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@SCFCJosh96 Without a doubt, we are about to see the election of The Last Labour Government. Ever.

👉NEW -- Minister misled parliament over arms exports to Israel by @jmcevoy_2 Chris Bryant told a parliamentary committee that UK-made aircraft parts would not benefit Israeli fighter pilots. His briefing said otherwise. declassifieduk.org/minister-misle…

If you haven’t noticed, a lot of cities are the same. It’s not the SNP, Labour, or Tories. The whole UK is similarly afflicted. It’s the result of 40 years of neoliberal free-market bullshit.

If you don’t already follow Fereshteh, you should do so now. From the Farsi: According to reports, the Trump regime has requested that the ceasefire be extended for another two weeks, and Iran (again according to reports) has refused. The extension of the ceasefire is to give the Zionist regime time to catch its breath and locate and assassinate the remaining commanders and officials. The campaign to open up the internet is also in line with that same policy of espionage and assassination.

👉NEW -- Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates by @daniaakkad BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in 14 months of genocide, Freedom of Information shows declassifieduk.org/strong-pro-isr…

NHS workers are being stripped of their pensions and removed from NHS employment by a trust that covers Bath, Swindon and Salisbury hospitals. Staff are being told they will have to re-register with a private equity company if they want to keep working. I used to be a governor at one of the hospitals involved, and I’ve have seen the internal documents. This is straight out of the PFI playbook - and it’s happening right now. Full story ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/naj562/p/n… @wesstreeting @RUHBath @GWH_NHS @SalisburyNHS @ShaunLintern @HSJnews @journo_kituno @andrewgregory @lauradonnlee #NHSprivatisation #pensionrights

@DalrympleWill Also see.

Even if you believe Von der Leyen/the EU have the best interests of ordinary Europeans at heart, and that the Covid event and its injections and "passports" was just what she claims it was, you should not forget the overwhelming corruption of her approach to Pfizer back in 2021.

@NeilClark66 Yep. Despite the FACT that the UK already spends more money on defence than Russia does per capita. Not to mention the key principle that taxes do not fund spending, so pitching two 'costs' against each other is totally false; economically illiterate.

We’re heading towards ‘we can’t afford to pay you a state pension (despite all your years of contributions) , because otherwise we won’t be able to defend Britain against an invasion by Putin’ aren’t we? That’s where this ‘debate’ is taking us.

"A non-commissioned officer with a Ukrainian unit linked to neo-Nazis has received military training in Canada and graduated from a Canadian Forces leadership course. Previously, the Canadian Forces and Department of National Defence maintained they would not train or associate with the controversial Azov Brigade. But a member of the brigade was at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in Quebec for leadership training from Jan. 13 to Feb. 5, 2026, according to Canadian soldiers who contacted the Ottawa Citizen. Objections to the Azov soldier’s presence were submitted by Canadian Forces personnel to military leaders immediately, but were ignored. Defence Minister David McGuinty, in a statement to the Ottawa Citizen, said “at no point has Canada’s mandate included training members of the Azov Battalion.” “We have reinforced our policy to prevent any recurrence and remain firmly opposed to Nazism, racism, and all forms of extremism while promoting human rights, and the rule of law in all international engagements,” he added. Department of National Defence spokesperson Kened Sadiku said Ukraine had previously been explicitly told not to send members of the Azov Brigade to Canadian military training. Despite identifying the presence of the Azov soldier in the non-commissioned member leadership training program, the Canadian Forces decided to allow him to continue participating. The Azov Brigade, originally referred to as a battalion or regiment, is highly controversial. In 2018, the United States Congress banned the use of U.S. funds to provide arms, training and other assistance to the unit because of its links to the far-right and to neo-Nazis. But in June 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden lifted the ban for Azov, which is seen as highly effective on the battlefield in defending Ukraine from Russia’s invasion. The Canadian Forces previously had a strict policy of distancing itself because of the unit’s far-right associations. But, under Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan, it appears that may have changed. In July 2025, Canadian military personnel hosted a meeting with Azov Brigade staff, the Maple, an online publication, reported in October. Azov personnel described the meeting with the Canadians as a “friendly and open dialogue.” At the time, the Canadian Forces confirmed that the meeting took place in Ukraine, but refused to answer specific questions from the Ottawa Citizen. Brig. Gen. Serge Menard, who arranged the meeting, told Azov representatives it would be a “pleasure to greet you at the Canadian Embassy.”" ottawacitizen.com/public-service…

“Strangely” we see excess mortality before covid but after messenger RNA technology. Cardiologist Dr Christopher Neil: “The take off point of mortality in Queensland, goes up very clearly and very strangely, in the second quarter of 2021, 8-10 x months before covid hits the state” Excess Deaths Inquiry, Australian Parliament

💰 2026 arms spend panic instigated by Lord Robertson who's on the payroll of 2 arms lobbyists: The Cohen Group and 5654 & Co. 💰 2025 arms spend panic instigated by Lord Dannatt who's on the payroll of arms firm Teledyne and was exposed for illicit lobbying a month later

@SaulStaniforth Worth noting that in terms of per capita defence spending, the UK out-spends Germany, France, Russia and China. Yep, Russia and China! But yeah, Putin blah, blah.

"We're now in a situation where the defence budget is so small" The UK is the 5th highest military spender in the world. Only the US, China, Russia and Germany spend more than us.

@IsraelMFA Just stop. The surge in hatred for Israel across the world isn't driven by religion, it is driven by your country being genocidal maniacs. Just look at the statements of your government leaders. Nobody cares about your religion. You are a threat to everyone.

NHS SPENT £857K PROVING THEY WERE WRONG Dr Kevin Beatt @drbeatt built Croydon University Hospital's @croydonhealth cardiology unit from nothing. Then he did something the NHS apparently cannot tolerate. He told the truth. He warned about dangerous equipment, nursing shortages, and bullying. Nobody acted. In June 2011, a senior nurse was suspended mid-procedure without his knowledge. A 63-year-old man, Gerald Storey, died on the table. The coroner confirmed the suspension contributed to his death. Beatt raised the alarm formally and repeatedly. The Trust sacked him for gross misconduct. Reported him to the GMC. Issued a press statement the tribunal later found was deliberately designed to destroy his reputation. Then they spent public money trying to make it stick. The Employment Tribunal ruled against them. Landmark judgment. No misconduct. No ulterior motive. Unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing. The Trust appealed. Lost. Appealed again. Lost. Tried the Supreme Court. Refused. Final bill to taxpayers: £857,110 in compensation. Plus years of legal costs. Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt, Health Secretary at the time, called it a matter for the trust's board and walked away. The managers responsible faced zero consequences. This is the template. @NHS trusts have learned that burying a whistleblower in legal processes, exhausting their finances, and waiting long enough means most people give up. Dr Beatt did not give up. He won. And it cost him everything anyway. If institutions will not protect the people who protect patients, we have to. Share this. Because somewhere right now a doctor is deciding whether it is worth the risk to speak up. Sources: Employment Tribunal: Beatt v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2014] Court of Appeal: [2017] EWCA Civ 401 The Guardian / Croydon Guardian / ITV News

NHS CEO SACKED FOR TRYING TO PROTECT CANCER PATIENTS John Watkinson raised concerns about gastrointestinal cancer care at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust @RCHTWeCare. In April 2009, he was dismissed. His crime? Refusing to let the NHS South West Strategic Health Authority quietly move a cancer service to Plymouth without legally required public consultation. He even obtained legal advice confirming a consultation was mandatory. The SHA called that advice "a severe irritant." So they got rid of the irritant. The board was told that if they did not go along with suspending Watkinson, the non-executive directors themselves would be removed and replaced with a more cooperative group. The former RCHT Chair described that as tantamount to bullying. The SHA denied everything. The employment tribunal in 2010 was not impressed. It found the appeal process was "a travesty of anything approaching basic concepts of fairness." The dismissal "flew in the face of any concept of fairness." Watkinson had been automatically unfairly dismissed for making a protected disclosure. He won. The Health Secretary then ordered an independent review into why it all happened. That review was published in January 2011. It was 175 pages long. Watkinson was 54 years old, unemployed, and had his house on the market. The SHA boss who oversaw the whole thing, Sir Ian Carruthers, had previously served as acting Chief Executive of the NHS. He also chaired the panel that recommended a knighthood for the man tasked with reviewing his conduct. You honestly cannot make this up. This is what happens when you tell the NHS something inconvenient. They do not argue with you. They just make you disappear. Source: gov.uk/government/pub…

Lord Robertson, Blair's Defence Secretary, former NATO Secretary General, well paid lobbyist for arms manufacturers, tells us we are not ready for war. Well, thank goodness for that! Imagine if we had been ready to leap into the action over Iran. The pressure from the US to get involved would have been far greater if our two aircraft carriers had been battle ready and prepositioned in or near the Gulf. We would have been dragged in willy nilly. Having more frigates off the Cyprus coast would not have changed anything. Iran would still have lobbed over enough drones to create a minor panic. So what precisely do these scaremongers and warmongers like Robertson suggest we should have been doing by way of deploying more assets if we had had them? They don't say. In fact it was our limited involvement such as it was, allowing the US to use bases in Suffolk and Diego Garcia for bombing Iran, alongside our long history of hostility towards Iran, which prompted the Iranian attacks on Cyprus in the first place. What dunderheads like Robertson fail to understand is that security comes more from not having enemies than from being armed to the teeth. This simple truth escapes them. It's whipping up war fever against Iran and Russia which has got us into a position of vulnerability. By sanctioning Iran, a country which has never conceivably been a threat to us, in order to help Israel, and by joining in Israel's campaign to demonise Iran, we were paving the way for Trump's mad gamble. We never dreamed that our recklessness would come back to bite us. Well now it has, big time, with the UK turning out to have more exposure to the economic fallout from the crisis than any other Western country,  A proper common sense defence policy would have realised how exposed we were and put more emphasis on conflict avoidance than battle readiness. In this same week of Robertson's plea for throwing more good money after bad the cry went up that we were not ready to retaliate against Russia. But as with Iran this is to ignore our own provocations. We have been threatening action against Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" of civilian vessels, a fleet which only exists anyway because we led the way in sanctioning Russia over Ukraine. The alleged cyber-attacks and cable-related actions only took off after the start of the Ukraine conflict and in light of the leading role this country has taken in trying to bring about Russia's collapse. Are those Gulf countries who paid vast amounts to US arms contractors  saying to themselves: "If only we had spent more on weapons"? No, they are ruing the day they put faith in being armed to the hilt and regretting that they had not done more to appease Iran. Appeasement, by the way, simply means soothing your adversary, as we do in our personal lives all the time, and as we did for a long time with Trump. Starmer for once has read the room correctly, more or less. He has gained a few points in popularity by distancing himself from Trump somewhat and by keeping our involvement in the Iran war limited.  Farage has lost points by over-association with Trump and seemingly being in favour of greater involvement if only we had had more military capability (proving our point, incidentally). In responding to Robertson Starmer would be doing himself a favour if he turned the tables on the old nitwit, calling him out for shameless warmongering. But Starmer doesn't have the gumption to do that. His minions proclaim "Oh but we are in fact  spending loads on the military. We have the highest sustained military spending since the end of the Cold War." Labour should be apologising for that, not boasting about it. No, we should not be spending more on what is misleadingly called defence. We would be safer if we spent less, indulged in less  post-imperial posturing, sought to calm conflicts rather than exacerbate them,  and focused on a domestic front where so much has been neglected and run down. Peter Ford Former Ambassador

The govt has appointed a new Prevent commissioner who will no doubt look into the radicalisation of UK ministers backing Israeli terrorism. He was appointed by security minister Dan Jarvis, who is a Labour Friend of Israel. You have to admit, UK governance is genuinely funny.

Das sind die Jüd*innen von der antifaschistischen, internationalistischen Initiative 'Kufiyas in Buchenwald'. Da sie Kriegsverbrechen ansprechen und Deutschlands Waffenlieferungen an Israel thematisieren, werden sie als Antisemiten diffamiert. Nie wieder gilt für alle.

Il y a 12 ans aujourd’hui, l’Ukraine envoyait l’armée au Donbass pour réprimer le soulèvement de ses habitants qui ne voulurent pas reconnaître le gouvernement intermédiaire issu d’un coup d’Etat à Kiev financé, soutenu et orchestré par Washington et Bruxelles. Il n’y aurait jamais eu de guerre en Ukraine sans l’ingérence atlantiste.