@realisticdad81@80s_Kidz Yeah that’s good actually 🙌🏼
I ll take blue and you can go first 🙂
Wait how we going to do this on here? 😂 it’s been so long. Do we mark our boards and have one on here to mark as well?
The Taliban Got £171 Million. Al-Jolani Got £95 Million. The Boats Keep Coming. Someone Is Happy With This Arrangement.
In October 2025, Britain removed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from its list of proscribed terrorist organisations. Months earlier, Foreign Secretary David Lammy had flown to Damascus and handed its former leader, Ahmed al-Jolani, £95 million in aid. On 31 March 2026, al-Jolani arrived at Downing Street for talks with Keir Starmer, the first visit by a Syrian head of state to London since Assad's fall. He also met the Attorney General and the Home Secretary. Al-Jolani led HTS from its founding. Before the rebranding, his organisation was designated by the British government itself as a terrorist group. The designation was lifted. The cheque was written. The visit was photographed. According to Downing Street's own readout, Starmer used the meeting to urge "closer work together on returns of illegal migrants, on border security, and on tackling people smuggling networks." The former leader of a proscribed terrorist organisation was being asked to help stop the boats.
Britain sends £171 million a year to Afghanistan. The Taliban has banned women from working for the NGOs that previously delivered it. The government's own parliamentary documents acknowledge the aid cannot be effectively delivered. Ninety-four percent of NGOs fully or partially ceased operations after the ban. The money goes anyway.
In January 2026, al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, which held around 9,000 male ISIS suspects from an estimated 60 countries alongside tens of thousands of family members, collapsed amid fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters. A hundred and twenty ISIS members escaped from Shaddadi prison. The Kurdish forces that had guarded the facilities for years withdrew. Syria confirmed a mass escape of ISIS-linked individuals following that withdrawal. Their whereabouts are unknown. Over 70% of those crossing the Channel are undocumented young men from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sudan. They carry no papers. Their histories cannot be verified. Britain has no biometric screening mechanism capable of checking arrivals against Syrian detention escape lists, because Syria has no functioning civil registry against which to check them. So the question that nobody in government is prepared to answer is this: how many of the men arriving on British beaches since January 2026 were in those camps? The honest answer is that nobody knows. The more troubling answer is that the government has built no mechanism to find out.
Jonathan Hall, the government's own Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, said in the aftermath of the Belfast stabbing that asylum seekers from conflict zones present elevated risk profiles, that trauma from witnessed or perpetrated violence compounds that risk, and that his questions about the national security implications of mass migration had been met by the government with silence. The security services' own assessment framework treats exposure to serious violence as a material risk factor. Hall is not speculating. He is describing the government's own methodology.
In the year to June 2025, asylum applications rose 17% and small boat arrivals rose 14%. Twelve new asylum centres were opened this week without informing the MPs in whose constituencies they sit. Speaker Lindsay Hoyle called it totally unacceptable from the chair. Hotel accommodation contracts run until 2039.
A government trying to stop the boats does not pay the regimes the arrivals are fleeing. It does not hand £95 million to a former proscribed terrorist and ask him to tackle people smuggling. It does not build hotel infrastructure contracted until 2039. And it does not open twelve new asylum centres without telling the MPs whose constituents will live next to them.
David Lammy meets Ahmed al-Jolani. Al-Hol camp, northeast Syria.
#PRD
Morocco just made it official: ONHYM — Predator’s Guercif partner — is now a company, not a government office. 🇲🇦
Signed by the King 2 Jun. Published in the official gazette 15 Jun. Done.
Why it’s good for #PRD 👇
🔒 Contract protected — the law says the conversion can’t re-open existing contracts. Guercif carries over untouched.
🤝 A dealmaker partner — new ONHYM can take outside investors & stakes at home and abroad.
⛽ A gas route — it can transport & store gas in the interim, the plumbing Guercif needs.
The one risk that mattered — the contract being disturbed — is ruled out by the law itself.
Very positive. 🟢
#ONHYM @PredatorOilGas #Morocco
Migration was sold as a way to bring in highly skilled workers to fill genuine shortages.
Now we're importing people to cook pizzas, kebabs and fried chicken, then allowing family reunification on top.
Our borders aren't being managed. They're being left wide open.
🚨 WHEN FORMER SPY CHIEFS MI6 START WARNING THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE LISTEN
Sir Richard Dearlove did not mince his words.
Britain, he says, is being governed by a "bunch of students" who fail to grasp the dangers facing the world.
His concern is not party politics.
It is national security.
And when a former head of MI6 openly questions whether the government understands the scale of the threats ahead, that should concern everyone.
Because intelligence chiefs rarely speak this bluntly unless they believe something has gone badly wrong.
@TVKev
The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years.
Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped.
Why?
State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers.
The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage.
If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes.
Leave pensioners alone.
They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.