The New Conservative

Roger Watson

Burning money

Rip-off Britain 

Not content with throwing vast amounts of cash at the uncontrolled number of asylum seekers running up the beaches of the southeast coast (nearly £50 a head weekly plus free accommodation and free healthcare)*, we throw £11 billion annually at a variety of hopeless international causes in the shape of the overseas aid budget. It

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White Cliffs of Dover

Getting Tough on Asylum Seekers

Comedian Leo Kearse suggested on GB News Headliners that we could advertise our NHS waiting lists more forcefully or the convoluted system for trying to make an appointment with a GP. However, that is unlikely to work given that GP waiting rooms are often full of immigrant families who must have a special NHS app. That is, one that works. 

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LGBTQwerty Airlines

LGBTQwerty Airlines 

Most, if not all, the passengers on a flight care not a jot about the sexual orientation of the crew; they simply don’t need to know. Call me old fashioned (I have been called much worse on Twitter lately), but is there not something reassuring about a smart, biological sex appropriately dressed crew on an airplane?

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Wash your hands

The Covid Inquiry grinds to a start 

I cannot be alone in thinking that the inquiry has an easy job, and it goes something like this: a respiratory virus of demonstrably low lethality spread here from China; none of the non-pharmacological measures that were introduced had evidence to support them; no assessment of risk was made; human rights were overridden; and the harms of social and economic lockdown were evident long before they were lifted. Explain! 

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