Truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues. Still working across UK and world. Pro FoM: the world is one country and mankind but it's citizens.
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Paulofthepool🇺🇦🇪🇺 retweeted
Left: Nigel Farage lays a wreath at the Cenotaph for Remembrance Day
Right: One of the 34 boys at Dulwich college accusing Nigel Farage of racism, Peter Ettedgui, "Farage repeatedly coming up to me and knowing that I am Jewish saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas them' which was frequently followed by a hissing sound of escaping gas"
My view:
Something is deeply broken in our democracy when allegations of repeated racist and antisemitic abuse can remain unresolved while the politician accused takes his place among those representing the nation at the Cenotaph.
Peter Ettedgui alleges that Nigel Farage repeatedly targeted him with antisemitic taunts invoking Hitler and the gas chambers. Farage denies the allegations. But political prominence should bring greater scrutiny and accountability, rather than allowing questions of this gravity to fade into the background.
If Ettedgui’s account is true, the contradiction is appalling: someone who allegedly mocked the victims of Nazism now publicly honours those who fought against it. The passage of time cannot, by itself, resolve that contradiction.
Remembering the fallen must mean carrying their lessons into our politics. When we honour the fight against fascism while treating allegations of antisemitic hatred as an inconvenience, we risk reducing remembrance to a ceremony whose moral meaning we refuse to uphold.
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Theo Paphitis, "Clearly President Trump has some form of illness or dementia because he's acting like a madman"
"He's a sex offender. He's a convicted felon"
"He's a protector of the pedophile ring of Jeffrey Epstein"
"He's bankrupted companies"
"How the hell did this man get voted in as the President of the strongest nation in the world"
My view:
Paphitis’s disbelief is understandable. A man convicted on 34 felony counts, found liable in a civil case for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, and associated with repeated corporate bankruptcies was nevertheless returned to the presidency.
Those facts alone demand a serious discussion about political accountability.
Winning an election gives someone the authority to govern. It does not erase their record, establish their integrity or oblige the public to stop challenging them.
Paulofthepool🇺🇦🇪🇺 retweeted
BBC News reports that the UK cannot pick and choose which elements of the EU Single Market it joins.
But it leaves out how prominent Brexiteers suggested we wouldn’t need to leave it in the first place.
Daniel Hannan said, “Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market.”
Arron Banks endorsed the Norway option, which means participating in the Single Market outside the EU.
Nigel Farage advocated continued EEA membership initially, while negotiating a subsequent deal.
Others implied our trading relationship could be preserved.
Owen Paterson said, “Only a madman would actually leave the market,” before discussing a future trade agreement.
Brexit was sold with conflicting assurances about keeping the benefits of the EU Single Market.
The BBC report should remind viewers of that history when explaining the choices facing Britain today.
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🇮🇹🇺🇦 WOW! WHAT A SPEECH! WHAT POWERFUL WORDS FROM ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIORGIA MELONI!
Here is the full five-minute excerpt of her speech devoted to Ukraine and Donald Trump.
“Russia has launched a new autumn campaign against Ukraine.
Unable to advance on the battlefield, Moscow has increasingly turned its attacks against civilians: power plants, residential buildings, hospitals, and even buses carrying people to work, as in the horrific massacre in Kramatorsk.
This is a strategy through which Russia seeks to subjugate Ukraine with terror, cold, and darkness, simply because it has failed to conquer it on the battlefield.
The facts contradict Kremlin propaganda and those who spread it here.
Since the beginning of the year, Russia has captured very little territory, and in September it lost much of what it had previously seized.
This halt did not happen by chance. It was achieved through Ukraine’s courage and Western support, including that of Italy.
This resistance is the only effective instrument for bringing Russia to the negotiating table.
I respect and understand the passionate debate on this issue, including within this chamber, because nobody here wants war.
We all want peace.
The difference lies in how we intend to achieve it.
As I see it, supporting Ukraine is not an alternative to peace. It is what makes peace possible.
Because if an aggressor expects its opponent to surrender, why would it negotiate?
Surrender is not peace. It is conquest.
If Ukraine stopped defending itself tomorrow, as many suggest, we would not have peace.
We would be discussing the occupation of a European nation and the return of Soviet imperialism.
Personally, I do not miss those times. I do not miss Russian tanks crushing uprisings in Prague and Budapest.
I do not miss the Berlin Wall.
And nobody will ever convince me that the surrender of those defending their freedom can be called ‘peace.’
The peace we want, and the peace we are working toward, even at the cost of concessions, is a just peace, because only a just peace can endure.
Only a just peace can protect Europe and our interests.
That is why our government's position remains unchanged: support for Ukraine, with particular attention to civilians, pressure on Moscow, and Euro-Atlantic unity remain the pillars of our actions.
In this context, we must address Donald Trump's diesel agreement with Russia.
This is a decision I consider extremely risky.
Of course, we all recognize the need to contain fuel prices, which place a heavy burden on families, including Italian families.
But we must understand that rising prices are primarily linked to the war in Iran, not Ukraine.
Legitimizing Moscow, whose bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, providing new revenues to finance the war, and weakening sanctions are all factors we cannot ignore.
And they contradict everything Western nations, including the United States, have done to force Putin to the negotiating table.
An energy ceasefire is a different matter, one that Italy supports, and we are grateful to President Zelenskyy for Ukraine's immediate willingness to agree to it.
Now we expect Russia to stop attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Finally, at such a difficult moment, when so many variables are beyond our control, there is at least one thing that depends on us:
We must ensure that Europe does not simply stand by and watch, because the terms of peace will affect our continent and our security.”
— Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy
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When is @bbclaurak going to ask the ghouls of Racist Reform Ltd. what their views are on the Brand offences and then segue into "So you find that abhorrent, so why do you suck up to Trump and go to the home -(Mar-y-largo ) of a convicted sex pest and felon, and aid his campaign?"
It's never Felon47's fault. So Trump's 'rage' at Susie Wiles after GOP disaster triggered resignation . And now Psycho-Miller is Chief of Staff. Two psychopaths for the Dems to deal with. They are going to need some top notch leadership and I don't think it's going to be Chuck.
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Paul Nowak, "Let's say this about migration. Quite often it turns into a political ping pong match, and what we're actually talking about is people"
"This is a city that was built on migration - both my grandads came to this country during the WII, one with the Polish RAF, one from HK. They both met Liverpool Irish women and they stayed and settled in this country"
"They worked throughout their lives. Contributed to the economy, like millions of migrants do"
"It would be untenable for them to be in a situation where when in Liverpool they're told, it doesn't matter, you could be here 15 years, 20 years, and we'll decide whether you can stay"
"How do you build a life? How do you plan your life, but a house, put the kids in school, decide what you're going to do about work"
"Changing the rules when people are already here is untenable"
"The government has taken the right approach on social care - work five years and have the right to settle"
"I'd like to see them extend that - we've got a problem in our prison service, with transport, and more broadly"
"We've got an aging population, and with a growing economy people are always going to want to live and work in the UK"
"In social care, we have 111,000 staff vacancies. Minimum wage is the prevailing wage. Far too many on insecure zero hour countracts"
"We also need employers to step up. Far too many don't invest in skills and training - its half the EU average"
"So a fair managed migration system but also asking employers to step up to the plate and invest in training"
My view:
Migration debates are full of politicians talking about numbers and targets, with far too little thought for the people whose lives they’re discussing.
People come here legally, take jobs we need doing, pay taxes and build a life. They buy homes, raise children and become part of their communities. Changing the settlement rules after they’ve spent years working towards them is a betrayal of the basis on which they planned their future.
How can a government demand that people integrate while keeping them uncertain about whether they’ll be allowed to stay?
Paul Nowak is also right to put responsibility on employers. If you’re struggling to recruit, what are you offering? Decent pay? Secure hours? Training and a future in the job? Or minimum wage, insecure contracts and then complaints that nobody wants to work?
A fair migration system needs clear, dependable rules, alongside employers investing in the people who keep their businesses and our public services running.
Another of the amazing Democrat firsts in the election...
A lot of imposters in positions of power in the US administration... youtube.com/shorts/0_qAGBixs…
So many firsts as democracy starts to come back to the USA... youtube.com/shorts/5mtN1pkBH…
Paulofthepool🇺🇦🇪🇺 retweeted
Michel Barnier says the 'door is open' to the UK rejoining the EU.
That the UK could join the EU without adopting the Euro, just as we did before.
But what is not negotiable is the EU Single Market - no cherry picking.
Your reminder that in 2015 former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan said "Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market" - since, the UK has left the EU Single Market and Hannan now sits in the House of Lords.
In 2015 Conservative MP and Environment Secretary Owen Patterson said of leaving the EU, "only a madman would actually leave the market." - After resigning because of a lobbying scandal he ran the Centre for Brexit Policy for three years, basically advocating for the thing he said only a madman would do. He also appealed to the ECHR for help, that's the same ECHR the Conservative party says it would leave.
Nigel Farage used to say the UK could be like Norway, which is outside the EU, but inside the EU Single Market saying, "They are rich, they’re happy and they’re self-governing countries" - so even according to Farage, being in the EU Single Market makes the UK a sovereign self-governing country.
And Boris Johnson first said, "I’d vote to stay in the single market. I’m in favour of the single market," but three days after referendum changed his tune, "There will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market."
Being in the EU Single Market is something that Brexiters either specifically said we would retain, or implied that we would. So rejoining the EU Single Market is actually in line with what they said would happen leading up to the 2016 Brexit referendum.
The sooner the UK rejoins the EU Single Market, the better.
Paulofthepool🇺🇦🇪🇺 retweeted
Former CIA chief Leon Panetta is absolutely right !
'Russia is trying to undermine the United States and other democracies.'
Former CIA chief Leon Panetta condemns Trump for 'not standing up' to Putin.
@AndrewMarr9
Paulofthepool🇺🇦🇪🇺 retweeted
People around the world are celebrating our midterms victory with us. Here’s an account from a young woman in the U.K.
Paulofthepool🇺🇦🇪🇺 retweeted
🚨 Brexit was sold as a way to restore British sovereignty. Yet we are making our hospitals, defence systems and government infrastructure dependent on proprietary American technology platforms.
We left the EU, whose democratic institutions we helped shape, to escape being “rule-takers”. Now critical systems rely on corporations whose leaders we cannot vote out.
And @JohnHealey_MP now Chancellor, was Defence Secretary for almost two years as this dependence deepened. Under his watch, the MoD signed a strategic partnership with Palantir and awarded it a £240.6mn contract without competition.
Taking back control has too often meant privatising it and handing it overseas.
The question is not just where the data is stored. Can Britain operate, scrutinise and replace a critical defence system without the supplier’s permission, expertise or continued support?
Take note when looking at parties in the UK like Racist Reform Ltd aka Temu Trump's party...
Paulofthepool🇺🇦🇪🇺 retweeted
I'm confused, outraged, and upset by the lack of the world's reaction to the criminal Russian double-tap in Komyshuvakha.
Search and rescue operations have been underway for 3 days now following a Russian strike on a school. Russians launched 9 guided aerial bombs, initially targeting residents gathered to receive humanitarian aid, and then striking the first responders and police officers who arrived at the scene.
People were there to receive bread!
The death toll is currently at 40 people, with over 30 still missing, and after three days, considering the explosions were so strong that recovered bodies are actually "fragments," that means that they are likely gone too.
I can't understand why this is not news, why the f*** is this normalized???
