Plan B is the first step to lockdown. A variant that has caused no deaths and the scaremongers and socialists win.
Really disappointing to see the U.K. government action. There WILL be new variants every year. We will only know how severe variants are weeks after they are identified (like flu). Does that mean the UK will now introduce economic restrictions every Xmas?! #DowningStreetBriefing
Extraordinary that the U.K. socio-economic life now revolves around the likely future number of vacant hospital beds (which have always been overflowing with patients)….The U.K. now exists to serve the NHS….
The Plan B measures may look soft but they will cost billions of £. Studies suggest £4 b a month. Everyone will be affected for years to come…
And we are now taking step 2 towards lockdown…if Plan B is not voted down, the U.K. is in trouble (and this has nothing to do with covid)
The reality is that the petrol shortages in Britain are because there is so much well-paid work locally that there aren’t enough lorry drivers. It is a problem, but a good problem to be facing…
We will face a similar problem with carers…lots of old people but not enough carers. We need more open borders, only way around this. And this applies to all developed nations
As crude and vulgar as this may sound, we in Britain and in almost all other developed nations with low birth rates need to import young men and women from nations that produce babies they can’t feed. Brain drain will be a temporary price to pay.
Only good news is the Israeli Palestinian collaboration to deal with the fires today & as a result, Israel cancelling its request for international help. I hope both Israelis & Palestinians realise that Americans can dump them just like die with Afghanistan & finalize a deal ASAP
The only reliable partners for Israelis should be the Palestinians and the only reliable partners for the Palestinians should be the Israelis. 70 years of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs living together (regardless of political circumstances) means they are almost identical
Neither side - Israelis or Palestinians should let foreigners interfere: Americans, Arabs, Iranians, Turks etc etc. Just deal directly because as Afghanistan should teach us, don’t rely on foreign support
Tawakul Karman, member of @Facebook Oversight Board (which I’ve warned about endlessly) celebrates Taliban win and wishes other Islamic movements follow the Taliban route. This woman oversees content on @Facebook
From one of my many previous warnings about @Facebook appointment of Karman. Will @nickclegg and @facebook now act and terminate and apologise for her scandalous appointment?
Over a year ago, French Senator @senateur61 wrote about the danger of Facebook appointment of Karman….@Facebook did absolutely nothing. Now Karman calls openly for Islamic movements to be like Taliban, ie resort to terrorism lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/lu…
Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual arm - Islamic Union of Muslim Scholars, full of praise of the Taliban win. Half a dozen statements and articles including by its head, calling it “liberation”, and calling Britain and the US “occupiers”. MB runs 400+ mosques in Britain…
From the Muslim Brotherhood statement: “The International Union of Muslim Scholars is optimistic and optimistic and congratulates the Afghan people and its leadership, especially in the Taliban movement, on these steps and on this new stage that has begun..iumsonline.org/ar/ContentDeta…
Given the very open pro Taliban and unequivocally anti British and American Muslim Brotherhood statements, I reiterate my calls for them to be proscribed in the U.K…what more do we need to do it?
Everything back in its place. 20 years ago, the ONLY channel Taliban allowed to operate in Kabul was Aljazeera. Tonight, they together celebrate victory inside the Presidential palace. Also tonight, Taliban are running the show from the home of Aljazeera, Qatar. #Afghanistan
Also 20 years ago, Bin Laden out of Afghanistan decided to give Aljazeera exclusive footage of him taking responsibility for 9/11. Until when do we keep burying our heads in the sand?!
2 years ago, I warned how Aljazeera on its Arabic channel was promoting Taliban. Here is one tweet from 2019…(forget Aljazeera English, watch Aljazeera Arabic the channel that radicalises Arab speaking youth)