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The Americans are still dithering over ATACMs, and it sounds like they will only send the cluster munition version (which wouldn't be much good against a bridge, I guess).
This sort of approach won't help when the Republican right succeed in blocking any further US support for Ukraine. But is Europe doing anything to prepare for this possibility? Are they bollocks.
Ukraine is doing as much as possible to locate arms production within its borders, to reduce the impact, but there's only so much they can do.
"lovely story going around Mid Beds" = Lib Dem unattributable smears, I suggest.
Basically people mostly read papers for enjoyment as much as to keep themselves informed.
Whatever one thinks of the CPS decisions at the time, the conspiracy theory is totally implausible. Firstly, there's no evidence Savile was a Freemason. He claimed to be a devout Catholic, and I understand there is a papal decree against Freemasons. It would hardly be the worst of Savile's many crimes to go against that decree, but the idea he was a member seems plucked out of thin air. Secondly, I understand Starmer is an atheist (and avoids taking oaths mentioning God), so he's also pretty unlikely to be a Freemason as they require members to profess to belief in God. Finally, even if both were, there's no evidence that either knew about the other's membership of a Lodge on the other side of the country.
LBJ tells his campaign manager to start a whispering campaign to the effect that his opponent enjoyed carnal relations with his farmyard sows. His campaign manager says, "Don't be ridiculous, Lyndon, nobody will believe the guy's a pig-f***er".
To which LBJ replies, "Of course... but let's just make the son of a bitch deny it."
Although when it came to making enormous and exceptional tools, Mr Starmer couldn't hold a candle to Mr and Mrs Cummings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Masonic_conspiracy_theory
Sir Keir doesn't seem particularly Jewish so some might wonder why he's in cahoots with world-government forces robbing us of our freedom to drive more than once a week.
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2023/01/29/the-intermarium/
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https://twitter.com/LouHaigh/status/1709937815256248787
The entire page where the government pledge to 'revolutionise mass transit in Bristol' has now been deleted.
Rishi's pledges melt away like tears in rain.
Or piss in a pool.
No doubt people can come up with any number of insane conspiracy theories, although I think the Savile one is a more straightforward way to connect Savile and Starmer via a well-known secret society of which both could in theory have been members so as to provide a sinister motive for why the CPS didn't prosecute Savile.
In truth, it's very unlikely either was a Freemason or had any other form of personal connection and, whether or not the CPS made a reasonable decision based on the evidence presented to them at the time, Starmer appears not to have been personally involved in any charging decisions in relation to Savile.
Lab 1.04 / 1.06
SNP 20 / 27
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.215574273
As the boundary between the Tories and the radical right breaks down, the party has morphed into something new.
By David Gauke"
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/10/conservative-party-disintegrating
OK, she was inventing funding for it. But at least she tried.
I appreciate Savile was a monster and what he did was utterly incompatible with any religious teaching. But he was from a Roman Catholic family, and attended church regularly. It's probable, although we will never know, that his religious faith was in some sense genuine and passed on by the mother with whom he was famously close - monsters don't see themselves as monsters, and find all sorts of ways to rationalise. It is very unusual indeed for Catholics to be Freemasons as there is a longstanding ban on it by the Church.
So I don't put it past the old sh1t, but his Catholicism together with the fact that there is no evidence he was a Freemason combine to make me think it's all very unlikely.
So, you can only give yourself a 50% mark, I'm afraid.
I can think of two differences between tobacco and most of those other drugs. First, tobacco was sold for most of the last hundred years by very large corporations -- which, here in the US, are usually distrusted by the left.
(Tobacco is also sold here by some Indian tribes, and can be sold, as I understand it, by individuals raising their own. I think there are already a few people doing that, especially in high tax states. I don't know what the laws say about that.)
Second, unlike most illegal drugs, nicotine can help you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
(As I think I mentioned here before, some years ago my math professor girlfriend told me that some of her students smoked only during exam week. They may have been behaving rationally.)
It would be mean to suggest that some see that as a reason tobacco should be banned.
(A bit of history; As those familiar with WW II details may know, in that war American soldiers received a ration of 6 packs of cigarettes a week, in spite of being forbidden to smoke when that might make them a target. The first batches included too many unpopular brands, and there were protests about the choices.)
For the record: I tried cigarettes once, when they were being given away free at college. Didn't like them, and never tried them again.
The page is being updated to make sure that people understand exactly what kind of revolution they're talking about.
"Towards a Brave New World
Huxley’s dystopian novel was a warning, but we are systematically moving in the direction he indicated.
Tomasz Witkowski
5 Oct 2023 · 9 min read"
https://quillette.com/2023/10/05/towards-a-brave-new-world/
"Well Starmer says he isn't a mason but..."
Has PB.com slipped off the list of important influencer sites?
Nomination: Now 12.5, 3rd favourite
Presidency: Now 18, 4th favourite (the widely tipped Haley is 29)
Starmer confirms he will follow Sunak's plans and not reinstate HS2 but invest in the North
I assume that ends any prospect of it being built
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/10/05/keir-starmer-will-not-commit-reverse-rishi-sunak-hs2-cut/
Everyone appears agreed that Sunak's Government is hopeless / a disaster and must be got rid of ASAP.
Yet Starmer is going to come in and follow all the same policies.
The reality seems to be that there aren't any credible options for doing anything much very differently - and both Sunak and Starmer realise this.
The result is going to be an angry public who have no sense of the practicalities of the situation the country is actually in. They want a magic wand to be waved / money to be plucked out of thin air and it isn't going to happen.
During interviews with local TV programmes, he said the Government’s decision to cancel HS2 contracts and release land intended for the project meant he could not promise to build the second leg of the project.
“Now can I stand here and commit to reversing the decision on HS2? No, I can’t. Not least because the Government’s already releasing land between Birmingham and Manchester,” he said.
Asked if he could commit to high speed rail in full, he said: “No, I can’t make that commitment. That’s what we wanted. That’s what was promised under this Government. But they’ve just blown a massive hole through it and are about to start canceling the contracts, releasing the land, reconfiguring Euston. So I can’t stand here and commit to reversing that decision.
I say that not because I'd put it past a canvasser to spread a false rumour on the doorstep - these people are volunteers and some are dishonest, stupid, or both - but because I'd be surprised if it was THIS rumour.
It's all just a bit esoteric and I am unsure how it would come up in a doorstep conversation these days. It also invites the answer "so what?" I know some people have a big issue with Freemasonry, but it's slipped way down the list of popular targets for suspicion and concern. For most people I suspect it's basically viewed as just a mildly fruity version of the Rotary Club - a rather outdated institution that Uncle Bob attends once a month to get him out from under Auntie Sheila's feet and enjoy some poorly cooked gammon and a couple of glasses of sherry with like-minded duffers.
So maybe it came from a canvasser, but I suspect probably not.
Why do you insist on warping the truth like a tabloid editor?
However, the report does raise another point. If Sunak sells the land between Handsacre and Crewe without a vote in Parliament he would be breaking the law. Is he doing that?
Not that he cares about the law. He's a friend of Cummings and already under police investigation for something else he said.
Quite impressed, considering that there is no election on, and it is absolutely torrential rain right now.
"Ireland may pay to not accept migrants from other parts of the EU, says Taoiseach Leo Varadkar"
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-may-pay-to-not-accept-migrants-from-other-parts-of-the-eu-says-taoiseach-leo-varadkar/a369429305.html
What's depressing is that Starmer has little choice, given Sunak plans to see the land off before the next GE.
I hope someone's keeping a very close eye on who that land gets sold to.
If he commits to it, then the Tories have him on the hook for either £40+ billion in tax rises, or the cancellation of all the other plans they've announced as replacements.
The Tories have made such a mess of the announcements that surely the best option is to say it will be almost impossible to restart it.
Until quite recently, salting the ground for your successors was seen as a bad thing.
That decent right wingers are prepared to chortle along to Sunak's sabotage just shows how far down the rabbit hole the whole conservative movement has been dragged.
And when your opposition is making a fool of itself daily why would you distract people from the continual story of the Tory party not being competent.
On the other hand, I thought the conventional way of doing that was to shake the guy's hand rather than come straight out with the question.
He seemed fairly impressed by the dire speech.
Nonetheless, triangulating with an economic sabateur is depressing stuff from Starmer.
At a minimum he should put on notice any purchasers of the HS2 land Sunak attempts to flog off, that they may see their property compulsorily repurchased at cost.
As Casino told us yesterday, though, cancellation of contracts would delay any resumption by perhaps half a decade.