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@DarrigoMelanie Hitler called himself a socialist - you say he wasn’t, he said he was. Everyone around him said they were socialists too. You say they weren’t. They believed in their socialist cause, you seem to think you are so all-knowing that you can give them a different label.

@allchronology Just a reminder this man believes in free speech to such an extent he allows you to use his own media platform to abuse him. I wonder if you would ever dream of being so generous.

@OWS1892 @trussliz Do you really need to swear so aggressively at a woman?

@DanielJHannan Keep it up Daniel, you are doing such valuable work for the UK with regards to the Falkland and Chagos Islands’ noble causes. Thank you.

@Zero_4 You mean you want him to pour his, not your, hard earned money down the biggest drain in history.

CHAGOS SURRENDER UPDATE The excellent @LordWeirDUP just moved his Bill to prevent the government from transferring sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory without the consent of both Parliament and the diaspora Chagossian population. Every speaker was against the handover except the luckless minister. The Labour and LibDem benches were, as usual, deserted. No one supports this dreadful deal. The question is whether Labour will take the off ramp, or whether they will follow the FCDO plan to wait until a change of administration in Washington and then reheat the same old proposal.

This is all true. The speed and scale of the change are seismic and unprecedented. And it is not leading to the multicultural utopia that elitist liberal-progressive voices predicted. On the contrary, it is leading to a nation increasingly divided along ethnic, religious and cultural lines. We have to manage that rupture as best we can - and by always retaining our basic humanity. But pretending it isn’t happening serves no-one.

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It’s not ‘racist’ to notice that England is undergoing convulsive demographic change. There is no historical precedent for the levels of migration that have been imposed on us – and against our will. The English are disappearing, says Patrick West buff.ly/c2JpUpW

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@StuartBudd1 The assembly is the manual/menial part of the process. What happened to GB car design and ownership following entry to the EU? Answer: Germany, France and Sweden took our thinking and used our car plants.

@trussliz 100%

@CHinchliffMP Where are you getting our oil from if the Straight of Hormuz is closed and Russia is at war under sanction?

A country cannot survive if it targets the leader of its bravest defenders. We don’t know how lucky we are to have the SAS - because they don’t tell us how many lives they save or how dangerous the work they do. The rot runs very deep.

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EXCLUSIVE: The commanding officer of the SAS was placed under criminal investigation and referred to prosecutors over anti-ISIS mission in Syria. Unprecedented move concerned police request for classified evidence, but effort to charge him collapsed thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

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@DawnButlerBrent You need to pay UK for providing you with a global language, rule of law, democracy, Christian missions, industry wealth, institutional structure templates, morality, disease control, applied science, children’s education systems, railways and infrastructure etc. etc

@Wakefield90 Good news if the Straight of Hormuz is blocked

Official figures out this morning report that last month, the UK government borrowed £24.5 billion. But the fineprint shows that almost £11 billion of that extra borrowing went on debt interest payments. That's more than £400 per household on debt service costs, in September alone. So far during this financial year, from April to September, the government's debt interest payments amount to £61 billion. Now, this number will barely feature in UK newspapers and across our airwaves. It may be mentioned in passing in out-of-the-way business sections, or on the odd business bulletin. But this huge debt interest bill won't register with the vast majority of our political and media class, or impact the national debate. Let me explain why that's so wrong and so dangerous ... £61 billion is a massive amount of money. It's equivalent to the UK's entire annual defence budget – the money we're paying, increasingly to foreign creditors, simply to service our national debt for six months, not to pay any of it back. £61 billion is equivalent to the money you'd raise over a year from adding a whopping 7 pence to the basic rate of income tax. For £61 billion, you could build around 40 large, state-of-the-art hospitals, or employ more than 100 thousand extra nurses for ten years. £61 billion would pay for free-at-the-point of use social care for everyone who needs it in the UK, for an entire year – three times over. Again, this is the debt interest bill on Britain's spiralling national debt – now more than 3 trillion pounds – over the last six months alone. The UK's public finances are close to meltdown – yet so many MPs and journalists continue blithely to view ever more public spending and borrowing as the answer to every problem. Those who highlight the dangers post by our hugely precarious national accounts are dismissed as cranks, ideologues or worse. But basic arithmetic has no ideology. And there is nothing "progressive" or "kind" or "right-on" about driving the UK ever closer to the fiscal cliff edge, provoking a crisis that will make the "austerity" years of the 2010s feel like a picnic, a crisis in which poorer households will suffer the most. Yes, Britain's national debt is lower than that of France. But because our borrowing has been rising so sharply, and because we're so prone to inflation, our debt service costs are much higher. The UK is spending a disgraceful 3.6pc of GDP on public debt interest, while France spends less than 2.5pc. Endless airtime and column inches are devoted to spurious conversations about a billion or two of additional "fiscal headroom" we may or may not have in three years' time. And, of course, any "extra headroom" is immediately pledged in new spending – which means yet more borrowing. These conversations are a waste of time – and, in fact, are deeply counterproductive. Three-year fiscal forecasts, even one- and two-year forecasts, routinely turn out to be askew by tens of billions of pounds. I'm not saying we don't need fiscal rules - we do, but we need more immediate rules, which actually bite, acting as a meaningful constraint on out-of-control borrowing and spending. Instead, political and media sages present the nation with spuriously precise discussions about fictional fiscal outcomes way into the future – using rules which are deliberately designed to kick arithmetic realities into the long grass .... An increasingly expensive, over-bearing, out of control state is not the answer to Britain problems. But unless we change course, it will certainly be our downfall. Please like/share if you think what I'm saying is important – and if fiscal realities should feature more prominently in our national debate. And for more sharp, plain-speaking economic analysis subscribe to: "When The Facts Change - economic and politics in a fast-moving world, with Liam Halligan"

@SaulStaniforth Soap is an internationally traded commodity - shall we stop manufacturing soap too?

@andrewhesselden At 20 I didn’t want to do that. At 40 I didn’t want to do that I’m nearly 60 and my parents are not in Spain so I won’t be able to do that. I’m pretty sure that at 75 I’ll still love the same Englishwoman. So I’ve no interest in your EU-cult-thingy.

@pjsuffolk @andrewhesselden Brilliant 😂

@donmcgowan + I’ve been reading this ‘we are all doomed’ stuff since I was a teenager in the 1970s

Absolutely stunning essay by @DouglasKMurray about the crisis in France. It includes this quote. thefp.com/p/douglas-murr…

@tappylappy The ‘capitalist class’ as you call it, brought the working class incredible improvements in their lifestyle. For example, Cars, air travel, homes, telephony, central heating, overseas food, cheap clothing, TV, books, the internet, text messaging, fast food, music, need I go on?