[Breitbart] Mass migration has made the British people poorer, and solving that problem will be a major part of fixing the economy, says Nigel Farage as he launched his economic vision for the country.
The government must stop serving the interests of giant multinational companies at the expense of British small and medium-sized businesses, not resort to mass migration as a fiscal tool, and stop artificially inflating the already sky-high price of energy for ideological reasons, giving the country a fighting chance of survival, Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage has said. Speaking in a City of London banking hall, the Reform UK leader sensationally predicted the markets are so close to snapping on British government debt that it’s likely the government will be brought down in a giant fiscal crash, leading to a snap election, long before the present Parliament is due to expire in 2029.
Tilting at the human quantitative easing through mass migration that governments have been defaulting to for decades has to end, Mr Farage said, noting how it undermines wages for working Britons, loads vast long-term liabilities onto government spending in terms of future benefit payments, and supercharges the housing market. He said of how governments — which have even admitted themselves — have engaged in importing workers as a short-term economic boost while ignoring the long haul:
…for some years we’ve been living under an illusion, we’ve not been prepared to face up to just how much of an economic mess we’re genuinely in. As we slip down the global league tables we kid ourselves — ‘it’s OK, we’ve got GDP growth’. But there wouldn’t have been GDP growth over the course of the last few years if it wasn’t for mass migration on a scale hitherto never even contemplated, and of course excess government borrowing. That is all that has keep GDP figures up.
And indeed I think we can argue very strongly that on an individual basis, mass migration has made the average Briton poorer. You take a year like 2024, a record level of people coming into the country, and GDP per capita falling…. we convinced ourselves that by importing masses of cheap, unskilled foreign labour that somehow that would be good for our economy. Well, it was good for the wage bills of big companies in the short term. But catastrophic when it came to training and educating of our own workforce.
One of the most pressing crises facing young people in the United Kingdom today is the price of housing, with house-buying out of the reach of many except those with generational wealth, and particularly in the cities with the best jobs. While soaring prices are a market function of soaring demand meeting insufficient supply, the impact of mass migration on that demand is almost never discussed publicly, and government intervention in the market has tended to be ineffective if not downright harmful.
Mr Farage stepped up and acknowledged that Britain’s “population explosion” — driven almost entirely by migrant arrivals — does in fact have an impact on house prices, and proposed a remedy. He said, “It’s in the area of mass migration where perhaps we can move a lot. A move towards net-zero population increase through migration would ease pressure on rents, it would ease pressure on house price affordability”.
He also committed to “the biggest building programme of genuinely affordable housing in this country that has ever been seen”. While this is something the present Labour government has also promised, by building while leaving the borders wide open, the only obvious beneficiaries of the programme so far have been housebuilding companies themselves.
Turning to the impact of the enegry crisis on the economy, Mr Farage noted, “our electricity prices are four times that of the United States of America, double that of most of our European competitors, and we’ve done this to ourselves”. The cost of energy has made manufacturing all but impossible and makes the present government’s big talk about an AI industry revolution laughable, given how intensely power-hungry data centres are, he added.
Farage said: “It’s all going. Chemicals, refining, cement, heavy engineering, steel, we’re losing literally all of it. China, the beneficiary in almost every single sector. And why? Because for ideological reasons we have chosen to have the most expensive industrial energy prices in the world… three or four more years of this and there will be very little manufacturing left in Britain at all.”
The answer, Mr Farage argued, is to back away from this ideological push for ‘green’ energy at any price, scrap net-zero subsidies, and pivot back to the oil and gas of the North Sea, which is presently being run down to zero under punitive taxation and a suspension of new drilling licenses.
In short, between tackling the soaring benefits bill, getting competent people into government, not running the British state as a satrap of international business, Mr Farage vowed: “Reform will not only think differently, Reform will do differently. We will sweep away these outdated conventions, we will become the most pro-business, pro-entrepreneurism government that has been seen in this country in modern times.”
The speech is the latest in a recent series of press conferences hosted by Reform, typically at major London venues and characterised by questions and answers sessions giving dozens of outlets a chance to speak to the party’s leadership, often running longer than the speeches themselves, while honing in on specific issues that have dominated political media coverage this year. Last week, Reform’s new hire, Danny Kruger — until weeks ago seen as a top Tory thinker — laid out the party’s plan to radically remake the British deep state with “profoundly deep structural change to the system”.
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Farage is a snake. He says all the right things but many fear he won't act if elected.
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🚨Tommy Robinson acquitted of all charges under the Terrorism Act.
The judge was blistering in his criticism of the police, saying their testimony lacked “credibility” and that they had in fact targeted Tommy for political reasons, which is illegal.
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Farage is a snake. He says all the right things but many fear he won't act if elected.
No politician will give you everything you want. But if you have to choose between Farage and Starmer and you choose Starmer, well, good luck.
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So the judge blisters the police and says they targeted Robinson for political reasons. But did the police do that on their own or were they only following orders? And whose orders?
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Nigel has pretty good answers, but a decade or too, too late!
#9
The key is to find politicians who will see the benefit to themselves in doing the right things, and then rewarding them for reworking the system so that even bad politicians will see the benefit in doing the right things.
Thus, with a Trump, a Vance, a DeSantis, a Cruz, a Rubio in the White House, the prime minister of Britain will do well to act in accordance with the promises Mr. Farage is making. Whereas one who acts crosswise will be punished. Already, for instance, Britain is enjoying the halt in intelligence sharing from Israel following their recognition of Palestine — not a slap directly from America, but understood to be backed by President Trump.
[ManhattanContrarian] Even as New York City looks poised to try one more time to make socialism work, multiple countries that have gone down the socialist road are trying instead to turn off. Notable examples include Argentina, where President Xavier Milei’s party just scored a notable victory over the Peronists in legislative elections; and Bolivia where, in the August 2025 first round of the presidential election, after nearly 20 years of explicitly socialist rule under the MAS Party, accompanied by economic stagnation, the MAS candidate for President got just 2% of the vote.
Can we add Vietnam to the list of countries moving away from socialism? A November 1 piece at American Greatness by Stephen Young and Bradley Thayer asserts the thesis that we can. The headline is “Did We Just Win the Vietnam War?” Excerpt:
Half a century after America’s withdrawal, Vietnam has quietly vindicated U.S. sacrifice—abandoning Marxism for nationalism and embracing the very ideals America once defended. . . . While few Americans have noticed, Vietnam’s new General Secretary of the Communist Party, To Lam, has replaced Marxist-Leninism as the Party’s governing ideology with something more authentically Vietnamese: Truong Ton Dan Toc, or “Vietnamese nationalism.”
Young and Thayer cite some serious evidence in support of their thesis. My overall conclusion: Vietnam is making some meaningful strides in the right direction, but still, Young and Thayer are getting ahead of themselves.
Here are the main points that Y&T make in support of their thesis:
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Whatever the Vietnamese decide to do was never any of our business.
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I would say though, many of the refugees from that war settled in southern California and have proven to be good, enterprising citizens.
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^I’d say the same about the Cambodian refugees that settled in ATL, matter of fact I have a Cambodian BIL. Traveled with him and my sister 8 years ago to Cambodia
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From ^7 and ^8, one might conclude those that seized power drove out many of the worthwhile folks.
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About 1998 or so the people in the south were primarily agriculture. The north were, I don't know what. But it sounded like was a state control issue.
[SOFREP] On a moonlit run into North Vietnam on November 21, 1970, Bull Simons and 56 Green Berets hit Son Tay with surgical violence, found the cells empty, and left the nearby Secondary School littered with bodies that looked a lot more like Chinese advisors than local NVA, a truth the official record preferred to bury.
The most dangerous, complex, and sensitive, large-scale effort of the Vietnam War was Operation Kingpin, the clandestine, Special Forces raid on the Sơn Tây prison camp early on Saturday morning, November 21, 1970, at Sơn Tây, North Vietnam, just 23 miles northwest of the capital city of Hanoi. The official purpose of the raid was to rescue an estimated 61 American prisoners of war (POWs), and a massive Joint Contingency Task Group (JCTG) of 219 men from the U.S. Army and Air Force was assembled. An initial planning phase, Operation Ivory Coast, began on August 8, 1970, at a secret CIA training facility at Eglin Air Force Base’s Duke Field in Florida.
Aside from the prison camp itself, however, there was a “Secondary School” located about 500 yards to the south, believed to be some type of military barracks, housing an estimated 50 to 200 extra soldiers. These two objectives were both located very near the 12th North Vietnamese Army Regiment, with up to 12,000 troops stationed within five miles, so the raid would have to be executed very quickly, before substantial reinforcements could arrive.
A complicating factor was the presence of approximately 50,000 communist Chinese troops in North Vietnam since 1968, 2,000 of whom were later listed as combat casualties, and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping confessed in 1980 that, “Do you know the amount of help we gave to the Vietnamese in those years? 20 billion dollars!”
According to former U.S. officials, ex-Special Forces officers, the Washington Post, and after-action reports from the mission itself, the Secondary School was believed to be staffed by Chinese Special Forces advisors and air defense troops. The darker side of the story was that several of our elite, MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command, Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group, more appropriately known as the “Special Operations Group”) secret reconnaissance teams (RTs) sent into Laos beginning in mid-1969 were compromised and wiped out to the last man, because the Chinese had broken our radio codes and sent special, “Headhunter” teams to kill them.
Top-Secret, intelligence reporting allegedly traced these teams back to a military compound near Sơn Tây, the infamous “Secondary School,” because it had once served as an actual, civilian schoolhouse. If any of this information was true, it was extremely sensitive, since the targeted killing of American troops by anyone except North Vietnamese troops was quite illegal under all of the rules of international warfare.
[Townhall] The Islamic Republic of Iran is grappling with an escalating crisis of legitimacy unlike any it has faced in its 46-year history. Decades of economic mismanagement, entrenched corruption, and relentless political repression have steadily eroded public trust and shredded the regime’s fragile social contract, which once promised stability and basic welfare in exchange for obedience. That bargain lies in ruins. Inflation is soaring, unemployment is rampant, and the rial continues its catastrophic freefall, plunging millions of Iranians into destitution. Yet amid the misery, one group remains cocooned in privilege and untouched by the suffering of the people: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Nowhere is the regime’s greed and incompetence more ruinous than in Iran’s water crisis, a man-made catastrophe that threatens to unmake the nation itself. What began as a chronic concern has metastasized into a full-blown hydro-political emergency. The taps are running dry from Isfahan to Khuzestan. Once-fertile plains have turned to dust. The mighty Zayandehrud River, the lifeblood of central Iran, has been reduced to a cracked riverbed. Farmers are marching in despair. And the architects of this disaster sit in Tehran, feasting on privilege while the countryside burns, and the wells run dry.
The clerical regime loves to blame "climate change" for Iran’s woes, but the truth is far more damning. Researchers at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University warn that the country’s freshwater reserves are being depleted not only by rising temperatures, but by reckless human actions, rapid population growth, unregulated well-digging, and agricultural expansion far beyond sustainable capacity. In some central provinces, groundwater levels are falling by two meters per year. Around Tehran, the ground itself is sinking, collapsing by up to 22 centimeters annually as aquifers run dry.
This isn’t just an environmental crisis. It’s an existential one. Water scarcity is destroying Iran’s food security, forcing rural families off their land, accelerating migration to cities, and fueling public anger. It is transforming natural drought into political dynamite. Behind the curtain of mismanagement stands the IRGC, the regime’s praetorian guard, its economic juggernaut, and its chief instrument of repression. Over the decades, the IRGC has wormed its way into virtually every sector of Iran’s economy, from oil and gas to construction and telecommunications. Now it has its claws sunk deep into the country’s water infrastructure. The IRGC pays no tax and is answerable only to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Its commanders have luxury villas in Turkey and the Gulf States and send their children to foreign universities.
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They need to stop bathing and flushing.
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What...?
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The clerical regime loves to blame “climate change” for Iran’s woes
Did they learn that from Newsom? It's a lie but it's a convincing argument if people don't know any better and the media won't tell them. Newsom would tell them that if they really wanted to convince people they should stop pumping oil.
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The countries bordering Iran have water supply problems also but those problems are manageable despite having government that is filled with mismanagement. Just not as much mismanagement
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[Breitbart] Mass migration has made the British people poorer, and solving that problem will be a major part of fixing the economy, says 
