Left wing news, satire and comment. Based on the socialist principles of Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. 🏴🇵🇸🇮🇪
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We’ve decided that when Scotland gets its independence, we’re taking Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle with us 🏴
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Never forget!
October 7th.
Hamas flying around in their helicopter gunships firing on and incinerating the rave attendees in their cars as they tried to flee.
Oh wait. That was the Israel Defense Forces killing their own people under the Hannibal Directive.
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This is not the queue, stretching miles, to see Queen Elizabeth's coffin lying in state.
This is the queue for a charity food bank in the capital city of the world's fifth richest country.
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We’ve decided that when Scotland gets its independence, we’re taking Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle with us 🏴
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Eddie Mair rips Boris apart with questions about lying and integrity. Johnson turned up for interview not realising Andrew Marr was sick with Mair standing in. Mair, a working class boy from Dundee had no time for Johnson’s pomp, arrogance and entitlement.
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Still no news of Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey, kidnapped by Israeli genociders 3 days ago while taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla delivering aid to Gaza
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Israeli soldiers throw a disabled man out of his wheelchair as he went to the assistance of a teenage girl the Israelis had just shot and left to die at the side of the road. The soldiers then go berserk, shooting and throwing flash bombs.
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Imagine just how helpless and humiliated you'd feel to be a Palestinian father watching armed enemy Israeli soldiers abduct your children and take them off to god knows where to be beaten, tortured, sexually assaulted and detained for months or years?
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The moment an old Palestinian woman is evicted from her house by Jewish squatters. The house, which had been in her family for generations, was given to Jewish immigrants fresh off the plane from Eastern Europe, people with no connection to Palestine.
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We have 'Children In Need' because billionaires and international companies refuse to pay taxes.
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First words from Tadhg Hickey as he returns home to Ireland after being kidnapped and illegally detained by the occupying forces. We pray for the release of all Palestinian Men, Women and Children being illegally detained.
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This is the moment an old Palestinian woman is evicted from her house by Jewish squatters. The house, which had been in her family for generations, was given to Jewish immigrants fresh off the plane from Eastern Europe, people who had no connection to Palestine.
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RIP Donald Sutherland
'Hunger Games was an allegory for capitalism. War is about profit.'
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Don’t know about you... but when I’m sitting on a train travelling at 125mph, I’d like to think that it was being driven by a highly trained professional who earned enough money so he was eating properly and not stressing about how he was going to pay the mortgage next month 🤷♂️
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Whenever the media talk of MPs being attacked, they always ignore the attack on George Galloway MP by Jewish terrorist Neil Masterson, who in 2014 wore an IDF T-shirt while battering Galloway, hospitalising him. Media silence and Masterson received a sentence of just 16 months.
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You Mum waits 40 hours for an ambulance so BP don’t have to pay tax.
Your kids can’t afford University so Amazon don’t have to pay tax.
Your sister can’t get housing so Google don’t have to pay tax.
Your Gran’s on a 5 year hospital waiting list so Vodaphone don’t have to pay tax.
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One of these countries has nuclear weapons but won’t allow international inspectors to assess their nuclear programme. The other country is Iran.
The rogue state of Israel currently has an estimated 200 nuclear warheads but has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
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Muslim, Hindu and Sikh Spitfire pilots defended Britain from the Nazis. It’s their poppy too!
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Palestinian children travelling to school via an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. Soldiers deliberately hold the children at the checkpoint to make them late for classes. The kids become frustrated, then soldiers attack the children with tear gas and stun grenades.
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Every single Israeli Prime Minister, ever, has used a fake name.
Benjamin Netanyahu's real name is Benjamin Mileikowsky. He’s from Poland. He changed his name so you don't realise he’s a setter.
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Last December, while the Tories were partying into the early hours, the most dangerous man in Britain was wrapping presents for poor children at a local foodbank.
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British police, acting on behalf of Zionist spies, arrest an NHS surgeon for thought crimes against Israel.
That's how much the courts, police, media and politicians are under the control of the genocidal state in this country.
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Israeli drone taken out by... Khamas crows
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Liverpool pensioner Audrey White tears Keir Starmer apart as he's forced to sit in stunned silence and listen to some home truths.
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1979: UK was sitting on a revenue bonanza from North Sea Oil, had a National Debt of just £80bn and owned all it's utilities, transport, infrastructure & millions of social homes.
2024: UK has £2.8Tn national debt & virtually no assets.
Capitalism has destroyed our kids' future
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Your Mum waits 40hours for an ambulance so BP don’t have to pay tax.
Your kids can’t afford University so Amazon don’t have to pay tax.
Your sister can’t get housing so Google don’t have to pay tax.
Your Gran’s lost her Winter Fuel Payment so Vodaphone don’t have to pay tax.
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The moving speech of Harry Leslie Smith to the Labour Party Conference reminding people of what life was like before the NHS when working class people suffered and died in agony in their own homes for want of money to pay for treatment.
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Whenever the media talk of MPs being attacked, they always ignore the attack on George Galloway MP by Jewish terrorist Neil Masterson, who in 2014 wore an IDF T-shirt while battering Galloway, hospitalising him. Media silence and Masterson received a sentence of just 16 months.
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Yesterday Rishi Sunak said "I will give police the powers they need to crack down on protests"
This was the response from the people of Edinburgh today as they marched on the American Consulate.
Free Free Palestine🇵🇸🏴
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This is Simon Antrobus, CEO of ‘Children In Need.’
...but before he helps any kids, he wants a £135,000 per year salary plus expenses and the rest of his staff want £6.5 Million per year of your money.
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People struggling on the state pension, which is the worst in the developed world, get nothing from Tory chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his budget today.
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More shocking footage showing a supporter of the Cottesmore Hunt driving into a Hertfordshire fox hunt saboteur at high speed with their car on Tuesday.
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If you held a ‘Children in Need’ telethon every week for a year and raised £70 Million every week, it would not make up for the £4 Billion in inheritance tax avoided by Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster.
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We have 'Children In Need' because billionaires and international companies refuse to pay taxes.
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Massive demonstrations against Israeli genocide the length and breadth of Britain, including hundreds of thousands at Trafalgar Square London.
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Your Mum waits 40hours for an ambulance so BP don’t have to pay tax.
Your kids can’t afford University so Amazon don’t have to pay tax.
Your sister can’t get housing so Google don’t have to pay tax.
Your Gran lost her Winter Fuel Payment so Vodaphone don’t have to pay tax.
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We have 'Children In Need' because billionaires and international companies refuse to pay taxes.
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Former MI5 agent Annie Machon explains how Israeli intelligence service Mossad bombed their own embassy in London in 1994 and stitched up two prominent Palestinian activists to take the rap.
Samar Alami and Jawad Botmeh received 20yr sentences for a crime they didn't commit.
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🚨BREAKING: Israel’s Eurovision entrant was booed off the stage at a dress rehearsal in Malmö, Sweden. The Eurovision 2024 organiser, EBU, has come under intense criticism for allowing Israel to take part amid genocide and mass atrocities in Gaza.
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Jim Henderson, the Walter Mitty poppy seller who falsely claimed to have been attacked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Waverley Station Edinburgh... seen here wearing the red beret of the Parachute Regiment.
Never been a Para in his life. Maybe slept with one.
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Short version of what happened in Parliament today was that Starmer plotted with Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to prevent a vote on an SNP motion calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza, thus sparing the shame of Israeli cash-receiving Labour MPs who would have voted against a ceasefire.
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Something you won't see on the BBC:
Israelis are trying to pass a law legalising the death penalty for Palestinian POWs held in their prisons.
They really have become the Nazis.
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On 22nd September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, Wales, an explosion killed 266 men & boys underground. 6 survived and only 11 bodies were ever recovered. The wages of all were docked by half a days pay by the owners because the men had 'failed to complete their shift.'
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UEFA fined Celtic 10,000 euros when their fans flew Palestinian flags in protest when playing against an Israeli team. The fans got together to raise the fine for the club and they collected £130,000 more than was needed. This was sent to Palestinian charities.
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If you held a ‘Children in Need’ telethon every week for a year and raised £70 Million every week, it would not make up for the £4 Billion in inheritance tax avoided by Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster.
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This is what Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein said about the fabricated Labour antisemitism claims in 2019, describing how the entire UK establishment joined in with antisemitism claims levelled against Corbyn and the Labour Party by the UK Israeli Lobby
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You Mum waits 40 hours for an ambulance so BP don’t have to pay tax.
Your kids can’t afford University so Amazon don’t have to pay tax.
Your sister can’t get housing so Google don’t have to pay tax.
Your Gran’s on a 5 year hospital waiting list so Vodaphone don’t have to pay tax.
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This is Simon Antrobus, CEO of ‘Children In Need.’
...but before he helps any kids, he wants a £135,000 per year salary plus expenses and the rest of his staff want £6.5 Million per year of your money.
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If you weren’t aware that the UK government are pushing through 10 year prison sentences for ‘Creating a public nuisance’ at demonstrations or 14 year prison sentences for journalists who ‘embarrass the government’ then maybe your favourite media outlet isn’t doing its job.
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Muslim, Hindu and Sikh Spitfire pilots defended Britain from the Nazis. It’s their poppy too!
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I’ve doubled your fuel bills, wrecked the economy, killed 160,000 people with covid, wrecked British industry with Tory-Brexit, pumped shit into the rivers and we’ve used the pandemic to swindle hundreds of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money... but look at the pretty flags 🇬🇧
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Keir Starmer is being hounded wherever he goes. As he leaves Chatham House in London, the crowd is screaming 'murderer' and 'coward' as he makes good his escape in a waiting car.
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We have 'Children In Need' because billionaires and international companies refuse to pay taxes.
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Petition: 'Expel the Israeli Ambassador from the United Kingdom'
change.org/p/expel-the-israe…
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Netanyahu, believing he is off-camera, explains how he manipulates and fools the United States, Europe and the international community into believing he will abide by agreements... while all the while he concedes nothing and builds more illegal settlements on Palestinain land.
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'The Police' are trending...
Stevenage police taser old man then kick him in the back smashing head into ground... for nicking a £1 tin of beer.
The police later issued a statement saying their officers had acted using 'proportionate force.'
Proportionate force? I don't think so.
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Paul Weller sums up Keir Starmer:
"He'd be well served to remember who built the Labour Party. I don't see too much between him and Sunak. They're all the same to me."
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'It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.'
Mark Twain
Tommy Robinson is a Zionist Asset.
He works in the interests of Israel.
Not England.
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1979: UK was sitting on a revenue bonanza from North Sea Oil, had a National Debt of just £80bn and owned all it's utilities, transport, infrastructure & millions of social homes.
2022: UK has £2.5Tn national debt & virtually no assets.
Capitalism has destroyed our kids' future
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Pope Francis on Israel's assault on Gaza: "This is not war. This is terrorism."
The Assembly of Italian Rabbis have since criticized the Pope and "problematic statements" by the members of the Roman Catholic Church.
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