@DrChrisParry If they believe what they are saying, they are dangerous idiots, if they don’t but they are promoting ideological agendas, they are criminals.
"We gave categorical assurances to Gorbachov that if a united Germany could remain in NATO, NATO would not be moved eastward"
(Jack Matlock, US Ambassador to the Soviet-Union from 1987-1991 speaking 30 years ago)
Politics is not a game. We are working hard to build a serious, united Conservative Party people can trust - built on honesty and responsibility.
These values have to mean something and that is why we have taken the decision to suspend Councillor Adam Kent.
The Party's position was clear from the start. I was very clear we did not approve of the arrangement with the Greens at Worcestershire Council and it did not have our support. Councillor Kent agreed.
That should have been communicated clearly and unambiguously to his colleagues.
He told the national Party that he would not do a deal with the Greens. Then he went ahead and put together a rainbow coalition involving Green councillors anyway.
Worse, his group was told something that was not true. Fellow Conservative councillors were given the impression that this deal had Party support when it did not.
This was dishonest.
People are tired of politicians treating public office as a game of manoeuvres and tactics, saying one thing while doing another.
We can see the chaos this is bringing to the Labour Party nationally. That is exactly the sort of behaviour that has damaged trust in politics for too long and the party leadership under Kemi Badenoch is bringing an end to this nonsense.
We are a team and we are honest with each other.
And as a party we want people to know what we stand for, what we will do and that those representing our Party are honest with their colleagues and with the public.
As soon as we became aware of this, we acted immediately because unlike parties like Reform, we take responsibility for those who represent our Party.
We do not want people in politics who think this sort of conduct is acceptable. Our values are standards, not slogans.
As Party Chairman, I have received a full and firm account of what happened at Worcestershire County Council. Given I was clear that this arrangement was not approved and did not have our support the deal will not now go ahead. That position has been agreed by other Conservative councillors locally.
We are one Party and one team. When someone representing us falls short of our values, we do not hide behind process like Keir Starmer or pretend it has nothing to do with us like Nigel Farage. We act.
That is the truth of why the Conservative Group Leader has been suspended pending investigation.
We are a new Conservative Party under new leadership, built on honesty, responsibility and trust.
The public are tired of politicians saying one thing and doing another. So are we.
All the time, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz lectures the public about how evil Vladimir Putin is.
But then I see him smiling and shaking hands with former Al Qaeda headchopper now Syria’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and the hypocrisy becomes impossible to ignore.......
Delighted to welcome my friend, President Putin to India. Looking forward to our interactions later this evening and tomorrow. India-Russia friendship is a time tested one that has greatly benefitted our people.
@KremlinRussia_E
While France resisted Nazi troops for 43 days before ultimately surrendering to Hitler, 28 Soviet soldiers held the fort at one house in Stalingrad for 58 days until reinforcements arrived!
The building is now known as Pavlov's House in honor of Yakov Pavlov, a 24-year-old junior sergeant who led the defense. After the war, Pavlov's House was restored while Gergardt’s mill next to it was intentionally preserved intact as a powerful reminder of the intense fighting that took place there.
@BrunoLeMaire Mais quel cirque vous offrez aux français !
Un ministre d'une soirée déjà démissionnaire annonce sa démission.
Retournez écrire vos bouquins médiocres et ne mettez plus un pied en politique !
Classic Blair. He is now proposing himself as the Empire's Regent of Gaza. A war criminal himself, he demands a five year appointment to run the site of Israel's genocide on behalf of Donald Trump in the finest tradition of White Settler Colonial projects https://t.co/dHYEDHh4ez
After France's unconditional surrender to Germany without a fight,
Marshal Georgy Zhukov said, "This is what you would expect from bastards and cowards."🇷🇺
I’ve often been asked what the most successful Red Army operation of World War II was.
Without a doubt, it was Operation Bagration. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, commanding the 1st Belorussian Front, smashed German Army Group Centre, encircling and annihilating entire divisions. His offensive left over 400,000 enemy dead or captured and tore open the road to Berlin.
Anyone with more than two functioning brain cells knows that Kaja Kallas, who's in charge of the EU foreign policy, is beyond retarded. She's so dumb that it should terrify the shit out of any European living in Europe today.
Even European parliamentaries called out out for being a single cell amoeba simpleton in the Brussels halls. Her sole topic of European foreign policy is hating Russia. Russia has got a penthouse in her head rent free, except that space between her ears is so small that only a couch fits in there.
And so, she decides to add another giant that could make Europe more prosperous to the list of enemies for variety - China.
So glad that people like her and Ursula are at the helm of the EU, but only because the EU have made conscious choice to make an enemy of Russia, rather than living in peace and prosperity.