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Love the building in the main photo!

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Love the set-up(*) in another, of 4 buddies + Sunak 🤩 7×1000 words might not suffice to cover the multiple levels it speaks on. Screams, tbh 😇

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(*) yeah, very much intended. And I'm pretty sure it's an instantiation of my lovely avatar when it comes to the beaming frontman 🤭

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Things going for Rishi:

He's a secret g*mer.

He's from down the road from me. Always nice to see a local lad do well.

The American press, in obsessing over his race and nothing else, has provided me with the usual laughs.

He doesn't seem to want a nuclear war. Which has, amazingly, appeared to have been the goal of our last two leaders.

The destruction of the middle and lower classes will continue, though. But he'll look and sound slick while he does it.

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Ukes wanted Boris back.

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Somewhat ironic because he'll happily see them all bleed to death in the winter mud if he gets to compare himself to Churchill in the process.

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Actually quite a lot care about his racial characteristics but the British have been cowed into silence and everyone knows the disastrous consequences of speaking up about it. On the obverse side, Britain's Asian minorities have been crowing like cockerels about "their" guy in top spot. They can speak up based on race, but not the white Brits. See, that's how it works in Britain now.

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That’s precisely how it’s worked here in the US for a long time. Identity politics for me but not for thee....

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We know he's a foreigner but we also know he's been dropped in by a class of people who hate us. The Asians can crow about him being our "ruler" but he's a cipher who will be another victim of the Blob if he tries anything clever.

On another note, have you heard how much he sounds like Blair? It's uncanny.

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By George, you're right. The same stresses, cadences, rhythms etc.

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Hey m8 - i'm in Kensington rn. Happy to grab a pint if you're around this week!

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Will email you

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The proof will be in the pudding. If he stabilizes things a bit, keeps the extreme right at heel and beats Labour in 2025 thats all that really matters in the general scheme of things. He is a Brexit supporter and good voting record on Brexit stuff as it goes. He might just be a good PM within the world that's possible at the moment. Looking around the world a lot of very competent CEOs are Indian - Google, Microsoft and a dozen other large corps I can think of.

I was just in Camden for three days to go to a Pavement concert - fantastic. It struck me wandering around London how much French, Spanish, Mandarin and non-English English I heard spoken in just about every quarter - some of its certainly tourism but its just a very international city.

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Agree that he's the best we could hope for currently. And Labour are so, so awful that I'd take the worst Tory government over them any time. God, if 20 year old me could hear how beaten down I sound!

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Labour may be awful but, at this point, a Labour government would constitute a lurch to the far right.

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A million visas last year, 20k Afghans, 150k Hong Kong Chinese, 120 Ukrainians, no new gas/fracking, no apology for corona, more money for the pointless war in the Ukraine, foreigners in the Great Offices under Truss - how could it be worse under Labour?

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"... The new arrivals in Israel are overwhelmingly of North African extraction, as France’s Jewish community, estimated at about 440,000, mostly hails from the old colonial possessions of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia...."

Not Twitter. The top 3 just got canned.

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Slight grammatical quibble - I believe Rishi would be the Raja of the UK, and the UK would be his Raj rather than the other way around. A few decades ago he might have qualified as its Maharaja, but sic transit gloria mundi.

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Oh Rishi what a pity you don’t understand,

You say you feel the mood, but your watch cost twenty grand.

A focus on big business that excludes the common man -

It’s guys like you Rishi!

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Thanks for the earworm

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Makes you wonder why they were bothered for Brexit. Seems like maybe the ship has sailed.

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I heard they engineered the crash as a deliberate act against Truss.

I have no idea if this is true, but Truss deserved a humiliating end after years of unearned "success" and, more recently, shameless positioning.

The Tories also deserve to be utterly destroyed in the next election, but I see no other alternatives. If I vote at all it'll be purely out of spite - the more reprehensible they find any such candidates the better.

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Exactly.

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When the time comes to weaponize whites racially, having handed the blame to the others neatly enough, the ruling Anglo-American elites will do so - Ukraine Nazis is a Beta test for both.

I wonder if the Neocons think they’ll get the Nazi portfolio again?

Possible.

🤔

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You could be forgiven for thinking that there was something very deliberate about it all, but this is not the case. The Tories lack the insight to operate at that level of cunning...it is all instinctual.

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My Dear Sir,

I refer to the Whigs.

Peel for instance fed the Irish, the Whigs said pull yourself up by your bootstraps, upon the local Parishes resources ye shall feed, and so starvation in Black 47.

So it shall be here, when the designated groups of EVIL 👿 shall be er “cleared” - strangely enough I live amongst the Scots Irish and in the lower Appalachians.

Who clears and who’s cleared remains to be seen.

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I'd expect the Appalachians will be the safest and most stable portion of North America in the years ahead outside of the wilderness areas. The Anglo equivalent of the Pashtun get written off as unruly (which they are) but they remain fully socialised and they only handle snakes when they pray.

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look how easily the ukes beat putin!!

when will someone observe that a very few high tech artillery systems, a costly bunch of 'contractors' to make them useable, and real time usa intelligence imagery distributed by more expensive 'contractors' is so much cheaper and less offensive that usa' bases all over europe keeping the empire tame?????

what if rishi were a bit taller and had orange hair?

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17 nov he has to wait to see how much usa is changed..... on 9 nov.

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Truss’ budget proposal was simply a narrative driver to get us to this next chapter.

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The UK govt deserves it sovereign wealth crash. The people of Britian are sold out like the Dems do to working class here

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“What I’m saying is: whether it’s a cop or a criminal, when you are looking down the barrel of a loaded gun, what’s the difference. Jack Nicholson’s character in “The Departed”

Robber barons.

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not much different from what they did with Sotero, Barry...

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