How are the midterms going? Have the Democrats been caught cheating yet?

Everyone wants to argue about reparations for slavery that ended 200 years ago. ⚖️ Almost nobody talks about the 50 million people living in slavery right now. ⛓️ In North Korea, it's one person in every ten. 2.7 million. 🇰🇵 In Eritrea, some are trapped for decades in "national service". 320,000 people. 🇪🇷 Mauritania only made owning a slave a crime in 2007. 😶 In Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE, workers have their passports locked in a drawer. Over 900,000 people. 🛂 Turkey's basement sweatshops. Tajikistan's cotton fields. Russia's building sites. Afghanistan's brick kilns. Millions more. 🧱 In 1772, it was argued in an English court that England's air was too pure for a slave to breathe. 🌬️ Last year, over 23,000 possible victims were found in Britain. One in five were British. 🇬🇧 Two hundred years ago, ordinary Britons refused to look away. They ended it once. ⚓ So before we argue about the past, how about we finish ending slavery? ☝️ Every number is in the film. 🎬 Nullius in verba. Take nobody's word for it. Not even ours. 📊 Sources: UN International Labour Organization, Walk Free and the International Organization for Migration, Global Estimates of Modern Slavery 2022. Walk Free, Global Slavery Index 2023. Home Office, National Referral Mechanism statistics. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us.

Let's start off with the obvious. I do not want to be cared for by some random Nigerian who's using the care system as a workaround to our immigration system who will later bring their families in. I especially do not want my loved ones in their care, especially when there is zero quality control. They are only here because care homes do not want to pay the going rate. They are taking the jobs of British people. They are scab labour. This is especially bad because many, probably most, have inadequate training and language skills, and lack any cultural affinity necessary to properly understand the people in their care. Communication is as much about understanding cultural references and dialect, especially with the elderly. Then we have the problem of rogue care homes whose standards are abysmal, mainly because they're never inspected and won't get caught. Councils have scaled back inspections, not least because of statutory obligations. There is a major scandal waiting to be uncovered by an enterprising journalist like @ShipleyWrites. My bet is that elder abuse is rampant. Then there's the broader point. I simply do not want more Africans in Britain. They are not culturally compatible, and when they've brought in their families they are not net contributors. The only reason the job doesn't attract British people is because there is no longer a structured career in the sector, with few opportunities to scale the ladder, with shit pay. The work is not respected when it is physically and emotionally draining work that pays less than McDonalds in many cases. The entire sector needs restructuring with district system with tied housing as an incentive - not least to increase retention and keep care workers on the same patch. There should be a structured pay scale so that skilled care workers can move into management and into the top ranks of social services and local government. Many carers, often young women who take part time care work when they're mothers, will develop a skill set and gain considerable experience, which should give them options to turn it either into a local authority career or go self-employed if they are highly rated and in demand. We also need to address the role of private equity in the care sector. Our elderly are being used as cash cows and they aren't getting value for money, especially if they're cared for by a low IQ third worlder. If Labour are propping up this model with cheaper immigrant labour then they have abandoned their principles entirely. There is no excuse for letting visa scammers stay in Britain. Every person here on a care visa must leave when their visa expires. Indefinite leave to remain should be completely abolished.

The EU is a solution in search of a problem. Originally envisaged as a means to stop France and Germany going to war again, it had largely outlived its usefulness by 1990, so pivoted to saving the planet as a reason to continue existing. In the time since it has gradually deindustrialised Europe, knackered its energy supply, and made us all much colder and poorer. But now the wheels are falling off the bandwagon and nobody is buying climate catastrophism anymore (and would prefer to have a warm home and a functioning auto industry) there is more pushback than ever against the EU, so now it needs to reinvent again - this time as a defence union against Russia even though it doesn't pose a conventional threat. As such, the EU has become the embodiment of the famous HL Mencken quote "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary". For domestic politicians, though, the continued rationale for maintaining membership or association with the EU is never the reason the EU gives itself to exist. It is merely to prevent right wing opposition from implementing their ideas. The whole object of the EU is to suspend democracy. That, in part, is about what this latest Polish constitutional dispute is about. Here at home, we can see the Burnham administration doing likewise. They want closer association with the EU, and would rejoin in a heartbeat if they thought they could get away with it, but as a backstop they're now resorting to regionalisation in the name of "devolution", thereby creating their own little fiefdoms that can resist central government in the eventuality of Labour losing power. Whatever the economic or political rationale given, the intent is always to rig and sabotage democracy. In part, that is what the Windsor Framework, along with level playing field provisions in the TCA is for. The EU doesn't want competition and the establishment doesn't want divergence. As Jean-Claude Juncker famously said "There can be no democratic choice against the treaties". That applies just as much to its external agreements. This also serves as a deterrent against any radical reform. There are plenty of things the Tories cold and should have done with Brexit, but the economic and political penalty for doing it is too great. That's why we're locked into decline, and it's why nothing gets fixed until the European question is resolved once and for all. One of my main criticisms of the Slop Right (Reform/Restore) is their failure to recognise this and their failure to develop a policy agenda to address and mitigate this dilemma. I'm of the view that they would be so unprepared for what they'd unleash, they would cause a constitutional crisis not dissimilar to what we see in Poland (followed by a financial crisis), then find themselves in office but out of power. We then see the right losing any subsequent election and being out in the wilderness for decades. It is for this reason I don't especially mind that the right will lose in 2029. It will be a much deserved defeat but one that eventually works in our favour. In the following years we will see the right taking power in France, Germany and Poland, and possibly elsewhere, perhaps even leading to the dismantling of the Euro. I don't see the EU collapsing as such, but it will be side-lined and marginalised - which is exactly where we want it when we come to make the necessary domestic refroms. By then, the reforms we'll be making will be broadly in line with European policy. Regardless, though, Britain will not be free until all of Europe is free. The EU is a parasitic anti-democratic organisation that has long outstayed its welcome. It is hostile to the very idea of democratic choice, as is the contemporary left. Brexit solved very little. The fight of our time is yet to come.

Britain ran the slave trade. Britain sent seven-year-olds into the mills. And Britain ended both. 🇬🇧 How can one country be the villain and the hero? It can't. There were two Britains. One owned people. The other did the work. When slavery ended, historians counted every slave owner living in Britain. About three thousand, in a country of sixteen million. 📜 Bankers, merchants, lords and MPs. The other Britain couldn't vote them out: most men had no vote, and no woman had one. 🗳️ Take Samuel Greg. In 1784 he built Quarry Bank Mill at Styal, in Cheshire. By the time he retired, it was the biggest cotton mill in the country. More than half his workers were children. Many were orphans from the workhouse. 🧵 Four thousand miles away, the Greg family owned the Hillsborough sugar plantation on Dominica, worked by enslaved Africans. 🌴 The blankets they slept under were made at his mill. Orphan children here. Enslaved Africans there. Making money for the same family. So who stood up to them? In 1787 a young campaigner called Thomas Clarkson went to Bristol. ⚓ Thompson, landlord of the Seven Stars pub, refused to help trick sailors onto the slave ships. Instead he took Clarkson round the dockside pubs at night, at real risk to himself. The crew lists showed two slave ships to Africa had killed more British sailors than eighty-three ships to Newfoundland. Their stories helped turn the country against the trade. Manchester didn't even have an MP. So more than ten thousand people, about one in five in the town, signed a petition to end it. ✍️ In 1830 Richard Oastler heard about Bradford's mills. One boy of about ten worked from six in the morning till ten at night. Oastler wrote to the Leeds Mercury. He called it Yorkshire Slavery. 📰 In April 1832, thousands of mill workers walked to York to fight for their children. They called it the Pilgrimage of Mercy. 🚶 Against slavery, women went door to door. One petition in May 1833 carried 187,000 women's names. Not one of them could vote. 👩 Then came two dates. 28 August 1833: Britain signs the law to end slavery across most of the Empire. 🇬🇧 29 August 1833: the very next day, it signs the Factory Act. No child under nine in most textile mills. 🏛️ Neither law was a gift from the slave owners. Both were won by people with no vote, no money and no power. So next time someone tells you "Britain did this", ask them: which Britain? Odds are five thousand to one you come from the side that won. Watch the full story. 🎥 Be part of us. 🧵👈🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Chinese Gordon rode into a slave traders' camp ALMOST ALONE. 🐪 Inside, an army. ⚔️ He had come to tell them the slave trade was over. 🇬🇧 China's Emperor had once offered him a fortune. He refused it. 💰 Egypt offered him ten thousand pounds a year. He took two thousand. In less than a year, he caught sixty-three slave caravans. ⛓️ Britain remembers how he died at Khartoum. It forgot what he did there. His statue stands on the Embankment in London. Most people walk straight past. 🏛️ The other half of his story has waited a hundred and forty years. Help us tell stories like his: proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Every day, you use the names of dead Britons. 🇬🇧 You just never knew they were people. Your wellies? The man who beat Napoleon. 🥾 Your mac? A Glasgow chemist who made cloth waterproof. ☔ Your plimsolls? An MP who fought the owners of overloaded ships. ⚓ The tarmac outside? A road builder from Ayr. 🛣️ Seven Britons. One ordinary day. They teach you the steam engine. Not that James Watt's name is on every electricity bill you pay. ⚡ The world runs on British names. It just forgot they were people. Watch the full story. 🎥 Their names are everywhere. Their stories aren't. Help us tell them: Proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Halloween isn't American. 🎃 Not the name. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Not the costumes. 🎭 Not the lantern. 🕯️ Not even "trick or treat". 🚪 The word was so Scottish that Robert Burns had to add a footnote for the English explaining what it was. 📜 The first lanterns weren't pumpkins. 👀 The first time "trick or treat" appeared in print, it wasn't in America. 📰 Every year someone calls Halloween an American import. 🙄 They never tell you the knock on your door is OLDER than America itself. 🇺🇸 So this Halloween, skip the trick. 👻 Be the treat. 🍬 Watch the full story. 👇 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Britain aimed its warships at an African island. 🇬🇧⚓🚢 Over one market. The Sultan refused to close it. It paid a quarter of everything his empire earned.💰 What was he selling? People. 💀⛓️ Twenty thousand a year. Mostly children. ⛓️ In 1873 London sent him a final warning. 📜 "Close the market. Or the Royal Navy closes the island." 🇬🇧 What they built on that ground is still there. You can walk in today. 🕊️ They teach you the Atlantic slave trade. Not the one in East Africa. Watch the full story. 🎥 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will: 1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate. 2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority. 3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority. This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word. All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.

This is ridiculous. Surely it's a joke. Some people today are so emotionally fragile it's a wonder they manage to leave the house. He should have told the woman, the commissioner, and the panel to fuck right off. What the hell is wrong with him?

A Restore Britain Government will deport every man, woman and child who arrives under this scheme. It will be applied retrospectively.

Tonight, my family and I experienced something no family should ever have to go through. Our restaurant, Singh’s Dining Restaurant in Hammersmith, was attacked by a group of Islamists. We had been receiving death threats every single day, including one that specifically warned us that 28 October would be our last day. We raised our concerns, and the @metpoliceuk were aware of the threats. Yet tonight, we found ourselves facing the very nightmare we had feared. My daughter had to close the shutters just in time. I cannot even begin to imagine what might have happened if she hadn’t acted so quickly. We could have lost someone in our family tonight. The attackers reportedly tried for a long time to break through the shutters to get inside, leaving shortly before the police arrived. We have serious concerns about how the attackers knew when to leave, and whether they were alerted before the police arrived. These concerns deserve a thorough and transparent investigation. Tonight, I am left facing a heartbreaking decision, Do we keep our doors open and risk our lives, or do we shut down the business we have worked so hard to build because I don’t serve Halal food. No family should ever have to choose between their livelihood and their safety. No one should have to live in fear in their own place of work. I am angry. I am heartbroken. I am frightened for my family’s safety. I am calling on the @metpoliceuk to take these threats seriously, investigate tonight’s attack thoroughly, and ensure that my family is protected. Please share this post. Let our voices be heard. We should not have to wait for someone to lose their life before our safety is taken seriously. Enough IS Enough. #Justice

Rapists welcome. Terrorists welcome. Same old same old.

Irish court strike delays free-speech trial 🇮🇪 Hugh Fagan plans to keep sitting quietly in the centre of Wexford with his signs until his new court date, scheduled for May 10, 2027. I'm in Wexford, Ireland, where I spent the day in a courtroom waiting for the matter of Hugh Fagan to be heard. It wasn't. Hugh is a young man who runs a live version of Twitter. He doesn't just tweet on his phone — he prints out signs, sets them up around himself and sits in the centre of the city. For some reason, the police don't like that very much, even though I haven't seen anything threatening, profane or obscene in his placards. I think they just don't like him having certain opinions. Today was supposed to be his trial. But a strike, or work-to-rule, is going on in the Irish courts. Things didn't start until 10:30 a.m., and by the time the judge reached Hugh's matter, there wasn't enough time left in the day. We spent the day hanging out, really. The new date is May 10. I'll be back, and so will Hugh. Between now and then, he has let it be known that he will keep sitting in a public place in the centre of town, quietly, with his messages. People can come up and talk to him, heckle him and haggle all they like. In his mind, he's committing no criminal act. I share that view. I think this is another example of censorship, which I regret to report is on the rise in Ireland and around the world. That's why I'll be back in May. Irish people should see what's happening to their country, a country built, in my view, on freedom of speech. Think of the Irish troublemakers and poets: Yeats, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde. Think of modern rock stars like Sinéad O'Connor, U2, Dolores O'Riordan. Half of being Irish is that fighting, rebellious spirit, isn't it? So why are there courts and police cracking down on mild-mannered people who have the wrong opinion? It doesn't seem natural, but I'll let you decide that. If you'd like to help me with my decision to help fight for free speech in Ireland, please chip in at IrishFreeSpeech.com. It's our project to crowdfund legal help for Kirk Loco, who is on trial in Bray, and for Hugh in Wexford. We haven't reached our goal yet — and there's another person we're helping, whom I haven't announced yet. For some reason, this beautiful country has decided that its future lies in controlling what people say and think. I just think that's wrong.

He’s absolutely right. Another four years with an open border would have taken America beyond the point of no return and killed the country off. If you’re voting Democrat in the midterms, you’re voting for a party of communists and Muslims who hate America and all it stands for.

I am happy to oblige the media and change my phraseology for Kemi Badenoch. Instead of "scammer," which seems to trigger them, I am happy to call her a habitual and compulsive liar. A con artist. A confidence trickster. She is a fraudster, a grifter, a charlatan, and a chancer. She is a mountebank, a snake oil salesman, a fake, a phoney, a spiv, a flim-flam woman, and a merchant of deception. Don't believe me? Watch this brief exposé:

The absolute simple f*cking accuracy of this What has happened to @TRobinsonNewEra could happen to anyone who speaks up with how the future of the UK looks. Via @Le_Crapaud47

If I had Elon Musk's money I'd buy the Daily Mail and shut it down.

Good summary.