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The insanity of politicians telling us that diversity is our strength, and warning of people using the problems in the Middle East to stir up trouble by dividing Muslims and Jews is gaslighting of the highest order. The fact we have imported so many people who feel deeply about what is happening in the Middle East and subcontinent is the cause of the divide. Most English people don’t care


I posted this last night, and @foxy replied saying the polling on our involvement in war proves me wrong. I disagree, he misses my point. It’s not military intervention that people don’t care about, it’s the Middle East. If we drew a big line around that part of the world, and the subcontinent, and never mentioned them again, most people wouldn’t care less. It’s due to mass immigration that there are so many with passionate views on the problem that lead to division, so it’s an imported problem that we didn’t need. Most normal English people are happy to let the mad mullahs do what they like as long as they don’t do it here and we are not involved

Diversity is not our strength, it is our Achilles heel

Time to clean up the gene pool then? And who decides?

Worth repeating again 43% of Tory Voters disagree with Tory leader stance.

There are 3 campos here

Support - REFORM and half Tories and a few others

Oppose - Green and vast majority of LD and Lab

Middle ground Starmer...its reassuring for him that almost as many LD (12 % ) and Labour (14%) support action but he won't the "do fuck all to support Trump and tell him to f off) votes that Greens / LD will get.

However, most commentators on Centre Left and who aren;t told what to write by rabid right press are broadly supportive of his stance.

Any vote slippage and more so the longer it drages on with be One Nation Tories slipping to LD most likely in South, tactically more likely to Labour to keep Reform out in Midlands and north and a big possible drain for Tories as Kemi seems hell bent on out nigeling Nigel on this issue and many others.

May be another week or so before Gorton loses momentum in all Polls and Iran takes precedence...Starmer will be looking at any Polls from 7th onwards for boost!

FPT

https://x.com/hoffman_noa/status/2031128674737479765

EXCL: One in four settled status migrants from outside the EU are claiming benefits, analysis reveals. 

It has led Tories to warn that Britain must not remain a “cash machine for the world”.

A wrinkle with the EU's Freedom Of Movement was that an EU national in the UK could only claim benefits if the were a worker and searching for work. The Boris Wave has no such restrictions.

Funny that.

No, "settled status" is the immigration status of settled EU citizens. The rest of the world has ILR. Both can claim benefits.

Mum has Settled Status.

Not Indefinite Leave to Remain? OK, I might be wrong then.

We tried sorting our her new eVisa last year after a glitch in their system (starting an online application with a non-biometric Indian passport and all that). The resulting eVisa definitely says she has "Settled Status".

The US polls are pretty similar.....

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/02/politics/cnn-poll-59-of-americans-disapprove-of-iran-strikes-and-most-think-a-long-term-conflict-is-likely

The same amount of opposition in the US to the strikes as the UK, 59%, on that poll but more clearly in favour, 41%, Republicans Trump will be pleased to see still strongly in favour, 77% of GOP voters back the strikes still even if most Democrats and Independents are opposed.

Although 'MAGA Republicans are 30 points more likely than non-MAGA Republicans to say they strongly approve of the decision to take military action'. So a similar divide as here with more 'MAGA' rightwing Reform voters more in favour of the strikes than traditional conservative Tories

With the Afghan war, it was well planned and long prepared.

It was a fucking disaster.

With the Iraq war, it was well planned and long prepared.

It was a fucking disaster.

With this one, it's been done on the spur of the moment because Netanyahu's popularity was tanking and Trump urgently needed a distraction from the Epstein files and the references to forcing a 13-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him. It has not been planned, and it has not been prepared.

It has been a much bigger fucking disaster, and we're only a week in.

The amazing thing is that anyone supports it. It just shows how little attention most people pay to the news.

I support it. At present, the Iranian navy, air force and missile capability is effectively gone - good - but that's not enough.

My view is the existing Iranian regime must go. And the nuclear stockpiles must be secured.

And how do you do that without actually putting troops on the ground in Iran?

A reminder that Iran is fucking enormous. 1% of the Earth's landmass.

With the Afghan war, it was well planned and long prepared.

It was a fucking disaster.

With the Iraq war, it was well planned and long prepared.

It was a fucking disaster.

With this one, it's been done on the spur of the moment because Netanyahu's popularity was tanking and Trump urgently needed a distraction from the Epstein files and the references to forcing a 13-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him. It has not been planned, and it has not been prepared.

It has been a much bigger fucking disaster, and we're only a week in.

The amazing thing is that anyone supports it. It just shows how little attention most people pay to the news.

To be honest it’s done a really good job of hiding those Trump child sex abuse stories. Carefully released last Monday and no one noticed them

Not called Operation Epstein Fury for nothing.