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Why do you think David Cameron lied over legal concerns about arms sales to Israel?

David Cameron: he has talked himself into a corner over arms sales to Israel. Would it have been better for him to have a rule that, if such a transaction could in any way possibly break International Humanitarian Law, it should not be approved?

The UK’s Foreign Secretary, David (Lord!) Cameron, seems to be trying to confuse us about his decision to allow arms sales to Israel after the Foreign Office raised concerns about the legality of the transations.

According to a government document filed in the High Court, defending against a challenge by legal and human rights groups that are trying to stop the UK selling arms to Israel for use in Gaza, said the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office unit that assessed Israel’s commitment and capability to comply with international humanitarian law (IHL) raised concerns to Cameron in multiple reports between November 10 and December 8 about Israel’s compliance with the law.

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The unit appeared satisfied on some counts, such as Israeli officials’ insistence that the Israeli military had incorporated Internation Humanitarian Law “into all aspects of military operations”.

But other points, including a lack of Israeli response about “the reasons for restricting the quantity of supplies of food, water, and medical supplies”, raised concerns.

The unit said it was possible that this was due to disagreement about what the law requires, rather than an intentional disregard of the law.

Cameron, on the other hand, told the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee that he could not “recall every bit of paper” put in front of him and it was not his job to make a “legal adjudication” when asked if government lawyers had advised him that Israel had breached the law.

But the document shows that the final decision of whether Israel was committed to complying with the law was left to Cameron.

So the decision on whether to sell Israel these arms, for use in a conflict that potentially breached International Humanitarian Law, was left to Cameron – and he went ahead with the sale.

Here’s a thought:

Wouldn’t it be better to have a rule that, if there is any doubt about the legality of such a transaction, it should be automatically disallowed – on a “better safe than sorry” basis?

Source: War on Gaza: UK’s Cameron okayed arms sales to Israel despite Foreign Office legal concerns | Middle East Eye


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If the UK’s foreign secretary thinks Israel is committing war crimes, he should say so

David Cameron: what did you just say?

David Cameron always was full of flannel and he’s no different now.

Look at this, from the Torygraph:

Israel may have broken international law in Gaza, Lord Cameron has said, as he called for a humanitarian pause covering the enclave.

The Foreign Secretary said he had seen things regarding the conflict that have been “deeply concerning” and called on Israel to restore water supply to Gaza.

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“Am I worried that Israel has taken action that might be in breach of international law, because this particular premises has been bombed, or whatever? Yes, of course,” Lord Cameron said as he took questions from parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

However, the former Prime Minister declined to say whether he had seen any Foreign Office legal advice stating that Israel has breached international humanitarian law in Gaza.

“Declined to say”? He backed away from it as though it was radioactive!

Now look at this:

You might also want to consider this:

It is clear that the UK government knows Israel is indeed committing genocide in Gaza.

Sadly, nobody there wants to admit it.

Spineless? You tell me.


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Cameron bans Israeli ‘extremist settlers’ from entering UK – but there’s a catch

Facepalm: will this be the look on David Cameron’s face when he realises the apparent hypocrisy of his decision?

This seems welcome…

… until you read this:

It’s true that Cameron was an honorary patron of the JNF until November 20 (apparently). He had been a patron previously, but resigned in May 2011, when he was UK prime minister.

The Guardian article reporting that resignation said of the JNF that

Critics say it expropriated land belonging to Palestinians and has obliterated pre-1948 Arab villages by planting forests and parks.

So there certainly seems to be ambiguity surrounding Cameron’s position.

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Meanwhile, settler violence continues to be recorded on the social media:

The video evidence goes on and on. It seems inexhaustible.


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Braverman out – CAMERON in, but is either decision for the right reason?

David Cameron: his statement, on being made Foreign Secretary, was all about himself, we’re told. Did he mention the multiple controversies of his prime ministerial career? Doubtful.

Suella Braverman has been sacked as Home Secretary after a weekend in which far-right thugs attacked police to seize the cenotaph on Armistice Day – but that’s not the reason she went.

Apparently, Rishi Sunak has binned her because she wrote an article criticising the police for alleged pro-left-wing bias.

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This Writer can only agree with, and echo, the Skwawkbox‘s opinion on the subject:

She has not been sacked for demonising refugees, wanting to deport innocent people to Rwanda or smearing millions as antisemites and hate-mongers for wanting an end to Israel’s slaughter of innocent children in Gaza and the bombing of hospitals and schools.

Trouble is, Parliament is teeming with people, on the so-called ‘opposition’ benches as well as the Tory ones, who are scarcely less toxic and eager to demonise the innocent for the sake of the status quo, not to mention impoverish millions – including more than four million UK children – in this country to please the obscenely rich or politically sociopathic.

If we could just sack another five hundred or so of those blue and red Tories, we might get a first foot on the road to returning to being a decent country.

Braverman has been replaced as Home Secretary by James Cleverly, meaning rabid racism has been replaced by ignorance and incompetence.

This created a space in the Foreign Office, so Sunak brought in David Cameron, of all people.

Cameron isn’t even a member of Parliament. He quit in 2016, after Brexiteers engineered a narrow decision to leave the European Union in the referendum on the subject that year.

In order to make him Foreign Secretary, Sunak is making Cameron a life peer and giving him a seat in the House of Lords.

The decision makes it clear that, even though the Conservatives still have an enormous majority of seats in the House of Commons, there isn’t an ounce of political talent there.

Source: Cruella sacked – a few hundred more blue and red Tories gone and we might be on the road to a decent country – SKWAWKBOX


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Dental care in the UK is awful because governments made it that way

It’s amazing how some writers spin out an article when all we really need is a quick run-down of the facts.

We all know dentistry in the UK is in crisis. Many of us can’t get in to a dentist for a check-up and the reason is simple: there aren’t enough dentists in the UK.

Why aren’t there enough? Two reasons, according to Novara Media‘s article:

The real reason for this understaffing… was austerity: the government has slashed funding for NHS dental services by 8% in real terms since 2010. In 2013, David Cameron placed a hard cap on the number of trainee dental places his government would fund (the cap was lifted briefly in 2020-21, but was reimposed in 2022 and remains in place despite the current crisis).

Perhaps the most significant government contribution to the current crisis in British dentistry dates back to 2006, when Tony Blair introduced a new contract between the NHS and its dentists. Prior to that point, dentists were paid for each piece of work they did. As a result of the 2006 reform, dentists are now paid for a certain number of “units of dental activity”, with little distinction made between complex operations and simple treatments. If they don’t complete nearly all of this work (96%), dentists have to pay back some of their fee. But this is complicated by the fact that the total amount of work they can do is itself capped, meaning that if they do too much work, they have to turn patients away. The result is that many NHS dentists find themselves unable to make a decent living due to the low pay involved in dentistry (45% reported a decline in NHS pay since 2020), not to mention chronically overworked: 87% have felt symptoms of stress and anxiety in the past year.

So politicians created this crisis with a stupid contract and with funding cuts.

The answer is clear: change the contract to re-incentivise dentists, and restore funding levels.

Any government failing to do that is creating its own toothache (sorry).

Source: How Did British Dental Care Get So Awful? | Novara Media


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Yes, the NHS has PFI debts – but put the blame where it’s due… on the TORIES

Okay, the image is a little out of date, but the message is clear: The blame for the crisis in the NHS lies squarely with the Conservative governments – of Theresa May, certainly, but also of John Major, David Cameron, and now of Boris Johnson.

The legacy of the harm done to the National Health Service by the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major has been brought into sharp focus by a new think tank report.

The IPPR think tank has published research showing that NHS trusts will have to pay out £55 billion to Private Finance Initiative (PFI) investors by 2050, having already paid £25 billion.

PFI was used extensively by the New Labour government of Tony Blair to bring desperately-needed investment into the NHS after the Tories bled the service dry.

Hospitals were found to be in severe disrepair and treatments badly underfunded when the Blair administration came into office in 1997, and PFI was considered the only option to restore the service to full functionality.

In total, £13 billion was invested in the NHS during the New Labour years. This will cost the service an eye-watering £80 billion by the time the contracts end in 2050.

It might have been possible to pay these off without difficulty, if Labour had stayed in power. But, as we know, that did not happen.

The Conservatives slithered back into office in 2010, supported by their nasty little yellow helpers, the Liberal Democrats, and NHS funding began to fall at once.

The introduction of private, profit-making companies into the publicly-funded health provider meant billions of pounds were siphoned off into the bank accounts of shareholders, rather than being used to treat patients.

And a huge amount of money has been used in litigation after certain private companies took to the courts to contest failures to gain contracts.

So, while the Tories have been able to claim that investment has increased, real-terms funding for the health service has fallen.

It is in this context that we see health trusts have been burdened with an obligation to use around one-sixth of their annual budgets paying off PFI debts.

It would be easy to blame New Labour for the fact that NHS trusts have been falling into debt. It would also be wrong.

New Labour did what it had to, in order to ensure continuity of care – and to keep healthcare up to date.

It was the Conservatives who forced New Labour into PFI by starving the NHS to the bone, and it is the Conservatives who are forcing the NHS into debt – once again by starving it of funds.

This is evidenced by the fact that the Department of Health has raided £4.1 billion from the NHS’s capital funding budget – which should repair the service’s buildings, build new facilities and buy new equipment – simply to pay day-to-day running costs.

Make no mistake – PFI was a bad idea when John Major introduced it to government budgeting strategies, and Tony Blair should never have been put in a position where it was the most acceptable choice to fund the NHS.

But if we’re going to blame anyone for the current situation, blame the Conservatives – because they deserve it.

Source: NHS hospital trusts to pay out further £55bn under PFI scheme | Politics | The Guardian

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Guilty conscience: Cameron moved a Hitler biography off his shelf for photograph

A photo taken to help David Cameron publicise his new memoir turned out to be more revealing than he may have wanted.

Eagle-eyed readers of a feature in The Times on Saturday (September 14), noticed an item was missing from his packed bookshelf.

A biography of Adolf Hitler by Ian Kershaw was missing.

It’s true. Take a closer look at the images. Now you see it, in another picture featuring wife Samantha Cameron and her sister Emily Sheffield…

… now you don’t, in the new image featuring Mr Cameron:

It should be borne in mind that there is no reason Mr Cameron should be ashamed of having a biography of Adolf Hitler on his shelves; indeed, some may argue that it is important to understand Nazi Germany in order to avoid repeating the events that led to its establishment. I do wonder whether the trolls who scream “anti-Semitism!” on Twitter at any opportunity would feel the same way if they saw it on my own shelves, though – this is a situation in which there seems to be one rule for some and a different rule for others.

And that’s strange, considering the kind of politician likely to lean towards Nazism – as evidenced by the quickness of readers to make suggestions as to the book’s whereabouts. This was the favourite:

And the commentators were keen to comment on another book, too:

Possibly. More likely, he’ll have to share it with Theresa May and the afore-mentioned Boris Johnson.

Source: David Cameron: People are talking about the former prime minister’s book shelves | indy100

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New biography of former prime minister is on the way: ‘Comedy Dave!’*

At long last, the autobiography of former prime minister David C.A. Moron is due to be released in September – to a fawning press pack and an incredulous public.

For the Record was written in a shack at the bottom of his Cornwall garden, presumably because Mrs C.A. Moron refused to let him use that kind of language in the house.

Now, we’re told, he has swapped the shack for an £8,000 hot tub – just in time for summer. Let’s hope it rains on him every day. Not on anybody else – just him.

Well, far be it from This Writer to miss an opportunity to cash in.

My own account of Mr C.A. Moron’s life – or at least the part when he was running the UK into the ground – will be released in August.

It will feature the full, unexpurgated, unwholesome truth about one of the most ignominious periods in UK history (apart from all the other ones).

Every word will be fully factually-accurate – except for the parts I put in for a giggle.

It will be fully unauthorised – you don’t think I’m letting a politician anywhere near dynamite like this, do you?

To whet your appetite, here’s just the first sentence of my opus – which I guarantee contains more accuracy than the whole of Mr C.A. Moron’s work of fiction contractual obligation labour of love.

Here it is:

“Few people remember that David C.A. Moron is a distant relative of Queen Elzbells herself. Her Majesty herself is extremely modest about it, deflecting inquiries with a quiet demurral or a threat of assassination. That’s depending on the prominence of the person in question.”

And the rest is even better!

Make a date in your diary: Comedy Dave, by Mike Sivier. Coming in August from Vox Political press, priced £29.99 (paperback) or £29.98 (eBook) (prices may vary depending on how greedy I feel).

*Note for those who need it: This article is satirical. Any resemblance between fictional characters mentioned in it and genuine individuals is intended to be humorous and is not to be taken seriously. To anybody who does: What’s the matter? Can’t you recognise a joke?

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David Cameron is ‘distraught’ over Brexit. Good thing he’s got the cash to ‘chillax’, isn’t it?

The heart bleeds, doesn’t it?

According to several news sources, former comedy prime minister David Cameron is “distraught” about Brexit.

Former advisor Gabby – now Baroness – Bertin was quoted as saying: “He’s not depressed or anything, but he cares deeply about this country. It’s a wrong perception that he is having a great time and washed his hands of it.”

Oh, really? Some of us couldn’t help pointing out that he’s certainly having a much better time than the rest of us, with all the wealth he accumulated during his time as an MP. Some of us can’t afford to splash out 25 grand on a shed in which to write our memoirs, you know!

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And of course Mr Cameron has the means to distract himself with life’s more expensive comforts.

He’s just bought an £8,000 hot tub for his luxury Cornish home – and not one from B&Q, either!

According to the Mirror, “The ex-PM chose a wood-fired, freshwater version that claims to be “authentic” and eco-friendly.

“A blurb describing the hot tub, which reads like a rejected script for an M&S food ad, reads it is for people who “believe the objects in your life must have a soul and a higher purpose”.”

Even if it did have a soul, I don’t think that would make up for Mr Cameron’s lack of one.

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If you haven’t signed the ‘Revoke Article 50’ petition yet, this teenager will give you good reason to

Eloquent: ‘Amelia’, 16, charmed the Question Time audience with her perfectly-judged summary of everything that is wrong with Brexit.

More than 1.6 million people have seen 16-year-old Amelia’s eloquent verbal assassination of the EU referendum and the reasons leading up to it – so I may be preaching to the converted here.

But her words were so well-chosen that they demand a hearing here:

I don’t mind admitting that I’ve been speaking and writing publicly for decades and I’m in awe of this young lady’s way with words.

She was arguing for a general election – and some might say this is because she is a member of Labour’s youth wing – but this may be a forlorn hope.

I think a better option for now is signing the petition calling for Article 50 to be revoked, halting the UK’s departure from the EU – at least for the time being.

If it attracts more signatures than the number of people who voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum, then prime minister Theresa May will be in a very tricky position indeed.

She has refused to accept that the petition should have any weight – but ignoring a document signed by one-third of the country would itself be a negation of democracy and would almost certainly trigger a constitutional crisis that would, at the very least, eject her from Downing Street.

At best, it would lead to both the revocation of Article 50 and the general election that Amelia demanded.

The petition currently stands at 4.1 million signatures. It may run until August 20 but, at the rate names are being added, will certainly top the number of ‘Leave’ votes in the referendum before the revised date of Brexit, if Mrs May’s deal is rejected again by Parliament next week.


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