#chris williamson

[positivexcellence]

Jared in Anson Gordon's IG Story

[lesbianspaceproject]

Had a blast yesterday looking through the Perth Lesbian Archive collections of buttons, records, magazines, books, clothing and more! There is so much lesbian history and culture out there to explore and enjoy. I'm grateful to help record them with the amazing group of lesbians at the archive. I think my favourite thing is the lemon shirt ^^

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Konstantin Kisin: Diversity is not a strength.

Chris Williamson: Why?

Kisin: Because I– remember this great scene from Game of Thrones. Have you seen Game of Thrones? Do you remember when Cersei and King Robert, they're discussing the potential Dothraki invasion?

Williamson: Mhm.

Kisin: And she goes, "Yeah, but we've got five times as many. We've got five kingdoms. They've got just the one." And he goes, "What's a bigger number, five or one?" And she goes, "Five." And he goes, "Five." One. Right.

Unity is a strength when you're attempting to do things. Common purpose, common values, a sense of shared identities. These are things that allow you to overcome difficulties. One of the reasons the concern about immigration is as high as it is is not just the levels of immigration. It's also the fact that Britain has become poorer.

Our GDP per capita is lower today than it was in 2008. In other words, people's living standards are being eroded for reasons we can get into.

So addressing that requires quite a lot of difficult challenges. We've got, you know, a bloated welfare sector. So you're going to have to deal with the fact that far too many people are not working and being paid not to work. You're going to have to deal with the national debt which is way too high, the deficit.

You've got like big, big challenges, right? And those challenges are quite easy to overcome comparatively speaking when we all feel like we are ultimately at the end of the day this is our country and we're going to sort it out.

But if we have become multicultural in that everyone really only cares, you know, we keep hearing from politicians we need to look at the concerns of the British XYZ community. You know, British Jewish community, British Muslim community, British Pakistani community, British– all of this stuff right, then we're no longer British people trying to sort the same thing out. We're people who are looking out for our own community. Our own community is Britain. That's what we should be looking out for.

So diversity can be a strength in one sense, which is when you bring in people of talent and drive and ambition from around the world and they all buy into the values of that place and then pull together in one direction. That's a strength. Just bringing lots of people from around the world and then not integrating them and not encouraging them to become British. And also bringing people who are probably not easily integratable into our society, that's not a strength that's a weakness.

[stahsm]

Chris Williamson’s podcast Modern Wisdom —— interview with Joe Hudson (Does Heartbreak Expand Your Capacity To Love?)

YouTube: Why You Feel Helpless... and How to Break the Loop

[prestigeollie]

[beccawise7]

"We don't rise to the standards we have when others are watching. We fall to the standards we have when no one is watching.

~ChrisWilliamson 💜🖤

Wednesday Wisdom.

[christiancornelius]

“Give a man purpose and the ability to achieve it and he will crawl over broken glass with a smile” - Chris Williamson

[holespoles]

Walking The Heath by Chris Williamson