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[Max Eaglestone @MaxEaglestone]

@GBNEWS This young Scottish girl's story is a metaphor for the injustice that is the Muslim Rape Gangs cover-up. Vilified and dismissed, she was criminalised whilst her attackers went unchallenged. It turns out she was in the right all along.

[RVC @rickthebook]

@DarylCarter7 Broadly agree, but better to have any declared pacemakers pulled up with 3f to travel

[Benonwine @benonwine]

The Police drove her to hospital. The police saw her injuries. Yet, the police, the Tele/Courier, the council, the politicians, the TV, all said the Bulgarian was innocent. Let that sink in... They made the families life hell, to protect a Bulgarian migrant who is actually well know to both the council and the police.

There was also no mention of the migrant needing to be restrained and a spit hood placed on him, nor him urinating in the back on the police van. Dundee City Council Dundee Evening Telegraph Police Scotland Scottish National Party (SNP) Rupert Lowe The Courier UK Even after the Hospital Admission letter for concussion was posted online, they all stuck to the narrative the wee girls were being racist towards an innocent migrant, and his wife. The innocent migrant asked the wee girls if they wanted a good time. The innocent migrants wife was his sister, who was clearly seen running over and grabbing the 13yo's hair and throwing her to the ground. This case was an open and shut case from the onset.

Yet, they put the family and girls through months of hate and death threats. Even now, people are still calling the family scumbags, saying the verdict means nothing. Instead, focussing on the girl and the weapons, not the beast who tried chatting them up and then assaulted them when they told him he was a "fucking creep, we're 12". 2 young girls, children, were assaulted before any weapons entered the equation.

I genuinely hope the family sue the lot of them. I hope Elon Musk finances her court costs, or the family are crowd funded

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

Only idiots and Britain haters blame Churchill for the Bengal Famine

This myth only became popular in 2010 after a ridiculous book was published by a far-left journalist with no historical training

This is what REALLY happened:

1. A cyclone hit Bengal in 1942, destroying crops

2. They were already suffering from the worst rice brown spot epidemic on record

3. Normally in a famine grain would be imported from Burma, Malaya, Phillipines, Thailand etc. But WW2 ws raging and our Japanese enemy now controlled those areas

4. The Japanese had bombed Indian ports, which also destroyed grain

5. Shipping grain in was hugely dangerous because Japanese fleet was blockading the Bay of Bengal and sinking ships
Remember, the Axis powers were sinking one ship every day and had sunk around a million tons of shipping in 1942.

6. On top of that local Indian speculative traders were unforgivably HOARDING grain. With inflation rife, this was classic wartime speculation as they could make (and expected to make) much more money by hoarding rather than selling immediately.

7. Local government and administrators were slow to act and initially told the UK government there was enough grain in Bengal.
One can blame the democratically elected Government of Bengal, people like Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (Minister of Civil Supplies for the newly formed Muslim League) and Sir John Herbert (the Governor of Bengal) for exacerbating conditions in the Bengal Famine. But not Churchill.

What did Churchill do? Everything he could.

Remember also, he was thousands of miles away in a different continent fighting the Second World War and preparing for D-Day.

Yet despite all his other commitments he worked hard to save the people of Bengal.

1. When the British government found out about the famine’s severity in August 1943, they authorised around 1 million tons of grain to be shipped to India between then and December 1944.

2. Churchill pushed Australia to send wheat

3. Churchill personally requested shipping assistance from U.S. President Roosevelt in April 1944 to transport it from Australia. Roosevelt declined, stating US ships were needed for the Pacific campaign and the upcoming D-Day operations.

4. Thanks to Churchill grain arrived from Iraq (barley), and Canada as well as Australia.

5. Crucially, Churchill was responsible for appointing the man who played such a pivotal role in stopping the Bengal Famine: Field Marshal Wavell. Wavell knew India and its people extremely well and was a magician of logistics. He drafted in the army to move food supplies and halted the famine.

Why are tax payers funding Helen Cammock's ignorant, anti-British propaganda at the @NPGLondon?

[RVC @rickthebook]

@AtticumFloreat Probably mistook it for Captain Aubrey and HMS Surprise

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dartmoor's hill ponies have grazed those commons for longer than there has been a country called England. Fewer than a thousand are left, down from six thousand a generation ago. The United Nations listed them as endangered in 2023. So, naturally, the body charged with protecting nature has decided to get rid of nine in ten of the survivors.

There is a process, obviously.

Natural England's new grazing contracts now count the ponies in the same bucket as the cattle and sheep. A commoner with a fixed quota has a choice: keep a semi-wild pony worth nothing at market, or use the slot for a lamb he can sell. Guess which one survives the spreadsheet. The rest are gathered in the autumn drifts, and with nowhere to put thousands of unhandled moorland ponies, the next stop is the abattoir.

Natural England would like it noted that it has not ordered a cull. It has merely built a machine whose only output is a cull, switched it on, and handed the bolt gun to a farmer so the fingerprints land elsewhere. Very tidy.

And now the funny part. The pony is the best tool on the entire moor for eating Molinia, the coarse purple grass strangling Dartmoor into a brown monoculture. Cattle and sheep won't touch it. The ponies hoover it down and clear the ground for the orchids, the wildflowers and the insects behind them. Remove the ponies and the moor chokes into precisely the lifeless scrubland the contract was meant to prevent.

So the conservation strategy, in full: protect the habitat by deleting the animal that maintains the habitat. A masterclass.

Better still, Natural England's own Fursdon review looked at this exact question and told them, in plain English, not to lump ponies in with cattle and not to cut pony numbers. They read it, praised it, said they fully supported it, then did the precise opposite.

Four thousand years these animals have run Dartmoor with no committee and no contract. They could be gone within one, and the people who did it will write it up as a win for nature.

[Kate Shemirani @KateShemirani]

Nothing more to add here. Fiona has just hit the nail on the head! @CoviLeaks D

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Right, time for the Truth.
The smoke and mirrors and blatant deceit going on in the asylum system is horrifying.
Nothing the public is told is reliable. Hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants are unaccounted for. Home Office hasn’t got a clue where they are.
Government is shovelling migrants out of asylum hotels and giving them money to find a place to stay in the community. Desperate to look like the backlog is coming down.
Asylum caseworkers are granting leave to remain to known sex offenders from Eritrea, Sudan and Afghanistan because they are not allowed to refuse applicants from those “unsafe” countries.
It’s a sick joke.
The safety of women and children is at risk and these bullshit graphs are shared to prove how things are improving.
Things are NOT improving. Asylum caseworkers know it’s a ticking timebomb. Another Belfast attack can happen any day.

[Alexandra Marshall @ellymelly]

Malcolm Roberts explains why the United Nations should be allowed to collapse.

"These regimes are effectively farming their own people for poverty to cash in on Western aid.

They have no incentive to fix their countries.

Indeed, the UN actively encourages them to make the situation worse.

Politicians with an ideological commitment to multilateralism wrap the UN in virtue to protect a narrative of global governance that is just as fake and cynical as the climate apocalypse.

They will stand before voters and preach ‘world peace’ while money they donate from the Treasury lines some violent thug’s palace with gold and our own citizens sleep on the street."

Article | https://t.co/nwUw4A2WUP

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 More than 150 kebab takeout shops across Britain have been given government licences to hire workers directly from overseas through a new visa program.

Crucially, the licences not only allow the Kebab shops to hire workers from abroad, but once those workers are in, they will be allowed to bring family members into the UK.

There are over 1.8 million people unemployed in the UK, but yeah, why not bring in more overseas workers, because this is clearly a highly skilled job.

The UK is a joke

Source: GB News / Writers: Mhedi, Ian

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

In 1840 an American slave ship ran aground in the Bahamas.

On British ground, the 38 people below deck could not be owned. 🇬🇧

Free Black boatmen rowed out, magistrates came aboard, and all 38 walked ashore free.

19 October 1840. The Hermosa, a schooner out of Richmond, Virginia, bound for the slave markets of New Orleans.

Below deck, 38 enslaved people. Her papers listed them as cargo.

She struck a reef off Abaco, in the Bahamas. British ground.

Bahamian boatmen rowed out through the surf, free Black men who worked these reefs for a living, and carried all 38 safe to Nassau. Britain had abolished slavery 6 years before.

The captain refused to let them ashore. He called for another ship to carry them back to bondage. Then British magistrates came aboard, armed men at their backs. No fleet. No proclamation. A local court doing its ordinary work.

In Virginia, paper made those 38 people property. On British ground, no paper on Earth could. One by one, 38 people stepped ashore at Nassau. Free.

The owners demanded them back for years. They never got them.

Nobody famous freed those 38. Boatmen rowed out. Magistrates climbed aboard. Ordinary hands, keeping Britain's word.

In Virginia, paper made them property. On British ground, thanks to the British citizens, it could not. 🇬🇧

This is the revival of British culture. Be part of it.

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Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[RVC @rickthebook]

@London_W4 looks easy to me, the hard part is getting them to fly backwards

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

I warned you for decades. Listen to him if you prefer.

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 THE PEOPLE WHO SAW THE PLAN RESIGNED

THE PERSON WHO HASN'T SEEN IT THINKS IT'S GREAT.

That is the current state of government.

[RVC @rickthebook]

@HistoryGirlBW Dont forget bonbons

[RVC @rickthebook]

@AVMikhailova Very sad, I really liked the way Tony Hancock played him in The Rebel.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

NB. Some of Healey criticism is right.
BUT it's also right that the WORST parts of the MoD have run rings around him.
He hasn't worked with No10 and HMT to face reality honestly.
HMT is right about the worst parts of the senior MoD and Healey not gripping it.
The MoD is right that HMT processes and general procurement laws make their job impossible, and CO won't support them in changing them.
The CO is right to say that the Mod v HMT battle involves everybody lying.
And No10 is right that everybody including the CO is lying to them and the CO which is supposed to 'coordinate' cannot.
Everybody involved is part lying and part telling truth.
Only a PM determined to face reality and use their full constitutional authority -- a Gvt that controls the Gvt -- can solve this pathological nightmare.
In one week a new PM could get very close to honest budget numbers and be briefed on the secret nuke budgets.
I said before the 2024 election; all discussions of public finances are fake because all Nat Sec budgets are big and fake.
This blow up means the next PM will have to face reality finally - *classify, punt, spin fake accounts* has run out of room after 20-25 yrs.
But NB. this will have big implications for the entire spending plans.
Sorting out the nuke nightmare is huge.
And current spending plans are absurd, pretending to do big cuts in the year before the election.
So it's almost inconceivable the current spending envelopes remain, the new PM will do an emergency budget and a new SR.
Good officials desperate to avoid another PM melting down shd start work on this now so IF there is finally a decent regime in No10, you are ahead of the game...

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Andrew. Andrew.

Sending your child to private school is not charitable, you say. How fascinating. Particularly from a man who attended Altrincham Grammar. A selective school that excluded children whose parents could not game the catchment area or tutor the entrance exam.

You did not pay fees, Andrew. You paid tutors. You paid rent in the right postcode. You paid for exclusion dressed up as meritocracy. Now you lecture parents who, unlike you, are honest about paying for education rather than manipulating the system to pretend they are not.

The parent paying twenty five thousand pounds a year for a dyslexic child because the state system you run has a three year waiting list for assessment. They are not charitable, you declare. They are just selfish. While you, the man who never created a job, never built a business, went from university straight to the union machine. You are the arbiter of virtue.

Here is what is charitable, Andrew. Paying taxes for a state system you do not use, then paying private fees because that system failed your child. That is not one act of charity. It is two. And you are taxing the second to pay for the first. Which you already broke.

But you would not understand that, would you? You have never paid for either. The system simply carried you from council house to Commons. No invoice required.

Now then. Sit down. The adults are speaking. And Andrew. Do try to keep up. This is grown up talk. You might learn something if you listen very carefully.