Tomlinson Talks

We Are In So Much Trouble

Charlie Cole's thread of immigration graphs: https://x.com/charliecolecc/status/2057527533529121006 Keir Starmer is celebrating an 84 percent fall in net migration. But it's a hollow victory. Total migration was 813,000. 77 percent (627,000) were from outside Europe. Half of work visas were given to dependents. More than 88,000 were asylum seekers, including illegal migrants. Net migration only fell to 171,000 because 246,000 British citizens left the country, including thousands of young native Brits. ONS estimates show that at least 19 percent of the UK population was born overseas. Gross immigration between 2021 - 2025 was 5.6 million. 1 in 20 residents in Britain arrived in the last five years. First- or second-generation immigrants now make up a quarter of the population. And record numbers were granted citizenship in 2025. We can't keep doing this. The public don't want to. 41 percent of voters told Ipsos that immigration is the biggest issue in Britain. We can't build three new Birminghams to accommodate these people. We shouldn't have to. This must be reversed. Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19

The Madness of Guardian Columnists

The Guardian Opinion section is a lunatic asylum. On the same day, the Guardian published an essay by Nesrine Malik, accusing Reform UK of wanting to ethnically cleanse Britain of any non-White person. She complained that Nigel Farage had previously said that "some Muslims are here 'to take us over'", that people speaking other languages on public transport make him uncomfortable, and that traffic congestion is caused by immigration. (Stop trying to persuade me to support him.) Malik complains that all parties engage in Slopulism: pandering to populist sentiment through empty slogans. But her complaint isn't that they use the slogans to contain public outrage; rather, that the British people dare to assert possession of their country, instead of Britain being for anyone from anywhere. Whereas Sacha Hilhorst interviewed Reform voters, and claimed they are "much more progressive than you might think", because they support banning MPs from having second jobs, and stricter controls on lobbying. Sacha is mistaking the possessive politics of Somewheres — insisting that politicians represent their constituents' concerns, rather than those of vested interests or their own pockets — for the resentful levelling impulse of progressives. Both women cannot understand why the British public are rejecting their ideology and voting for the most patriotic option available, because they reject the proposition that nations exist and are the property of distinct peoples. Which is why they both write for the Guardian. Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19

Are We Really Still Doing This?

We're circling the drain on the definition of being British now. When asked what British identity means by podcaster Elliot Bewick, Kemi Badenoch said it is a matter of abiding by cultural norms, standards, and laws. This is an incoherent, unsustainable definition, which precludes the possibility for people to be traitors — villains in our national story — by trying to make being British a normative category which is purely good things. And that just isn't true. Being British is a matter of having English, Welsh, Scottish, or Irish ancestry. Reducing British identity to a matter of self-identification marginalises relevant questions of ancestry, loyalty, and how national identity becomes more salient when confronted with its opposites. The arguments have been made. The civic nationalist, values-based case for British identity falls apart under scrutiny. Culture and countries are the properties of the peoples who invent them and pass them on via inheritance to their descendants. I refuse to lie because some people feel excluded by their inability to be British, no matter how good a person they are. Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/w2yZquePGT8 Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19

I Was Threatened With A Machete. The Police Did Nothing

Yesterday, while walking with my pregnant wife in a local park, a group of urban youths were loitering, littering, hollering, and making the gardens an unsafe place for families. We left, and were followed by a car. A machete was waved at us from the passenger-side window. I filed a police report. The Metropolitan Police recorded the incident as a Public Order offence. But, despite having a description of the youths, and the car's colour, make, and license plate number, they closed the case a few hours later, citing "no reasonable lines of enquiry we can follow". 95 percent of victim-based crimes result in no charges or court summons being brought. Only 10 percent of criminals are caught and face any consequences for the crime they commit. What is the point of the police? As the Henry Nowak case suggests, it seems they care more about you having a negative opinion of the demographics who disproportionately commit these preventable violent crimes than about the crimes or criminals themselves. Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ClASfi-RzoA Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19

Can Restore Britain Win Makerfield?

Video on the government's grooming gang inquiry: https://youtu.be/3ehZrU5MwY0 Andy Burnham will resign as Mayor of Greater Manchester and stand in the Makerfield by-election, orchestrated by the resignation of MP Josh Simons to install Burnham as Prime Minister. Keir Starmer insists he will not resign, and will not be replaced by either Burnham or Wes Streeting. In any scenario, Labour will be destroyed at the next general election. Both Reform UK and Restore Britain are contesting the seat, with Rupert Lowe announcing local businesswoman Rebecca Shepherd as their candidate. Can she beat Nigel Farage's likely champion, councillor and army veteran Robert Kenyon, who won 32 percent of the vote at the 2024 general election? This will be an opportunity to test Restore Britain's ground game, which won double the vote share of Reform in Great Yarmouth at the local election. Can they activate enough non-voters to replace Reform in the north? Or will Reform prove their place at the top of national polls is steadfast? Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NplJ4P_r1ZM Support my work on Substack: https://connortomlinson.substack.com/ Follow me on X: https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson Support my work: - https://buymeacoffee.com/connortomlinson - paypal.com/paypalme/ConnorJTomlinson - https://connortomlinson.locals.com/ Listen to Tomlinson Talks on podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2lVAFqUZQQTQW8XiNhODP0 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tomlinson-talks/id1811957060 Amazon Music / Audible - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/be9537ec-b746-4a5c-9d79-40f8d0a87f19