A Muslim entrepreneur has donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to Reform U.K., saying migrants who came to Britain legally are dismayed that “we have lost control of our borders”. The Telegraph has the story.
Zia Yusuf, who co-founded the luxury concierge app Velocity Black before selling it last year for £233 million, believes Nigel Farage alone has the policies to heal the “broken” country.
Mr. Yusuf’s donation to Reform, the biggest of the election campaign so far, is a major coup for a party which faces regular accusations of racism from its critics.
It is also a blow to the Conservatives, as the entrepreneur is a former member of the Tory Party but now thinks they are unable to make the “hard decisions”.
The 37-year-old, whose parents came to Britain from Sri Lanka in the 1980s and forged careers in the NHS, said the “vast majority of Muslims” in the country are patriots who believe net migration is too high.
He told the Telegraph: “My parents came here legally. When I talk to my friends they are as affronted as anyone by illegal Channel crossings, which are an affront to all hard-working British people but not least the migrants who played by the rules and came legally.
“I think Britain can be an amazing country, it’s the country of Dyson and DeepMind, but we have completely lost control of our borders, that is just factually correct.”
Mr. Yusuf claimed net migration was at 50,000 when his parents arrived in Britain, which made assimilation easier.
“Last year it was 650,000 and that’s causing the NHS to buckle under pressure, despite us spending more than we have ever spent on it. We are also not building enough homes to cope with the growing population.” …
He has no time for people who dismiss Reform’s policies as racist.
“I am a businessman, an entrepreneur, and I have come across racism and Islamophobia so I know what it looks like,” he said.
“Having spent time with Nigel Farage it’s clear to me that he wants the best for Britain and its people, no matter their religion or skin colour.
“No-one is more aware than I am of the contribution immigrants can make. My parents came here 40 years ago and they travelled all over the country to find work and advance their careers.”
Mr. Farage said: “I met Zia many years ago and know how devoted to this country he is. Aside from his generosity, he will be a great asset and media performer during this campaign and beyond.”
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They’re lucky to have power plants that haven’t been already decommissioned. Here in clueless Agenda 21/Net Zero Britain, we’ll all be wearing thermals and hugging hot water bottles until our next global boiling summer rolls along. The government are hellbent on ruining our country by consigning us all to cold winters of unaffordable electricity. Imagine the numbers of old people who will be too worried about their bills and may freeze to death as a result. Imagine all the pubs and cafés and restaurants that will close early or not open at all and go bust as a result. Imagine schools and hospitals where the heat has been turned down because there just isn’t enough power in the grid. These are of course extreme imaginings but let’s be honest: our government – any government – are acting against the people through their lies about climate change. Traitors every one of them.
It’s not just Net Zero.
Everything they do is about destroying this country, its indigenous people, our culture, our history, our freedoms and our landscapes.
Read “The War on the West” by Douglas Murray.
Mark Steyn interviewed him about his book….A strange Death of Europe.
sounds good even if he is also a ‘cos play’ freedom fighter!
And yet…People in Scotland voted Labour in the News. I suppose there’s not much difference between Liebour and their leader, but the penny is yet to drop.
Yes the Ukraine situation really camouflaged the absurdity of green energy non solutions to non problems. ——–People seem to forget that the western world has pushed up it’s own energy prices because of the ridiculous drive to renewables which are expensive and unreliable, needing 100% subsidy and 100% backup from energy that actually works all day and night like coal and gas. The invasion of Ukraine has given climate activists another good excuse to say we should be rid of gas because it makes us dependent on Putin etc. But they already wanted rid of gas before there was even a hint of an invasion of Ukraine. The countries with the most renewables are the ones with the highest energy prices and that is true whether Ukraine was invaded or not. Ukraine is just a handy smokescreen that obscures the fact that our energy prices were already rising steadily year on year as we have to fork out billions for turbines and smart meters etc all added to our bills. Germany was ofcourse more dependent on Russia for gas than the UK and they are paying for that lunacy now, but they already had the highest electricity prices in the world. Oh dear whatever happened to all the FREE WIND? There are about 40,000 turbines in Germany. If ever there was a failed experiment then this was it.
Yes they were the testing ground for Europe. The word for what you describe is ‘Divestment’ away from fossil fuels. That terrorist attack had something to do with Germany’s lack of gas. Yet, in the European Parliament, they voted NOT to investigate it further. Enough said!
If you look at this place: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electricity-data/chart/conventional_power_generation/21.08.2023/28.08.2023/today/ you can see that they have a fair way to go if they want to reduce the reliance on coal. In the graphs shown there, they split between “hard coal” and lignite. The latter being the largest proportion there. It appears that Germany is one of the main users of it, for historic reasons, at least in Europe. I don’t know about the types of coal used in China, e.g.
Given the UK has allowed two coal-fired stations to be decommissioned this year, we’re facing a nasty winter if it gets cold…
I think I read somewhere (here?) that the UK government requested the coal-fired stations to remain available just in case of need, but the owners said: ‘Nah. Not enough money on the table’ – or words to that effect.
Pretty much what’s happened. We relied on those two ageing Drax coal fired generators last winter to keep the lights on. Expect plenty of blackouts and back to a 3 (or was is 4) day week.
Smart meters will be our domestic regret.
In the Ukraine they have Putin blowing coal-fired power stations up with bombs and rockets.
We’re luckier. Our coal-fired power stations are being blown up by government ministers in public. The stupidity.
The common sense approach.
According to this source (https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&year=2022&interval=year) in 2022 Germany generated 213.4 TWh of electricity from ‘fossil’ fuel including 105.94 TWh from brown coal, 55.44 TWh from hard coal and 45.16 TWh from gas. I find it difficult to understand how the article seems to claim that coal accounted for 1.9 GWh (0.0019 TWh) last winter. Note that their last three nuclear reactors produced 32.77 TWh.
As Reuters is part of the TNI I guess the report is a ‘spin’ on some thin facts.
Still, it’s a good job their electricity demand will decrease when they ramp up use of EVs.
it’s a good job their electricity demand will decrease when they ramp up use of EVs.
Not sure if you were being ironic, SoR, but surely electricity demand will ramp up significantly and indeed there just won’t be enough of it to power all those EVs especially after our petrol/diesel cars are taken away from us. Working from home may then become the norm as a result. But we are talking years from now when we’re all safely ensconced in our 15 minute prisons…
Sarcastic. But yes.
It would be ironic if, for example, just as they were about to close down their last three nuclear reactors the supply of gas reduced and the price rocketed.
Yes, if EVs are adopted in the same numbers as ICE vehicles have been then electricity demand will increase enormously. The only way out of that is to reduce the number of vehicle batteries on charge at any one time.
The only way we will come through Net Zero (unless we revolt) is with a reduced lifestyle. Most households without private transport, no facility to travel for trivial reasons such as holidays, reduced selection of foods available. Yes, working from home. Probably also a cap on home heating – insulate or die.
They discussed 15 min cities on the Today program at Tory conference, and again on P.M. Calling it all a conspiracy of course.
Perhaps our Government could do the same?
Oh no …. they can’t can they? Because the morons allowed Alok Sharma to blow them up.
“Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a drop in Russian gas imports to Germany…”
Following the demolition of the Nordstream pipeline by….? and Germany’s self-inflicted wound eschewing Russian gas in favour of supplies elsewhere (where?) – a drop in Russian gas imports to Germany.
Russia did not invade Ukraine, it sent about 70 000 to 80 000 troops into the Crimea which it had annexed in 2014 to protect ethnic Russian population there, and the 2022 operation was in response to a mobilisation of Ukrainian forces intent on reclaiming the Crimea.
Let’s get the facts, and not repeat USA/NATO propaganda – this is not the BBC website.
Many of us rushed to install Wood Burners….I got mine last January. You can get serious heat from them!
We’ve had one for about a decade. We got it as a ‘nice to have’ luxury which at first we used just a few times per year as a treat. At first we were slightly worried about it because the heat was so fierce. We eventually learned to moderate the burn and let the warmth permeate the whole house. We also learned to grab logs for the wood store at any opportunity if the price was right (pref. free). Last winter we ran it almost every evening instead of the gas central heating… lovely. The ash is good for our garden too (v. heavy clay).
Perhaps they should’ve kept their last 3 nuclear reactors open. Idiots!
I’ve just received a leaflet from the National Grid with suggestions for what to do in the event of a power cut. This follows on from my latest refusal to have a smart meter at which my power supplier (BG) said they would put me on the “refusal list”. Perhaps they are creating a list of dissidents to be targeted with power cuts or am I being paranoid?