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Ross Grant retweeted
Looks like Eddie Jones spent too much time doing media this week and not enough coaching! Embarrassing this is from Japan
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The curious case of Mohammed Alfatih Naim is worrying evidence that Britain really has lost the plot.
His father was a senior Hamas politician.
He’d been a bodyguard for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
He’s been detained in Egypt on suspicion of helping Hamas smuggling.
He entered Britain illegally in 2014.
Yet a year later we granted him asylum.
Then British citizenship.
Facing trial for an altercation with a bailiff at his Brum home, some numpty of a magistrate ruled he couldn’t be named for 100 years.
Thankfully The Sunday Times challenged that, which is why he can now be named.
He is now facing extradition to Germany, where prosecutors accuse him of orchestrating a planned massacre of Jews in Berlin and Vienna last year.
This is how he thanks us for asylum and citizenship.
Which he was given under a Tory government.
But has this Labour one, as it welcomes ‘refugees’ from Gaza, learned any lessons.
Not if we’ve lost the plot.
Ross Grant retweeted
Rishi Sunak being readopted is really cheering news. Unlike several recent PMs - Blair, Cameron, Johnson & Starmer - he hasn't simply buggered of as soon as his time as PM is up, but wants to continue in public service, giving the Commons the benefit of his experience.
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Thank you to our local members for readopting me as the Conservative candidate for Richmond and Northallerton.
They don’t call Yorkshire God’s own country for nothing, and it’s an honour to represent this corner of it.
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This is bonkers.
If landlords end up on the hook for unpaid energy bills, why would any tenant ever pay their bills?
And why would landlords ever take on the risk of renting out their property? This is going to mean fewer options, and higher prices, for renters.
Ofgem is consulting on a proposal to make landlords legally responsible for tenants that that fail to pay their electric bill. 🤯
landlordtoday.co.uk/breaking…?
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When I tell people Labour are the Welfare Party….
Serial criminal raking in £4k-a-month in benefits admits he has so much left over he makes regular 'large' donations to the Labour Party trib.al/DcxGnTl
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Since the date that Britain left the European Union (the single market and the customs union), the economies in the United States and the United Kingdom have grown by 19.2% and 15.7% respectively.
The two biggest EU economies — Germany and France — have grown by 4.5% and 10.5%.
Why would the Burnham Labour government want to tie us more closely again to the single market and the customs union? Britain’s exports to non-EU countries have risen to almost 60% of the total in the same period.
Before they crow about today’s growth figures, they might want to consider the utter stupidity of their own EU policy.
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Britain has a choice.
Support Palestinian voices who want justice and Israeli voices who have said enough. Or allow British aid to be weaponised by Hamas.
It is time to recognise what Hamas has done. If you stand with the Palestinian people you stand against Hamas.
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NEW Prime Minister Andy Burnham flew 1,800 miles from London to Antalya yesterday, and then 2,140 miles from Antalya to Dublin today - for the COP31 climate change conference.
This morning he delivered a 764 word speech at Cop 31, on his 3,940 mile round trip. It works out at 5 miles per word.
He was scheduled to be in Antalya for 14 hours, arriving last night at about 9.30pm local, staying the night and were due to fly about 10.50am local.
Asked why Mr Burnham did not deliver the speech by zoom, his spokesman told us he was "determined to lead from the front to tackle the climate crisis".
Number 10 says Mr Burnham went to Turkey because it was "right to meet world leaders". His spokesman will not tell us which world leaders he met.
The PM told his audience today: "The climate crisis is not a distant threat. It is upon us all now, devastating lives and livelihoods everywhere." More at @GBNEWS.
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Britain - led by ‘do the right thing’ team of PM and Foreign Sec - effectively supported U.N. General Assembly by 144 votes just elected Iran's Islamic Regime to the Committee for Program and Coordination, which shapes priorities on Women’s Rights, Disarmament & Counter-Terrorism.
How by any definition however deluded is this doing the right thing @Ed_Miliband ?
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Starlink was set to become the dominant internet provider of the new world. However, Elon or someone else decided to open the door to the competition by clearly demonstrating to the entire world consistently that Starlink cannot be trusted to work for anyone who disagrees with Elon.
We have detected speed restrictions on Starshield on our Ukrainian territory – in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine. The speed limit is back at 161 kilometers per hour – that’s 100 miles per hour.
This directly affects our ability to intercept Russian jet-powered “shahed” drones. These drones come from those areas, and because of the speed restrictions, we simply cannot catch up with them in time.
Near the frontline, we cannot use our aircraft. Only drone interceptors can operate there. And without the speed we need, shooting down these “shaheds” becomes much harder.
This means more Russian strikes get through, and more of our people are killed by Russia. We are trying to get the details from the American side, but so far, we know very little.
If someone in America is making decisions that basically treat Ukrainian territory as if it is not Ukrainian, then this tells us where things are going. We need to be clear and never recognize Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory in any way.
From an address at the 9th European Political Community Summit. (3/3)
Ross Grant retweeted
Oh it’s borrowed money, alright. Which means it’s a fake wealth fund. Proper wealth funds (eg Norway, UAE) aggregate and invest surplus funds. The UK one is fuelled by more borrowing.
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Greta Thunberg laughs at young Germans after finding out that they are still organizing Fridays For Future climate change protests.
She thought everyone had moved on to Palestine like she has
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Britain has confirmed it will buy three Norwegian-designed mine-hunting motherships, the first due in 2031, with an option for three more. #AFF26 Click image for more.
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