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Imagine if these USD150 billion had not been wasted on utopian, woke open-border ideologies, but given to Ukraine to defend itself and the West. Every American would be safer now, in many more ways than one!
@Bushra1Shaikh
I'm no fan of Netanyahu, there are many better people who could lead Israel far more wisely. But to accuse him of military cowardice is just weird and nonsensical.
@Bushra1Shaikh
In the 21st century, refusing to shake a woman's hand because she is a woman is a provocation, and an act of disrespect. It's not about religion - actually all religions command us to respect others. This is just simple disrespect, and nothing can excuse it.
@STWuk
After years of Russian occupation of big parts of Ukraine, you're terrified Ukraine has started to launch cross-border operations to destroy some of those invading troop columns and battalions?
@owenjonesjourno
So Hassan Nasrallah was a violent racist then, right? Because that's exactly what Hezbollah did to Syrians and Lebanese on behalf of Putin and Khameni.
@terminallyOL
Leftists have been promising people equality and the good life for decades years. Yet all the left has delivered is inflation, inequality, and misery. Socialism doesn't work.
@TRobinsonNewEra
Communism in the UK? That's why you can freely sell/buy property, create companies or invest in the stockmarket, create political parties and vote. Doesn't sound like the Soviet Union, does it?
@DillyHussain88
@bloodxbrospod
@prosperafg
@5Pillarsuk
Did you ask him about why the Taliban illegally deny Afgan girls the right to go to school or university? The stone-age fanatics' of the Taliban are guilty of that crime against humanity...
@IncMonocle
This is
#TwoTierKeir
Starmer's Britain. The government gives radicals the freedom to shout hate on the street, but refuses to give law-abiding old-age pensioners their winter fuel allowance.
@NazeeMoinian
It's a shame that such disgusting anti-Semitism is basically tolerated in London. This is
#TwoTierKeir
Starmer's leftist-run Britain. If the same thing happened to a gender ideology activist, there'd be a squad of cops on the case by now.
@ByDonkeys
What's even less funny is woke PM Keir Starmer's decision to force many pensioners to choose between food and heat this winter, with his cruel Winter Fuel Allowance cut. The Tories and Reform opposed that. Why aren't you protesting about this instead of talking about 🥬?
@TheDavidBergman
Mujibur Rahman was a communist dictactor, who made deals with Castro's Cuba, starved his own people and crashed the economy. Communism never works. Congrats to the people in Ukraine who tore down the Lenin statues, congrats to patriotic Bangladeshis who took down the Rahman ones.
@smzakaria
It almost seems as if some malicious elements within the Indian government structure think they can punish a sovereign country like Bangladesh for changing its government. This will backfire spectacularly on the people doing this.
@Salwan_Momika1
If you actually believed in your own religion,you'd spend less time shamefully denigrating the religious books of others.This is a sure sign that you're not actually confident about what you believe in,you only know what you don't believe in: Its a deep philosophical insecurity.
@ArchRose90
The police shouldn't act like they are private security for hate-driven mobs. It's time to investigate all and any anti-Semitic incitement and terror glorification happening on the streets of Britain every week. That has to stop!
@5Pillarsuk
There's nothing blessed about a terrorist regime that beats and kills women, steals food from the poor and murders minorities like the Hazaras. Shame on the Taliban, they're a crime group and not a government.
@AmnestyEU
One of the people deported was a man convicted of taking part in a brutal gang rape of a 14 year old girl. What right does he have to be in Germany?
@AnnaGvarishvili
What happened to Giorgi Antsukhelidze in that video can, and will, happen again, to many more Georgian patriots if Putin's Russia takes over Georgia. I hope proud Georgian people will save their beautiful country from that fate.
@TRobinsonNewEra
Tommy Robinson, I really suggest you escape the "Neo-liberal globalist West" and move to Grozny in Putin's Russian Federation. I'm sure the locals will love you there and you'll have all the "free speech" that's lacking in the West. Right?
@DrewPavlou
Suicidal empathy is a core feature of contemporary Western liberalism. Hizb-ut-Tahrir and other extremist groups undermine the values of the West with impunity: Because woke westerners have forgotten that these values have to be protected. Only conservatives can save the West.
@TheFl0orIsLaVa
Well, it's absolutely true. Putin is the most admired world leader among .... terrorists, tinpot dictators and arms smugglers. They looove him!
@amnesty
When Argentina's then-socialist government was about to deport Iranian dissident Mojtaba Keifi, handing him to the Mullah regime, I asked Amnesty for comment but they launched no campaign. When Hezbollah terrorists are injured though, they are very vocal.
@RmSalih
It's not an "Islamic emirate". It's a criminal regime run by bandits, wife-beaters and drug traffickers who murder indigenous Hazara Muslims in the name of Pashto ethno-supremacism. Eternal shame on the Taliban and those who defend them.
@narindertweets
Nigel Farage never incited or condoned any riots. I'm not a Reform supporter but this is obvious. No one went to prison "for him". Farage deescalated tensions and saved lives.
Like him or not, Nigel Farage is speaking to millions of people who those in the Westminister Bubble could never reach. He unequivocally condemns racist violence, de-escalating tensions and potentially saving lives. He fights back against the mob-rule politics of street thuggery,
@MyLordBebo
Indeed, Orwell would be baffled by modern Russia. The neo-Soviet Tsardom Putin created would defy even his worst expectations about the creative potential of tyranny...
@wikileaks
Earlier this summer French gov. brutally repressed protests by indigenous Kanaky people in French-occupied New Caledonia. They even imposed a local social media shutdown. No surprise if they now seek to imprison a dissident social network founder too?
@y_alibhai
@KemiBadenoch
@Nigel_Farage
Nigel Farage isn't a racist. Reform UK, which has a British-Muslim chairman, Zia Yusuf, and many candidates of all ethnicities, like Prabhdeep Singh, is the best evidence that Britain is in fact the 'most integrated multiracial nation': it is a party reflecting the diversity of
@ZiaYusufUK
Why should any British MP who votes against a winter fuel allowance for pensioners be entitled to claim expenses to heat his own home or office? This is the hypocrisy typical of the left: they talk about stopping inequality and poverty but only ever make it bigger.
@owenjonesjourno
Sinwar was a brutal terrorist who started his career strangling suspected Palestian "traitors" with his bare hands for a jihadi hit squad. No decent person should mourn his death.
Hamas terror chief
#Sinwar
started his 'career' by strangling unarmed Palestians suspected of 'treason' by Majmu'at Jihad waDawa, a jihadist hit squad that operated in Gaza in the 1980s. He admitted all this when the Israelis caught him back then, the transcript still exists.
Russia occupies the Georgian region of Abkhazia.
What they don't want people to know is that *Vladislav* Ardzinba, the founder of so-called 'Abkhaz seperatism', was so russified he even had a Russian first name, not an Abkhaz one like Almasxan or Mina. Shame if people knew, no?
@HazelAppleyard_
This is the beauty of free speech: The chance to respond to misleading speech with correct speech, not censorship. X community notes members do much better work than any government regulator.
@TiceRichard
Mental health has been a cop out for criminals (not only immigrant ones) for way too long. Trials delayed, sentences reduced. This has to end - legislation is urgently needed to reduce the extent to which defence lawyers make far-reaching claims about client's mental health.
@owenjonesjourno
"The Labour Party has never shown any interest in my wonderful constituency". This could be said about just about any constituency in Britain ever: Labour cares only about the London-based woke bubble, not actual voters.
@JosepBorrellF
Don't just talk about how you welcome this report... talk instead about what the EU can do against the totalitarian, unelected Maduro regime in Caracas and its growing influence in Europe!
@narindertweets
Suella Braverman is not racist, she is a wise and pragmatic Conservative who believes in a better Britain. She'll create a kinder, gentler Britain based on reason& truth, not woke censorship! It's vitally important people hear her voice &know there is an alternative to Starmer.
@BohuslavskaKate
If this *blogger* had visited Ukraine before 2022, he'd have seen that rich people and fancy cars existed before the war too. Nothing to do with American defence assistance. Such a silly take!
@visegrad24
The West should respond by giving Ukraine massive assistance and navy ships capable of striking back not just at military targets in Russia, but in North Korea too. The invading state has to pay a cost. But our politicians are too weak
@BritishOverseas
Nope, the Chagos Islands were never British. Let Mauritius deal with Mauritian problems, and Britain with its own problems at home. It's not as if there aren't enough of those.
@TheBricsWire
@visegrad24
This appears to a screenshot of a general Ukrainian military letter, which does not seem to mention a soldier by name. How does this random document relate to the matter at hand????
@ArchRose90
@Ofcom
Funnily enough the radical left and the radical Islamists actually believe the BBC is biased ... in favour of Israel. After this report they'll meltdown, system overload....
@BBCNewsnight
Finally a brave Labour MP. A rarity these days. She should network with colleagues to remove &replace bumbling Keir Starmer like the Tories wisely did with Liz Truss!
@ThatAlexWoman
Decades of anti-police incitement from the radical left have treated a situation where disrespect and distrust of law enforcement has been normalised... This leads to far more confrontational encounters between the police and the people they serve, giving those officers who are
@ZiaYusufUK
Only a government as bumbling and incompetent as that of Kier Starmer, could make a shocking blunder like that. If the UK Home Secretary or PM had a sense of responsibility, they'd resign.
Keir Starmer is the Liz Truss of the left. He fails, he pontificates, he deflects. He's the inverse of whatever a leader should be. But unlike the Tories in the case of Truss, Labour won't have the guts to remove and replace him...
#KeirStarmer
@PaulHook_em
Fact Check: Under English law, Lawson Natty was found "not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter". The judge said "I accept, as I must, that you did not intend to kill or to cause really serious harm, but you did intend to cause some harm." Anyone can read the sentencing
@BarristerSecret
A lot of ordinary people seem to think Judges are totally free to hand down whatever sentence they want. Never mind the fact the Sentencing Council and its guidelines exist. I'm a conservative and all for harsher punishments for murder, child rape and terror, but those have to be
France administers a Pacific island called New Caledonia as a 21st-century neocolony. Indigenous
#Kanaky
people in Noumea, the capital there, live in shantytowns, often without access to mains drinking water. You can't search for these places on Google Maps. Let's show them 👇
@terminallyOL
I'm not a bot. Why should I write free poetry for you? Here in the West, it's not like in the Soviet Union where people work for the party, doing whatever the socialists order but never getting paid.
@HazelAppleyard_
People should have a legal right to know who their partner is and was, before they marry them. This should also include the right to know if their partner has any convictions for domestic violence, drugs or serious crimes. Sadly legislation on such a right to know doesn't exist.
@DPJHodges
Handing back the Chagos islands was the right thing to do, and also avoided a very costly irregular migration crisis as a result of a recent legal decision🚨
🤡Some people are having a meltdown about Britain's decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
🚨 Imagine the meltdown they'd be having if Britain would've kept the islands, having to fly boat-arrival migrants from there to the UK for the forseeable future.
@TiceRichard
Charging VAT on private school fees is the right thing to do. It's absurd to pay VAT at a cornershop when buying a can of lager, but not to purchase the educational services offered by Eton college. This is about consistency: VAT needs to be lowered across the board...
@BarristerSecret
Reform UK is advocating for the concerns of its voters. That's their job. If Conservatives had been so outspoken on key issues previously, they wouldn't have lost a key part of their electorate to Reform in the first place. Standing up, not taking a knee, is the way to go.
@Nigel_Farage
Leaving the ECHR will not help you stop the boats. In fact it will only make cross-jurisdictional cooperation with France harder, disincentivising France from agreeing to returns. This is a myopic policy designed to score points with your base, not to actually protect borders.
@JayinKyiv
Orban's fake conservative regime is not an alternative, it's just a symptom of Europe's weakness. The suicidal failure of the Western left to protect borders & human lives gave Orban a chance to portray his post-soviet technocracy as conservative by clearing the lowest hurdle.
@DillyHussain88
Racism is condemned strongly by catholicism, all mainstream protestant or orthodox churches. So-called "Christian white nationalists", are rarely actually Christian,most are mere racists hiding behind the shield of religion. Much like the racist Taliban who misappropriate Islam.
@TRobinsonNewEra
Better stop your irresponsible protests that achieve nothing and divide British society. This is not patriotism, this is attention seeking.
@BarristerSecret
Reform UK is right to stand up for the legitimate concerns of their voters. It is not just about one isolated case. The Conservatives urgently need to grow a spine and do the same. Now is the time. Enough of taking a knee, time to stand up for the freedom and truth.
@PinakiTweetsBD
@narendramodi
@StateDept
This reminds me of the cynical way in which Putin used exaggerated "concern" about the "rights of Russian minorities"in Ukraine's Crimea to justify expansionism. I greatly respect Modi but I think he's being misled by ex-Hasina regime supporters into an unnecessary confrontation
@RachelMoiselle
Hezbollah is a proxy for the Iranian regime imperialism and domination over Lebanon. The "B Specials" of Khameni basically. The fact that these naive people think that's "anti-imperialism" says more about them than about the world at large.
@SayeedaWarsi
@Conservatives
The Conservative Party has plenty of fresh talent, and is more diverse and future oriented than ever before. Your decision no longer take the Conservative whip changes nothing.
@Keir_Starmer
If your bumbling government cared about crime, it wouldn't approve the early release of numerous criminals. Your government is all talk, no action and it's time you do the honourable thing and resign
@TiceRichard
The deindustrialisation of Britain and Europe has to end. It was one of the few things Thatcher was totally wrong on, and every British PM since then has been equally wrong on this, left or right. Only strong domestic industrial production can secure prosperity and independence.
@HamasAtrocities
Hezbollah operatives when they discover their Iranian handlers lied to them and the "72 heavenly virgins" they were promised don't actually exist according to the Quran and Islamic law. That fantasy was invented by Persian cleric al-Tirmidhi, from Merv in medieval central Asia.
@bobingtonus
@yoneabuser
@broseph_stalin
@KitKlarenberg
Right, that's why millions of Venezuelans have emigrated, desperately fleeing the communist narco-junta? If Western leftists like Maduro so much, why don't they go and move there and see how it's really like.
@johnmcdonnellMP
Why waste time with another U-Turn? Failed, leftwing UK PM Keir Starmer should just admit that he's not up to the complex job of governing Britain and resign. That would be his biggest achievement in office, if he had the honesty and courage to do that. Now is the time.
@5Pillarsuk
The Taliban are murdering indigenous Hazara Muslims. Their fascistic, women-hating bandit regime is founded on Pashto ethno-supremacism, and has nothing to do with any God or religion. These people aren't Muslims, but they are terrorists and bandit drug traffickers.
@JayinKyiv
The FPÖ isn't a fascist party, and didn't get a majority either ( no majority of votes, nor seats, they're just the largest party). In all likelihood, the next government will involve the ÖVP, SPÖ, NEOS or the Greens, who can form various coalitions
@RachelMoiselle
Hezbollah spent decades killing Lebanese people and now they're angry someone killed a few of their fighters. What's remarkable is how much of the Western media is lapping up this terrorist self-pity narrative
In 2005, Hezbollah killed the Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri by detonating 1000kg of TNT hidden in a delivery truck near a busy hotel. Remember that when you hear anyone complain about how unfair or unprecedented it is that Hezbollah operatives were targeted like this too.
@newrepublic
I'd love to see data on how many people will actually change their voting intention due to Liz Cheney's endorsement. Like, how many fans of unending forever wars are there?
@HazLFC97
In a democracy , we should leave people's children out of the political discussion. I say that as a critic of Tommy Robinson, as someone he's personally insulted on this website. If I want to defend democratic values and timeless principles of liberty, I cannot stoop to the level
@visegrad24
Meloni is doing the right thing here. A brilliant energy security policy that will power the Italian economy for decades to come. The rest of the countries in Europe should follow this lead!
@IlvesToomas
@PhillipsPOBrien
Western appeasement and naivety about Putin's Russia and Khameni's Iran is a much bigger threat to peace than any escalatory potential of aid to Ukraine. Only a defeat of their irredentist vision of geopolitics will restore peace & security in Europe.
@dsa_intl_comm
@Union_Comunera
Venezuelan opposition leaders who want an end to Marxist tyranny in their country are now "fascist"? Was the multi-party democracy that Hugo Chavez destroyed after he took power in 1998 "fascist" too? The communist dictatorship in Caracas is guilty of crimes against humanity,
@LBC
Those brave Labour MPs who stand up to Starmer should be proud if he removes the Whip. What do they have to lose? They can join the Tories or Reform and fight for a better Britain that works for everyone, not the Labour party's elitist London bubble. They'll be heroes.
@jeremykauffman
The ignorance here is spectacular. Actually one of the causes of the defeat of the French colonial army by black Haitian revolutionaries was that the French soldiers were incapable of producing food without the help of their former slaves,and thus starved. Source:R.Reilly, 1978
@CharlesLemming
@TRobinsonNewEra
And that's exactly why Jeremy Corbyn was not allowed to stand in the last election as a candidate for Keir Starmer's party, but had to stand as an independent, right?
@DrZRassoul
This is what happens when people vote for the left. The actions of Britain's leftwing government here amount to a civilisational surrender to Taliban banditry.
@ClaudiaWebbe
This is what happens when a soft-on-crime Labour government fails to send enough cops to stop these shameful riots. Water cannon and a squad of well-equipped riot police would end this racist orgy of arson and hate in no time...
@Keir_Starmer
Why don't you call your allies and not your enemies? Nothing the terrorist regime occupying Iran says is of any value or trustworthiness! Oh and Pezekhian isn't even an actual president, he's just a new hand-picked puppet for dictator Khameni...
@Bushra1Shaikh
Nope. Integration failures are obvious, but they aren't the fault of immigrants. The radical left has spent decades trying to destroy people's appreciation for their own heritage and culture, how can anyone expect new immigrants to show such appreciation when many locals don't?
@owenjonesjourno
Starmer is the worst PM since Neville Chamberlain. His support collapsed so fast because it was always a mile wide, an inch deep. A disgrace for Britain.