He has promised to give Ukraine long-range air defence weapons, along with jet fighter planes, to allow that country to better defend itself from Russian aggression.
And he wants Russia’s warlords to face justice after peace is brought about.
But what kind of peace will we get?
Sunak is gambling that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not dare to use his nuclear arsenal.
But the easiest way to stop the UK from providing anything to Ukraine is to wipe the UK off the map.
It would be a suicidal strategy for Putin as well, because the UK’s allies would respond. But that would be scant consolation.
And, if you believe Boris Johnson (ha ha!), Putin has already threatened the UK with nuclear reprisals.
So one has to question whether sabre-rattling of the kind that Sunak is doing is really a sane way forward.
Here’s his speech to the Munich Security Conference:
Following on from an article This Site has literally just published, pointing out that calls to censor Russia Today as a state-sponsored propaganda unit make no sense when the BBC is unhindered, here’s Skwawkbox:
The BBC has been caught presenting video of a military parade fly-by as footage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Full Fact confirmed that the video broadcast on the Breakfast programme yesterday as showing the invasion was in fact 2020 footage of a fly-past as part of a parade in May 2020.
The BBC claimed the footage was ‘used once briefly in error’ and that it had spoken to staff about the importance of checking what they are showing.
It’s very difficult to use old footage “in error” as it has to be specially ordered from the BBC archive.
Skwawkbox points out that the BBC was caught using this dodge before – swapping old footage of Boris Johnson laying a Remembrance Day wreath for current images in which he insulted veterans by laying it upside-down in 2019. The BBC did apologise for this – although it did not admit doing it to cover up the insult.
In a similar vein, the BBC has been running articles on false images purporting to be of the Russia-Ukraine conflict while in fact being archive footage or images from video games – here’s one – but there has been no article acknowledging its own use of such material (at the time of writing).
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Grant Shapps: he’s not stranger to controversy. Check out the businesses he ran under his pseudonyms Michael Green, Sebastian Fox and Corinne Stockheath.
The Transport Secretary of Boris Johnson’s Conservative government is spending public money paying private lobbyists to argue against his own government’s plans to build on aircraft runways that are privately-owned, it has been alleged.
The reason? The government minister concerned – Grant Shapps – is the owner of a private aircraft, and also of a private runway.
The allegations are made in a Times article hidden behind a paywall:
You couldn't make it up.
A minister using taxpayer cash to fund lobbying efforts against his own government's plans to build on the runways he uses for his private plane.
The Tories really do think it's one rule for them, another for everyone else.https://t.co/jRtGE5d9KA
So that’s all the information we have. Alok Sharma was certainly being cagey about it when Andrew Marr interviewed him:
#marr: Do you think it was appropriate for Grant Shapps to set up a special unit, inside his department, to lobby for private airports, as he uses those airports?
Alok Sharma: I've spent the last 3 weeks hunkered down in Glasgow, but Grant Shapps is doing a great job… pic.twitter.com/QdLiAAhJq9
The issue is clear: government policy is to build houses on land currently occupied by the runways used by owners of private planes.
Shapps is paying private lobbyists to try to get the government – of which he is Transport Secretary – to change this policy. He is using public – government – money to fund this activity.
So the government is paying your money to fund opposition to its own policy.
It has been said before but could it ever be more clear?
These Tories really do think it’s one rule for them and another for the rest of us.
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Not the Garrick Club dinner: you can bet Boris Johnson wasn’t drinking water (if that’s really what it was in this pic) at the booze-up with climate denier Lord Moore on Tuesday.
So much for all that nonsense Number 10 was spouting about Boris Johnson’s plane being super-green and its carbon footprint being negated.
It turns out he couldn’t catch a train back to London from COP26 because he was going to a meal with a climate change denier and wanted to get there on time.
Downing Street also said “time constraints” prevented Johnson from travelling by train – and this is clearly more true than all that crap about the environment.
According to the Mirror, Johnson left COP26 at 6.20pm on Tuesday, arriving at London Stansted at 7.16pm.
The train journey would have taken four and a half hours – meaning he would have been very late for the flash dinner reunion for Daily Telegraph journalists, including former editor Lord Charles Moore, who once said the climate crisis was “speculation”.
So there you have it.
After falling asleep at the major meeting to stop climate armageddon – maskless, thereby polluting the atmosphere around national treasure David Attenborough…
He took a plane – the more polluting option, no matter what Downing Street says (have those carbon-offsetting trees been planted yet?)…
And spent the evening at a slap-up meal in the Garrick Club with a self-confessed climate denier.
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Hypocrite: Boris Johnson on the boarding ramp of the plane he took from London to Cornwall, talking about creating a “greener” world after causing five times as much pollution as if he had just taken the train.
Once again, Boris Johnson humiliates everybody in the UK before the leaders of the world.
He said he will ask fellow G7 leaders to contribute to creating a “greener” world – but travelled to the meeting at which he’ll do it in an aeroplane. The short flight from London to Cornwall created almost five times more greenhouse gas emissions than the equivalent train journey would have, according to the government’s own emission figures.
Shadow Environment Secretary Luke Pollard said the stunt was “plane stupid” and This Writer agrees with him.
I stated in a tweet: “Typical doubletalk from Boris Johnson – claiming to be building a greener Britain while undermining it.”
Others were less charitable:
Do you really think that Boris Johnson who flew in a jet from London to Cornwall which is around 250 miles and than tweets from the aircrafts doorway that he's building a greener Britain is sincere? He just the windup artist for the 1%. #G7https://t.co/pnjLHMlmNI
— John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) (@Harryslaststand) June 9, 2021
“The windup artist for the One Per Cent”? It’s a good point.
If the world is to reach “jet zero” emissions, how many of the flights that ordinary people take will be cancelled?
And how many flights taken by the super-rich, and by politicians like Johnson, will also be cancelled?
I’m willing to bet that the answers to those two questions are as follows: Many – and none.
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Dominic Raab: he’s geographically incompetent – his previous claim to fame being that he didn’t know the importance of the Dover-Calais crossing – so it’s a miracle he or his bodyguard even got on the right plane.
You may be forgiven if you thought the bodyguard in this story was employed by Serco.
After all the Johnson government’s privatisation disasters (including with Serco on the ‘test and trace’ affair), it’s an obvious conclusion to draw.
(In fact G4S is a more likely culprit – remember, that firm has form since its botch-up of security for the 2012 London Olympics. But This Writer would not have put it past Dominic Raab to have hired Carillion. Think about it.)
It transpires that the guilty party was a genuine member of the UK’s police – who also have a record of blundering, especially in this regard:
A cleaner is reported to have found the loaded Glock 19 pistol in its holster on a seat on the United Airlines flight after it landed in London on Friday.
Scotland Yard said an internal investigation was taking place.
The cleaner raised the alarm after finding the weapon, the Sun reported, and police boarded the plane – before realising the gun belonged to one of Mr Raab’s close protection officers.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “We are aware of the incident on a flight into the UK on Friday 18 September and we are taking this matter extremely seriously.
“The officer involved has since been removed from operational duties whilst an internal investigation into the circumstances is taking place.”
So the upshot is that the UK’s police have lost another officer.
Will the Home Secretary be admitting this, next time she lies about police numbers?
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The Home Office: only a fool would believe its publicity material.
So much for the lockdown. So much for social distancing. So much for any suggestion that the UK’s Tory government is interested in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
And so much for the lie that the “hostile environment” policy has ended.
The Home Office chartered a private plane to deport dozens of EU nationals during lockdown, despite government stay-at-home instructions stating that people should not fly unless it was essential.
The private jet, understood to be from Titan Airways, took off from Stansted last Thursday, 30 April. The flight to Poland was chartered at a time when air travel had fallen by 95%.
A woman on the flight said there were about 35 passengers, accompanied by around 40 to 50 Home Office escorts and plane crew.
The woman, who was placed into quarantine on her arrival in Poland, questioned whether it could be defined as “essential travel” and said it was impossible to adhere to physical distancing rules during the flight.
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Matt Hancock has said he’s happy for the entire planet to burn, as long as businesspeople get to their meetings a bit quicker.
Oh, and he’s the Health Secretary, by the way.
Do you think that might be the reason the Tories have helped save the airline Flybe, when they couldn’t give a damn about retail firms like Mothercare (for example)?
This Conservative government is a sick joke – and the laugh is on everybody who voted for it.
The Tory Health Secretary has declared Brits should carry on taking short-haul internal flights despite the climate crisis.
Matt Hancock said people shouldn’t cut down on domestic air travel – because it’s quicker than taking the train.
It comes despite Chancellor Sajid Javid saying Tory plans for government were “the most green manifesto any party has ever published”.
Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said: “Either Matt Hancock thinks airplanes run on fairy dust, or he does know they’re a major source of planet-heating emissions but simply doesn’t care.
“Whichever it is, his comments fly in the face of the Conservative manifesto commitment to tackling the climate emergency.”
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Venom: This is NOT how the scene played out but from the look on Mrs May’s face, you can imagine her leaping across, burying her fangs deep in the interviewer’s fleshy parts and emptying her poison sacs.
Poisonous prime minister Theresa May launched herself into a tantrum at 40,000 feet during a plane flight to the G20 summit, when some poor soul asked whether she would resign if her fudged withdrawal deal fails to win the support of MPs.
Clearly the matter has been preying on the PMs mind because she couldn’t keep her cool.
According to the Mirror, Mrs May had a “mid-air meltdown”, the most lucid part of which went as follows: “Look, I have been asked these sorts of questions before.”
In that case, she should be used to them and they shouldn’t upset her, right?
“I am tempted to think that actually the price of coming on one of these trips is asking questions about my future, because they come up every time – and my answers aren’t going to change.”
The problem is, her answers don’t make any sense. The report states that she was “refusing to rule out resigning”, which means the didn’t say she’d stay and didn’t say she’d go.
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Ever since it was announced that David Cameron would be spending £10 million of UK citizens’ money to buy himself a luxury jet for ‘official’ visits, This Blog has been searching for an image of the plane in question. We think we’ve found it.
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