared in, of all places, The Guardian newspaper, that favourite of paid-up members of the metropolitan elite.
Perhaps someone could direct them to food banks instead.
"Responding to Sir Keir's comments, Reform UK's Zia Yusuf said: "Labour's message to the country is clear: pay hundreds of billions for foreign nationals to live off the state forever, or Labour will call you racist."
"Reform's plan will ensure only British people can access welfare and that migrants contribute to society."