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[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

On this day in 1981, the final episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum (The Last Roll Call) was broadcast.

[Deano4Reform @deano4alex]

Lets not forget:
He negotiated himself tax free status on his DPP pension before hammering pensioners and farmers.
He appointed Paedophile supporter Mandelson against all judgement.
Fought to deny Grooming Gang inquiry.
Tried to blow £35b on fantasy Chagos deal.
Released rapists and child abusers early without care
Comrade Starmer was no friend of the British people.

[SO2 Dits @SO3Plausible]

Did Al Cairns know what was afoot when Healey resigned? I think he probably did.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 EXPOSED: LABOUR MP DEFENDS THE BIGGEST DEFENCE SPENDING BETRAYAL IN MODERN HISTORY!

Meet Labour MP Andrew Lewin.

He just went on live television to defend Chancellor John Healey, the absolute biggest hypocrite in the Labour Party!

Just months ago, Healey dramatically resigned as Defence Secretary, claiming the government was putting Great Britain at risk by refusing to spend 3 percent of GDP on defence.

Now Prime Minister Andy Burnham has promoted Healey to Chancellor, giving him total control of the Treasury checkbook.

And what does Healey do? He instantly U turns on his own defence pledge, refusing to fund the very military he claimed to care about!

Yet Labour MPs like Andrew Lewin sit on TV making pathetic excuses for politicians who prioritise their own massive promotions over British national security.

They treat the public like fools while engineering our total military decline. The mask has completely slipped.

RT and SHARE this everywhere to expose Labour's shameful defence betrayal! 🇬🇧🔥

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

He now has zero credibility.

Slow hand clap Tiny Andy - your Chancellor became a lame duck before you even got to do PMQs.

🙄🤡🤡🤡

[Frances Johnston @FrancesJ75]

This man ended Starmer’s reign as PM over defence spending! He is a disgrace! Now as chancellor he can’t find the 3%. Resign now! Traitor. No respect! 😡

[Jon Gaunt @jongaunt]

John Healey is a hypocritical self serving pig. Acted like a man of principle when he resigned in Starmer’s Cabinet but now as Chancellor he refuses to fund defence as he called for! No wonder we hate politicians!

[Simon Danczuk @SimonDanczuk]

Healey’s reputation is in tatters. Rightly or wrongly, he was known across parliament as a decent bloke, now he’s known as a chancer who puts his own promotion ahead of defending Britain.

[Mark N @Cold8957]

He quit two months ago because Starmer refused to agree to 3% of GDP on defence spending.
Now he’s chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has himself now shelved his own plan of spending 3% of GDP on defence.
A more corrupt bunch of grubby frauds you will not find.

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary because he said the Government’s failure to fund defence properly would make Britain less safe. He demanded 3% by 2030 and presented his resignation as a matter of principle.

Now he is Chancellor and suddenly that principle can wait. The 3% commitment is being pushed off to another Spending Review. The urgency has disappeared. The man who resigned because the money wasn’t there is now the man hiding behind process and spin to explain why the money still isn’t there.

So what exactly did John Healey resign over?

Either he meant what he said as Defence Secretary, in which case he is now knowingly accepting a settlement he warned would leave Britain less safe. Or he didn’t, and his supposedly principled resignation was a calculated political manoeuvre to help bring down Keir Starmer and secure his own advancement under Burnham.

Neither explanation is remotely acceptable.

You cannot make the defence of the country your great point of principle when it suits your political ambitions, then quietly abandon it once those ambitions have been rewarded.

A resignation on principle is supposed to cost you something. Healey’s appears to have earned him the Treasury.

That makes his retreat now worse than hypocrisy. It calls into question the integrity of the resignation itself.

Britain’s security is too important to be used as a prop in a Cabinet power play. If Healey believed 3% by 2030 was necessary to keep Britain safe, he should deliver it. If he no longer believes that, he owes the country an explanation of what changed.

Otherwise his great act of principle increasingly looks like exactly what it was supposed not to be: a cowardly and calculated piece of political theatre.

https://t.co/fOpxazk2KI

[Neil Hughes @BlobWarriorUK]

Another greasy pole climber with no principles. He'd as dodgy as they come plus he's got a very questionable background on the grooming gangs cover up. Exactly the kind of person we don't need in politics.

[Rachel @RachelD1892]

John Healey torpedoed Starmer's govt when he resigned as Defence Sec over inadequate spending.
Burnham made him Chancellor as his reward.
In the October budget Healey will confirm Reeves' defence spending plans.
This is the integrity of our government.
They have none. Shysters.

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

On 30 July, Wes Streeting told Nick Ferrari of LBC he would resign if Defence wasn’t properly funded and he was careful to say he’d been assured by Healey and Burnham’s it would be.

Healey’s credibility is now in tatters.

But Streeting’s position is surely untenable?

[Tony @EvacTony]

John Healey.

Quit his job as defence secretary and told Keir Starmer "you have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs" (3% of GDP)

Now, John Healey Chancellor, of the Exchequer just months later under Andy Burnham, refuses to commit to the spending plans he quit over.

Career politicians, same result everytime and everytime its the British who suffer and the British who are left high and dry.

[Financial Times @FT]

Government insiders told the FT that John Healey’s Budget would focus on filling a defence equipment funding gap of nearly £5bn left behind by former prime minister Keir Starmer, amounting to about £1.2bn a year.

Read more: https://t.co/GZWWBXZ0RI

[brutes battaglia @brutesbattaglia]

I’ve seen this, no shit, 300 times. And I still can’t believe this happened

[Max Klinger @MaxE2review]

I studied in the academic department at Cambridge that later employed Jason Arday. Here's just some of the crap I learnt: For one module, I wrote a lengthy essay about how cultural products like kids’ cartoons and jazz songs serve as instruments of capitalist oppression. I got a top mark on that paper (despite knowing at the time that I was essentially regurgitating complete crap).

While studying for another paper I had a debate with the professor, an eminent anthropologist, because she insisted that native tribes could fly through the trees - not metaphorically, but that they could literally fly because they believed they could fly. After all, who are we to question ‘indigenous ways of knowing’...

For a different course, I read long ‘research papers’ which argued that the fact that black kids are excluded from schools more than white kids proves systemic racism exists in education. Crucially, they ignored the fact that white kids are excluded more than, e.g., Japanese kids, a statistic which, applying the exact same logic, would suggest that the education system is systemically biased in favour of, erm, Japanese kids (which obviously it isn’t).

Something that was held up as proof of the existence of this largely imaginary racism was that teachers tell kids not to use booming voices in the classroom, and not to put up their hoods or wear their trousers down below their pants.

On another occasion, my supervisor casually praised some students agitators who were trying to shut down a talk by someone they disagreed with. I said that I didn’t think this was something to celebrate, because I believed in freedom of speech. He got visibly angry, and proceeded to tell me that free speech was not worth protecting in a capitalist system (or something along those lines).

In my all-important final year, a lecturer let me know that I shouldn’t worry too much about my exam results, because as someone who was not from an upper class background I should be more focussed on using my grasp of leftist revolutionary theory to further the interests of the proletariat. Writing this down, it strikes me that it’s so hilariously mental that some of you will presumably assume I’m lying. But there’s no way I’m leaving it out, because it happened.

Unlike the academics who make a living from this stuff, I couldn’t bring myself to build a career pumping out whiney, divisive, intellectually incoherent rubbish. But others, as we’ve seen exposed in recent days, do so with gusto. And are lauded for it.

Please read the full piece this is taken from, and give it a share. I've linked it in the tweet below.

[aileen B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AileenBart60380]

THIS IS IN CHARGE OF MIGRATION. NOTHING WILL CHANGE TILL EVERY SINGLE ISLAMIST IS REMOVED FROM THE BRITISH GOVENMENT AND THIS COUNTRY NOW. BEFORE ITS TO LATE

[Restore The Empire @empire_res66190]

MP Zarah Sultana wants this clip deleted from the internet.

Here she is calling for violence on our streets. Why hasn't she been arrested?

[Paz is Right @BritisherPaz49]

Britain’s intelligence services need to haul her arse into an interrogation room ASAP.
According to this clip she’s clearly a national security risk.