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Some data to chew over:


2024 Presidential Election

Donald Trump secured 57% of the White vote, while Kamala Harris received 42%

White Men: Trump garnered 60%

White Women: Trump received 53%

White Voters Without a College Degree: Trump 66%

White Voters With a College Degree: Trump obtained 45%


Trump won twice - and, I suspect, could easily win again if allowed - because he won the White vote, which is caucusing on racial grounds, as the Dems are seen as the party of everyone else

Why should Britain avoid this fate? Answers welcome

Because despite many people trying to argue the contrary, we don't have a large block of non white voters with a shared cultural experience of slavery which causes them to have different priorities to the white population. Our immigrant communities are from diverse backgrounds with different voting patterns. For example, Hindus and Cantonese are as much Tory inclined as the white population.

At least you essayed an answer, and for that, thanks

I suggest Britain's racial divide is easily as bad, because - while we do not have the anxious and terrible legacy of slavery on our own soil - we have imported a brand of militant Islam - which America has not

So I predict we will see Britons voting, increasingly, on polarised racial grounds, and Whites will also do this - for the first time

So what is this common White interest that Whites are going to coalesce around?

How about 'not living in somebody else's theocracy'?

How is that a Whites only interest?

Well going back to, er, Max (I think)'s point earlier, it's kind of a coalition of interests - white non-liberals, Indians, HKers, Africans.

I'm married to a Hong Konger and the idea that they would think they had anything in common with Indians and Africans is laughable.

Then you haven't asked her I guess? Indians, HKers and many Africans are all products of the Empire at some level. The cultural values of Indians and Hong Kongers in the UK are very aligned too, I mean I know three mixed marriages with that mix.

I don't think you understand the racial or cultural dynamics of the UK at all. Your comment here is proof. I mean that you couldn't put together that all three of the named people's have got the Empire in common is a pretty big miss.

Well firstly him and clearly you think you know what he thinks better than he does. Hong Kongers have a radically different view of British Imperial legacy than other ethnicities. I'd pay good money to watch you tell a group of Cantonese people that they're culturally aligned with Indians.

My experience of HKers - as well as other East Asians (Japanese, Singaporeans etc) - is that they would definitely align themselves with “White” as against a left wing progressive muslim black alliance

It really really really should not have come to this. I pray it won’t. But signs are ominous

In terms of fighting age males, the woke alliance have an advantage of about 3:1. Don't start a fight you can't win.

lol. You all have tiny penises. You are pathetic. You have dismal sperm counts. You can’t afford houses coz we’ve got them all. Our loonier lefty friends insist on immigrating hostile muslims - who will do your job for nothing - and you still vote for this. You are a pathetic generation and you deserve termination until you vote Reform. Get wise

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/toxic-chemicals-health-humanity-erin-brokovich

But we can run more than 100 metres.

This exposes the flaw in your argument. People just aren't interested in this stuff, at all. Young people are too woke, as you admit, and old people have too much skin in the game, whether by their property values or their reliance on the state (NHS, state pension).

There's a group of very angry - sometimes understandably - working age white men in rough areas who are liable to kick up some violence. The government should be working harder to improve their lot. But everyone else is reasonably satisfied and shudders at the thought of it.

https://x.com/gbnews/status/1931102213041979504

'It is keeping me awake at night, I'm losing sleep over it. It's giving me nightmares.'

A GB News audience member tells @PatrickChristys she’s fearful about Britain’s future — amid projections white Brits will be a minority in 40

I apologise for the existence of my children and the threat they pose to the fearful white population of Britain.

I'm buying window blinds for my flat

That is the single most boring thing I have ever written on here, nevertheless it is the case: I am buying window blinds for my flat, which needs a spruce, a spritz and a spunky little makeover

My old metal blinds now looks sad and broken, ergo they are gone. Has anyone ever bought blinds?? What's the rigmarole?

My house didn't come with blinds or curtains so I had to buy and install them myself. They're easy enough to do.

Measure twice, cut order once would be my advice.

Is this PB or have I wandered onto Mumsnet?

Centrist (or not so centrist) Dadsnet.

The bland leading the blinds?

The Overton Window is so unstable it's hard to get yer curtains sorted.

I'm buying window blinds for my flat

That is the single most boring thing I have ever written on here, nevertheless it is the case: I am buying window blinds for my flat, which needs a spruce, a spritz and a spunky little makeover

My old metal blinds now looks sad and broken, ergo they are gone. Has anyone ever bought blinds?? What's the rigmarole?

The rigmarole is to marry the sort of person who understands that sort of thing who can work out who is best to talk to to get it sorted and understands that if they get you to do it it will end up in a muddle. Don't try to understand it, just pay the bill.

Is there another way? Ask Dear Mary

"Has anyone ever bought blinds??"

Yes. Several times. Hillary's.

They come, they measure, they show pattern books, they quote, you sign, they come back and fit and the job is done.

Can't fault them based on my experience.

How much for some nice wooden blinds for two floor-to-ceiling sash windows? Including fitting?

I am genuinely clueless on this

Have you considered asking ChatGPT?

Am I allowed to answer this?

Given that you are a mod, then I presume it is - and yes, of course I have. And ChatGPT has given me great advice, on all aspects of my domestic makeover. ChatGPT will even do mock-ups of your home interiors in your chosen new colours - you feed it a photo of your living room and say "what will this look like in Farrow and Ball's Byzantine Blue?" and it will do it for you, transform the room on screen. Incredible

HOWEVER I am aware these machines can hallucinate, so I wanted to know if ChatGPT's advice on blinds matches real world experience, on here

PB, you've gone a bit weird lately.

I mean, I can cope with the endless frothing about random islands in the Indian Ocean. I can cope with the endless hyperbole around a boring but functional government being the Worst Government Ever(TM). I can even cope with the genocide apologists.

But, the board's edgelord-in-chief getting you all discussing the best way to replace the blinds in your flat?! That's beyond the pale I'm afraid.

Kemi:



Don't think it will save her. But it does put clear blue water between the conservatives and the government.

Wishy washy. You don't need a review to decide this. If those are your tests and they are more important than everything else then just say you will leave the ECHR, as Farage has done. There is close to zero market share available that wants a wishy washy exit from the ECHR rather than a bold exit.

This is the setup to a policy that lays out why we should leave the ECHR. Hopefully it gives a well reasoned and researched paper which shows how remote the Strasbourg court is now from member states and how much sovereignty all countries have handed over to this cabal of judges that are simply accountable to no one. This exercise, like the Cass study, may end up becoming one of the major flashpoints with the ECHR across all of Europe. The Netherlands, France, Italy and Germany have all begun signalling their unhappiness with the current status quo and a serious paper that outlines all of the flaws within these specific points could be a game changer, at least for how a new approach could be taken across Europe and potentially pushing the Strasbourg court down to "advisory" status in some scenarios such as deportation hearings etc...

The ECHR was set up by the likes of Churchill as a check and balance to the sort of behaviour that allowed the rise of Hitler. It is quite remarkable that when we leave under Farage/ Jenrick/Badenoch/ Robinson we join a tiny band of dictators from Russia and Belarus, until the next elected right wing nutter takes control of another European state.

We won't need to leave (why's that always the solution?!). The Council of Europe is already making noises about reforming it. We should make a strong and principled contribution to that process.

Tbh, it should have been Starmer's BoE moment in the first week.

I think what we need is for Trump-Musk to get so acrimonious it actually turns reality inside-out so that they become friends again, and THEN they fall out again.

Just heard about this and is Trump is going to pull his support for Tesla ?

It may be popcorn to some but not those of us who are very concerned about the consequences

And Reform disintegrating as well

Let's go back to the Blair and Cameron- Clegg years

Nigel seems to have done very well not to get too close to Elon Musk but not to piss him off.

I don't see Musk supporting Democratic candidates personally, but who knows?

Musk has suggested he could set up his own party
https://www.ndtvprofit.com/world/donald-trump-elon-musk-feud-tesla-chief-floats-idea-of-new-political-party

The Muskovites?