‘Everyone In Gaza is Sick, Injured, Or Both’ – Israel’s 2.1 million Victims 24th September 2024 Alerts
Some of at least 40,000 Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks.
On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were performing in Regent’s Park, London. Six of the bandsmen were killed instantly and the rest were injured; a seventh later died of his wounds. Eight civilians were also injured.
Although directed at a military target, the attack was widely denounced by the British press as a murderous act of terrorism.
On 18 September, the BBC reported on thousands of simultaneous bombings in Lebanon widely assumed to be the work of Israel:
‘Lebanon’s health minister says the number of people killed when pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah exploded on Tuesday has risen to 12, including two children and four healthcare workers.
‘Firas Abiad told a news conference that almost two-thirds of the 2,800 wounded people needed some form of surgery to their face, eyes or hands, and that many had suffered amputations.’
The pager attack was followed the next day by another wave of attacks detonating bombs in walkie-talkies. A total of 39 people were killed in both attacks. Israeli has since launched numerous air strikes killing around 492 people, including 35 children, and Hezbollah has responded with rocket attacks. In July, the BBC reported on earlier cross-border attacks:
‘Data gathered by the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled) and analysed by the BBC suggest both sides together carried out a combined 7,491 cross-border attacks between 8 October 2023 and 5 July 2024. These figures indicated that Israel has carried out around five times as many as Hezbollah.’
The UN said the cross-border attacks had forced more than 90,000 people in Lebanon from their homes, with around 100 civilians and 366 Hezbollah fighters killed in Israeli strikes. In Israel, officials said 60,000 civilians had been forced to abandon their homes and 33 people had been killed, including 10 civilians, because of attacks by Hezbollah.
Responding to the pager attacks, Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s veteran International Editor, commented under this headline:
‘Tactical triumph for Israel, but Hezbollah won’t be deterred’
Bowen wrote:
‘Attacking Hezbollah’s communications network has delivered a tactical victory to Israel – the sort of spectacular coup you would read about in a thriller.’
Imagine the reaction if, in 1982, a high-profile BBC journalist had written:
‘Attacking the Royal Green Jackets’ military bandsmen has delivered a tactical victory to the IRA – the sort of spectacular coup you would read about in a thriller.’
We suspect that if the Israeli-Hezbollah roles had been reversed, Bowen might have used, or quoted, the word ‘terrorism’ in his report. After all, if remotely detonating thousands of bombs widely scattered around civilian society – such that numerous children, health workers and other civilians were killed and injured – is not terrorism, what is? Hezbollah personnel were targeted, but of course nobody knew exactly where the thousands of bombs would be when they exploded.
Ramzi Kaiss of Human Rights Watch told Democracy Now! that the attacks struck ‘military targets and civilians alike without distinguishing between them – this is an unlawfully indiscriminate attack, and it is unlawful under the laws of war, and there needs to be accountability’.
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta said on CBS of the pager attacks:
‘I don’t think there’s any question it’s a form of terrorism.’
Bowen added:
‘Once again though, there are serious question marks about the way an Israeli attack has wounded and killed civilian bystanders.’
Are there ‘serious question marks’ – in the sense, that some people have questioned the morality and legality – about the US massacre in March 1968 that murdered 504 old men, women and children in the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai? Are there ‘serious question marks’ about the legality and morality of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States? Of course not, the idea is absurd; in fact, obscene. There is nothing to question – these were clearly massive crimes against humanity.
So, why, for the BBC, do ‘serious question marks’ hang over the legality and morality of Israel’s genocidal attacks since 7 October?
Bowen has a long history of downplaying the true horror of the crimes committed by his government and its allies. In 2006, three years into the illegal, full-scale invasion and occupation of Iraq, he suggested that the invasion had triggered moves towards democratisation elsewhere in the region. Nevertheless, he cautioned:
‘All this does not mean that the dreams that the Bush administration has for the region are coming true.’
Here, Bowen was openly claiming that the United States, Britain and their oil-hungry corporations were driven by ‘dreams’ of democratisation in Iraq and elsewhere in the region. This, in fact, was an exact reversal of the truth – there was no question of local populations controlling their own natural resources. That was the whole point of the war.
The impact of this kind of subliminal, Pollyanna whitewashing makes it difficult for the public to feel the truth of what is happening in Gaza. The problem is that the ‘mainstream’ is not always so unmoved by great criminality; and the public, of course, notes the difference.
Consider that on 27 May 2012, the massacre of 108 people, including 49 children, two days earlier, in Houla, Syria, dominated the Independent on Sunday’s front cover. The banner headline roared:
‘SYRIA: THE WORLD LOOKS THE OTHER WAY. WILL YOU?’
Clearly, this was an extremely emotive, personal appeal to readers. The text beneath read:
‘There is, of course, supposed to be a ceasefire, which the brutal Assad regime simply ignores. And the international community? It just averts its gaze. Will you do the same? Or will the sickening fate of these innocent children make you very, very angry?’
The Independent on Sunday was not just reporting a crime to readers; it was making us responsible for doing something about it. In fact, there was considerable doubt about who perpetrated the massacre. See here and here.
In the Independent, at the end of his tether, an emotional David Aaronovitch wrote in 1999 of Nato’s assault on Serbia:
‘I could weep for these poor academics [who oppose the war], if the plight of the Kosovars weren’t already occupying all available tear-ducts.’ (Aaronovitch, ‘The reality is that war, tragedy and incompetence go together,’ The Independent, May 11, 1999)
Later, in similar vein, Aaronovitch declared that Saddam Hussein had to go:
‘I want him out, for the sake of the region (and therefore, eventually, for our sakes), but most particularly for the sake of the Iraqi people who cannot lift this yoke on their own.’ (Aaronovitch, ‘Why the Left must tackle the crimes of Saddam: With or without a second UN resolution, I will not oppose action against Iraq,’ The Observer, 2 February 2003)
In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland wrote in 1999:
‘How did the British left get so lost? How have its leading lights ended up as the voices of isolationism? How did it come to this…? Why is it the hard left – rather than the isolationist right – who have become the champions of moral indifference? For, make no mistake, that’s what opposition to Nato’s attempt to Clobba Slobba (as the Sun puts it) amounts to… either the West could try to halt the greatest campaign of barbarism in Europe since 1945 – or it could do nothing.’ (Freedland, ‘The left needs to wake up to the real world. This war is a just one’, Guardian, 26 March 1999)
It is difficult to overstate the importance of these incendiary appeals for war, and more to the point, the impact on our psyches when these appeals for urgent ‘action’ are almost completely absent, as is the case now on Gaza. No newspaper editor would dream of calling for a ‘no-fly zone’ over Gaza.
We are trained to recognise a major crisis by the level of alarm sounded by corporate media. As with the evolving climate change catastrophe, it is all too easy for the lack of media alarm to persuade us that things are ‘not that bad’. Perhaps the climate isn’t really collapsing, or the problem is under new management. Perhaps the suffering in Gaza isn’t actually that bad. Otherwise, we would surely have heard more outrage from the ‘humanitarian interventionists’. Assuming we live in a basically sane society that is not drowning in moral and intellectual corruption.
Fortunately, credible eye-witness testimony can help counter this insidious propaganda effect. If we can find a way to access it.
Israel Has Devastated An Entire Society Of 2.1 Million People
In a letter to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, shamefully ignored by virtually all ‘mainstream’ media outlets, 30 qualified, UK-based doctors, surgeons, nurses and medical professionals – volunteers in Gaza since 7 October 2023 – described the full extent of the catastrophe. As the authors note, their testimony is significant:
‘We are among the only neutral observers who have been permitted to enter the Gaza Strip since 7 October. With international journalists being targeted and denied access to Gaza, our eyewitness experiences have had to serve in place of journalistic or investigatory accounts.’
In other words, this is a rare example of highly credible, independent, expert testimony on events in Gaza:
‘Many of us also have long standing experience working with British charities in Gaza and across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). We have seen the deliberate targeting of civilians on a mass scale, and a total lack of resources, due to the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and deliberate restriction of aid. The deleterious effects of Israeli occupation on the Palestinian healthcare system are something many of us have seen before– but never to this extent.’
The authors of the letter note that The Ministry of Health figure of approximately 40,000 Palestinians killed refers only to the number of identified bodies:
‘… but while working in Gaza we bore witness to untold numbers of unidentified bodies, many of them truly unidentifiable due to the extent of damage caused. A correspondence piece in The Lancet, one of Britain’s leading medical journals, estimated that the true figure could be 186,000, reflecting the scale of indirect and unrecorded deaths that have inevitably occurred due to the destruction of the healthcare system’.
The truly awesome scale of Israel’s crime becomes clear when we read the next paragraph, which is of course referring to the plight of fully 2.1 million people, the vast majority of them civilians:
‘With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both. This includes every national aid worker, every international volunteer, and every man, woman, and child. While working in Gaza we saw widespread malnutrition in our patients and our Palestinian healthcare colleagues. Many of us lost weight rapidly in Gaza despite having privileged access to food and having taken our own supplementary nutrient-dense food with us. We have photographic evidence of life-threatening malnutrition in our patients, from babies to the elderly, that we are willing or have already shared with you.
‘Virtually every child under the age of five whom we encountered, both inside and outside of the hospital, had both a cough and watery diarrhoea. Jaundice and hepatitis A infection were widespread in the hospitals in which we worked, while the surgical complication rate was near 100%. Surgical incisions were almost certain to become infected, due to the hospitals’ impossible operating conditions- including a lack of supplies, water, and medications including antibiotics- overcrowding, and due to patients’ malnutrition. We were forced to use household supplies including vinegar for antiseptic purposes, or went without.’
The letter continues:
‘We urge you to realise that epidemics are raging in Gaza. In addition to that, Israel has not stopped bombarding civilians in their tents or displacing the malnourished and sick population of Gaza, approximately half of whom are children, to areas with no running water or even toilets available. This is a horrifying reality. It is virtually guaranteed to result in widespread death from viral and bacterial diarrheal diseases and pneumonias, particularly in children under the age of five.
‘All of us treated children who seemed to have been deliberately targeted by military violence. Bullet wounds to children’s heads and torsos and amputations of limbs and eyes of children were commonplace.’ (Our emphasis)
The letter follows a similar letter sent in July by 45 US physicians and nurses. Dr. Adam Hamawy, a US plastic surgeon and former US Army combat trauma surgeon, commented:
‘We all saw a complete devastation of a society, of people’s lives, of health care structure.’
Dr. Hamawy said his earlier experiences in conflict zones in Sarajevo and Iraq were not comparable to what he had witnessed in Gaza, adding that 90% of those he had seen killed there were women and children.
Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish American orthopaedic hand surgeon from North Carolina and president of the World Surgical Association, told CNN about two patients aged around six years old, who had suffered gunshots to their heads and chests:
‘“No kid gets shot twice by a sniper by mistake,” Perlmutter said, adding that the shots were “dead center” to their chests.’
Beyond the barely conceivable human carnage, a detailed Bloomberg report noted that more than 70% of Gaza’s housing has been damaged, along with schools, hospitals and businesses:
‘So far, Israeli air strikes have left more than 42 million tonnes of debris across the Strip, according to the UN. That’s enough rubble to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York to Singapore.’
Mark Jarzombek, an architectural history professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied post World War II reconstruction, commented:
‘What we see in Gaza is something that we have never seen before in the history of urbanism. It’s not just the destruction of physical infrastructure, it’s the destruction of basic institutions of governance and of a sense of normality.’
Do ‘serious question marks’ hang, then, over the morality and legality of Israeli attacks over the last year? Hopefully, we can all agree that Bowen’s formulation was an outrageous misreporting of the truth.
There is, of course, a silver lining to this cloud: the world’s largest aerospace and defence companies are set to rake in record levels of cash over the next three years ‘as they benefit from a surge in government orders for new weapons amid rising geopolitical tensions’.
The leading 15 defence contractors are forecast to log free cash flow of $52bn in 2026, according to analysis by Vertical Research Partners for the Financial Times — almost double their combined cash flow at the end of 2021. The cause is no secret:
‘In the US, recent aid bills for Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel allocated nearly $13bn for weapons production at America’s five biggest defence groups — Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and General Dynamics — and their suppliers. In the UK, the Ministry of Defence has committed £7.6bn for military aid to Ukraine over the past three years, including for stockpile replenishment.
‘The government spending surge has already propelled order books to near record highs.’
The Labour government’s decision to withdraw winter fuel payments from 10 million pensioners, saving £1.3 billion in 2024-2025, is said to be in response to the previous government’s £22 billion ‘black hole’ in the nation’s finances. Happily, there is still £7.6 billon available for the US proxy war against Russia.
Former New York Times journalist Chris Hedges explains:
‘Governance exists. But it is not seen. It is certainly not democratic. It is done by the armies of lobbyists and corporate executives, from the fossil fuel industry, the arms industry, the pharmaceutical industry and Wall Street. Governance happens in secret.’
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Pretty damning, and an important update on the dire situation for people trapped in the Gaza concentration camp. It will take generations to recover from a whole society trauma like this...
We are 30 qualified doctors, surgeons, nurses and medical professionals, based in the UK, who have volunteered in Gaza since October 7, 2023. We worked with various non-governmental organisations and the World Health Organization in hospitals throughout Gaza. In addition to our medical and surgical expertise, many of us hold current roles within the NHS, as well as having worked in humanitarian crises and conflict zones across the world. Many of us also have long standing experience working with British charities in Gaza and across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). We have seen the deliberate targeting of civilians on a mass scale, and a total lack of resources, due to the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and deliberate restriction of aid. The deleterious effects of Israeli occupation on the Palestinian healthcare system are something many of us have seen before– but never to this extent.
We are a multi-faith and multi-ethnic group, united not by any political motivation, but by the desire to care for those who are suffering. The Constitution of the World Health Organization states: ‘The health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security and is dependent on the fullest cooperation of individuals and States.’ It is in this spirit that we write to you, and it is in this spirit that we realise that we cannot remain silent about what we saw in Gaza. We are among the only neutral observers who have been permitted to enter the Gaza Strip since 7 October. With international journalists being targeted and denied access to Gaza, our eyewitness experiences have had to serve in place of journalistic or investigatory accounts.
Given our broad expertise and unique first-hand experience of working in Gaza in recent months, we are uniquely positioned to comment on several matters of importance to our new government, as it considers its methods of engagements with Israel, the oPt (and specifically Gaza), and international actors.
Specifically, we believe we are well positioned to comment on the massive human toll from Israel’s attack on Gaza, on Palestinian men, women and children, as well as the long term and systematic destruction of the healthcare system, which will impact the sick as well as the wounded for years to come.
It is impossible to know the true death toll in Gaza. The Ministry of Health figure of approximately 40,000 Palestinians killed refers only to the number of identified bodies, but while working in Gaza we bore witness to untold numbers of unidentified bodies, many of them truly unidentifiable due to the extent of damage caused. A correspondence piece in The Lancet, one of Britain’s leading medical journals, estimated that the true figure could be 186,000, reflecting the scale of indirect and unrecorded deaths that have inevitably occurred due to the destruction of the healthcare system. Those suffering from malnutrition due to Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war, and those suffering from water-borne diseases from Israel’s restriction of water and aid has increased the Gaza population’s suffering further.
Demanding immediate action by the UK Government to stop military support for Israel, as obligated by international law, the letter goes on to paint its devastating picture of life and death in Gaza.
With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both. This includes every national aid worker, every international volunteer, and every man, woman, and child. While working in Gaza we saw widespread malnutrition in our patients and our Palestinian healthcare colleagues. Many of us lost weight rapidly in Gaza despite having privileged access to food and having taken our own supplementary nutrient-dense food with us. We have photographic evidence of life-threatening malnutrition in our patients, from babies to the elderly, that we are willing or have already shared with you.
Virtually every child under the age of five whom we encountered, both inside and outside of the hospital, had both a cough and watery diarrhoea. Jaundice and hepatitis A infection were widespread in the hospitals in which we worked, while the surgical complication rate was near 100%. Surgical incisions were almost certain to become infected, due to the hospitals’ impossible operating conditions- including a lack of supplies, water, and medications including antibiotics- overcrowding, and due to patients’ malnutrition. We were forced to use household supplies including vinegar for antiseptic purposes, or went without.
Pregnant women gave birth in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions, as there is simply nowhere left which is not unsanitary and overcrowded. These women face serious risk of complications, ill health, and death. Those of us who worked with pregnant women regularly saw still-births and maternal deaths that would be easily preventable in any functioning healthcare system. The rate of infection in C-section incisions was astonishing, and these were often delivered to women going without anaesthesia or painkillers. Their infants were born underweight, while mothers are likely to be unable to breastfeed due to malnutrition. Potable water is unavailable across Gaza. Very few babies born under these conditions are likely to survive, and those who do will have their health permanently impaired.
We urge you to realise that epidemics are raging in Gaza. In addition to that, Israel has not stopped bombarding civilians in their tents or displacing the malnourished and sick population of Gaza, approximately half of whom are children, to areas with no running water or even toilets available. This is a horrifying reality. It is virtually guaranteed to result in widespread death from viral and bacterial diarrheal diseases and pneumonias, particularly in children under the age of five.
They warn about polio, now clearly infecting children in Gaza. This adds another disastrous factor: We worry that unknown thousands have already died from the lethal combination of malnutrition and disease, and that tens of thousands more will die in the coming months. Most of them will be young children. Many of those who survive contracting polio will face lifelong consequences.
We condemn the use of infectious agents and the destruction of health care infrastructure as a means of warfare to be responsible for far more deaths of civilians compared to all combat arms combined.
All of us treated children who seemed to have been deliberately targeted by military violence. Bullet wounds to children’s heads and torsos and amputations of limbs and eyes of children were commonplace. Facilities serving Gaza’s children have been destroyed, including the Al-Rantisi Children’s hospital and the Gaza European Hospital’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. Much of the equipment for both facilities has been damaged during evacuation and both are currently inoperative.
The letter documents much further detail concerning the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and the consequences thereof: such as the rejection of insulin needles and other medical equipment at border crossings under ‘dual use’ prohibitions, and how cancer treatment is now unavailable. And that Israel has … killed one out of every 40 healthcare workers in Gaza.
And here the final picture of destruction:
The hospitals where we worked were starved of basic supplies from surgical material to soap. They were regularly cut off from electricity and internet access, denied clean water, and operated at four to seven times their bed capacity. Every hospital was overwhelmed beyond the breaking point by displaced persons seeking safety, by the constant stream of patients whose treatment of chronic conditions had been interrupted by the war, by the huge influx of seriously wounded patients who typically arrived in mass casualty events, and by the sick and malnourished seeking medical care.
Prime Minister Starmer, Foreign Secretary Lammy, it is difficult for many of us to recount the scenes we witnessed in Gaza, not least of all in the knowledge that many of the injuries we treated may have resulted from the use of weapons systems and components supplied from Britain. This includes the victims of the daily airstrikes conducted using F-16 and F-35 aircraft part-produced in the UK.
Being some of the few UK citizens and residents able to travel to Gaza since October, we write to you in certainty that if you had seen, heard, and experienced the things we have, there would be no question [about] placing an arms embargo on Israel. […]
Tens of thousands face catastrophic injury of a type only inflicted by deliberate targeting of or wilful neglect for civilian life. What we have outlined to you amounts to probative evidence of widespread violations of British laws, International Humanitarian Law and the UK Government’s own rules on arms exports, namely the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria.
The letter goes on to document the unbelievable trauma of their medical colleagues in Gaza, who work on in the face ‘unimaginable living conditions’ and of the killing of their own families and friends: All were acutely aware that their work as healthcare providers had marked them as targets for Israel.
Many of our Palestinian healthcare colleagues were kidnapped by Israeli forces. During their detention, which lasted for weeks or months, almost all reported experience of physical and psychological abuse, mistreatment including torture and sexual abuse including being stripped naked, and other cruel and inhumane punishments- punishments given them solely for their being doctors.
Documenting attacks on themselves, both in Israel and also harassment and threats on their return to the UK, the letter goes on:
We urge you to see that Israel has directly targeted and deliberately devastated Gaza’s entire healthcare system, and that Israel has targeted our colleagues in Gaza for death, disappearance, and torture. These unconscionable acts are entirely at odds with British law, British values, and International Humanitarian Law. Prime Minister Starmer and Foreign Secretary Lammy, with your respective extensive legal backgrounds, you must acknowledge the widespread breaches of British and International Law that continue to be committed in this conflict. […] The UK government is impeding international procedures and has gone against its own standards that it has applied in other crises around the world. We sincerely hope to see these standards replicated in Gaza without hypocrisy to stop what is being done to innocent Palestinian men, women and children.
It concludes with an eloquent, detailed and extensive description of the steps that must immediately be taken by the UK Government, summarised as follows.
Any solution to this problem requires the withholding of military, economic, and diplomatic support from Israel, and participating in a full arms embargo of Israel, until a permanent ceasefire is established, and until good faith negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians lead to a permanent resolution of the conflict. In the meantime: All land crossings between Gaza and Israel as well as the Rafah Crossing must be opened to unfettered aid delivery by recognised international humanitarian organisations. Full and unrestricted access to the Gaza Strip must be created for medical and surgical professionals, including those of Palestinian descent who are currently barred by Israel from entering or working in Gaza. The delivery of community care including immunisation programmes must be ensured, to help prevent communicable diseases including measles, polio, COVID-19, and skin disease. A bare minimum water allocation of 20L of potable water per person per day must be allocated to the population of Gaza, as verified by UN Water. This is vital in mitigating the spread of water-borne diseases. Respect and support for international and domestic accountability mechanisms from the UK government must be ensured.
The final entreaty:
We repeat: we are not politicians driven by political agendas. We are simply medical professionals who feel duty bound to speak out about what we saw in Gaza. Our duty is to our patients, to our fellow healthcare workers still in Gaza and to humanity. It is the same principle of duty many of us apply to our day-to-day work in the NHS as we did in Gaza as well. Every day that the United Kingdom continues supplying weapons and munitions to Israel is another day that the Palestinian men, women and children of Gaza are killed and maimed by weapons, including those manufactured in the UK.
Prime Minister Starmer and Foreign Secretary Lammy, we urge and implore you to end our role in this unimaginable cruelty now.
Yours sincerely: Dr. Muhammad Junaid Sultan Consultant Vascular Surgeon National Health Service, UK European Gaza Hospital (3 April 2024- 15 April 2024)
James Smith MBBS MA MSc MSc Emergency Medicine Lecturer in Humanitarian Policy & Practice, UCL Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital (26 December 2023- 8th January 2024) Al Mawasi, Rafah, Al Awda Nuseirat, Al Aqsa, patient evacuations from North Gaza and Gaza City (16th April 2024- 6th June 2024)
Victoria Rose MBBS FRCS plast LLM Plastic Surgeon, Ideals Charity since 2019, Chair of RCSE Special Advisory Committee for Plastic Surgery European Gaza Hospital (March 2024) Nasser Hospital (August 2024)
Alan Frederick Graeme Groom MA MB FRCS Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon Co-Chair of IDEALS charity , European Gaza Hospital (25 December 20239 January 2024, 24 March 2024- 9 April 2024) Nasser Hospital (5 August 2024 to Present)
There was a video of a guy speaking into the camera after the Sarah Wilkinson arrest. In addition to “F*ck you Starmer” at the end”, he made it clear, in a message directly to Starmer ” we’re not going to stop”
Oh dear. It seems the bravest of the brave are hard to stamp out. And their collective consciences may outlast Starmer. ..History’s lesson.
Posted by RaskolnikovX on September 25, 2024, 2:54 pm, in reply to "Or even 2024 :-) nm"
Don't give them any ideas; sending cyborgs back n time never ends well. They made a film about it......no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Re: Or even 2024 :-)...come on Shyaku, keep up man! : ) LOL (nm)
Posted by Ed on September 25, 2024, 5:08 pm, in reply to "Or even 2024 :-) nm"
on September 24, 2024, 6:48 pm
A good one to pass round.