THE British state is utterly rotten and criminal. That the Prime Minister chose to make a speech from the front of Downing Street to condemn and threaten voters and protesters for showing support for Palestinians shows this rot in action.
A crackdown on peaceful protesters was proposed by the ludicrous and wretched Sunak. Then there was the lie that these demonstrations calling for an end to genocide were promoting “division”.
There was not a word of disagreement from the so-called leader of the opposition, the charisma-free wet cabbage Keir Starmer. He endorsed all the lies Sunak told.
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Starmer, a so-called “human rights” lawyer, endorsed the collective punishment of Palestinians by Israel. This included the cutting off of food, water and electricity. Starmer said Israel had that right. Starmer knows this is criminal because there is footage of him saying so when he prosecuted Serbian war crimes at The Hague.
Starmer colluded with the weak and corrupt Speaker to have collective punishment references removed from the SNP ceasefire motion. Afterwards Starmer admitted he had spoken with the President of Israel.
For months now there has been no vileness so foul that the pro-Zionist political class will not defend it to the hilt. Netanyahu would not have been able to commit these unspeakable crimes without the active collusion of Westminster.
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On Friday Israeli snipers shot dead hundreds of Palestinians queuing for badly needed aid. There can be no doubt the purpose this grim action was to kill as many people as possible.
Instead of condemning that abomination, the entire British establishment were in full panic mode. This was because voters expressed their dissatisfaction with the political class by voting for a nominal anti-war candidate in Rochdale.
The Westminster cabal wants to treat the genocide in Gaza as an abstraction; something that should be seen only through the eyes of Israeli public relations. What has happened is that the reality of the horror has contradicted the Israeli propaganda.
Sunak and the Tories have failed. They can’t gaslight their way out of pothole-filled roads, closing libraries, a crumbling NHS, underfunded councils and the fact wages will be lower in 2024 than they were in 2006.
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This is why Sunak and Starmer need a scapegoat, so Palestinian protesters have been chosen. They fear that the anti-war movement will become a lightning rod for others to protest the gutting of the living standards of working people.
The ultimate goal of Washington and its Westminster vassal is complete control of the world's resources. The ultimate aim is war with nuclear-armed China. This would lead to the end of all life on Earth.
The British state needs to be broken up. Scottish independence is therefore a necessity that needs to happen now.
Alan Hinnrichs
Dundee
FOLLOWING the recent report by Independent Age, it would appear that the Tory manifesto for the upcoming election (and probably Labour’s also) will be to keep the state pension at its present low so that people cannot afford to retire, and will carry on working, thereby allowing the government to raise the pension age to 75.
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This will also permit new legislation to be brought forward to allow the government to gather from any estate of those who die before 75 any unpaid National Insurance contributions deemed payable up to that age.
If you think this will never happen, ask yourself why is the UK pension one of the worst in the world and why are there WASPI women.
Solution ... independence.
M Ross
Aviemore
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