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

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"It is now over two weeks since the terrorists of Hamas were offered a ceasefire which would end the war in Gaza."

"According to US secretary of state Antony Blinken, the terms of the deal had been approved by Israel’s war cabinet and the governments of Egypt and Qatar, who acted as mediators. Yet the proposal has not been accepted by Yahya Sinwar and his partners in terror."

"The leadership of Hamas do not care about the lives of ordinary Palestinians. For them, casualties of war are a price worth paying for their genocidal aims. Hamas wants to maintain its military capability at all costs so that it can attempt to kill more Jews in the future. An interview this month with Hamas representative in Lebanon Ahmad Abd Al-Hadi should leave no one in doubt of this. “We would do it again,” he declared to the Annahar newspaper. In other words, if given the chance, Hamas would repeat the rape, kidnapping and slaughter of October 7."

Like I said mon ami, you can lead terrorist scum to water, but you can't make them accept a peace deal. So more dead Pallies, but does the terrorist scum care ? I would say not, in which case mon ami, why should me and you lose any sleep over it ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Labour announce immediate scrapping of the stupid Rwanda scheme (£300 million already down the plughole), plan immediate start to build 1,500,000 new affordable homes and insert UK Border Control "spies" into Europe to intercept criminal boat gangs.

Not bad for their first 48 hours in power.

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Labour announce immediate scrapping of the stupid Rwanda scheme (£300 million already down the plughole), plan immediate start to build 1,500,000 new affordable homes and insert UK Border Control "spies" into Europe to intercept criminal boat gangs.

Not bad for their first 48 hours in power.

The Rwanda scheme had never got off the ground and never was going to, and the other two are just pie in the sky. This is the sort of stuff the Tories were fond of announcing, people voted for change, not more hot air.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The Rwanda scheme had never got off the ground and never was going to, and the other two are just pie in the sky. This is the sort of stuff the Tories were fond of announcing, people voted for change, not more hot air.

Sour grapes really must taste awful mon ami.

[sinkov]

Well, well, well, more anti-semitic Lefty lies.

"An even bigger story of media misinformation in recent weeks has been the allegation – widely accepted as fact – that Israel has been deliberately starving the people of Gaza. This story was promulgated by the United Nations and has been repeated ad nauseam across global mainstream media for weeks on end.

On June 25, the Guardian was telling its readers that ‘for many months now, it has been no secret that one of America’s closest allies has been using hunger as a weapon against a civilian population’. Last week the BBC ran the headline that a ‘High risk of famine in Gaza persists’.

While hardly gaining widespread coverage, a report released on June 4 by the UN-linked IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) uncovered several flaws in the original data published in March, leading them to amend their original claims. Ultimately, the IPC concluded that they cannot consider the situation in Gaza to be a ‘famine.’

Indeed, what may come as a complete surprise is that according to the United Nations only 3 per cent of the residents of Rafah were poorly fed in May. In Khan Yunis and the central town of Deir al Balah, that figure stood at 6 per cent. The biggest challenges were faced by those who had failed to evacuate from the north at the start of the campaign; there, 13 per cent were found to be hungry. Overall, the overwhelming majority of Gazans had‘acceptable’ quantities of food.

In particular, in discussing food trucks and other methods of aid entering the area, the IPC had, for whatever reason, neglected to include in their original calculations commercial and/or privately contracted deliveries and World Food Program deliveries to bakeries in northern Gaza.

Before the conflict, in 2022, despite billions of dollars of aid money being poured into the Gaza Strip, 14 per cent of the population faced hunger. The reality would appear to be that they are better provisioned now than when Hamas was in charge.

There has been no apology from the media for their mammoth misinformation campaign. Instead, the new line, spun by the UN and amplified by the BBC and others, is that Gazans face ‘catastrophic levels’ of hunger.

A Gazan resident recently told the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Jake Wallis Simons: ‘Food is available, everything is available . . . Meat, chicken, vegetables. It is not aid. It is coming from Israel, brought in by private people through the Keren Shalom crossing and sold to us as a business. The prices are much better, just a little bit higher than before the war.’

This was a relief, he added, as for seven months Hamas had been stealing humanitarian aid and selling it to the population at exorbitant rates. Now, he said, goods are being bought and sold as normal.

Even the Palestinian Authority’s own TV reporter in the Gaza Strip said that central Gaza is ‘overflowing’ with products and that what prevents the PA’s public employees from buying food and other necessities is the fact that they ‘can’t take their money from the banks because Hamas is acting as if the ATMs are their private property and no one else can make withdrawals"

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It begins.................

"A major new factory from one of the American tech giants perhaps? Or a new lab from one of the pharmaceutical giants? Or, best of all, a huge new green energy fund. The newly appointed Chancellor Rachel Reeves was probably hoping for some positive investment news for her first week in office, especially as she has decided, in an unprecedented move, to make ‘growth’ a ‘national mission’. Instead, one of the UK’s best businesses has cut almost a third of its UK workforce – and that will just be the start of the corporate exodus from Labour’s Britain.

Dyson will argue that its decision to axe 1,000 jobs in the UK, announced today had nothing to do with the election of a new government. It had been planned for months. Well, perhaps. In fact this is a company that racked up record revenues of more than £7 billion last year, up 9 per cent year-on-year. It is hardly in trouble. It would have known Labour was about to take power and planned accordingly. The timing, to put it politely, seems designed to make a point."

Last to leave, please turn out the lights.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It begins.................

"A major new factory from one of the American tech giants perhaps? Or a new lab from one of the pharmaceutical giants? Or, best of all, a huge new green energy fund. The newly appointed Chancellor Rachel Reeves was probably hoping for some positive investment news for her first week in office, especially as she has decided, in an unprecedented move, to make ‘growth’ a ‘national mission’. Instead, one of the UK’s best businesses has cut almost a third of its UK workforce – and that will just be the start of the corporate exodus from Labour’s Britain.

Dyson will argue that its decision to axe 1,000 jobs in the UK, announced today had nothing to do with the election of a new government. It had been planned for months. Well, perhaps. In fact this is a company that racked up record revenues of more than £7 billion last year, up 9 per cent year-on-year. It is hardly in trouble. It would have known Labour was about to take power and planned accordingly. The timing, to put it politely, seems designed to make a point."

Last to leave, please turn out the lights.

Dyson is a tax dodging tw@t. Incidentally, your pro-Brexit founder, Sir James Dyson, moved the group’s corporate headquarters to Singapore in 2019, pointing to the growing importance of supply chains and customers in Asia. But go ahead and blame Labour.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Well, well, well, more anti-semitic Lefty lies.

"An even bigger story of media misinformation in recent weeks has been the allegation – widely accepted as fact – that Israel has been deliberately starving the people of Gaza. This story was promulgated by the United Nations and has been repeated ad nauseam across global mainstream media for weeks on end.

On June 25, the Guardian was telling its readers that ‘for many months now, it has been no secret that one of America’s closest allies has been using hunger as a weapon against a civilian population’. Last week the BBC ran the headline that a ‘High risk of famine in Gaza persists’.

While hardly gaining widespread coverage, a report released on June 4 by the UN-linked IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) uncovered several flaws in the original data published in March, leading them to amend their original claims. Ultimately, the IPC concluded that they cannot consider the situation in Gaza to be a ‘famine.’

Indeed, what may come as a complete surprise is that according to the United Nations only 3 per cent of the residents of Rafah were poorly fed in May. In Khan Yunis and the central town of Deir al Balah, that figure stood at 6 per cent. The biggest challenges were faced by those who had failed to evacuate from the north at the start of the campaign; there, 13 per cent were found to be hungry. Overall, the overwhelming majority of Gazans had‘acceptable’ quantities of food.

In particular, in discussing food trucks and other methods of aid entering the area, the IPC had, for whatever reason, neglected to include in their original calculations commercial and/or privately contracted deliveries and World Food Program deliveries to bakeries in northern Gaza.

Before the conflict, in 2022, despite billions of dollars of aid money being poured into the Gaza Strip, 14 per cent of the population faced hunger. The reality would appear to be that they are better provisioned now than when Hamas was in charge.

There has been no apology from the media for their mammoth misinformation campaign. Instead, the new line, spun by the UN and amplified by the BBC and others, is that Gazans face ‘catastrophic levels’ of hunger.

A Gazan resident recently told the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Jake Wallis Simons: ‘Food is available, everything is available . . . Meat, chicken, vegetables. It is not aid. It is coming from Israel, brought in by private people through the Keren Shalom crossing and sold to us as a business. The prices are much better, just a little bit higher than before the war.’

This was a relief, he added, as for seven months Hamas had been stealing humanitarian aid and selling it to the population at exorbitant rates. Now, he said, goods are being bought and sold as normal.

Even the Palestinian Authority’s own TV reporter in the Gaza Strip said that central Gaza is ‘overflowing’ with products and that what prevents the PA’s public employees from buying food and other necessities is the fact that they ‘can’t take their money from the banks because Hamas is acting as if the ATMs are their private property and no one else can make withdrawals"

Or may be it's because the Israelis reduced the National Palestinian Bank and Chancellery to rubble?

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Or may be it's because the Israelis reduced the National Palestinian Bank and Chancellery to rubble?

I've yet to read of any skeletons of starving terrorist scum being discovered in the **** hole, in fact in all the photos I've seen they look remarkably fit, healthy and well fed.

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But go ahead and blame Labour.

Oh I will mon ami, I will, you can rest assured about that. Labour is now the government, anything that happens on their watch is their responsibility. C'est la vie.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I've yet to read of any skeletons of starving terrorist scum being discovered in the **** hole, in fact in all the photos I've seen they look remarkably fit, healthy and well fed.

Remarkably so so the Israeli hostages. No Bergen Belsen lookalikes for them.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Oh I will mon ami, I will, you can rest assured about that. Labour is now the government, anything that happens on their watch is their responsibility. C'est la vie.

Yes let's all forgive and forget the bloody awful legacy of 14 years of Tory corruption and mismanagement. Not!

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Remarkably so so the Israeli hostages. No Bergen Belsen lookalikes for them.

Hostages ? What sort of vile scum holds innocent women and children hostage ? And you want to give them credit because the scum are not starving them to death ? Jesus fecking wept. Your moral compass is more than slightly askew mon ami, shame on you.

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immediate start to build 1,500,000 new affordable homes.

Not bad for their first 48 hours in power.

Not bad at all mon ami, I'm impressed, so what is the actual start date for the immediate construction of 1,500,000 affordable new homes ? And what is the completion date for said 1,500,000 new affordable homes ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Hostages ? What sort of vile scum holds innocent women and children hostage ? And you want to give them credit because the scum are not starving them to death ? Jesus fecking wept. Your moral compass is more than slightly askew mon ami, shame on you.

I would not even begin to mention "moral compasses" mon ami if I were you, when the IDF are incarcerating 9000 Palestinians without trial.