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[Deleted member 4439]

So what happens if it turns out that there's a kid in the school would shouldn't be in the country. Is the teacher expected to shop them to the home office and get them deported?

I'd imagine they'd simply have to note a nil return. That or perhaps set up a safe house,

 

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[Deleted member 4439]

Anti-Israel protests in Germany prompt calls for antisemitism crackdown

Israeli flags burned as thousands attend demonstrations in Berlin, Cologne and other cities

www.theguardian.com

 

[wingy]

All children are free riders

I wish they didn't have to grow up, when I look at my grandkids.

 

[chiefdave]

Finally something that will bring the government down.

UK hit by Cadbury 99 Flake shortage

A surge in demand at ice cream van windows has led to a shortage of the crumbly chocolate treats.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[shmmeee]

99 problems...

(I wish I thought this up)

 

[Bugsy]

99 problems...

(I wish I thought this up)

But a flakey ain't one..hit me

 

[Deleted member 4439]

Finally something that will bring the government down.

UK hit by Cadbury 99 Flake shortage

A surge in demand at ice cream van windows has led to a shortage of the crumbly chocolate treats.

www.bbc.co.uk

This gave me the overwhelming urge to nip out to the shops to buy a flake ice cream 4 pack.

Just come back - no ice cream at all due to a freezer breakdown.

 

[Skybluefaz]

This world is fucked.

 

[SBAndy]

At least 212 people, including 61 children, have now died in Gaza, and 10, including two children, in Israel.

Well...

Also quite an interesting/harrowing read on the forum of The Football Ramble, who has one member from Palestine and reporting on what’s happening over there - The Football Ramble Forum | The *new* International Politics (& society) thread

 

[Deleted member 4439]

This world is fucked.

You of course realise that this and the similar tweets are the daily count of the rockets fired on Israel.

(I'm certainly not making a case for the Israeli response).

 

[Skybluefaz]

You of course realise that this and the similar tweets are the daily count of the rockets fired on Israel.

(I'm certainly not making a case for the Israeli response).

I'm not here to argue the toss. Just think a state tweeting emojis of rockets is a good fucking barometer of how fucked the situation is.

It's very Black Mirror.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Had a revelation yesterday after my lad asked me what we can do about Israel and Palestine and it’s nothing. There is nothing he or I can do. So what can we do? Well mostly seek justice in our own lives and live lives that grow characters that seek peace not hate. Now that’s a challenge

 

[hill83]

Well...

Also quite an interesting/harrowing read on the forum of The Football Ramble, who has one member from Palestine and reporting on what’s happening over there - The Football Ramble Forum | The *new* International Politics (& society) thread

Fucking hell. I don't know enough about it to comment and someone summed it up on there perfectly the exact reason I stay quiet on it.

But then the problem with that argument is that when you’re underqualified to speak on it in detail, as I am, you worry about overlapping with the genuine anti-Semitic cranks that exist on the left and so the easier solution on a personal level is to stay silent, which is of course an entirely unhelpful position to take.

 

[chiefdave]

I'm not here to argue the toss. Just think a state tweeting emojis of rockets is a good fucking barometer of how fucked the situation is.

That's one of their tamer tweets. Imagine if your apartment block in Gaza had just been flattened only to then be the subject of a before and after meme.

 

[Deleted member 4439]

Here's another one

 

[skybluetony176]

There’s no good guys in this latest round of trouble between Israel and Palestinian. These tweets prove that. It’s about time that the international community started arms embargo’s on rogue states like Israel and Saudi Arabia. We have an arms embargo with Myanmar largely because of humanitarian atrocities why not Israel and Saudi Arabia.

 

[wingy]

"Handcuffed, detained, denied medicine: EU citizens’ UK border ordeals | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian" Handcuffed, detained, denied medicine: EU citizens’ UK border ordeals | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

 

[Deleted member 4439]

There’s no good guys in this latest round of trouble between Israel and Palestinian. These tweets prove that. It’s about time that the international community started arms embargo’s on rogue states like Israel and Saudi Arabia. We have an arms embargo with Myanmar largely because of humanitarian atrocities why not Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Whilst I'm not sure you can compare to Myanmar, the answer would be because US and Saudi Arabia are world powers who we need to appease. Our stopping sales to Israel would make no difference whatsoever, though as a point of principle we should, that principle being less about the use of the arms than Israel's expansionist policy, itself driven by the US.

 

[shmmeee]

Any ban on arms sales to Israel would last precisely as long as it would take Biden to notice and pick up the phone.

 

[Deleted member 9744]

"Handcuffed, detained, denied medicine: EU citizens’ UK border ordeals | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian" Handcuffed, detained, denied medicine: EU citizens’ UK border ordeals | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

This makes me feel so ashamed of my country.

 

[PVA]

It's disgusting isn't it.

I bet Patel is absolutely loving it though.

 

[PVA]

I wonder what the odds are on Cummings having a nasty 'accident'?

Dominic Cummings threatens to release crucial Covid document

The tweet was deleted less than an hour after it was posted

www.standard.co.uk

 

[chiefdave]

There is absolutely no way this could possibly backfire.

 

[PVA]

He's the definition of a Weasel/Backstabber.

He is, and he must have so much shit on Johnson and the government. I am enjoying the show.

 

[chiefdave]

First 10 minutes of the latest This Week Tonight is on the Israel / Palestine conflict.

 

[hill83]

There is absolutely no way this could possibly backfire.

 

[skybluetony176]

Whilst I'm not sure you can compare to Myanmar, the answer would be because US and Saudi Arabia are world powers who we need to appease. Our stopping sales to Israel would make no difference whatsoever, though as a point of principle we should, that principle being less about the use of the arms than Israel's expansionist policy, itself driven by the US.

Germany doesn’t need to appease the US and Saudi Arabia. They extended their arms embargo to Saudi for another 12 months last December and they’ll review it again then. They’ve done this specifically on Saudi’s involvement in Yemen. Why can’t we take the same stance?

 

[Deleted member 4439]

Because we are a colony of the US ('special relationship'), and therefore also SA. Also, we don't make cars and washing machines - the Germans have corned that market.

 

[PVA]

And 6 of them were part of his entourage

 

[skybluetony176]

Because we are a colony of the US ('special relationship'), and therefore also SA. Also, we don't make cars and washing machines - the Germans have corned that market.

That bodes well for drug prices for the NHS then. TAKING BACK CONTROL!

 

[shmmeee]

That bodes well for drug prices for the NHS then. TAKING BACK CONTROL!

What did you expect from the political wing of society with a cuckolding fetish?

SkyBlueDommed more like

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Don't know if anyone has seen this, but it flashed up on twitter last night.

It's horrifying to be honest.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Don't know if anyone has seen this, but it flashed up on twitter last night.

It's horrifying to be honest.

Animals, scum, lock them away and throw away the key

 

[shmmeee]

Don't know if anyone has seen this, but it flashed up on twitter last night.

It's horrifying to be honest.

Shouldnt be hard to get that Snapchat act and find them surely? Disgusting.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

Shouldnt be hard to get that Snapchat act and find them surely? Disgusting.

That's what I was thinking. Hopefully they can.

That woman screaming was chilling to listen to.