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Barchester
Joined September 2021
I'm going to start a thread of policy suggestion threads that would be popular, a good idea, or are necessary. This is the first one. 1/🧵 The Pub Revival Act - to save British pubs:
My Pub Revival Act would halve VAT on beer in pubs & remove it completely on British alcohol, halve duty on all alcohol in pubs, scrap business rates on independent pubs, increase VAT on alcohol sold in shops, & give pubs the option of being smoking or non-smoking venues.
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It was hard to pick, but I think these come out on top.
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I’d liked to have included: • Tony Hawks Pro Skater • Tomb Raider • V-Rally • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace • Pokémon Red • Super Mario Land
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I think the number of people who want violent removals is vanishingly small. What people want is to change incentive structures to necessitate assimilation or leaving/self-deportation, + massively reduced future immigration especially from countries with vastly different cultures
Whether or not you think England was a better country 80+ years ago when it was much more white and less ethnically diverse, the reality is that today there are millions of people born and raised in England who are of Asian, African, West Indian or other ancestry from outside of the British Isles, or of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or other non-Christian religion. And a lot of children of mixed background. Any attempt to turn the ethnic and religious clock back to the 1940s could only involve massive violence and bloodshed, social destruction and economic collapse; potentially a genocide like Bosnia in the 1990s. No thank you; we don't want our country to be torn apart like that.
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If the Right wants any hope of lessening the damage being done to the country then everyone will have to put childish emotionalism aside and vote for whichever right-of-centre party has the most chance of winning in their seat.
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Milei was lauded for his fierce commitment to Argentine interests, a position consistent with his Falklands rhetoric. If we had leaders as fiercely committed to British interests, then that rhetoric would be irrelevant. Milei's strength isn't the problem, Britain's weakness is.
Any on the British right who lauded him really have no leg to stand on in criticising the equally inane fans of Trudeau etc. Time to disavow, reflect on how they got it so wrong, and learn to prevent further embarrassment.
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Yesterday saw the most amount of small boat arrivals cross in a single day this year - 781.
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Labour have no right to accuse any other party of cheap populism.
The perfect juxtaposition to show the frivolity of Andy Binman.
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Britain needs a narrower spending base and a wider tax base
More than a third of adults don’t pay a single penny in income tax. That is fiscally unsustainable, morally irresponsible – and not the historic norm. Forget the fiscal cost of raising the personal allowance for a moment - we need to speak more about the moral toll.
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LISTEN: Lucy Powell Says “We Can’t Stop Everything” After Small Boat Border Force Evasions order-order.com/2026/09/24/l…
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Again, skyscrapers don't have to be boring btw. This is the historic Gothic revival style Cathedral building in Oakland, California. It was built in 1914 by Benjamin Geer McDougall
Skyscrapers don't always have to be ugly btw
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These people are about to lecture us on 'disinformation'
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Part of me hopes Andy Burnham starts dumping migrants all around leafy Surrey. That would go some way to making the Lib Dems unpalatable.
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Exclusive: Civil servants are being encouraged to learn foreign languages to better reach Britain’s “diverse communities”, a leaked government document reveals. The Department of Health outlined “multilingual understanding” sessions and language-learning programmes for officials. It comes as more than one million people in England and Wales cannot speak English well or at all, while NHS translation costs have more than doubled. My latest investigation 👇 stevenedginton.com/p/leak-ci…
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If this was the result it would be a catastrophe for the country.
YouGov's September 2026 MRP projects that Labour would be the largest party in a hung parliament, were an election held tomorrow Labour: 241 (-170 from 2024) Conservatives: 130 (+9) Reform UK: 123 (+118) Lib Dems: 71 (-1) SNP: 40 (+31) Plaid Cymru: 15 (+11) Greens: 9 (+5) Others: 3 (-3)
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Implicit in liberalism, she says, 'is a notion of "intellectual-cultural superiority", which could be described as little different to the notions of racial superiority that drove colonialism.' She adds: 'When we are talking about teaching "Islam", I propose that we are talking about teaching a learner to submit to Allah.' Or a book chapter from later the same year, where she cites a claim that 'Muslims have become entrenched within a secular Western worldview and are looking to understand their problems through this inauthentic lens.' In 2010, Ahmed apparently told the Charity Commission that while she had been a member of Hizb previously, she had not been involved for a few years and did not agree with 'all of Hizb ut-Tahrir's views as a political organisation.' But when repeatedly asked by us if she still holds her old views, or would like to disown anything she said then, she has refused to do so. (She again refused to respond to such a request for this piece.) ✍️ Andrew Gilligan Article | spectator.com/article/farah-… | @mragilligan
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Should get rid of creative media and replace it with something like manufacturing.
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced the Government will introduce "Vocational GCSEs" from 2029 The first subjects are set to cover finance, business management, digital tech, creative media and construction
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Building lists of political opponents, in pursuit of ideological goals! Shocking stuff, imagine how shameful it would be if the Left adopted these sinister tactics
BREAKING: For months, an account called "Big Time Charlie" has been building a database of charity workers, aid workers and others it brands "traitors", using AI to pull information from LinkedIn and elsewhere. Our investigation shows he is an activist and has donated thousands to Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/2…
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Absolutely extraordinary comment from Education Secretary Lucy Powell on the media round this morning: "(You) can’t stop everything all of the time. “Of course, it’s a concern. That’s why the Home Secretary has demanded and ordered this urgent review because this is not what we want to see. This is not acceptable." For a long time, every boat was being intercepted. Before this week, there had been one incident since 2023. So, what's changed?
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No the Chinese didn't strip the country The Tories sold it off
How 'Chinese vultures' have slowly but surely stripped Britain's assets... from nuclear power, property and black cabs, to football clubs and now schools. So why ARE our politicians meekly watching on as shadowy Communist controlled firms pillage Britain? trib.al/g3XAh6r
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