Political Thread in memory of David Reid. (R.I.P.)

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Just like so many of them. I wonder who stopped the moves to ship the illegals off to Rwanda? Actually, I don't wonder because they follow exactly the same pattern as Judge Bean and there is no doubt as to where they stand.
Not long before they decree that all must be released because it is against the ECHR procedures.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind ----life goes on.

Shipping people off to Central Africa, arson attacks on hotels and hostels are straight out of the Trump playbook mein freund. Do we really want to go down this road? I'd much prefer it if all those who hate illegal immigrants seriously take it up with France and all of the Schengen countries who are using our island as a dumping ground for their problems.

[sinkov]

I'll have to put you down as just another gammon then mon ami.

Gammons will soon be running the world mon ami, this Labour government is now running on fumes and on the brink of collapse, a swift General Election with a Reform landslide and Sir Nigel and the Donald, the Gammon Twins, will be Masters of the Universe.

[Supersub6]

Shipping people off to Central Africa, arson attacks on hotels and hostels are straight out of the Trump playbook mein freund. Do we really want to go down this road? I'd much prefer it if all those who hate illegal immigrants seriously take it up with France and all of the Schengen countries who are using our island as a dumping ground for their problems.

I do not hate illegal immigrants, mein freund, but do you think that they are being processed as they should be? Definitley not and it is the government's job to ensure that they are.
However, the government is not up to the task and, with the current trend of people being allowed to work from home, the government will never be up to the task because people are not doing the jobs for which they are paid.
The Civil Service has gone beyond a joke these days and it would not surprise me at all to find that the recent leakages at MoD were carried out by people who have got jobs in the department without going through the necessary checks. They could be anybody and working for any organisation which is infiltrating our national security, such is the scale of things.

Never mind, let's blame the other nationalities who allow people to travel through on their way to Britain.
Those who rejoiced in Brexit are now finding out the hard way that it would stop Britain from sending people back to France, Belgium etc. because Brexit nullified this arrangement.
David Cameron knew what he was doing when he resigned after his defeat. It hasn't done him any harm, I don't see him fretting about what is happening in the country.
Get on with life because it ain't going to get any better. Those with the money will see that we plebs don't get much say in anything.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

BREAKING: MEGA GAMMON MAGA Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy gets caught in a humiliating lie as he attempts to give Donald Trump credit for trains that President Barack Obama ordered into production.
Trump hates Obama almost as much as he wants to be him...
“[The trains are] a better experience for the American public,” Duffy said. "And again, that’s what we do, we serve the American people with great experiences and that’s what this is about today."
Duffy was visiting Washington D.C.’s Union Station, which Trump has seized control over as part of his ever-expanding fascist takeover of the capital.
Duffy praised Trump for Amtrak’s new high-speed trains as “part of @POTUS’ vision to Make Travel Great again.” The trains were actually ordered by Obama when he was still president and ironically enough Duffy, who was a Congressman at the time, voted against the bill that paid for them.
Obama signed the $2.4 billion investment into the cutting edge trains in 2016 and the 28 trains were funded through money from his 2015 $305 billion FAST Act. Duffy voted against that legislation. Because of the long timeline for designing, manufacturing, and then safety-testing trains, the are only just now entering service — which is why Trump thinks that he can take credit for him. As usual, he's assuming that his voters are too lazy, stupid, and gullible to do basic fact-checking.
What's more, the trains are also benefitting from President Biden's historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act because that bill pumped $66 billion worth of investment into rail, amounting to the largest funding boost for Amtrak since it began receiving federal funding roughly 50 years ago. $22 billion of that money went to repairs, replacements, and funding new projects.
When Biden was trying to pass the bill, Trump tried to torpedo it, proving that he cares far more about political wins than he does about improving the country.
Of course, lying to voters is nothing new for these MAGA politicians. It's their entire brand. They aren't interested in actually solving problems or improving the lives of voters, they're interested in bragging, taking credit, and then moving on to a new lie. It falls to all of us to call them out every single time they try it.

[sinkov]

Left or right mon ami, I?m very proud of my country and I?ll proudly fly the English flag, but not when it?s deliberately designed to make people uncomfortable, intimidated or threatened.

TRIGGER WARNING for BT and those of a similar peculiar Lefty mindset.

They start around the Read/Simonstone area, they proliferate the closer you get to Burnley and by the time you get to Burnley centre it's a veritable forest of England flags, they're everywhere, flying from every lamp post and bridge. To me, a patriotic Englishmen, it's a magnificent sight, it lifted my heart and made my day. It seems the entire Burnley area is festooned with our national flag, To those wonderful people who have worked tirelessly to provide this magnificent display of national pride, thank you and god bless.

For those sad, peculiar people who find our national flag makes them feel uncomfortable, intimidated and threatened, stop being so bloody silly.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

No wonder people looking out through hotel windows seeing Gammons, skinheads and balaclava wearing youths wrapped in our national flag, shouting obscenities makes them feel uncomfortable, intimidated and threatened. It's the Gammons who need to stop being so bloody silly.

Your trigger warning mon ami will no doubt bring the national media back to Burnley accusing the town of regressing back to the National Front days. It would be nice for the town to move forward.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

TRIGGER WARNING for BT and those of a similar peculiar Lefty mindset.

They start around the Read/Simonstone area, they proliferate the closer you get to Burnley and by the time you get to Burnley centre it's a veritable forest of England flags, they're everywhere, flying from every lamp post and bridge. To me, a patriotic Englishmen, it's a magnificent sight, it lifted my heart and made my day. It seems the entire Burnley area is festooned with our national flag, To those wonderful people who have worked tirelessly to provide this magnificent display of national pride, thank you and god bless.

For those sad, peculiar people who find our national flag makes them feel uncomfortable, intimidated and threatened, stop being so bloody silly.

Terrifying that the flag I was born under is wrapped around a set of Gammons and thugs.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/five-arrested-after-masked-men-try-to-enter-west-london-asylum-hotel

[sinkov]

Your trigger warning mon ami will no doubt bring the national media back to Burnley accusing the town of regressing back to the National Front days. It would be nice for the town to move forward.

The national media, no one listens any more mon ami, no one cares what the legacy media says, it's dying, it's you that needs to move forward. And before you start to worry about Burnley, you'd be better off concerning yourselves about our country and it's borders, or lack of them. After all, if you don't have borders, do you even have a country ?

[sinkov]

"Of course, lying to voters is nothing new for these MAGA politicians. It's their entire brand. They aren't interested in actually solving problems or improving the lives of voters, they're interested in bragging, taking credit, and then moving on to a new lie. It falls to all of us to call them out every single time they try it."

Is this what TDS reduces you Lefties to mon ami, arguing about a train set. Construction of these units began in October 2017, a year after Obama left office, so he can't claim much credit either can he ? Anyway you continue dancing on the head of a pin mon ami, I'll leave you to it.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

"Of course, lying to voters is nothing new for these MAGA politicians. It's their entire brand. They aren't interested in actually solving problems or improving the lives of voters, they're interested in bragging, taking credit, and then moving on to a new lie. It falls to all of us to call them out every single time they try it."

Is this what TDS reduces you Lefties to mon ami, arguing about a train set. Construction of these units began in October 2017, a year after Obama left office, so he can't claim much credit either can he ? Anyway you continue dancing on the head of a pin mon ami, I'll leave you to it.

Best estimate I can come up at present: As of early 2025, it's estimated that around 175,000 unauthorised arrivals were recorded between 2020 and September 2024. This figure includes people who entered the UK without permission—such as via small boats across the Channel—or overstayed their visas.

This not all Starmer's fault but he is seemingly incapable of stemming the flow. The Home Office will not provide actuals but it is acknowledged that in the UK we have over ONE Million undocumented people living amongst us.

That over ONE million people not paying Income Tax or National Insurance. The black economy must be in overdrive because "Border Force" certainly isn't, but as usual mon ami just blame the "Lefties".

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The national media, no one listens any more mon ami, no one cares what the legacy media says, it's dying, it's you that needs to move forward. And before you start to worry about Burnley, you'd be better off concerning yourselves about our country and it's borders, or lack of them. After all, if you don't have borders, do you even have a country ?

Our borders are as porous as my late mum's rag pudding cloth, this is not a new phenomenon, so why all the pressure on Starmer? The right-wing press in this country are a set of despicable ratbags.

[outwoodclaret]

Our borders are as porous as my late mum's rag pudding cloth, this is not a new phenomenon, so why all the pressure on Starmer? The right-wing press in this country are a set of despicable ratbags.

Why your sudden concern for Sir Keir? I thought you’d stuck more knives in him than the right wing press combined! No-one on these threads have said our current migrant woes are the sole responsibility of the current administration. It has been a cumulative failure of Government after Government with their endless lies and promises.Sir Keir however did so much to thwart previous attempts to bring illegal migration under control (with the assistance of the courts).He bigged up his own plans to smash the criminal gangs. In fact migrant Channel crossings have doubled in his first year of power and asylum applications are at an all time high. People are sick and tired of being ignored. Sick and tired of outsiders bussing in to call them Nazi scum when they seek to voice their concerns about their communities. We are becoming less and less tolerant not just because of Government failures to act but by those who continue to advocate every means of thwarting change. Much of the root of the problem lies outside our control with the porous borders of the EU but we should clearly be able to to take steps to closing this route to asylum seekers. That may mean opening more legitimate avenues of course.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

No concern whatsoever for Starmer Sir Outwood, but I do believe in fair play and this is a long running saga where successive governments have been derelict in their duties. Aggressive behaviour from a load of Gammons congregating en mass outside hotels is not the answer to this issue.

[Supersub6]

No concern whatsoever for Starmer Sir Outwood, but I do believe in fair play and this is a long running saga where successive governments have been derelict in their duties. Aggressive behaviour from a load of Gammons congregating en mass outside hotels is not the answer to this issue.

True, BT, however, one man stood up and said in his election manifesto thet he would stop the boats.
Methinks that he has failed miserably and his promise has been proved to be nothing but a lie to many people. Meanwhile, some of us knew that this was a false claim and didn't take any notice because a previous Labour Party leader and PM said that our doors would always be open.

It's all rather boring really, almost as boring as that PL clash at Anfield today which was so hyped up.

[sinkov]

Our borders are as porous as my late mum's rag pudding cloth, this is not a new phenomenon, so why all the pressure on Starmer? The right-wing press in this country are a set of despicable ratbags.

I'm not aware that I've blamed Starmer for the migrant crisis mon ami, although he refuses to do anything about it, but neither did the Tories for donkey's years, they're all as bad.

As for pressure on Starmer and the right-wing press, have you even heard of the fire-bombing of Starmer's house by Ukrainian rent-boys ? You'll not find much about it in the legacy media, not even in what passes for the right-wing media. What is this all about, why is the media protecting him and shutting the story down ?