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"Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

Uncontrolled mass immigration has entirely undermined our high-trust society."

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1957074571762213091

The loss of our "high trust" society due to immigration. I've noticed this one taking off like a rocket in right wing populist discourse. High trust is code for something else of course.

When supermarkets are putting security tags on milk and cheese, then we have a trust problem.

https://x.com/robprogressive/status/1956765654314361211

If supermarkets in certain areas have to choose between looking like Haddows in Glasgow or moving to online deliveries only, then we all lose out.

Shoplifting and phone snatching is up. Most crimes and crime in general inc violent crime is down.

Somehow this is meant to support assertions that mass immigration has undermined our high-trust society.

It's dog-whistling.

Don’t worry. The PB centrist Dad brigade is out in force to Pooh-pooh it while burnishing their ‘right on’ credentials. Most people just don’t give such stuff the time of day. 👍

The dogs ignore the whistle, you mean? I'd like to believe so but the whistlers must think otherwise.

Right on, grandad 👍

Perhaps they’re just savvy enough to see it for what it is and not indulge it.

Well I'm not yet. But it could happen.

Ok so you're telling me that politicians like Lowe are wasting their time putting out all this anti-immigrant shit.

That's good. I can relax.

"Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

Uncontrolled mass immigration has entirely undermined our high-trust society."

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1957074571762213091

The loss of our "high trust" society due to immigration. I've noticed this one taking off like a rocket in right wing populist discourse. High trust is code for something else of course.

When supermarkets are putting security tags on milk and cheese, then we have a trust problem.

https://x.com/robprogressive/status/1956765654314361211

If supermarkets in certain areas have to choose between looking like Haddows in Glasgow or moving to online deliveries only, then we all lose out.

Shoplifting and phone snatching is up. Most crimes and crime in general inc violent crime is down.

Somehow this is meant to support assertions that mass immigration has undermined our high-trust society.

It's dog-whistling.

Don’t worry. The PB centrist Dad brigade is out in force to Pooh-pooh it while burnishing their ‘right on’ credentials. Most people just don’t give such stuff the time of day. 👍

The dogs ignore the whistle, you mean? I'd like to believe so but the whistlers must think otherwise.

Right on, grandad 👍

Perhaps they’re just savvy enough to see it for what it is and not indulge it.

Well I'm not yet. But it could happen.

Ok so you're telling me that politicians like Lowe are wasting their time putting out all this anti-immigrant shit.

That's good. I can relax.

I suspect political obsessives see patterns that they want to see rather than are actually there.

How many people do you reckon know who Rupert Lowe is, let alone hear his pronouncements.

Vs how many people see increased security measures in supermarkets and fare evasion on public transport.

There is a difference between believing low level crime such as the above has increased. (But Fraser Nelson told us we’ve never had it so good !) and people buying into the low trust society all being down to migrants.

Clearly the authorities don’t care greatly about some low level crimes.

If they don’t give a fuck that’s the problem.

https://x.com/rcolvile/status/1957094911087419650?s=61

But do we, as a nation, give a flying one? Are we prepared to pay for more police, courts, custody and probation? All the evidence is that we're not. Not really. So we get the police focussing on the huge crimes of violence, which have to be the priority and where they're not doing badly. And the things that are cheap and easy to do- motoring offences and social media don't exactly need Inspector Morse to solve.

And discussion of the state of the nation has to start with the observation that a lot of it is the consequence of the sum of all the decisions we have collectively taken over decades.

We’re always paying more yet nothing improves. Every year in Durham my Police precept goes up well above inflation every year yet little seems to improve and yet the solution is just more money.

Whenever they dare mentions cuts it is always ‘front line personnel’ they talk about cutting.

Isn't the police precept mostly to fund police pensions ?

Is the police starting to get like British Airways, where they have more retired pilots than active pilots and many earn more overall in retirement than they did in employment?

51 years ago to this very date I went to my first soccer game. 2-0 down in fifteen minutes, at home. Lost 3-0

It’s easy supporting a successful club. Supporting a perennial loser is a trial and test of character.

I used to go with a neighbour to St Andrews when Birmingham City were in the second division. I wasn't allowed to go when they played Leeds and Cardiff because of the hooliganism. I never really liked Birmingham except for the exceptional apprentice, Trevor Francis.

My first Baggies and First Division game was in the first weekend of March 1971 and I went on the bus with my mum to the Hawthorns. George Best scored early on for United and the Baggies won 4-3. I was behind the goal at the Halfords Lane end so I didn't see much. It's been downhill ever since.

Your may probably know the theee main characters in the initial series of New Tricks had names bases on West Brom as the writer, Julian Simpson IIRC, was a Baggies fan.

Leeds and Cardiff rightly have terrible reputations for their fans.

51 years ago to this very date I went to my first soccer game. 2-0 down in fifteen minutes, at home. Lost 3-0

It’s easy supporting a successful club. Supporting a perennial loser is a trial and test of character.

It’s going to be another long season for the Man Utd fans.

How they enjoyed Liverpools seasons of failure. How everyone else is enjoying theirs…

But realistically supporting Swindon is great, once you get used to it…

I remember being 4-1 up against them at St Andrews, coasting, then Glenn Hoddle turned on the class and Mickey Hazard was inspired. We lost 6-4.

On the one hand it was devastating to lose from that point, especially in a relegation battle season (we stayed up), but by God that was a sublime performance from Glenn.

That was a heck of a game. Was working a lunch shift in the pub that ran on so only got the score over the radio at full time. You can imagine how annoyed I was at Birmingham 4… followed by delight at Swindon 6.

I always wondered if Swindon could have stayed up next year in the premier league if Hoddlechad stayed.

The Mirror has decided that the answer to Britain's problems is more welfarism as Neil Kinnock shows that he has never read Charles Dickens:

In an interview with The Mirror, the former Labour leader blamed the Tories for undoing Gordon Brown's proud legacy of cutting child poverty. He said after 14 years the Conservatives left the country in a state that would "make Charles Dickens furious" with "intolerable" hardship.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/scrap-tory-two-child-benefit-35739745

The Mirror also manages to show that it doesn't know there's a drought as it bewails the possibility of rain in two weeks:

Horror weather maps show when 600-mile rainstorm will batter UK - 8 counties will avoid

Mixed weather has dominated the UK throughout the summer, with the fluctuating forecasts to continue as temperatures are set to drop with rainstorms on the horizon.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horror-weather-maps-show-600-35742473

It seems that the Mirror has sunk to Express levels of vacuous drivel.

With every pronouncement Kinnock shows he was unfit to be PM and I voted for him twice !!!!

Isn’t the issue with poverty how it’s measured so it will, effectively, never be solved but always managed. A child is considered to be in poverty if they live in a household with an income below 60% of the current year’s median household income?

These aren’t kids from a Dickensian novel.

That was a change that Brown made. Previously it was absolute not relative poverty as a measure

now it is if you only have a 65" tv and a samsung , rather than 80"+ and an iphone

"Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

Uncontrolled mass immigration has entirely undermined our high-trust society."

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1957074571762213091

The loss of our "high trust" society due to immigration. I've noticed this one taking off like a rocket in right wing populist discourse. High trust is code for something else of course.

When supermarkets are putting security tags on milk and cheese, then we have a trust problem.

https://x.com/robprogressive/status/1956765654314361211

If supermarkets in certain areas have to choose between looking like Haddows in Glasgow or moving to online deliveries only, then we all lose out.

Shoplifting and phone snatching is up. Most crimes and crime in general inc violent crime is down.

Somehow this is meant to support assertions that mass immigration has undermined our high-trust society.

It's dog-whistling.

Don’t worry. The PB centrist Dad brigade is out in force to Pooh-pooh it while burnishing their ‘right on’ credentials. Most people just don’t give such stuff the time of day. 👍

The dogs ignore the whistle, you mean? I'd like to believe so but the whistlers must think otherwise.

Right on, grandad 👍

Perhaps they’re just savvy enough to see it for what it is and not indulge it.

Well I'm not yet. But it could happen.

Ok so you're telling me that politicians like Lowe are wasting their time putting out all this anti-immigrant shit.

That's good. I can relax.

"Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

Uncontrolled mass immigration has entirely undermined our high-trust society."

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1957074571762213091

The loss of our "high trust" society due to immigration. I've noticed this one taking off like a rocket in right wing populist discourse. High trust is code for something else of course.

When supermarkets are putting security tags on milk and cheese, then we have a trust problem.

https://x.com/robprogressive/status/1956765654314361211

If supermarkets in certain areas have to choose between looking like Haddows in Glasgow or moving to online deliveries only, then we all lose out.

Shoplifting and phone snatching is up. Most crimes and crime in general inc violent crime is down.

Somehow this is meant to support assertions that mass immigration has undermined our high-trust society.

It's dog-whistling.

Don’t worry. The PB centrist Dad brigade is out in force to Pooh-pooh it while burnishing their ‘right on’ credentials. Most people just don’t give such stuff the time of day. 👍

The dogs ignore the whistle, you mean? I'd like to believe so but the whistlers must think otherwise.

Right on, grandad 👍

Perhaps they’re just savvy enough to see it for what it is and not indulge it.

Well I'm not yet. But it could happen.

Ok so you're telling me that politicians like Lowe are wasting their time putting out all this anti-immigrant shit.

That's good. I can relax.

I suspect political obsessives see patterns that they want to see rather than are actually there.

How many people do you reckon know who Rupert Lowe is, let alone hear his pronouncements.

Vs how many people see increased security measures in supermarkets and fare evasion on public transport.

There is a difference between believing low level crime such as the above has increased. (But Fraser Nelson told us we’ve never had it so good !) and people buying into the low trust society all being down to migrants.

Clearly the authorities don’t care greatly about some low level crimes.

If they don’t give a fuck that’s the problem.

https://x.com/rcolvile/status/1957094911087419650?s=61

Like so much crap coming from the Right today, I don't recognise this "low-trust" society.
I regularly see bikes or other high value toys left outside by kids overnight, and they are still there next day.
30 or 40 years ago they would have been pinched.
When I was a kid, for holidays we went to a caravan in Tenby or Weston or Weymouth and there was an inventory, right down to teaspoons, and heaven help you if there was anything missing when you left..
Renting holiday cottages with all mod cons today, and things are much more relaxed (apart from re-cycling rules of course).

"Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

Uncontrolled mass immigration has entirely undermined our high-trust society."

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1957074571762213091

The loss of our "high trust" society due to immigration. I've noticed this one taking off like a rocket in right wing populist discourse. High trust is code for something else of course.

When supermarkets are putting security tags on milk and cheese, then we have a trust problem.

https://x.com/robprogressive/status/1956765654314361211

If supermarkets in certain areas have to choose between looking like Haddows in Glasgow or moving to online deliveries only, then we all lose out.

Shoplifting and phone snatching is up. Most crimes and crime in general inc violent crime is down.

Somehow this is meant to support assertions that mass immigration has undermined our high-trust society.

It's dog-whistling.

Don’t worry. The PB centrist Dad brigade is out in force to Pooh-pooh it while burnishing their ‘right on’ credentials. Most people just don’t give such stuff the time of day. 👍

The dogs ignore the whistle, you mean? I'd like to believe so but the whistlers must think otherwise.

Have you got any "right -on credentials"? I am not sure I ever had any. Does that mean I can't be a centrist dad after all?

I'm losing track but I thought Right-On was different to Centrist Dad. So you're ok.

Me, I'd say I was just a vanilla champagne socialist who prefers beer and sandwiches.

No, you're the one moved top London who New Model Army sang about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpV0Ot3EeM

"Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10

Uncontrolled mass immigration has entirely undermined our high-trust society."

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1957074571762213091

The loss of our "high trust" society due to immigration. I've noticed this one taking off like a rocket in right wing populist discourse. High trust is code for something else of course.

When supermarkets are putting security tags on milk and cheese, then we have a trust problem.

https://x.com/robprogressive/status/1956765654314361211

If supermarkets in certain areas have to choose between looking like Haddows in Glasgow or moving to online deliveries only, then we all lose out.

Shoplifting and phone snatching is up. Most crimes and crime in general inc violent crime is down.

Somehow this is meant to support assertions that mass immigration has undermined our high-trust society.

It's dog-whistling.

Don’t worry. The PB centrist Dad brigade is out in force to Pooh-pooh it while burnishing their ‘right on’ credentials. Most people just don’t give such stuff the time of day. 👍

The dogs ignore the whistle, you mean? I'd like to believe so but the whistlers must think otherwise.

Have you got any "right -on credentials"? I am not sure I ever had any. Does that mean I can't be a centrist dad after all?

I'm losing track but I thought Right-On was different to Centrist Dad. So you're ok.

Me, I'd say I was just a vanilla champagne socialist who prefers beer and sandwiches.

The Mirror has decided that the answer to Britain's problems is more welfarism as Neil Kinnock shows that he has never read Charles Dickens:

In an interview with The Mirror, the former Labour leader blamed the Tories for undoing Gordon Brown's proud legacy of cutting child poverty. He said after 14 years the Conservatives left the country in a state that would "make Charles Dickens furious" with "intolerable" hardship.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/scrap-tory-two-child-benefit-35739745

The Mirror also manages to show that it doesn't know there's a drought as it bewails the possibility of rain in two weeks:

Horror weather maps show when 600-mile rainstorm will batter UK - 8 counties will avoid

Mixed weather has dominated the UK throughout the summer, with the fluctuating forecasts to continue as temperatures are set to drop with rainstorms on the horizon.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horror-weather-maps-show-600-35742473

It seems that the Mirror has sunk to Express levels of vacuous drivel.

With every pronouncement Kinnock shows he was unfit to be PM and I voted for him twice !!!!

Isn’t the issue with poverty how it’s measured so it will, effectively, never be solved but always managed. A child is considered to be in poverty if they live in a household with an income below 60% of the current year’s median household income?

These aren’t kids from a Dickensian novel.