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Liz Webster: Britain’s decision to Brexit…

Britain’s decision to Brexit has already imposed a significant economic and practical cost for far fewer gains than were promised. But Brexit isn’t done hurting us. In a world of trade wars, energy shocks and geopolitical instability, choosing to erect barriers with our largest market has made Britain more exposed, less resilient and less able to absorb global shocks. The cruel irony is that Brexit was sold as a route to prosperity and control. Instead, it has left Britain facing the very thing economists fear most: stagflation - higher prices, weaker growth and falling living standards.

Moazzam Begg: The pogroms in #Belfast aren’t anti-migrant…

The pogroms in #Belfast aren’t anti-migrant. They’re unabashedly racist. The rioters descend from English migrant families. That’s why you’ll see Union Jacks and St. George’s in their areas, even though they’re on the island of Ireland and speak with strong Irish accents. You’ll never hear them attack America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel, nations literally built upon illegal European immigration. That’s because their own relatives and forebears are illegal migrants to these lands. These racists love illegal immigration so much you’ll find Israeli flags flying outside loyalist homes, above their own Ulster Banners. They loved apartheid in South Africa by white settlers against indigenous blacks. They revel in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians by migrant Europeans. But, somehow, they can’t stomach a few Africans and Asians in their own areas. In addition to being racists, the street thugs and their enablers @RupertLowe10 , @Nigel_Farage , @TRobinsonNewEra , @GBNEWS et al are also hypocrites extraordinaire.

Liz Webster: Newsnight @gilliantett…

🚨 Newsnight @gilliantett cut to the chase: “This clearly is a mess of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’ making, bc they should’ve seen it.” She said Healey and Cairns have “played a masterstroke” by detonating a political landmine. But while Westminster fights internal battles and obsesses over fiscal rules and defence budgets, British 🇬🇧 farming is being allowed to decline. This government came in treating farming as an industry it could afford to neglect, repeating the mistake of treating a strategic sector as expendable. 🔥 Food is not just another industry. 🔥 Food is part of defence. The 1947 Agriculture Act understood this lesson after WW2: a country that cannot feed itself is vulnerable to war, blockades, climate shocks and hostile powers controlling supply chains. Food production is as fundamental to national resilience as energy, infrastructure and defence capability. We need to restore the principles of the 1947 Agriculture Act: treating food production as a public good and a national security priority. Food security is national security.

Pouria Zeraati: They’re really a bunch of dishonorable bastards…

"They’re really a bunch of dishonorable bastards to negotiate with." He got mixed up again :)) Trump: 'The stuff that the I.R. leaked to fake-news media has absolutely no connection to the provisions that were formally agreed upon in writing. The things they said, including that weak and pathetic statement of theirs about the agreement, have zero relation to reality. They’re really a bunch of dishonorable bastards to negotiate with. With these guys, there’s no such thing as good-faith negotiation at all. It’s really bizarre! On the other hand, their drone attack last night, which was completely repelled and targeted Indian ships exiting the Strait of Hormuz, is utterly unacceptable. They’d better get their act together soon, and very quickly!'

Andrew Bridgen: You will be told that deporting illegal migrants…

You will be told that deporting illegal migrants and foreign born criminals is an extreme political stance. This is wrong The extreme stance is giving illegal migrants ( who are criminals) free accomodation in 4* hotels , free food , clothes , phones, internet and moving them to the front of the queue for healthcare , housing etc. The Government position is the extreme stance. Never forget this.

Robin Monotti: WHY BORDERS MATTER…

WHY BORDERS MATTER "Borders and national citizenship rules are a primary check upon migration. Migration is not limited just because of xenophobia. Unregulated migration now would undermine both citizenship and welfare rights. This would threaten democracy, which depends of the notion of a national community. Thus a degree of exclusion of outsiders is essential to democracy, and democracy is a key basis for the legitimacy of a government’s external actions. Borders and local policies of national security are now central to containing terrorism and organized crime. Citizens still identify with the nation-state. States are the largest bodies that can claim any sort of primary legitimacy. There is no global ‘demos’. If democracy implies a substantial measure of homogeneity in the demos, then the world is just too unequal economically and too different culturally for the rich to submit to the decisions of the poor, or for one established culture to accept the internationalization of the norms of another. The territorial state will remain a central component of the new division of labour in governance, even if it no longer has quite the monopoly of governance it had when it appropriated political power from the complex division of labour in governance of the later Middle Ages. Politics is no longer exclusively territorial. On the other hand, it cannot hold together unless it is rooted in the democratic political will of territorial states." Paul Quentin Hirst

Liz Webster: Brexit was sold as “taking back control”…

🚨 Brexit was sold as “taking back control” of our borders. Instead, it delivered the opposite. By leaving the EU, Britain lost key cooperation tools (like the Dublin Regulation for returns) while raising public expectations it couldn’t meet. Result? Record small boat crossings across the Channel, over 200,000 since 2018, turning what was once a defensive moat (Dunkirk 1940) into a smuggling superhighway.

Alex Wickham: The thing that is so bewildering…

The thing that is so bewildering is that in Munich in February Keir Starmer gave one of his best speech as PM where he appeared to define his premiership on rebuilding UK defence credibility and taking a leadership role in Europe. Time and time again Starmer has said security is the point of his premiership. Insecurity is his main argument against changing leader. Rather than find a few extra billion to meet that rhetoric he has taken a political decision not to, siding not only with the Treasury but also inexplicably with the Labour welfare rebels who sunk his premiership. It means he is left with Ed Miliband in his cabinet, who has agitated for his downfall, and no John Healey. How has he managed that?

Kathy Gyngell: The Left has reacted with hot rage…

The Left has reacted with hot rage to a comment made by @Nigel_Farage that he had reacted with cold rage to the fatal stabbingof #HenryNowak. And most especially to the way he finessed the remark: that, given the circumstances of that murder, he expects the rest of us to react in the same way. Expects, not urges, straightforward empathynot being the same as incitement, save in the Left hive mind for which all distinctions in logic are transactional. Farage is taken by many to be the villain here. Or so the architects, generals and worker bees of the vicious ‘culture of nice’ are requiring the rest of us to conclude. I’m at a loss to know what for these people the correct response to footage of child sacrifice should look like? @Sean_Walsh_1967
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