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It’s time to become the 51st state of the US

We need to get Brexit done properly. Let’s finally face up to reality and put our Maga hats on

‘The Briton… should cheerfully acquiesce in the decree of Destiny, and stand in betimes with the conquering American.” So said William Thomas Stead, the prominent Victorian newspaperman and strident reformer.

Stead looked at Britain’s colonial apotheosis with apprehension, understanding that the growth of new great powers meant “we can never again be the first”. As his countrymen grew fat and complacent on the spoils of imperial decadence, Stead saw clearly that the only avoidance of incipient decline would come by uniting our fortunes with those who had passed us in the great race.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

Why I’m leaving the UK

Prissy moralists have killed artistic licence

The United Kingdom is a totalitarian hellscape. Freedom of speech has been all but abolished. Our police forces are now indistinguishable from the Gestapo. Criticism of the government will soon be illegal under imminent laws against thought crime. It will not be long before artists, political dissidents and other freethinkers will be rounded up and tossed into gulags…

Even with my love of melodrama, I cannot sustain such histrionics. While it’s enjoyable to momentarily inhabit the caricature of the Andrew Doyle that exists in the minds of my detractors, the truth is far less exciting. On a recent appearance on the Jordan B. Peterson podcast, I let it be known that I am leaving the United Kingdom to work with the actor and comedian Rob Schneider on a new production company called No Apologies Media. Some of my friends have assumed that I am flouncing away out of a desperate conviction that all is lost. The reality is a little more nuanced.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Ireland, U.K. becoming ‘dangerous’ for people with disabilities

“Many doctors in Ireland, and groups representing disabled people and older people, are not in favour of assisted dying legislation. They have deep concerns about what happened in Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada which have seen expansion upon expansion of the grounds for assisted suicide and euthanasia. Diminishing services prolong and increase older, disabled and sick people’s suffering to the extent that many now feel they can no longer live a valuable and productive life.”

She referred to it as “euthanasia by stealth.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inIreland, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, UK

The immigration figures tell a story of elite failure

Mass migration has been embraced to plug the gaps in a stuttering, low-wage economy.

Remember when we were told that Brexit would lead to a draw-bridge Britain, closed to migrants forever more? That particular Remainer scare story is now, officially, defunct.

This week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that 728,000 more people came to live in the UK than had left in the year to June 2024. That’s three to four times the net migration the UK averaged annually during the 2010s. To put that into context, nearly the same number of people arrived in the UK in a single year as live in the entire county of Suffolk.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", UK

Petition for another UK general election passes 2m signatures

Elon Musk has said the British public has “had enough of a tyrannical police state” as a petition calling for a general election passes two million signatures.

The billionaire entrepreneur and Donald Trump ally, 53, posted on his social media platform X on Sunday afternoon to share his support for the petition criticising Sir Keir Starmer’s government.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Arresting Netanyahu in UK would be unlawful, warns shadow attorney general and lawyers

Netanyahu Gallant Poster Tehran

Arresting Benjamin Netanyahu would be unlawful, the shadow attorney general and two of Britain’s leading lawyers have warned.

Lord Wolfson KC, the shadow attorney general, has written to his Government counterpart, Lord Hermer KC, saying the UK would be in breach of international law if the Government sought to enact the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for the Israeli leader if he came to the UK.

His view that UK laws give the Israeli prime minister immunity from being arrested was backed by Prof Richard Ekins, a professor of law and constitutional government at Oxford University, and Lord Verdirame KC, a specialist in public international law.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", UK

Why Again Do We Still Have a Special Relationship With the Tyrannical UK?

America and the United Kingdom have long had a special relationship, working closely as allies to protect the West from oppressive dictatorships that suppress their own people, arbitrarily jailing them and persecuting them for exercising their God-given right of free speech. Here’s the problem. The UK has become one of those oppressive dictatorships that suppress their own people, arbitrarily jailing them and persecuting them for exercising their God-given right of free speech. And I’m not particularly interested in having a special relationship with a country like that. Nor are many other Americans.

Luckily they’re stuck with us and vice versa. h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

Why Elon Musk hates Starmer’s Britain

In 2012, the Tesla tycoon Elon Musk took a Boris bike on a tour around London bathing in the Olympics love-in, declaring to his Twitter followers that “I really like Britain!”.

Musk had good reason to be pleased that year, having made his first appearance on the prestigious Forbes Billionaire List – with a modest £1.58 billion fortune.

Twelve years later, Musk’s fortune is valued at $251 billion (£191 billion), thanks to Tesla becoming the world’s largest car company. But, jarringly, his valuation of the UK appears to have gone into reverse gear.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Finally, a leader who’s willing to fight the culture war

Kemi Badenoch is the anti-Kamala, just the breath of fresh air the Western world needed.

Imagine if, a few years ago, you had told the wet leftists of the British establishment that one day there’d be a black woman in charge of a major political party and that they would freak out about it. That instead of celebrating this final breakthrough for race relations, these self-styled progressives would be bitterly murmuring into their muesli that ‘She’s a bit abrasive’ and ‘God help us now’. They’d have refused to believe you. Yet here we are. Kemi Badenoch has won the Conservative Party leadership contest and becomes the first black person ever to lead a major party in Britain. And the left ain’t happy.

I admit to keeping only a half an eye on the Conservative leadership race given that past results have been so disappointing.

Similar to our history with Canada’s PC’s GB’s Conservative party hasn’t been for some time instead fielding a revolving door of leaders who quickly abandoned any promises that resonated with the public.

Kemi has said lots of good things lets hope she means it.

Well that didn’t take long – Labour MP shares post saying Kemi Badenoch represents ‘white supremacy in blackface’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election

Kemi Badenoch is the new leader of the Conservatives after defeating Robert Jenrick in a ballot of party members.

Badenoch takes over from Rishi Sunak as leader of the opposition after winning 53,806 votes against 41,388 for Jenrick, in a result announced by the party on Saturday morning.

The result, announced at an event in central London by Bob Blackman, who chairs the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, means Badenoch took slightly more than 56% of the vote, a clear though not overwhelming victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK

Great Britain Is Neither Great Nor Free, and Might Not Even Be Britain for Long

Benjamin Franklin, an Englishman born in the colonial town of Boston in 1706 but who chose to separate himself from the rule of a tyrannical British government as one of our American Founding Fathers, once wrote that “People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”

Franklin understood well the depth of the depravity that the government of his ancestors was capable of. Very little about its current manifestation would surprise him.

But the British tyranny of Franklin’s time was at least intended to serve the interests of the British people, however that might be interpreted. It’s far more difficult to make a case that this is still true.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUK, USA

Southport ‘attacker’ to be charged under terrorism act, in possession of Al Qaeda manual & making Ricin poison

Axel Rudakubana muslim terrorist

The teenager accused of murdering three young girls in Southport has been charged with possession of a study of an Al-Qaeda terror training manual and manufacture of the poison ricin.

Axel Rudakubana, who is charged with carrying out a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July, is accused of producing ricin – a biological toxin – and keeping a handbook made by the terrorist group.

The manual, a PDF titled “Military studies in the jihad against the tyrants: The Al-Qaeda training manual” and the poison were found during a search of his home, police said.

The media is still using that ludicrous childhood photo of the little monster.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

UK: Anti-Semitic hate crimes rise at eight times the rate of Islamophobia in wake of Oct 7

Speculation suggests there must be an as yet undetermined cause for this alarming spike.

Anti-Semitic hate crime rose at nearly nine times the rate of anti-Muslim offences in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, official figures show.

The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes more than doubled, from 1,543 to 3,282 in the year to March 2024, a 113 per cent increase and the highest on record.

More than eight in 10 of the hate crimes were committed after the October 7 attack, rising from 95 recorded by police in September to 577 in October alone.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

“Far-right” activists fundraising for people jailed over UK riots

Far-right activists are trying to raise funds for people jailed over their roles in the summer riots, describing them as “political prisoners”, in an attempt to generate support by giving money to their families.

More than £14,000 has been raised by a leading group, which has been promoting the start of its “gifting” of funds to families of “political prisoners”.

One of the leaders of Patriotic Alternative (PA) recently met a teenager in HMP Hull who had been jailed for racially aggravated harassment during the disturbances, his wife told supporters.

OMG! Money is being given to families of people involved in riots whom far-right groups are calling ‘political prisoners’

Two tiered policing is not a myth in the UK.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

Will There Always Be an England?

Turner London 1809

There will always be an England, but only if there are Englishmen. There will only be Englishmen if Englishmen are willing to struggle for their identity as a people.

Most Americans are Anglophiles. It’s in our blood. Yes, our ancestors fought a bloody revolution to free ourselves from the British crown, but outside of the United Kingdom itself, you will find no people more eager to swoon over British royalty than Americans. More substantively, our love and admiration for the British has to do with a heady mix of Churchill, Wilberforce, Tolkien, Lennon and McCartney, and other extraordinary examples of courage, wisdom, and creativity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", UK