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[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@Witchfinder1644 So you’ve either got no family or you don’t like them very much much.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Britain Can Find £88 Million for Palestine. Its Army Is Told to Find £30 Million in Cuts

There are moments when two government announcements, placed side by side, tell you more about political priorities than a hundred speeches. Britain has committed more than £88 million this financial year to humanitarian and early recovery support for Palestinians. At home, the British Army has reportedly been ordered to find savings of around £30 million, with major training exercises suspended and reservists losing service days.

Read those figures again. £88 million for Palestine. £30 million squeezed from the training of the men and women whose first responsibility is defending Britain.

The package forms part of a wider £127 million bilateral aid allocation for Palestine in 2026/27, intended for healthcare, clean water, sanitation, waste management and rehabilitation for children injured in the conflict. Those are stated humanitarian purposes, and money earmarked for a hospital is not the same as money handed to a militia.

But that distinction has a history of not holding. The Palestinian Authority already runs a payment scheme, worth over $300 million a year, that rewards convicted terrorists according to sentence length. In Gaza, donors from the EU to Qatar have watched their own materials, water pipes, concrete, fuel, repurposed into rocket casings and tunnel networks, with Hamas leaders openly admitting as much on camera. Money is fungible. Aid that frees up funds for a hospital frees up other funds for something else entirely. Britain has no serious mechanism to guarantee that £88 million stays confined to bandages and water pumps.

Meanwhile the Army is being asked to save roughly one third of that sum, at the exact moment Europe faces its gravest security environment in decades. Defence officials have warned the measures risk weakening Britain's military credibility. Ukraine has shown what modern industrial warfare actually consumes in men, ammunition and armour. NATO wants greater readiness. Somewhere inside Whitehall, someone still decided that training exercises were the place to find £30 million.

The government will say these are different budgets. Of course they are. Treasury accounting can put money into whatever departmental boxes ministers choose. The taxpayer has only one pocket, and that taxpayer is not in a generous mood. Real wages have barely moved in years, mortgage costs remain painful, energy bills are soaring, and household budgets are stretched thin enough that asking people to accept squeezed defence spending while £88 million heads abroad, to a territory whose governing bodies have a documented record of diverting aid toward violence, is a harder sell than ministers seem to appreciate.

It's also worth asking what recipients of British generosity, more broadly, actually think of the country supplying it. Britain's aid budget flows disproportionately toward states and territories where Western values are treated with open contempt, and where women's basic freedoms are routinely stripped away by law. That's not a reason to abandon every humanitarian instinct. It is a reason to stop pretending gratitude, partnership or shared values are guaranteed to follow the cheque.

A government has countless responsibilities, but one precedes all the others: defence of the realm. Without security, everything else is academic.

Britain can afford compassion abroad. It cannot afford compassion abroad purchased through diminished readiness at home, financed by a public already struggling to make ends meet, and directed toward institutions with a track record of letting aid slip toward the wrong hands. If ministers can commit £88 million to Palestine, they should explain to British soldiers why finding £30 million for their training has apparently become too difficult, and to British taxpayers why their patience is the resource nobody in Whitehall thought worth budgeting for.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

The monster on the left is illegal migrant Hadush Kebatu. He broke into our country on a small boat and after only 8 DAYS he sexually assaulted a 14yr-old girl and a woman.

He was sentenced to 12 months.

The man on the right is father of 2, Del Somerville. He threw a plastic bottle and swore at police.

He was sentenced to TWO YEARS.

Disgusting two-tier justice.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

A Muslim man in a balaclava holding & throwing a brick during 2024 riots…
SUSPENDED SENTENCE

A white man, threw a plastic bottle & swore at police during a recent protest…
TWO YEARS IN PRISON

Two Tier Britain 🇬🇧

[Benonwine @benonwine]

This was a protest outside the Israeli embassy in London a few years ago when Muslims started attacking police with bottles used as missiles.

So WHY are they allowed to to cause extreme violence and no action is taken.

I’m not saying two wrongs don’t make a right, but this is clearly Two Tier Policing with Two Tier Justice thrown in as well.

Patriots are targeted and persecuted and Lefties and Muslims are protected at all costs.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@PamphletsY There is no Genocide.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@zarahussain999 You are the ones responsible for this.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@NotFarLeftAtAll Hasn’t she changed her name to Charlotte Mosque.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@JackWDart That includes the pro Palestinian thugs then.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@zarahussain999 @BasilTheGreat Check the court records. Prove it wasn’t them.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@Block305_LFC @zarahussain999 Blocked by @Block305_LFC
How ironic 😂
Starts with the insults but can’t take it back. Typical left wing snowflake.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@Block305_LFC @zarahussain999 But the racist vigilante was doing what the British Government paid the French to do.
Do you understand the hypocrisy here or are you just a blinkered lefty wank stain.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@Block305_LFC @zarahussain999 And the racist vigilante was doing what the British Government paid the French to do.
You still don’t see the hypocrisy, do you.
Blinkered lefty wank stain.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@BladeoftheS But didn’t the British Government pay the French to do exactly the same thing. Do you see the hypocrisy here?

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@sirenofdecay161 @AdeshaF @zarahussain999 International maritime law was being claimed for what Tommo did and was in reply to Adesha Fraser, above.
As this is on a beach, as you so rightly point out, it could be considered criminal damage.
Do keep up!! Try reading the thread. Moron.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@DanielB83025210 @AdeshaF @zarahussain999 So does that make it legal and what Tommo did ok?

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@Block305_LFC @zarahussain999 Read the fucking post you stupid twat. It is still criminal damage, nothing about endangering lives, you complete brain dead moron.

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@DarrenFalk1 @zarahussain999 So that’s ok then. No crime committed 🤷‍♂️😂

[phlegmingo @phlegmingo]

@AdeshaF @zarahussain999 But but but, what about international maritime law, as everyone was all to eager to charge Timmons with!