Lefty Leyton Orient fan orig from East London.
Hampshire
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#celebritytraitors first time I ever thought that was a bit staged. Why go to different rooms? Also what if nobody err yawns?
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"If you're Jewish or non-Jewish, please, let the world know:
Thousands of Orthodox Jews lined up in London to oppose Zionism while chanting “Israeli Government Shame On You!”
Our voice is silenced that’s why you don’t hear from us, but NOT because it’s not there.
Torah Observant Jews understand the dangers of Israel’s false claims of representing Jews and are pushing back strongly!
Help us get our voice heard!
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Had it not been for Boris Johnson and Victoria Nuland -- who personally forced Zelensky to reject the deal Ukraine and Russia were about to sign in Istanbul in 2022 -- this horrific war that has killed more than a million and consumed much of Ukraine would have been long over.
It is sickening that the USA is now lifting sanctions on Russian fuel, and transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in prices that obviously began with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Putin is murdering innocent Ukrainian civilians every day. The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter. It won’t work and I doubt it will make much difference to the price of fuel.
If we want Russian oil and gas back on the world market then let’s end this war - with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine.
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Caroline Lucas has reacted angrily to Zack Polanski’s woeful campaign in Holborn and St Pancras and will not rule out asking him to step aside. I can’t say I blame her.
Polanski disgraced himself by more than tripling the Greens’ vote share from the last election, taking 33% in a Labour safe seat during Burnham’s honeymoon period. This was only the second best by-election performance in the Greens’ history. Every sensible person is suggesting that Polanski resign.
Among those sensible people is the former Green leader, who once nearly became prime minister by offering to form a coalition government made up exclusively of women and forgetting to suggest a single black or brown woman for her fantasy cabinet. Let’s be honest, who hasn’t forgot other races exist?
Caroline Lucas is the nation’s leading expert in not getting the Greens into power. I’m therefore honoured that she’s written this piece for her favourite establishment publication, Normal Island News:
It’s hugely disappointing to see Zack Polanski take 33% of the vote share in Holborn and St Pancras and turn the Greens into a serious electoral force.When I was Green leader, I had the good grace to only take 3.8% in that seat in 2017. Not many people know that I privately apologised to the Tories for exceeding expectations because 3.8% was far too high.
Our national vote share was just 1.6%. I accomplished this by making no serious attempt to engage with voters or make their lives better. Everyone who supported one of the other parties thought I was doing a brilliant job. Now, thanks to Zack, people who never liked the Greens are saying they wouldn’t vote for them.
In the past six months, we’ve seen Zack’s popularity go down among the people who would never vote Green—thanks to the type of media campaign that we only see when politicians threaten change.
This hate campaign is definitely Zack’s own fault. If he hadn’t threatened to change a system that’s not working for anyone but the rich, they wouldn’t be lying about him this way.
The Greens have a proud history of being a neoliberal party that pretends to be socialist. It’s supposed to mop up a few left votes so it looks like we have plurality, while making radical change seem unpopular. Unfortunately, Zack has convinced young people that change is possible because he is charismatic and genuinely cares.
Regrettably, the Green Party is no longer a safe space for Tories on bikes. One of my councillor friends was so upset by Polanski’s recent successes that he felt he no longer belongs in the party. Therefore he defected to the Conservatives—a party he was previously a member of until 2021.
Not only has Zack turned off the handful of Tories who pretend to care about the environment, he’s attracted voters who are supposed to be disenfranchised. As such I utterly reject him and everything he stands for.
Zack offered a serious challenge to a candidate that I never would’ve beaten in a million years. He’s pushing the government so far left that the Labour candidate even backed the nationalisation of Thames Water. There’s now a very real risk of sewage not being dumped on our beaches.
I much preferred the days when the Greens accomplished nothing and were rewarded with regular TV invites. Those invites have dried up for everyone but Greens like me, who are prepared to slag off their party leadership. It’s like the Corbyn years all over again!
Obviously, this is all connected to the fact that Zack criticises Israel. It’s highly illegal for the leader of a party in the UK to not support Israel. This is why myself and the rest of the establishment have expressed more anger at that “Zionism is racism” motion than we have at genocide.
Israel’s supporters have almost every other party to choose from and this is not enough. Israel’s opponents only have the Greens to vote for and this is one party too many.
Opponents of genocide don’t deserve representation any more than people who want affordable bills or a habitable planet. I don’t think I can forgive Zack for making the public think we are serious about any of these things. If the Greens’ poll ratings don’t collapse, I will have no choice but to demand his resignation.
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Cate Blanchett, Filistin bayrağını yasaklayan festivali kırmızı halıyı kullanarak deldi.
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The climate crisis may have caused the excessive heat, but it is NOT the reason for the hosepipe ban
Privatisation is the one true cause of the hosepipe ban
Scotland - where water is in public ownership - has not had a hosepipe ban since the great drought of 1995
Public ownership of water NOW
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Andy Burnham has still not lifted Yvette Cooper's proscription - which sees thousands of good people being arrested as terrorists - just for holding placards.
Please RT this until - he does.
Thank you.
So main thing to hope for is the Spanish players snub Trump when they (please) win it. #WorldCupFinal
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This document should keep you awake at night.
The govt’s National Risk Register now ranks losing our drinking water alongside a PANDEMIC as one of the two biggest threats facing the country
This year, in the right-hand document: The chances of “Catastrophic impact” on our drinking water supplies - up to a one in four chance.
Last year, same document (on the left) rated it a minor risk. Bottom of the chart.
So what changed? Nothing changed!
Water is still in private hands and depute the Water Special Measures Act deteriorating rapidly.
This is where 36 years of privatised water has brought us.
Tens of billions handed to shareholders. Over £60 billion of debt racked up on water assets that should belong to al of us.
Leaking pipes. No new major reservoirs. Sewage in our rivers, on our beaches, in our sea.
They didn’t invest. They extracted. And now the state’s own risk experts are telling us the tap water could go.
And the regulators? They watched. Fines for pollution became a business expense. Thames Water’s creditors are now asking for their pollution fines to be written off. You couldn’t make this stuff up!!!!
So let’s cut the crap about ‘tougher control’ of water companies. We’ve tried that for 36 years. It ended with drinking water on the national risk register next to a pandemic. You can’t regulate a cash machine into caring about you.
There’s one answer. Bring water back into mutualised public ownership. Run for people, not profit. Answerable to bill payers, not bondholders. Every single pound going back into the pipes and reservoirs we should have built decades ago.
Water is life. And yet we’ve watched it turned it into a payday.
Time to take it back.
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NHS anaesthetist shortage prevents 1.5m operations a year.
Poverty & ageing population cause higher demand for NHS services. 8m waiting list.
Not enough trained, immigration squeezed, leading to misery.
Need an honest debate about immigration.
theguardian.com/society/2026…
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Here’s what @andyburnham should have said.
“I will
1. Break all diplomatic relations with Israel and expel the ambassador. Immediately end all weapons transfers to Israel. Immediately end all military support and diplomatic cover. Pledge to enforce the ICC ruling and join the South African legal case at the ICJ.
2. Place sweeping sanctions across all Israeli politicians and military in the chain of command.
3. Immediately remove the proscription against Palestine Action and end all other attempts to repress Palestinian activism.
4. Immediately launch an inquiry into the previous two governments complicity in genocide, with arrests being a possible outcome against Starmer, Cooper, Lammy, Cameron, and Sunak.
5. Demand that Israel immediately removes all restrictions on aid and ends its repression of humanitarian organisations in Gaza. If those restrictions are not lifted, Britain will mobilise a joint UN military force that will enforce R2P to end further genocidal crimes.”
These are just the basic building blocks of how we should respond to Genocide.
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'We will remove them' - The group taking down flags from lampposts across Basingstoke ift.tt/trzHyPU
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To give you an idea of how British politics has degraded into deranged radical-right lunacy, just consider what the public reaction would have been had a politician in the 60s or 70s proposed the following:
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Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.
My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.
They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.
"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."
He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.
And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.
It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.
Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.
It's a real mess, man.
That guy sucks.
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In almost 100 years, no World Cup host has ever forced game breaks just to show commercials, or harassed the very referees & players of the competition because of where they're from. So emblematic of how the US interact with the planet. Capitalism & imperialism on steroids.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨
World Cup fever kicks off as America welcomes the world with a traditional display of their culture and traditions.
🚨🏴 NEW: Nine people have been injured at a shooting near England’s World Cup camp in Missouri
[@TheAthleticFC]
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I can’t see you how you can possibly avoid using the term ethnic cleansing, without losing your last remaining shreds of integrity as a journalist, Adam.
Lebanon's internal displacement rate is now 22.6 percent — more than one in five of its people. Over 1.2 million people, including 350,000 children, have been forced from their homes, with the IDF launching more than 1,840 attacks on Lebanon since March 2, killing more than 1,497 people and injuring more than 4,639.
Moreover, the language used by Israel Katz to describe his aims in Southern Lebanon is extraordinarily explicit and self-incriminating. He has confirmed that Israel's military would establish a permanent "security zone" inside Lebanon up to the Litani River, that hundreds of thousands of displaced residents would be "completely prevented" from returning, and that "all the houses in the villages adjacent to the border in Lebanon will be demolished in accordance with the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Gaza."
The targeting of civilians for displacement specifically identified by their religion (Shia), combined with the destruction of their homes to prevent return, combined with the explicit statement that they will not be permitted to return — these are precisely the elements that international law identifies as forcible transfer and ethnic cleansing. Human Rights Watch has said that "the displacement of the Shia population looks less like a temporary military necessity and more like a move to permanently displace the civilian population based on their religion."
Its not complex, Adam. You just haven't got the balls to say it straight, and that failure makes your reportage worse than worthless. It makes it morally bankrupt.
Really feel for Sol Brynn who is and will be a top keeper but who is surprised a keeper who played for Os drops the ball that results in something so massive? #lofc
