Some good news for a change. Well in my opinion anyway.
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Some good news for a change. Well in my opinion anyway.
Philip Collins @PhilipJCollins1 · 1h For anyone who once really liked The Times you might like the new incarnation of The Observer. I am going to join soon and that's where I will be doing my writing.
"Another Day In Paradise"
The new series of Black Mirror started this week too.
Some good news for a change. Well in my opinion anyway.
Philip Collins @PhilipJCollins1 · 1h For anyone who once really liked The Times you might like the new incarnation of The Observer. I am going to join soon and that's where I will be doing my writing.
"Another Day In Paradise"
I can hear it, coming but with hair tonight ... Oh Gawd !!
I have been talking up the coming storm of Reform for literal years on here. They are going to smash Labour and the Tories up into little pieces next month - not everywhere, but that is a good thing for them and a bad thing for the other two as Reform's support has coalesced into hotspots.
And after the election? The real fun begins. We are going to see some amazing people elected to councils. A selection of types Young and Outspoken - the world is broken and I will fix it Dave - why can't these [deleted] just be sent home Opportunist Middle Aged rider - Andrea Jenkyns et al riding Reform for their own personal reasons Gammony Fool - older, angrier, stupider
Someone should open a book on what % of councillors elected in May have lost the whip by the end of the summer. It will be into double figures %
tbh I cannot understand why Reform is standing for local councils. It can only end in tears. They should have waited for the general election.
They have to become more than a one issue party if they are serious about being in government.
For better or worse they need to spend time pointing at potholes and tutting over planning applications.
Reform is NOTA which means firstly that they do not need any track record, and secondly that there is little chance of their councillors agreeing about very much at all. There's no upside and a huge potential downside.
I've seen Farage has said he doesn't want any new Reform councillors elected on May 1st to go into joint administrations with any other party. The practicalities of governance are going to force the new cohort of Reform councillors to get their hands dirty.
As an example, Kent - it seems likely the Conservatives will lose seats to Reform but they could also lose seats to the LDs and Greens leaving Reform short of an overall majority. If they are, however, the largest party on the new county council, what would the Reform caucus do?
Well if they followed St Nigel they would go into opposition whilst the others built a coalition around them. Nigel is monumentally stupid on this issue.
I have been talking up the coming storm of Reform for literal years on here. They are going to smash Labour and the Tories up into little pieces next month - not everywhere, but that is a good thing for them and a bad thing for the other two as Reform's support has coalesced into hotspots.
And after the election? The real fun begins. We are going to see some amazing people elected to councils. A selection of types Young and Outspoken - the world is broken and I will fix it Dave - why can't these [deleted] just be sent home Opportunist Middle Aged rider - Andrea Jenkyns et al riding Reform for their own personal reasons Gammony Fool - older, angrier, stupider
Someone should open a book on what % of councillors elected in May have lost the whip by the end of the summer. It will be into double figures %
tbh I cannot understand why Reform is standing for local councils. It can only end in tears. They should have waited for the general election.
They have to become more than a one issue party if they are serious about being in government.
For better or worse they need to spend time pointing at potholes and tutting over planning applications.
Reform is NOTA which means firstly that they do not need any track record, and secondly that there is little chance of their councillors agreeing about very much at all. There's no upside and a huge potential downside.
I've seen Farage has said he doesn't want any new Reform councillors elected on May 1st to go into joint administrations with any other party. The practicalities of governance are going to force the new cohort of Reform councillors to get their hands dirty.
As an example, Kent - it seems likely the Conservatives will lose seats to Reform but they could also lose seats to the LDs and Greens leaving Reform short of an overall majority. If they are, however, the largest party on the new county council, what would the Reform caucus do?
Well if they followed St Nigel they would go into opposition whilst the others built a coalition around them. Nigel is monumentally stupid on this issue.
I think this might be politicking, to avoid the impression that voting for Reform is a vote for the Tories. Perhaps Labour's 'Vote Nige get Nigerian' posters have actually bothered Farage.
Dreadful set of local by election results for Labour last night. Losing a seat in inner London to the Greens to their left and losing a seat in white working class Greater Manchester to Reform to their populist right.
They are in real danger of a pincer movement in local elections if that trend continues over the next few years, losing seats in inner London and other inner cities and university towns to the Greens, losing seats in white working class ex industrial and seaside towns to Reform, losing seats in the rural shires to the Tories and losing seats in more prosperous commuter belt market towns and suburbs to the Tories and LDs. While also losing seats in Scotland to the SNP and LDs and in Wales to Plaid and Reform
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I have been talking up the coming storm of Reform for literal years on here. They are going to smash Labour and the Tories up into little pieces next month - not everywhere, but that is a good thing for them and a bad thing for the other two as Reform's support has coalesced into hotspots.
And after the election? The real fun begins. We are going to see some amazing people elected to councils. A selection of types Young and Outspoken - the world is broken and I will fix it Dave - why can't these [deleted] just be sent home Opportunist Middle Aged rider - Andrea Jenkyns et al riding Reform for their own personal reasons Gammony Fool - older, angrier, stupider
Someone should open a book on what % of councillors elected in May have lost the whip by the end of the summer. It will be into double figures %
tbh I cannot understand why Reform is standing for local councils. It can only end in tears. They should have waited for the general election.
They have to become more than a one issue party if they are serious about being in government.
For better or worse they need to spend time pointing at potholes and tutting over planning applications.
Reform is NOTA which means firstly that they do not need any track record, and secondly that there is little chance of their councillors agreeing about very much at all. There's no upside and a huge potential downside.
I've seen Farage has said he doesn't want any new Reform councillors elected on May 1st to go into joint administrations with any other party. The practicalities of governance are going to force the new cohort of Reform councillors to get their hands dirty.
As an example, Kent - it seems likely the Conservatives will lose seats to Reform but they could also lose seats to the LDs and Greens leaving Reform short of an overall majority. If they are, however, the largest party on the new county council, what would the Reform caucus do?
Well if they followed St Nigel they would go into opposition whilst the others built a coalition around them. Nigel is monumentally stupid on this issue.
I think this might be politicking, to avoid the impression that voting for Reform is a vote for the Tories. Perhaps Labour's 'Vote Nige get Nigerian' posters have actually bothered Farage.
Does anyone have a number for how many of the Reform Councillors were formerly Something Something Independents?
I don't have firm data, but it's a lot.
Of our local three at District Level, there is an ex-Lab, an ex-Tory, and an ex-Ashfield Independent.
In addition the Leeanderthal Man fits into the first two categories, and probably "Independent" from when he was effectively hoofed out of Labour by (allegedly) the Corbynistas *. He is not yet ex-Reform, but would perhaps follow The Nigel out if Rupert Bear did a reverse-takeover.
Russia has to get moving. Too many people ere DYING, thousands a week, in a terrible and senseless war - A war that should have never happened, and wouldn't have happened, if I were President!!!
Didnt he repeatedly promise to end the war in 1 day?
Indeed. Currently 8000% over target. Which isn't quite as much as Putin (over 37000%) but he's catching up.
Isn't Musk 0.15% towards cutting federal spending by the promised $2tr ?
I'm just going to say it - sack these judges. Having to recruit a new judge is less costly and divisive than the outcomes of the decisions that these Britain-haters are inflicting on us. Even the ECHR does not to my knowledge protect our right not to be stressed.
Lazy. Dangerous.
If you're going to change something like this, have the courage to put it to Parliament and legislate accordingly.
Sure. We can (and should, and will in my opinion) remove the Human Rights Act and leave the ECHR. But that will not decalcify the judiciary from a culture that seeks deliberately to undermine social cohesion, make a mockery of border security, and excuse lawlessness. A culture that has also taken hold within the police force and probably in every other public body that you care to name.
Labour's "exposure" in three weeks time is nowhere near that of the Conservatives in terms of seats held and potential losses.
On a quick count of the County Councils due to hold elections, the Conservatives will be defending 554 seats and Labour just 128 so it's the former with much more skin in the game and much more to lose.
That's not to say it won't be a difficult night for Labour but in terms of counting the losses, I suspect the Conservatives will be doing more counting.
Yet Electoral Calculus forecasts the Tories will still win most council seats up in May, 548, to 474 Reform, 270 LD, 252 Labour and 77 Other and 27 Green.
The Tories are forecast to make most losses though, down 872 councillors, followed by Labour down 89 and the Greens down 20 and the LDs down 4.
Reform projected to make by far the biggest gains with 474 new councillors
I'm just going to say it - sack these judges. Having to recruit a new judge is less costly and divisive than the outcomes of the decisions that these Britain-haters are inflicting on us. Even the ECHR does not to my knowledge protect our right not to be stressed.
Lazy. Dangerous.
If you're going to change something like this, have the courage to put it to Parliament and legislate accordingly.
Sure. We can (and should, and will in my opinion) remove the Human Rights Act and leave the ECHR. But that will not decalcify the judiciary from a culture that seeks deliberately to undermine social cohesion, make a mockery of border security, and excuse lawlessness. A culture that has also taken hold within the police force and probably in every other public body that you care to name.
'stop the world, i want to get off'
Do you ducks? That's a shame. I can imagine you being a bit queasy about emerging blinking into Nigel's new dawn, but rest assured I will be here to help you through it.
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PB needs its own food, wine and travel correspondent.
Cointreau in chocolate milk-shake is quite like drinking a creamy Terry's Chocolate Orange.
I've been told.
Baileys poured over vanilla ice cream works well...
Does @Taz make his own Baileys not-Irish Cream? I sometimes get a bottle at Christmas from a T who makes her own; in effective exchange for a bottle of an old style non-alcoholic beverage such as a Ginger drink or a Fruit Vinegar.
I'm just going to say it - sack these judges. Having to recruit a new judge is less costly and divisive than the outcomes of the decisions that these Britain-haters are inflicting on us. Even the ECHR does not to my knowledge protect our right not to be stressed.
Lazy. Dangerous.
If you're going to change something like this, have the courage to put it to Parliament and legislate accordingly.
Sure. We can (and should, and will in my opinion) remove the Human Rights Act and leave the ECHR. But that will not decalcify the judiciary from a culture that seeks deliberately to undermine social cohesion, make a mockery of border security, and excuse lawlessness. A culture that has also taken hold within the police force and probably in every other public body that you care to name.
'stop the world, i want to get off'
Do you ducks? That's a shame. I can imagine you being a bit queasy about emerging blinking into Nigel's new dawn, but rest assured I will be here to help you through it.
That reminded me that there was a duck in the late 1970s Tomorrow's World titles:
I'm just going to say it - sack these judges. Having to recruit a new judge is less costly and divisive than the outcomes of the decisions that these Britain-haters are inflicting on us. Even the ECHR does not to my knowledge protect our right not to be stressed.
Lazy. Dangerous.
If you're going to change something like this, have the courage to put it to Parliament and legislate accordingly.
Sure. We can (and should, and will in my opinion) remove the Human Rights Act and leave the ECHR. But that will not decalcify the judiciary from a culture that seeks deliberately to undermine social cohesion, make a mockery of border security, and excuse lawlessness. A culture that has also taken hold within the police force and probably in every other public body that you care to name.
German manufacturer Rheinmetall is massively expanding its ammunition production.
The production capacity of 155mm artillery shells will increase fifteenfold by 2027 compared to the level at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022. Production of 120 mm caliber ammunition for battle tanks will increase fourfold.
It is also noted that at the new 155 mm ammunition factory in Unterluss, built in just 13 months, the first ammunition is expected to be produced as early as April-May 2025. The factory will eventually manufacture some 200,000 artillery shells a year. https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1910575502735057325
They have had an on the edge operation exporting ammunition factories to multiple countries outside most export controls from South Africa for a number of years, so they should be able to build them quickly.
Labour's "exposure" in three weeks time is nowhere near that of the Conservatives in terms of seats held and potential losses.
On a quick count of the County Councils due to hold elections, the Conservatives will be defending 554 seats and Labour just 128 so it's the former with much more skin in the game and much more to lose.
That's not to say it won't be a difficult night for Labour but in terms of counting the losses, I suspect the Conservatives will be doing more counting.
Yet Electoral Calculus forecasts the Tories will still win most council seats up in May, 548, to 474 Reform, 270 LD, 252 Labour and 77 Other and 27 Green.
The Tories are forecast to make most losses though, down 872 councillors, followed by Labour down 89 and the Greens down 20 and the LDs down 4.
Reform projected to make by far the biggest gains with 474 new councillors
That poll is nearly a month old so we'll have to say what resemblance (if any) it bears to reality.
In addition, some authorities such as Buckinghamshire have undergone boundary changes so the actual number of councillors being elected is reduced (in Buckinghamhshire's case there will be 50 fewer councllors so even if the Conservatives won every seat on the new council, which they won't, they would still have 13 fewer councillors than they do now).
There's also the matter of control of council rather than just counting the number of councillors. The Conservatives control 19 of the 23 authorities (county, unitary and metropolitan) being contested, Labour just the one. How many will remain in Conservative control if the party loses more than half its seats?
Can someone persuade me that central and west Africa are worth visiting? And the more Islamy parts of North Africa?
Because that would open up 2/3 of a continent I’ve never seen (I’ve seen south and east Africa, and Ethiopia, Egypt and Morocco - ie the good bits)
The trouble is when anyone I trust goes to central/west/Islamy Africa they come back saying Hmm, yeah, not great, I had one decent curry, etc
Maybe some magazine would offer a lucrative commission which might be very persuasive.
Whizzer and Chips doesn't have the budget for such things now.
Any excuse to post the Prime Minister's press conference from Little Britain! Roy Sloane, Whizzer and Chips: Are you concerned you've lost your strongest ally in the Cabinet? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d9CQRinbxLo
"Oh I'm sorry, I've forgotten the question"; one of my favourite pieces of comedy. Completely absurd
Dreadful set of local by election results for Labour last night. Losing a seat in inner London to the Greens to their left and losing a seat in white working class Greater Manchester to Reform to their populist right.
They are in real danger of a pincer movement in local elections if that trend continues over the next few years, losing seats in inner London and other inner cities and university towns to the Greens, losing seats in white working class ex industrial and seaside towns to Reform, losing seats in the rural shires to the Tories and losing seats in more prosperous commuter belt market towns and suburbs to the Tories and LDs. While also losing seats in Scotland to the SNP and LDs and in Wales to Plaid and Reform
Poor results for the Conservatives - for example, a near 13% swing to the LDs in Sutton Central suggesting the LDs will keep control in 2026. There is a more interesting by election in Carshalton South & Clockhouse next month which will be perhaps more informative.
Interesting evisceration of Mt Trump in the last few days, on the Times Trump Report. Scott Lucas. Quite a nice analogy of how the Playground Bully performance will not because all the attempted victims will simply create a new playground.
Drinking a beer watching people unsubscribe from my channel. The rebrand plus *why* (in tonight’s video) has upset the crowd who cannot hear anyone say anything they disagree with. A culling of a few fanboys was needed so that we can grow much bigger without them
Dreadful set of local by election results for Labour last night. Losing a seat in inner London to the Greens to their left and losing a seat in white working class Greater Manchester to Reform to their populist right.
They are in real danger of a pincer movement in local elections if that trend continues over the next few years, losing seats in inner London and other inner cities and university towns to the Greens, losing seats in white working class ex industrial and seaside towns to Reform, losing seats in the rural shires to the Tories and losing seats in more prosperous commuter belt market towns and suburbs to the Tories and LDs. While also losing seats in Scotland to the SNP and LDs and in Wales to Plaid and Reform
Poor results for the Conservatives - for example, a near 13% swing to the LDs in Sutton Central suggesting the LDs will keep control in 2026. There is a more interesting by election in Carshalton South & Clockhouse next month which will be perhaps more informative.
Even in Sutton Central the Labour vote was down more, 17% down compared to the Tory vote down 10%
Labour's "exposure" in three weeks time is nowhere near that of the Conservatives in terms of seats held and potential losses.
On a quick count of the County Councils due to hold elections, the Conservatives will be defending 554 seats and Labour just 128 so it's the former with much more skin in the game and much more to lose.
That's not to say it won't be a difficult night for Labour but in terms of counting the losses, I suspect the Conservatives will be doing more counting.
Yet Electoral Calculus forecasts the Tories will still win most council seats up in May, 548, to 474 Reform, 270 LD, 252 Labour and 77 Other and 27 Green.
The Tories are forecast to make most losses though, down 872 councillors, followed by Labour down 89 and the Greens down 20 and the LDs down 4.
Reform projected to make by far the biggest gains with 474 new councillors
That poll is nearly a month old so we'll have to say what resemblance (if any) it bears to reality.
In addition, some authorities such as Buckinghamshire have undergone boundary changes so the actual number of councillors being elected is reduced (in Buckinghamhshire's case there will be 50 fewer councllors so even if the Conservatives won every seat on the new council, which they won't, they would still have 13 fewer councillors than they do now).
There's also the matter of control of council rather than just counting the number of councillors. The Conservatives control 19 of the 23 authorities (county, unitary and metropolitan) being contested, Labour just the one. How many will remain in Conservative control if the party loses more than half its seats?
A few like Buckinghamshire and Wiltshire likely stay Tory majority, others like Devon, Lincolnshire and Herts may well see Tory and Reform deals to keep control
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoiners are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
Can someone persuade me that central and west Africa are worth visiting? And the more Islamy parts of North Africa?
Because that would open up 2/3 of a continent I’ve never seen (I’ve seen south and east Africa, and Ethiopia, Egypt and Morocco - ie the good bits)
The trouble is when anyone I trust goes to central/west/Islamy Africa they come back saying Hmm, yeah, not great, I had one decent curry, etc
Maybe some magazine would offer a lucrative commission which might be very persuasive.
Whizzer and Chips doesn't have the budget for such things now.
Any excuse to post the Prime Minister's press conference from Little Britain! Roy Sloane, Whizzer and Chips: Are you concerned you've lost your strongest ally in the Cabinet? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d9CQRinbxLo
"Oh I'm sorry, I've forgotten the question"; one of my favourite pieces of comedy. Completely absurd
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoinerd are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 certainly don't want to rejoin the EU with the Euro etc beyond most LD and Green voters, at most a UK majority would be for rejoining EFTA now with the exception of most Reform voters
I think the big news here is that the libdems lost almost 60% of their vote in Haringey.
The average LD voter is now more likely to live in the Home Counties than inner London, whereas under Charles Kennedy it was inner cities and university towns where they made the biggest gains (such voters now are shifting Green)
I'm just going to say it - sack these judges. Having to recruit a new judge is less costly and divisive than the outcomes of the decisions that these Britain-haters are inflicting on us. Even the ECHR does not to my knowledge protect our right not to be stressed.
Lazy. Dangerous.
If you're going to change something like this, have the courage to put it to Parliament and legislate accordingly.
Sure. We can (and should, and will in my opinion) remove the Human Rights Act and leave the ECHR. But that will not decalcify the judiciary from a culture that seeks deliberately to undermine social cohesion, make a mockery of border security, and excuse lawlessness. A culture that has also taken hold within the police force and probably in every other public body that you care to name.
'stop the world, i want to get off'
Do you ducks? That's a shame. I can imagine you being a bit queasy about emerging blinking into Nigel's new dawn, but rest assured I will be here to help you through it.
That reminded me that there was a duck in the late 1970s Tomorrow's World titles:
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoiners are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 of the electorate want to restore the death penalty. I'm not sure that reconciles with your view of where the centre of political gravity is.
Net -26 subscribers in 4 hours. With some of them it’s like the scene in Downfall where the Nazis hear that Hilter is dead and immediately shoot themselves
Drinking a beer watching people unsubscribe from my channel. The rebrand plus *why* (in tonight’s video) has upset the crowd who cannot hear anyone say anything they disagree with. A culling of a few fanboys was needed so that we can grow much bigger without them
Is this your car channel or your new politics channel?
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoiners are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
Starmer begging for scraps from Trump when closer links with the EU would give growth a boost . Given what’s happened over the last few weeks the government has a huge opportunity to sell much closer EU links .
Trump envoy: We can divide Ukraine like postwar Berlin
General Keith Kellogg suggests UK and France could lead western zone of control in interview with The Times
President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal.
General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone.
Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kyiv, would “not be provocative at all” to Moscow. He said Ukraine was a big enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire.
“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a US zone,” he said.
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PB needs its own food, wine and travel correspondent.
Cointreau in chocolate milk-shake is quite like drinking a creamy Terry's Chocolate Orange.
I've been told.
Baileys poured over vanilla ice cream works well...
Does @Taz make his own Baileys not-Irish Cream? I sometimes get a bottle at Christmas from a T who makes her own; in effective exchange for a bottle of an old style non-alcoholic beverage such as a Ginger drink or a Fruit Vinegar.
The classic: PX sherry with vanilla Surprise red wine pairing: Pinot noir with chocolate and cherry Fruity sweet wine with fruit: Spätlese riesling with peach melba Dairy and tawny: Tawny port with millionaire’s ice cream French twist: Sauternes with coconut ice cream
PB needs its own food, wine and travel correspondent.
Cointreau in chocolate milk-shake is quite like drinking a creamy Terry's Chocolate Orange.
I've been told.
Baileys poured over vanilla ice cream works well...
Does @Taz make his own Baileys not-Irish Cream? I sometimes get a bottle at Christmas from a T who makes her own; in effective exchange for a bottle of an old style non-alcoholic beverage such as a Ginger drink or a Fruit Vinegar.
Definitely not. We have a bottle in the pantry that has been open two years and about half drunk !
I did try flavouring vodka with fruit foraged locally. With mixed results.
Net -26 subscribers in 4 hours. With some of them it’s like the scene in Downfall where the Nazis hear that Hilter is dead and immediately shoot themselves
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoiners are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 of the electorate want to restore the death penalty. I'm not sure that reconciles with your view of where the centre of political gravity is.
The majority view is only important when it’s something someone supports.
Trump envoy: We can divide Ukraine like postwar Berlin
General Keith Kellogg suggests UK and France could lead western zone of control in interview with The Times
President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal.
General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone.
Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kyiv, would “not be provocative at all” to Moscow. He said Ukraine was a big enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire.
“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a US zone,” he said.
Finding tourists everywhere is partly a state of mind. Lots of Londoners never notice the place is full of them. I live in a county with billions of them all the year round. I, metaphorically and sometimes literally, use the footpaths rather than the roads and trods in place of beaten tracks. England is full of amazing things that by a strange chance no-one ever notices, most of them most of the time can be had without much or any presence of others if you want.
By the way, in England all town and city centres are uninterruptedly yours between about 9 am and 10 am each morning.
Drinking a beer watching people unsubscribe from my channel. The rebrand plus *why* (in tonight’s video) has upset the crowd who cannot hear anyone say anything they disagree with. A culling of a few fanboys was needed so that we can grow much bigger without them
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Car! Politics isn’t live yet. But I questioned the Lord Elon and said he has to go…
Labour's "exposure" in three weeks time is nowhere near that of the Conservatives in terms of seats held and potential losses.
On a quick count of the County Councils due to hold elections, the Conservatives will be defending 554 seats and Labour just 128 so it's the former with much more skin in the game and much more to lose.
That's not to say it won't be a difficult night for Labour but in terms of counting the losses, I suspect the Conservatives will be doing more counting.
Yet Electoral Calculus forecasts the Tories will still win most council seats up in May, 548, to 474 Reform, 270 LD, 252 Labour and 77 Other and 27 Green.
The Tories are forecast to make most losses though, down 872 councillors, followed by Labour down 89 and the Greens down 20 and the LDs down 4.
Reform projected to make by far the biggest gains with 474 new councillors
Net -26 subscribers in 4 hours. With some of them it’s like the scene in Downfall where the Nazis hear that Hilter is dead and immediately shoot themselves
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoinerd are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 certainly don't want to rejoin the EU with the Euro etc beyond most LD and Green voters, at most a UK majority would be for rejoining EFTA now with the exception of most Reform voters
Can't we be like Monaco, and be in the Euro and not in the EU?
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoinerd are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 certainly don't want to rejoin the EU with the Euro etc beyond LD and Green voters, at most a UK majority would be for rejoining EFTA now
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoiners are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 of the electorate want to restore the death penalty. I'm not sure that reconciles with your view of where the centre of political gravity is.
The majority view is only important when it’s something someone supports.
2/3 is of course a completely made up statistic. The most recent survey, taken days after the sentencing of Axel Rudakabana, had it rising from 50-55% for “the most serious terrorism offences”.
Then ask the same group of people if they think Lucy Letby should have been killed by the state.
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoinerd are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 certainly don't want to rejoin the EU with the Euro etc beyond LD and Green voters, at most a UK majority would be for rejoining EFTA now
Net -26 subscribers in 4 hours. With some of them it’s like the scene in Downfall where the Nazis hear that Hilter is dead and immediately shoot themselves
Sorry to hear that Rochdale. Life can be a bit shit sometimes.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoiners are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 of the electorate want to restore the death penalty. I'm not sure that reconciles with your view of where the centre of political gravity is.
The majority view is only important when it’s something someone supports.
2/3 is of course a completely made up statistic. The most recent survey, taken days after the sentencing of Axel Rudakabana, had it rising from 50-55% for “the most serious terrorism offences”.
Then ask the same group of people if they think Lucy Letby should have been killed by the state.
The YouGov tracker is currently 60% support and 31% oppose for cases of multiple murder.
Net -26 subscribers in 4 hours. With some of them it’s like the scene in Downfall where the Nazis hear that Hilter is dead and immediately shoot themselves
What’s that as a percentage ?
0.19%
That’s surely insignificant. Plus you must have some regular churn anyway ?
Net -26 subscribers in 4 hours. With some of them it’s like the scene in Downfall where the Nazis hear that Hilter is dead and immediately shoot themselves
I see one has served divorce papers
(Still really rather liking the Model Y Performance I got Mrs Saurus as our family car the other week; fwiw reaction from neighbours/strangers in as much as any give a stuff has been to want a go. Although I made my mum ill with 0-60 which is odd when she was a biker in her yoof)
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
Will people have to have stamps on their clothing so it’s easier to be identified . Will they be sticking this in their holiday ads ?
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoinerd are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 certainly don't want to rejoin the EU with the Euro etc beyond most LD and Green voters, at most a UK majority would be for rejoining EFTA now with the exception of most Reform voters
Can't we be like Monaco, and be in the Euro and not in the EU?
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
Any non-US citizen staying in the US should get the hell out right away. It's very obvious where this is going.
Net -26 subscribers in 4 hours. With some of them it’s like the scene in Downfall where the Nazis hear that Hilter is dead and immediately shoot themselves
I see one has served divorce papers
(Still really rather liking the Model Y Performance I got Mrs Saurus as our family car the other week; fwiw reaction from neighbours/strangers in as much as any give a stuff has been to want a go. Although I made my mum ill with 0-60 which is odd when she was a biker in her yoof)
I complain about what I call the nuclear arms race of power outputs. Previously unheard of levels of power pit on family cars.
And then I test cars with less power and soft suspension. And want the power back again. I only have the AWD with the acceleration boost. That’s already utterly crazy. Have you driven a 3 performs? Crackers
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
The cut at the start is making me suspicious. But all foreign nationals?
If Reform win control of the councils they’re predicted to then it’s a different ball game for them.
They will have records to defend. It won’t just be about people online with pink hair, nose rings and they/them pronouns screaming fascist, like Rik from The Young Ones. They will have a record of either delivery or non delivery going into 2029. It will be fascinating to see if they can hold together as groups on these councils or not and the MSM will be all over them.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
Will people have to have stamps on their clothing so it’s easier to be identified . Will they be sticking this in their holiday ads ?
As I said earlier, @Leon is desperate to go to a place with no tourists.
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoiners are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 of the electorate want to restore the death penalty. I'm not sure that reconciles with your view of where the centre of political gravity is.
The majority view is only important when it’s something someone supports.
2/3 is of course a completely made up statistic. The most recent survey, taken days after the sentencing of Axel Rudakabana, had it rising from 50-55% for “the most serious terrorism offences”.
Then ask the same group of people if they think Lucy Letby should have been killed by the state.
The YouGov tracker is currently 60% support and 31% oppose for cases of multiple murder.
So not only have you cherrypicked the highest score for any of the questions (higher than for child murder, police murder, terrorism), for the pollster with the highest death penalty scores, but even that one at its recent peak is some way off 2/3.
Do you want to bring back the death penalty? If so, is there a particular reason you trust the state to get it right every time?
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
Will people have to have stamps on their clothing so it’s easier to be identified . Will they be sticking this in their holiday ads ?
As I said earlier, @Leon is desperate to go to a place with no tourists.
The USA is wide open for him now.
Why would anyone risk going there now ? If the immigration official is just in a bad mood you could end up detained and sent to a detention centre.
Trump envoy: We can divide Ukraine like postwar Berlin
General Keith Kellogg suggests UK and France could lead western zone of control in interview with The Times
President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal.
General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone.
Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kyiv, would “not be provocative at all” to Moscow. He said Ukraine was a big enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire.
“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a US zone,” he said.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
Any non-US citizen staying in the US should get the hell out right away. It's very obvious where this is going.
The main target at the moment seems to be people on long term visas and green cards. If we start to get stories about tourists or short term business visitors then that’s when I think the real chilling of demand will happen.
If Reform win control of the councils they’re predicted to then it’s a different ball game for them.
They will have records to defend. It won’t just be about people online with pink hair, nose rings and they/them pronouns screaming fascist, like Rik from The Young Ones. They will have a record of either delivery or non delivery going into 2029. It will be fascinating to see if they can hold together as groups on these councils or not and the MSM will be all over them.
They are also possibly, if they win, going to take over a load of councils just as a massive council re-org goes ahead with district councils being scrapped and bigger councils taking over others etc etc.
Now, it is just possible this will go smoothly with every council tax payer and voter happy as a bunny in spring but colour me sceptical...
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
The cut at the start is making me suspicious. But all foreign nationals?
In theory, compulsory registration applies in lots of European countries too.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
As a foreign national in the US, I'm there on an O1 visa: does that count as registration? And am I supposed to keep registering as I enter and exit the US?
Starmer has to stop being a chicken shit simping for reform voters and instead start working for the people who voted for him: rejoiners. 🤷♂️ it is pretty bloody easy. Trump loathing rejoiners are 2/3 of the electorate. Start doing politics to that reality. 🙄🙄🙄
2/3 of the electorate want to restore the death penalty. I'm not sure that reconciles with your view of where the centre of political gravity is.
The majority view is only important when it’s something someone supports.
2/3 is of course a completely made up statistic. The most recent survey, taken days after the sentencing of Axel Rudakabana, had it rising from 50-55% for “the most serious terrorism offences”.
Then ask the same group of people if they think Lucy Letby should have been killed by the state.
The YouGov tracker is currently 60% support and 31% oppose for cases of multiple murder.
So not only have you cherrypicked the highest score for any of the questions, for the pollster with the highest death penalty scores, but even that one at its recent peak is some way off 2/3.
Do you want to bring back the death penalty? If so, is there a particular reason you trust the state to get it right every time?
The USA have executed people later found to have been innocent . The death penalty lobby ignore this.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
The cut at the start is making me suspicious. But all foreign nationals?
In theory, compulsory registration applies in lots of European countries too.
Asking for a friend - but if you'd been invited to give a talk at a US conference, filled in the paperwork, had appropriate visa's etc, you'd need to additionally do this too? Or face jail-time? Because you missed a tweet?
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
The cut at the start is making me suspicious. But all foreign nationals?
In theory, compulsory registration applies in lots of European countries too.
Interesting how of risk perception of counties varies.
There are lots of places where rates of crime and violence are very high, and that puts off visitors, but in reality their personal risk is no higher than the average resident of that country. If they’re a victim, it’s by happenstance. In fact in most cases they are less at risk than locals, because they’ll stick to tourist areas.
Then there are places where being a foreigner positively increases your risk because you become a valuable target: politically (Iran, Russia, Afghanistan etc) or for criminality (parts of Mexico for example, or Mauritania). I think those are the more offputting ones.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
The cut at the start is making me suspicious. But all foreign nationals?
In theory, compulsory registration applies in lots of European countries too.
Asking for a friend - but if you'd been invited to give a talk at a US conference, filled in the paperwork, had appropriate visa's etc, you'd need to additionally do this too? Or face jail-time? Because you missed a tweet?
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
Will people have to have stamps on their clothing so it’s easier to be identified . Will they be sticking this in their holiday ads ?
As I said earlier, @Leon is desperate to go to a place with no tourists.
The USA is wide open for him now.
Why would anyone risk going there now ? If the immigration official is just in a bad mood you could end up detained and sent to a detention centre.
Was talking to my electrician today - he's off on a two-week drive with his along the old Route 66 with in May. I'm rather envious tbh, it's a trip I'd love to do.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
As a foreign national in the US, I'm there on an O1 visa: does that count as registration? And am I supposed to keep registering as I enter and exit the US?
We discussed the true meaning of Ratnering the other day. I tend to the definition of this as something specific and similar to what Gerald did. Not just basic brand damaging behaviour.
US immigration discourse at the moment is classic Ratnering. It’s saying to potential tourists, business visitors or skilled workers: “no, you’re not welcome. We intend to make life difficult for you”.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
The cut at the start is making me suspicious. But all foreign nationals?
In theory, compulsory registration applies in lots of European countries too.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
The cut at the start is making me suspicious. But all foreign nationals?
In theory, compulsory registration applies in lots of European countries too.
Asking for a friend - but if you'd been invited to give a talk at a US conference, filled in the paperwork, had appropriate visa's etc, you'd need to additionally do this too? Or face jail-time? Because you missed a tweet?
"President Trump and I have a clear message for those in our country illegally: leave now. If you leave now, you may have the opportunity to return and enjoy our freedom and live the American dream,” said Secretary Noem. “The Trump administration will enforce all our immigration laws—we will not pick and choose which laws we will enforce. We must know who is in our country for the safety and security of our homeland and all Americans."
So if I've entered legally - I don't need to concern myself with this?
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https://x.com/vigilantfox/status/1910170492821962955
Millionaire's Ice-Cream FFS?
What about Triple Chocolate Something Something Something, or Vienetta?
Maybe he saw this shit coming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TazS5BzAd-8
And see if its changed for better or worse.
They are in real danger of a pincer movement in local elections if that trend continues over the next few years, losing seats in inner London and other inner cities and university towns to the Greens, losing seats in white working class ex industrial and seaside towns to Reform, losing seats in the rural shires to the Tories and losing seats in more prosperous commuter belt market towns and suburbs to the Tories and LDs. While also losing seats in Scotland to the SNP and LDs and in Wales to Plaid and Reform
I don't have firm data, but it's a lot.
Of our local three at District Level, there is an ex-Lab, an ex-Tory, and an ex-Ashfield Independent.
In addition the Leeanderthal Man fits into the first two categories, and probably "Independent" from when he was effectively hoofed out of Labour by (allegedly) the Corbynistas *. He is not yet ex-Reform, but would perhaps follow The Nigel out if Rupert Bear did a reverse-takeover.
* In my assessment he is right on that point.
Brace.
The Tories are forecast to make most losses though, down 872 councillors, followed by Labour down 89 and the Greens down 20 and the LDs down 4.
Reform projected to make by far the biggest gains with 474 new councillors
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_lepoll_20250314.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERaF-h8UhvU&list=PLWdAraGbsC_YHiIkstLUk0xHOXfBAlJPd&index=2
But then I remembered it was actually in Play Away under "Give Us a Y", which I can't so find so this will have to do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERaF-h8UhvU&list=PLWdAraGbsC_YHiIkstLUk0xHOXfBAlJPd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D7tdobn2ts
Where millions of new low paid, low skilled factory workers are to come from nobody can explain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im8Z34fUuuY
In addition, some authorities such as Buckinghamshire have undergone boundary changes so the actual number of councillors being elected is reduced (in Buckinghamhshire's case there will be 50 fewer councllors so even if the Conservatives won every seat on the new council, which they won't, they would still have 13 fewer councillors than they do now).
There's also the matter of control of council rather than just counting the number of councillors. The Conservatives control 19 of the 23 authorities (county, unitary and metropolitan) being contested, Labour just the one. How many will remain in Conservative control if the party loses more than half its seats?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D2Rzo8JDMY&list=PLGeQKoGUstRA9Zv-J_Qdc9Ldrcea-HdrD
The exact opposite of the Nat Con Squad I posted earlier.
A culling of a few fanboys was needed so that we can grow much bigger without them
Their English Democrats experience was not a happy one and they've seemed a bit more traditional in their voting patterns since.
The world is a very different place in just 4 months, let alone 20 years !!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egNCSxuHH0w
So it's not like a cliff edge like the UK where all homeowners with a mortgage will have a 2-5 year fix then rotate onto market rates
In short, very high mortgage rates mostly just means far fewer people move house. And probably puts downward pressure on prices for those that do.
It won't cause an imminent crunch.
General Keith Kellogg suggests UK and France could lead western zone of control in interview with The Times
President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal.
General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone.
Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kyiv, would “not be provocative at all” to Moscow. He said Ukraine was a big enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire.
“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a US zone,” he said.
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/keith-kellogg-general-ukraine-envoy-trump-ldjprpzxt
I did try flavouring vodka with fruit foraged locally. With mixed results.
By the way, in England all town and city centres are uninterruptedly yours between about 9 am and 10 am each morning.
https://x.com/casualsdirect/status/1910573527402430836?s=61
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-tariffs-brexit-starmer-trade-war-b2725289.html
https://www.whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/when-it-comes-to-britains-relationship-with-the-european-union-to-what-extent-would-you-support-or-oppose-britain-rejoining-the-customs-union/
https://www.whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/when-it-comes-to-britains-relationship-with-the-eu-to-what-extent-would-you-support-or-oppose-britain-joining-the-single-market/
Then ask the same group of people if they think Lucy Letby should have been killed by the state.
.@PressSec: "All foreign nationals present in the United States longer than 30 days must register with the federal government. Failure to comply with this is a crime punishable by fines, imprisonment, or both... If not, you will be arrested, fined, deported, never to return to our country again."
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/should-the-death-penalty-be-reintroduced-for-cases-of-multiple-murder
Hopefully this next week will be less insane
https://x.com/cgasparino/status/1910747967595634751?s=61
(Still really rather liking the Model Y Performance I got Mrs Saurus as our family car the other week; fwiw reaction from neighbours/strangers in as much as any give a stuff has been to want a go. Although I made my mum ill with 0-60 which is odd when she was a biker in her yoof)
And then I test cars with less power and soft suspension. And want the power back again. I only have the AWD with the acceleration boost. That’s already utterly crazy. Have you driven a 3 performs? Crackers
They will have records to defend. It won’t just be about people online with pink hair, nose rings and they/them pronouns screaming fascist, like Rik from The Young Ones. They will have a record of either delivery or non delivery going into 2029. It will be fascinating to see if they can hold together as groups on these councils or not and the MSM will be all over them.
The USA is wide open for him now.
Do you want to bring back the death penalty? If so, is there a particular reason you trust the state to get it right every time?
Now, it is just possible this will go smoothly with every council tax payer and voter happy as a bunny in spring but colour me sceptical...
https://bsky.app/profile/straczynski.bsky.social
There are lots of places where rates of crime and violence are very high, and that puts off visitors, but in reality their personal risk is no higher than the average resident of that country. If they’re a victim, it’s by happenstance. In fact in most cases they are less at risk than locals, because they’ll stick to tourist areas.
Then there are places where being a foreigner positively increases your risk because you become a valuable target: politically (Iran, Russia, Afghanistan etc) or for criminality (parts of Mexico for example, or Mauritania). I think those are the more offputting ones.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/11/secretary-noem-reminds-foreign-nationals-register-or-face-legal-penalties
US immigration discourse at the moment is classic Ratnering. It’s saying to potential tourists, business visitors or skilled workers: “no, you’re not welcome. We intend to make life difficult for you”.
So if I've entered legally - I don't need to concern myself with this?