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Your final comment: yes, that’s what I was thinking when I read those Labour MPs’ claims.

Much easier to blame a football match than admit the reality - they were not popular enough to win because they had overseen a total mess up of the economy. (Which was, in fairness, not entirely their fault.)

Just as the Labour left constantly blame the Falklands War for 1983, when actually it was mostly due to their own terrible mistakes.

The Longest Suicide Note In History was what created 1983.

I remember, as a child, a trade union activist on stage at the (televised) Labour conference arguing that the U.K. should leave NATO and the EEC and join COMECON and the Warsaw Pact.

The Falklands War made the Conservative majority a bit bigger.

Nato is not defensive. It is responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan and Libya and a key tool of US imperialism, the greatest threat to peace in the world.


Discuss!

https://socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/why-britain-should-leave-nato/

As Afghanistan and Libya were such beautiful paradises of human rights under the Taliban and Bin Laden and Gaddafi of course

1st, like Burnham in a "who's got the biggest sense of entitlement" contest.

i think it is good we have a politician with lots of self belief and not plagued with self doubt.

Because we’ve never had one of those before.

Burnham's different, Cambridge educated self belief is very different to other types of self belief.

Didn't Vorderman go to Cambridge?

Your final comment: yes, that’s what I was thinking when I read those Labour MPs’ claims.

Much easier to blame a football match than admit the reality - they were not popular enough to win because they had overseen a total mess up of the economy. (Which was, in fairness, not entirely their fault.)

Just as the Labour left constantly blame the Falklands War for 1983, when actually it was mostly due to their own terrible mistakes.

The Longest Suicide Note In History was what created 1983.

I remember, as a child, a trade union activist on stage at the (televised) Labour conference arguing that the U.K. should leave NATO and the EEC and join COMECON and the Warsaw Pact.

The Falklands War made the Conservative majority a bit bigger.

Nato is not defensive. It is responsible for the destruction of Afghanistan and Libya and a key tool of US imperialism, the greatest threat to peace in the world.


Discuss!

https://socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/why-britain-should-leave-nato/

Billions in aid handed to terrorists and criminals
Secret dossier reveals foreign aid and Covid relief loans were appropriated by gangs and hostile states

Terrorists, hostile states and gangsters have been given more than £28bn of taxpayers’ money, including through aid payments, according to a secret government report.
...
More than £28bn ended up in the hands of those wishing to harm Britain between 2015 and 2021, according to the report, which was commissioned and produced by the Cabinet Office but was buried during the previous government.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bf51632ce387959b

Gift link so no paywall.

Telegraph comments show the intelligence of their readers, blaming the current govt for fraud commited 5-10 years ago under the Tories and covered up in 2023 by the Tories.

Quick skim read of the Telegraph article but what it actually seems to say is that because the Covid funds were badly designed, handled and monitored there was;

Wide scale fraud, much undetected at the time.

Some, perhaps but not definitely most, but certainly a large amount was done by organised criminal gangs.

Many of those criminal gangs were Eastern European.

Some of those gangs had links to terrorists and people smugglers and others in the Middle East.

Therefore some of the money may well have reached these groups.

So in conclusion: up to £28 Bn
misappropriated but no way to know how much of that actual ended up with “The Baddies!”

Peter.

Indeed. Most of the COVID fraud went to Tory party cronies. Only a small part will have ended up with terrorists.

What about terrorists who also support the Tories?