AbsoluteMeasure

The moral of the story is this: if you care about housing then stfu about housing - it's a symptom, not a cause of our problems. You have to solve the underlying problem first, then everything follows from that. Pic related.

Thatcher understood this, which is why she had to break the back of the GLC before she could guarantee the rise of Canary Wharf.

You will never persuade these people to support increases in housing supply at the market price because you'd be asking them to LITERALLY SIGN THEIR OWN P45s. Nobody would ever do that and if you expect them to then *you* are the unreasonable one.

It is a *constitutional* one. Labour is using its incumbency to demographically engineer its ideal constituency, one that will never desert it (unlike the Muslims, Jews, trade unionists or feminists).

In turn, the neolibs, yimbys, wonks and other assorted homosexuals (but I repeat myself) who are posting with such vim and vigour about supply vs demand from rehashed microeconomics 101 lectures are missing the point. This is not an economic policy disagreement.

(Digression: as almost always, mistaking a material concern for a metaphysical commitment is a category error. Fighting the Woke doesn't require making windows into mens' souls, only taking away their ill-gotten money and unearned resources.)

But even a relatively small uptick in the White population would threaten that. This in turn is why the periodic histrionic caterwauling about "gentrifiers" from "Fuckinghamshire" is so intense - it's a rational response by a political machine to a material threat.

In its current form, Peckham is a de facto rotten borough. Its MPs and councillors owe their positions to bloc-voting by the blacks who hold a (slim) overall majority of the population.

Something important about this story that I haven't seen anyone else mention is that Britain's idiosyncratic planning laws effectively allow politicians to gerrymander their electorates at will, which is clearly what local Labour councillors and the Labour MP are doing here. 🧵

This is the moment that a Christian street preacher was arrested because he refused to give his details for a non-crime hate incident. Police in Rotherham detained him after he asked a Muslim woman about Islam's teaching on domestic violence, which she alleged was intimidating.

The entire British state is a cancerous leach on this island and the nations that exist on it.

I don’t care if the illegal migrants are ‘seeking a better life.’ It’s not our problem.

Although this seems tyrannical and bleak, we’ve gone from Sunak in the rain calling an election to the state being terrified of another round of native British race rioting. It’s an improvement on where we were just a year or so ago.

All governments are dysfunctional, but none before have succeeded in totally alienating the beating heart of England like this. Many groups naturally bore little natural affinity with the UK police, so to see the consent of the governed - the English - evaporate is astonishing.

Quite a remarkable video. Norfolk Constabulary here are treated by Tory/Reform voting provincials like hostile state agents by people in outer Norwich. Live streams of the Leeds protest and others show people remonstrating with the police as enemies and demanding they defect.

Starting to wonder at this point if there is a racial stereotype or xenophobic trope that is actually baseless, i.e. can't be proved in any case to have occurred

A key part of being a journalist in the West is removing information.

Star Wars Britons in Croatia giving us a sense of what those ‘Romanian man arrested’ headlines must feel like.

Excellent piece on this x.com/baylissbaghdad…

I’ve said it before as have many others but it bears repeating that the EU, with Britain on a leash, has morphed into the USSR. Sclerotic, corrupt, bankrupt ideologically and soon literally—unloved, unfeared, and unfixable.