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If you know anything at all about the history of this conflict you will know that both sides have been killing each other for longer than decades. Given your support for Farage I am not surprised by your comments though. It’s a bit early for point scoring though isn’t it? Perhaps show a bit of respect for those who have died and have been injured and leave it a while before you start with the Islamophobia eh? We can then also talk about the tens of thousands of people from that “medieval religion” who have also lost their lives recently. PS. The Jewish, Islamic and Christian religions all pre date medieval times.

Netanyahu has since come out and refuted that he will accept a Palestinian state and that Trump is of the same mind. He also says that the IDF will not be withdrawn from Gaza. As one commentator has written, this proposed peace deal is more of a fantasy and what we have come to expect from anything that Trump is involved with. Just hearing that there has been a stabbing at a synagogue in Manchester with the perpetrator having been shot.

I am surprised that Batman hasn’t picked up on this story given that he is so concerned with two tier policing. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j9vwvz71o.amp

Nothing to say about Starmer’s speech yesterday? After many dour pronouncements I thought it was an excellent and rousing speech . Hopefully this is the beginning of a consistent fight back against the creeping racism that has been growing for a while now. Good to see Farage called out for what he is on a national stage. No surprise to see the far right media still lying about what Starmer is saying. He is not and has never said that it is racist to be concerned about immigration and control of our borders. He called real racism out what it is and Farage sounded, finally, a bit rattled, by the criticism. Starmer was spot on. All he has got (Farage) is grievance. He offers nothing other than division and hatred. It was a good move to reclaim the flags from the flagshaggers. It is entirely possible to be proud of your country without feeling the need to denigrate immigrants or hang flags from lampposts. It is one thing to preach to the converted, another to bring the country with you. I hope that we will see more of this from Starmer and Labour going forward. It shouldn’t be an issue to call a racist a racist yet it has become so. The other big thing to come out of the Labour conference is the almost complete disappearance of the Tory Party. Hardly any mention of them at all. The guns were aimed at Farage and Reform. It’s incredible how a party who have governed the country for such a large part of the last hundred years have become so insignificant so quickly. Badenoch is clearly not the answer and if they go with Jenrick they will be worse than they are at the moment, if that is possible. It’s hard to see a way back for them. So then, the “loony left” and the so called Antifa threat we seem to be importing from Trump. Anyone know who the far left equivalent of Tommy Robinson is? Anyone know how you sign up for Antifa? I’m struggling with this. As a so called “lefty” I haven’t got a clue who I am supposed to be supporting considering that many in the Labour Party consider that Starmer isn’t “left” enough. Final point. Farage, like Trump, keeps banging on about “Free Speech” up until the point that people use their freedom of speech to criticism them, then they throw their dummies out of the pram. Can’t have it both ways lads.

Going back in history, where do your draw the line? The Arabs, Jews and others have ruled that land at different times over the last few thousands years. The Romans ruled this land before the Anglo-Saxons. Perhaps we should cede the UK to Italy? The Palestinians have just as much right to live in that area as the Israelis. They have just as much right to use Jerusalem as a religious centre as the Jewish community. Both need to find a way to live side by side in peace. If Netanyahu has a problem with that, he needs to stand down. The Palestinians need to find a leadership who will also accept living peacefully with Israel as Hamas have no future. Sorry if you find it all so confusing nic.

Wonderful. If only ICE were rounding up drug dealers, rapists and murderers ahead of grannies, home depot workers and school teachers.

Despite Trump’s ridiculous rhetoric yesterday, what are the chances of peace actually braking out in the Middle East? Given that Netanyahu and those in his cabinet have no intention of recognising the state of Palestine and have shown zero appetite in stopping the killing and destruction in Gaza and aggression and expansion in the West Bank, it’s hard to see it happening. It is in Netanyahu’s interest to keep the war going. He will find a way of playing Trump and derailing the peace process as he has done before. I hope that I am wrong, but I can’t see this working until Netanyahu is out of office. Strange to have peace talks when one of the main players is not involved in the talks. Hamas either agree with what Trump and Netanyahu want, or Trump stands back and lets the IDF carrying on butchering innocents and flattening what is left of Gaza. Not much of a negotiation is it?

Whilst I totally agree that Reform get far more coverage than the other minority parties, as much as it sickens me they are now leading in the polls and need to be taken seriously. The far right are drowning out the moderates and if we don’t want to go the way of America we need to get behind those fighting against right wing extremism. The moderates in the Tory party have vanished and that party is dead electorally. As frightening as it sounds, Starmer is right to target Reform as his biggest threat at the next election.

No one is going to bite our hand off for Stephens.

They’re eating the cats, the’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the swans 😂. 77 million Americans voted for the Mango Mussolini. All these figures prove is that you can never underestimate the number of turkeys who will vote for Christmas. The fact is that Trump is clearly the worst US President in history and embarrasses his country more and more everyday. Our electorate can see this every single day yet some of them are prepared to vote for our very own Poundland version which makes you understand why Socrates was so critical of democracy. Apparently there are still some people who swallowed Farage’s bullshit about Brexit who still think that it was a good idea 🤪. When people tell you who they are, believe them. Trump and Farage have told us exactly who they are. The people who vote for them deserve all they get.

Farage believes that Sharia Law will be introduced into the UK. How does he know this? A taxi driver told him. Seriously. He doesn’t trust science but he trusts what random taxi drivers and Andrew Tate tell him. Yes nic, it is laughable isn’t it?

But he cost us a cheap goal with an unenforced error playing Russball? Anyway, the two times I have seen Quarshie and Wood play together they looked decent and solid. I thought that Quarshie looked particularly good last night. I would start them both on Saturday. Flynn Downes my MotM.

My point was, and is, that my original use of the phrase “picked on” is perfectly valid. Let’s put this into perspective. There are about 341 million people in the US. This 73 year old lady has complied consistently with the requirements made of her. She has been resident in the US since the 1990’s, has worked and raised a family there. The current regime has decided to get rid of the “worst of the worst” illegal immigrants as a priority, which of course is their right. Two points. How does this lady qualify to be in this worst of the worst category now, after more than 30 years, given her apparent excellent record as a resident? Second point. Why arrest a 73 year old lady in handcuffs and put her in a detention centre for “processing” when she is clearly not a flight risk and is willing to comply with the deportation order? She is being treated the same as the “worst of the worst.” I don’t think it is unreasonable to say that she is being picked on. I’d be interested to hear why so many of her appeals have failed over such a long period of time. Still, handcuffing and incarcerating a compliant older lady, who is prepared to do whatever she is told to do by the authorities, is shameful. Moving on. Another example of what a dreadful and divisive country the US of A has become under Trump’s regime. This is a direct quote by someone whom the President has hailed as an “American hero.” ”I am also going to offer some context and some nuance about the death of George Floyd that no one dares to say out loud, which is that this guy is a scumbag. Now, does that mean he deserves to die? That’s two totally different things - of course not.” Say the same quote but exchange the name Charlie Kirk for George Floyd and the President and his gang will denounce you and call for you to lose your job. As I type this Trump is blatantly lying in a speech at the UN and is also dissing them!

Perhaps he and his gang should pay a bit more attention. Apparently they aren’t all living the life of Riley in 4 star hotels. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy8ee2w73jo.amp

I did say “picked on” and for a reason. Their mission statement apparently is to get rid of the “worst of the worst.” Does a law abiding granny of 73 years who has lived, worked and raised a family in the US for over 30 years and done everything asked of her regarding her asylum claim constitute the “worst of the worst?” Why put her in detention when she is clearly not a flight risk? It doesn’t sound like she has been treated well in detention either which is why I used the words that I did. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna231685 Yes, the immigration service is allowed to do what it is doing. I didn’t say it isn’t. It is the way they are going about it that is the issue. She is clearly not a murderer, rapist or drug dealing member of the “worst of the worst” category.

So it went way over your head Batman? Shall I talk you through it? As someone who clearly has a problem with foreigners in this country I found it quite funny that, whilst having a dig at another one, you displayed your customary lack of care over the use of written English. To reinforce my point I deliberately used a lower cap for the word at the start of a sentence, something you do daily, and linked that to a lack of education. I guess it was too subtle for you. I shall try and be more obvious in future.

Anyone thinking that Reform could run a piss up in a brewery are delusional.

I bet he knows that you start a sentence with a capital letter when writing English. got to love the standard of education amongst some in the UK sometimes.

I did thank you. What is your point? You think that her case is being dealt with well? Perhaps respond to what I actually said, not what you thought I said.

The Land of the Free, built on mass immigration, picks on a law abiding granny who has raised a family in the US for the last 30 years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgq63lgn7zo.amp

It’s almost as if Trump was going through Dictatorship For Dummies chapter by chapter. No doubt his supporters and apologists will be telling us it is for the good of the US and that it is all above board. Trump is protecting Free Speech and America’s right to say absolutely anything they like as long as it meets Trump’s approval and is complimentary towards him. I expect Starmer is breathing a sigh of relief that the Orange dummy managed to get through the visit without doing too much damage, but again, he used the state visit to feed his own vanity. Despite the massive amount of attention and sucking up, he still couldn’t resist using the presser to blow smoke up his own arse and slag off Biden. How he gets away with telling blatant lies God only knows. Zero illegal immigration in his watch? Where did that come from? The best I can find is a reduction of 10% which still means that it is 90% above zero (not that Trump understands percentages). Apparantly on the flight back he mentioned that he asked for Sadiq Khan not to attend the banquet and that Khan had wanted to be there. No he didn’t. We have become so used to his perpetual lying that it has become the norm now. We are all living in Trump’s reality. The scary thing is the number of people who buy into it and support the loony. Still, as many people say to me, we learn nothing from history. He is building a big beautiful society like no one has seen before. He is the best President ever, so people say. I’ve been told that he can walk on water and turn water into wine. Many people say that. The bloke is beyond parody and if the consequences weren’t so tragic for all of us, Trump would be the biggest joke of the century. It’s frightening that one man can cause so much damage to a country’s standing in the so called free world. If we are not careful we could go the same way as the US in the next few years.

As already said, the FCC are threatening these broadcasting companies with revocation of their licences if they don’t comply with their wishes. Trump had already said publicly that he wanted Kimmel gone. The two late night hosts on NBC will be next if they don’t bend the knee. Kimmel talking rubbish? It was very clear that Trump and Trumpists were using Kirk’s death to score political points almost immediately. As for Trump’s comments about how he was holding up after the death of his friend and he started to talk about the building of a ballroom at the Whitehouse, Kimmel was spot on when he said that was like a child mourning a goldfish, not an adult mourning a friend. The very thin skinned narcissist cannot handle the slightest bit of criticism. Apparently companies are now being encouraged to fire people for saying “horrible things!” Free speech? I don’t think so. It is only so if you say something complimentary or in support of Trump and his regime. We have also had a Fox host, Brian Kilmeade, say, live on air, that mentally ill homeless people should be given a lethal injection. The suppression of dissent, blatant censorship when it comes to questioning those in power (the main Australian broadcasting corporation was not given accreditation to today’s presser with Trump because one of their journalists asked him an awkward question), the use of “alternative facts” as opposed to real facts and the use of euthanasia against the mentally ill are all straight from the fascist playbook from the 1930s. You have to be a special kind of Trump apologist to deny what is currently happening in and to the USA by this President and his administration. Not all Fascists wear smart black uniforms with jodhpurs and shiny boots.

Another big name cancelled for using his right to Free Speech in the land that preaches to the rest of the world about the sanctity of Free Speech. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-live-suspended-indefinitely-after-hosts-charlie-kirk-comments

It’s amazing what people will do to get billions of pounds of investment for this country isn’t it? Meanwhile, how does this square with your belief in Free Speech and the First Amendment Donald? https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/16/media/trump-lawsuit-new-york-times-hnk And I noticed that over 150,000 people were exercising their right to Free Speech in London on Saturday.

Can we expect hoards of flag waving patriots turning up at Oldbury to demonstrate against this assault on a woman? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sikh-woman-rape-racist-oldbury-b2826234.html