Akehurst represents what the Labour Party has become since 2020, namely, we are told one Antisemite is one too many, despite the fact those they accused of AS, were largely Jews, Jews supporting Palestine or regular Leftist - its now OK to have persons pushing for genocide in the Party's ranks as they are Zionists, Nazis or fascists.
1. Keith, Good point about the Rochdale opinion polling, where is it? 2. Does Starmer want to give GG the best chance he can? Some deep political play? 3. We will now be able to confirm exactly how many Labour MPs are cowards and monsters - all of them? Or just a few honourable exceptions 4. Is Starmer a lot thicker than we thought? 5. Or is he just a horrible man - I think both are likely 6. Starmer is a traitor ..........to humanity ........to the British people ........to the Palestinaians ........ to his s country .........to the Labour party .........and to his very name, His parent Christened him Keir after their hero, Keir Hardie. Keir Starmer should bear that name iwith pride, instead he's betrayed it. Keir Hardie died in 1915 from a stroke, probably brough on by stress organising strikes and protests against the "Great War". If anyone had taken notes, tens of millions of men would not have been killed. If Keir Hardie were still alive and politically active, Keir Starmer would have had to have banish him from the Labour Party he founded. .........my contempt for Keir Starmer is total. .........and I haven't even included his role in the appalling incarceration of Assange, who will likely be shipped off to America, Keir has never been challenge about this role in any effective way, ,just a free pass for this horrible, horrible man....a political automaton with no apparent moral compass, which AI apparently has failed to provide him with.
Might be a pipe dream, but seems like a chance to bring down Starmer through mass disobedience of a 3-line whip. If 20 or more labor MPs disobey, what are his options? (A) Divide and conquer, i.e. remove the whip from one or two only. (B) different candidates at next election. Neither seem good options: If he removes the whip from more MPs there could be a mass rebellion. If there are 20 new candidates, then the old candidates could still stand as a new party that holds the balance of power. Just a thought.
Re: Starmer will order Labour MPs to vote AGAINST the SNP's ceasefire motion.
The speaker rescues Labour and Starmer by breaking "convention" by allowing votes on three similar but different ceasefire motions. All hell breaks out in the chamber.
John Crace is one of the saving lights of the Guardian newspaper.
Hoyle returned to the chamber. He had made a decision. He would allow both the Labour and government amendments. The Tory and SNP benches went wild with outrage. And there were we all thinking that what they really wanted was for the hostages to be returned and an end to the fighting in Gaza. Silly us.
The speeches themselves were unremarkable. Except for the unusual hybrid of piety and bitterness. Everyone holier than thou. Sanctimoniousness on their side. Everyone wanted a ceasefire. Only they wanted their own ceasefire, not anyone else’s ceasefire. This was their finest hour.
"Perhaps a visit from a few Israeli jet planes over London might bring some moral sense to these idiots?"
...But we already have them flying over the UK:
Israel will join the RAF’s Cobra Warrior exercise in September along with aircraft from Germany and Italy.
An MoD spokesperson told the UK Defence Journal:
“The Israeli Air Force will be participating Exercise Cobra Warrior in Sep 2019. This is the culminating event for the UK’s Weapons Instructor qualification course.
The exercise will be run out of RAF Waddington.
The Israeli Air Force role, basing and footprint during Ex Cobra Warrior is yet to be determined. Israel are planning to bring an, as yet, unspecified number of F15 aircraft with appropriate support personnel.
Other participants in Ex Cobra Warrior 19 include Germany and Italy.”
It has since been confirmed that RAF Waddington will be the basing location.
This was first reported by The Jewish Chronicle here.
The Cobra Warrior exercise traditionally includes crew and aircraft from other allied air forces that train together with their British counterparts in complex combat scenarios.
In 2018, the RAF invited German and Italian aircraft to take part in the exercise, this year they will be joined by Israeli jets.
Formerly named the Combined Qualified Weapons Instructor, Cobra Warrior is focussed on providing the combined assessment phase for the RAF’s Weapons Instructors.
The Royal Air Force is expected to take part in Blue Flag 2020, which would be the first time British aircraft have trained in Israeli airspace however, some commentators point out that British aircraft routinely transit through Israeli airspace and on occasion in the past, have flown from RAF Akrotiri to help with forest fires.
Last year, Israeli combat pilots attended a joint training seminar with the Typhoon aircrew at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, but reportedly did not arrive with their own aircraft.
Recently, Israeli firm Elbit Systems announced that its subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK Ltd, was awarded an initial contract of circa £10 million and a potential maximum value of £40 million, from the UK Ministry of Defence.
The contract is to provide the MORPHEUS Battlefield Management Application. The initial contract will be performed over a three-year period.
Under the contract Elbit Systems UK will provide the British Army with an operationally proven battle management application for both headquarters and tactical units, based on TORC2 H™, Elbit Systems’ command and control platform that has been delivered to many customers worldwide, including to the Australian Defence Forces as part of its Land 200 Tranche 2 battle management system.
Last year, Type 45 Destroyer HMS Duncan and a Spanish frigate docked in the Israeli port city of Haifa.
For the Royal Navy this was the third visit in as many years, recently sold helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, then flagship of the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2, docked in Haifa in 2017.
The visit reportedly included meetings between senior NATO officers and their Israeli counterparts, as well as a joint NATO-Israel naval exercise.
“The exercise underscores NATO’s commitment to the strategic relationship with the Israeli Navy and to the maintenance of stability in the region,” the IDF said.
NATO cooperates and discusses its activities with numerous other non-NATO members. The Mediterranean Dialogue was established in 1994 to coordinate in a similar way with Israel and countries in North Africa.
Posted by John Monro on February 23, 2024, 5:19 am, in reply to "You may jest..."
Thanks - well found, though 2019. well worth posting. Would be worth an opposition MP asking if this cooperation still ongoing. or "Does the Minister take some pride that the UK has played a not inconsiderable role in ensuring in our training of Israeli pilots over a number of years that they have been able more effectively to bomb the citizens of Gaza and not forgetting too those of Syria and the Lebanon?"
There seemed to be a huge ceasefire protest outside the commons