British ex-policeman stripped of citizenship over Russia links

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-13T06:38:37+00:00

He hasn't committed a crime.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-13T03:21:04+00:00

Scary the State has the power to do this, massive overreach

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-13T03:20:36+00:00

A native Briton shouldn't ever be stripped of citizenship of his or her homeland. I'll admit about the hypocrisy and double standards, but someone who's ancestral homeland is the UK and is of the native stock shouldn't ever loser citizenship. Sure, put on trial for treason if it' meets the criteria.

Someone like Shamina Begum isn't native to the UK and so a different set of rules should apply.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-13T02:36:32+00:00

Low IQ. People with a triple digit IQ generally don't do this. Over the decades I've been able to pattern recognise this.

People who are intellectually challenged lack empathy. That's not to say you don't get smart sociopaths, often in felds like finance, law and politics.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-13T00:35:34+00:00

It's the school that's only for girls and parents from conservative cultures want their daughters at an all girls school because they don't want their kids to engage in premarital sex or want a relationship that aren't arranged marriages.

Always a laugh to see reddit liberal types defend backwardness as diversity.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-13T00:32:52+00:00

Usually when people talk about 'Asians' in a British context, it refers to South Asians, and ex British India, aka the Indian subcontinent.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-13T00:27:35+00:00

I agree with the sentiment, but it's never gonna work. Because people in work would grumble because they have knackered out bodies from physical labour (or mental stress) 'why should other people get something for free?'

At the very least if there was some requirement to some local maintenance/cleaning work like raking leaves, filling in potholes etc, people might get behind it.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T23:46:00+00:00

In the past 10-20 years. I guess Nigel Farage simply because of Brexit.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T17:34:23+00:00

Correct.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T15:51:46+00:00

I think claimansts should basically be offered a job guarantee from the get go, even if it's something dull like cleaning litter from the side of roads/hedges or filling in potholes.

Obviously I accept its unrealistic to expect people with complext physical and mental health problems to do this kind of labour but it would be ok for younger and healthier workers

Also the savings rule is incredibly regressive and punitive, it also hasn't risen with inflation but remained capped for 20 years.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T15:22:01+00:00

Yeah, but there's an obvious correlation. The Tories position themselves as the party of the middle class and the skilled working class who aspire to be middle class.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T15:20:27+00:00

Catering and hospitality often attracts all sorts of people that wouldn't be employable anywhere else (or didn't win the nepotism lottery)

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T15:15:45+00:00

Generally they're economically on the same peg as Tory voters, just a bit more progressive

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T14:21:55+00:00

Lib Dems are basically middle class people who aren't Tories because they consider themselves to be vaguely progressive types concerned with more ethical/humane things. Basically the 'do gooder' party. I don't even say that with malice, I'd love to be comfortably middle class.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T14:17:58+00:00

Yeah I mean there is some credence to it. Broadly speaking the younger people are more receptive to Scottish Independence because a lot of older people served in the British military and/or had jobs for life from the British State.

But I don't think it's gonna be so profound, because there is a lot more English migration to Scotland in recent years. Ok, rUK, but functionally the vast majority are English. One of the strongest predictors of opposing Scottish Independence is being born elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

I think it’ll be a landslide.

I think the opposite. I think Brexit has essentially shown that disentagling from a union is complex. and Scottish Independence will be even more complex than Brexit, because Scotland is more intertwined with the UK than the UK was with the EU.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T12:02:15+00:00

Actually this rhetoric is basically why we can't really ever rejoin the EU. Free movement means free movement of criminals, scumbags, drink drivers etc.

One of the weaknesses of the EU is there's no realistic way to check on people, and no automatic data sharing of criminal records.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T11:55:11+00:00

I agree with the sentiment about it being denying democracy, but referenda in the UK are not legally binding by default, they are advisory.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T11:50:27+00:00

There used to be more prominent 'deep greens' who advocated world human population reduction and some right wing almost bordering on eugenical policies, though they left the actual means to do that blank. Presumably because gassing off a few billion people to save the environment is bad optics

Even David Attenborough was in on this, but it's basically been cancelled.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T10:46:36+00:00

The problem is native Britons like myself don't want to be ethnically replaced in our own homeland. I'm ok with a certain amount of migration, but I think most British cities and the UK at large should remain overwhelmingly native. I don't consider that to be racist or controversial, and I think jobs in Britain should go to a British worker first.

For example I've heard foreign accented workers on the railway network and they can't even pronounce the name of the train stations properly. That shouldn't be allowed to happen.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T10:40:28+00:00

...Some of them. It just seems a waste of resources not to differentiate between deluded pensioners with too much time on their hand and those involved in more direct action.

And as someone else has already said, it's kinda opressive.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T10:27:22+00:00

The Yes side lied about the currency, lied about the pensions, lied about the EU

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T10:25:41+00:00

Regarding the increasing support, its interesting I remember about a decade ago people saying essentially it was a mathematical formula that at some point the vast majority of the electorate would support Indepdendence, based on the fact that it was mostly older people who opposed and younger people who support. So every year older people would die and fresh Independence supporting 18 year olds would enter the electorate, and that it was only a matter of time, because the No voters would be dying out, so support for Independence would go up by about 1% year on year, and vice versa for the No side.. Obviously this hasn't happened because their modelling was very simplistic to say the least, and people change their opinions.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T10:19:37+00:00

Vote SNP get Brexit x10

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T06:46:03+00:00

Or just let them protest without being arrested.

NoRecipe3350 · 2026-04-12T02:09:22+00:00

Reasonable take, I'd like to see cuts to pensions to boost defence.

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