@Bushra1Shaikh Hamza Iqbal, 20, and Rehan Khan, 19 - and a 17-year-old boy who is a dual British-Pakistani national, have all been charged with arson.
Hamza and Rehan.
Hardly a John or Dave. 😉
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srcolburn
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The Met previously said the investigation into the arson attack on several Jewish ambulances was looking at an Islamist group with potential links to Iran. Turns out two people arrested thus far are British nationals.
The case is no longer being classed as a terror incident.
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Im going to lock my account for a while.
All joking aside, as thick skinned as I am a certain someone’s behaviour is deeply disturbing and is making me really uneasy,
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A tragedy is unfolding: aside from murdering women for showing their hair, hanging thousands for being gay, murdering their political opposition, cancelling democracy, killing thousands of their own citizens for peacefully demonstrating, plundering their nation’s wealth to line their own pockets, destroying Lebanon & Gazan society via their proxies, supporting Assad’s mass murder of his own people, murdering Jews whenever possible, supporting genocide against Jews and planning the annihilation of Israel while running an annual Holocaust-mocking cartoon competition, murdering hundreds of US servicemen, announcing it was planning the assassination of Donald Trump, making proxy wars against Sunni Arabs and relentlessly trying to build a nuclear weapon to potentially satisfy an apocalyptic religious prophecy by dropping it on Israel & generally planning the end of Western civilisation, what has the Iranian regime done to deserve this attack?
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@Bushra1Shaikh It’s called ‘defense’ rather than hiding behind women and children 😉
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Western leaders start wars, then retreat behind bunkers or escape routes, while ordinary civilians are left to die with the consequences.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had the option to leave. He could have sought safety elsewhere but he didn't. He remained in his country, among his people and died with honour.
You can agree or disagree with his politics. But there's a stark difference between leaders who share the risks of their nation and those who outsource the cost of their decisions to everyone else.
Both Trump and Netanyahu are weak cowards who will let your children die before them.
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I'm so sick of Israel and the U.S. Netanyahu and Donald Trump are not worth the dirt of any Islamic leader. The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died a martyr- these men will one day die as dogs.
Ameen.
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Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is safe, alive and well.
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Britain has enough problems - we should not be bombing Iran.
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The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable.
Peace and diplomacy was possible. Instead, Israel and the United States chose war.
This is the behaviour of rogue states — and they have jeopardised the safety of humankind around the world with this catastrophic act of aggression.
Our government must condemn this flagrant breach of international law, and urgently pursue a foreign policy based on justice, sovereignty and peace.
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@jeremycorbyn Are you saying that you support innocent people in Iran being slaughtered? What would you do in this moment?
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@WokeratiMarty @simontdrinker Not as incredible as the Tory vote share in 2017 thou 😉
And under FPTP it’s all about seats. A reminder:
Jezza : 262
Terezza: 318
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@simontdrinker First past the post really sucks doesn't it. Should be scrapped. 40% of the national vote share, what an incredible achievement
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Don't forget Jeremy Corbyn's politics got a whopping 40% of the national vote share in the 2017 election. A feat other parties and leaders could only ever dream of.
That's why I'll be supporting themany.uk for the collective leadership of Your Party. 👍
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Unilaterally declaring co leadership, membership portal and wrecking the conference democratic! You lot are the emporer's taylors!
The Case Against Zarah Sultana: A Pattern of Deliberate Destabilisation
From the formation of Your Party to the collapse of its inaugural conference, Zarah Sultana’s actions display not democratic principle or naïveté but a sustained pattern of unilateral manoeuvres that have systematically weakened the party. The cumulative evidence points to deliberate destabilisation rather than internal dissent.
The first warning signs emerged with the fight over the party’s infrastructure. Instead of allowing the membership portal, data systems and core organisational tools to be collectively developed, Sultana’s faction seized control of these assets early, placing them under structures they alone influenced. This move was not debated, not voted on, and not authorised. It mirrors classic factional capture: control the database, the communication pipeline and the membership funnel, and you control the party. This was the first clear demonstration that Sultana’s priority was power, not democratic process.
The financial disagreements followed the same pattern. Rather than working through transparent structures, her faction asserted authority over fundraising and spending mechanisms without broad oversight. These actions created confusion, mistrust and competing centres of legitimacy, weakening the party before it even launched. Again, the behaviour was unilateral, and always to her faction’s advantage.
The leadership question exposed the strategy most clearly. Sultana repeatedly implied or outright stated that she and Jeremy Corbyn were co-leaders, despite no formal vote or constitutional basis for such a claim. This attempted self-designation is not the action of someone committed to democratic process; it is a power grab dressed in the language of “collective leadership.” Her demand that leadership be shared only took form once she realised she could not secure sole legitimacy. Democracy was invoked strategically, not sincerely.
The events at the inaugural conference were the culmination of this pattern. Instead of attending, debating or challenging decisions through proper channels, Sultana boycotted the opening, delivering the most damaging public blow possible to a fragile new party. She denounced “witch-hunts,” “toxic culture” and “undemocratic expulsions,” yet she had not exhausted procedural appeals, nor attempted compromise. She went straight to the cameras. The effect was predictable: humiliation of the party, intensification of factional divides, and destruction of the conference’s political purpose.
This was not the behaviour of someone inexperienced or caught off-guard. Sultana and her network are politically seasoned: veterans of Momentum, digital campaigning, pressure groups and Labour’s factional battles. They understand optics, timing and narrative capture. Their actions at each stage follow a clear pattern: seize control of key structures, sow distrust, paralyse formal decision-making, use the media to escalate, and ultimately make the party ungovernable.
The simplest explanation is the strongest. Sultana has not acted as a democrat, a unifier or a principled dissenter. She has acted as a factional operator whose decisions consistently undermine organisational coherence. Whether by design or by alignment with external pressures, her actions have weakened Your Party at every critical juncture.
The case against her is not based on speculation but on a repeated, observable pattern: unilateralism, escalation, and destabilisation.
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“Obviously, there are lessons to learn.”
On the first day of the Your Party conference, Novara Media's @RichardhWrites spoke to @ZarahSultana about the fight to build truly democratic structures with membership at its heart — and the mistakes that have been made along the way.
Watch the full interview: novara.media/3XYxMsM
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@charliemansell @iainjwatson @BBCNews @BBCOne Whatever voting system used was it agreed to by an all members vote?
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WHAT was your grandmother's name...
I'm looking for a vintage girl's name.
Not Betty!
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@MarkHeath45 The Gospels never describe Jesus or Mary’s, height, hair color, eye color, facial features or skin tone. We can only assume they would have been of Middle Eastern appearance. So not European 😉
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The ‘Christmas’ royal mail stamp
Spot the mistake?? 🤬
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@cmcdownie @RevBrettMurphy @Bushra1Shaikh @RupertLowe10 Hmmm. The wedding at Cana? Considered Jesus’s first miracle. At Mary’s request what did Jesus turn 120 gallons of water into?
Pretty pointless having all that wine if you’re not gonna drink it 😉
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@RevBrettMurphy @Bushra1Shaikh @RupertLowe10 Understand why you’d think British culture is based on bible.
But bible says don’t drink alcohol or eat pork I think.
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Halal slaughter is NOT part of British culture.
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