Rupert Lowe
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this paper which ultimately guided, it was called The Instrument of Power, and its job was to effectively separate the powers that Cromwell was going to have as Lord Protector and put in the checks and balances, which is what you need in any form of democracy, proper checks and balances that controls any sort of aggregation of power which can be damaging.
You need some power, but you don't want anybody to become omnipotent.
And this was an incredible piece of work, which was then used in our Bill of Rights.
And then some of it was lifted by your founding fathers, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Jay, who effectively played a big part in writing the US Constitution, which is the best.
I think, attempt at setting out a sort of code for governance, which always return power to the individual states and to the individual, because it's always the individual who gets oppressed by the state.
And here we've got a state that now accounts for 50% of our GDP.
We've got, as I say, all these quangos, unaccountable people who are doing things which are damaging the interests of Britain, aggregating money and influence to themselves, but damaging the interests of those people they're supposed to be serving.
You know, they're called civil servants for a reason.
That's their job.
Well, I think the essence of immigration is that targeted immigration is good.
So if you have a leadership of the country that can identify where skills are short, and you can actually attract people who've got those skills who are gonna contribute to the economy and actually- We have no dentists.
Exactly, exactly.
Yeah, I got it.
But you need to have a leadership who's capable of identifying where the shortages are.
And that's good immigration.
It's targeted, it's small, and it basically improves the standard of living and the quality of life for the people in the country.
No, I was just going to go on to say that what's happened here is it's actually been turned on its head.
So what we're doing is we are allowing millions or hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants from different cultures to arrive by boat.
And really, since the war, we've also brought in
lots of legal migrants who have in some cases contributed, but in many cases they still haven't integrated into what Britain is and what, you know, we are a Christian country, we have our history, we have our roots, and now we've got sort of pools of people from a different culture with a different belief and a different outlook on life.