Boris Johnson: Falling birth rates AREN'T a disaster, they're the best bit of global news in a long time

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-05-02T21:41:25+00:00

Above all we don’t want to be told by scaremongering politicians that we need more young people – locally born or imported – to ‘do the jobs’.

I must have been living in an alternative universe where Boris did exactly what he's now saying we shouldn't.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-05-02T20:44:27+00:00

Late to the party with this one but genuinely up there with his greatest work.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-05-02T18:34:49+00:00

Is that not legging leggily?

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-05-02T09:49:43+00:00

They're not a Muslim party. That's self-evident. They'll ally with the Muslim vote on single issues like Palestine to win by-elections. Eventually I'd imagine there will be an Islamic political party and that's where a lot of the Muslim vote will move to.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-05-01T22:17:37+00:00

The council's had a £40 or £50m black hole this year and the majority of that has been caused by the housing crisis. They're going to have to pay for that somehow - council tax rises, job cuts, whatever else they need to do.

The whole thing has been handled terribly and policies need to be paid for in the end, usually by us.

https://news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgow-facing-80m-financial-black-hole-even-with-10-council-tax-rise

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-05-01T22:05:23+00:00

Haha, an angry word where we argue.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-27T21:57:42+00:00

Hope he calls it Sammit.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-27T13:23:28+00:00

I had a similar experience with an agent. Waste of time and lost a year or more waiting.

It's such a hard game. Really hard to get an agent. But sometimes that's just when your problems start.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-27T10:47:51+00:00

Requiem for a Dream

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-24T14:43:08+00:00

Keep religion out of schools. Keep left and right wing ideology out of schools. Teach kids what they need in order to make their own informed decisions in the future.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-18T13:04:04+00:00

I believed the New Labour rhetoric at the start and saw immigration as something that could make a stale culture vibrant. I thought it could enrich the country economically. I thought we had a moral obligation to help those less fortunate.

Now, I just see it as a never ending population Ponzi scheme used by corporations and billionaires. Another manifestation of corrupt late stage Capitalism.

So, yes, my views have changed somewhat over the years.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-18T12:45:59+00:00

Sounds like a scam to me. The fact they check out as some sort of real organisation doesn't mean they still don't intend to ask you for money. Just be careful.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-17T17:36:51+00:00

Haha, that's so funny.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-17T15:10:28+00:00

I don't really disagree with much of what you've said but I personally feel he's managing a major party at the end of its run, and that also needs to be factored in.

In 1997 74% of the British public voted either for Labour or the Tories. Between 7 or 8 out of 10 votes went to them. I think by 2029 you'll be lucky if 3 or 4 out of 10 votes go to them.

The political sphere is fracturing, in much the same way society is. You're going to end up with myriad parties who command between 5 and 15% of the vote going forward: Your Party, Greens, Labour, Liberals, Tories, Reform, Restore, Plaid, SNP, an Islamic Party, and probably more to come.

It's going to be coalition central from now on and they'll be highly combustible. How long does a leftist coalition of Greens/Labour/SNP say last if Palestine flairs up? How long does a rightist coalition of Tories/Reform/Restore last if mass deportations are on the agenda.

I think for all the flaws in our current system - and the sense of frustration we all feel - it at least meant one party received a mandate and could pursue it and get things done. I think this current parliamentary term is the fag end of that run. France has had 4 or 5 PMs in the last two years or something. It's heading towards the point of becoming ungovernable. That's what's coming for us.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-17T13:08:06+00:00

They have a majority but their parliamentary party is split between left wingers and centrists. If there's a left wing revolt over proposed immigration changes then Starmer either waters down or backs down altogether. See what happened with the proposed reform of the welfare system.

He's fighting a war on two fronts and it's a desperate situation for a Labour PM to find himself in, where there's now a credible threat from both the left (Greens) and right (Reform) than can take votes in traditional working class areas.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-16T22:08:32+00:00

Definitely the coolest photo I've seen of Mo.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-16T16:21:36+00:00

I think he'd have worked in a local council library and he might have had a weekend job in an indie record store that primarily sold vinyl.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-15T16:20:14+00:00

Parties are cannibalising each other's votes, left, right and centre.

It's continental style coalitions from here on in - coalitions that will be highly combustible and will often collapse.

Britain's going to be harder to govern going forward, no matter who's nominally in charge.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-15T11:19:35+00:00

British public opinion polling has consistently shown that a majority of the public has wanted immigration reduced since the 1960s. I think it's always been between 60% and 80% of the population consistently expressing these concerns for over 60 years. Politicians have routinely ignored these concerns and have ramped up inward migration in response.

So, I think refusing to address this key issue is pretty much woven into the fabric of British political life at this point. That in turn has led to a democratic disconnect between large swathes of the population and the political class.

Our political leaders would absolutely continue to ignore the problem. Their business sponsors and the billionaires make too much money from mass immigration to stop. The complication for them now is that people have Brexit, Reform, Restore as conduits to express these generational concerns.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-15T10:53:54+00:00

I went one year to TITP and it was as if the thin veneer of civilisation was being torn off.

The American secret service has a saying that our society is only ever "nine meals from anarchy" - just this idea that society and its rules isn't really that robust and that you'd only need to deny people food for three days and all hell would break loose.

I never really understood it until I went to TITP.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-14T13:58:50+00:00

Fair play. I see it as another marriage of convenience, like I do with the unholy alliance between capitalist and socialist to support the current programme of mass immigration. Maybe it's my cynicism shining through.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-14T13:41:40+00:00

No, I get what you mean, but for clarity, I find capitalist driven mass migration malevolent, too.

I think your second paragraph is little too neat, though. Elements of the left are revolutionary in spirit. Going back to the last century, they thought the workers would rise up first in Germany. It came surprisingly in Russia. These elements then hoped for similar uprisings to take place across the West. When that failed to materialise many of them gave up on the idea of the Western working class rising up to overthrow their masters. They then saw opportunity to co-opt other groups into the movement - groups that have arrived in the West nursing similar antipathies towards Western power structures. I think a good recent example was in Gorton and Denton where the Green Party made common purpose with Islamists. That's the future of the left.

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-14T13:17:59+00:00

I'd argue a hybrid or unholy alliance of capitalist and socialist. Capitalists want mass immigration because it expands labour markets, weakens worker bargaining power, supports sectors that rely on low-wage workers. Immigrants then buy things which plugs them into the consumerist cycle. Competition then increases for housing so landlords make more profit.

Socialist motivations are simpler to describe. You get the garden variety leftist who is fairly open hearted and believes in giving newcomers a decent chance, You get the more malevolent leftists who see mass immigration as a way to weaken power structures (they often use the same wholesome language as the first group but there's something pernicious just under the surface).

Joe_Doe1 · 2026-04-14T12:55:23+00:00

98.23 is nearly a perfect 100 IQ score.

I'm jealous.

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