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Offline Jerboa

Remember the "Farage Riots" in Southport and other places in 2024? That's why they don't announce ethnic backgrounds.

Just because some soft leftwaffe on X called them "Farage Riots" it didn't make them so, as the inquiry showed, the lack of information to the public helped inflame and anger the public.

Offline Jerboa

He wasn't 'vilified for telling the truth'. He has lost his position because he declared publicly that his 'study' was of topics that were entirely different to those for which the university had offered the positing and funding. He also put the university's name to his claims when they had no involvement.

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Just because some soft leftwaffe on X called them "Farage Riots" it didn't make them so, as the inquiry showed, the lack of information to the public helped inflame and anger the public.

They were not  farage riots. 2 girls died and the public responded.
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They were not  farage riots. 2 girls died and the public responded.

Three young girls, Bebe King, Elsie Dot Standcombe & Alice Agular.

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Just because some soft leftwaffe on X called them "Farage Riots" it didn't make them so, as the inquiry showed, the lack of information to the public helped inflame and anger the public.
Anyone with half a brain would know that putting something in quotes indicates use of a common term, which is what "Farage Riots" became.
I thought you Reform fans were advocates of free speech? You seem even more thin skinned than your 'Dear Leader' is.

Offline Jerboa

Anyone with half a brain would know that putting something in quotes indicates use of a common term, which is what "Farage Riots" became.
I thought you Reform fans were advocates of free speech? You seem even more thin skinned than your 'Dear Leader' is.

News Flash, I'm not a Reform fan, I don't trust Farage, but that doesn't stop me calling out your BS.

Offline TallnHung

The home office are never going to post proper data. They love these aliens and don't want to cause backlash.
But its common sense. Look at the UK in the last 10 years and the changes. Also look how that crime is increased. We all know why. Just some wont say.

I will be voting Reform or reform soon.
Europe and UK need change. We need a trump type leader tbh

Oh the old classic that the Home Office / MSM / Whoever the shit for brains think are covering up the truth is always the get out clause.
Yeah, lost and argument to real facts and blame everyone else like Shitler does.

As usual conspiracy theorists (and Tommy Shit for Brains followers) think they are unique in knowing the facts, and overestimate their own cognitive abilities and knowledge.
They say "Do your own research" and then time and again prove a huge lack of analytical thinking capability.

Cornell did loads of research into this but hey, unlikely that'll be read by the hard of thinking!
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Oh the old classic that the Home Office / MSM / Whoever the shit for brains think are covering up the truth is always the get out clause.
Yeah, lost and argument to real facts and blame everyone else like Shitler does.

As usual conspiracy theorists (and Tommy Shit for Brains followers) think they are unique in knowing the facts, and overestimate their own cognitive abilities and knowledge.
They say "Do your own research" and then time and again prove a huge lack of analytical thinking capability.

Cornell did loads of research into this but hey, unlikely that'll be read by the hard of thinking!

If migrants aren't per capita responsible for higher rates of sexual abuse, why is the Home Office handing out leaflets to boat migrants?

Offline TallnHung

To keep idiots like you quiet because Farage tells you they're the problem and HO is doing nothing about it.

Higher percentage commit these crimes, likely given the facts.  99% wrong given the same facts.  Simple really, just not as simple as some!
 
Cause - Farage and his idiots say nothing done. 
Effect - Hand out pointless leaflets. 
Secondary Effect - Idiots say it must be true because theres a pamphlet!

Offline Jerboa

To keep idiots like you quiet because Farage tells you they're the problem and HO is doing nothing about it.

Higher percentage commit these crimes, likely given the facts.  99% wrong given the same facts.  Simple really, just not as simple as some!
 
Cause - Farage and his idiots say nothing done. 
Effect - Hand out pointless leaflets. 
Secondary Effect - Idiots say it must be true because theres a pamphlet!

Have you bumped your head? We don't have to see a leaflet to know there is a problem, do I need to run through the names of the victims murdered or raped by migrants who came to UK on rubber boats or the back of lorries?

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Some interesting statistics from Denmark.

''Non-Western immigrants and their descendants are vastly overrepresented in Danish crime statistics.

Citing numbers from the Ministry of Justice, Berlingske reports that non-Western immigrants, who make up 8.4% of the Danish population, commit 14% of the country’s crimes of aggravated violence and 24.3% of the rapes, judging by number of convicted.

Maybe even more concerning are the figures for second-generation non-Western immigrants. Making up a mere 2.2% of the population, this demographic is responsible for 15.6% of the violent crimes and 8.1% of the rapes.

Put together, this means perpetrators of 29.6% of the country’s violent crimes and 32.4% of rapes are from a non-Western background, despite only making up 10.6% of the population.

“These are deeply disturbing numbers. Therefore, we must take strong and decisive action against this behavior, which is completely unacceptable,” Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard told Berlingske.''

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Offline TallnHung

Have you bumped your head? We don't have to see a leaflet to know there is a problem, do I need to run through the names of the victims murdered or raped by migrants who came to UK on rubber boats or the back of lorries?

Don't see you, your mate Tommy and Shitler going wild about 5 white scum killing 2 police officers.
 
If and had been black they would have rolled out the usual shit I'm sure!

Offline TallnHung

Have you bumped your head? We don't have to see a leaflet to know there is a problem, do I need to run through the names of the victims murdered or raped by migrants who came to UK on rubber boats or the back of lorries?

Yes and whilst you're doing so run the other 97% who are all white.  I bet you get bored naming the indigenous ones before you do the ones with a brown face!

3% is too much but compared to the 97% you'll soon run out of keyboard warrior points?

Offline webpunter

@SH interesting stuff
I've mentioned that major problems in Sweden where successive Govts tried their best to hide the scale of the problem
The UK Govt does its very best to try to obscure the problem
From low level two tier policing migrants & non white people let off with cautions police not even bothered to do that
Its unlikely that there will be much variation between Denmark & other european countries including the UK
The difference is that Denmark has the data to see who is doing what
It doesn't surprise me regarding 2nd generation non western migrants
Its the same here with Pakistanis they've turned rape gangs into an industry
Its in the mislamic DNA they have no regard for women
Which is exactly why the Govt released the leaflet
On the the rape figures in the pakistani & other mislamic communities it can be taken as a given that a sizeable element of the communities will have a good idea whats going on & look the other way
Parents of young girls are happy that its white meat that is being targeted
Its much safer for them, well until its time for their arranged marriages
& Labour's approach just carry on letting them arrive [illegal & legal migration] make them feel as welcome as possible [future voters]



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If migrants aren't per capita responsible for higher rates of sexual abuse, why is the Home Office handing out leaflets to boat migrants?

I was surprised it took respective governments so long to to put this in place and include it with the considerable documentation already handed out. Given the widely different legal and cultural backgrounds of a large proportion of the asylum seekers it makes sense. The reason for not doing so being fear of the 'do gooders'.

When you look into this in a little more detail it appears that in a couple of high profile cases involving asylum seekers they have used the defence of not knowing UK law differed and so this long overdue move has finally been introduced to negate this defence.


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@SH interesting stuff
I've mentioned that major problems in Sweden where successive Govts tried their best to hide the scale of the problem
The UK Govt does its very best to try to obscure the problem
From low level two tier policing migrants & non white people let off with cautions police not even bothered to do that
Its unlikely that there will be much variation between Denmark & other european countries including the UK
The difference is that Denmark has the data to see who is doing what
It doesn't surprise me regarding 2nd generation non western migrants
Its the same here with Pakistanis they've turned rape gangs into an industry
Its in the mislamic DNA they have no regard for women
Which is exactly why the Govt released the leaflet
On the the rape figures in the pakistani & other mislamic communities it can be taken as a given that a sizeable element of the communities will have a good idea whats going on & look the other way
Parents of young girls are happy that its white meat that is being targeted
Its much safer for them, well until its time for their arranged marriages
& Labour's approach just carry on letting them arrive [illegal & legal migration] make them feel as welcome as possible [future voters]

Webby mate, I really do feel you are sailing close to the wind with the forum rules on race and religion. I believe you have been warned once already?  :hi:

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I've said quite a lot of disobliging things about Andy Burnham over the past few months, but it is much to his credit that he is continuing the uncompromising support for Ukraine shown by every Prime Minister since (to his credit) Boris Johnson:
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That supporting Ukraine carries risks to us is neither here nor there.  In the past the United Kingdom has often done the right thing with respect to European countries threatened by evil men (Napoleon and most of Europe two and a bit centuries ago; the Kaiser and Belgium in 1914; Hitler and Poland in 1939), and we are correctly doing the same again.

Incidentally i am not taking this "brave" position from a personal safe distance, since if Vlad the Impaler starts chucking drones in the direction of Britain's defence installations, Portsmouth will probably be one of his first targets!

Meanwhile, yesterday there were two interviews on TV that gave cause for, well, alarm is not too strong a word.

On Channel 4 News, Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, stressed once again how vital is it that we and the rest of Europe put enough resources into the Ukraine war to defeat Russia – much more than we are currently doing.  It is our war too.  Russia poses us an existential threat.

And on Newsnight, the deeply sinister Andrei Fedorov, a former Russian deputy foreign minister who advises the Kremlin, was keen to talk about some of the very unpleasant things that Putin could do to Britain.  (Incidentally the Newsnight interviewer, Adam Fleming – someone who turns up now and then and always seems OK without his being someone I’ve particularly noticed before – was pitch-perfect, with a few brief, firm, telling interruptions without breaking the rhythm.  It was a model of good, incisive interviewing.)


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I've said quite a lot of disobliging things about Andy Burnham over the past few months, but it is much to his credit that he is continuing the uncompromising support for Ukraine shown by every Prime Minister since (to his credit) Boris Johnson:
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That supporting Ukraine carries risks to us is neither here nor there.  In the past the United Kingdom has often done the right thing with respect to European countries threatened by evil men (Napoleon and most of Europe two and a bit centuries ago; the Kaiser and Belgium in 1914; Hitler and Poland in 1939), and we are correctly doing the same again.

Incidentally i am not taking this "brave" position from a personal safe distance, since if Vlad the Impaler starts chucking drones in the direction of Britain's defence installations, Portsmouth will probably be one of his first targets!

Meanwhile, yesterday there were two interviews on TV that gave cause for, well, alarm is not too strong a word.

On Channel 4 News, Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, stressed once again how vital is it that we and the rest of Europe put enough resources into the Ukraine war to defeat Russia – much more than we are currently doing.  It is our war too.  Russia poses us an existential threat.

And on Newsnight, the deeply sinister Andrei Fedorov, a former Russian deputy foreign minister who advises the Kremlin, was keen to talk about some of the very unpleasant things that Putin could do to Britain.  (Incidentally the Newsnight interviewer, Adam Fleming – someone who turns up now and then and always seems OK without his being someone I’ve particularly noticed before – was pitch-perfect, with a few brief, firm, telling interruptions without breaking the rhythm.  It was a model of good, incisive interviewing.)

Reform wont support scamkraine.
Money sent there could be spent on improving uk

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Reform wont support scamkraine.
Money sent there could be spent on improving uk

Another so called patriotic Brit who supports the enemy. Unbelievable that so many gullible fools take their pieces of silver from Russia

Offline RadioKid

Have you bumped your head? We don't have to see a leaflet to know there is a problem, do I need to run through the names of the victims murdered or raped by migrants who came to UK on rubber boats or the back of lorries?

It is rather telling that Farage and Co. Didn't get a Memo regarding faux outrage over the recent motorway deaths. I thought he was championing Policeman welfare but no sense of outrage we have become accustomed to.

Offline Followyourdick

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Evidence to back this up??  It is from GB News and it does have a question mark in it.  So it seems to me that they ask a question and you just assume that it's correct, unless of course you can provide the evidence, I'll wait.

Whilst you're at it please provide the evidence to justify your 99% of migrants are rapists or peados?


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I was skimming the internet on asylum seekers and the law and just happened to search for something like asylum lawyers.
I was surprised to see page after page after page advertising legal aid asylum lawyers.
It's obviously a big industry.

I wonder how many of these are dodgy like the ones in The BBC investigation earlier in the year which found a network of law firms helping migrants to fabricate LGBTQ and asylum claims.




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I was skimming the internet on asylum seekers and the law and just happened to search for something like asylum lawyers.
I was surprised to see page after page after page advertising legal aid asylum lawyers.
It's obviously a big industry.

I wonder how many of these are dodgy like the ones in The BBC investigation earlier in the year which found a network of law firms helping migrants to fabricate LGBTQ and asylum claims.

A few years back there was a dodgy lawyer in Liverpool offering dodgy immigration advice to Chinese illegals.
Silly fool went so far as to hand out business cards to his co-workers in his daytime NHS job.
Needless to say he got reported and lost his day job and got into legal shit over his lawyering.

He also got done for running cheap Rachman style accommodation for his Chinese clients
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Its in the mislamic DNA they have no regard for women
I never had you down for being woke...... :D

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I've said quite a lot of disobliging things about Andy Burnham over the past few months, but it is much to his credit that he is continuing the uncompromising support for Ukraine shown by every Prime Minister since (to his credit) Boris Johnson:
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That supporting Ukraine carries risks to us is neither here nor there.  In the past the United Kingdom has often done the right thing with respect to European countries threatened by evil men (Napoleon and most of Europe two and a bit centuries ago; the Kaiser and Belgium in 1914; Hitler and Poland in 1939), and we are correctly doing the same again.

Incidentally i am not taking this "brave" position from a personal safe distance, since if Vlad the Impaler starts chucking drones in the direction of Britain's defence installations, Portsmouth will probably be one of his first targets!

Meanwhile, yesterday there were two interviews on TV that gave cause for, well, alarm is not too strong a word.

On Channel 4 News, Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, stressed once again how vital is it that we and the rest of Europe put enough resources into the Ukraine war to defeat Russia – much more than we are currently doing.  It is our war too.  Russia poses us an existential threat.

And on Newsnight, the deeply sinister Andrei Fedorov, a former Russian deputy foreign minister who advises the Kremlin, was keen to talk about some of the very unpleasant things that Putin could do to Britain.  (Incidentally the Newsnight interviewer, Adam Fleming – someone who turns up now and then and always seems OK without his being someone I’ve particularly noticed before – was pitch-perfect, with a few brief, firm, telling interruptions without breaking the rhythm.  It was a model of good, incisive interviewing.)
What a load of absolute tosh.
Glazing the history of British interference and military adventures abroad and ignoring NATO provocation.
Is there no end to your ignorance.
Just goes to show reading the broadsheets you can still end no better informed like a Page 3 aficionado.

Offline Jerboa

Yes and whilst you're doing so run the other 97% who are all white.  I bet you get bored naming the indigenous ones before you do the ones with a brown face!

3% is too much but compared to the 97% you'll soon run out of keyboard warrior points?

Don't see you, your mate Tommy and Shitler going wild about 5 white scum killing 2 police officers.
 
If and had been black they would have rolled out the usual shit I'm sure!

Moronic, did I mention race? The whataboutery of indigenous men who rape, so we shouldn't complain when foreign unvetted migrants rape and murder our citizens! We have to many of our own wrongens, we don't need to import any more. The fact that men from certain countries commit sexual offences at a higher level than British men is a problem.

Who wouldn't condemn the scumbags who killed the two constables? Your argument fails, as they are our indigenous scumbags, unfortunately we can no longer transport them to Van Diemen's Land.

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Offline Jerboa

I've said quite a lot of disobliging things about Andy Burnham over the past few months, but it is much to his credit that he is continuing the uncompromising support for Ukraine shown by every Prime Minister since (to his credit) Boris Johnson:
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That supporting Ukraine carries risks to us is neither here nor there.  In the past the United Kingdom has often done the right thing with respect to European countries threatened by evil men (Napoleon and most of Europe two and a bit centuries ago; the Kaiser and Belgium in 1914; Hitler and Poland in 1939), and we are correctly doing the same again.

Incidentally i am not taking this "brave" position from a personal safe distance, since if Vlad the Impaler starts chucking drones in the direction of Britain's defence installations, Portsmouth will probably be one of his first targets!

Meanwhile, yesterday there were two interviews on TV that gave cause for, well, alarm is not too strong a word.

On Channel 4 News, Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, stressed once again how vital is it that we and the rest of Europe put enough resources into the Ukraine war to defeat Russia – much more than we are currently doing.  It is our war too.  Russia poses us an existential threat.

And on Newsnight, the deeply sinister Andrei Fedorov, a former Russian deputy foreign minister who advises the Kremlin, was keen to talk about some of the very unpleasant things that Putin could do to Britain.  (Incidentally the Newsnight interviewer, Adam Fleming – someone who turns up now and then and always seems OK without his being someone I’ve particularly noticed before – was pitch-perfect, with a few brief, firm, telling interruptions without breaking the rhythm.  It was a model of good, incisive interviewing.)

Shirreff is another delusional old general, who lives in his bubble, reads the broadsheets that are now no better than the daily sport, and only speaks to similar figures in the media and defence bubble.

We are now open participants in the war, these long range drones are produced in UK and other European countries, the targetting and intelligence comes from Nato and still the US. Russia has the right if they wish to hit these drone manufacturing sites, and no it won't be with geran drones, Russia can use conventional hypersonic missiles, that can't be intercepted, there is not much we could do in response,

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Moronic, did I mention race? The whataboutery of indigenous men who rape, so we shouldn't complain when foreign unvetted migrants rape and murder our citizens! We have to many of our own wrongens, we don't need to import any more. The fact that men from certain countries commit sexual offences at a higher level than British men is a problem.

Who wouldn't condemn the scumbags who killed the two constables? Your argument fails, as they are our indigenous scumbags, unfortunately we can no longer transport them to Van Diemen's Land.

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The centre for migration control who produced those figures are just about as trustworthy as good ole Nige frog face.

Offline Jerboa

The centre for migration control who produced those figures are just about as trustworthy as good ole Nige frog face.

Oh really? So did they just make up their figures? How about another source?

Citing numbers from the Ministry of Justice, Berlingske reports that non-Western immigrants, who make up 8.4% of the Danish population, commit 14% of the country’s crimes of aggravated violence and 24.3% of the rapes, judging by number of convicted.

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A stabbing in brent council offices. Another example of khans fallen london.
Cant even go to council offices in the day.
Stop and search needs bringing back. Police dont do due to offending a certain group.
But stabbings daily cant go on.


Online Punting2022

The centre for migration control who produced those figures are just about as trustworthy as good ole Nige frog face.

No winning. Someone gave figures. Just look logically. When uk had less somalis afghans etria migrants, crime like rape was down. The leaflets also say dont cook wild animals. Ive seen a vid of a afghan cooking a swan

Offline Followyourdick

Oh really? So did they just make up their figures? How about another source?

Citing numbers from the Ministry of Justice, Berlingske reports that non-Western immigrants, who make up 8.4% of the Danish population, commit 14% of the country’s crimes of aggravated violence and 24.3% of the rapes, judging by number of convicted.

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Robert Bates the bloke who runs it was a reform activist, he volunteered for them at the 24 GE.
Many of his claims have been debunked.

Offline Followyourdick

No winning. Someone gave figures. Just look logically. When uk had less somalis afghans etria migrants, crime like rape was down. The leaflets also say dont cook wild animals. Ive seen a vid of a afghan cooking a swan
You gave a figure, remember? 99% of migrants are rapists or peados but have yet to provide any evidence of this claim.

Offline Jerboa

Robert Bates the bloke who runs it was a reform activist, he volunteered for them at the 24 GE.
Many of his claims have been debunked.

And the article from Denmark that uses Danish government stats?


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Reform wont support scamkraine.
Money sent there could be spent on improving uk
I'm sure there's a quid pro quo  involved with all the money and weaponry sent to Ukraine.

Offline Jerboa

I'm sure there's a quid pro quo  involved with all the money and weaponry sent to Ukraine.

Western politicians and celebrities who keep pushing the war are getting kickbacks.

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Online Punting2022

You gave a figure, remember? 99% of migrants are rapists or peados but have yet to provide any evidence of this claim.

How much proof you need. Daily articles like this occur. Crime etc. Its there for all to see. People can see how the landscape has changed.


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Fake as fuck … and tbh it’s obviously so.

Per London Borough of Bexley's official account:

We have been made aware of a fake letter posted to some homes, supposedly from our Development Management Team, titled ‘Neighbourhood Notice – New Residential Occupancy’ and dated 24/8/2026.
We wish to make it clear that this letter is NOT from the Council and we have referred the matter to the Metropolitan Police.
If you have received such a letter, please contact us via [email protected]

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Fake as fuck … and tbh it’s obviously so.

Per London Borough of Bexley's official account:

We have been made aware of a fake letter posted to some homes, supposedly from our Development Management Team, titled ‘Neighbourhood Notice – New Residential Occupancy’ and dated 24/8/2026.
We wish to make it clear that this letter is NOT from the Council and we have referred the matter to the Metropolitan Police.
If you have received such a letter, please contact us via [email protected]
Fake as fuck maybe but you're forgetting that's only the level of sophistication needed to fool a Reform voter  :hi:

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Fake as fuck maybe but you're forgetting that's only the level of sophistication needed to fool a Reform voter  :hi:

You don't need to fool a reform member.
They're born stupid.

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Fake as fuck maybe but you're forgetting that's only the level of sophistication needed to fool a Reform voter  :hi:
I'm surprised Farage and Lows a silent on the subject  :unknown:


Offline Followyourdick

And the article from Denmark that uses Danish government stats?
You (and your mate 2022) do you and keep on believing the made up divisive nonsense that right wing news outlets you read put out.

We can all google stuff and come up with figures, I can't really be bothered with you anymore, nothing anybody says is going get you away from your conspiracy theories, ie, kickbacks for promoting the war in Ukraine, I righto.

I know it wasn't you but 2022 cannot justify his 99% figure but stands by it with zero actual evidence, just pictures and words put out by fuck knows who, most of which aren't real.

We can also all fling pathetic so called insults like Leftwaffle (so funny and hurty).

I am reminded very much of the Murdoch meme, it could not be any more appropriate.

I'm confident and content with my morals and that I will be on the right side of history.

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Offline Jerboa

Robert Bates the bloke who runs it was a reform activist, he volunteered for them at the 24 GE.
Many of his claims have been debunked.

And the article from Denmark that uses Danish government stats?

You gone pretty quiet, you ignore my post about Danish stats, and waffle about Robert Bates.  :rolleyes:

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I've said quite a lot of disobliging things about Andy Burnham over the past few months, but it is much to his credit that he is continuing the uncompromising support for Ukraine shown by every Prime Minister since (to his credit) Boris Johnson:
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I'm increasingly warming to Andy Burnham.  Here – from a report in today's Times – is another big and important issue on which he has firmly taken the right side (an issue on which Sir Keir Starmer was weak and vacillating):

Andy Burnham is poised to announce “robust” sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank despite warnings they could spiral into a “de facto boycott” of the country.

The prime minister wants to strengthen the government’s approach in response to Israeli plans to open tenders for the construction of 1,200 settler homes.

Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, said Israel’s plans would effectively cut the West Bank in two and destroy any hope of a two-state solution.

A senior government source told the Times that Burnham wanted to take a far more “robust” position than his predecessor Sir Keir Starmer. The source expected him to approve plans for a trade ban on Israeli settlements and the sanctioning of individuals.


Surely not even the most committed Zionist can condone the way Israelis are stealing land that is not theirs and the way the state of Israel is actively encouraging it?