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Roland Smith

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Tracking the decay of the Right and patrolling the culture war's boundaries. Former Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute. Now centrist. Telegraph watcher. https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · Nov 10

Long thread on how Brexitism started and evolved over 75 years, drawing from Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon's 'Continental Drift'.

Global Britain, Free Trade, Cakeism, Federalism, anti-federalism, EEA, Winston Churchill, Empire, 52-48 referendums, Enoch Powell, 1975, Thatcher.... It's all here. /1

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4h

I see Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and even Marjorie Taylor Greene are all having doubts about the direction of this Trump Administration.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3h

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks. I deliberately 'memory hole' these things into the 1980s for the sake of not stirring up/adding to any present-day issues.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3h

Just one example re Joe Rogan.

This is the problem with 'populism': It'll always overreach. It is in its very nature to keep doubling down until even some of its supporters can't bear it anymore.

This'll be Montie in the event of a Farage Govt.*

* There won't be one.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks. I deliberately 'memory hole' these things into the 1980s for the sake of not stirring up/adding to any present-day issues.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4h

I see Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and even Marjorie Taylor Greene are all having doubts about the direction of this Trump Administration.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4h

Faversham residents willingly turn their town in 1980s Northern Ireland, using the flag to mark out their territory.

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Nick Chainey @nlfg.bsky.social · 20h

What. The. Fuck.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20h

Afternoon.

Much to unpack.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14h

Now watching something 'foodie' presented by Tom Read Wilson who I've never seen/heard before. I think he's hilarious and compelling viewing. Made for TV. Why is he not even more famous?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14h

Now watching something 'foodie' presented by Tom Read Wilson who I've never seen/heard before. I think he's hilarious and compelling viewing. Made for TV. Why is he not even more famous?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14h

Michael Portillo has just sold Madeira to me.

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 15h

I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that Tim Stanley went to boarding school.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20h

Afternoon.

Much to unpack.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15h

Funny you should mention that (old X thread)....

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Roland Smith on X: "Someone should write about me: "SMITH, BORIS, AND THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION" "Roland Smith first met Boris Johnson at a shadowy meeting of right wingers in one of London's top clubs. What is..."" / X

Someone should write about me

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15h

Because it was Mike 'Concrete' Graham who is a tit.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15h

Ah but they think they are resident – just for part of the year.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15h

I was never a fan. Nor of the leading individuals who pushed this line.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16h

Well said.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16h

This is standup comedian material.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "You never had anybody here that knew what the hell they were doing. I'll be honest with you. It makes me angry ... we're gonna get drug reductions of 500%."

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16h

Something about liking little kittens?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16h

A story in The Telegraph, Express and other usual suspects who've discovered certain EU countries (Spain) might start enforcing the 90/180 day rule properly which might fool some Brits and make them subject to fines or even deportation.

Outrageous that migrants might be deported for overstaying....

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17h

Apparently the EU still needs us more than we need them.

Sigh.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20h

1. There is something about Conservative men wanting female leaders to be their mummy.
2. Conservatives like Tim are now spreading the Matthew Syed gobshitery that Farage is a socialist (ergo, the Tories are to the Right of Farage).
3. The F word. He means Farage but it also works with Fascism.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20h

Afternoon.

Much to unpack.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20h

An interesting additional observation on the modern Right's 'Fantasy Thatcherism' versus 'Actual Thatcherism'.

Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 21h

Thatcher once said her greatest achievement was Tony Blair and New Labour, because she forced her opponents onto her agenda. Today's new right begs to differ.

www.ft.com/content/49ec...

The battle to dismantle Blair’s Britain

Conservatives’ biggest mistake was the adoption of the liberal agenda, the new right believes

www.ft.com

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

You know that thing about a frog being slowly boiled and not realising it?

Can we change 'boiled' to 'radicalised'?

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21h

Good luck.