Gnasher

At last something nice from that part of the world. Jewish kids giving out sweets to Muslims who are on their way to pray

This could get interesting. After the top lawyers petition earlier today Civil servants are threatening not work on Israeli arms deals over fears they could be breaking the law. It appears the 76% who saw through the excuses for this horror are about to have their voices heard after all. Ian Austin is not impressed. He was the go to guy. Probably on a nice backhander. Strange for a Lord to want civil servants to break international law. Opening a can of worns this. They're all speaking out now. The Israeli flags are quietly being removed from the profiles Like a switch has been flicked. Here's Jack Straw. When you've lost the mail your grift is definitely hitting the rocks. All those that couldn't see despite all the evidence have finally opened their eyes.

Starmer hits back. Take that Sunak. Number 1 country in the world. Thats possibly not as ridiculous as the Sunak one.

And the fella with the funny hat is half German.

One after another the bricks fall out of the crumbling wall that protected the slaughter.

^ their last ad pictured the capital city of Britain as a crime ridden shithole.

Not sure what's real anymore so apologies if fake. If it's not fake they've seriously lost the plot. Appears it is.

The previous patience shown with dumb sky nterviewers has worn thin. It always great to hear from Michael Mansfield (clips bottom 2 below) he's a class act. Second part of above interveiw after the shouty women post.

The horrors just keep rolling in. 54 children. Or to be more correct, at least 54 children. Dear God. It's little wonder they don't allow independent journalists in. I dread to think what images would come out of there.

True. Bad planning by the government. They had the time to put a system in place, they didn't bother. A national living wage would have been a massive help. Welcoming workers from outside the EU would also have helped. This banning of workers families will not help at all. Reeks of desperation.

The government has always tried to impose Immigration contols, they are after all the government. Both Conservative and Labour. I remember James Callaghan imposing a two tier immigration system. Immigration is an issue throughout Europe. Immigration has risen since we left the EU, So what? The latest Cleverly nonsense has more to do with James Cleverly and the desicions of our government than anything or anyone else. The government must be accountable for desicions made. You can't simply blame everything on our non membership of the EU.

No it's OK I should've answered the other point. Cleverly is imo just sucking up to the Tory right wing nutjobs. Its a desperate ploy by a desperate party to give the impression they're controlling immigration. It's a bone headed decision by a bone headed government which will soon be proved to be boneheaded when a care system in desperate need of staff loses workers they cannot afford to lose Its another example of a party which is split beyond repair.

Why be glib? What's that got to do with VAT. What point are you trying to make? Their is nothing in that article that's not common knowledge.

Falling like a pack of cards. All turning on each other. He's right here, do em all for treason.

The rate of VAT goes up (the first thing Rachel Reeves bessie mate Thatcher did on gaining power in 79 was to increase it after promising not to throughout that election campaign, it resulted in the economy going into a tailspin) and it very occasionally goes down. VAT has already been abolished on certain items. Their are many other ways of raising taxes, wealth tax, levelling up capital gains, a windfall tax on banks and energy companies and a more progressive tax system in general just a few.

No it hasn't so you could be right. It's hard to tell with Donald.

It certainly would leave a black hole, agreed. It would need to be replaced by more progressive taxation, although the almost certain spike in growth should account for most of the shortfall. Flat rate taxes hit the poorest hardest and are on the whole unfair.

Why couldn't they?

Because VAT is a negative tax which unfairly targets the poor. Its abolition would increase growth thus soon more than accounting for the loss of income felt by the treasury

It's been a while since we left the EU, it's not yesterday. The reason for these rulings is because a desperate government is making desperate decisions to appease desperate people. This is all on the government, they're to blame, not us leaving the EU.

We certainly couldn't have abolished VAT, which is what we should have done the day after leaving.

It's up to the government of the time. As it should be. Its the wrong decision but its a decision made by the government. The government make lots of decisions, most of them bad but uncomfortable as it is that's what they're elected for. Labour or another Home Secretary can overturn the decision if they see fit Its that simple. Our membership or non membership of the EU is pretty much irrelevant in this instance.

The games up. Shame it's taken so long but those who tried to make excuses for Israel and our politicans instead of speaking out against this genocide must now feel the shame. Intresting poll here showing very little support for Israel and the selling of arms to Israel, even amongst tory voters. The poll was taken before the deaths of the aid workers by Israel in Gaza. So that's only going to go one way. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/majority-of-voters-in-uk-back-banning-arm-sales-to-israel-poll-finds A letter from prominent lawyers and judges calling for the government to stop selling arms to Israel because of the risk of genocide. MPs of all parties and prominent political commentators furiously backtracking on previous support for Israel. Angela Eagle being just one. James OBrein another. Condescending twat but he's bang on the money here. Which made the Vids uploaded onto twitter even more important to those seeking truth away from the official IDF nonsense.

It's astonishing that he could be shoehorned into a job as important as foreign secretary without even being an MP. He cannot even be held to account by MPs in Parliament. I didn't think it was allowed, it certainly shouldn't be.

Lights go out, walls come tumbling down.