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"Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

A local Great Yarmouth charity refused my salary donation today, clearly because they don’t like my approach to politics. Left-leaning people involved.

Thousands of pounds that won’t go to the people they’re supposed to help because they can’t put petty politics aside - very disappointing.

Pathetic. We should all be in this to make Great Yarmouth a better place to live and raise a family.

That’s the only thing I’m interested in - it’s why I’m donating my entire MP salary to make it happen, alongside all other efforts.

We will find another home for the donation"

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1973122545546330249

To be fair to Lowe he does seem to believe in putting your money where yar mouth is. Which despite his politics, I think is great.

Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge Paul G. Young on ICE wearing masks:

"ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

"In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."
https://x.com/AaronBlake/status/1973075306723360981

The reason the ICE agents started wearing masks, was because Antifa were setting up websites to dox them which ended with firebombing their homes.

Obligitary “MAGA Lies” far-right source https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/women-federal-charges-doxxing-ice-agent-b2835066.html

With all due respect, the right thing happened, the woman was arrested and charged.

There is no excuse at all for agents of the state not being able to be identified. It is the state that has the monopoly on violence, and therefore it is literally the single most important thing in any society that its agents can be identified.

The budget will be the Tories’ last chance to claw it back. We should get a solid 2-3 weeks where Reform is largely irrelevant. Nobody takes their fiscal prognostications seriously, I suspect even their own voters. Likewise the Greens.

I think the Tories’ last chance is probably the leadership contest in 2026 (which must be coming). They’ve probably got one more roll of the dice to stay relevant - but it will need a big shift in momentum and direction from their new leader, and I’m not convinced there’s anyone who can offer that. Jenrick, for all his ills, is the closest in the sense that he can at least get headlines.

The only headlines he will go for are on immigration and its tangents. Which boosts Reform and hurts the Conservatives as the question the Conservatives simply cannot answer is if it is such an existential issue why did they not just achieve no reduction in 14 years but ended up with the biggest wave of immigration in our history and a gridlocked court system that couldn't cope?

What would kill the issue absolutely stone dead for the Tories, would be Labour having a degree of success in reducing the numbers significantly.

Between that on one side, and the Reform ultras on the other, there would be no credible space to occupy, given their record in the previous government.

Net immigration now falling due to Sunak and Cleverly's tighter visa wage rules.

Taxes going up under Labour though

How are you both holding up @hyufd. Thinking of you.

As well as we can do thanks KJH. Registered Theo's stillbirth which was the last job we had to do, now just have to wait a few weeks for the postmortem results

"Lammy backtracks on Farage Hitler Youth claim"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn95q9j0yyro

Honestly, calling your opponents Racists and/or Hitler does seem a little desperate doesn’t it?

They need some more vigorous condemnation of Farage so that the new cycle moves on.

Perhaps about his fake support for the working man, having voted against the Workers' Rights bill? Compared with his multimillionaire lineup at the top of Reform, his income, and their tax dodging activities?

Or his sequence of lies fabrications about ... well ... everything. If they run out of these to point out, there'll be another one along by about Friday.

Unfortunately his view, that mass immigration has negatively affected the lives of millions of working class people in provincial Britain, is shared by millions of working class people in provincial Britain.

When other politicians try to combat it with complex arguments, or invoke bills and clauses, people feel like they’re being gaslit and switch off. Others can can try to imitate his policies, but their hearts aren’t in that. He must be a fiendishly difficult character to take on.

Instead, they're being gaslit by the racists - and I use that word knowingly - into thinking that immigrants are the cause of all the problems. I don't have a job, not because I didn't work hard at school, but because of immigrants. Rapes are not done by people like me, but by immigrants. The litter is on the streets not because I just dropped my McDonalds wrapper on the verge, but because of immigrants.

There is zero balance; no acknowledgement of all the immigrants who help our country.

In short, the talk is that immigrants are the enemy. And it's not just the illegal immigrants: it's all immigrants.

And that's simply wrong.