@Jake___2003 And if wolves turn up tomorrow at Spurs, could be over
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Brit in the USA. Veteran. LUFC in the blood, Bucs in the USA.
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It's really starting to do my head in how people are talking about West Ham and Spurs v us as absolute home bankers. I get it because we'll have nothing to play for but we've lost 1 away game in 5 months and are 9 unbeaten. It's highly unlikely we lose 2 in a fortnight 😂
Sash@sashedelic
If the games against Leeds and Everton cancel out, it comes down to Wolves (A). Our biggest chance to close the gap and survive
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@Jake___2003 Leeds won't role over for either, will play to the end.
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Everton turn over west ham tomorrow and it could be 👋 cant see wolves doing spurs but who knows 🤷
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@stuey_beef A pair suited to each other, both utterly treacherous
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Listen to the spin: Downing Street rages about “desperate misrepresentation”, insisting Starmer only did neutral “academic” analysis and never targeted individual soldiers or represented Iraqi families.
Now read the record: he was a QC on the very case that forced the MoD to reopen Iraq death inquiries, working pro bono for a coalition of human‑rights NGOs whose arguments pushed for ECHR duties over British‑controlled areas of Iraq.
Those arguments directly enabled the avalanche of claims and investigations that followed, including claims driven by Shiner’s disgraced operation, which were later exposed as baseless and fraudulent.
Starmer built his political brand on being the clever lawyer who changes the rules – and in Iraq, the rules he helped change were used to hound British troops.
That’s not a technicality.
That’s character.
And that character is unfit to be Prime Minister.
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@Ameer_Kotecha Nothing naive about Starmer, he helped every step of the way with this.
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The Hermer revelations disgust me probably more than the Mandelson mess.
I don’t want to be unfair to him, but there’s just something about actively *choosing* to represent the wrong uns and waging this campaign against our country’s bravest. I really struggle to understand how someone can be motivated by these sorts of cases.
And the political naivety by Starmer just seems extraordinary - how could he possibly think that appointing someone with a legal career like Hermer’s to the heart of government was going to be seen as anything but appalling? There is nothing about Hermer’s career which suggests he even likes this country
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Starmer and Hermer Built the Machine Together. Now They Run the Country.
In 2007, two barristers worked without pay on a case that would change the legal landscape for every British soldier who had served in Iraq. Keir Starmer and Richard Hermer appeared as interveners in Al-Skeini v Secretary of State for Defence, representing eleven human rights organisations including Amnesty International and Liberty. Their argument was that the European Convention on Human Rights should apply to British forces operating overseas. They lost in the Court of Appeal. They appealed to the House of Lords. They lost again. But the legal principle they had argued for eventually prevailed at the European Court of Human Rights, and what followed was the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, sixty million pounds of public money, seven years of investigations, and not a single prosecution. The soldiers it pursued were, in almost every case, found to have acted properly.
Starmer believed in it enough to do it for free. Johnny Mercer, who spent years dismantling the consequences, put it plainly. Starmer had insisted on doing it for free. That is not the behaviour of a barrister following the cab rank rule. That is ideological conviction.
Hermer's conviction, it subsequently emerged, was not without financial reward once the machinery was running. Documents obtained by the Daily Telegraph show that having helped establish the legal architecture pro bono in 2007, Hermer then used that same architecture to pursue Iraqi claims against British soldiers at £450 an hour, fifty percent higher than the only other KC involved in the group action. He set his success fee at the maximum level permitted, one hundred percent of his normal rate. The MoD's own lawyers challenged his fees as excessive and said he was too junior to command that rate. He is thought to have earned around six figures from the broader group action. The claims he was pursuing were eventually ruled to be deliberate lies. The soldiers were fully exonerated.
Sergeant Richie Catterall had been cleared of wrongdoing by the British Army in 2003 for a fatal shooting in Basra. The Army found he had acted in self-defence. The legal precedent Starmer and Hermer established triggered two further investigations spanning thirteen years. A 2016 inquiry again concluded he had acted in self-defence and found a false document had been created to shift blame onto the military. Catterall was finally exonerated. He told the Telegraph he was gutted that Starmer had helped bring the case against him and that the Prime Minister owed him an apology.
Starmer is now Prime Minister. Hermer is now Attorney General, appointed by Starmer personally, elevated to the House of Lords specifically for the role, chosen over Emily Thornberry who had held the shadow brief. The former head of the Army, General Sir Peter Wall, has said Hermer's role in the Al-Sweady claims was tantamount to treason. A former commanding officer of 22 SAS said Hermer must step down. The Bar Standards Board has been asked to investigate. Nigel Farage has reported Hermer to the House of Lords standards commissioner.
The Troubles Bill that is now subjecting Northern Ireland veterans to the same lawfare is not an accident of policy. The process that drove Fred, a special forces veteran, to attempt suicide after his medical records were handed to terrorists' families was not an oversight. The machine that cost sixty million pounds and produced no prosecutions was not a mistake. Starmer and Hermer built it together, one working for free out of conviction, the other later working for maximum fees out of the same conviction, and now both occupy the positions from which they can ensure the machine keeps running.
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@seatedskydiver There's still plenty to see that the w⚓️ haven't turned to shit. Life's short, live it.
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QME
@whdan1895 @DarylRS29 @WestHam_Central @_lloyddean_ LUFC will beat Wolves on the 18th April to move on to 39 pts and safety with 5 to play.
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Shut up, Leeds are like top 5 in form table over last 6/7 games.
It's Forest, and maybe Bournemouth/Spurs if we go on a run.
AKKI 🛠@Mike_Akki
@WestHam_Central We are chasing Leeds not Forrest? How can people not understand this?
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Total respect to Kemi @KemiBadenoch Badenoch for this article who is absolutely right to call this out and take decisive action on Monday. As a veteran with over 30 years’ service, I salute her for standing up and refusing to let Lord Hermer’s disgraceful decisions put British lives at further risk. Enough is enough.
Hermer’s grotesque overreach — enabling the hounding of our Special Forces with human-rights lawyers acting for the enemy — is hollowing out our elite units. One-third to half a UKSF unit under investigation? SAS operators resigning in droves? This isn’t justice; it’s betrayal that directly endangers the men and women still serving, and every veteran who’s worn the uniform knows it. Our troops deserve leaders who put them first, not quislings who tie their hands while the enemy gets legal aid on our dime.
Hermer should be struck off immediately — but that’s only the beginning. Like Starmer, his actions smack of quisling behaviour: prioritising foreign claims and elite legal games over the security of British citizens and the forces who defend them. It’s time he faced proper scrutiny and prosecution for the damage done.
This is the rotten fruit of nepotism and corruption that’s infected our politics for far too long. Veterans like me — and thousands more — have had enough of this corrupt, inept, and incompetent Labour government that sends our people into harm’s way without the tools, the backing, or the loyalty they earned in blood.
We fought for this country. We deserve better than being sold out by those who never served and never will. Time to fight back properly. Support Badenoch and anyone willing to put Britain and our Armed Forces first.🇬🇧
I’ll be taking a keen interest on how Labour MPs react/vote - with particular attention on veterans such as @CalvinBailey @AlistairCarns @MikeTappTweets et al.
Respect to @KemiBadenoch @Telegraph
“Hermer’s disgraceful decisions are putting British lives in danger” telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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@stuey_beef Now you know why they resurrected the NI witch hunt.
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The pattern is now impossible to ignore. In 2007, Keir Starmer and Richard Hermer pushed a landmark case that rewrote the rules and unleashed a wave of “witch hunt” investigations into British troops – Starmer even insisted on doing it for free.
Years later, the Al‑Sweady Inquiry found the central claims were invented, Shiner was exposed as a fraudster, and our soldiers were vindicated.
Yet instead of apologising to veterans and reforming the system, Starmer made Hermer Attorney General.
That is this government’s real attitude to the men and women who serve.
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Anyone else think it was getting disallowed? #LUFC
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Leeds say Gruev has suffered a meniscus knee injury in training. Needs to be further assessed before they have a timeframe. #lufc
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2 results as interim before Rosenior. ManCity 1-1 loss to Fulham 2-1
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