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Reeves Loses Control of the Economy

by Will Jones
26 March 2025 3:27 PM

Chancellor Rachel Reeves stood accused of losing control of the economy today as she desperately cut spending further despite record tax rises to cover a £14 billion black hole largely of her own making. The Mail has more.

Rachel Reeves laid out a fresh wave of spending cuts to offset stalling growth today as she battles to balance the Government’s books.

The Chancellor stressed the grim realities facing the country as she delivered her Spring Statement to the Commons, arguing the “world has changed”.

She said she was “proud” of her track record despite having a £14 billion black hole in the finances to fill, after her huge tax-and-spend Autumn Budget was followed by an economic slowdown.

However, she admitted the OBR watchdog has slashed growth forecasts in half, to just 1% this year. It expects inflation to average 3.2% this year, instead of the 2.5% it anticipated in October, and progress on productivity will be lower.

The tax burden is still on track to hit a record high of 37.7% of GDP in 2027-28, from 35.3% this year, with frozen thresholds inflicting more pain on Brits. 

The unemployment rate is seen as peaking at 4.5% this year, 160,000 higher than predicted before. After growing by 1.4% in 2025, real earnings are set to stagnate in 2026 and 2027, before struggling to a 0.5% improvement in 2029.

Worryingly, the OBR cautioned that even that sluggish performance could easily be derailed by Donald Trump’s trade war or failure to secure productivity advances in the public sector. And the respected IFS think-tank said the plans were so tight that more tax rises would potentially be needed in the Autumn.  

The stormy picture had put Ms Reeves on track to break her own ‘fiscal rules’ before she scrambled to make up the shortfall – saying it would be from spending cuts instead of even more tax rises at this stage.

Meanwhile, Ms Reeves confirmed she had suffered another major setback with the OBR rejecting the previously-claimed £5 billion of savings from benefits reforms.

Instead they have been valued at more like £3 billion – sparking a frantic last-ditch effort to find more cuts despite mounting fury from Labour MPs. Another £400 million is apparently being trimmed from welfare, taking the final expected savings to £3.4 billion.

The bungled process triggered an extraordinary blame game, with claims late tweaks meant the proposals were not given to the OBR in time before they were laid out to the Commons by Liz Kendall last week. …

More than half of voters think Labour is spending too much time blaming the Tories. Some 31% now blame Labour for Britain’s growth crisis, compared with 27% blaming the Conservatives and 18% citing global events.

Worth reading in full.

Let’s not forget that the economy was ‘going gangbusters’ with the fastest growth rate in the G7 when the Tories left power and that the much-vaunted ‘£22 billion black hole’ in the public finances was clarified by the OBR to be just £9.5 billion – smaller than the black hole Reeves has basically made for herself with her own economically illiterate interventions.

Perhaps Rachel from Accounts would be better suited to the complaints department than running a major economy?

Stop Press: Andrew Griffiths has spotted an “unexploded bombshell” in today’s OBR report: “The 300 pages of job-destroying Employment Rights Bill has NOT been reflected in today’s forecasts.”

💣 This is the unexploded bomb shell from todays OBR. 💥

The 300 pages of job destroying Employment Rights Bill has NOT been reflected in today’s forecasts.

When that is – and bear in mind not a single employer supports that Bill – it can only mean further downgrades. 📉 pic.twitter.com/OfBIdDgz4W

— Andrew Griffith MP (@griffitha) March 26, 2025
Tags: BudgetEconomyLabourRachel from AccountsRachel ReevesTax Rises

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago

Ffs. Are we already falling for the next thing?
Are we going to start throwing the old stones at each other over this by highlighting every idiot that offends us to galvanise our opposition?

This was an operation, Israel knew it was coming, they allowed it to happen, just like the US security apparatus did for their 9/11.
It times well with the collapse of the Ukraine operation, and the failure of the vax operation before that.

We are getting played and the players have no guilt, shame or remorse for inciting and allowing the mass deaths of innocent people…on all “sides.”

Get your skeptic hat on Will. That’s why we’re here.

Besides you can’t fulfil the apocalypse without war in the Holy Lands.

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anbak
anbak
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Great sceptical comment, thank you! I’m sure that you are correct, at least with some of what you say.
Certainly a disappointingly hysterical article from Mr Jones, worthy of the MSM..

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Jonathan M
Jonathan M
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

What a load of utter garbage.

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anbak
anbak
1 year ago
Reply to  Jonathan M

Why is it ‘utter garbage ‘?

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

Because anger and disgust have been activated, reason and lessons learned from past red flags are forgotten.

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

So you don’t know what a red flag is.

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

No one is asking you to.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Can you reason with the Israelis on the issue that they have stolen someone’s homeland? Just musing.

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RDG
RDG
1 year ago
Reply to  Smudger

they haven’t

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  RDG

The Ottoman census states there were more Christians (9%)living in Palestine than Jews (3%) in the 1880s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)

It has been written that Jew, Christian and Moslem lived harmoniously until the Ashkenazi Zionist’s from Eastern Europe and Russia raised their flag on that soil. Some claim the Askhenazi can no more trace their lineage to the tribes of Israel than a hottentot tribesman.

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Take a 😴

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Pilla
Pilla
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

I believe that you are absolutely right: this is the next false flag. Everyone should read MiriAF on this – she’s spot on (as usual). As she says: ‘Israel has one of the most extensive and successful spy networks in the world (second only in power and scope to the CIA). Therefore, the idea that the vastly less well-resourced Hamas would have been able to plot these attacks completely under the radar is ludicrous – utterly fictitious and implausible’. We are being gaslit, yet again.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Pilla

“best in the world” does not mean infallable. Terrorists only have to get it right once while those protecting themselves have to get it right every time.

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Pilla
Pilla
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

I agree but I still think it extremely unlikely that he Israelis were unaware that this was about to happen. I’m afraid I am in agreement with MiriAF on this one (https://miriaf.co.uk/).

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Pilla

You are ofcourse entitled to think whatever you want.

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Pilla
Pilla
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

I may be wrong. Time will tell.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Presumably the 5,000 Hamas missiles were brought in to Gaza at night time on camouflaged wagons; the paragliding fighters did their training in Afghanistan or similar and battle plan meetings were conducted in schools. Bullets and grenades were delivered by Amazon.

I see.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Funny————Maybe Hamas have Amazon Prime and get all their missiles with next day delivery. I would also recommend that new Double Air Frier.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

If your going to make extraordinary claims you need extraordinary evidence. I hear a lot of people remark that America was complicit in 9/11. I hear them say the buildings could not possibly collapse in the way they did. Despite none of them being structural Engineers or architects. So what evidence have you? And I don’t mean a David Icke video.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Did I read that the Torah says something similar about we goyim?

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
1 year ago

Yet if she had said the covid vaxx is poison and ivermectin works against covid, she’d have already been suspended and they’d be preparing to strike her off.

If she feels so strongly, why doesn’t she pop on over and join the fight? After all, she thinks unarmed civilians should stay and fight people who are armed to the teeth. Off she goes, she can show us how it’s done. That would definitely be a win for everyone.

She certainly needs to be fired – how can any Jew or Israeli who might need treatment run the risk of having that as their ‘doctor’?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

Thanks Jane, you said it for me.

Without question this woman is not fit to be employed in medical services. She should be sacked and put on the first available plane to Egypt.

If she wants to include politics as part of her Hippocratic oath then she needs to treat Palestinians only.

Mennah Elwan’s values do not belong in British society.

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

She wrote: “Israel kills Palestinians everyday, didn’t see anyone caring,”

Fact.

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Smith

Because of msm indoctrination…

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anbak
anbak
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yes sure she’s a bit bonkers, but sadly we have to seek far and wide to find professionals to work in the NHS nowadays.. As this young Egyptian medic shows, the perspective of what is happening in the Middle East is very different depending on which part of the world you come from..

She might possibly be a bit Leftie and woke, but she is primarily a Muslim from Egypt, and this is her perspective.

I am a huge admirer of Jewish culture and all that it has, disproportionately, done in the advancement of Western civilisation. However that doesn’t excuse the way the State of Israel has treated the Palestinians since 1948, most especially those incarcerated in poverty in Gaza since 2005.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

If doctors conduct themselves according to the Hippocratic oath then politics would never crop up in the delivery of medical services. When politics interferes with medicine the medics should declare their position.

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anbak
anbak
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

In the current climate, it’s regrettable that she has had her opinions publicised in this country, but she is entitled to them.
I don’t agree with them, but if that’s what she thinks, as a educated person currently living in the West, it’s not unlikely that many of her compatriots will be thinking likewise, perhaps with some justification.

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Myra
Myra
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

I truly worry about her lack of empathy though.

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john ball
john ball
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

One can understand why those living in Gaza are embittered but their grievance should be with the Arab countries who kept them trapped there since 1948 rather than resettle. However tragic in 1948 500000 Arabs left Palestine either forced out, frightened or following instructions from the Arab countries to leave to clear the way for their armies, to be replaced by the same number of Jews forced out from Arab countries. For example in Baghdad where Jews had lived for over 2000 years they were a third of the population and the largest community. There are none there now and very few Christians. In Israel 20% of the population is Arab, so Christian Arabs probably feel safer there. However tragic to put the numbers in some perspective at the end of the 2nd World War the boundaries of Poland were all moved west so Eastern Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia became Polish and the western parts of Poland became part of the Soviet Union. 9 million Germans were expelled to the west to be replaced by 4 million Poles from what is now in Ukraine and Byelorussia.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

Laughing off murder isn’t ‘a bit bonkers’

‘They had it coming’ isn’t an acceptable response.

You come to live here, you should reflect honestly on the privilege, and leave your garbage outside (although given the last few years I did struggle with that sentence.)

We’ve imported far too much of “other people’s politics” into our society.

We don’t need doctors so much that we should ignore such sentiments. She should be invited to leave.

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Shirespeed
Shirespeed
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

No, we don’t ‘have to seek far and wide’, we could ad a G7 country train our own medical staff, and not poach them from other countries who can less afford their training.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

In our drive for medical professionals and people it seems in every other line of work in this multicultural mass influx we are importing the whole worlds sectarian problems.

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A. Contrarian
A. Contrarian
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

I think the main issue is, she will probably get away with this whereas if she had said that trans women aren’t women she would already be packing her boxes. Or maybe not, since she isn’t white.

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RDG
RDG
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

how silly
‘incarcerated’ … who?
those who wish every last one of you were dead
when its an existential fight to the death I think sublets go out the window

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

If she was Christian her feet wouldn’t touch the floor. The BBC would be all over it till she was hounded out.

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Myra
Myra
1 year ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

And her apparent lack of empathy makes her completely unfit to treat patients.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
1 year ago
Reply to  Myra

Indeed. All this muttering about false flags and why is the DS not more sceptical is rather irrelevant to this particular article. Yes, I believe there are some big question marks about what happened and why and I am leary of this leading to intentional escalation.

Nor do I believe the woman should be silenced, she is entitled to say such things in a free country – at least she shows herself for who she truly is.

There is a difference, however, between claiming to be standing on the side of people you feel are oppressed and you believe are standing up for themselves and showing outright glee in senseless slaughter of the very weakest in society, simply for the sake of slaughter (with the definite knowledge that the slaughter would automatically lead to more slaughter on the side claiming to be oppressed). If you are a doctor, you must be willing to treat any person who is injured or in need of care – if you feel like this, you are in the wrong profession, and you definitely have no business espousing these views if you are on the public payroll.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Myra

Absolutely.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

So given that ”In war, the first casualty is the truth”, what do we make of this? I guess we’ll find out soon enough because no doubt they’ll revel in filming and uploading the atrocities they’re bound to commit.

”Al-Qassam Brigades threatened Monday that from now on, they will execute hostages if Israeli raids continue to target innocent civilians in their homes.
Abu Obaida, the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said: “We have decided to put an end to the Zionist crimes against our people.”

He continued: “Any targeting of our people without prior warning will be met with the execution of a civilian hostage.”

This is a developing story.”

https://en.royanews.tv/news/45107/2023-10-09

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

This was the most recent update from 2hrs ago;

”Hamas threatened to begin broadcasting the executions of Israeli hostages taken in Saturday’s attack against Israel.on Monday.
A spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, a branch of Hamas, warned in an interview with Al-Jazeera that the group would begin killing one hostage for each Israeli airstrike that lands in Gaza without forewarning. He added that the executions would be recorded and broadcasted to the public. Israel has carried out more than a thousand airstrikes in Gaza since the Hamas attack Saturday.

Israel has yet to respond to the ultimatum, but the Israeli Defense Forces have deployed tens of thousands of troops to the area around Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also warned that a ground invasion may be imminent, telling President Biden that “we have to go in.”
Israel has already cut off supplies of water, electricity and fuel to Gaza. So far, Israeli air strikes have killed some 560 people, according to Hamas-run authorities.”

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/hamas-attack-israel-war

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anbak
anbak
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

This is the way terrorism/war is conducted when one side has overwhelming military power. The weaker adversary creates publicity and outrage (aided and abetted by the Western media, of course, who lap it up, to justify their side’s brutality).

In a few weeks time, Palestinian fatalities will be in the order of ten times higher than Israeli ones, as they always are. This will be regarded as justifiable, due to Israel’s alleged moral superiority, despite it’s appalling treatment of the residents of Gaza over decades.

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johnboy12
johnboy12
1 year ago

All Wars are Bankers Wars.

Some have lost the ability for compassion. Almost all perception is now sifted through a prism of ideology & indoctrination.

It may be time to think, for a moment, a little more clearly and ask the question

Cui bono?

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  johnboy12

“All Wars are Bankers Wars”….
They are, and who are the bankers……

Last edited 1 year ago by Jon Smith
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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  johnboy12

Yes this documentary is doing the rounds. Did you watch it? I haven’t gotten round to it yet but everyone’s raving about it.

”This might be one of the most important documentaries that anyone can watch right now given current events and escalations between Hamas, Israel, Iran, and the US.

All wars are bankers wars.

If you are still caught up in the left vs right, Israel vs Palestine, Ukraine vs Russia narratives, treating geopolitics and war as if it’s a football game where you are rooting for one side to win as the real moral authority, then you need to take 45 minutes out of your day to watch this in full.

I’ve shared this documentary already weeks ago and a lot of people saw it and appreciated it, but I think it’s now more important than ever for as many people to see it as possible and to really understand the profound and eye opening truth behind those words, and how EVERY SINGLE conflict has had powers above it funding both sides with nefarious intent behind it and a broader agenda that is not in the true interests of the people.”

https://twitter.com/Inversionism/status/1711161404772806973

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johnboy12
johnboy12
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I have watched it and I agree, it’s important to watch as an aid to understanding that pretty much every significant conflict has, at its inception, a motive that is principally driven by private bankers. Division of people along lines of race, religion, gender, nationality, age, sexuality, etc are all opportunities to stoke hatred and further the interests of those that profit from the fallout of such tragedies.

We have already heard ‘it’s going to be a long war..’..ring any bells?

I find it strange how one doctors vile comments are now front and centre in such garbage as The Mail, as ever a rag to scream out state scripted rage for the mob. I am saddened to see them offered up here on the DS as to further the narrative. It also highlights how even here, where visitors may have learned over recent years to distrust mainstream narratives, have fallen into line in condemnation of one side over another.

Wherever one sits in their thinking on this and similar issues, it might be wise look inwards and consider what has lead us here, why and in whose interests is it

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago
Reply to  johnboy12

So the following are all bankers wars?
The French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, Cambodia’s Year Zero, the Invasion of Korea and Vietnam by China and Chinese backed guerrillas, Russia’s wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Syria, North Caucasus, Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Dagestan, Tajikistan, North Ossetia-Alania, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Iran Iraq war.
There have been 32 Military Coups in Africa (look at the weapon of choice – AK47), there is the ongoing Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in India, the 45 left wing or Marxist guerrilla groups in South and Central America (there are only 3 US backed guerrilla groups); In other words the deliberate destabilization of sovereign countries.
In all the usual Marxist propaganda papers like China Daily or The Morning Star it is only ever the west, and particularly the US that is criticized for causing wars or daring to stop Marxists revolutionaries. Capitalism and colonialism is blamed for all the ills of Africa while the Marxist revolutionaries make every effort to bring about many ills using war and instability.

“Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Mao

“To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses.”
Lavrentiy Beria

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

I think this lady puts it perfectly and I 100% concur with this. Civilians always come off the worst in war and yet callous scumbags are behaving like this is the World Cup. 🙁

”Pick a side? I side with the people. Civilians. All of them.
I’ve been to Israel. My father lives there, in Jerusalem.
I’m half Palestinian. But I have numerous amazing, lovely Jewish friends.
My doctor is Jewish.
The news, once again, isn’t giving you the whole truth.
The VAST majority of Palestinians are not a hateful or violent people.
On the contrary, they’re some of the most loving, welcoming, family-oriented, intelligent people I’ve ever seen.

They love their children, just like you do. They spend their time talking, dancing, sharing the most amazing food with extended family, every day.
They greet others warmly with hugs and kisses, always. They live their lives with a smile on their face, despite living in very oppressive circumstances.
The ones parading around dead babies or stoning women are a very SICK and FEW minority.
But they get all the headlines.

What happened to Jewish civilians is mind-bogglingly Horrific.
What’s happening to Palestinian civilians is mind-bogglingly Terrible.
This is not a situation to be cheering for any one side.
This is a complex, dark, TRAGEDY.
There are 2 million human beings crammed into Gaza. Most have no ability to leave.
50% of Gaza is children.
If you find yourself cheering the fact that they’re now cut off from food, water, electricity…
That children will now slowly starve to death or be blown up…
If you want to “wipe out” 2 million civilians…
I urge you to step back & evaluate where your heart is & what the media may be doing to you.
I encourage you to look deeper than the leading news headlines, meant to divide & elicit emotion.
If we have to pick a side, I invite you to join me in supporting innocent HUMAN BEINGS, of all types.”

https://twitter.com/NaturallyFTW/status/1711392992953606563

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

The Israeli authorities have been careful to state that they are at war with Hamas. Hamas is not the Palestinian people who Hamas clearly have not thought for, knowing the response their action would bring.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

Yes exactly. Hamas need to be obliterated but they’re using the Palestinian people as human shields, who they blatantly couldn’t give a f*ck about or they wouldn’t have attacked Israel, slaughtering civilians like they did and not expect full retaliation, but now they’ve the hostages and will proceed with making demands and god knows how that will end. I’m just wondering what horrors I’m going to wake up to tomorrow morning. This is completely f*cked up. I can’t predict how this will end. 🙁

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john ball
john ball
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

As I have commented earlier on the original numbers leaving Palestine to be replaced by a more or less equal number of Jews from Arab countries and resettlement then while not perfect should have been possible, given the example of Germany and Poland after World War 2; but for the absolute refusal of the Arab counties to try and work something out. Now it is much worse but most Arab counties seem now prepared to engage with Israel except for Iran, and it does not look like anything positive will happen before there is a change of regime in Iran.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

She surely can’t retain her job since her views don’t align with those of her employers.
This is racist hate speech of the worst kind, and this woman should not be acceptable under any circumstances in this country.

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago

Israel.. A gangster terrorist State…

https://fb.watch/nA4zf4ELPz/

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago

The festival was held just outside the biggest concentration camp in the world.
It didn’t go down well with the inmates who have suffered 17 years of Israeli incarceration and 75 years of persecution and death.
comment image

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anbak
anbak
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Very good graphic. Unemotively, the slaughter at the festival was like a meeting of two realities, similar to migrants boats washing up on beaches full of tourists on the Canary Islands a few years ago.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

“If there is an enduring image of how Israel so completely embodies the most obscene elements of settler colonialism, it is young, carefree Israelis holding a rave on the edge of an open-air prison, encaging 2 million Palestinians.
The Western media presents Hamas’ attack on this festival of dance as the ultimate savagery. And savage it was. But the much greater savagery is thinking it normal to party in full view of the torture chamber that is Gaza.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-west-hypocrisy-jailbreak-stomach-turning

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Agree, these younger generation Israelis have been indoctrinated with such superiority, did they honesty think the conduct of their country would never bear consequences.
I don’t condone any waste of human life but how can the Israelis think that this was not inevitable.

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anbak
anbak
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

Funny all the downticks in response to your bar graph evidence.. I wonder how those people responded to the data evidence about Covid/excess deaths, vaccine injuries/deaths etc?
Either you believe the data or you don’t.

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

Quite, perhaps they think the data is fabricated, their msm bias is so indoctrinated even factual data fails to convince..
Astonishing considering, as I understood the DS was supposed to be a more open minded readership..

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Jane G
Jane G
1 year ago
Reply to  anbak

The downticks tell me that there are approximately 30 members of something like the 77th hovering around this site.

The woman quoted in the piece does seem to be getting away with speech that would not be tolerated by her employers were it directed at other minority groups, and it will be interesting to see if she is still in post in the next week or two.

As a free- speech advocate I can’t complain about what she is saying but the old adage about being condemned out of your own mouth seems to apply here.

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Scunnered
Scunnered
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

This bar graph doesn’t illuminate in isolation and without context. At the hands of whom did they die? What was the sequence of events that led to their deaths? Is there a report that goes with that provides such context?

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago
Reply to  Scunnered

Here is the web page the graphic came from.
https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-casualties-by-in-gaza-and-the-west-bank/

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Scunnered
Scunnered
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Thanks. Okay, read the accompanying text and it doesn’t really surprise me that casualties are much higher in Gaza given that Hamas’s MO appears to be to poke the bear and then hide behind civilians in full knowledge of what is coming. Interesting that UN appeals to cease fire after Saturday’s events; would they ask any other country to do the same?

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The old bat
The old bat
1 year ago

The thought that a young vibrant person can, one moment, be active, happy and dancing, and then, a few hours later, they are viewed as ‘remains’, I find deeply sad.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  The old bat

I do hope this woman is fully up to date with all her boosters.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago

I’m late to this discussion , it’s raised some hairs ! More than most ! Let’s cut to the chase ! The situation in Israel / Gaza is a complicated mess & the festival attacks seem similar to the Paris Bataclan atrocities ! The article is based on this doctors view of the tragic events ! She will not be alone with these sentiments ! HOW can you be a Medical Professional & gloat over healthy people being destroyed ! It just shows that if you indoctrinate children this is what you get ! Will she be can celled ???.. let’s see !

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HereAmI
HereAmI
1 year ago

It’s highly arguable that this entire situation was a completely cynical set up by Mossad and its “international partners,” – which usually means CIA / MI6.
Hamas, as is widely known, was an Israeli operation to counter the influence of the PLO.
Nobody can surely believe that they would have launched what is clearly a suicidal operation against a state which regularly shows what contempt it has for non jews; and which is heavily armed and completely ruthless and psychopathic whenever and wherever it shows its face, unless they were encouraged to do so, and probably supplied with rocket fuel too.
Those not supporting the Palestinians probably ought to stop clutching their pearls and go and live in Gaza themselves for a couple of weeks to understand what truly horrific conditions the occupiers force the aboriginals to live in – not least of which are the children, who are exposed to jewish nazism from birth, and thus are psychologically raped on a daily basis.

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  HereAmI

Thank you… The Israelis have made a rod for thir own back over the past decades by the desensitisation of the Palestinian people, as they are far more accustomed to death than the Israeli people.

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Scunnered
Scunnered
1 year ago

Did the residents of Gaza not elect Hamas? Do 77% not approve of their tactics? The people of Gaza should seek better representation than those who will use them as human shields. You cannot reason with people who brutalise and rape young women, snap their legs in two and then parade them around. You cannot reason with people who have your obliteration front and centre of their charter.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago

And my tax is paying for this numpty…Nice….

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

It’s difficult to see how her statements comply with the Hippocratic Oath. I would not wish to be treated by a bigot who condones violence; I would not trust her to “first do no harm” ….. and I’m not even Jewish.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago

And Laurence Fox was arrested for comments on X allegedly supporting removal of ULEZ cameras, but this piece of merde’s remarks are OK? What’s Plod doing? Or could it be she is broadly in line with the thinking of the Left-colonised Establishment?

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago

“Despite what you might think, no, Palestinians are not celebrating death. We do not look at the news and rejoice over the number of Israelis killed. We do not salivate at the sight of blood drenched bodies. Despite what you might think we are not evil. We do not look at death and feel happiness.
The “joy” you might be seeing is the idea that for the first time in history we might have a chance to reclaim our land. We might have a chance to end the occupation, we might have a chance to open Gaza’s borders, to visit our family without reprisal and to escape from torturous prisons.”
https://hebhjamal.substack.com/p/despite-what-you-think-palestinians?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=363132&post_id=137772419&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6x3tl&utm_medium=email

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john ball
john ball
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

There is/was in fact quite a lot of intercourse between those living in Gaza and Israel with a prospect of some normalisation, but this is ruined from time to time by Hamas and Iran

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Scunnered
Scunnered
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

I don’t think Saturday’s actions will have gone any way to progressing those hopes and aspirations. Quite the opposite, in fact. Why does Egypt refuse to open its border with Gaza?

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago
Reply to  Scunnered

The Israeli occupation destroys the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian and Gaza borders, and all relief trucks return to Egypt as a result of the intensity of the Israeli bombing. “Two Egyptian workers were injured by shrapnel. “The only crossing linking Gaza in the world.”

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Scunnered
Scunnered
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

Forgive me but Israel
doesn’t occupy Gaza, does it? It withdrew unilaterally in 2005 and dismantled all settlements there. Borders are tightly controlled, yes (the question is why). When were two Egyptians injured? Over the past few days since the attacks from Hamas? Or at some other time? Is the intensity of bombing a direct result of these attacks or are you saying Israel bombs the Egyptian border regularly?

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Epi
Epi
1 year ago

Probably a bit late to the party but worth listening to Vanessa Beeley. Funnily enough she doesn’t think it’s a False Flag.

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-9th-october-2023

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