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Starmer has issued Israel with an ultimatum that if they do not make peace with Hamas by September, then Britain will recognise Palestine as a state.
He said the Israeli government must make substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, agree to a ceasefire and commit to a long-term sustainable peace, allow the UN to restart the supply of aid and make clear there will be no annexations in the West Bank.
To Hamas he said that they must immediately release all of the hostages, sign up to a ceasefire, disarm and accept that they will play no part in the government of Gaza. However there are no consequences for Hamas if they do not comply with his demands!
This is quite extraordinary, coming just a few days after Steve Witkoff the US Envoy confirmed that the reason peace talks broke down recently were because Hamas weren't interested, and I suspect the announcement is as much timed and designed for domestic politics as international.
In a nutshell, that’s exactly what should have and should be happening now. Otherwise why were the UN formed in the first place? The population needs to get a gorilla force together…. Eradicate these animal Hamas tossers and start afresh. There will never be a two state again and why should there be?
Best get down to beach with a hamper then.
This is an interesting article and appears to be well researched.
https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/
A legend, it will be a long time before anyone matches this guy, and that goes for the whole band too. IMO🦇🦇🦇
Lizzie has a good kind heart but I think her sympathies are misplaced on this occasion. (No offence meant).
I do have a kind heart, thanks...........BUT what I am suggesting is that we use the best talent available in the migrant population, and chuck the rest back to where they belong! It worked for me in business: I kept the best, got rid of the worst. Never lost an Employment Tribunal case, or any other case, as I did everything by the book. That is what the Government should do.
From an article in today's Telegraph by Daniel Hannan.
Consider, one more time, some of the statistics.
Around 3,000 people a day are signed off as too sick to work. The total number of claimants is forecast by the government to go from 3.3 million to 4.1 million by the end of this parliament.
According to the NHS Confederation, in 2021-22, 63,392 people went straight from university onto long-term sickness benefits.
The fastest rise is among 25- to 34-year-olds, an incredible increase of 69 per cent in five years. (Incredible in every sense: such a sudden and cataclysmic explosion in disability would surely be visible on the streets.)
In Birmingham, one in four working-age adults is inactive. One. In. Four. Even at the height of the Great Depression, the proportion in our second city never rose so high. Then, mass worklessness was treated as the most important challenge facing the nation; now, we barely notice.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/12/reform-welfare-or-failed-state-britain-only-choice/
A bloke came over to me in Tescos car park last week to talk about my Omega, which is getting pretty common these days.
He reckoned it was easily worth a couple of grand.
I have no idea, and have no plans to ever sell it, so it doesnt really matter to me.
There has been a royal train dating back to queen Vicky.
I have a lifelong love for trains, since 1958, especially those pulled by a steam engine, or a Deltic diesel!
But the modern trains are also a great way to travel long distances, which I have done for work and pleasure over many years. However, have had no need to use them in recent times as I just do not need to travel far, and using the Omega is so easy for most journeys. Only used steam preservation trains in the last 3 years. I have now no idea on the costs of going by train, even to London, and can only remember that my season ticket for commuting from the Midlands to London, which I did for two years, in the early noughties, cost about £3,500 per annum. Bet it is far more than that now!
Was this iconic loco also a 2 stroke?
