Rachel Reeves/TTKStarmer/Angela Rayner, and the rest of this brainless Labour government all endorse the removal of the Winter Fuel Payment from the majority of pensioners.
This, they say, has to be done in order to help fund an alleged £22 million ‘Black Hole’ in our economy (never mind that a very significant portion of this claim is actually caused by the current government’s actions, such as hyper-inflationary public sector pay awards).
But it doesn’t matter, the Labour government says, because rises in the State Pension next financial year will give out slightly more than the Winter Fuel Payment, so pensioners will be better off – except that the pension rises are already, in fact, in place to combat inflation for pensioners – so the money is already spoken for, and it’s not there to cover for the lack of Winter Fuel Payments.
In addition, any such pension rises are not even paid in the same financial year during which the Winter Fuel Payment will be removed. Also, the increase in pensions takes a full year to realise in total, so won’t, in fact, hit pensioners’ pockets until April 2026, having been deprived of the winter Fuel Payment in Autumn 2024, and Autumn 2025 !
Then, also, they say, too many pensioners are not claiming the benefits they’re entitled to (such as Pension Credits), so they should claim these, and then the lack of Winter Fuel Payment won’t matter.
Except that they used to be able to claim both….now they can’t.
And the final piece of the jigsaw is that it has been calculated that if a large number of people start claiming the Pension Credits they don’t claim today, then this could exceed, by millions of pounds per annum, any money saved by cutting Winter Fuel Payments in the first place…… and this excess will have to be paid for year after year.
There was an old nursery rhyme/ Harry Belafonte song, which sort of epitomises this kind of planning…. “There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza..”
“David Lammy sparks diplomatic row with blog post on Armenia crisis Foreign Secretary called ‘callous’ for saying Azerbaijan had been able to ‘liberate’ territory in conflict described as ethnic cleansing”
Our values ….
“Welcome to Bradford 2025, your next UK City of Culture. We’ve just revealed the first events for our thrilling year of culture, creativity and the arts – and we’ll be announcing much more in the months to come. See you next year.
” https://bradford2025.co.uk/
Maybe we shouldinvade Afghanistan again to save one life?
“UK nationals and former interpreters stranded after British forces pulled out of Afghanistan have told the BBC they feel abandoned. Now hundreds are fearing for their safety following a UK government data breach.
Ahmad, not his real name, is in hiding in Afghanistan. He is one of more than 250 Afghan interpreters and local staff whose names and some profile pictures were mistakenly shared in a Ministry of Defence data breach.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58639895
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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation into a data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.
More than 250 people seeking relocation to the UK – many of whom are in hiding – were mistakenly copied into an email from the Ministry of Defence.
Their email addresses could be seen by all recipients, showing people’s names and some associated profile pictures.
China has appointed a new ambassador to Afghanistan, signaling its growing support for the Taliban. While other countries have not formally recognized the emirate, China’s decision to appoint a new ambassador demonstrates its willingness to make its support more explicit without de jure recognition. China has already signed oil and mining deals with the Taliban, and has shown interest in investing in Afghanistan’s mineral deposits.
22 billion black hole … “He says Labour has increased support to Ukraine, committing £3bn a year of military aid to the country “for as long as takes”” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c05glg08712t
Andrew Lawrence telling it straight in 3 minutes flat – no laughs today.
Some might disagree with his comment on Netanyahu, but the rest is indisputable.
PS. The map shows all the violent dysfunctional states from Libya to Afghanistan, from Turkey to Yemen. What could they all have in common, I wonder?
Answers on a postcard to the BBC, who are too thick – or ideologically blinkered – to understand.
Planned reductions in UK aid spending
Following the Taliban’s capture of Kabul in August 2021, increased UK commitments meant Afghanistan became the UK’s largest bilateral aid programme, with spending rising to £286 million in 2021/22.
However, as set out in its 2022 and 2023 annual reports, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) plans for UK bilateral aid to Afghanistan to fall by around 47% from 2021/22 to 2024/25 (from around £286 million to £151 million). In 2023/24, the UK expects to spend around £100.4 million, before rising to £151 million in 2024/25.
Just think – very soon – what he says here will be banned …
He’d make a good Reform MP ( so would I)
It’s really difficult to see a future for Britain – the decline on all fronts appears to be unstoppable – facilitated by Far Left self harm
My foreign policy amounts to – if it’s good for the British – then ok . If there is no real gain – then we don’t want to know …
We’d pull out of as many international agencies treaties and charities and laws as possible … no overseas aid …no foreign wars …. And maybe even dumping the UN …
Glasgow University to pay £20m in slave trade reparations
This article is more than 5 years old
Institution believed to be first British university to set up restorative justice scheme
I hate to be a Jeremiah, but I fear the decline is unstoppable and irreversible.
Demographics, immigration, reproduction rates, and the infiltration and indoctrination of all our institutions.
ll told, we calculate that around £2.3 billion in UK aid went to India between 2016 and 2021, including £441 million in bilateral aid, £129 million in investments via FCDO in Indian enterprises which generate returns, £749 through multilateral channels, and £1 billion in investments through BII. BII’s substantial portfolio of investments in India has been generating returns, but these are reinvested to help it meet its global financial returns target.
BBC oi! The Sunday drama was a BBC commissioned ‘re-imagining’ of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe where Robinson Crusoe was already living on a S. American beach and it was Man Friday who was a black African sailor enslaved and thrown overboard from a ship. I think that was the plot but I may have misunderstood the BBC’s twists and turns to make whitey a bad man and all immigrants, especially Africans, good people. I would direct the BBC to the front pages of the newspapers that they show on their web-site here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy94lr0n707o . What do they show? An African (OK, Egyptian African) who was a monster abuser!
Vlad – I wonder if the CPS would be good enough to publish their reasoning behind refusing to prosecute Fayad the Rapist ? I wonder if the victims got a copy ?
Rather than going on about the emotions of the victims – those involved in investigation and prosecution decisions need to be looked at – were they bribed ? Threatened ?
“Al-Fayed terminated his partnership with Adhan Kashoggi, and secretly withdrew £100,000 from Kashoggi’s Al Nasr trading company. Kashoggi later issued a writ against Al-Fayed for the return of the money, and later agreed with Al-Fayed to forgive the money and other loans and debts for Samira’s freedom to remarry and return to Egypt”
“Fayed later claimed that he was owed $2 million by the Haitian government, although the 1988 DTI report into Al-Fayed’s background stated “we have no doubt at all that Mohamed Fayed perpetrated a substantial deceit on the government and people of Haiti in 1964 … he deprived the harbour authority of over US $100,000 of money it could ill-afford to lose” [24]”
You know what would pile even more pressure onto free gear Keir and his feckless @UKLabour government? If the news broke about why former chief whip Nick Brown was suspended from the party exactly two years ago, the subsequent investigation that never really happened and why… pic.twitter.com/Sm2xNYIdpM
If Starmer believes what he says (he obviously doesn’t btw) then he should tell us and apply some of that “honesty, transparency, accountability and integrity”. pic.twitter.com/l80HS1sTr7
Seems the pension industry is overwhelmed by people trying to cash in their pension and get the 25% tax free cash ( their money ) before the reds get hold of it …
It would be strange if the reds – by their words and conduct – trigger a recession at a time when the economy was looking as though it was picking up ….
Atlas – look – why throw in that last line ? Those with dirty /romantic minds will jump to conclusions – others will imagine the checkout at Tesco / John Lewis ….😎
Sorry to be vague. The mad-marxists are doing everything to bring our economy into crisis. I did not want to help them in the trashing of our economy by being specific.
atlas_shrugged, the Government will increase inflation if they increase the duty payable on diesel and petrol and possibly increase ‘sin taxes’ on alcohol, cigarettes, sugar & salt. Can the Labour Government be trusted with the UK economy? Look at what happened last time during the period 1997-2010!
“Nick Brown, a veteran Labour MP and former chief whip, has announced he has resigned from the party over a long-running internal disciplinary process involving him that Brown said had become “a complete farce”.
In a lengthy and furious letter, Brown said he would not stand again at the next election, in part because he is now 73 and has been in parliament for 40 years.
However, he said this decision was made against the “backdrop of a long-running internal Labour party disciplinary process against me – a process which I consider (and am advised) is so fundamentally, and inexcusably, flawed that I can no longer engage with it”.
Brown, the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East since 1983, who was chief whip for every Labour leader from Tony Blair onwards, had the Labour whip suspended in September last year after a complaint was lodged against him under the party’s independent complaints process.
In his letter, released via the legal firm Carter-Ruck, Brown said the complaint, the details of which have not been made public, came from “a political rival within the party” and concerned an alleged event said to have taken place more than 25 years earlier.
He said: “To be clear; the accusations against me were, and remain, entirely false, without even the faintest germ of any truth to them. Not only had they never previously been made in the ensuing 25 years, they had never been so much as hinted at, whether by that individual or anyone else.”
Saying there was “no proper corroborative evidence”, Brown lambasted the way Labour had handled the claims and the time it had taken, saying that at first he had assumed he could trust the party’s disciplinary system.
He added the claims made against him “were very serious and it was important that they were looked at properly”.
However, Brown wrote, the process “has been structured, and conducted, in such a manner as to lack even the most basic of procedural fairness and evidential safeguards”.
As examples, he said Labour had refused to hold a disciplinary hearing in person, or to allow his lawyers to directly question the complainant, and that he and his legal team considered the evidence to be hugely thin.
“Despite my hopes that good sense, legal propriety and basic natural justice might prevail, it has become increasingly clear to me not only that I cannot possibly expect a fair hearing, but that this process is a complete farce,” he wrote.”
“LABOUR were made aware of multiple allegations of criminality against former Chief Whip Nick Brown but did not alert the police.
The veteran Newcastle MP was suspended from Labour in 2022 over allegations that were never made public.
But The Sun understands Labour made no contact with police despite the serious nature of the complaints.
Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood told Times Radio: “Nick Brown’s case has resolved itself because he has stepped down.”
She defended Labour’s internal complaints process that uses outside legal advice, as previously “the public might be concerned that people are letting their friends off the hook and we are not in the business of doing that.”
She added it is for complainants to decide “if they wish to go to the police”.
His website says he is no longer an MP and sort of implies his seat has been ‘reshaped ‘… any damage that can be done to the reds is most welcome …. Must be time for a strike ..
Someone made a fake account in my mum’s name and I reported it – trusting facebook to remove it.
A week later I got this message:
‘As our review team is focused on the most severe cases with potential for real world harm, we’re not able to review your report.’
Seems to be the way of the world now. The art of being a bad guy is knowing exactly where the red line is. As thousands of ‘travellers’ and other ‘Enrichment’ will attest.
General Milley Ignored Trump Order to Deploy Nat. Guard at US Capitol Prior to Jan. 6 – Then After J6 Riots, He Reportedly Placed Military Under His Control While He Was Holding Secret Calls the Chinese https://t.co/tOaQq8bhJG#gatewaypundit via @gatewaypundit Military tribunal…
QOTD: “Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.” Harry Truman.
I’ve always found Marr skin itchy-creepy-crawly.
Forensic Fanclub needs a hashtag #ForensicFanclub
thread:
I've been wondering, knowing what we do now, why the Forensic Fanclub were so keen to install Starmer. I still can't work it out. Surely they must have known how useless he is? And the damage he'd do? #FreeGearKeirhttps://t.co/c726zyab5U
I presume ‘stability’ means that the whole MSM (and especially the BBC) are not trying to discredit and destroy the government or anyone they see as a threat for their own left-wing agenda.
Sue Gray gave Labour super donor Lord Alli his Downing Street pass. Lord Alli gave Sue Gray's son Liam Conlon a £10,000 donation to his GE constituency campaign. Rotten, rotten Labour. It's unravelling. pic.twitter.com/3CvmMqOLir
What do the woke-supremacist bosses at TV local news have for us today ?
Real news ? No, little of that, PRasNews is easier
ITV have long item “Amal the giant child refugee puppet, is visiting Hull today”
Is that news ? the puppet visits every year , this probably the third time
I switch over and simultaneously BBC local news is doing the same item
..this time adding an interview about it with a LibDem councillor who are probably the ones who set up this PRasNews item.
ITV 2 tarty weather women local/national
BBC tarty weather woman, then a bloke in suit and tie.
TV is not about real world , it relies heavily on beauty.
Isn’t that great news ? Single people are not going to lose their 25% council tax discount this budget – there’s always next time ….source DT quoting Treasury …however all first born will seized by the state
Yasser DasmibehbiDec 22, 03:46 Weekend 21st December 2024 I found this interesting. https://youtu.be/tA8zz7niOy0?si=YwrTyvtMxLn2vVvH
StewGreenDec 22, 00:14 Weekend 21st December 2024 Youtube just pushed a video at me that invading North Korean troops had been smashed cos they were using 19th…
StewGreenDec 22, 00:09 Weekend 21st December 2024 “Jawdropping” propaganda from woke-Supremacist BBC and police https://youtu.be/IMuafLX0xhQ
GreencoatDec 21, 23:22 Weekend 21st December 2024 Mantel was a deeply unpleasant, dishonest person. And her books? Next to unreadable.
tomoDec 21, 23:12 Weekend 21st December 2024 Trump shooter…….. https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1870474697676325217
Lazy CatDec 21, 22:39 Weekend 21st December 2024 And that ‘Let’s get ready to rumble’ announcer is still going. He was doing the Tyson fights back in the…
Lazy CatDec 21, 22:35 Weekend 21st December 2024 Right going to watch the Fury fight now. The build up has been about 5 hours long. I think 4…
Lazy CatDec 21, 22:28 Weekend 21st December 2024 Indeed. I’ve seen few NK documentaries down the years. In a few of them, I’ve seen clips and interviews with…
Got a few traveller camps around here…..
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Let me just get this right….
Rachel Reeves/TTKStarmer/Angela Rayner, and the rest of this brainless Labour government all endorse the removal of the Winter Fuel Payment from the majority of pensioners.
This, they say, has to be done in order to help fund an alleged £22 million ‘Black Hole’ in our economy (never mind that a very significant portion of this claim is actually caused by the current government’s actions, such as hyper-inflationary public sector pay awards).
But it doesn’t matter, the Labour government says, because rises in the State Pension next financial year will give out slightly more than the Winter Fuel Payment, so pensioners will be better off – except that the pension rises are already, in fact, in place to combat inflation for pensioners – so the money is already spoken for, and it’s not there to cover for the lack of Winter Fuel Payments.
In addition, any such pension rises are not even paid in the same financial year during which the Winter Fuel Payment will be removed. Also, the increase in pensions takes a full year to realise in total, so won’t, in fact, hit pensioners’ pockets until April 2026, having been deprived of the winter Fuel Payment in Autumn 2024, and Autumn 2025 !
Then, also, they say, too many pensioners are not claiming the benefits they’re entitled to (such as Pension Credits), so they should claim these, and then the lack of Winter Fuel Payment won’t matter.
Except that they used to be able to claim both….now they can’t.
And the final piece of the jigsaw is that it has been calculated that if a large number of people start claiming the Pension Credits they don’t claim today, then this could exceed, by millions of pounds per annum, any money saved by cutting Winter Fuel Payments in the first place…… and this excess will have to be paid for year after year.
There was an old nursery rhyme/ Harry Belafonte song, which sort of epitomises this kind of planning…. “There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza..”
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Apologies – the so-called ‘Black Hole’ is £22 Billion.
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22 billion minus free gifts = 0 billion?!
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14 years in GOV …. H AH AHA HA HAH AHHAH!
“Jenrick: Celebrating English Identity “Should Be a Mainstream View””
order-order.com
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Ah… chanting Labour … eh?
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Thanks to this mob
Britain is in jail
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2018 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9H5V3Hn1U8
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Our values …..
“David Lammy sparks diplomatic row with blog post on Armenia crisis Foreign Secretary called ‘callous’ for saying Azerbaijan had been able to ‘liberate’ territory in conflict described as ethnic cleansing”
Our values ….
“Welcome to Bradford 2025, your next UK City of Culture. We’ve just revealed the first events for our thrilling year of culture, creativity and the arts – and we’ll be announcing much more in the months to come. See you next year.
” https://bradford2025.co.uk/
Our values …..
London in an ‘awful place’ with Jews ‘scared stiff’, Assembly told
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/mark-rowley-london-jews-sadiq-khan-london-assembly-b2440513.html
Our values ……..
She then gave donations to politicians, including Labour MP Barry Gardiner, who received more than £420,000 from her.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59990451
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From what I saw not many took up the offer of chanting Britain is back
Most look pretty bored.
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No, no, no, the reporter got that wrong.
Here, let me correct it: “Britain is Black”
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Britain is Back (c) David Lammy …
https://i0.wp.com/skwawkbox.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/palconf1.png?ssl=1
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BBC FIND PEOPLE WHO AGREE p.s. don’t show how many people had to be interviewed to find this favourable outcome! HA HA HA HAHA
“‘I hate Trump, she likes him – we both think he staged assassination attempts’”
“we both think he staged assassination attempts” – conspiracy theories are ok sometimes! HA HA HA HAHA
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Maybe we shouldinvade Afghanistan again to save one life?
“UK nationals and former interpreters stranded after British forces pulled out of Afghanistan have told the BBC they feel abandoned. Now hundreds are fearing for their safety following a UK government data breach.
Ahmad, not his real name, is in hiding in Afghanistan. He is one of more than 250 Afghan interpreters and local staff whose names and some profile pictures were mistakenly shared in a Ministry of Defence data breach.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58639895
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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation into a data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.
More than 250 people seeking relocation to the UK – many of whom are in hiding – were mistakenly copied into an email from the Ministry of Defence.
Their email addresses could be seen by all recipients, showing people’s names and some associated profile pictures.
The MoD has apologised in a statement.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58629592
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China has appointed a new ambassador to Afghanistan, signaling its growing support for the Taliban. While other countries have not formally recognized the emirate, China’s decision to appoint a new ambassador demonstrates its willingness to make its support more explicit without de jure recognition. China has already signed oil and mining deals with the Taliban, and has shown interest in investing in Afghanistan’s mineral deposits.
https://www.orfonline.org/research/china-courts-the-taliban
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22 billion black hole … “He says Labour has increased support to Ukraine, committing £3bn a year of military aid to the country “for as long as takes””
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c05glg08712t
He adds “the most fundamental threat our world faces” is the “climate emergency”, pledging to “restore Britain’s climate leadership”. Lammy says Labour will lead a “new global clean power alliance because climate matters”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c05glg08712t?post=asset%3Ac190df11-51b8-4013-8088-39bbf83c56aa#post
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Andrew Lawrence telling it straight in 3 minutes flat – no laughs today.
Some might disagree with his comment on Netanyahu, but the rest is indisputable.
PS. The map shows all the violent dysfunctional states from Libya to Afghanistan, from Turkey to Yemen. What could they all have in common, I wonder?
Answers on a postcard to the BBC, who are too thick – or ideologically blinkered – to understand.
“Warmongering inbreds”
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Planned reductions in UK aid spending
Following the Taliban’s capture of Kabul in August 2021, increased UK commitments meant Afghanistan became the UK’s largest bilateral aid programme, with spending rising to £286 million in 2021/22.
However, as set out in its 2022 and 2023 annual reports, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) plans for UK bilateral aid to Afghanistan to fall by around 47% from 2021/22 to 2024/25 (from around £286 million to £151 million). In 2023/24, the UK expects to spend around £100.4 million, before rising to £151 million in 2024/25.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2024-0002/#:~:text=Following%20the%20Taliban's%20capture%20of,286%20million%20in%202021%2F22.
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Just think – very soon – what he says here will be banned …
He’d make a good Reform MP ( so would I)
It’s really difficult to see a future for Britain – the decline on all fronts appears to be unstoppable – facilitated by Far Left self harm
My foreign policy amounts to – if it’s good for the British – then ok . If there is no real gain – then we don’t want to know …
We’d pull out of as many international agencies treaties and charities and laws as possible … no overseas aid …no foreign wars …. And maybe even dumping the UN …
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Glasgow University to pay £20m in slave trade reparations
This article is more than 5 years old
Institution believed to be first British university to set up restorative justice scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/23/glasgow-university-slave-trade-reparations
“Our mutual recognition of the appalling consequences of that past – an indictment of Scottish inhumanity over centuries towards enslaved Af
ricans – are the justifications that are at the root of the modern-day racism that we fight now,” he said.
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Many societies throughout history have practised slavery, and Muslim societies were no exception.
It’s thought that as many people were enslaved in the Eastern slave trade as in the Atlantic slave trade.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml#:
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I hate to be a Jeremiah, but I fear the decline is unstoppable and irreversible.
Demographics, immigration, reproduction rates, and the infiltration and indoctrination of all our institutions.
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The way I understand this country nowadays I’d make an excellent nazi, albeit a faaarrrrr right one.
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ll told, we calculate that around £2.3 billion in UK aid went to India between 2016 and 2021, including £441 million in bilateral aid, £129 million in investments via FCDO in Indian enterprises which generate returns, £749 through multilateral channels, and £1 billion in investments through BII. BII’s substantial portfolio of investments in India has been generating returns, but these are reinvested to help it meet its global financial returns target.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-india-66576580
India makes history as Chandrayaan-3 lands near Moon’s south pole 23 August 2023
https://icai.independent.gov.uk/html-version/uk-aid-to-india-review/
£2.3 billion in UK aid went to India between 2016 and 2021,
India makes history as Chandrayaan-3 lands near Moon’s south pole
£2.3 billion in UK aid went to India between 2016 and 2021,
India makes history as Chandrayaan-3 lands near Moon’s south pole
UK has a 22 billion black hole! HA HA HA HAHA HA HA
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BBC oi! The Sunday drama was a BBC commissioned ‘re-imagining’ of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe where Robinson Crusoe was already living on a S. American beach and it was Man Friday who was a black African sailor enslaved and thrown overboard from a ship. I think that was the plot but I may have misunderstood the BBC’s twists and turns to make whitey a bad man and all immigrants, especially Africans, good people. I would direct the BBC to the front pages of the newspapers that they show on their web-site here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy94lr0n707o . What do they show? An African (OK, Egyptian African) who was a monster abuser!
Shameful! You hypocrites, BBC.
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Aren’t we lucky they took out Dodi, or we’d have had the Phoney Pharaoh very close to the Royal Family.
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Vlad – I wonder if the CPS would be good enough to publish their reasoning behind refusing to prosecute Fayad the Rapist ? I wonder if the victims got a copy ?
Rather than going on about the emotions of the victims – those involved in investigation and prosecution decisions need to be looked at – were they bribed ? Threatened ?
Least it distracts from Huw …
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“Al-Fayed terminated his partnership with Adhan Kashoggi, and secretly withdrew £100,000 from Kashoggi’s Al Nasr trading company. Kashoggi later issued a writ against Al-Fayed for the return of the money, and later agreed with Al-Fayed to forgive the money and other loans and debts for Samira’s freedom to remarry and return to Egypt”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Al-Fayed
secretly withdrew = STOLE
for Samira’s freedom to remarry and return to Egypt = BALCKMAIL/RANSOM
HAH AH HA HAH A HAH AH HA!
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“Fayed later claimed that he was owed $2 million by the Haitian government, although the 1988 DTI report into Al-Fayed’s background stated “we have no doubt at all that Mohamed Fayed perpetrated a substantial deceit on the government and people of Haiti in 1964 … he deprived the harbour authority of over US $100,000 of money it could ill-afford to lose” [24]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Al-Fayed
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murky….
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Presumably he either gets the peerage or arrested … did this happen today ? At the start of the labour conference ?
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Seems the pension industry is overwhelmed by people trying to cash in their pension and get the 25% tax free cash ( their money ) before the reds get hold of it …
It would be strange if the reds – by their words and conduct – trigger a recession at a time when the economy was looking as though it was picking up ….
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Fedup
You are spot on about this. As a good lady said to me “There are quite a few people doing this”.
I won’t say where this conversation took place.
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Atlas – look – why throw in that last line ? Those with dirty /romantic minds will jump to conclusions – others will imagine the checkout at Tesco / John Lewis ….😎
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Fedup
Sorry to be vague. The mad-marxists are doing everything to bring our economy into crisis. I did not want to help them in the trashing of our economy by being specific.
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atlas_shrugged, the Government will increase inflation if they increase the duty payable on diesel and petrol and possibly increase ‘sin taxes’ on alcohol, cigarettes, sugar & salt. Can the Labour Government be trusted with the UK economy? Look at what happened last time during the period 1997-2010!
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RE Above, a little clearer if not transparent…
“Nick Brown, a veteran Labour MP and former chief whip, has announced he has resigned from the party over a long-running internal disciplinary process involving him that Brown said had become “a complete farce”.
In a lengthy and furious letter, Brown said he would not stand again at the next election, in part because he is now 73 and has been in parliament for 40 years.
However, he said this decision was made against the “backdrop of a long-running internal Labour party disciplinary process against me – a process which I consider (and am advised) is so fundamentally, and inexcusably, flawed that I can no longer engage with it”.
Brown, the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East since 1983, who was chief whip for every Labour leader from Tony Blair onwards, had the Labour whip suspended in September last year after a complaint was lodged against him under the party’s independent complaints process.
In his letter, released via the legal firm Carter-Ruck, Brown said the complaint, the details of which have not been made public, came from “a political rival within the party” and concerned an alleged event said to have taken place more than 25 years earlier.
He said: “To be clear; the accusations against me were, and remain, entirely false, without even the faintest germ of any truth to them. Not only had they never previously been made in the ensuing 25 years, they had never been so much as hinted at, whether by that individual or anyone else.”
Saying there was “no proper corroborative evidence”, Brown lambasted the way Labour had handled the claims and the time it had taken, saying that at first he had assumed he could trust the party’s disciplinary system.
He added the claims made against him “were very serious and it was important that they were looked at properly”.
However, Brown wrote, the process “has been structured, and conducted, in such a manner as to lack even the most basic of procedural fairness and evidential safeguards”.
As examples, he said Labour had refused to hold a disciplinary hearing in person, or to allow his lawyers to directly question the complainant, and that he and his legal team considered the evidence to be hugely thin.
“Despite my hopes that good sense, legal propriety and basic natural justice might prevail, it has become increasingly clear to me not only that I cannot possibly expect a fair hearing, but that this process is a complete farce,” he wrote.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/12/nick-brown-resigns-labour-complete-farce-disciplinary-process
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And, according to the Sun:
“LABOUR were made aware of multiple allegations of criminality against former Chief Whip Nick Brown but did not alert the police.
The veteran Newcastle MP was suspended from Labour in 2022 over allegations that were never made public.
But The Sun understands Labour made no contact with police despite the serious nature of the complaints.
Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood told Times Radio: “Nick Brown’s case has resolved itself because he has stepped down.”
She defended Labour’s internal complaints process that uses outside legal advice, as previously “the public might be concerned that people are letting their friends off the hook and we are not in the business of doing that.”
She added it is for complainants to decide “if they wish to go to the police”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27459255/labour-not-alert-police-nick-brown-allegations/
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His website says he is no longer an MP and sort of implies his seat has been ‘reshaped ‘… any damage that can be done to the reds is most welcome …. Must be time for a strike ..
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Having one’s seat reshaped ?
Sounds like a euphemism to me…..
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Zephir – yes – judging by the conduct of politicians it is either gonna be sex or greed or both … just like BBC types …
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Someone made a fake account in my mum’s name and I reported it – trusting facebook to remove it.
A week later I got this message:
‘As our review team is focused on the most severe cases with potential for real world harm, we’re not able to review your report.’
Seems to be the way of the world now. The art of being a bad guy is knowing exactly where the red line is. As thousands of ‘travellers’ and other ‘Enrichment’ will attest.
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I had unauthorised debits on my VISA card
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/ was an utter farce on every level….
I’d be easily persuaded that some in the establishment are content to let identity theft and fraud ferment , even aid and abet the scammers.
Facebook is an absolute cesspit of scams and scammers.
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I would say 95% of the ‘stories’ on there are totally fake clickbait.
The world is full of scumbags.
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QOTD: “Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.” Harry Truman.
I’ve always found Marr skin itchy-creepy-crawly.
Forensic Fanclub needs a hashtag #ForensicFanclub
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I presume ‘stability’ means that the whole MSM (and especially the BBC) are not trying to discredit and destroy the government or anyone they see as a threat for their own left-wing agenda.
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“Journalist and Broadcaster”
The fawning incestuous MSM needs taking down many pegs – defunding – some might say….
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Don’t mention the super injunction. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.
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What do the woke-supremacist bosses at TV local news have for us today ?
Real news ? No, little of that, PRasNews is easier
ITV have long item “Amal the giant child refugee puppet, is visiting Hull today”
Is that news ? the puppet visits every year , this probably the third time
I switch over and simultaneously BBC local news is doing the same item
..this time adding an interview about it with a LibDem councillor who are probably the ones who set up this PRasNews item.
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A giant inflatable Mrs Clooney appeared over Hull?
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ITV 2 tarty weather women local/national
BBC tarty weather woman, then a bloke in suit and tie.
TV is not about real world , it relies heavily on beauty.
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“All in the best possible taste” ©MCMXCV The Kenny Everett Estate
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“Acne and asthma sufferers to be cleared to join army”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lw1z0lej8o
Must be a conscription coming.
“In a speech to Labour’s annual conference, he will also announce …
But in a speech to the Labour conference on Monday, Healey will go further….”
Does the content of every single speech have to be pre announced these days?
Very strange.
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Isn’t that great news ? Single people are not going to lose their 25% council tax discount this budget – there’s always next time ….source DT quoting Treasury …however all first born will seized by the state
New thread time
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