MUKGA isn’t considerationhere at all win at all costs no matter is (ODT)
Brexit: Boris Johnson’s plot is bold, barely legal and politically high risk
Category: UK
Key points:
- Mr Johnson met with Ms Sturgeon, who has been critical of him and Brexit
- He won’t meet with EU leaders unless they agree to re-open the withdrawal agreement
- The increased prospect of a no-deal Brexit has seen the Pound Sterling drop
As you go stomping up and down your country promising the Earth and more to those who gather to see you, you will probably somewhere along the line become convinced that the handshakes and smiles and the shouts of “Go Boris!” are genuine. They are. The problem is, the minority that turns out to see you are the same minority that would pay to go and see a freak show.
via Boris Johnson: Unelected Pied Piper leading his country into the worst nightmare
It would seem Johnson isn’t his own man (ODT)
Key points:
Sky cancelled a debate between Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson after Mr Johnson declined to take part
Mr Johnson has a 79 per cent implied probability of winning the top job, down from 92 per cent last week
Mr Johnson has repeated that he would lead the United Kingdom out of the EU on October 31 with or without a deal
Guess Trump will turn to his new found friend Kim Jong Un for intelligence. Nigel Farage for advice, and Boris for help in a mad mad world. (ODT)
The issue might appear arcane. But Pompeo’s threat, which Donald Trump will reiterate during his state visit, beginning on Monday, sent a chill through the diplomatic, defence and security establishment. In an age of rapidly diminishing influence, Britain still prides itself on its intelligence gathering, counter-terrorism and counter-espionage capability, as well as agencies such as GCHQ and its new offshoot, the National Cyber Security Centre.
This capability is recognised and respected – and is a main reason why Washington maintains a close alliance. Britain brings something substantial to the top table – and that helps secure its place there. By publicly questioning this collaboration, Pompeo thrust a well-aimed dagger into the heart of the “special relationship”.
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Today the United Kingdom needs to pull together, hold a second referendum this time based on the reality that leaving the EU would spell utter and total disaster by hemorrhaging jobs, destroying the fabric of employment for decades to come and destroying the future of the country’s youth. A societal castrophe would follow an economic collapse. These are the facts and these are the reasons why most Members of Parliament, including Theresa May, backed the Remain campaign in 2016. Why did they not stick to their guns?
The definition of going against common sense is what? Living in cloud cuckoo land.
British MPs have defeated Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit divorce deal by a crushing margin, triggering political upheaval that could lead to a disorderly exit from the European Union or even to a reversal of the 2016 decision to leave.
The crushing vote margin is the biggest defeat in British Parliament since the 1920s
Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no-confidence in the Government
The EU says is stepping up preparations for a no-deal BrexitMPs voted 432 to 202 to defeat the proposal, the worst parliamentary defeat for a government in recent British history.
Big Loss for the Party Conservatives and Abbott’s mate Boris (ODT)
British Prime Minister Theresa May has survived the political battle of her life, successfully winning a vote of no confidence triggered by Conservative politicians.
A judge who jailed protesters for up to 16 months for disrupting access to a fracking site by climbing on lorries has been exposed for having family links to oil and gas companies.
The Mirror exclusively reported Judge Robert Altham’s links to the energy industry. The trio, known as the ‘Fracking Three,’ were jailed for causing a public nuisance over their demonstration at a Cuadrilla site in Lancashire.
READ MORE: Can US shale stop a global oil supply crisis?
They are thought to be the first environmental protesters sentenced to jail for public nuisance since 1932.
Simon Blevins, 26, and Richard Roberts, 36, got 16 months each while Richard Loizou, 31, was sentenced to 15 months by Altham.
An intelligence service given free rein to commit ‘serious crimes’ in its own country is an intelligence service that is the enemy of its people.
The quite astounding revelation that Britain’s domestic intelligence service, MI5, has enjoyed this very freedom for decades has only just been made public at a special tribunal in London, set up to investigate the country’s intelligence services at the behest of a coalition of human rights groups, alleging a pattern of illegality up to and including collusion in murder.
via British intelligence now officially a by-word for organized crime — RT Op-ed
Statistics released by the Home Office show that white suspects accounted for 38 percent of terrorist related arrests. Those of an Asian appearance accounted for 37 percent of offences, followed by black suspects way down on 9 percent.
The report states: “This was the first time, since the year ending June 2005, that the proportion of white people arrested has exceeded the proportion of Asian people arrested,” the report said.
The number of far-right extremists currently imprisoned in UK jails has risen sharply over the past year, from 10 to 28. Conversely, the number of Islamist extremists in prison has dipped, for the first time over the same period.
The Home Office said: “The number of Islamist extremist prisoners saw a slight decrease for the first time to 178 in custody.
“The proportion of prisoners holding far-right ideologies has increased steadily over the past three years, with the number up from 10 to 28 in the latest year.”
In 2016, the far-right group National Action, were proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK, the first of its kind – a wave of police raids on neo-Nazis quickly followed this landmark moment.
In June, Jack Renshaw, who was accused of being member of National Action admitted to plotting to murder British Labour MP Rosie Cooper with a machete, for “white jihad” and making threats to kill a police officer.
via White people now the biggest ethnic group arrested for terror offences in the UK — RT UK News
More than 2.6 million people have abandoned their support for Brexit and now back staying in the EU, a major study has concluded.
If the huge number of Britons who have changed their mind had voted to stay in the EU in 2016, the referendum would have delivered a clear Remain verdict.
The data will add to the debate about whether the country now needs a new referendum, with millions having second thoughts about their Leave vote amid growing fears about Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal.
In a key finding that will particularly intensify pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to take a tougher stance against Brexit, the study found the overwhelming majority of those changing minds are Labour voters in seats the party currently holds.
“The nation-state law sponsored by @Netanyahu’s government discriminates against Israel’s Palestinian minority. I stand with the tens of thousands of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel demonstrating for equal rights at the weekend in Tel Aviv,” Corbyn sai
via UK Labour’s Corbyn Refutes Netanyahu’s Smears, Calls out Policy of Shooting Gaza Kids
Islamophobic attacks on Muslim women who wear veils have risen since Boris Johnson compared them to “letterboxes”, a watchdog has found.
Tell Mama, which records hate crimes, said there was a “direct link” between the former foreign minister’s comments and an uptick in incidents targeting women who wear the niqab – which covers the face and hair apart from the eyes.
At least four women have been called “letterboxes” in public since Mr Johnson ignited a row over Islamophobia with an article published in the Daily Telegraph on 5 August.
‘Letterbox’ insults against Muslim women spike in wake of Boris Johnson comments | The Independent
The Bluster “F”er has landed and Boris is his man and he planned for it.(ODT)
The charge list against Mr Trump is long, unignorable and impossible to tolerate. Morally, it is headed by the racism of the immigration policies he was so proud of in Brussels on Thursday, the cruelty of their enforcement, especially in the separation of children from their parents, the racism to which he gives encouragement at home, and the taunting and visceral threat to the rights and dignities of women, people of colour, and LGBT people, who are all now directly threatened by his latest supreme court nomination. He has ignorantly spurned the threat from climate change, has sucked up to tyrants, has conducted an unprecedented campaign against the free press, launched a trade war, insulted America’s allies, praised America’s enemies and made dangerous mischief in the domestic and regional politics of countless parts of the world. Only this week, heading for Europe, he insulted Germany and said meeting Vladimir Putin would be easy work compared with his meetings in Brussels and Britain.
via The Guardian view on the Trump visit: not welcome in Britain | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian
Self Interest is fast becoming the Cabal that controls governments and tries to carve up the world, By no means has Johnson resigned to the bacbench to be corraled like Tony Abbott. (ODT}
“Boris Johnson’s a friend of mine, he’s been very, very nice to me, very supportive and maybe I’ll speak to him when I get over there,” Trump said. “I like Boris Johnson, I’ve always liked him.”
Johnson previously said in a leaked audio recording that he wished Trump was overseeing the Brexit negotiations. His departure from Cabinet was followed by the resignation of junior, low-profile ministers late on Monday night and two MPs from party roles on Tuesday.
via Trump jokes about UK ‘turmoil’ while Australia stresses strong friendship
“Anti-Semitism is distinct from other forms of racism because instead of looking down on other races as inferior, it directs the venom upwards, towards an imaginary and evil elite. The “evil” — ever malleable historically as Bolshevism, “rootless” cosmopolitanism, capitalism, globalism, Zionism — has a new potency in this anxious, reactionary moment.”Julie Szego
I don’t know whether Julie Szego is Jewish or not but she certainly seems lost. To her if you do or don’t mention Jews your anti-Semitic. If you do or don’t mention Israel your anti-Semitic, If you are a Jew or aren’t a Jew your possibly anti-Semitic. Apparantly Netanyahu like Corbyn is anti-Semitic but neither know they are but in Corbyn’s case it’s inexcusable, in Netanyahu he’s just confused.
As my father married a Shitzka it make me fully half or just my shadow anti-Semitic? Jews don’t recognize me Nazis do and I ‘m deplored at what the State Israel is currently doing while being able to say some of my best friends are Jews without fear of lying. What does Julie Szego say? “I don’t fear for the Jews. I fear for the world.” She says utterly nothing from her” I’m lost and alone” apartheid position of them and me which according to her makes me part of the World and her lamentably not. (OD comment)
However, the question of attribution was not changed. The UK has been pushing for the Kremlin to be recognized as the perpetrator. Yet, its allies in Brussels appear to be refusing to cast judgment ahead of the evidence, unlike Downing Street.
“How did they come to the conclusion about a Russian ‘footprint’ if they didn’t give us those samples? Logically they shouldn’t have this substance. Which samples have they compared with to draw such a conclusion?” she went on. “Questions arise: then, they should have samples, which they conceal, or it is a lie from start to finish.”
“If the UK prime minister and other British experts give the formula, then it will be clear which countries have been developing these agents,” Zakharova said.
Remember the UK Intelligence said Saddam had WMDs and it justified war (OD)
Corbyn’s Labour surges to an 8-point lead over the Tories
Source: Corbyn’s Labour surges to an 8-point lead over the Tories / Boing Boing
The man suspected of mowing down a group of worshippers outside a London mosque was known for “flipping his lid” when he drank too much.
Source: London mosque attack: Suspect a family man who could ‘flip his lid’ when drinking
“We should call it [the Grenfell Tower fire] what it is, it’s corporate manslaughter … and there should be arrests made, frankly.”
Source: Is the Grenfell Tower disaster ‘corporate manslaughter’?
Several people have been injured in north London after a van rammed into worshippers leaving a mosque, witnesses said, in what British police described as a “major incident”.
Source: London van incident: Pedestrians hit near Finsbury Park mosque
‘
Our body, our choice’: Women turn out to protest against PM’s DUP deal.
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As of very early Friday morning, it looks as though the …
Source: UK hung Parliament: Is Trumpism pushing Europe Left? | Informed Comment
An overwhelming majority of people agree with Jeremy Corbyn that British involvement in foreign wars has put the public at greater risk of terrorism, according to a new poll. The exclusive ORB survey for The Independent found 75 per cent of people believe interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya have made atrocities on UK soil more likely.
Theresa May seems to shrink by the day, with her lead now in the single digits, while Corbyn has found his voice.
Source: Could Labour’s Corbyn Actually Win the British Elections? | The Nation
This Facebook comment about Jeremy Corbyn and the General Election is going viral on social media. Apparently it was initially written as a comment on another post, but was quickly reposted and has been going viral on social media ever
Source: This Facebook comment about Jeremy Corbyn is going viral – The London Economic
Labour continues to close the gap on the Conservatives as the parties head towards the General Election on 8 June, according to a new opinion poll. The poll by Survation for ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB) puts Labour on 37 per cent, up three points on a week ago and six points behind the Tories who are unchanged on 43 per cent. The Liberal Democrats on 8 per cent and Ukip on 4 per cent are both unchanged while the SNP are down one on 2 per cent and the Greens are also down one on 1 per cent.
Source: General election: Labour close gap on Tories to six points, new poll shows | The Independent
TeleSur | – – “The people of Manchester don’t stand with your xenophobia and racism,” one man shouted at the …
Source: Fascist, Go Home! After Bombing, Manchester Residents Shut Down Anti-Muslim Demo | Informed Comment
In the hours after a suicide bomber killed more than 20 young concert goers in Manchester, the Islamic State group made a mistake.
Donations from the billionaire business lobby to the Conservative Party are already almost double the total handed to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour by the trade union movement, figures published by the Electoral Commission on Friday show.
Source: Buying the election? Tory billionaires outspend Labour’s trade unions in donor war — RT UK
New anti-migrant policies announced in the Conservative election manifesto will make it harder for Aussies to find jobs in the UK.
Source: UK election: Australian workers to suffer under Theresa May’s immigration pledges
Theresa May has called for a general election to be held in the UK on 8 June. Here are the latest updates:
Source: Theresa May calls for UK general election on 8 June – live updates | The Independent
The UK Israel Tech Hub encourages sadistic experiments against the Palestinians.
Source: Britain hands over embassy to Israel’s war industry | The Electronic Intifada
By Steve Hewitt | (The Conversation) | – – A middle-aged man with a history of criminal activity and violence, …
He talks about ‘respect’, but the rightwing blowhard’s response to the Westminster attack has been tall tales he can only get away with on US TV
A Muslim-led campaign to raise money to support the families of victims of the Westminster terror attack has seen donations soar above £3,000 an hour after launching. Muslims United for London saw donations flood in immediately after launching the online donations page. The funds will be used to support victims and victims’ families of the terror attack in Westminster on Wednesday in which four people died and 40 injured.
Police investigations are ongoing into an attack in London on Wednesday.
Source: London terrorist attack: What we know and what we don’t know
Surely she didn’t believe Trump’s commitment to NATO. Nonetheless, it would have been useful for her to get him on the record – sort-of.
Source: Nice media conference but the Trump-Putin agenda dwarfs Theresa May’s to-do list
Under the Conservative government’s plans, students and skilled workers from countries including Australia will all be targeted as part of a tough new stance on migrants.
Source: Students, foreign workers targeted in UK migrant crackdown
Libya: David Cameron’s Iraq
Source: Libya, David Cameron’s “Iraq”? Damning Report Shreds Another War Monger – PravdaReport
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