General 77th Brigade

Does it really matter? A retweet is either an endorsement or I think you are an idiot. You figure it out.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?

On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.

There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.

As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.

This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.

[ERA @EastRenAsks]

This isn't a comedy account. She really is this thick.

[General 77th Brigade @RFC477]

@grok @MARCLEEDS @ConcernedEdin I don’t need a statement from Edinburgh council to know the teachers have been sent home.

[General 77th Brigade @RFC477]

@grok @MARCLEEDS @ConcernedEdin Well, teachers sitting at home after a bomb threat and sent to work from home is a bit more than anecdotal.

[General 77th Brigade @RFC477]

@grok @MARCLEEDS @ConcernedEdin Teachers definitely sent home from Edinburgh schools.

[Michael Glackin @Glackinreports]

Indeed. And the SNP have been flying this false flag for years - I first wrote about it in January 2020, more than six years ago…

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

SNP schools: ‘They’re rubbish on performance criteria you can measure — reading, writing, maths — but brilliant judged by criteria you can’t — artistic expression.’
Desperate stuff from the Celtic Kailyard nomenklatura that’s run what was once one of the finest school systems in the world into the ground.

[Margot Stewart @UnrepentantYoon]

@GrahamGGrant The Holyrood gravy train offers lucrative careers and salaries they could not realistically command elsewhere.
Certainly not in the private sector.

[Thatchers Cider Drinker 🎅🏻🎄⛄️ @MrHenryFH]

It’s funny as it’s true! 👇😂😂😂

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

He could have taken a stand. He could have supported freedom of the press. He could have risked unpopularity with those who made this stupid decision. But that would have required courage and leadership. So not an option, then.

[General 77th Brigade @RFC477]

@tacomonster_ @Jcaird2 He tried with and was sacked by Bristol City.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

This was the statement released by Police Scotland after the footage of the incident in Dundee went viral last year. It seems that everything was done to give the impression that the young girl was the aggressor and the migrant couple the victims. A court decided yesterday that it was the other way round. Blatant disinformation. Police Scotland owe everyone an explanation.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🚨ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! 🤯

🤦‍♂️ Ferrari Asks Benn SIX times: “Is Beheading an Alien Culture?” — Labour MP Still Can’t Say YES

Nick Ferrari just hammered Labour’s Hilary Benn on LBC, demanding FOUR TIMES if beheading is an “alien culture” after a Sudanese asylum seeker tried to hack a man’s head off in Belfast.

Simple. Straightforward. Bleeding obvious answer: f*cking YES!

But watch Benn squirm like he’s being asked to defuse a bomb. Painful. Ridiculous. Embarrassing.

Ferrari: “Is beheading an alien culture?”

Benn: Starts waffling about the “criminal justice process”…

Ferrari (cutting him off, frustrated): “I’ve moved you globally, Mr Benn. We’re not talking about the UK. Globally, is beheading an alien culture?”

Benn: Calls it “abhorrent” but still dodges…

Ferrari: “And is it an alien culture?”

Benn keeps refusing to just say it. Talks about “all countries would condemn it.”

Ferrari: “So it is an alien culture?”

Benn starts rambling about “what is that saying about people who come from a particular country…”

Ferrari (now properly irritated): “I’m going to ask for the fourth time: is beheading an alien culture, Mr Benn?”

Benn: “It is abhorrent and it is a terrible thing to do.”

Ferrari: “It is or it is not?”

Benn (still can’t quite say it, but closer): “It is alien to all right thinking people.”

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. He literally cannot bring himself to say the bleeding obvious.

What the hell is wrong with these politicians? Who exactly are they so terrified of upsetting with a basic question like this? Is there a town square of beheaders somewhere going “He said WHAT!? We’ve been cancelled!” 😂

Just say it, for God’s sake.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​!

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

Early morning to local store to buy a pint (or a half litre?) of milk & scan the newspaper front pages.
Most lead on a Sudanese man, gnawing at a man's head with a Stanley knife.
One, Daily Mirror, leads with story of a Somalian man refused entry to USA.
Editors make choices.

[Cllr Todd Ferguson @ToddFergusonNAA]

“Groups of masked men…”

“…target and attack innocent people who are simply trying to live, work and raise their families here.”

“…intimidation and violence…”

The irony 🙄👇🏻

[Mark McLaughlin @MarkMcLaugh1in]

💬 @JohnSwinney today admitted there weren't "adequate controls" to prevent Murrell's thieving.

"The systems in place shouldn't have been able to be abused but they were."

I reminded him last week he said the systems did not fail.

Response: "DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH!"

[Flags'n'Stuff @JoyousCivic]

She was his boss, she was the SNP leader, she was the treasurer, she signed off the snp accounts, she shut down anyone who dared ask about the accounts.
She knew.
She is a liar and no amount of crocodile tears can save her.

[Honda Man @HondaMa06153521]

@kelvmackenzie

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

She is not being held responsible for her husband’s crimes. She is being called to account for her deliberate frustration of the legitimate scrutiny which might have revealed those crimes. The distinction should be perfectly intelligible to anyone except the disingenuous.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

It’s very important for people to understand that Ian Blackford was instrumental in helping Nicola shut down scrutiny and demonise anyone who dared to scrutinise the party’s internal governance, lack of an independence strategy and damaging embrace of identity politics.