6 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

A culture isn’t being erased.

The lunacy is in the belief that it is.

From Gemini:

Query:

What is the most popular male name given to newborns in the UK in 2026?

Answer:
Muhammad is the most popular male name given to newborns in the UK.

According to the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and top naming registries like BabyCentre UK, Muhammad has firmly held the number one spot.

4 hours ago, save the frogs said:

France's equivalent may be Marine Le Pen (?).

She was viciously attacked, but now she is winning in the polls.

She is anti-globalist polices, basically against the EU Belgium leader whatsherface.

But they may not allow her to win.

This guy is from UK. He thinks if she wins in France, it may affect other EU countries with similar leaders emerging. This guy thinks EU if fed up of global policies and may shift to the right.

It's just one guy's opinion. But I will keep an eye on Marine Le Pen.

She does not want to leave the EU and this is all theatre. Just look at the "patriot" Meloni and her ultra-immigrationist policies for a practical example of how that works. If Le Pen is still around, it is because she is allowed to. If she wanted to leave the EU, she would be taken off the gameboard in an instant.

7 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed the amount of polls allegedly taking place these days, ?

Do people really change their views based on the results of these polls,? somebody obviously seems to think that they do,

I think its more than possible that weak minded people will be influenced sufficiently by these polls to change their views to align with what they have been tricked into thinking is the majority view.

Ban the polls to ensure people think for themselves. and god help us if they do give the vote to 16 year old children, they will vote for whoever is "trending" on "Tikbook" or "facetok"

Although Andrew Tate as Pm has nice ring to it

Oh! A conspiracy theory! 😃

7 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Polls these days are designed to influence the way people vote, not to predict the way people will vote.

They think if the polls show Restore have no chance then people won't vote for them. The tried the same with Brexit, and look how that went.

Who's "they"? Pollsters secretely supporting Reform UK, as it is leading in each and every poll about voting intention? 😆

I.e.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opinion-polls

6 hours ago, save the frogs said:

France's equivalent may be Marine Le Pen (?).

She was viciously attacked, but now she is winning in the polls.

She is anti-globalist polices, basically against the EU Belgium leader whatsherface.

But they may not allow her to win.

This guy is from UK. He thinks if she wins in France, it may affect other EU countries with similar leaders emerging. This guy thinks EU if fed up of global policies and may shift to the right.

It's just one guy's opinion. But I will keep an eye on Marine Le Pen.

She may well win the election but your claims are BS.

The first politicians to be convicted and banned before her, for exactly the same offense, were from a party allied with Macron.

She also dropped her previous "Frexit" stance long time ago, after her failure at the 2017 election.

8 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Polls these days are designed to influence the way people vote, not to predict the way people will vote.

They think if the polls show Restore have no chance then people won't vote for them. The tried the same with Brexit, and look how that went.

So polls asking about people's voting intentions are biased? Then you shouldn't have any trouble identifying the errors in the methodologies employed by the various research companies. I'm sure that YouGov, etc will be delighted to learn of the mistakes which are making.

Reform will win the next election but it'll be more of the same (unfortunately).

Everything is STILL a publicity stunt for reform

MIRI AF

JUL 07, 2026

‘Everything is a publicity stunt for Reform‘ was the title of one of my September 2025 articles, in which I referred to the fact that a large number of high-profile news items at the current time are, effectively, nothing more than confected publicity stunts for Reform, the UK political party tipped to win the next General Election.

I’ve covered at length the link between the Lucy Connolly state psyop, and Reform (Connolly being the guest of honour at Reform’s last party conference), and have also outlined how the threat of Digital ID (DiD) is being amplified and exaggerated in order to galvanise support for the anti-DiD Reform.

In September 2025, I wrote:

“[W]hen Starmer is finally ousted from power and a snap General Election is called (which will happen in 2026, according to eerily accurate predictive programming vehicle, Years and Years), the promoted, amplified “truthers” will all say:

“Look, I don’t like him any more than you do, but we have to vote for Farage to keep out digital ID! Nothing else matters, life as we know it will be over for good if this evil scheme comes in, so we must put our differences aside and all unite behind Nigel!”

---

That has become an even more likely eventuality since Starmer has now been ousted from power to be replaced by Andy Burnham, and it has been circulating recently that “Andy Burnham is quietly preparing to enforce strict new VPN restrictions to stop teenagers bypassing his under-16 social media ban... To enforce this, the state will be forced to ban, monitor, or require a mandatory Digital ID check for every single VPN user in the United Kingdom. They are literally building a state-controlled internet firewall, copying the exact digital prison models used by China and North Korea.”.

This, of course, creates a golden opportunity for Farage to ride in as the saviour, promising that, if he is Prime Minister, he will protect our rights to internet privacy, and such a promise will enormously inflate his electoral chances, for obvious reasons.

As of today, Farage has just staged yet another contrived publicity stunt to further promote Reform and boost his electoral chances - as well as making a snap General Election (GE) even more likely - by announcing that he intends to stand down as Clacton MP, in order to trigger a by-election, in which he will re-stand.

(Note the two Union Jacks behind him, not just one, as he makes this statement denoting a “double-cross” - wink, wink, nudge, nudge, etc.)

A sane person might be tempted to think, “eh? He’s standing down in order to re-stand? Isn’t that a bit risky?”

The point is that it isn’t.

Farage won by an enormous margin in the last GE, taking nearly half of all votes, and beating his closest rival (the Conservative candidate) by more than 8,000 votes. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrat and Green candidates did so badly, they didn’t even get their deposits back.

Farage is untouchable in Clacton, and he knows it. Hence, the purpose of calling a by-election is to draw huge national (and likely international) attention to the fact that he is so popular, that he can resign and re-stand and still win his seat back (potentially with an even more staggering majority than before), because that is just how much the people love him.

He is cleverly framing this as a contest of “the people versus the establishment“, playing on the idea he has relentlessly exploited, that he, the privately educated, multi-millionaire, ex-financier, is anti-establishment, and that “they” are threatened by him.

Needless to say, this is all - as Heritage party leader, David Kurten, put it - “clown show theatre”.

It’s Punch ‘n’ Judy politics (all high-level, high-profile politics is). A staged show-fight between Farage and his club buddies to propel him to even more popularity and power, so he can win the next GE, which is the desired result for “them”, for reasons I’ve explored before: https://miriaf.co.uk/after-years-and-years-of-panto-politics/.

In this latest stunt, the top PR gurus behind Farage have very cleverly underlined his credentials as a protective family man, by promoting the idea that his daughter’s privacy has been threatened by the evil establishment, and that this is the last straw for man of the people, Nige:

“I will not tolerate intimidation of my family,” he fumed.

The idea that he’s risking it all by triggering a by-election out of protective paternal ire will play very well with voters, and help to ensure his roaring success.

So will his comments - especially for conservative Clacton - about the importance of competence in business, and the ability to create wealth and employment.

If Farage therefore comfortably wins this election, and it’s highly likely he will, it will put even more pressure on Labour to call a General Election and put Andy Burnham formally to the test.

Burnham has already been busy making himself unpopular, as discussed earlier, and there is plenty of fear mongering about all the terrible things he would do as Prime Minister, so I believe he would have no chance against Farage. This would be especially so if there were a few convenient and high-profile “Muslim terror attacks”, or other examples of immigrant crime, in the run-up to the election.

The whole thing is a confected soap opera, replete with plenty of plot twists and edge-of-your-seat moments - Farage intentionally teased audiences with strong hints he was going to step down from public life entirely... before clarifying he was actually going to do the exact opposite. It’s to keep us hooked on the action - and to manufacture our consent for the impending Reform government.

The establishment knows that faith and trust in it is at an all-time low following the covid fiasco, so, in order to re-engage apathetic and distrustful voters, and gain their consent for the next desired administration (Reform), that administration has to be styled as “anti-establishment”. It’s the same playbook as Donald Trump, so we can expect the same onslaught of staged fakery to surround Farage as we saw with Trump, as we get closer and closer to the elections (Clacton and then the GE).

David Kurten called it clown show theatre, and Plato made a similar pronouncement, roughly 2,500 years ago.

In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato illustrated how human perception is often limited to mere illusions - puppets and shadows on the cave walls - and that true knowledge and wisdom requires questioning what we perceive as reality, and accepting that it is, in many cases, not real, but just a manipulated show.

To see the truth, he advised, we must unshackle ourselves from the chains keeping us trapped in the cave, disengage from the distracting theatre, and go outside into the real world.

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On Restore/Lowe:

To reiterate, Restore is not actually a political party (it's limited company with one shareholder (Lowe), and may never be one, but such is the limited public understanding of how political and electoral processes actually work (and this understanding is kept limited on purpose), few of Restore's members seem to know or care.

What they care about is that they feel part of a movement that speaks to them and reflects their concerns, because - just as Years and Years appears to have been scripted by a cultural Marxist PR agency - Lowe's Restore is deftly designed to appeal to every concern and prejudice the hard right (as distinct from the centre right, or just 'right') possesses.

Most of the right-wing has spent many years demonstrating that they are not in fact evil unreconstructed racists who want to send everyone who is not 100% white British back "home", but Restore is emboldening a small but very vocal group of people who do.

Whilst "extreme" ideas as reflected by Restore may gather a lot of traction on Twitter, they have little appeal in the real world or, crucially, at the ballot box. As such, a "hard right" party such as Restore (if indeed it ever does become a party) would never be elected.

The purpose of Restore, therefore, seems to be two-fold - one, to neutralise Advance UK, a genuine right-wing party with sensible policies on immigration and culture, by replacing it with a grotesque caricature of a "right-wing" party that will never gain meaningful mass appeal in the way that Advance could have (and that completely lacks the proper structure and democratic accountability that Advance possesses).

This is not a formal "endorsement" of Advance, by the way. I'm not a member of the party and don't agree with them on everything. Yet I can recognise a properly structured political party when I see one, and it's important to highlight that's what it is: a real, functioning political party, capable of standing candidates and doing all the other things political parties are formulated to do.

Restore, by sharp comparison, is not, and may not ever be, even if it gains Electoral Commission registration.

Secondly, the purpose of Restore clearly appears to be to make Reform look far more moderate (and thus far more electable), by hoovering up all its "fringe extremists" who so damage its credibility to the wider voter base. The last thing Nigel Farage wants to be seen as is the poster-boy for "far-right extremists", as that's the death knell to political credibility, and he made that clear in a recent speech.

Farage needs to present as moderate to get into power. As and when he achieves that, then all his "far-right extremism" can emerge, as depicted in Years and Years. It's the predictable political pantomime of presenting one way to get votes, then revealing one's true colours once in power.

This will then be used to "prove" that all right-wingers are the same. Whether they overtly present as "hard right", like Rupert Lowe and Restore, or pretend to be more moderate, like Farage and Reform, once they're in power, they all behave the same way - as virulent racist, misogynist, transphobic mass murderers.

We saw it in The Handmaid's Tale (a seemingly moderate, populist right-wing faction mutate into monsters once they have power).

We saw it in Years and Years ("people's politician" Viv Rook, who even dances along to pop songs in her election campaign, reveals herself as the vicious crook she really is once in power).

We will see it in our own culture, once Reform is elected to government (and likely in the US, too, under Vance).

It's all being deftly directed from behind the scenes in exactly the same way TV productions are, and we can discern the scripted soap opera nature of all this posturing political theatre by the fact that we have so many recurring characters.

Who's now publicly championing Rupert Lowe? Oh look, it's Lucy Connolly, the high-profile "political martyr" who wanted to burn immigrants to death.

Which journalist is eagerly promoting Restore? Why, it's Dan Wootton, the same hack who was one of only two reporters Connolly agreed to speak to in her immediate "release" from prison.

Who submitted a petition to parliament concerning Connolly and took her and husband Ray into Westminster to pose for pics? Oh, no kidding, it's Rupert Lowe!

See what I mean? It's just one big - or quite small, actually - contrived club, where the same names come up again and again, all playing pantomime characters and delivering scripted soap opera responses to keep the audience hooked - and crucially, neutralised in the real world.

High-profile current events and well-known people aren't "real", they're actors playing parts and reading from scripts, controlled by an intricate network of hidden hands.

Restore and Rupert Lowe aren't ultimately any more "real" than Vivienne Rook and her Four Star Party (so named because of her relatable everywoman tendency to swear) in Years and Years. They're there for the same reasons: To manage the mass mind. To engage in predictive programming. That's what soap operas do.

Yet in recognising this, there is no reason to feel hopeless. On the contrary: just as we can distinguish between Years and Years and real life, we should be able to distinguish between high-profile pantomime "political movements" and real ones, too.

T

here are real, authentic people trying to make a difference in politics, often on the local level, so they get little or no mainstream press attention, and typically have a smattering of followers on social media.

I've written about my own forays into local politics before, having stood both as an independent candidate, and for the anti-lockdown Freedom Alliance party, in local (council) elections, several times from 2021. I didn't come close to getting elected, but it was a worthwhile experience, in terms of learning how the political and electoral processes work - since, as I alluded to earlier, most people don't know, and politicians ruthlessly play on this - as well as in platforming an anti-lockdown, pro-freedom message to a wider, real-world audience.

As has been decried about the freedom movement many times, it mainly exists online, and this is probably its fatal flaw, as "they" completely control the digital space (more so than ever since the advent of the deeply Orwellian Online Safety Act, and its equivalents around the world).

The real world is our domain - that's why they're so desperate to keep us out of it, by having us all working from home, socialising online, and - if they get their way - fully surrendering our 'reality privilege', existing merely as avatars in the metaverse.

They want us all bickering online, drawn in by the endless dopamine-spiking drama of the digital panto: the addictive, fully interactive social media soap opera that is high-profile politics.

'Restore', therefore, is a digital project for a digital age (see how sharply Rupert Lowe's behaviour as an MP in parliament contrasts with his performative persona online), which - even if it does achieve full registration with the EC - will never really exist in the real world in a meaningful way.

You, however, can. We all can. Of course, there are many ways to do this, but one option worth currently considering is engaging in the local elections, coming up in May. Local elections are usually largely ignored, with typical turnouts hovering around 30% - or much lower in some areas - and they generally generate little press attention, but this year's are likely to attract significantly higher engagement, because Keir Starmer tried to cancel them. A lot of eyes will therefore be on them, and that presents a vital opportunity to get a message out. I don't merely mean voting in them, but standing yourself.

To stand in the local elections, you don't need any special qualifications, money, or to be a member of a political party. You just need to live, work, or own property in the borough in which you wish to stand. Then, you download a form from the council website, fill it in, hand it in at the council offices, and voila, you're on the ballot paper. That's it, that's all there is to it.

Whether you then canvass and campaign - or even vote - is entirely up to you, but if you do decide to campaign, it's a very useful way of engaging local people in the real world on issues you might not otherwise have found a way to discuss with them.

When you tell people you're "standing for the council" they will often open to you about issues they might otherwise not have disclosed, perhaps including family experience with vaccine injury, or issues of local corruption.

You can also disseminate leaflets saying, more or less, whatever you like, which are given extra gravitas in many people's eyes when the sentiments are accredited to a political candidate, rather than a random person on the internet (which, indeed, is precisely why Rupert Lowe is presenting his opinions as coming from a political party rather than simply a "movement" - because he knows this imbues his statements with much more power).

You can either stand as an independent, not affiliated with any party, or you can join one of the many legitimate smaller pro-freedom parties, of which there are several (Heritage, Freedom Alliance, and ADF, to name but a few). Joining a party may be preferable for first-time candidates, as parties can give you vital extra support in guiding you through the process and helping you to campaign. If you find a party that interests you, just contact them and let them know you'd like to know more: they will invariably be thrilled to hear from you, as smaller parties inevitably don't attract a fraction of the support the "big boys" do.

Now, I know there are vast swathes of the freedom movement who believe voting is rigged and/or pointless and that "you can't vote your way out of tyranny", with which I agree. I suggest political engagement, at the local level particularly, not because it will make a difference to any Grand Plans the overlords may have on the national and international level (it won't, even if you get elected, which you almost certainly won't).

Rather, I suggest it because it is a real-world way of platforming pro-freedom ideas that many in your local community may not have heard before; because it breaks the digital stranglehold on alternative ideas by getting them off the internet and into reality; and because it does actually really rattle the establishment.

The uni-party considers local politics, like national politics, to be a closed shop that they control, which is why they intentionally don't educate the masses about how local politics works, and everyone leaves their government school after fourteen years completely clueless about how to get directly politically active themselves - as in, actually standing as a candidate, not just voting for one. People are left with the impression that only special, qualified people can be candidates, and that it's difficult or impossible for ordinary people to get involved.

The reality is that pretty much anybody can enter politics and put themselves down as a candidate - and when "anybodies" do do this, when ordinary people infiltrate the establishment's little (uni) party - they are absolutely furious. This is because they know there's a chance - and it may often be small, but it's there - that one of these impertinent outsiders could actually oust them from their position (even if not by getting directly elected, an unanticipated outsider can certainly change the outcome of an election by taking votes away from a leading candidate).

I've been to several electoral counts now, where votes are totted up after the polling booths have closed (candidates are invited to supervise these counts to ensure no skulduggery goes on), and the open air of brazen hostility towards independent or small party candidates from the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and Greens is palpable.

So, the takeaway from all this is, don't mistake soap operas for reality, whether they're presented via the TV or Twitter, but also, don't lose hope: remember that, just because soap operas are fake, doesn't mean everything is. The real world is just that, and that's the one environment "they" can't control with their algorithms, bot farms, and shadow bans.

Edited July 14Jul 14 by Tourist2

Sorry lads, just testing your attention spans : )

Edited July 14Jul 14 by Tourist2

1 hour ago, candide said:

Oh! A conspiracy theory! 😃

Hardly a conspiracy theory to suggest that people may be influenced by what they see and hear, day in, day out , It's the basis of the multi billion dollar advertising industry, The fact that you didn't know about it , shows just how effective they are

1 hour ago, candide said:

Who's "they"? Pollsters secretely supporting Reform UK, as it is leading in each and every poll about voting intention? 😆

I.e.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opinion-polls

I never said it was unique to any particular party. I'm sure they are all at it ,

10 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

yes !

oh by the way, Burnhams worth around 2.5 million !!! Where did all that come from ? No wonder you chose not to answer

I thought Burnham would have more wonga stashed than Rayner, guess her child benefits trumped his mayoral back handers

I am no fan of Burnham and dislike the man, but you are presenting the extreme end of an estimate that says he could be worth anywhere from £1 million to 2.5 million . He spent 25 years working with most years as a cabinet member or mayor. He saved his income. An explanation is found here. https://londonlovesbusiness.com/how-rich-is-andy-burnham-the-former-mayors-fortune-revealed/

9 hours ago, Purdey said:

I don't believe these right wing parties are that sincere.

Reform UK Ltd is funded by Russia, Restore Britain is bought and paid for by an American billionaire, GB News is owned by a hedge fund in Dubai, and the Daily Mail’s registered in Bermuda... Hardly Patriots.

I think you'll find that every party of any colour or flavour is funded by rich people somewhere or organisations like Trade Unions and it has nothing to do with sincerity.

4 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

From Gemini:

Query:

What is the most popular male name given to newborns in the UK in 2026?

Answer:
Muhammad is the most popular male name given to newborns in the UK.

According to the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and top naming registries like BabyCentre UK, Muhammad has firmly held the number one spot.

Yep, and the odious toad Rupert Lowe posted this odious little slanted stat with an odious little commentary about "ending the Islamification of England."

Of course the stat does NOT mention that 90% of Muslim boys are usually called Mohammad / Muhammad as their first name and instead go by their middle name which is more of an unique name.

Ten children are born. Two are Muslim boys called Muhammad. The other eight are Christian children and are called Noah, James, Eric, Jonny etc.

The thing is most people with any intelligence can see through this odious grand standing. Sadly many of his followers don't.

If only all white families called their children Noah or Leo or Luca or Theo then Muhammad would be no where the most popular name.

3 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

I never said it was unique to any particular party. I'm sure they are all at it ,

3 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

I never said it was unique to any particular party. I'm sure they are all at it

It doesn't make sense. If Labour or Tories were rigging polls, they wouldn't put Reform UK at the top. All the recent polls you complained about show Reform UK at the top of voters' intentions.

Edited July 14Jul 14 by candide

4 hours ago, rasg said:

I think you'll find that every party of any colour or flavour is funded by rich people somewhere or organisations like Trade Unions and it has nothing to do with sincerity.

Political parties are in hock to the central banks who are INDEPENDENT and set monetary policy (Bank of England got rid of Liz Truss). Monetary policy is THE most important policy. No money, no honey. These guys are unelected.
There are also industry lobby groups (Financial Industrial Complex (remember bank bailouts?) ,Miliatry Industrial Complex, & Big Tech Industrial Complex) which politicians are very obviously subservient to (remember Mandelson telling Epstein to 'mildly threaten' ex yookay chancellor alastair darling?). Also Starmer saying he prefers Davos (WEF) to westminster?

This is why Lowe or anyone else would be powerless to change anything even if elected as PM.
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Lowe's point is that decisions were obvs made at a level above government to change the demographics of white countries irreversibly. Some people decided to water down and divide to conquer.
It's not a coincidence that the same thing is that happening in all trad white countries despite the majority of voters being against it (eg. Brexit).

Plan for EU/UK/Aus?Can etc is to stir up internal strife so Big Tech can move in and impose a digital prison with programmmable money for 'sAfeTy'

Once you realise that almost ALL modern inventions came from people from western Europe you'd realise why, for our descendents this watering down of our ethnicity with lower IQ races is such a tragedy.

Note that Israel is the only country allowed to be a (jew only) ethnic state.
.

Edited July 14Jul 14 by Tourist2

11 hours ago, RayC said:

So polls asking about people's voting intentions are biased? Then you shouldn't have any trouble identifying the errors in the methodologies employed by the various research companies. I'm sure that YouGov, etc will be delighted to learn of the mistakes which are making.

Of course - the way questions are asked can influence the answer. I thought you'd be aware of that but since I may have over-estimated you here is some reading to get you started.

Poll explainer: The way a question is asked can have a major effect on the way it’s answered | CNN Politics

See also leading questions, loaded questions, false framing, forced choice options, acquiesce bias and question order/bias.

I can take questions re. your assignment later today.

5 hours ago, Tourist2 said:

Once you realise that almost ALL modern inventions came from people from western Europe you'd realise why, for our descendents this watering down of our ethnicity with lower IQ races is such a tragedy.

Note that Israel is the only country allowed to be a (jew only) ethnic state.

Yeah, no sorry I'm not on board with that.

But those who completely dismiss immigration as a not being a problem are not in touch with reality either.

This guy does a fairly good job of explaining the problem. There was a massive influx of over 1 million migrants in EU in 2015. The problem is integrating such a large number of people from vastly different cultures into a local culture in a short period of time is next to impossible.

Immigration needs to be done a certain way, or it causes problems.

In fact, several EU countries like Italy seem to be admitting that they didn't handle immigration well and are changing their policies.

This is a pretty good breakdown by this guy here.

PS: Also, Canada is starting to reverse its immigration policies, probably because they have brought in enough immigrants to balance the population growth. They were down 100,000 people per year at one point as deaths were outnumbering births, so immigrants are needed to balance the numbers.

15 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

From Gemini:

Query:

What is the most popular male name given to newborns in the UK in 2026?

Answer:
Muhammad is the most popular male name given to newborns in the UK.

According to the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and top naming registries like BabyCentre UK, Muhammad has firmly held the number one spot.

Which part of British culture does that erase?

Can you even tell us what British culture is?

15 hours ago, RayC said:

What is going on here is that a nasty little bigot named Rupert Lowe is stirring up division and hatred in the UK (mainly England).

There are objective measures being used by some people to determine that the mass immigration has caused serious problems.

Gang violence, for instance, highly represented by certain immigrant groups has risen in Sweden, .... streets less safe ...

Do some research.

7 hours ago, candide said:

It doesn't make sense. If Labour or Tories were rigging polls, they wouldn't put Reform UK at the top.

unless they believe that doing so would alarm people that the "awful & racist" reform were close to winning and spark some sort of fear driven backlash

30 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

unless they believe that doing so would alarm people that the "awful & racist" reform were close to winning and spark some sort of fear driven backlash

Canada just reversed its immigration policy and I don't think anyone even saw it coming. There's no backlash or debates or riots in the streets.

It has to do with numbers. The numbers have to balance or immigrants become a burden on society -- especially underecuted unemployable immigrants who just leech off the welfare system etc ...

Rupert is the only one of the current crop of sniveling rancid detritus I would vote for the man is tirelessly keeping the rape gangs in the news.

Right now we need him as PM' and Tommy Robinson' as Home Secretary and Chomper' on the broom.

4 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Of course - the way questions are asked can influence the answer. I thought you'd be aware of that but since I may have over-estimated you here is some reading to get you started.

Poll explainer: The way a question is asked can have a major effect on the way it’s answered | CNN Politics

See also leading questions, loaded questions, false framing, forced choice options, acquiesce bias and question order/bias.

I can take questions re. your assignment later today.

Of course I'm aware that the way questions are asked can influence the answer, but the fact that a poll conducted in the US about the Mueller investigation displayed bias in the questions posed does not in any way, shape or form say anything about alleged bias in polls conducted in the UK about Restore's popularity: 'Obvious' doesn't come close as a descriptor. Must do better, Jonny.

The good news is that you can resit your 'Statistics' and 'Logic' exams as many times as you want.

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Of course - the way questions are asked can influence the answer. I thought you'd be aware of that but since I may have over-estimated you here is some reading to get you started.

Poll explainer: The way a question is asked can have a major effect on the way it’s answered | CNN Politics

See also leading questions, loaded questions, false framing, forced choice options, acquiesce bias and question order/bias.

I can take questions re. your assignment later today.

So with your expertise, can you tell us which questions were loaded and how, in the recent polls showing a Reform UK lead? 😂

For example this one, but you can pick another one if you like:

https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opinion-polls

Edited July 15Jul 15 by candide

7 hours ago, save the frogs said:

There are objective measures being used by some people to determine that the mass immigration has caused serious problems.

Gang violence, for instance, highly represented by certain immigrant groups has risen in Sweden, .... streets less safe ...

Do some research.

There can be little doubt that immigration can cause friction within some sections of the host community, but rather than seek constructive solutions, the likes of Lowe seek to exploit and enhance them thereby increasing the problems.

So take your own advice and 'do some research'.

7 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Which part of British culture does that erase?

Can you even tell us what British culture is?

Leftism is a mental illness.

14 minutes ago, RayC said:

There can be little doubt that immigration can cause friction within some sections of the host community, but rather than seek constructive solutions, the likes of Lowe seek to exploit and enhance them thereby increasing the problems.

So take your own advice and 'do some research'.

sending them back from whence they came is a very constructive solution. no research required

On 7/14/2026 at 5:42 AM, JonnyF said:

Stop gaslighting. 😄

Everyone can see what is happening.

Everyone?

See what?

Best regards,

Curious in Burnley

(where the last of the gaslights were replaced in 1958)

Edited July 15Jul 15 by NanLaew

2 hours ago, RayC said:

Of course I'm aware that the way questions are asked can influence the answer, but the fact that a poll conducted in the US about the Mueller investigation displayed bias in the questions posed does not in any way, shape or form say anything about alleged bias in polls conducted in the UK about Restore's popularity: 'Obvious' doesn't come close as a descriptor. Must do better, Jonny.

The good news is that you can resit your 'Statistics' and 'Logic' exams as many times as you want.

The good news is that Rupert Lowe and his team have drafted a very comprehensive deportation, which if put into practice would see a significant reduction in the number of illegals plaguing the UK and a consequential reduction of those attempting to enter illegally as a result

23 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

From Gemini:

Query:

What is the most popular male name given to newborns in the UK in 2026?

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Answer:
Muhammad is the most popular male name given to newborns in the UK.

According to the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and top naming registries like BabyCentre UK, Muhammad has firmly held the number one spot.

I was watching Jeremy Vine the other morning (don't ask me why), and apparently the least popular boys name in England this year is Andrew.

Proof, if proof was ever needed, that in little England, the sheep gene is as strong as the bigoted one.