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How is the thread not about the protest marches? What a ridiculous comment. Here's a clue: "near pro-Palestine march”

Does it not concern you what the main organisers of the weekly hate marches are engaged in? For example, Friends of Al Aqsa. They're a pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah organisation with links to the Muslim Brotherhood, and who want the removal of Israel as a nation. How they're allowed to continue operating in the UK I don't know. Well I do know. The same reasons the grooming gangs got away with their crimes for decades.

Of course she was harmed. She didn't land on a mattress! Why you're trying to justify what that POS did I don't know. Well, actually I could have a guess...

So you think if the woman was a bad person and did something wrong to him, it's ok to violently throw her across the floor like the guy in the video did. Wow. You learn a lot about people in these threads.

So let's get this clear. Are you saying if a woman / girl has made you angry, you would throw her across the floor like the guy did in the video?

So long as, god forbid, nobody said she was ‘openly Muslim’, probably not. The point is, the group in support of Israeli hostages are highly unlikely to turn violent. Whereas the pro-Palestine mob...

So the police officer feared the mob might attack the Jewish man. In response he threatens to arrest the Jewish man and not arrest the mob that might attack him. Bit worrying that you think that's a fair outcome.

It sounds like you've already been on the drink

Do you have any independently verified proof that 30,000 innocent women and children have been massacred in Gaza? Even the Hamas terrorists admit that over 10,000 of the dead were Hamas. Plus of the remaining 20,000 there might just be some adult males. Or do Israeli bombs only kill women and children? Exaggerating really weakens your argument.

Why would a crowd of 'peaceful' demonstrators possibly attack the Jewish man?

What it proves is that the so called pro-Palestine demonstrators are dangerous if they are rubbed up the wrong way. I don't think the same can be said of the Jews in the UK. If a group of protestors are dangerous and intimidating, the police shouldn't placate them, they should remove them. But it's easier to remove the one peaceful guy and turn a blind eye to the intimidating ones. If you watched the video you can see the aggressive black guy towards the end talking to the Jewish guy in quite a threatening way.

Are you suggesting that the 'peaceful' protesters would have attacked the Jewish man?

I'd like this to be true, but the way the Iranian regime has conducted itself over the past few decades I just cant see them acting rationally.

The counter argument being that Iran's extremist regime can never be trusted. A regime that terrorises it's own citizens. Lifting sanctions gave the regime more funds to sponsor their proxy warfare in the region, and probably enabled them to continue the development of nukes in secret. Also the JCPOA 'sunset' clauses meant that Iran would be free to develop nukes at a later date.

Sounds like it was a lovely bunch of people who were killed at the consulate annex in Damascus. As well as the IRGC leaders who terrorise their own Iranian citizens and plotted the Oct 7th attack, there was also the quaintly named Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It must make you feel warm inside defending these pillars of the world community. According to Iranian officials, they were meeting with members from Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a militant group active in the Gaza strip. That day, the Iranian consulate annex building in the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Iranian_embassy_in_Damascus#:~:text=According to Iranian officials%2C they,destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.

I almost spat my tea out then! Now I know you're just on a wind up 🙄

Fact is we're not facing the disaster that many predict (wish for): On 5 February, the OECD published updated forecasts for the world economy. The OECD said that global growth was resilient in 2023, with inflation falling faster than expected. Modest global growth is forecast for 2024 and 2025. The OECD forecasts UK GDP to grow by 0.7% in 2024 and by 1.2% in 2025 (unchanged from its previous forecast made in November). http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN02784/assets/39a3d50a-49be-4a0d-a804-c818cca109a6.png It won't let me paste the table!! But the UK is well positioned versus Italy, France, Germany and the Eurozone for 2024

Where did you get that 90% figure from? There are some people who might not realise that Covid and two major wars are the things causing the financial crisis, and they might be easily persuaded by remoaners to blame Brexit. But I'm sure the majority are smarter than that. 90% 🤦‍♂️

I'm also in the UK and I agree prices are much higher and people are struggling. The ONS data shows that inflation is slowing and wages are rising, but it'll take a while before the people really feel the benefit. I agree with you that the global Covid lockdowns caused massive financial damage that might take decades to recover from. It's amazing that people seem surprised about what happens when you shut down the economy for months and print loads of money.

You're thinking of Core CPI which is a different measure. Core CPI (excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco) https://cy.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/march2024

Here you go. Don't tell your tik tok friends, they'll be upset https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/ukconsumerpriceinflationbasketofgoodsandservices/2024 CPIH weight, February 2024³ (per cent) Observed variation in price changes¹ Representative items² ³ (per cent of total) 1 Food & non-alcoholic beverages 9.1 Medium 25 2 Alcohol & tobacco 3.2 Low 4 3 Clothing & footwear 4.7 High 12 4 Housing & household services 29.9 High 4 5 Furniture & household goods 5.0 Low 10 6 Health 2.1 Low 3 7 Transport 10.9 Low 7 8 Communication 1.9 Medium 2 9 Recreation & culture 11.5 High 17 10 Education 2.4 Low 1 11 Restaurants & hotels 11.7 Low 6 12 Miscellaneous goods & services 7.5 Low 10

When will you remoaners ever learn. The massive improvement is that we're no longer answerable to a bunch of no names in Brussels. The fact that we've fared no worse than other EU countries throughout the disastrous Covid lockdowns and two major wars is a huge bonus!

They don't strip out food and energy prices. You need to come off tik tok.

BoE target inflation rate is 2%, with a 1% max divergence either side, so effectively anywhere between 1% and 3% is acceptable.

No I don't. I mean if Hamas had the means they would DELIBERATELY wipe all Jews off the map. And all other 'infidels' for that matter. That is different from Israel targeting Hamas and killing civilians in the process. Neither are good, but the Hamas' mandate and intentions (and despicable actions) should concern you at least as much as the Gaza casualties.