Political Thread in memory of David Reid. (R.I.P.)

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The King of Perma Tan was getting dog's abuse yesterday.

Donald Trump was mocked for his botched bronzer job on his face during a White House press event on "Liberation Day."

When the president announced a slate of new tariffs imposed on over two dozen nations around the world, several critics were quick to point out how dark the commander-in-chief's face was compared to his hands.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-ridiculed-for-wearing-too-much-makeup-during-liberation-day-speech/ar-AA1CjMqu?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=2a0a34968ffa4991ac2a0e467c038c33&ei=13

[sinkov]

I was at a funeral yesterday, so I did not get the chance to respond to your question. In simple lay terms I think tariffs are imposed on goods imported or exported by the manufactures of a country to an international country. It?s a tool used by a tool to stymie competition on home produced goods. Trouble is a game of tit for tat usually develops and only the consumer and supplier get hit directly. That?s folks like thee and me mon ami.

Duty is yet another tax the government imposes on goods imported into the domestic country. This duty is popularly known as import duty. Duty is also imposed on the goods manufactured within the country. I have to pay it when I bring in an over the limit amount of Asbach from either Germany or Spain. $hit innit?

Thank you mon ami, they are in effect the same thing, they are both charges put on imported goods, call them import duties and no one minds, call them tariffs and the globalists go into meltdown. Funny old world. Still surprised to see you on the side of the globalists though mon ami, but for TDS you'd be seeing everything clearly now.

As for the stock market 'crash', Warren Buffet always says, 'the time to invest is when blood is running in the streets'. I don't dabble in shares any more, but if I did I'd be looking on this as a buying opportunity par excellence.

[Supersub6]

Stock prices go through the floor because those with the money are influencing people like Trump to do what he has done.
Those with the billions will be buying up shares at a rate of knots and then will ensure that the value of their holdings increase at a rate of knots so that they become richer whilst the small investors and those whose pensions are tied up with share prices will continue to worry how they will make ends meet.

Usual tale --the rich get richer whilst the rest of us just do our best. Situation normal, nothing to worry about.

[Balan]

Money comes ,money goes! I do not want money to run after me ,but it does. Then I have to think ,what to do with it ? I do not work now ,but every month, money comes to me. Its a problem! (well, not a big problem).
If I did not have money ,then less problems. Remember women are attracted to it. Think is it you they adore? Or the money ?
Think about it ! Then if you think its the money, your money ? Then get rid of it, send it to me! Problems solved. ( I can solve nearly ALL problems ).

.....then...... they will continue to worry how they will make ends meet. (P S , join a kibbutz).

[Balan]

Well ,it looks like the summer has come around again here, ( and no cricket teams near where I live, in the country that Is real). That means 6/7 months at least, of sunshine, every day. How can I survive???

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Thank you mon ami, they are in effect the same thing, they are both charges put on imported goods, call them import duties and no one minds, call them tariffs and the globalists go into meltdown. Funny old world. Still surprised to see you on the side of the globalists though mon ami, but for TDS you'd be seeing everything clearly now.

As for the stock market 'crash', Warren Buffet always says, 'the time to invest is when blood is running in the streets'. I don't dabble in shares any more, but if I did I'd be looking on this as a buying opportunity par excellence.

The Falkland Islanders have just been hit with a 43% tariff by Perma Tan, I wonder what they sell to the US?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Stock prices go through the floor because those with the money are influencing people like Trump to do what he has done.
Those with the billions will be buying up shares at a rate of knots and then will ensure that the value of their holdings increase at a rate of knots so that they become richer whilst the small investors and those whose pensions are tied up with share prices will continue to worry how they will make ends meet.

Usual tale --the rich get richer whilst the rest of us just do our best. Situation normal, nothing to worry about.

I've just watched the Clarets do a job on Lampard, the big back lawn is cut and looks like Wimbledon, family meet-up is all organised at 5 at a really cracking pub in Edgerton. I'm with you mein freund - pfhuck the Sun Bed King. Long live the Clarets#

[sinkov]

The Falkland Islanders have just been hit with a 43% tariff by Perma Tan, I wonder what they sell to the US?

No idea mon ami, lamb chops, woollen mittens, who knows. One thing for sure the islanders will be imposing a 40/50% import duty/tariff on imports from the US, so fair dos eh ?

[kritichris]

Well ,it looks like the summer has come around again here, ( and no cricket teams near where I live, in the country that Is real). That means 6/7 months at least, of sunshine, every day. How can I survive???

Keep your pecker up Balan (no ***ual innuendo intended) and enjoy the sunshine but stay alive.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

A BID TO CRUSH THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Yet More Anti-Protest Laws
MORE police power to block demonstrations and jail organisers have nothing to do with protecting worshippers and everything to do with suppressing protest rights.
Government amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill will see individuals who breach police conditions imposed on protests fined up to ?2,500 and demo organisers facing jail sentences.
This shores up repressive measures already deployed by the police to shut down Britain’s huge Palestine solidarity movement. The Met cited the existence of synagogues “near” planned protest routes to deny them permission on January 18, and again on March 15.
In neither case were the synagogues on the route. In the latter the two cited were over 10 minutes’ walk away. In the centre of London or other cities, such sweeping effective exclusion zones could be used to ban almost any proposed route.
Not one of the protests for Palestine since October 2023 has disrupted worship at a synagogue. The Met acknowledges that there has not been a single reported threat to any place of worship connected to the demonstrations.
This is rather a political move intended to shield Israel and its ally, the British state, from criticism over occupation, war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. It is cheered on by highly partisan bodies such as the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which claims the protests cause “serious and unacceptable disruption to our communal life,” without specifying how.
The fact that marches may upset people who support or identify with the state of Israel is not intimidation. It is a disgraceful sleight of hand, and a serious threat to the right to free speech and assembly, to pretend it is.
The Starmer government decided in January to crush the mass protest movement where the Tories had tried and failed.
Hence the ban on marchers laying flowers in memory of Gaza’s murdered children at the BBC headquarters on January 18, and the entrapment of march leaders by police parting to allow them through their lines, followed by the violent arrest of chief steward Chris Nineham and over 70 others.
Nineham and Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal were charged with public order offences; over six weeks later, police “invited” a range of other leading peace campaigners, from Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament general secretary Sophie Bolt and the Morning Star’s own political reporter Andrew Murray, for interview. This is a bid to decapitate the movement and frighten protesters off the streets; the new amendments will give the state greater powers to punish those who remain defiant.
Nobody should be fooled by government references to the race riots of last August, and attacks on mosques, as part of its rationale. Those attacks were illegal under existing laws, the perpetrators liable for serious punishment already. Ministers are trying to distract us from their real motive, which is directed squarely at smashing the peace movement.
The Crime and Policing Bill itself follows a raft of repressive legislation giving ever greater power to the state to ban or shut down protest, including the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, the National Security Act and the Public Order Act.
Just as Rachel Reeves this week confirmed Labour is retaining and deepening Conservative austerity, Yvette Cooper shows it keeps to the same trajectory as the ousted Tory government in dismantling civil liberties.
It does so because the government serves the same ruling class, which faces the same crisis of legitimacy given falling living standards and growing opposition to war.
Unions and many MPs have begun to revolt at the government’s anti-working-class economic agenda. That needs to be extended to its assault on democratic rights.
As for the Palestine marches: Israel’s renewed war on Gaza makes them as important as ever, and it is their size which has so far prevented their suppression. We stay on the streets.
This article is shared from the link below:
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/.../editorial-yet-more...

[The Bedlington Terrier]

On it goes...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/uk-foreign-secretary-criticises-israel-for-denying-two-labour-mps-entry

[Supersub6]

On it goes...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...bour-mps-entry

Well done to the Israelis, they have just saved these MPs from putting themselves in a dangerous situation and avoiding any accusations which would certainly have been forthcoming if any harm had come to these two interlopers.
They can't even run our own country so what the hell are they doing going to Israel to stir things up?
Perhaps they should go in a dinghy and receive help from the Israeli coastguard or does Israel not help the boat people like we do?

[sinkov]

On it goes...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...bour-mps-entry

Brilliant, they detained and then booted out some EU woman not long ago as well. Israel actually minds who enters their country, unlike the UK, the dustbin of the world. As Sub says, WTF are our MPs going to Israel for anyway, they surely have enough to occupy themselves with our own problems.

[sinkov]

A BID TO CRUSH THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Yet More Anti-Protest Laws
MORE police power to block demonstrations and jail organisers have nothing to do with protecting worshippers and everything to do with suppressing protest rights.
Government amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill will see individuals who breach police conditions imposed on protests fined up to ?2,500 and demo organisers facing jail sentences.
This shores up repressive measures already deployed by the police to shut down Britain?s huge Palestine solidarity movement. The Met cited the existence of synagogues ?near? planned protest routes to deny them permission on January 18, and again on March 15.
In neither case were the synagogues on the route. In the latter the two cited were over 10 minutes? walk away. In the centre of London or other cities, such sweeping effective exclusion zones could be used to ban almost any proposed route.
Not one of the protests for Palestine since October 2023 has disrupted worship at a synagogue. The Met acknowledges that there has not been a single reported threat to any place of worship connected to the demonstrations.
This is rather a political move intended to shield Israel and its ally, the British state, from criticism over occupation, war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. It is cheered on by highly partisan bodies such as the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which claims the protests cause ?serious and unacceptable disruption to our communal life,? without specifying how.
The fact that marches may upset people who support or identify with the state of Israel is not intimidation. It is a disgraceful sleight of hand, and a serious threat to the right to free speech and assembly, to pretend it is.
The Starmer government decided in January to crush the mass protest movement where the Tories had tried and failed.
Hence the ban on marchers laying flowers in memory of Gaza?s murdered children at the BBC headquarters on January 18, and the entrapment of march leaders by police parting to allow them through their lines, followed by the violent arrest of chief steward Chris Nineham and over 70 others.
Nineham and Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal were charged with public order offences; over six weeks later, police ?invited? a range of other leading peace campaigners, from Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament general secretary Sophie Bolt and the Morning Star?s own political reporter Andrew Murray, for interview. This is a bid to decapitate the movement and frighten protesters off the streets; the new amendments will give the state greater powers to punish those who remain defiant.
Nobody should be fooled by government references to the race riots of last August, and attacks on mosques, as part of its rationale. Those attacks were illegal under existing laws, the perpetrators liable for serious punishment already. Ministers are trying to distract us from their real motive, which is directed squarely at smashing the peace movement.
The Crime and Policing Bill itself follows a raft of repressive legislation giving ever greater power to the state to ban or shut down protest, including the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, the National Security Act and the Public Order Act.
Just as Rachel Reeves this week confirmed Labour is retaining and deepening Conservative austerity, Yvette Cooper shows it keeps to the same trajectory as the ousted Tory government in dismantling civil liberties.
It does so because the government serves the same ruling class, which faces the same crisis of legitimacy given falling living standards and growing opposition to war.
Unions and many MPs have begun to revolt at the government?s anti-working-class economic agenda. That needs to be extended to its assault on democratic rights.
As for the Palestine marches: Israel?s renewed war on Gaza makes them as important as ever, and it is their size which has so far prevented their suppression. We stay on the streets.
This article is shared from the link below:
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/.../editorial-yet-more...

I would hope they've also made it a requirement that the Met put any virtue-signalling Lefties arriving from the north on the first available train to return them to whichever northern sh1thole they originated from.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Orwellian Britain is alive and flourishing and some people either are not aware of it or simply don't give a pfhuck.