Not-so-young fogey. Centre-right. Constitutionalist. Sceptic. Kent cricket.
Joined April 2012
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John Duffield retweeted
Jun 12
🚨 BREAKING: Former Armed Forces Minister Al Carns has slammed the Labour party's witch-hunts against British veterans who fought in Northern Ireland.
"Who is this playing to? It is playing to Republican Sinn Fein. They lost the war through physical means and now they're trying to achieve it through political means. I don't want to see anybody rewrite history to see Britain as in the wrong. We were in the right."
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British state failure again
No one wants to spend the time and money to sort it
Exclusive: More than 100,000 failed asylum seekers are feared to be living in Britain illegally because they haven’t been deported, the Sunday Express can reveal.
Some 2,000 people who first sought sanctuary in 2010 are still in the UK.
And more than 26,000 have been here for at least a decade despite losing their cases, according to Home Office figures.
In total, 108,022 people refused protection after claiming asylum between 2010 and 2024 have not been removed.
One in four people who first claimed asylum in 2010 still hadn’t been returned by March 2026.
Some 26,850 failed asylum seekers who first claimed asylum between 2010 and 2016 haven’t been returned.
And then the Channel migrant crisis began… and the scandal of asylum seekers switching from work, study and visitor visas.
In short, there’s an extraordinary deportation backlog that is growing at an alarming rate.
More on this to come.
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John Duffield retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has *12-point* lead in new Makerfield poll
Labour: 49
Reform: 37
Greens: 5
Restore: 5
Conservative: 3
Lib Dem: 1
Other: 1
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John Duffield retweeted
I'm pretty sure this is the first by-election ever with published polls from four different pollsters, and the most published polls (5 so far) since Eastleigh in 2013
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has *12-point* lead in new Makerfield poll
Labour: 49
Reform: 37
Greens: 5
Restore: 5
Conservative: 3
Lib Dem: 1
Other: 1
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John Duffield retweeted
Jun 13
This deluded MP is so wrong. Nobody should be voting for him in any upcoming elections. He is putting all biological women in danger and he does not care.
Jun 12
LGBT people deserve to be able to live freely and safely.
I don't believe the EHRC's guidance is helping to make that possible.
My statement on why I've signed EDM 240 to stand up for trans people in my constituency and across the UK.
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RT @Jonnywsbell: Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill (Sinn Féin) was asked: “Can a woman have a penis?”
Listen to the sheer d…
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The stupidity of, and damage done by, stamp duty is being recognised by more and more people. I’ve said it before and l’ll say it again: any govt which cared about economic growth and people’s welfare would abolish it.
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John Duffield retweeted
I have written a piece for @TheCriticMag and it is something I am immensely proud of. In it, I set out why I believe the Southport riots have fundamentally changed British politics and poisoned Starmer's premiership.
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John Duffield retweeted
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Another black mark against his name. Very suspect.
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Fun fact: Ted Heath was a great fan of American football and rarely missed the Super Bowl. He once turned up for lunch with a fellow Tory MP, clad in a turquoise and orange Miami Dolphins sweatshirt.
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John Duffield retweeted
I live in a country where the energy secretary and his climate committee commissars are promising to ban or severely restrict:
Petrol and diesel cars
Oil and gas drilling
Gas heating
Underfloor heating
Tumble driers
Fertiliser
Air travel
and Cattle
They plan to forbid their way to prosperity.
Please somebody explain to them why that won't work.
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'The establishment rushed to protect their political narrative over innocent children.'
@Alexarmstrong slams 'two-tier politicians' who 'smeared' outraged people as far-right over the viral axe video that was posted after two Bulgarian siblings attacked a 12-year-old girl.
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John Duffield retweeted
There are lots of people on here who should be apologising.
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Interesting bit in The Economist on the composition of some of our EU immigration.
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I am actually an ethnic Italian.
I went to the Italian Consulate on Farringdon Road on some business and was surprised how 'unItalian' many looked.
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John Duffield retweeted
No he wasn’t.
10 years ago, George Osborne predicted that #Brexit would cost us 6% of GDP, with lower wages, higher prices & higher taxes.
While his failure was in not addressing ‘identity’ issues, on the economic effects of Brexit he was absolutely correct.
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John Duffield retweeted
Jun 12
Last year, I was attacked by a crazy person shouting in a foreign tongue on a southbound 6 Train in NYC.
I frame that experience as part of the constant, low-grade anxiety that characterizes high-migration societies.
I call it Diversity Stress.
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Very good piece on the underlying psychological stress caused by increasing diversity, a phenomenon which operates on the physical landscape and the mental mindscape. @lucaajw wrote about the aesthetic impact of diveraity in this regard last year.
Jun 12
Last year, I was attacked by a crazy person shouting in a foreign tongue on a southbound 6 Train in NYC.
I frame that experience as part of the constant, low-grade anxiety that characterizes high-migration societies.
I call it Diversity Stress.
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John Duffield retweeted
The threat from radical Islam is not just terrorism.
Islamists seek to subvert our society and our democracy.
But what we have is worth defending.
We have to fight back.
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John Duffield retweeted
Perhaps helps to explain the current state of our Armed Forces: a former NSA arguing in favour of limiting the defence budget and jeopardising our defence capabilities.
Reeves should be pressed hard to find the money and the current NSA should be pressing the MoD on efficiency.
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