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Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Scottish independence has been sold as a political ideal.
Our exclusive report reveals the reality: bankruptcy, currency chaos, and economic isolation.
When the official data is laid out, this is a price no Scot would want to pay: facts4eu.org/news/2026_oct_s…
Pls re-post !
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
A great rant from a friend:
“I don't know who's running the British newspapers at the moment, but I reckon somebody's accidentally given the editorial jobs to a bunch of fucking doomsday preppers.
Have you seen the absolute state of the news lately?
World War Three. Nuclear Armageddon. Russian cyberattacks. Chinese hackers. Emergency survival kits. How to prepare for the end of civilisation.
Every bloody newspaper seems to be running the same story.
You'd think Vladimir Putin had been spotted at Dover services with a tank and a packed lunch.
And apparently, the most important thing we can do to prepare for all this is go shopping.
Seriously.
We're being advised to stockpile food, water, torches, batteries and enough toilet roll to survive the collapse of Western civilisation.
Do they genuinely believe we're all going to read these articles, leap off the sofa and charge down to Asda like there's a fucking trolley dash on?
I reckon somebody's looked at the Christmas retail figures and thought, "How can we get these bastards to spend another two hundred quid?"
"Tell them the Russians are coming."
"Brilliant. We'll shift those seventeen pallets of corned beef we've had sitting in the warehouse since Easter."
And what exactly am I supposed to do with all these emergency supplies if there's a nuclear attack?
Imagine it.
You're sitting in your living room, minding your own business, when suddenly there's an enormous flash outside.
The windows explode. The roof comes off. There's a nuclear shockwave tearing through the city, flattening everything in its path.
And there you are, crawling across the kitchen floor, desperately trying to get the fucking tin opener out of the drawer.
"QUICK! SOMEBODY GET THE BEANS!"
What fucking difference are beans going to make?
You're about to be vaporised at several thousand degrees. I don't think the nutritional benefits of baked beans are going to be particularly relevant.
But the politicians are the funniest part of all this.
Angela Rayner was asked what she'd be stockpiling.
Sauvignon Blanc and mascara.
Sauvignon Blanc and fucking mascara!
I love that.
The world's coming to an end, millions could die, civilisation might collapse, but Angela's making sure she's got a decent bottle of white and her eyelashes done.
Then Andy Burnham comes along telling people not to stockpile alcohol because they need to keep a clear head.
Well, thank Christ we've got that sorted.
One politician's preparing for the apocalypse like she's going to an all-inclusive resort in Tenerife, and another's telling everybody to drink responsibly.
And apparently Andy's emergency supplies include Twiglets.
Fucking Twiglets.
I mean, at what point did the national security discussion turn into everybody comparing what they've brought to a children's birthday party?
We're supposedly facing the possibility of World War Three, and our political leaders are having a conversation that wouldn't sound out of place in the middle aisle of Aldi.
And then there's the cyberattack warnings.
Apparently, Russia or China could launch a massive cyberattack and bring down our communications, electricity supplies and essential services.
Right.
And what am I supposed to do about that?
Unplug the kettle?
Put the laptop in a biscuit tin?
I can just imagine some highly trained Russian cyberwarfare specialist sitting in Moscow, surrounded by millions of pounds' worth of sophisticated computer equipment.
"Comrade, we have penetrated the British national infrastructure."
"Excellent. Shut down their electricity."
"We cannot, sir."
"Why not?"
"Some bastard in Ellesmere Port has wrapped his Virgin Media router in fucking Bacofoil."
It's a good job Churchill isn't around to witness this.
"We shall fight them on the beaches. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall never surrender."
"Unless we've run out of Pot Noodles, in which case we're absolutely fucked."
What a fucking pantomime.”
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Predictions…
Nothingburger budget from Healey, whose incompetence is visible from space, and r-Andeh who doesn’t know why we’re “in hock to the bond market”.
In December, r-Andeh goes to the polls to get new mandate for big spending spree, sold to us as defence driven to ward off Putin and build infrastructure- because he can’t deliver what they want to under current fiscal rules. This will be a rouse.
Labour will win if they go this year (and lose if they go next year*). On the timeline where they win, they will - of course - then borrow even more and spend it all on welfaremaxxing for their client groups.
They then will crater the economy harder than anyone before them through even more retarded socialism. We then get net zero Miliband blackouts and Russian/Chinese/Iranian/North Korean AI driven cyber attacks on our grid and supermarkets/food supply chain. Iranian energy (oil refinery infra capacity lagged effect) and delayed Urea/Phosphorous fertiliser shortage via Hormuz = food inflation shock, so far not fully felt, landing too. Inflation broadly up. The least capable politicians of all time - a coalition like the Tories before them - will struggle to remain cohesive during this period and will split the party even further. This will cause leadership contests now they’ve popped their regicide cherry.
Bond crisis from massive tax receipt shortfall in Feb* (will push them into election in May if haven’t gone in 2026*) causes sterling to get nailed, driving inflation up even further as cost of goods coming into Britain get much dearer - and the reaction will be widespread civil unrest because the population is broadly at breaking point mentally and financially - credit card defaults and delinquencies up, even more job losses, unemployment up, and that will all combine to spark fresh GE risk, potentially as soon as next year. May, perhaps, after local elections. Almost certainly by 2028.
Only then —when the lethal combo of a bond crisis, an energy crisis, a food shortage crisis, a cost of living crisis on steroids, and Labour tax policy as the foreplay and AI decimating the labour market and tax base as the main event - all arriving one after the other or in some instances simultaneously —will the British people fully realize how doggedly and relentlessly fucked they have been by the Uniparty’s decrepit somnambulist Oxbridge PPE retards, since 1997. Then they will wake up. What they were promised hasn’t been delivered. What they believed was a lie. The new paradigm will force them to accept the 4th turning is upon them.
They will want something new.
Something radical.
Something optimistic.
They will vote accordingly.
EXCLUSIVE:
Andy Burnham must “take the knife” to public spending in the budget or risk a Liz Truss-style crisis that will “crater” the economy and the government’s popularity, an ally of the prime minister has warned
Andy Haldane, a former chief economist at the Bank of England, said he feared the government would deliver a “mañana budget” that deferred the difficult decisions on public spending and “doesn’t speak to the urgency of now”
In an interview with The Times, he said that Britain was “close to being taxed out and maxed out in terms of borrowing”. He spoke of concerns that the government was failing to grasp how “precarious” the fiscal position was
He said that the government needs to cut the size of the state and reduce taxes if it were to “unleash the animal spirits and generate growth”
Haldane warned Burnham that he cannot “vibe-code” his way to growth, and raised concerns about the gap between the government’s rhetoric and the reality. He said that the government was effectively deferring the “day of reckoning”
He also said that the decision to increase taxes on banks could show that the government lacked the courage to cut public spending. He said the move was “penny wise, pound foolish” and sent a broader economic message that if businesses make profits “the taxman cometh”
Haldane said that while Burnham had the potential to be a “great prime minister” who could serve two terms, the economy was his “blind spot”. He said that the fiscal situation facing Britain was “precarious”
“The penny has not yet fully dropped, including in Downing Street,” he said. “You see that in us having the highest borrowing costs in the G7, despite not having the highest debts and deficits.
“It’s the old Hemingway [Ernest Hemingway, the author] thing, isn’t it? How do you go bankrupt? First slowly, then very quickly. The biggest risk to Andy not transforming Britain, to not serving two terms, to not being seen in the history books as a great prime minister, is not political risk.
“It’s not those who sit behind him. It’s probably not even those who sit opposite him in Westminster. Keir [Starmer] lost the dressing room. Andy’s biggest risk is that he loses the dealing room. And then that’s an even more painful way to go, as Liz Truss would tell you.”
Andy Haldane: PM risks Truss-style crisis if he dodges tough choices
thetimes.com/article/9b12c00…
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Vote SDP, get SDP.
No nonsense, just proper politics from proper people who like to see the things that matter work properly.
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
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Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
The Lanyard Class loathe the working class. They would rather defend migrants than the great British public. @Iromg Mike Graham.
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Petition: Do not extend the BBC licence fee to streaming services
There are widespread reports that the Government is considering extending the BBC licence fee to include subscribers of streaming services that are not owned or run by the BBC.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Brilliant analysis of the Liberal "I am a good person" delusion that needs to be confronted for what it truly is, support of evil.
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
There is a species of ant that approaches the edge of another colony, kills a single worker, and then takes on the dead ant’s scent.
For ants, scent is everything. Wearing that scent, the intruder walks in with no resistance. The workers pass by without concern.
The intruder moves inward, toward the queen, then It sprays the queen with a different scent that makes the workers turn on her. Then they surround her and kill her.
The intruder does not need to fight anyone. The colony does the work itself.
Once the queen is gone, the intruder reproduces. The true invader is no longer an intruder. It is the future.
This is how ideological takeover works.
A destructive foreign ideology takes the scent of familiar ideas and walks in as if it belongs.
It speaks the native vocabulary, justice, equality, compassion, rights, progress. It uses these words and quietly changes what they point to.
Then it moves inward.
It alters how foundations are perceived. Responsibility is made to smell like cruelty, law like oppression, borders like hatred, tradition like danger, history like guilt.
At that point, the civilization turns on itself.
Its courts, universities, churches, media, and bureaucracies begin treating their own foundations as threats. They believe they are defending the system.
They are enforcing what now smells legitimate. They do not see the intruder because it sounds exactly like them.
And when the founding principles are finally removed, discredited, dismantled, erased, the foreign ideology does not need to conquer anything. It inherits what is left.
The queen is gone. The colony is no longer itself.
The most effective conquest is the one that convinces a society that its own foundations are the enemy, and that killing them is an act of virtue.
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
It's been ten years now, and the insults still continue on a daily basis.
Every time they say the vote shouldn't count. That you didn't know what you were doing. That you didn't know what you voted for. That you were tricked. Lied to. Deceived. That you're just a racist. Just an ignorant poorly educated bigot.
Every comment is to belittle you. To delegitimise you. To suggest that your opinions should be worth less than theirs.
They don't care what you think. They don't want you to voice your opinion. They want you to be quiet as their opinions are worth more than yours. Their opinions are valid as they hold them and they're better than you.
They're hoping you'll accept this. They're hoping you're dead.
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
In the UK civil service is larger now than ever before. It’s almost impossible to be sacked with employees being 12 times more likely to die on the job.
They take more sick days and have some unbelievable perks : 🧵
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
If you want to understand how human beings respond to ancestry and ethnic identification, I recommend reading chapter one of David Lammy’s "Tribes".
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Where do you stand on rejoining the EU, and has it changed since the referendum?
Please repost for wider engagement.
2%Voted Leave now Remain
83%Voted Leave still Leave
10%Voted Remain now Leave
5%Voted Remain still Remain
5,048 votes • Final results Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
A thread in three parts on matters of the day.
I am a civic nationalist for the obvious reason that I am an immigrant to Britain, and for a less obvious one: I have a stake in the settlement working. The problem is that that does not mean civic nationalism has the better of the argument. In fact, it has the worse if you look at the matter honestly. The normal form of national self-belief, here and elsewhere, China, India, nearly everywhere, is that a people precedes the creed.
Law, Crown, and Parliament sit on top of that but they do not replace it. Civic nationalism is a classic ‘big ask’ because it wants loyalty to institutions and norms that are in principle detachable from the people who made them. Under certain circumstances individuals can live that. It is still the thinner account, and the less usual one.
What has soured it in Britain is not the theory, it is that the ‘certain circumstances’ have been destroyed by the dishonest dealing of the people who administered it, are now doubling down on it, and the loss of trust that followed from that dishonesty. Trust is the quality civic nationalism needs above any other, because it has less else to rest on.
Let me illustrate with a personal anecdote: I was naturalised in 2006, in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, after having passed the even then absurd ‘Life in the UK’ test. The place has a thousand years as a royal seat but the welcome we received at the official ceremony started with the borough, an administrative unit dating from the 1970s.
No history presented in that room was older than I was. We did not sing the anthem; a CD was played. There was no prayer, although there was a modest flag. I think everyone in that room was a little disappointed. You know, if people move to your country and build a life there it’s OK to say ‘this is who we are, act like it’. That’s respectful, not demeaning.
Strong civic nationalists exist. I am one, and I know others. Civic nationalism as practised by the British state is something else. It’s ersatz and gross, it reeks of weakness and an inexplicable ignorance of the thing being joined which is great and should be celebrated, which immigrants expect and respect, for the most part.
That brings me to the current hullabaloo which has been amplified by the insipid conference speeches (and panels) at the latest Tory party conference on a common culture.
The argument that England and Englishness that is not an ethnicity test is not being heard in a vacuum, it is being reckoned against a frankly dismal track record--of the same people making these claims. The messages do not land, even in good faith, because the faith has already been spent. 1/3
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Foreign national students debt in the UK has gone from
£93 million to £1.21 billion in under 10 years.
When i saw that i knew i had to break down the data by nationality: 🧵
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Some of the most insane figures you’ll read this year. Simply put, you cannot accurately understand British life, or British politics, if you aren’t aware of them. I say this as someone who’s descended from immigrants btw:
‘From June 2021 to June 2025 approximately 4 million migrants of various types came to Britain. According to the University of Oxford’s Migration Observatory, more people moved to Britain in those four years than the entire population of Wales. To give this some grounding in our country’s deep and ancient history, the Welsh are the ethnic group most closely descended from the original Brythonic inhabitants of the British Isles. They are now outnumbered by migrants who arrived in just those four years.
The incomprehensible scale of this migration is comparable in size to England’s entire 17th century population. To call these figures incomprehensible is not rhetorical flourish; people quite literally don’t understand the numbers. Research from the thinktank Onward published in 2024 found that voters believed that about 70,000 migrants had entered England in the preceding year. Net migration in 2023 had in fact been 672,000.
Between 2001 and 2020 the size of Britain’s foreign-born population doubled.
By 2025 one in 30 people living in Britain had arrived as a migrant in the previous four years under the Tory government. Strikingly, 10% of all residents of England do not identify with any UK national identity.
Between 1975 and 2025 the white British population of London declined from 85% to 37%… While legal migration soared, Britain’s southern coast was beset by illegal immigration in the small boat crisis.
Between January and April 2025 more than 10,000 illegal immigrants arrived. This is about as many men of fighting age as were in William the Conqueror’s army at the Battle of Hastings. In 2022 45,000 illegal migrants came ashore in Britain in small boats. This is a larger group of men than the Roman Army that conquered Britain in 43 AD.
These changes are without precedent in the entirety of English history. They are not incidental migrations, they will reconfigure the country forever.
This is a lengthy quote from @BenBarryJones’ Island of Strangers.
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
Jacob Rees-Mogg sounding like he’s been given an absurd prompt on a comedy panel show.
‘You have one minute to justify illegal migration in conservative terms. The clock starts now!’
JRM: 'I admire economic migrancy'
Be sure to catch up now on yesterday's Daily T where @CamillaTominey and @timothy_stanley are joined by @Jacob_Rees_Mogg at the Conservative Party Conference to discuss his viral interview with Tucker Carlson, uniting the Right and the Greens' 'Zionism is racism' motion
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Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
@WilliamClouston and I recently discussed how refusing to manage immigration is a process of demoralisation. Governing for ‘the global good’ is not morally superior. It’s a vanity for people who have forgotten what democracy is.
A government that serves in the national interest is the only way forward for our country. Nothing - from the economy to the border to how we respond to AI - will improve until we have such a government.
And it will feel strange. Because we haven't had one in decades.
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
At the dawn of globalisation, around 2000, I believed that markets, in their ceaseless search for efficiency, were capable of driving global prosperity. I worked for years for a highly professional global oil company. It was imperfect, of course, but run by clever people who ceaselessly searched for better ways of doing things. I felt the temptation to echo the view of my colleagues that governments should cushion the impact of change, but as far as possible get out of the way and let globalist efficiency deliver global prosperity.
I still believe that private business, under competitive pressure, will outperform state enterprises. However, private businesses owe no allegiance to any political entity. They guarantee no particular citizen’s interest. And that, in an age of fragile supply chains, is a challenge to our national economic model.
2008 was the first big eye-opener for me. When the globalised banks failed, it was the state that had to step in and bail them out, because some banking is a vital utility in the economy. That was the first cry in the night. Global supply chains work brilliantly, and then fail suddenly. Often, they fail with the force of an economic heart attack to the nation.
We saw it again in 2020, as Covid put enormous strain on global vaccine supply chains, and caused a race to hoard vaccines within borders. Those with the best pharma skills got the vaccines first. Covid was bad, but the next pandemic could be 10x worse.
Right now, we see it in the fuel supply system. Private oil operators, behaving perfectly rationally from their point of view, have reduced 9 UK oil refineries twenty years ago, to 4 now. As a result, the UK has gone from producing 85% of our diesel needs in 2000, to only 45% today. It is diesel which fuels our farms, factories, HGVs etc, and acts as the real life blood of our economy. The Straits of Hormuz constriction, and damage to Russian and Ukrainian oil refineries, have made global supply of diesel very short : and left the Uk particularly exposed.
What made global sense for private oil companies does not make sense for the British economy when global supply chains stumble.
In 2000, at the dawn of globalisation, the world basked in a unipolar moment, a Pax Americana which policed global supply chains. In 2026, history is back - and none of this can be relied upon.
So strategic national needs, once again, have become the legitimate interest of government. Global supply chains are efficient : but national supplies are reliable.
That is why all political parties need to begin to think hard, once again, about how genuinely strategic industries can be maintained onshore. The future must be a world of global markets where there is wide diversity and abundance of supply, but more government-assured ownership of truly strategic industries. This will carry an efficiency cost. We can mitigate that cost if we change the British habits of a lifetime and run national industries well, of course, but insurance is never free.
Market fundamentalism is dying. Lumpen state socialism died in the 20th century. Pragmatic, strategic, risk-based thinking and industrial policy are lessons we must learn again. And no political party in the Uk - except the tiny SDP - has really grasped this.
Tom Foster SDP 🏴🇬🇧 Afuera! retweeted
SDP interim leader, @ross_baglin, tells GBTT they would always prioritise the defence of Britain first.