ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on Legacy Act halted investigations into 202 Troubles-related killings of British soldiers 1 day ago:
You’re imagining lots of cross-border raids occurring then?
There’s a lot to investigate. But the political and social reality is that it isn’t possible to investigate one way, it would have to be investigate everything. It would drag things up again, and NI is trying to move forward, so there is limited scope.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 1 day ago:
Socialism is mutually exclusive to democracy however, and I’m not sure people would willingly give away their voting rights. The furthest Britain went was the post-war labour regime which was careful not to be “socialist”, but which nevertheless formed the NHS and BTC (with variable results).
- Comment on english snaccs 2 days ago:
Swizzels Matlow and a range of high-end chocolatiers
- Comment on Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 3 days ago:
Their organisiation’s US leader is fond of spouting pro-Kremlin anti-Ukrainian nonsense. Maybe they were used as useful idiots by Putin.
- Comment on Jeremy Clarkson forced to halt Clarkson's Farm filming as he issues frustrated 11-word statement 4 days ago:
I guess I’ll have to guess what it was because there’s no way in hell I’m giving GBeebies advertising clicks.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 6 days ago:
The British electorate have little taste for socialism. That’s why it’s Blair, Brown and Starmer who have been electable, while Kinnock and Corbyn haven’t.
- Comment on Government will send a test Emergency Alert to mobile phones across the UK at around 15:00 on 7th September 2025 6 days ago:
There have been regional tests but only one national test, and that was a part failure because the Three Network didn’t set up their config properly.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 1 week ago:
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Tories: Leader dependent. Austerity fatigue. Watered down reform. In a fundraising rut.
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Lib Dems: Memeable but no-one actually knows what they are about.
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SNP: Losing ground to Starmer’s Labour anyway.
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Greens: Still the impression of a single-issue party. A few bizarre policies too.
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Reform: Have the man, have the PR machine, have the whipping-boy. Weakness in candidate vetting may limit seats contested.
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- Comment on UK airport staff get bonuses for spotting easyJet oversize bags, email shows 1 week ago:
Most people check in online these days on something called the internet, grandma.
- Comment on Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds 1 week ago:
That’s the hope
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
They weren’t fighter jets, they used crowbars as well, and even a tiny bit of paint in a jet engine can cause catastrophic damage at the sort of RPM and temperature they operate at.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
You didn’t disappoint. You shifted the goalposts so far they’ve reached the opposite end of the pitch, and I’m now expected to act as Palestine Action’s PR representative. Bravo.
I have no idea why they chose those planes. Maybe they’re imbeciles who can’t look simple things up on Wikipedia. Maybe they’re hotheads who wanted an adrenaline high. Maybe they have an ulterior agenda. Hopefully more will come out during the trial.
I will say though, if we allow a bit of wild speculation, that their US arm is run by Fergie Chambers, a massive fan of Putin and supporter of the invasion of Ukraine. These tankers are utterly pointless in Gaza, but quite vital in the event of a state actor like Russia putting military pressure on Britain. And such an attack would embarrass the RAF, the MoD, the Government and affect public confidence in national security. Russia has operated many times in Britain in recent years, such as the railway sabotage a while ago that caused travel chaos at an embarrassing moment.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Indeed. If they are a well-organised group with rational people, it would seem odd and uncharacteristically incompetent that they managed to pick literally the most inappropriate target in the entire RAF inventory. Assuming their motives are as they say they are.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
I said these planes were used to bomb Palestinians. And that’s exactly what these mid-air refuelers have been used for, even if they didn’t carry any bombs themselves.
Verifiably false. The RAF has not been bombing Gaza. And before you bring it up, no, the RAF has not been refuelling Israeli planes either. The British use an entirely incompatible air-to-air refuelling system. And even if they magically didn’t, they wouldn’t be parking the planes in rural Oxfordshire.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
But then they won’t be able to impress their basement friends with their edginess.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Two neo-Nazi groups were proscribed at the same time…
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
The Suffragettes did nothing to advance the cause, quite the opposite. They poisoned centrist politicians against suffrage, confirmed the claims of the opponents talking about “mad women”, and made it hard for supporters of suffrage to make progress.
It’s very likely women would have got the vote sooner if the militants just… didn’t.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
They threw paint into jet engines, which now have to be stripped down and rebuilt. They also went at the planes with a crowbar, and damaged security barriers at the perimeter. The damage is estimated at £7 million.
The army has nothing to do with any of this.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Aircraft that are being used to bomb innocent civilians should be vandalized.
These planes are not bombers, and carry no weapons.
Setting fire to a UK plane that is being used to genocide people
These planes are not being used for that in any capacity.
I look forward to your moving the goalposts.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
/ air tankers, unrelated to any genocide
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Ah “liar”. They were tankers, not fighter jets. And paint thrown in an engine requires the engine to be completely stripped down for parts to be inspected and cleaned because it’s a plane not a lawnmower. They also went at the planes with a crowbar.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
The Suffragists were a group of men and women including MPs who worked within the political system of peaceful negotiation and consensus-building over many years, and had made some gains.
The Suffragettes were a paramilitary organisation tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst, and rejected the involvement of men (and working-class women).
The cause of women’s suffrage was advanced by the Suffragists, but once the Suffragettes started burning, bombing and racially harassing Jewish MPs, those gains were fatally undermined, and public opinion turned against women’s suffrage.
The cause was only revisited after WWI, based on the actions of women on the home front and the new demographic realities. It had little to do with the suffragettes who were still poorly received on either side.
It was a rewriting of history by a couple of propaganda books in the 1930s (largely ex-suffragettes trying to whitewash their crimes) that eventually led to the modern confusion between suffragettes and suffragists.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
That’s over 20 years ago, before 7/7 changed strategy.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
So the beheading of Lee Rigby wasn’t terrorism? Your definition doesn’t match the law or the dictionary.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
An attack on military assets for a political aim.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
The government didn’t make concessions to the Suffragettes either. The WSPU was a total failure.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Paint and crowbars. The engines will have to be stripped down and rebuilt.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
They were willing to commit mass murder in London and Dublin, and to assassinate the Prime Minister. Also deeply keen on removing all Jews from the House of Commons. Things that today would indeed mark them as a terrorist organisation.
Later, Emmeline Pankhurst would found a political party with the aim of requiring all civil servants to prove their racial purity back at least 3 generations, and many of the more prominent members of the WSPU became prominent members of the British fascist movement.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
The Gestapo relied almost entirely on public informants. The Stasi had an extensive and qualitative surveillance apparatus.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
The group in question broke onto an airbase and put a couple of RAF planes out of action. They crossed a red line for the government.