This is the single most shocking testimony I have ever seen.
Even more shocking is that so many people that I (& probably you) know decided on that day that the people behind this perversion deserved their active public support.
It is hard to have any faith in humanity when we see how easily large groups of people can be manipulated into supporting activities too cruel and disgusting even for the devil.
And not because they understand it, but simply because they see that as the fashionable position to take.
Jewish people know what happens if they let their guard down in the MiddleEast.
They know what awaits them in Europe sooner or later, because the same old signs their ancestors have grown used to are reappearing.
Haters can demand that the world’s only (tiny) Jewish state submits and becomes the 50th Muslim state, but history tells the Jewish people that doing so would be apocalyptic for them.
There has never been a clearer or stronger case for Israel.
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The argument that fracking will reduce our reliance on Russian gas is wrong. Between just 1 & 3% of UK gas comes from Russia. We import mostly from Norway - a friend and ally. /1
And to replace half the gas we import, we'd likely need around 6,000 new wells, with all the associated industrial equipment & endless movements of trucks ferrying toxic chemicals & wastewater to & from sites. It's hard to imagine communities across the UK being ok with that. /2
It’s hard to overstate just how unpopular fracking is with the British public. The last BEIS attitude tracker showed only 18% support (76% supported onshore wind). People do not want large-scale industrialisation of the British countryside. /3
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In all the gossip surrounding events in N10, the most striking (and depressing) thing is how many commentators think stopping the desecration of this, the only planet we inhabit - is ‘wokery’.
Some of them mistakenly believe they are conservative.
God help us.
2/ Was Theodore Roosevelt ‘woke’? He used exec orders to establish 150m acres of protected land said & said: “Here in the US we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals.”
3/ Was Margaret Thatcher woke? “The core of Tory philosophy & the case for protecting the environment are the same. No generation has a freehold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy –with a full repairing lease. This Govt intends to meet the terms of that lease in full."
THREAD: It’s easy to make sweeping claims that Govt ‘isn’t doing anything’, but it’s not true. Given the scale of the crisis, it’s is true that govts aren't doing enough (no one disputes that), but we are ramping up our ambition & the UK is objectively a world leader. EG:
In the only major intervention at last years UNGA, the PM committed to doubling our international climate finance to 11.6bn. He added that a major part of that uplift would be invested in restoring and protecting nature.
Since then we have trebled the size of the world renowned Darwin fund. We have boosted support for those tackling the grim illegal wildlife trade. We have set up a world first £100m landscapes fund – to protect and restore fragile transboundary ecosystems.
A few years ago I would not have thought this possible – a march of this sort on the streets of London backed by the Leader of the Opposition and numerous labour front benchers. It is blood chilling. We are heading to a very dark place.
Speakers were applauded as they declared Jewish organisations are “in the gutter” and “part of the problem”.
There were Nazi swastikas, slogans calling for the complete eradication of Israel. And the applause reached a crescendo as Corbyn’s message was read out.
The march included at least 2 front benchers, including Diane Abbott (shadow Home Sec) and Richard Burgon (shadow Justice Secretary), known Islamist extremists, holocaust minimisers, and even Tony Martin, the leader of the neo-Nazi National Front.
Today Chris Chope MP will once again use arcane procedure to block a Bill that would amend the 1989 Children Act to include FGM on the list of things (like forced marriage or domestic violence) for which the courts can issue protection orders if they think a child is at risk. 1/5
The Bill has been scrutinised fully in the Lords, and is supported now by Government.
Chope has been begged not to block it by FGM campaigners. 2/5
People ask why he would do such a thing (and indeed why he has similarly blocked motions to debate Hillsborough, pardon Alan Turing, ban the use oif wild animals in circuses, target ‘upskirting’ and much much more besides. 3/5