Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙

Politically adrift.

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@Keir_Starmer On yer bike

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@DavidWalsh_M It’s Friday 28 November and Cyber Monday is 1 December. But who cares.

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@SheffPA @SheffCouncil What about occupancy? Too many voids tell a different story.

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@Lou_obrien19 Does the article cover what would happen to the rising trend of Accommodation BIDs (business improvement districts) if the mayors get these powers?

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Too many politicians treat the world like a student union. Abstract, simplistic and completely disconnected from reality. The world is not a debating club. It is a dangerous place where power matters, where democracy is fragile and where enemies don’t play by the rules.

That’s why we need to be clear: supporting Israel is not just right — it is necessary for our own national security. Israelis are at the front line in the fight for the West and for our shared values.

First, Iran is a direct threat to the UK and has been for years. Our security services have stopped multiple Iranian terrorist plots and assassination attempts on UK soil. Its ballistic missiles can reach Europe. We should support any ally that seeks to damage Iran’s nuclear programme and eliminate the threat posed by the terror-exporting Revolutionary Guards.

Anti-British sentiment is almost as central to the ayatollahs’ deranged ideology as their obsessive hatred of Israel and the United States. They use the term “Little Satan” interchangeably to refer to both the UK and Israel.
Iran uses influence through mosques, schools and fake charities to radicalise and corrupt our own population: taking advantage of our democracy to advance its theocracy.

Second, Iran and Israel are not moral equivalents. Israel is a vibrant democracy that protects women and minorities and encourages them to vote, speak and dissent. In Iran women are brutalised by a theocratic dictatorship. Their ability to travel and work is restricted. They are beaten for showing their hair. Tortured for asking questions. Executed for demanding freedom.

Anyone who can’t see the difference between a liberal democracy and a terrorist regime needs to spend less time on social media and more time understanding reality.

When Iran launched its latest barrage of missiles, it didn’t target military installations. It targeted city centres. High rise housing. Hospitals. Civilians. This is a war crime, plain and simple. No excuses. No spin. And still, we have western politicians giving copy-and-paste statements as if this were a playground spat between equal players in a “cycle of violence”.

Israel’s response, in contrast, is surgical. It decapitated Iran’s offensive capabilities with extraordinary precision and minimal civilian casualties. Images of holes made by guided bombs in the sides of flats occupied by specific regime operatives are testament to Israel’s values. When Iran attacks, millions of Israelis hide in bomb shelters. When Israel attacks, Iranian dissidents record the impact against regime targets and cheer.

Military strategists will be studying this campaign for decades as a model for how to defend your people without losing your moral compass and in compliance with international law.

Israel has a right to defend itself. Iran has been openly committed to the destruction of Israel for decades. Through its proxy, Hamas, the regime orchestrated the murder of 1,200 people on October 7 and has said it would do it again. Any democracy facing such an existential threat from a genocidal regime would and must act to defend itself.

Most Arab nations understand this; some say it openly. Many ordinary Iranians bitterly oppose their regime which for 46 years has been robbing them of their future. They know that Israel is not the problem. They condemn violence, yes, but they have no time for the delusions of the western left. They’ve had enough of people in Islington pretending to speak for Gaza while doing nothing for peace.

But of course, the usual crowd in Britain and beyond rushed to condemn Israel. They ignore the facts. Because it’s not really about Israel — it’s about their own moral posturing.

While Israel takes on the arrayed enemies of the West, fighting terrorism on multiple fronts, and facing Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran at once, their so-called allies condemn them.

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[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@susannareid100 @RobertJenrick Retire Susanna whilst you still have a shred of dignity.

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@narindertweets You were in court or is this more hearsay?

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@GBNEWS @PatrickChristys He doesn’t like gimmicks, at least he didn’t when the tories were messing around with the Rwanda option- wonder what’s changed 🤡

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@Keir_Starmer You’ve lost the plot you disgusting person, not fit to hold office

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@ce_pickles @tomhunt100 Sheffield needs REFORM REFORM REFORM. Roll on next elections

[John Ganges @dunstablian]

What kind of democracy permits one man to overrule the democratically elected wishes of 17.4 million British citizens. That's not democracy its a dictatorship.

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@AngelaRayner Oh FFS change the record, the Northern Way, the Northern Powerhouse, levelling up, all utter b*llocks

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@Keir_Starmer It means you are an incompetent fool and Labour will be toast at the GE, may be sooner

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

If you make your voice heard, we can force Starmer to change course.

Please support the campaign led by Ian Liles OBE @DavidDavisMP Mark Francois MP @jcartlidgemp @alexburghart and sign the petition to give our veterans immunity.

https://t.co/kXs5RnA56z

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@RobertJenrick So why didn’t the Conservatives do anything of any value whilst they had the chance? Why didn’t Sunak just implement the bloody Rwanda plan? Gimmick or not is should still have been tested- instead he calls an GE 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@OliLondonTV Great news

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@Keir_Starmer Yes we know - he was a toolmaker who made the biggest tool of all x

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@Suffragent_ Ginger

[Alex Shannon🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦💙 @ShannonSheff]

@RobertJenrick Join Reform Robert

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

Next election, Labour are toast, that’s if we still have a country left.