LibertyIsResistance
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LibertyIsResistance
@PJacquerie
“Liberty is not merely one particular value but the source and condition of most moral values.” — Friedrich Hayek
انضم Ağustos 2018
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@GHWTowler Public displays of bad temper are always unattractive. In a Prime Minister they are, frankly, unacceptable as well as undignified. Coming at a time when Starmer is under enormous pressure, the voters will notice & conclude he has lost the plot. It won’t stop the questions though.
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Shades of "The Quiet Man"
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: No 10 sources say the public will get to see “angry Starmer” in the Commons later today
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@militaryhistori @IrenaBuzarewicz The Mauritshuis' "Girl with a Pearl Earing" knocks Mona into a cocked hat, IMHO. She is simply gorgeous.
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@IrenaBuzarewicz Simply superb!!!!
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@CatharineHoey @afneil @bbclysedoucet And Starmer still thinks we should not proscribe Iran's very own version of the SS as a terrorist organisation. What a deeply rotten, morally deficient individual our PM is. I, for one, am deeply ashamed he is our PM
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@afneil Does anyone the think the @bbclysedoucet will report on this horrific action of the IRGC government in Iran. She is in Iran now but I won’t hold my breath
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LibertyIsResistance أُعيد تغريده
The Islamic regime of Iran, now run by the IRGC terrorist organization, has accelerated the execution of political prisoners. Nine female political prisoners are now set to be executed by hanging within the next few days. Their names are as follows:
Bita Hemmati
Ghazal Ghalandari
Golnaz Naraghi
Venus Hossein Nejad
Panah Movahedi
Ensieh Nejati
Mahboubeh Shabani
Diana Taher Abadi
Two of them are teenagers. They all are accused of waging war against Allah by means of protesting it's representatives on earth, the Islamic regime of Iran.
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@pitchblacksteed "Or, alternatively, the greatest work of fiction since vows of fidelity were included in the French marriage service."
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To many of us, #Blackadder is part of every day parlance. Which phrases from the show do you use yourself and when you do you use them? Example: When someone offers me a cup of tea, I say: "Yes, immediately!" You get the idea. Will RT the best ones.
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@QcWynter Absolutely on the money: Keir has come over all Clarence Darrow. Rubbish at politics but still knows how to get a case up.
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Some lawyers may make good politicians by being able to shed their legal persona and display an aptitude for discerning, shaping and reacting intelligently to the political and public mood.
Keir Starmer, definitively, is not one of those lawyers.
Colin Wynter KC@QcWynter
As many predicted, it seems Starmer is going to go heavily legal & because he will face "trial" first, with Robbins in the dock next day, he has predicted Robbins' defence & given an unnamed lawyer the task of rebutting what Robbins is expected to say. All very unseemly; tawdry.
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@CatharineHoey @LizWebsterSBF Although it would have been worth one of them going just to see what that snake Gove and all the Remainers were plotting. But you are right: no true Brexiteer would have had anything to do with these plotters.
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@LizWebsterSBF Dont think any Reform Brexiteers were invited and expect rightly they would have turned down any invitation.
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🔵 🧵 The Tory outrage over Peter Mandelson looks theatrical when you remember this:
In February 2023 while they were still in government senior Conservatives, led by Michael Gove, attended a closed-door cross-party summit at Ditchley Park.
It was chaired by Mandelson and attended by figures like Goldman Sachs MD 👉Olly Robbins 💥
The purpose? To discuss how to “remedy the failings of Brexit” quietly, and with business and institutional backing.
So let’s be honest about what’s going on.
Mandelson wasn’t suddenly “back”.
He was already being brought back in across party lines.
theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
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@GHWTowler This feels as if it is inspired by our Barrister PM, maybe actually his work. It reads & feels like "Counsel's Opinion", the work of a member of the Bar. Sir Davos has been on the UK legislation website, one thinks. He is clinging on like a limpet. Only a crowbar will oust him.
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LibertyIsResistance أُعيد تغريده
Forget the speeches – read the numbers.
HM Treasury confirms that in 2025 we sent £1.3 billion to Brussels under the Withdrawal Agreement, via two big EU invoices broken down into monthly payments and settled on time, in full.
Since 2020, the total net transfer from the UK to the EU has reached roughly £25.7 billion, with the Treasury’s point estimate putting the final divorce bill at about £37.9 billion.
Yet as Britain keeps paying, a senior Irish minister and Brussels insiders openly float the idea that we should pay even more into the EU budget for “closer ties” – effectively charging us an entry fee to enjoy a fraction of the influence we used to have.
Starmer calls that “pragmatism”. Millions of people will look at a £1.3 billion annual bill for a club we left and call it what it is: being taken for a ride.
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@wylfcen A new born puppy still is referred to as a "Whelp". It may have been born in a "whelping box" to a mother who has "whelped".
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@zatzi Lammy would not recognise a clue if he found one in the street bearing, in large letters, a label which said "CLUE".
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The greatest propaganda piece ever pulled off on the modern public:
Convincing them that producing complete protein, every essential amino acid, every fat-soluble vitamin, bioavailable B12, iron, zinc, and the most nutrient-dense organ meat on earth, from nothing but sunlight, rainfall, indigestible grass and the byproducts of crops humans cannot eat anyway, is inefficient.
Needs cancelling, in fact.
The cow runs on weather.
The pea protein isolate replacing her runs on hexane extraction, bacterial fermentation for synthetic B12, three continents of supply chain, and a plastic sleeve. All to approximate a fraction of what the cow was doing for free.
Somebody decided to call the cow the inefficient one.
With a straight face.
Everyone nodded.
That's where we are.
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With a recent poll revealing that nearly a quarter of 10 to 17 year-olds have been told to stop voicing their political views at school, it's clear that free speech is in peril where it's needed most, says Jack Watson. dailysceptic.org/2026/04/18/the…
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Yers, I agree with her
The only Law in England is English Law
Yossi BenYakar@YossiBenYakar
British MP Sarah Pochin has triggered massive outrage from the Muslim community after calling to shut down all Islamic Sharia courts in the UK. She stated clearly: “Sharia law has no place in Britain.” Do you agree with her? Yes or No?
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@zatzi @TerraOrBust The complete absence of any democratic mandate for these rules is one of the principal reasons I voted against the EEC in '75 & to leave the EU in 2016. That Starmer so obviously loathes the concept of 'democratic consent' is why we must rid ourselves of him as soon as possible.
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Keir’s EU “reset” has always meant “rejoin by the back door”.
95% of British businesses do not do any trade with the EU but they will have to abide by rules set in Brussels with no say from our own elected representatives.
Labour’s manifesto specifically ruled out rejoining the Single Market.
But it would seem Starmer lied yet again.
He is a stranger to the truth.
Joe Barnes@Barnes_Joe
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a move to align Britain with the EU’s Single Market for goods as the next stage of his Brexit ‘reset’. The move would lead to British firms having to follow hundreds of rules and regulations set in Brussels without a say. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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@QcWynter Starmer reminds me of so many Defendants in criminal trials. You start probing their version & they come up with a series of whoppers. Then they change the whoppers because they have forgotten the whoppers they told earlier. "But, just now you said X, now it's Y. How is that?"
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If Keir were to channel his inner KC tomorrow, he would say something like this, but he won't:
"All my fault. I made it clear that I wanted to appoint Mandy because I considered it a masterstroke, as did many of you. Everyone then did my bidding.
I apologise to them & to you"
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LibertyIsResistance أُعيد تغريده
Behold the utter smallness of Sir Keir Starmer.
Scrambling around to save his leadership, he has decided to give his Euro-fanatic backbenchers something symbolic. Britain will automatically download EU rules in the fields of energy and food in return for… well, in return for nothing much beyond feel-good Europhile fluffiness.
What is proposed is not that Britain and the EU recognise each other’s standards in certain areas. That is the normal way in which trade agreements happen and, indeed, the normal way in which the EU negotiates deals. Brussels, for example, has a mutual recognition agreement with New Zealand.
Nor is it proposed that Britain and the EU should jointly agree in advance to certain standards on, say, animal welfare or food safety.
No, what Starmer is offering is something quite different, something almost unprecedented among sovereign nations. What he proposes is write a blank cheque. Whatever standards the EU might adopt in future, Britain will automatically copy them.
They might be ludicrously expensive. They might be inappropriate to our conditions. Whatever their content, we would have no option but to copy them.
There would be no debate in Parliament, no vote in the House of Commons. Brussels would dictate, and Britain would scramble to obey.
Starmer is not interested in practical solutions. His policy is wholly vibes-driven, designed to show how different he is from the awful Tories.
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@militaryhistori @AliceB01973554 There are a few younger men, but the preponderance of older men, 30s/40s, is quite striking. Perhaps a reflection of the swathes Adolf had cut through the younger cohorts after more than 5 years of war.
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@AliceB01973554 Interesting mix of Army and SS. None look happy.
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@danielmgmoylan @LandsknechtPike England as a 'commonwealth' is one nuance we might give to it. Not to be confused with 'The Commonwealth'.
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@LandsknechtPike The Latin word “Respublica” is some distance in meaning from the modern usage of the English “Republic” and cognates in other languages.
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Kingdom of Hungary was literally a republic, so it's nothing weird about using the crown as aesthetic.
An example of a crown depicted on the cover of a 17th century book that stresses that Hungary is a republic ("Republic and State of the Kingdom of Hungary").
Bryan Cheong@bryancsk
A bit weird for a republic.
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