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by Will Jones
6 October 2024 12:54 AM

  • “‘Not one girl could be shown to her parents’: The horrors of October 7th – as told by the survivors” – In a heartbreaking dispatch from the Telegraph‘s Allison Pearson to mark the anniversary, witnesses recall the heroism of victims and the true depravity of the attack.
  • “Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, says Trump” – The Presidential hopeful says Netanyahu should strike those targets first and “worry about the rest later”, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been silent for months – now some Israelis believe he has been killed” – The death of Hamas’s leader could open the door to a truce and hostage deal, reports the Telegraph.
  • “An interview with Brendan O’Neill about how the West failed the ultimate moral test” – On the Free Mind, Brendan O’Neill tells Laura Dodsworth that the West failed the moral test of Hamas’s October 7th pogrom.
  • “Hamas, Hezbollah and the Moral Corruption of the Left” – on Substack, Peter Baldwin takes a deep dive into why so many on the Left support murderous terrorists against Israel.
  • “Protesters march through London with ‘I love Hezbollah’ banners” – Ahead of the October 7th anniversary, pro-Palestinian activists have defied the police crackdown on displays of support for the banned terror group, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Ex-BBC World Service chief accused of appearing to defend Hezbollah” – The former boss of the BBC’s World Service Liliane Landor has been accused of appearing to defend Hezbollah by minimising the terror group’s presence in Beirut.
  • “Keir Starmer still doesn’t get it. This is the new expenses scandal” – Like the Telegraph’s scoop from 2009, the freebies furore shows how out of touch our ruling class can be, says the Telegraph.
  • “Starmer’s Government of service is committing to national self-harm” – What is the unifying ethos of the first 90 days of Labour’s rule? It seems to be doing this country down, or worse, says the Telegraph‘s Camilla Tominey.
  • “Labour’s surrender of the Chagos Islands will have Xi Jinping rubbing his hands with glee” – Britain is unwilling to resolutely stand up for its interests and those of our allies – and the West’s enemies know it, says Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
  • “U.S. Republicans fear UK Chagos Islands deal will boost China” – Senior U.S. Republicans attacked the British Government for its decision to cede control of the Chagos Islands, warning the move is a coup for Chinese interests, Politico reports.
  • “I fear for the Falklands after Starmer’s surrender” – The great fraud unravels, says Boris Johnson in the Mail. “When Keir Starmer presented himself for election, we had the vague impression that he was dull but straight. Look at him today, so deep in the trough as to be almost invisible.”
  • “Labour’s woke surrender of the Chagos Islands makes Britain look pathetic” – Moved by juvenile anti-colonialism, Starmer and Lammy have delighted our enemies and betrayed our interests, thunders Daniel Hannan in the Telegraph.
  • “Keir Starmer faces Commons vote on Chagos Islands handover” – Starmer will be forced to hold a vote on the Chagos Islands amid fury over his decision to hand them over to Mauritius, says the Telegraph.
  • “Britain must surely be the most gullible nation in the West” – Labour’s decision to hand over the Chagos Islands belies a serious flaw in Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’, says Yuan Yi Zhu in the Telegraph.
  • “Labour accused of ‘breaking rules’ by withholding winter fuel impact assessment” – Labour has been accused of breaching Cabinet Office guidance and the Ministerial Code by “deliberately withholding” the winter fuel impact assessment from MPs, reports the Telegraph.
  • “How Labour’s flagship tax policy is fast unravelling” – From bidding wars to breaking laws, Starmer’s VAT raid is dividing his party – and country, says Pieter Snepvangers in the Telegraph.
  • “Labour suffers a dozen by-election defeats in less than a month amid donations row” – Keir Starmer’s party has a net loss of 11 councillors in less than a month, while the Conservatives have taken four seats and Reform has gained two, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Boris the menace” – On Trust the Evidence, Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan wonder why there is no apology in Boris Johnson’s new memoirs.
  • “My electric car will be the death of me” – Why can’t an EV cope with cold weather, asks Dan Robinson in the Spectator.
  • “McPhy abandons 24MW green hydrogen project seven days after announcing it” – The French manufacturer said last week it would supply, assemble and commission two of its electrolysers in Central Europe, but the planned facility has now been scrapped, reports Hydrogen Insight.
  • “Chris Packham ‘forced to pay £200,000 to pensioner’ after libel case” – Chris Packham has been forced to pay £200,000 to a pensioner and country sportsman he was accused of pursuing “vindictively” through the courts – double the amount he won from suing Country Squire magazine.
  • “Doctors and the trouble with the BBC” – The BBC’s obsession with ramming progressive storylines down viewers’ throats is plain to see in each episode of Doctors, and it’s been cancelled not a minute too soon, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
  • “Snow White ‘named for her resilience not pale complexion’ in Disney remake” – Colombian-American actress Rachel Zegler, whose media interventions have already landed the troubled Snow White remake in hot water, says the character received her name because of her “resilience” in surviving a snowstorm, according to the Telegraph.
  • “Give the public sector a 30% pay rise – but take away their pensions” – Our leaders’ addiction to spending other generations’ money must be stopped, says Neil Record in the Telegraph.
  • “Labour rules out smartphone ban in schools” – Keir Starmer will leave the matter to headteachers despite parents’ fears over cyberbullying and other countries rolling out restrictions, the Telegraph reports.
  • “Fish and chip shop told to put fruit and veg on the menu by NHS bosses” – A new fish and chip shop is on hold in Wales after a health board which provides NHS services warned the proposed takeaway that it would be “detrimental” to people’s health unless it offered a range of nutritious side dishes, reports the BBC.
  • “Trigger warnings applied to museum photographs of English folk events” – Photographs of traditional English folk events have been given trigger warnings by the North Lincolnshire Museum over fears that images of people in blackface costumes could offend, reports the Telegraph.
  • “For the anniversary of October 7th I sat down with the mighty Natasha Hausdorff” – On X, Winston Marshall speaks to lawyer Natasha Hausdorff about how Israel is turning tragedy into victory, the truth about the founding of state in 1948, how Biden-Harris and the international community turned their back on the Jews, and more.

For the anniversary of October 7th I sat down with the mighty Natasha Hausdorff

How Israel is turning tragedy into victory

The truth about the founding of state in 1948

How Biden-Harris and the international community turned their back on the Jews

And much more…

LINKS BELOW pic.twitter.com/okCj5HufYO

— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) October 5, 2024

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Monro
Monro
7 months ago

‘Not one girl could be shown to her parents’: The horrors of October 7th – as told by the survivors‘

‘…they were shot many times in the face….’

‘…women who had clearly been awake when they were murdered….their mouths, their teeth, were in grimaces and their hands were clenched, if they had hands’

‘People were shot in the breast, they were shot in the crotch, and that was not done to kill them’

‘…one body….still had a knife stuck through her mouth.’

As well as Jews, there were Christian, Druze, Hindu and Muslim victims’

U.N.:

‘….conflict related sexual violence-including rape and gang rape-occurred across multiple locations of Israel Oct 7th’

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
7 months ago
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And because of what happened, Israel has to win. And we should have no illusions that Hamas would not do the same to our daughters.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
7 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Well exactly. But you know the resident terrorist-supporting Jew-haters will be along in a mo to refute that and call all of those woman and officials liars, right? And yes, there absolutely were victims other than Jews, but anyone living in Israel is The Enemy, according to the delusional ones.

”Only Israel can be attacked by terrorist armies on seven fronts and be labeled by the UN as the aggressor.”

https://x.com/HillelNeuer/status/1842795559889105194

”Because…there’s an 8th front.

An unconventional war – that systematically co-opted & weaponized the int’l rules based order & human rights industry entrusted to uphold & protect it equally & consistently – to demonize, delegitimize & apply double standards to Israel.”

https://x.com/CotlerWunsh/status/1842798579947299032

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Insurrectionist
Insurrectionist
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Your constant polarisation of debate is utterly imbecilic

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
7 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Every MP should be required to read it.

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CGW
CGW
7 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

The question is, is it all true or is it pure Israeli propaganda?

I could strangely access the article this morning but now I am required to take out a subscription to the DT which I refuse to do (I cancelled a subscription ages ago).

As far as I read, the article succeeds in inciting total hatred against all Palestinians because of horrendous actions supposedly carried out by a few. Sufferers’ photographs are shown and lucid details of atrocities described. But is it all true? Previous claims of atrocities (rape, beheaded babies, baked babies) have in the meantime all been proven false. Is this report different?

The report mentioned Thousands of Palestinians were tragically killed but where are their life stories, their hopes and dreams, their names, their photographs?

The stories of the few released or freed hostages told a different tale, a tale of respectful treatment – until such people were no longer allowed to talk to the free press.

Who knows?

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CGW
CGW
7 months ago
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If you want chilling reports of war, here is another one.

Scott Ritter held an impassioned speech at a recent US peace rally, citing the story of the death of Hind Rajab, a six-year old Palestinian girl:

There is only one name I have to put out there for you to have horror in your hearts and that is Hind Rajab, a six-year old girl who was in a car with her relatives. Machine-gun bullets ripped through the car, fired by the Israelis, killing her family, leaving her and her 15-year old cousin [Layan] alive but wounded. They picked up the phone and they called for help. Within minutes, the machine-guns opened up again and killed her cousin, leaving the six-year old girl alone with dead relatives, on the phone begging for help, pleading for help, crying for help. They tried to send help, they sent two paramedics – very brave men – who went out there from the Red Crescent Society; they cleared the path; they got approval from the Israelis to go there and rescue this six-year old girl. They got within sight, fifty metres away, they said “We see her, we see the car”. They got out of the ambulance and they were immediately gunned down by the Israelis – murdered. Their crime? Trying to rescue a six-year old girl.

She is on the phone, begging for help. “Please help me, please come to me”, a six-year old pleading for help, and what did the Israelis do? “The tanks are coming closer” she said, “I’m afraid, the tanks are coming closer”.

The lady on the other end had her pray, had her recite verses from the Quran. And then the machine-guns opened up for a last time and they murdered her.

All you need is one name and yet I can give you 40,000 to 190,000 names of Palestinian civilians who have been murdered in Gaza by the Israelis. Their crime? Wanting to have a homeland, wanting the same thing we want: a place we can call our own, a place we say “This is my home, this is where I’ll raise my family, this is where future generations will learn to live in peace with their neighbours”.

But, no, the Israelis do not want to live in peace. They will steal the land of others so that they can prosper while suppressing the ambitions, the desires, the hopes and dreams of millions of people who are innocent: they are only guilty of one thing – being born in a concentration camp, an open-air concentration camp.

At the time (end of January 2024), the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) released audio recordings of the conversations with Hind and her cousin, Layan Hamada, which resulted in an international outcry, whereupon the Israelis tried to suggest the victims were not killed by their tanks but by Hamas. Al Jazeera therefore funded a forensic examination of the evidence (https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-killing-of-hind-rajab).

The bodies of Hind and her six relatives were found inside their vehicle, a Kia Picanto. The state of the vehicle was documented by journalists on the ground following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area twelve days after the car was attacked. In addition to 335 bullet holes, it appeared the car had been run over by an Israeli bulldozer.

The bodies of the paramedics, missing since the evening they were dispatched to rescue Hind, were discovered in the ambulance about 50 metres away from the car. An exit hole of approximately 23x26cm was identified in the left rear door of the ambulance, consistent with the impact of a 120mm tank round. The ambulance appeared to have additionally been run over by a tank.

Hind Rajab, her four cousins and her aunt and uncle left in the early hours of 29th January 2024 from a home in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City, driving north. Hind’s mother witnessed shots being fired at the car from an intersection to the north of the home but thought they were still alive because they turned slightly left afterwards. She thought they must be safe, they would go to a safe spot.

Around 2:30pm, the first call to PRCS dispatchers came from Layan Hamada. At that time, Layan was the only other survivor in the car besides Hind. The PRCS later published a 28-second clip from their recording of the call. An excerpt is translated below:

Layan: They are shooting at us. The tank is next to me.
Operator: Are you hiding?
Layan: Yes, in the car. We’re next to the tank.

After a series of audible shots, Layan can be heard screaming until her voice stops abruptly, twenty seconds into the call.

After Layan was killed, six-year-old Hind was the sole survivor in the car. PRCS dispatchers made and maintained intermittent contact with Hind via phone. Israeli permission for an ambulance to proceed to Hind’s location arrived at 5:40pm, shortly after sunset. Paramedics Yusuf al-Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun were dispatched in an ambulance from al-Ahli Hospital. They reached the site at about 6pm and were shot at upon arrival.

Control room: Can you see the car?
Ambulance: I can’t see a thing here.
Control room: Do you have your siren and flashing lights on?
Ambulance: Just the lights, not the siren.
Ambulance: … oh there it is!
[explosion]

It was not sufficient for the Israelis to kill children and paramedics, they obviously felt impelled to run over the vehicles with their tanks.

Can you imagine the stress Hind suffered, surrounded for hours on end by her dead relatives, with murdering tank crews close by? Can you imagine the stress suffered by the PCRS dispatchers trying to comfort Hind in the last moments of her life?

The US Department of State was questioned on the matter by journalists on multiple occasions but always refused to comment.

The problem is that Hind Rajab’s fate was the death of one child among thousands of children directly killed by the Israelis, or indirectly killed by the deprivation of nutrition or medical supplies – not to mention all the fathers, mothers, sons and daughters also killed during this conflict.

Israel is not defending itself. Israel is attacking and killing Palestinians, and now thousands of Lebanese. When will this madness end? 

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CGW
CGW
7 months ago
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Thousands of Palestinians were tragically killed as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) tried to root out an enemy which used billions of charitable aid to build itself a network of tunnels …

Amazing hypocrisy, admitting thousands of Palestinians were tragically killed but ignoring the fact that at the same time millions of these Palestinians had been locked up in Gaza for numerous decades, are still imprisoned there today and are still being bombed and starved by the wonderful Israelis.

There is no denying the tragedy of war which is why all wars should immediately be stopped by the international community. The tragedy of the deaths of thousands of children because of Israel’s indiscriminate bombing and the immeasurable pain caused to the parents by each death is unfathomable.

But there is no point just reading one side of the story and ignoring the reasons behind these conflicts.

And billions of charitable aid? Hardly credible but certainly credible are the billions spent by USA in supplying Israel with all the bombs and artillery it requires.

The only answer is peace and peace requires negotiations, i.e. talking, not more violence.

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Monro
Monro
7 months ago
Reply to  Monro

By aligning with Russian interests, Ritter has effectively become a mouthpiece for Kremlin propaganda. His statements and media appearances are carefully crafted to support Russian geopolitical goals, from justifying the annexation of Crimea to criticizing Western sanctions. This alignment not only tarnishes his credibility as an independent commentator but also underscores the extent to which he is willing to compromise his integrity to maintain his platform.

Ritter’s actions serve as a stark reminder of the dangers of aligning with authoritarian regimes. His transformation from a respected UN weapons inspector to a controversial and discredited figure illustrates the corrosive impact of abandoning ethical standards in favor of ideological expediency. For those who follow in his footsteps, Ritter’s downfall should serve as a cautionary tale of the perils of prioritizing personal gain over truth and integrity.

Ritter’s personal conduct further tarnished his reputation. In 2001, he was caught in a police sting operation and charged with attempting to solicit sex from a minor. Ritter managed to avoid a long prison sentence by pleading guilty to a lesser charge, but the incident severely damaged his public image. His legal troubles did not end there. He faced additional arrests for similar conduct in subsequent years, including a 2009 arrest that led to a conviction for unlawful contact with a minor and a sentence of up to five years in prison.

The 2001 incident involved Ritter communicating with undercover police officers posing as a 14-year-old girl.

Following the Iraq War, Ritter’s commentary became increasingly conspiratorial. He began to align with far-left and far-right figures who opposed U.S. foreign policy. His appearances on fringe media platforms grew more frequent, and his arguments began to reflect narratives pushed by adversaries of the United States, particularly Russia.

Ritter’s transformation into a fringe figure was complete when he started appearing on Russian state media outlets like RT. His criticisms of U.S. policy found a receptive audience in Russia, where his views were amplified to serve Kremlin interests. Ritter’s commentary on the Russo-Ukrainian War and other geopolitical issues began to mirror Russian propaganda, raising questions about his motivations and credibility.

Ritter also suggested that the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, was a false flag operation orchestrated by Western intelligence agencies to discredit Russia.

These positions placed Ritter firmly in the camp of those who viewed Western actions as inherently nefarious and aligned with Russian geopolitical interests.

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CGW
CGW
7 months ago
Reply to  Monro

And your qualifications are?

Should you be classified as a nefarious supporter of Banderite oppression against ethnic Russians and Palestinian genocide? I hope not.

The purpose of the DS comment sections is to hopefully accumulate knowledge and perhaps appreciate the existence of opinions that may differ from our own.

If you have an alternative opinion to what anyone writes, you are welcome to express it. Claiming a particular person has no right to express an opinion is apparently a UK government task and thankfully not that of a DS subscriber.

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Monro
Monro
7 months ago
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A former top United Nations weapons inspector caught in an online sex sting was convicted in the US late yesterday for exchanging explicit messages with who he thought was a 15-year-old girl in a chatroom and then performing a sex act on himself.

Scott Ritter was in fact exchanging the messages with a detective posing as the underage girl. Neither Ritter, who will be sentenced next month, nor his lawyer, commented outside court in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Ritter, one of the UN’s chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, resigned after accusing the US and the UN of failing to get tough with Saddam Hussein. He later said that Iraq had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction and became a vocal critic of the US invasion.

The jury in his trial deliberated two days before finding Ritter guilty of six of the seven charges against him.

One was a misdemeanor, indecent exposure, and the rest were felonies, including three charges of unlawful conduct with a minor, criminal attempt to corrupt a minor and criminal use of a communications device.

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CGW
CGW
7 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Convicted of … performing a sex act on himself? Oh dear, is that illegal now?

He actually claims he is innocent, or tricked. Who knows? Who cares? The question is whether his extensive knowledge of the conflicts in Ukraine and Palestine should be suppressed – I think not.

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Monro
Monro
7 months ago
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Scott Ritter, 49, exchanged sexual messages with a detective posing as an underage girl and masturbated even after the undercover officer stressed during the chat that she was a minor…

Kohlman acknowledged in his closing argument that jurors were likely to be “troubled and offended” by the graphic chat and video of Ritter that prosecutors played, but they were required to put aside their personal distaste because “this is not a referendum on whether anybody in the courtroom approves of adult chatrooms”.

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CGW
CGW
7 months ago
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Have you been convicted of a sexual crime? Have I? Who knows? Julian Assange was, so nobody may quote any of his statements: the government will be pleased.

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Monro
Monro
7 months ago
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Assistant district attorney Michael Rakaczewski said Ritter was convicted “by his own actions and by his own words on the stand.”

At one point during the trial, the jury watched a graphic video recording of a nude Ritter performing a sexual act captured on his computer web camera for young “Emily.”

Posing as “Emily,” Detective Ryan Venneman twice gave her age as 15. 

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CGW
CGW
7 months ago
Reply to  Monro

You may print as many lurid and sordid details as please you, the fact remains that Scott Ritter’s speech at the New York peace rally was touching and truthful (anyone can Google “Hind Rajab”), and he is a highly respected individual and highly sought after for his knowledge on military matters, especially the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

On the other hand, the veracity of the report you cited may be questioned since the Israelis have been found guilty of fabricating monstrous lies in the past (e.g. https://thegrayzone.com/2023/12/06/scandal-israeli-october-7-fabrications/, https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/03/washington-post-erases-israels-request/, https://thegrayzone.com/2024/02/22/israeli-hamas-debunked-western-media/).

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Monro
Monro
7 months ago
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Hacked emails and other documents from the Iranian government-funded Press TV show payments of thousands of dollars to Wyatt Reed, a writer who is now a Washington-based editor for the online publication Grayzone.

In addition, the site’s founder, Max Blumenthal, regularly appears on Russian television and once accepted a trip to Moscow for a celebration of Russian state-controlled video network RT

Ritter is a convicted sex offender, having been caught exposing himself to minors online on several occasions. He served a year and a half in prison. Despite this, he claims he was being targeted by the US administration for his opposition to the war in Iraq.

“If you follow the local Russian news as it reports on Ritter’s grand tour of Russia, in local outlets such as the Kazan or Izhevsk news, none of them mention his arrest record and conviction,”

“They don’t even say, ‘oh this man was wrongfully imprisoned, it was a conspiracy against him.’ They just don’t mention it at all.”

Ritter, unlike the people on the sanctions list, “gets a chance to reinvent himself and feel good about himself again, and the Russians will let him do it,”

‘People like him turn to Russia and to the cold yet very confining embrace of the Russian government because they’re opportunists….They see a financial and career opportunity by working for and with the Russians….the very same bureaucrats who are enabling Russian fascists today and are enabling this attempt at a genocide in Ukraine.’

Ritter is an example of a typical disgraced American – often a man – who discredited himself in the US and now wants to be perceived as a source of “honest analysis” in Russia as a means to achieve renewed or increased glory.

“Desperate men like him have frequently come to Russia to get a fresh start. It’s true that Russians will overlook anything as long as you’re useful to them. They don’t care,’

A useful idiot and convict…..

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soundofreason
soundofreason
7 months ago

“Keir Starmer faces Commons vote on Chagos Islands handover” – Starmer will be forced to hold a vote on the Chagos Islands amid fury over his decision to hand them over to Mauritius, says the Telegraph.

Perhaps while they’re at it they might reaffirm their commitment to keeping Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.

Mind you, any promise made by Sir Keir ‘Faithless’ Starmer should be treated with great suspicion.

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The old bat
The old bat
7 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Waste of time, because, as with the vote on the winter fuel allowance, any potential dissenters will be ‘whipped’ into nodding it through. What a lily livered bunch.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
7 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Northern Ireland will remain in the UK as long as a majority in Northern Ireland want it. This is guaranteed by the Good Friday Agreement, which no politician has the power to defy.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
7 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Oh! I hadn’t realised that they held a vote on the Chagos Islands. That’s different then.

the Good Friday Agreement, which no politician has the power to defy.

I admire your faith in Sir Keir. It’s more than he deserves.

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Arum
Arum
7 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Exactly – the Chagos Islanders weren’t asked when they were booted off their land in the first place and they are not asked again when they are handed over to Mauritius, as far as I can tell.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
7 months ago
Reply to  Arum

Just as a friend of my family was not asked when he was booted off his farm to make way for the US cemetery near Cambridge. He was offere compensation but when they told him why they wanted the land he refused. He noted the American dead had given more than hin and he accepted no compensatioin and never farmed again.

Fred(erick) Bailey 2 March 1903 to 9 December 1977.

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
7 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

I made no comment about the Chagos Islands. Anyone who thinks Northern Ireland is in any danger of leaving the UK against the wishes of a majority in Northern Ireland is living in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
7 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

What does current polling say on the issue?

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
7 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

As a resident of Cloud Cuckoo land, I expect that Northern Ireland, Gibraltar and the Falklands will all feature in this treasonous governments agenda. In many ways Northern Ireland has been ceded to the EU already.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
7 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

It will be interesting to see Milue’s stance on the Falklands, given that he believes Argentina has a claim on the Malvinas, (and the oil around them), yet the people want to remain British Subjects.

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Purpleone
Purpleone
7 months ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

Especially as Labour aren’t bothered about oil extraction now, given they think we can run the world on interuptable renewables…

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
7 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

Parliament is sovereign and can change any law.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
7 months ago

“My electric car will be the death of me” – Why can’t an EV cope with cold weather, asks Dan Robinson in the Spectator.

Don’t worry. When Global Boiling™ takes off properly, it won’t have to.

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Tonka Rigger
Tonka Rigger
7 months ago
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Yeah, it should happen aaaany day now….. honest…….

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soundofreason
soundofreason
7 months ago

“Snow White ‘named for her resilience not pale complexion’ in Disney remake” – Colombian-American actress Rachel Zegler, whose media interventions have already landed the troubled Snow White remake in hot water, says the character received her name because of her “resilience” in surviving a snowstorm, according to the Telegraph.

A University of Surrey professor who specialises in feminism and Disney princesses told The Telegraph…

Oh! Sorry, must have dozed off.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
7 months ago

This old footage of Iran, before it was fully Islamized and the terrorist death cult took control. Remarkable really;

”A friend of mine was a student during the revolution. She told me how the Left naively joined the jihadists to overthrow the government.

Immediately after the overthrow, the jihadists turned on them in a brutal purge, jailing and executing them.
Many also fled, there are a million Iranian refugees in the U.S. alone.

The vast majority of Iranians want a free, secular democracy. They’re oppressed by the jihadist terrorists who seized their country.

Iran (IRI) oppresses its own people and wages war on all its neighbors. It’s responsible for over a million conflict deaths in the region. It has inflicted its radical jihadist terrorism on every nearby country not strong enough to fight it off.

Today we see more naive Leftists being indoctrinated and used by terrorists towards their extremely illiberal agendas.

It’s time to free the Iranian people and bring peace to the region. It’s time to deradicalize the world.”

https://x.com/QuantumFlux36/status/1842812166292058330

https://x.com/dsisme48/status/1842179532113035753

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Yes this is a blueprint for what will happen to our useful idiot MP,s & all the wokesters who appease the ROP ! ( sorry you’ve been sniped at earlier Mogs btw 😉)

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Mogwai
Mogwai
7 months ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

😃
Oh that’s just my ‘resting bitch face’, Freddo>👹 Seems I’ve always had quite the knack of attracting certain obsessive, low IQ men with fragile egos on this site.🤭😸
What can I say? You either have it or you don’t. 🤷‍♀️😏

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
7 months ago

These naive journos who tell us ‘Starmer doesn’t get it’ don’t get it themselves.
As I posted yesterday, and will repeat relentlessly …
‘He’ll do whatever his Chinese overlords demand, and do it willingly.
Every action so far, inc open borders, carbon zero, wrecking the economy, benefits the CCP.
They humiliated a corrupt Biden and used their Democrat agents to destroy America using the same playbook.
If you want to understand Starmer’s next move, look east.
It is willing, deliberate, intentional and completely overlooked by our naive MSM.’

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

No question Kneel is committing treason but he is not on his own. The agenda the politicians are working to is certainly NOT the one that MSM are pushing.

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