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Supine prime minister is so weak she’ll stick with hate-tweeter Trump

Theresa May passed her comments at the Jordan Museum in Amman, Jordan. She was standing up, but may as well have been lying on the floor begging for Donald Trump to walk all over her [Image: Joe Giddens/PA].

Did you ever think you’d see the day a UK Prime Minister would admit the American President can insult us to his heart’s content, and we’ll still support him blindly?

That is what Theresa May did in her press conference today. It was sickening.

Asked what she thinks about President Trump spreading hate speech on Twitter, and what she would do about it, Mrs May spoke at length about Britain First – despite not having been asked for her opinion of that organisation. We know it is “hateful”.

Eventually she came to the point, saying she works together with the US, she is not afraid to say when they have got something wrong, and retweeting Britain First was wrong.

Brilliant! So what was she going to do about it? Nothing.

Asked if it is acceptable that Trump tweeted that Mrs May should stay out of his business, she evaded, saying she wants the UK-US relationship to continue because it is “good for the world”.

It’s not proving very good for the UK, though, is it?

She admitted that Trump’s state visit would still go ahead; the invitation has been extended and accepted.

There was more evasion when she was asked if she would sack a minister who retweeted a far-right group’s propaganda – she said she had “absolute confidence ” that none of her ministers would do that. Even Boris Johnson?

She wouldn’t say how she felt when she saw Trump’s retweets. She said: “Just to be clear, I’m not a prolific tweeter myself, as you may have seen, and that means I don’t spend all my time looking at other people’s tweets. But when I feel that there should be a response, I give it. And I have given it to President Trump’s tweets.”

Has she even seen the offending messages? Her responses suggest not.

And what she did say was so diffident, she might as well have lain supine on the floor and begged Mr Trump to come and walk all over her.

Look at her comments about the UK’s relationship with the United States:

“It’s an enduring relationship that is there because it is in both our national interests for that relationship to be there. And as prime minister I’m clear that-that-that relationship with the United States to continue. I think it is in the interests, both of the United Kingdom and of the United States and of the wider world.”

Waffle.

Trump can be as racist as he likes. He can spout know-nothing nonsense about UK affairs all he likes.

The UK government will do nothing about it because our prime minister is so weak, she might as well be his kitten.

A kitten that has been thoroughly de-fanged and de-clawed, of course.

She is utterly unfit to govern the United Kingdom and should be packed off to the states to be Trump’s serving-maid – if he can be bothered with her.


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Fake news hack slapped down over ‘Momentum v Moderates’ lie

The perpetrator: Apparently this person claims to be a journalist of some kind, but seems to have forgotten the requirement of fairness and accuracy.

The charitable response would be to say that this person is confused:

History shows that the so-called Labour Moderates (in fact, the hard-right of the party, many of whom are hard to distinguish from Conservatives in their attitudes) were the aggressors when the party’s left-wingers began to regain the ascendancy.

When Jeremy Corbyn won the party leadership, and Momentum sprang up as a members’ organisation advocating his policies, the “Moderates” did their utmost best to undermine both him and them, culminating in the failed “chicken coup” of 2016 which resulted in an increased mandate for Mr Corbyn.

Left-wingers have been attacked and undermined at constituency level as well, with false accusations resulting in lengthy suspensions for innocent party members. Perhaps the most well-known happened in Wallasey, where MP Angela Eagle blamed left-wing members for putting a brick through her office window – but no brick was found and the window that was broken in fact opened onto a staircase.

Read the responses to the tweet above and you’ll see that many people seem to have swallowed the false claim unquestioningly.

Others prefer accuracy:

And some fight lies with sarcasm:

https://twitter.com/hourlyterrier/status/935902999037272064

This Writer understands that the hack who tweeted the lie has a job with a national publication that claims (somewhat tenuously) to be a newspaper.

He seems to have forgotten the main requirement of journalism – that articles must be fair and accurate.

I would recommend that anyone reading an article with this person’s name on it bear in mind that his reputation for accuracy may not be what it should be!


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What if Donald Trump had retweeted messages targeting people with disabilities instead of Muslims?

While Tories are up in arms about anti-Muslim retweets by Donald Trump, let’s remember that they wouldn’t care less if he had targeted disabled people [Image: www.disabledgo.com]

Amidst the furore over US President Donald Trump retweeting messages attacking Muslims, by far-right extremists Britain First, the following tweet struck a chord with This Writer:

It does.

One of the most hateful lies used by the Tories to divide communities was the narrative they peddled that people with disabilities were “scroungers” and “skivers”, and that they were “sponging” off the state when they should be at work.

The effect of that lie has been appalling, with recorded hate crime against disabled people increasing hugely over the last few years.

And the number of sick and disabled benefit claimants who have died while the Department for Work and Pensions played silly games with their applications and found flimsy excuses to deny them the support they were owed is mostly unrecorded – because the government never bothers to check what happens to people it cuts off.

Even people whose disabilities are acknowledged by the Tories are more than £2,000 worse off than they were before the Tories took office in 2010 – due to punitive cuts in the amount of benefit they receive.

I mention this because Labour’s Debbie Abrahams has called for the Tories to reconsider their determination to continue applying an austerity to the disabled that they seem to forget when considering support for people like – say – bankers.

She said: “The Tories’ cuts to social security support are pushing more and more disabled people into poverty. Last week’s Budget failed to do anything for disabled people even though the recent Equality and Human Rights Commission report showed a disabled adult is over £2,000 a year worse off since 2010. Even the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities condemned this Government for causing a ‘human catastrophe’ in their failure to uphold the rights of disabled people.

“This ‘plan’ from the Government looks like nothing more than a guise for more cuts. The Tories have already hit disabled people who are not fit for work but who may be in the future in the Work Related Activity Group. I hope they are not going to now target the most disabled people in the support group, as their Green Paper hinted at.

“At the 2015 General Election, the Tories promised to halve the disability employment gap. Since then they have dropped this commitment.

“If this Government really cared about disabled people they would end austerity now which is disproportionately impacting upon disabled people and reform and extend Access to Work for those disabled people who are able to work.“

The statement will gain no support at all from the Tories.

But what if Ms Abrahams – or the appropriate shadow minister, who would be Dawn Butler – had been calling for an easing of policies that unfairly target Muslims?


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While Theresa dithers, Trump attacks – fuelling ‘Britain First’ row between UK and US

“Just a reminder of the liklihood of a robust response from our Foreign Secretary to the incontinent tantrum of the President of the United States,” according to cartoonist Martin Rowson.

Weakling UK prime minister Theresa May has still not responded to US President Donald Trump’s decision to retweet hate messages by far-right organisation Britain First.

So Mr Trump has attacked comments by a Downing Street spokesperson who said simply that it was “wrong” to have retweeted the misleading, extremist messages.

The message from Downing Street was: “British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values that this country represents – decency, tolerance and respect.”

Here’s Mr Trump’s response:

This is a clear endorsement of the hate message put forward in the Britain First tweets.

Mr Trump is urging Mrs May to consider all Muslims in the UK to be potential terrorists and to launch a racist policy against them.

This is utterly unacceptable from a foreign leader. He is trying to divide members of the UK community from the rest of us and accusing them of conspiring against the majority in a way that simply isn’t true, except in a tiny minority of cases. He knows next to nothing about the situation – clearly, as he is getting his information from far-right propaganda-peddlers.

And he is trying hard to make it worse. One has to question his motives, attempting to destabilise the UK at a time when this country’s domestic political situation is already highly-charged.

But still Theresa May remains silent, leaving it to her Downing Street spokespeople – and the public – to comment.

Note that the tweet above is also a retweet – originally Mr Trump sent the message to the wrong Theresa May (from which we may draw our own conclusions about his state of mind):

Mrs May’s deputies, in Parliament, have done their best to cover for her, with Home Secretary Amber Rudd trying to answer an Urgent Question in the Commons – answering the kind of criticism no US president has ever received from Parliament in the past:

Ms Rudd said the Government will not tolerate any groups that spread hate by demonising other faiths or ethnicities – but refused to condemn the US President, saying the UK-US relationship is “vital” and MPs needed to focus on the “bigger picture”.

She would not accept calls to cancel the invitation for Mr Trump to make a state visit to the UK.

But – shockingly – she could not answer a simple question: Whether the UK government had asked for Mr Trump to take the offending tweets down.

As part of the debate, Labour MP Khalid Mahmood made a very useful point, asking the Home Secretary if a Muslim would still be welcome in Britain if they had shared similarly inflammatory material to that posted by the US President.

Depressingly, Mr Trump’s retweets have revived the fortunes of Britain First, the far-right group that originally posted the messages. Deputy leader Jayda Fransen has been interviewed on both the BBC and Channel 4, providing a huge and harmful public platform for the minority organisation’s extremist views.

https://twitter.com/liamyoung/status/935936527867236352

https://twitter.com/MattTurner4L/status/935899310276988930

https://twitter.com/KamBass/status/935917093169582085

Meanwhile the condemnation continues to rack up. Here’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who was criticised by Mr Trump over his response to terror attacks in the UK’s capital city:

Bankers’ bonus cap could be scrapped after Brexit

Mark Carney speaking at the Bank of England. The governor said it was important to take a tough regulatory stance on the banking sector [Image: Andy Rain/EPA].

Is this the reason certain people in the financial sector are so keen on Brexit?

Bankers caused the crash and subsequent Great Recession, around a decade ago, but Tories tried to blame it on the Labour Party in an attempt to divert attention away from the huge bonuses that were still being paid out.

It wasn’t until 2014 that a cap was introduced on bankers’ bonuses. Now, it seems, that cap could be removed with our departure from the EU, making it possible for bankers to fleece the rest of us, all over again.

Why are these people so greedy? Isn’t twice (or even three times) an already-enormous salary enough?

The governor of the Bank of England has raised the prospect that, after Brexit, the EU rule which puts a cap on bankers’ bonuses could be scrapped.

Mark Carney, a long-standing critic of the bonus rules, listed the cap as among the tweaks that could be made to financial regulations when the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.

The bonus cap was introduced in January 2014 and was a reaction to the financial crisis when bankers received multi-million payouts despite huge losses. The cap limits payouts to 100% of salary or 200% with explicit approval from shareholders.

Source: EU rule capping bankers’ bonuses ‘could be scrapped after Brexit’ | Business | The Guardian


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Brexit has lost UK economy £300m per week since EU referendum result, analysis finds | The Independent

The Leave campaign infamously claimed Brexit would result in a £350m a week dividend for the UK. That claim was a lie.

Yesterday we were told – by the BBC’s Daily Politics – that the UK’s net contribution to the EU was most recently £181 million per week. So the cost of the decision to leave the EU – not the actual departure itself – is nearly twice as much.

And those of us who still – still – support the lying Leave campaign want the rest of us to shut up and accept their ever-more-ridiculous claim that Brexit is a good idea?

This looks like a reality check, to me. If Brexit is already costing us nearly twice as much as EU membership – and let’s not forget the 50-60 million Euros in the divorce bill has yet to even begin being paid – then there’s a lot more harm to come.

Let’s kick it into touch while we still can.

The Brexit vote has already inflicted a hit of almost £20bn on the UK economy – or around £300m for each week since the June 2016 referendum, according to a new analysis.

A team of four economists affiliated to the respected Centre for Economic Policy Research estimated what the likely path of the UK economy would have been if the referendum result had gone the other way.

The difference between this UK “doppelganger” counterfactual, and the actual path of UK GDP by the third quarter of 2017, is 1.3 per cent of GDP, or around £20bn.

Dividing this £20bn figure by the 66 weeks since the Brexit vote gives the figure of around £300m.

Source: Brexit has lost UK economy £300m per week since EU referendum result, analysis finds | The Independent


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Trump’s support for Britain First sparks passionate reaction – with notable exceptions (THERESA MAY)

Theresa May has been desperate to build a close relationship with US President Donald Trump. His decision to show support for a UK-based hate group has put her in an extremely difficult position. She doesn’t want to comment – so we must demand it.

Donald Trump’s retweeting of hate messages by the far-right organisation Britain First has triggered a strong response from all sides of the UK’s political spectrum. But minority prime minister Theresa May has yet to offer any comment. Why?

Mr Trump retweeted messages by Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, including one that purportedly showed violence by a Muslim – but actually didn’t. Ms Fransen then appeared to admit that her tweets were hate messages:

It should be remembered that murderer Thomas Mair named Britain First when he killed Jo Cox.

Her husband Brendan made his feelings about Mr Trump’s actions clear:

He followed this message with a tweet thanking Americans who had contacted him to say Trump did not represent the rules and values of their country – and he is quite right to give recognition to that.

Mr Cox has also written an opinion piece in The Guardian:

And he has appeared on TV, calling for Mr Trump’s planned visit to the UK to be cancelled:

Prominent figures from all sides of British politics have come together to condemn Mr Trump’s actions. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn led the charge of condemnation:

Tory Nadhim Zahawi has written to Mr Trump, expressing his own outrage, as follows:

He wrote: “The videos you have chosen to distribute to your 43.6 million Twitter followers seek to conflate all Muslims into one skewed and twisted stereotype in the hope of inciting religious hatred toward the Islamic community. Whether the videos are valid or not, the individuals within them do not represent the overwhelming majority of those who adhere to the many forms of the Islamic faith.”

He continued: “I fear that your actions today have put in jeopardy some of the hard work done by our state bodies, making it easier for terrorist groups to portray our countries as their enemies and stoking the flames of radicalisation further.”

And he wrote: “I… urge you to delete the retweets and do all you can in future to resist courses of action that play into the hands of those who seek to destroy us and our way of life.”

Some of our politicians have been less forthcoming with their vilification.

Here’s our pitiful excuse for a Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson. His tweet is followed by one from the Artist Taxi Driver, Mark McGowan, offering a possible reason for Mr Johnson’s reluctance to condemn Mr Trump:

And what of our absentee prime minister, Theresa May?

She is currently on a junket around some Middle East countries that are predominantly – if not entirely – Muslim. But she could not bring herself to say anything against Mr Trump’s behaviour.

Nor has she responded to calls for his invitation to visit the UK to be rescinded, in the light of this clearly unacceptable behaviour:

Perhaps Mrs May thinks that Mr Trump’s clear admiration for a hate group responsible for inciting people into acts of violence against their fellow UK citizens is none of our business.

Perhaps she thinks if she stays quiet about the issue, it will go away.

Perhaps we should make sure she is mistaken. Agreed?


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If a picture paints a thousand words, what can we say about this?

This photo was taken here in the United Kingdom – the sixth highest-performing economy in the world.

Economic inequality is ruining the UK.

And it is fuelled by people who vote selfishly, thinking that if they support the Tories, they’ll get something out of it.

What they get is screwed – and so do the rest of us.

It’s time for a change. Let’s give a chance to social policies that are not only claimed to be for the benefit of everyone, but actually work.


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Britain to be kicked out of Europol against its will | The Independent

Europol gives the UK access to shared criminal databases [Image: Getty].

The Brexit bill keeps adding up, doesn’t it?

The loss of shared criminal databases could do the UK a lot of harm, especially at a time when the threat of terrorist attack is never far away.

But that’s the price that around a quarter of the population voted to pay. Okay, around a third of those who were qualified to vote at the time. And a large number of those would make a different decision given the chance today, we’re told.

But we’re doing it anyway!

How ridiculous. The UK is the laughing-stock of the world.

Britain will no longer be a member of the European police agency Europol after it leaves the European Union, the European Commission’s chief negotiator has said.

Speaking at a security conference in Berlin Michel Barnier accused the UK [of] abandoning the defence of Europe at a time when it should be standing “shoulder to shoulder” with its neighbours in the EU.

The UK government said as recently as September that it wants to remain inside Europol and retain other EU security benefits such as the European Arrest Warrant and shared criminal databases.

Source: Brexit: Britain to be kicked out of Europol against its will | The Independent


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Female staff forced to give sexual favours for promotions at scandal-hit ambulance trust | Telegraph

The Tory MP sex scandal seems to have gone quiet – apart from Damian Green, of course – but it’s important to remember that sexual harassment isn’t confined to Westminster.

I would certainly hope that nobody actually thought that in any case but this story from the Telegraph appeared in This Site’s Facebook messages and seems worth a mention.

Female staff were groped and forced to give sexual favours for promotions at a scandal hit ambulance trust, a damning report has revealed.

Women at South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Secamb) told investigators that ‘sexual predators’ within the organisation ‘groomed’ young workers while managers propositioned staff for sex.

The independent study, which is the largest ever undertaken into workplace ill-treatment, was commissioned following complaints in a staff survey last year, and overseen by Professor Duncan Lewis, of Plymouth University, a leading researcher into bullying and discrimination.

In a highly critical report published today, researchers said they were ‘shocked’ by levels of bullying and sexual harassment within the trust, which is also failing to meet targets for emergency calls. The authors found that ‘employees were living in daily fear.’

Investigators were told that ‘covert and overt’ sexualised behaviour was embedded in parts of the management structure.

Source: Female staff groped and forced to give sexual favours for promotions at scandal hit ambulance trust


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