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  1. Lucy Pevensey says:
    March 14, 2025 at 9:48 am

    https://twitter.com/RupertLowe10/status/1900252136526500319

    There is nothing controversial whatsoever about calling for the mass deportation of illegal migrants and foreign criminals. I make NO apologies for saying so.

    Nobody can actually explain to me why it’s an unreasonable view to take…
    Considering that it’s the position shared by a big majority of the British people, it is remarkably underrepresented in Parliament…

    I certainly support it. How many other MPs do?

    Tell me – what’s the alternative? Because so many illegal migrants have been accommodated, we’re not allowed to call for their removal? They just stay, forever, hanging around?

    No. Defeatist nonsense.
    It doesn’t matter if it’s one million or two million or three million, the objective has to be deportation.

    If you’re here illegally, you go. If you’re a foreign national and you commit crime, you go. If you break your visa conditions, you go.
    Any self-respecting country would apply these rules.

    Why is Britain any different? Why do we tolerate it?

    We’re told it’s not possible. Why? Logistics? Total and utter drivel.

    More than 357.6 million seats were available on flights departing and arriving in the UK in 2024. It can be done.

    The cost? Well, we manage to find billions to host these young men in hotels and pay for their upkeep. I’m sure a plane ticket home would be seen as a worthy investment.

    If countries won’t accept their deported citizens – suspend foreign aid, restrict visas, apply pressure. Do it alongside allies, I can think of a man who would help…
    It can be done. It just requires the will to do it.

    Can’t deport them because of the law? CHANGE the sodding law. The Great Repeal Act is required.

    I find this depressing acceptance that these illegal migrants are here forever so dispiriting. And if you say otherwise, you’re some cruel monster? Who cares what these people think. We will never win them over. It does not matter.

    Call it what you want, but I support mass deportations.

    And you should too.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 14, 2025 at 9:54 am

      “Ministers admit losing track of 5,600 asylum claimants”
      Published 19 January 2024 BBC

      “While there’s no publicly released, exact number for the UK’s terror watch list, reports suggest that around 3,000 individuals are considered a high priority by MI5, with a larger number of extremists, potentially over 20,000, being tracked. ”

      “MI5 had 40,000 jihadists on its terror watchlist. Sounds quite a lot…”
      https://x.com/AllisonPearson/status/1761074158107037844?lang=en-GB
      “There are obviously a small number of dangerous, radicalises Islamist elements. But I don’t think they’re the real problem. The bigger issue is the large number of liberal, white, middle-class activists who fetishise Palestine/Israel as their trendy cause of the moment.”

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    • Square-Eyed says:
      March 14, 2025 at 3:09 pm

      Correct me if I’m wrong, but when India achieved independence, and by virtue of partition Pakistan, wasn’t the assumption that most pink-skinned inhabitants would depart? Ditto most of the countries of the “new” Commonwealth. Is the United Kingdom not allowed to have her own independence and the power to decide who stays and who goes?

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  2. tomo says:
    March 14, 2025 at 9:54 am

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  3. AsISeeIt says:
    March 14, 2025 at 10:00 am

    We learn of Polygamous Working and The End is destined to flop edition

    “I’m afraid it’s very bad news..” – that was Daily Mail cartoonist, Pugh, making the frontpage with his comic sketch of a GP’s surgery where a doctor at his desk is breaking the bad news to an NHS England bureaucrat sitting in the patient’s chair – and what a fine apposite opener to today’s press review from your very own Mr AsI.

    NHS England to be axed as role returns to government control – observes our BBC somewhat complacently. Nothing at all to worry about (as our medics will tend to reassure us prior to some procedures and certain recent mass innoculations). Can we imagine how this axing might have been described had a Tory-branded government done similar?

    Speaking of rebranding: Ex-Aberdeen boss overruled advisors to push through ill-fated 2021 rebrand… as Abrdn… requested the asset manager exclude their firm’s name from marketing material (FT) – what a StpdCnt

    Even the Guardianista Guardian is somewhat guarded in its initial reception of this Labour rebrand reform: Streeting scraps NHS England in ‘high stakes’ to imporve care

    10,000 staff facing sack as Starmer abolishes NHS England – suggests the formerly serious Times.

    Frankly, I doubt it. They’ll be plenty of reshuffling of job titles, ‘rebranding’ (if you will) and lots of rehiring of staff as consultants – we can be certain of that.

    WFH… WTF…?

    Revealed: UK civil servant held three government jobs at same time without their bosses knowing… WFH is blamed for ‘polygamous working’ (i paper)

    ‘We live in a world where everyone is lying’ – fret the showbiz luvvies Tilda Swinton and Joshua Oppenheimer on the cover of the Guardian – a politically intended remark from people who work in a world of story telling and make a living from make believe.

    ‘Musicals can be quite sinister’: Tilda Swinton and Joshua Oppenheimer on bonkers bunker singalong The End… Inspired by a Russian tycoon’s survival bunker, the pair’s post-apocalyptic tale takes in environmental collapse, our facades and delusions – and big ol’ show tunes – I’ll make a point of missing that.

    Even the Guardianista Guardian is somewhat guarded in its initial reception: Naturally, The End won’t be to all tastes. It’s a strange and unclassifiable work of art, which is another way of saying that it’s awkward, ambitious and risks becoming opaque. The review in Variety decried the “turgid” 148-minute running time and lamented the lack of a conventional “thriller element”. The End, it concluded, “feels destined to flop”.

    Speaking of things destined to flop… how’s that Ukraine war against Putin workin’ out fo’ yer?

    Putin questions Ukraine ceasefire plan as new drone attacks reported overnight (BBC) – following month after month, year on year of our BBC droning on propagandistically about the failing Russian economy, Putin having some near-death illness, then Putin being close to being overthrown…

    I’m oddly reminded of that classic scene in the comic movie Carry On Up The Khyber (1969) – Tilda Swinton and Joshua Oppenheimer take note how satire can be both popular entertainment and way less turgid – dinner is served – the famous ‘stiff upper lip’ scene from, with Sid James, Joan Sims, Roy Castle, Peter Butterworth, Angela Douglas, Terry Scott, Kenneth Williams and Bernard Bresslaw. This iconic satirical moment, set during the British Raj, showcases a quintessentially British refusal to acknowledge chaos, as Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond (played by Sid James) and his dinner guests persist in maintaining decorum amidst the bombardment of their residency.

    And finally

    The giveaway Metro gives us gratis: Thin Lizzo Svelte star… juxtaposed with: PM targets ‘flabby unfocused’ quangos

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 14, 2025 at 10:05 am

      Carry On… Up the Khyber [Original Trailer]

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      Despite the homophobic jibes, the fat gags and the relentless groping of female characters, the films were seen as the ultimate in family entertainment. They didn’t seem so bad at the time. At the very least, we can credit Carry On Cleo, which starred Kenneth Williams as a neurotic Caesar, with giving us one of the great comic lines: “Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me.”
      https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/04/carry-on-films-working-class-heyday

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    • Fedup2 says:
      March 14, 2025 at 11:12 am

      Another industrial sized flop coming soon is a woke Snow White ( apparently ) with a new girl occupying the woke high ground once occupied by that girl who was in those potter films and the slightly more limp Kiera ..

      The latest iteration is – I understand – big for Hamas – and the like …

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  5. MarkyMark says:
    March 14, 2025 at 11:03 am

    “Another One Bites the Peanut Dust as Chabuddy G joins the Gladiators for Red Nose Day 2025
    A brand new ‘G’ladiator is stepping into the arena for Comic Relief!”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/chabuddy-g-joins-the-gladiators-for-red-nose-day

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    Stacey Dooley hits back at MP Lammy’s Comic Relief ‘white saviour’ criticism Published 28 February 2019

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47400300

    The Labour MP for Tottenham added: “My problem with British celebrities being flown out by Comic Relief to make these films is that it sends a distorted image of Africa which perpetuates an old idea from the colonial era.”

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    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-sudan-uae-israel-david-lammy-questions

    “British Foreign Secretary David Lammy pictured in Chad close to the Sudan border, 24 January 2025 (Stefan Rousseau/AFP)”

    “My problem with British celebrities being flown out by Comic Relief to make these films is that it sends a distorted image of Africa which perpetuates an old idea from the colonial era.”

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  6. Fedup2 says:
    March 14, 2025 at 11:17 am

    Looks like Rachel from accounts is transitioning the blame narrative – it’s gone from 14? Wasted years to president trump .
    From now on all will be president trump – surely they must withdraw the state visit – im sure the emir of windsoristan doesn’t want to meet a kaffir like him ?

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  7. vlad says:
    March 14, 2025 at 11:27 am

    “The West is facing an Islamic holy war” – Melanie Phillips.

    https://www.jns.org/the-west-is-facing-an-islamic-holy-war/

    WAKE UP!!!

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 14, 2025 at 11:35 am

      “What was most mind-blowing, she said, was the revelation from 1993 when the FBI wiretapped Hamas members in a Philadelphia hotel room and recorded them talking “about how to make their messaging more palatable to an American audience and how when they’re speaking to people on the left, they’re going to speak in terms of social justice and apartheid.””

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      The tiny mosque on the Outer Hebrides serving 60 Muslims
      Community hails UK’s northernmost mosque, which was completed with crowd-funding project led by charitable Yorkshireman.
      https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/6/15/the-tiny-mosque-on-the-outer-hebrides-serving-60-muslims

      Yorkshireman??????
      Yorkshireman????????

      In the years since, Rashid split his time between the construction business he founded in the city of Leeds, in the northern English county of Yorkshire, and helping those in need.

      Despite its compact size, it features a prayer room, a washroom and entrances for men and women.

      HA HA HAH A! Segregation! HA HA HAHA “entrances for men and women” SHUT IT DOWN EQUALITIES COMMITTEES!

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  8. Fedup2 says:
    March 14, 2025 at 11:33 am

    Good to see the UN judge convicted of slavery in Oxford has found attention in the US …. The left cannot play the race card because the lady is coloured. Apparently she went to an extremist hotbed called ‘Columbia university – twinned with Hamas Gaza ‘…

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  9. taffman says:
    March 14, 2025 at 11:54 am

    We are being invaded !
    Our jails are being filled up with foreign criminals. Time to get rid of the UK Border ‘Farce’ and replace with The Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
    Next time, vote for Reform UK.

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  10. wwfc says:
    March 14, 2025 at 12:25 pm

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  11. tomo says:
    March 14, 2025 at 12:39 pm

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  12. vlad says:
    March 14, 2025 at 12:41 pm

    Douglas Murray clash with Nigel Farage & Matt Goodwin “No point in Reform without mass deportations”

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  13. Terminal Moraine says:
    March 14, 2025 at 12:57 pm

    There is a noticeable absence of interest or countering voices to Starmer abolishing NHS England. BBC seem fine with jumping on the AI bandwagon and slashing depts and jobs. Contrast with their treatment of DOGE, where their knickers are in a twist over a bunch of unqualified tech bros trying to cut bureaucracy because “critics of [Musk’s] work see a simpler ideological motivation at play.”

    Starmer has no critics at the BBC so this kind of quango-busting is supported, because all it takes to placate the dimwits in W1A is to chuck in a catchphrase like “bringing it back into democratic control”.

    No curiosity about both states enacting Fourth Industrial Revolution diktats, but that would require some investigative journalism.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx29lrl826rt?page=2

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  14. digg says:
    March 14, 2025 at 1:22 pm

    The usual bunch of twisted lefty MPs are demanding a public inquiry into UK involvement in the “assault” on Gaza. Led by Corbyn of course….

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/13/we-need-a-public-inquiry-on-britains-role-in-war-on-gaza

    Maybe they should go back to the beginning which everyone knows was the invasion, assault and killing and hostage taking by Hamas which triggered the events that followed.

    A global public inquiry into Hamas and its bloodthirsty murderous actions maybe?

    With Hamas names put forward at the Global Criminal Court for retribution.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 14, 2025 at 1:25 pm

      The Iraq Inquiry (also referred to as the Chilcot Inquiry after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot)[1][2] was a British public inquiry into the nation’s role in the Iraq War. The inquiry was announced in 2009 by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and published in 2016 with a public statement by Chilcot.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Inquiry

      Tony Blair unrepentant as Chilcot gives crushing Iraq war verdict
      This article is more than 8 years old
      Sir John Chilcot delivers highly critical verdict on Iraq war but ex-PM says: ‘I believe we made the right decision’

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      While Islington has been cited as a challenging place for women to live in the UK, with factors like unaffordable housing and low life satisfaction, it’s important to note that it’s not generally considered the worst place to live overall, and the area has its own unique strengths.

      ……………..

      Jeremy Corbyn and Stanley Johnson apologise for Covid breaches
      This article is more than 4 years old
      Former Labour leader and PM’s father caught breaking laws on rule of six and masks
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/jeremy-corbyn-stanley-johnson-apologise-covid-breaches-mask-rule-six

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  15. wwfc says:
    March 14, 2025 at 1:26 pm

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 14, 2025 at 1:32 pm

      YouTube deletes half of ‘violent’ music videos
      Published
      29 May 2018
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44281586

      Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has blamed some videos for fuelling a surge in murders and violent crime in London – and singled out drill music.

      She asked YouTube to delete content which glamorises violence.

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  16. Fedup2 says:
    March 14, 2025 at 1:33 pm

    Excellent news – number 10 says the failing economy isn’t caused by Trump – but the chancellor says he is to blame .

    Therefore it must still must be blue Labour . … they’ll save the Trump blame until the Summer …

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 14, 2025 at 1:40 pm

      There was no £22 billion black hole – Rachel Reeves made it up
      “The OBR Review into DEL Forecasts yesterday shows that there was no £22 billion black hole – Rachel Reeves made it up as a pretext for tax rises”

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      • moggiemoo says:
        March 14, 2025 at 3:23 pm

        Why did she need to make anything up? We all know that taxes go up when Labour get into power because they’re the Labour party, it’s what they do.

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  17. tomo says:
    March 14, 2025 at 2:03 pm

    So Miliband Minor bicycles to Beijing….

    If bonehead thinks Swindon bacon sandwiches are terrible, the Chinese will hopefully serve him up some 鍋裏壯店 on camera and his aides will tell him when he has a mouthfull.

    Guo Li Zhuang

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  18. MarkyMark says:
    March 14, 2025 at 2:23 pm

    “The purpose of bureaucrats is to prevent people with a purpose from fulfilling said purpose — at least until the bribes have arrived” — Douglas Adams in “Last Chance To See”, quoted from memory.

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  19. Square-Eyed says:
    March 14, 2025 at 2:57 pm

    Today I learned that Keir Starmer’s middle name is Rodney. Never mind, to me he will always be Dave.

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  20. StewGreen says:
    March 14, 2025 at 2:59 pm

    The 3 uninsured cars video
    The establishment teaches some groups of people they are ENTITLED to break the law
    This cop didn’t go along with that

    https://twitter.com/db_fink/status/1900096166999568817

    Location given as Luton
    Can’t be sure of the date
    but there is this “or an intensive day of action yesterday, targeting uninsured driving in the Luton area.
    43 vehicles were seized for no/inadequate insurance, with a further 8 for offences such as no tax or no licence.”

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    • moggiemoo says:
      March 14, 2025 at 3:25 pm

      The other 25000 got away with it?

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      • Scroblene says:
        March 14, 2025 at 8:09 pm

        Mogs, Talk’s presenter, Kevin O’Sullivan, found that here in Kent, we pay around £22,000 p.a. for ‘asylum seekers’ to have driving lessons and tests!

        Apparently, this happens everywhere else, but as these foreigners invariably land here, to be ushered to a four star hotel, we get the brunt of the costs!

        It took a lone patriotic chap in Folkestone, – (Ian – Liam?) – to uncover the scandal, and hopefully, Kevin O’S will keep on about this! We currently have 5,500 illegals ‘cared for’ in our county!

        The total UK cost of welcoming and cossetting these illegals is now around £660,000,000…

        (And I’ve just had a flyer asking me to vote for conservatives in the KCC elections! Luckily, I’ve dumped it, otherwise, she’d get those figures blasted at her with as much fury as I can)!

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  21. Rich says:
    March 14, 2025 at 3:00 pm

    And so it begins here now as well, yet another ‘random’ stabby Arab.

    https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/counter-terrorism-police-investigating-nis-first-potential-islamic-terror-attack-following-belfast-stabbing/a130190163.html

    Unbelievably it’s on the local Bbbc webshite, with less detail obviously, neither reports give a name but they do give an age of 18, came in through the South from North Africa at 15.

    Alone? Unlikely.
    How many more are doing it? They have no effin’ idea.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8yw9702gxo

    Both quote the local plod,

    ‘Assistant Chief Constable Davy Beck said a motive had not been established but police were exploring a number of factors, “including the possibility that this was a hate crime, a mental health episode or driven by religious ideology”.’

    No possibility Davy boy, it’s definitely all three.

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  22. MarkyMark says:
    March 14, 2025 at 3:06 pm

    ““I believe, this Government believes, in free and open trade, and will continue to make that point. We are in negotiations at the moment for an economic agreement with the United States to try and ensure that British exporters are supported to export all around the world, including to the United States, and to ensure that they don’t push up prices for UK consumers with more tariffs.”

    Now Starmer’s spokesman has come out against Reeves’ comments, telling reporters that Trump is not to blame for the economy shrinking.”

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  23. MarkyMark says:
    March 14, 2025 at 3:27 pm

    Flying in 1979 It Was a New Experience

    Bernie Sanders Interviews Mall Punks (1988) [FULL]

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  24. MarkyMark says:
    March 14, 2025 at 3:53 pm

    “Take that shit out now”

    Black woman sees white woman with braids in her hair.


    Lefties Losing It: Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell roasted by Rita Panahi

    Student’s favorite revolutions – Afgan when American Imperialism lost to Islam

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  25. vlad says:
    March 14, 2025 at 6:36 pm

    We’re so screwed.

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  26. wwfc says:
    March 14, 2025 at 6:59 pm

    🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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  27. BRISSLES says:
    March 14, 2025 at 6:59 pm

    There was a time when we could go years without hearing a peep from POTAS. But now, Trump sneezes and the cameras are there to replay it back to us.
    What’s happened ? Why do we have to watch every speech from wherever he is in the States. OK when it relates to Europe or the war, but we know the inside of their stadiums better than our own at the moment as GBN show live action for 30+ minutes at a time.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      March 14, 2025 at 7:41 pm

      Brissles – US politics hasn’t been as exciting since watergate – the who plan of the Trump Administration is revolutionary and if it works will change the world . I never wanted to be an American – i do now .

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      • Zephir says:
        March 14, 2025 at 8:18 pm

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      • Scroblene says:
        March 14, 2025 at 8:21 pm

        Brissles, Fed, I guess that President Trump realised that a Biden ‘win’ would bring the US to its knees, and just waited until this time for his second term, after the democrats had mucked just about everything up… I always thought that he never really took them to task for nicking the fake presidency, he could have done much more!

        Just look at the sorry situation that the Kamala lot (who she…?), is doing now! They’re just flopping around, shredding the evidence and still in a daze, while The Donald cracks the whip for the US citizens and their business!

        President Trump is great at the long deal, and it seems that waiting four years was an inspred project for him, and others like him!

        Sadly it won’t happen here…

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        • Fedup2 says:
          March 14, 2025 at 8:27 pm

          Hello Scroblene – hope you are well . The 2020 fix was an unusually well planned and executed theft . I’d really like to know how they did it and got away with it ….

          I don’t think Trump could have done more to overturn it because he was in a nest of vipers . How he achieved the 2024 result was a huge fail for Obama and I don’t know how that happened either .

          From experience I think good leadership depends on being surrounded by a loyal clever team – which Trump had currently got . At some stage there will be ‘friction ‘ but they are getting so much done that the enemy is still spinning – long may that go on – including with the TTK regime …. Showing cracks already ….

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  28. Marco says:
    March 14, 2025 at 9:12 pm

    The pure bile being spued out by sky news about trump is off the scale ,they role out the same war neocoms such as John Bolton to broadcast their stench to the British public ,why did ofcom allow an American radical green scam company called COMCAST to take over the news Chanel ,these guys along with the radical BBC lunitics are just flooding the airways with complete lies and social engineering,
    Yet another dei hire company .

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