
Treasonous scrotes Palestine Action did £15m damage to RAF planes – so WHY do Labour bigwigs think they're so lovely?
A WARNING to Vladimir Putin. The fence at RAF Brize Norton is almost six feet high.
Also, it's made of wood. So don't try anything. It's an absolutely impenetrable barrier. Do your worst and you won't get through. Ha, ha, ha!
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You will have heard of the break-in at RAF Brize Norton, with millions of pounds worth of damage done to some air-to-air refuelling planes. One of them may be put out of action entirely.
The first scandal is that the two odious little middle-class scrotes from Palestine Action were not shot while they carried out this act of treason.
Nobody could be bothered to keep one of our most vital aircraft bases secure. No wonder the Israelis consider us 'unreliable allies'.
The second scandal is that nothing had been done about Palestine Action before they broke into the base.
This group of extremist morons have carried out plenty of acts of sabotage against companies. Causing millions of pounds worth of damage.
But nobody thought to put them on the naughty list. The list of terrorist groups.
Yet that's what they are. They are violent enemies of the United Kingdom. And they've caused more damage of late than, say, al-Qaeda. The argument goes that people have a right to protest. Well, sure, so they do.
But protesting is standing in a stupid keffiyeh shouting 'I hate Israel!' It is not carrying out acts of violence against the state. We call that terrorism.
In fact, the attack on RAF Brize Norton was even worse than that. It was treason. And until very recently that carried the death sentence.
Sir Keir Starmer has at last proscribed Palestine Action. Way too late in the day, but at least he's done it.
Starmer, however, has the Labour Party to contend with. A party that is full of people who hate this country more even than they hate their own dismal, pointless lives.
Some 11 MPs have objected to Palestine Action being classed as a terrorist group.
They include, as you might expect, the usual morons from the Green Party and Plaid Cymru. But there are quite a few Labour names on that list.
One of them is the revolting Coventry MP, Zarah Sultana. She made a typically idiotic comment.
'We are all Palestine Action,' she hooted.
Well, no we're not. And that comment will soon put you on the wrong side of the law.
Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn also think Palestine Action is just tickety-boo, a loveable bunch of little squirrels. That's because, like the ludicrous Sultana, they loathe Israel and hate the UK almost as much.
Richard Burgon, thick as a plate of mince, is standing by the group too. So what PM Sir Keir Starmer should do now is suspend him from the party. And make sure the likes of Abbott are never allowed back in.
Because while Starmer did a decent job of ridding his front bench of the ultra-left-wing mentalists who thrived under Magic Grandpa, they are still knocking about.
Be clear that any MP who supports a terrorist organisation will not be a Labour MP any longer.
And hey, Keir . . . maybe add another foot or two to that fence around Brize Norton?
FAR TOO TOUGH ON LUCY
JUST what the hell is happening with poor Lucy Connolly?
She shouldn't be in prison at all.
And once there she should certainly have made parole.
Lucy is the Tory councillor's missus who tweeted something horrible during last year's summer riots.
People shouldn't go to jail for tweeting things.
But now there are claims that she is being seriously mistreated in prison.
Reform's Richard Tice visited her and said: 'Lucy has bruises on her wrists, five days on from being violently manhandled by a group of aggressive guards who forced her into a wing riddled with drugs and violent women.'
Seems very much like she is being persecuted, first by the Government and now by the prison authorities.
OH gawd, no! It's Glasto! The best part of a week of the BBC trying desperately to be hip.
Like your dad pretending he knows who Charli XCX is. Did you know the average age of people attending is now thought to be approximately 45?
That's about 20 years older than when the thing kicked off, in 1970. It's because a large tranche of the boomers and Gen X refuse to grow up.
BARNES BLOW
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POOR old John Barnes. The England footballing legend was banned from being a company director for three and a half years last year.
His media company has run up £1.5million debts. There is no money to pay the creditors.
A brilliant footballer – we all remember that goal against Brazil – he seems to have the business nous of an Airedale terrier.
But then he finished playing just before the really, really, big wages started.
I fear we're going to see John lower himself still further by doing all sorts of sleb stuff on the TV . . .
MERGE OR DIE, TORIES
HAVE you seen the latest mega-poll by political consultancy Electoral Calculus?
It shows that Reform would likely have a comfortable majority in the House of Commons.
Labour would be left with a hundred or so seats. The Conservatives would be on 29 – effectively ceasing to exist as a major party.
A lot of the commentators are insisting that this is the end of two-party politics. The kind of politics we've lived with ever since Robert Walpole was Prime Minister in 1721. It's all we know, really.
But perhaps it is only the end of two-party politics if those two parties are Labour and the Conservatives. Both seem to have outlived their usefulness.
Labour is trying to woo Reform voters by echoing Enoch Powell. And so alienating its affluent liberal vote in the South.
The Tories are doing the same thing.
My suspicion is that we will still have two-party politics. With Reform on one side of the argument and Lib Dems and Greens and most of Labour on the other.
But where does this leave the Tories? My suspicion is that sooner or later there will have to be a merger, or an agreement, between the Tories and Reform.
Because otherwise, one of the two parties is a dead duck.
And right now that looks like being the Tories, no matter how admirable Kemi Badenoch might be.
S-MART MOVE
HERO of the week is the BBC presenter Martine Croxall.
Reading the news, she corrected her script from saying 'pregnant people' to 'women'. Well done Martine. The BBC, meanwhile, has said it won't take action against her. I should hope not.
What it should take action against is the moron who used the terminology 'pregnant people'.
Either send them on a course where they learn how to write English. Or save some money and sack them, on the spot.
FOR ALL THE OLD DUDES… BYE, MICK
THIS is for people, like me, of a certain age.
There were no great fanfares for the passing of guitarist Mick Ralphs.
He deserved better. Mick helped define the sound of two of the UK's top rock bands in the 1970s.
First Mott The Hoople, with their brilliant run of singles including Honaloochie Boogie. And then with the supergroup Bad Company, led by Paul Rodgers.
He was an enormous talent – never a showy guitarist, he just did what was right for the songs. Songs he was usually involved in writing.
RIP Mick. You will be missed.
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