.@Lauratobin1: "People from the fire brigade said in the future we'll have to pick which fires to put out, which streets to save, which houses to save, because there won't be enough resources"
The Fire & Rescue Service needs investment & more resources, not more cuts
NEW: here’s *actual* evidence that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is accepting foreign donations via PayPal. Dollars, yuan, Swiss francs, roubles..you name it, they’ll take it. Laundered by PayPal into British £. This *cannot* be legal, surely?? Electoral Commission MUST investigate
These deaths are on the hands of politicians who failed to act over years. Putting profit over our safety refusing to take action - now failing to protect us from its impact.
We need maximum working temperatures. Insulated homes. Cooling in schools, hospitals and care homes.
How the hell every person with influence isn’t screaming about climate change is beyond me. It’s not just the right either - where is the left??? Can people not see what is unfolding?
EXPLOSIVE! An arrest warrant should be promptly issued against this self-confessed war criminal.
The more Israeli leaders get away with their crimes, the more the system meant to protect us all gets irreparably destroyed.
The UK government had over 500 meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists in their first year in power.
Every flame of this monstrous wildfire in Wales is a political choice.
As wildfires rage, Andy Burnham still won't rule out airport expansion.
He still hasn't commited to ending new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.
The incoming Prime Minister can't say the climate crisis is an emergency whilst backing policies that make it worse.
So now confirmed from Sky News that Farage delayed his "laying flowers" performance until all the TV crews were running and offered to repeat it for "B roll content"
Odious little man.
Whoever came up with this deserves a standing ovation. 😂😂😂
“Stop the bungs” with Count Binface standing on the beach while Nigel Farage rows away in a boat full of cash… satire doesn’t get much better than this.
Watch Andy Burnham’s actions on Gaza as prime minister, don't simply listen to his hollow words of contrition.
Here is a checklist of the main things he would do if he was actually serious about ending British complicity in Israel’s genocide.
Remember, he is legally obligated to do all the things listed below, according to an International Court of Justice ruling that countries must honour the Geneva Convention and take whatever concrete steps they can to prevent a genocide.
He must de-proscribe Palestine Action, and the chilling impact it was intended to have on those protesting British complicity in what UN inquiries, legal experts, human rights groups and Holocaust scholars all believe to be a genocide in Gaza.
He must advise the Crown Prosecution Service to drop the impending charges against, and prosecutions of, thousands of ordinary people as “supporters of terrorism” for holding placards opposing genocide.
He must insist, more generally, that the UK police stop hounding anti-genocide activists, journalists and lawyers through an expanded and exaggerated interpretation of already-draconian counter-terrorism laws, and also scrap a new National Security Bill being hurried through parliament that will criminalise those trying to scrutinise British collusion in crimes like the Gaza genocide.
He must announce that any Briton who has served in the Israeli military – there are at least 2,000 of them – risks being prosecuted for war crimes on their return to the UK, including the son of Britain’s Orthodox chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.
Equally, he must remind the police of their duty to investigate prominent figures in Britain using their platforms to justify or incite genocide.
He must commit to ending all arms sales to Israel, not just the measly suspension of 30 out of 350 export licences that was conceded by Starmer. He must also end the carve-out on Britain’s supply of components for the F-35 jets being used to bomb Gaza.
He must insist Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, stop production of its killer drones at its UK factories and their shipment to Israel for use in Gaza – drones that a recent United Nations inquiry found were being used to deliberately target Palestinian children.
He must refuse to meet Israeli government ministers and generals, as Starmer’s government has repeatedly done in flagrant violation of its legal obligations, and promise to enforce the arrest warrant against Netanyahu, and any other Israeli officials the ICC may have indicted in secret, should they set foot in the UK.
He must stop British RAF base Akrotiri, on Cyprus, from being used for spy flights over Gaza, gathering intelligence that is being handed over to Israel and almost certainly directing its attacks on the enclave.
He must also block Britain’s role in the weapons supply chain to Israel, with Akrotiri being used to transfer US and German arms that have killed many tens of thousands of Palestinians in the enclave.
And he must impose economic sanctions and asset freezes on Israel, equivalent to those on Russia.
Will Burnham do all of this? Will he do any of it? Will he even try to do any of it?
You know the answer as well as I do.
Talk is cheap. Judge Burnham by his actions.
Instead of keeping hate and misinformation off our airwaves, Ofcom is allowing TalkTV to serve as a megaphone for dangerous, far-right rhetoric.
We can’t let this stand. Help us sue Ofcom 👇
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So there’s me…
State schooled, working class, yet I’m supposed to be “the establishment”
Or Nigel Farage, Dulwich College, City trader
Or…Richard Tice, Uppingham, grandson of a property tycoon
Both getting £££ bungs from the aristocracy
Which is the establishment again?
A rocket hasn't been fired from Gaza in 18 months. And Hamas has handed administrative control over to a technocratic interim committee. Yet the apartheid state continues killing children daily. Almost as if it's a holocaust and not a war