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For Fairliered and others with similar views:

In Geneina, West Darfur, the RSF and Arab militias killed more than 15,000 non-Arab people.[7] On 22 July, a Masalit tribal leader claimed that more than 10,000 people had been killed in West Darfur alone, and that 80% of Geneina's residents had fled. Massacres against the Masalit were recorded in towns such as Tawila, Sirba, Ardamata, Kutum, and Misterei, while a mass grave was discovered around Geneina. The UK[8][15] and US[9][16] governments, witnesses, and other observers described the violence in the region as tantamount to ethnic cleansing[15][17] or even genocide,[18][19][20][21] with non-Arab groups such as the Masalit being the primary victims. The RSF and Arab militias are also accused of widespread robberies, looting food meant to feed 4.4 million people, and sexual violence against Sudanese and foreign women, particularly Masalit and non-Arab women. NGOs estimate that the actual figure of sexual violence victims could be as high as 4,400.[22] In March 2024, UNICEF reported that armed men were raping and sexually assaulting children as young as one year old.[23][24] The UN was urged to start an inquiry, and governments were encouraged to allocate resources to aid survivors.

The RSF and Arab militias in Sudan are also accused of targeted torture and killings of intellectuals, politicians, professionals, and tribal leaders. Notable victims include Adam Zakaria Is'haq, a physician and human rights advocate, and Khamis Abakar, the governor of West Darfur, who was kidnapped, tortured, and executed.[25] The RSF also targeted the families of their opponents, such as Mustafa Tambour's family. The SAF and RSF are accused of threatening, attacking, and killing journalists and activists during the conflict. The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate documented over 40 violations in May 2023 alone. Several journalists were injured or killed, and 13 newspapers ceased operations. Humanitarian workers were also targeted, with 18 killed and many others detained.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_during_the_Sudanese_civil_war_(2023–present)

To its credit, the Atlantic magazine has given this conflict serious coverage.

Labour would scream blue murder if the Tories did this

https://x.com/joe_mayes/status/2064771964540010935

Exclusive: Rachel Reeves is planning to cut the tax burden faced by wealthy US expats, as she seeks to encourage more of them to relocate to Britain

Maybe. But it’s a positive step for once and to be commended.

They are coming to the UK to escape Trump not because of UK tax rates which will still likely be higher than in the USA

I pay more tax in the US than I did in the UK.

You choose to live in deep blue big state California rather than say low tax Texas or Florida or Indiana, your choice

Texas and Florida are not low tax compared to California, they just tax different things so it's poor people who pay more:

https://itep.org/low-tax-for-whom-california-vs-texas/

Surely as a good Conservative you would accept that the logical tax structure actually goes where the money is?

Anyone insisting on spending money on tanks has simply not been paying attention for the last 4 years during which Russian tank losses now exceed 10K.

That's a bit like saying we should not spend money on soldiers because Russia has lost 500,000 of them in Ukraine.

Tanks are still useful, they're just not masters of the battlefield any more. In the days of WWII and Korea they needed to be used with care and backed up by suitable support, and that's likely to be the case from now on. The near impervious giant MBTs we've got used to in the last 40 years were an aberration.

It's tempting to say all kinds of systems have been obsoleted by drones, because drones are cheap and tanks, warships and manned aircraft are not. But history is littered with Wonderwaffe that ran rampant and were going to revolutionise warfare, right up to the point countermeasures were developed and they were relegated to being just one more weapon among many.

Utter car crash interview with Laila Cunningham.

When it is pointed out that Jenrick and Braverman literally let the NI maniac into the UK she is all over the place.


They don't like it up 'em sir comes to mind.

GB News
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‘I am not here to relitigate Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.’

https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/2064773631289266548

It shouldn't be that difficult to formulate an answer that lets them off the hook. Something along the lines of it showing how difficult it is for an individual minister to make a difference and why the whole government needs to support Reform's agenda to be able to get things done.

They are just 2 culprits.

Most of the culprits are still sat on the Tory Front Bench.

Maybe the Dakeks were right..

Politically speaking

E x t e r m I n a t e

You really should take a step back and perceive that your beloved Labour party is doing the same and if not greater damage than those who you ridicule.

It's a nakedly hypocritical position (very unlike our lefty brigade) to be furious when politicians make pronouncements on judicial verdicts or the day-to-day operations of civil servants, accusing whoever does it of overreach and undermining impartiality, but yet lay the blame for an operational asylum decision on the Home Secretary. Perhaps they should explain how Suella should or could have intervened to overturn this granting and deport the individual?

Even more risible is how they have the balls to even talk about this case given we've heard nothing but "HOW CAN THESE EVIL FACSISTS POSSIBLY CHALLENGE THE SETTLED STATUS OF THOSE WITH ILR???" - well, let me think, because of people like this maybe?

He didn't have ILR.

Just so that those of you in Britain can feel better about how badly your country is governed, here is some news from Ireland.

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has warned that two long term savings funds, established by the Government to retain some of the corporation tax paid by multinationals, will have to be part-funded by borrowing.

The development occurred because the Coalition plans to spend the bulk of the corporation tax it receives from multinationals.

The council expects Ireland's national debt will increase from €220 billion to €250 billion by the end of the decade as the Government borrows money to finance payments for the savings funds.

"This departs from the original purpose of those funds, which was to save, rather than spend, risky corporation tax receipts," the council said.

It will mean the State will have to pay interest on the borrowings, which will go to finance the payments to the savings funds.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0610/1577650-fiscal-advisory-council-savings-funds/

Borrowing to save sounds a bit Irish to me.

If I had my way I’d add quite a few offences to whole life terms . For example acid attacks which cause devastating impacts both physically and mentally.

At the same time non- violent crimes should be dealt with more by tagging and house arrest , community service etc .

This reminds me of one of the worst judgements I've read about in recent years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-36096422

"A man who carried out an acid attack leaving his victim blind in one eye has had his sentence cut by the Court of Appeal. Andreas Christopheros, 29, was attacked at his Truro home by David Phillips, 49, from Hastings in Sussex. Phillips admitted assault causing grievous bodily harm with intent and was given a life term in 2015. Judges imposed a 16-year sentence and said he will be eligible for parole after he has served eight. Mr Justice Wyn Williams told the court: "We acknowledge that this crime involved a great deal of planning and a great deal of determination to carry through." He ruled that Phillips, who carried out the attack in a case of mistaken identity, had wrongly been condemned as a highly dangerous man from whom the public would need future protection. "We are therefore forced to conclude that this life sentence was not justified and must be quashed," the judge ruled."

The logic, if you can call it that is that, seems to be that as it was targetted on one person, no one else would be in danger, as he had done what he wanted. A bit like the parent who attacks someone who abused their child. However if someone is capable of that kind of planning to carry out an attack you would think they would take the precautionary approach assuming that he could do it again!

Peter.