Geri

purplepadma, 18 hours ago to random

Massive dark clouds have suddenly blotted out the sun and we have rushed to get our two loads of washing in

Geri, 1 day ago to random

Tell me three things that are wrong with this picture of Jet Set Jeremy

Best answers get a prize xxx

Geri, 1 day ago to random

#Sunak says he'll stay on as an MP if he loses #generalelection ection.

Assuming he doesn't lose Richmond (Yorks)

#GTTO

https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-sunak-says-hell-stay-on-as-an-mp-if-he-loses-general-election-13137169

Geri, 2 days ago to random

Tory-backing JCB built and supplied equipment to Russia months after saying exports had stopped

State-sponsered Grifting ....
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/jcb-built-supplied-equipment-to-russia-months-after-saying-exports-stopped

Geri, 2 days ago to random

27,000 Germans and Italians who had settled in the UK before Ww2 were interned in concentration camps

80% of these people were Jewish

Geri, 2 days ago to random

Sunak uses the expression food security like it is something we have or can achieve

The United Kingdom last achieved that in the 19th Century

We either import food or we starve

Don't deceive the public. .

Geri, 2 days ago to random

A few weeks ago, there was a fair number of vacancies here.

Now, there are none

Stuart Skeates, the director general for strategic operations at Illegal Migration Operations Command (IMOC), wrote to colleagues on Tuesday to say his department had been told to cut the numbers of staff to “pre-pandemic levels'

Flagship policy

Stop the boats

Etc

https://www.homeofficejobs-sscl.co.uk/imoc-vacancies.html

Geri, 3 days ago to random

The perfect beach footware was developed by a French man, Phillipe Fillope

Xxc

Geri, 3 days ago to random

My own particular bugbear is a cross between an insect and a mammal

@dgar

Geri, 3 days ago to random

The Northern Ireland Judge, Mr Justice Micheal Humphreys, ruled yesterday that the #Rwanda Safety Act and the deportation of #Refugess is incompatible with three prior legal standards and acts:

1The Good Friday Agreement

2 The Windsor Franework

3 The European Convention on Human Rights

Oh dear

Geri, 4 days ago to Eurovision

‘F--- the #Eurovision organisers’, says Irish contestant Bambie Thug https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/12/f-the-eurovision-organisers-irish-contestant-bambie-thug/

Geri, 4 days ago to random

'A reduction of rights laid out in the Good Friday Agreement '

Law allowing asylum seekers to be sent to Rwanda disapplied by court in Northern Ireland - but UK govt to appeal | Politics News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/law-allowing-asylum-seekers-to-be-detained-and-sent-to-rwanda-disapplied-by-court-in-northern-ireland-13135151

Geri, 5 days ago to random

About The #Rwanda Safety Act ....

Civil servants have been instructed that they should obey ministers, but their union is challenging this because it claims this would be a breach of the Civil Service code, a code which requires officials to act in accordance with international law.

That is to say, the ECHR

Geri, 5 days ago to Palestine

The United Nations General Assembly has enhanced #Palestine's rights within the organisation and called for it to be accepted as a member. The outcome saw an immediate rebuke from #Israel, with the country's UN ambassador Gilad Erdan destroying the UN charter with a tiny shredder in front of the assembly..

Got it yet?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-68994032

Geri, 5 days ago to random

Natalie Elphicke

This is OLD news recycled to damage the Labour party

Here is how it was reported 2 Aug 2020

Some 4 years ago. FFS

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/natalie-elphicke-court-ordeal-sexual-assault-charles-a4514491.html

Geri, 5 days ago to Israel

"HM Government is committed to a robust and transparent export control regime for military, dual-use and other sensitive goods and technologies'
.
Statement made in the HofC by Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the Minister for international trade

Where is the transparency?

#israel
#Genocide

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-12-08/hcws449

Geri, 6 days ago to random

My sad conclusion from watching our foreign secretary, Cameron, on this .morning's politics show is for some inexorable reason he does not care about bombed Palestinians; yet equally believes the UK is important and will make a difference in their state of affairs

My nation's shame

Geri, 6 days ago to Israel

"We receive legal advice about our involvement with #Israel" Cameron on #BBCLAURAK

(advice we don't publish)

The United States has indicated that "it is reasonable to assess there was breeches if international law"

Under the UK’s OWN arms export regime, licenses can not be granted where there is a clear risk that the items might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law ...

The UK is complicit
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Israel

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-12-08/hcws449

Geri, 7 days ago to random

I have eaten three packets of chipsticks in a row

I believe this to be a world record

Geri, 7 days ago to random

UK Vetoed making #Palestein a member of the UN even though the official position is for a two-state solution

Geri, 8 days ago to random

Economically, the UK's fortunes have marginally improved.

This matters not a jot to a person who remembers the prices being much much lower last year.

Geri, 8 days ago to random

Jess Phillips called Robert Jenrick a liar on this week's #Peston

Woo

Geri, 8 days ago to random

I am one of those economically inactive people.

This is because I am a physically inactive person

Geri, 8 days ago to random

Ben Houchen, the man whom Sunak lionised because he retained his Mayoral post at the local elections, has come out in this extraordinary interview

#GTTO

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68983071