Karl Gibbs

Sometimes you might want a felon. Take South Africa and Nelson Mandela, for example.

Newspaper headline: Iran's new supreme leader has been selected, says deciding body.

Were you being ironic?

She's probably anti Christ-ian Nationalism.
But what thinking person isn't?

That's a lot of Quantitative Easing. Guess the value of the dollar will be going down, which makes imports more expensive and pushes up inflation, which creates larger deficits, which needs more federal money, which needs more Quantitative easing...

What? Today?
We should hold a birthday party.

Who?

Just kidding.
The devil wears satsuma.

Help.
The Iranian regime has been 'decapitated'.
As there is no leader, who can surrender or come to an agreement with the attackers?
How is it possible for this war to end?

Yes, I accept the state of the NHS was a contributory factor.
But far more important was Boris Johnson's lack of nouse along with Sunak's 'Scoff till you Cough'.
Covid was always going to be terrible, BJ and Sunak amplified the damage, but Osborne (and Hunt) had lead the NHS to be less able to cope.

Yes, I remember.
But I suspect the reason for the drop-off on these charts is more fundamentally linked to Covid/Long Covid.
Osborne's cuts were 2010 ot 2015, and I think it odd that they waited another 5 years to impact.

So everything was tottering along OK until 2020, and then life expectancy dropped off.
Did anything happen in 2020 that could have shortened peoples lives? And if so was George Osborne responsible for it?
What is interesting is how Northern Ireland was less effected and seems to be recovering.

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

@magnusramage.bsky.social Do you only like it because your folks were from the 'right end of the tracks', so to speak?
Obvs, when I say 'right end' I don't mean the right (east) end but the left (west) end ;-)

This is a bit older, but there is a trainline in Glasgow where life expectancy at one end is 13.9 years more than at the other.

The healthy life expectancy is soft stats, and could still be differently reported as it depends on the mores of the day. So it might be misleading.

Except this is based on personal opinion of one's health.
If diagnoses are better and more people include conditions like mental health, ADHD, etc then more people will report fair or below.
Hence the graphs may drop independently of health.
But needs further investigation.

In trying to make the case for Labour, Mahmood said that a hard right government would not be restrained by 'values like ours'.
I agree, as they are hard right values.
I know she didn't think she was saying the unspoken bit out loud, but that is exactly what she was doing.

But the polls since the genie is out of the bottle (i.e. Gorton & Denton) have Reform averaging 23.5% and Greens 20.5%.
And on direction of travel, it will be 6 weeks before Reform are overtaken.

Surely, if you are revoking a legal duty under EU law, this is something that Parliament should vote on.

But it does provide the cover for the DOJ to delete the Epstein files; which is what they've been doing.

Because you are talking about this and not the Epstein files.

That's not appeasement, as there are no concessions.
That is diplomacy, now it is a long shot, but it costs you nothing to ask.

I think to strengthen NATO by not making it so reliant on the USA (who knows, one day there may be a POTUS who is unreliable).
And where do you get the appease Putin nonsense from?
Certainly not the Green Party.
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John Mann is likely. Gisela Stuart is a cross bencher now but was a Labour MP, likewise Kate Hoey.
Don't Reform get it that this makes them less electable?
A lot of their (dubious) attraction was they were the anti establishment party, the more former MPs they have, the more they lose that mantle.

If being evidence based rather than prejudice based is deluded, then I am guilty as charged.

Yes, I have kids. I have been fairly libertarian in raising them and they are both doing very well.
We both agree drugs are a disease; so take a public health approach.
I think smoking in pubs imposes health risks on other pubgoers, so no, I wouldn't bring it back.
Thank you for assuming/asking.

And by 5% too.
That means for every 100 people who would vote Labour 131 would vote Green.
And Reform UK Ltd are getting reeled in - more about their supporters going to Restore UK, than going progressive, but still good news for those who would like a proper progressive outlook.

So you support polices that have lead to the highest rates of drug use/deaths in Europe, rather than taking a public health approach that, where used, has reduced drug use, criminality and deaths.
Likewise international policies that radicalize youth at home and abroad. Seems you are!

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

Or is it an attempt to bring about the rapture?
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Under Farage's proposals Cliff Richard would be banned from voting.

Iran has been so antagonistic, positioning their country so close to all those American military bases!

But Trump said if you voted for Kamala, Iran would be attacked by the USA.
So it's your fault.