Britain - led by ‘do the right thing’ team of PM and Foreign Sec - effectively supported U.N. General Assembly by 144 votes just elected Iran's Islamic Regime to the Committee for Program and Coordination, which shapes priorities on Women’s Rights, Disarmament & Counter-Terrorism.
How by any definition however deluded is this doing the right thing @Ed_Miliband ?
🚨Andy Burnham's £15 billion Brexit surrender deal will help just 2% of British businesses
The Prime Minister claims the SPS alignment deal could add 0.4%to GDP ahead of next week's UK EU summit but analysis shows it would force 98% of firms under EU rules despite only 2.2% exporting any goods overseas.
Critics including Lord Redwood warn of a £15 billion net cost over five years from higher rules taxes and energy prices.
Is UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham a liar?
The Uk has more international AI investment than the whole of the EU combined because we do not have the same restrictions, that will change if we rejoin
@TorstenBell The growth was on the back of AI, which we are able to capitalise on because of #brexit! The EU is stagnating, so why do the incompetent @UKLabour wish to take us to failure as opposed to growth? The fact so many second rate MPs are in the positions you are is scary!
@DrRosena So the growth is due to AI which thanks to #brexit we are free to move forward with! If we were with the EU or some of the crap @andyburnham is signing up for we would lose that! So what do you want growth out of the EU or stagnation in the EU?
So... let's get this straight.
Burnham contrived to remove an elected PM.
Believing he is better placed.
To then employ consultants at our expense, to tell him what to do as PM.
FFS 🤷
"I'm a democrat, a believer in democracy," says @David_Cameron, who commendably gave Britain a new vote on the EU after 40 years of membership.
Naturally, all the usual EU authoritarians are telling people to ignore what he now has to say on Brexit.
I'm blindingly furious.
Yesterday, Britain helped Iran get elected to the UN committee that oversees how the UN delivers its programmes, from human rights and women's rights to counterterrorism.
Yes, really. The world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism will now help review the UN's counterterrorism work. A regime that hangs dissidents from cranes will help scrutinise its human rights programmes.
America, Canada and Australia voted against. Britain had already waved Iran's candidacy through back in April. Ministers call it an "automaticity". Their hands, apparently, were tied. Right.
Then how did Washington, Ottawa and Canberra manage to stand up and be counted?
This is the regime behind some 20 potentially lethal plots on British soil, which has targeted British Jews and is holding a British couple as hostages in all but name. And our foreign secretary, who will sanction Israeli ministers – from the very country that helps defend us against Iran – at the drop of a hat, cannot bring himself to say publicly that Tehran has no business on that committee.
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@Jas_Athwal Don’t give a shit! They get enough aid and if they stopped siphoning it off for rockets, tunnels bombs guns etc they wouldn’t need any extra help
Dean recently left the Army after 30 years service in the Royal Anglians.
Has started his own business in the Northwest of England.
All his produce is fresh that day and the best quality.
Small businesses need some support, no more so than veterans.
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@MarkJCarney@ga_richardson My warning to the Canadian people! Don’t trust this process! They will always take, but, never give which is why we voted for #brexit look at growth rates in the EU that’s what you will be dragged down to! Which is why we do not want the BS that @andyburnham is doing here!