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Henry Nowak protesters jailed for throwing objects at Southampton disorder

They look exactly as I'd expect. They probably beat up women after England lose too.

One day this exemplary sentence business is going to backfire.

It is providing more grist to the mill of 'two tier justice'. And frankly two tier political response.

The Two Tier aspect I observe is that some crimes cause racist thugs to riot and some do not.

When people complain about "Two Tier" they usually mean the sentencing isn't "two tier" enough. They think their kind of thug should get lighter sentences.

It's bollox isn't it. The reason the term caught on is it's snappy and rhymes with Keir.

Coming up with facile rhymes on Andy Burnham will be more difficult. Ha - that's real change right there.

Perhaps Nigel could go all pro-immigration and disparagingly refer to 'Return 'em Burnham' when the numbers drop.

Boat crossings down by 40% and net migration has fallen rapidly .

Farage and co just keep repeating lies which seem to be swallowed by their voters . As for Pochin she should STFU and stop playing the martyr .

Weather?

Anyway the down 40% must be the wrong kind of down 40% migrants.

It’s apparently not down to the weather but the media refuse to discuss it because they only bother when there’s bad news to report .

Is this some kind of talking point you kids have been reading on lefty Facebook groups?



Looks broadly in line with recent years...

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Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place. 

➡️ REF UK 30% (+1)
🌹 LAB 20% (-2)
🌳 CON 20% (-1)
🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc)
🌍 GREEN 11% (+1)
❓OTH 3% (+1)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)

N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6

Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader

The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.

Net immigration is falling

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp1ekd584o

In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.

Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.

In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.

Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations

Fuck that.

I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them

Fuck Restore

This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8p08e3jz0o

I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.

‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.

Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.

You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.

So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.

There were 522 homicide victims in England and Wales in the year to March 2025, which is the lowest figure since 2015, and the lowest rate since 1977. There is no broader crisis here. There is no evidence that immigration has led to a problem on those numbers. Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, but we should be celebrating that the numbers are so low.

Most murderers are white, most are British born. But if only the murders committed by immigrants or non-white people get highlighted and spread all over social media by bots, it’s no surprise that people get the wrong impression. This is what Farage/Lowe/Musk/Tommy do. Selectively report, knowing most people never look at the denominator, never look at the full picture.

In a majority white country the majority of murderers being white is hardly a shock.

Indeed. So why do we always seem to be talking about murders by non-white people? Because the populist right pick individual cases out of context to spread an erroneous narrative.

Analyses looking at available data show that immigrants commit about the same amount of crime or less crime than native born people.

Like Chas Corrigan ?

Or Tracy Andrews?

The victims parents were members at Gay Hill. My Dad played golf a few times with the father.

More In Common

Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place. 

➡️ REF UK 30% (+1)
🌹 LAB 20% (-2)
🌳 CON 20% (-1)
🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc)
🌍 GREEN 11% (+1)
❓OTH 3% (+1)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)

N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6

Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader

The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.

Net immigration is falling

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp1ekd584o

In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.

Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.

In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.

Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations

Fuck that.

I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them

Fuck Restore

This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8p08e3jz0o

I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.

‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.

Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.

You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.

So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.

There were 522 homicide victims in England and Wales in the year to March 2025, which is the lowest figure since 2015, and the lowest rate since 1977. There is no broader crisis here. There is no evidence that immigration has led to a problem on those numbers. Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, but we should be celebrating that the numbers are so low.

Most murderers are white, most are British born. But if only the murders committed by immigrants or non-white people get highlighted and spread all over social media by bots, it’s no surprise that people get the wrong impression. This is what Farage/Lowe/Musk/Tommy do. Selectively report, knowing most people never look at the denominator, never look at the full picture.

In a majority white country the majority of murderers being white is hardly a shock.

Indeed. So why do we always seem to be talking about murders by non-white people? Because the populist right pick individual cases out of context to spread an erroneous narrative.

Analyses looking at available data show that immigrants commit about the same amount of crime or less crime than native born people.

Like Chas Corrigan ?

Or Tracy Andrews?

The victims parents were members at Gay Hill. My Dad played golf a few times with the father.

Sat row 29 on Tilton, same block as me.

He was a lovely guy and the Club looked after family.

She would appear at times, family had about 4 seats. I always remembered her as she had a very small mouth, a bit weird looking.

Shocking what she did.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnv9j7zdvz8t

Henry Nowak protesters jailed for throwing objects at Southampton disorder

They look exactly as I'd expect. They probably beat up women after England lose too.

One day this exemplary sentence business is going to backfire.

It is providing more grist to the mill of 'two tier justice'. And frankly two tier political response.

The Two Tier aspect I observe is that some crimes cause racist thugs to riot and some do not.

When people complain about "Two Tier" they usually mean the sentencing isn't "two tier" enough. They think their kind of thug should get lighter sentences.

It's bollox isn't it. The reason the term caught on is it's snappy and rhymes with Keir.

Coming up with facile rhymes on Andy Burnham will be more difficult. Ha - that's real change right there.

I've got 'Feel the Burn-ham' lined up.

The US military is developing mini-nukes for bases, and emergencies. They are small enough to be moved by trucks, or even airplanes, and produce enough power for 1,000 average American homes, according to a TV story I saw. (I like the fact that the Army and the Navy have competing programs.)

The programs are promising the first deliveries by 2028.

Incidentally, such reactors might be a good for civilian use in parts of the Arctic. (I assume the military reasons for them are obvious.)

Rolls Royce in the UK is developing something similar, called SMR (small nuclear reactor), intended for town-sized deployments.

Yes the military use case is obvious, you can drop it in the middle of nowhere and have no need for a constant supply of fuel for electricity generation.

Particularly useful as the development of battery-powered lasers for defending against drones continues. The frontline demands for electricity are only growing.

The European Commission is dropping their investigation as to whether Korea's KHNP won the competition to build new reactors in the Czech Republic due to unfair state (Korean) subsidies. Article link in reply.

Another bidder, France's EDF, claimed that it would be impossible to build reactors in Europe at the cost that KHNP bid, unless there were illegal state (Korean) aid.

In addition to a lower cost bid, KHNP offered the Czech's a guarantee that the construction would not be delayed or become more expensive.

The truth, that the French can't accept, is that the Koreans are just better at building nuclear plants, as their record shows. They likely benefitted from the experience they got from building four reactors in the UAE..
https://x.com/HopfJames/status/2064369846616522867

The modern reactors in Korea and the UAE are a step-change in the process and efficiency of large-scale nuclear design.

UK should be paying careful attention, and considering the same. Not that they will of course, they’ll come up with a very British solution that costs five times as much, and hand it to the Chinese.

Ukraine has completely destroyed the Crimea bridge!

https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/2064645197951050183 https://x.com/warmonitor3/status/2064634279305281644

(No, it’s not the Kerch Bridge, it’s the alternative route through occupied Ukraine to the North, taking out the land corridor. There’s one small bridge left to go, then everything has to go over the Kerch or by sea.)

I saw on X they have a 1.5 ton weight limit on the Kerch bridge as it clearly hasn't been repaired properly from previous attacks. Of course they could get heavier trucks over as that will be based on an estimate of how many vehicles would be on it at any one time, but it would mean banning civilian traffic and sending over carefully controlled convoys.

Crimea is rapidly becoming not a very nice place to live.

Very rapidly.

Next to the Kerch Bridge there’s a ferry boat for the heavy vehicles. Last week about two dozen fuel tankers all parked right next to each other in the car park by the ferry on the Russian side.

You can guess what happened next. 💥

There’s apparently tens of thousands of stranded Russian tourists there, who can’t get fuel for their cars. It’s only a matter of time until the food runs out.

Crimea River, as Justin Timberlake once sang.

The world media is just starting to notice that Putin's "inevitable" victory is going rather awry.

Turns out, if there's one nation on Earth you don't want to take on, it's the Ukrainians. When they shout "Exterminate!!" - Putin should hide behind the sofa...

Indeed. I’m married to one!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnv9j7zdvz8t

Henry Nowak protesters jailed for throwing objects at Southampton disorder

They look exactly as I'd expect. They probably beat up women after England lose too.

One day this exemplary sentence business is going to backfire.

It is providing more grist to the mill of 'two tier justice'. And frankly two tier political response.

The Two Tier aspect I observe is that some crimes cause racist thugs to riot and some do not.

When people complain about "Two Tier" they usually mean the sentencing isn't "two tier" enough. They think their kind of thug should get lighter sentences.

“Two Tier” is when one guy says “he did a stabbing” and the other guy says “he did a racism”, leads to the first guy being arrested.

“Two Tier” is when social media posts and throwing traffic cones at police result in a couple of years inside, but a phone full of ch1ld pr0n gets a suspended sentence. Sometimes even the abusers themselves get suspended sentences.