Chomper Higgot

South Africa is correct, as a signatory to the Rome Statute it must comply with the arrest warrant, not inviting Putin is a diplomatic means of avoiding having to do so. Of course South Africa’s response to the arrest warrant issued for Putin is not related in anyway to any other matter before the ICJ. It’s a separation of issues that applies to all signatories to the Rome Statute and is not at all difficult to understand.

The closure of Israel’s Dublin Embassy is regrettable but naturally there is a ready market for such a prime property in that fine city: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/12/16/palestinian-museum-founder-inquires-about-leasing-site-of-closed-israeli-embassy-in-dublin/#:~:text=Following Israel's decision to,its doors in April 2018.

You’ll have to be more precise.

It was Cameron, Conservative Party Conference 2009: The second part of your post started with an assumption on your part of my views, I figure you just make them up on my behalf so so had no wish to interrupt your flow. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/cadaad/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Vol11.2-8-Evans-and-Walker.pdf

Yes growth is a problem, all the more reason for a trade deal with the largest developed integrated market right across the channel.

Are you trying to pretend ‘Austerity’ was not a key policy of the Tory Government’s commencing with Cameron? If you have a problem with the use of the word wit respect to the fiscal policies of the past 14 years, take it up with Cameron and Osborne, it is they who reintroduced it into national finance planning.

I’m not obtuse but I am one of those ‘libs’ you obsess over and I have never once claimed the SCOTUS ruling gives Trump (or the Presidency) power. I do hold the view that it places Presidential acts above the law and is therefore fundamentally in breach of the separation and balance of powers.

I see a Presidential Pardon in the not too distant future.

What part of democracy has Starmer disregarded? He’s the Prime Minister and head of the elected Government, nothing he has said with respect to the ECJ and trade with Europe breaks with anything that has been voted for by the electorate, not in the past election (the one that matters) or in any referendum. Moreover, given your continual, complaints about Starmer, Labour and allegations of ruining the economy, why would you not welcome the UK improving trade with the largest integrated developed market in the world? Improving relations and trade with the EU is good for the UK.

Don’t want to be tried before a New York Court, don’t commit crimes in New York.

And yet still the crimes for which the Jury found him guilty have zilch to do with any Presidential duty.

As is often the case context and a broader view of facts matter. https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2024/china

Labeling low traffic neighborhoods and cycle lanes as ‘climate change initiatives’ is a bit of a stretch, both have significant positive impacts on increasing road user safety and improving health of residents. Cycle lanes in particular have multiple positive impacts regardless of the reduction in carbon emissions they enable. Perhaps local council funding is the issue, as it is in councils across the nation. Another product of 14 years of slashing funding under the guise of ‘austerity’.

What is disingenuous about the observation that the crime for which Trump has been convicted was not part of any Presidential Duty?

“Ironically the judge disproved the leftist lies and hysteria that because of the SCOTUS decision, Trump can now do anything and is above the law. Can our libs stop lying about that now?” How so? Trump is not yet President and Trump’s conviction does not relate to anything remotely under the heading ‘Presidential Duties’.

And do it starts, the denial that Trump has been convicted. Why it even bothers him is a mystery, he demonstrably has no respect for the law and has stated he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not loose supporters.

I’m sure he will, he’ll take a great deal.

Remarkable claims, but as ever no evidence any deliberate cover up. And of course the customary misrepresentation of prison sentences that are a matter of court record. I’m not a ‘fan’ of Starmer but he and the Labour Party did win the election, it’s not something I bleat about.

The Rwanda scheme is something to do with the comparison between time periods, and hence Governments, referred to in the OP. Back to the OP, do you agree coordinating with the Italian Government to go after the people smuggling gangs by means of the ‘follow the money’ method that has successfully been used against Mafia gangs is a positive development?

You did read the OP?

I’m getting that feeling again that context is everything. The Israel / Palestine conflict is a complex issue, I expect university students studying the conflict would be presented views and material from all sides of the conflict. Maybe trigger warnings should be provided.

That’s a remarkable claim deserving of some actual evidence.

I’m not conflating anything, I’m drawing a very clear comparison between Labour quietly deporting 13,500 people and the Tories spending hundreds of £millions to deport 4 people. The OP makes a comparison to the improved deportation record of Labour over the Tories.

“That's why they have scheduled Labour's Ricky Jones trial on the same day as Trump's inauguration. They're trying to bury the next example. ” Apart from a coincidence of dates do you have any actual evidence that this trial date was set with intent to bury anything. Some kind of formal statement or a leaked internal communication would do? Or are you just making stuff up, maybe repeating nonsense you’ve read online?

Nobody got ‘banged up for inconvenient social media posts’. Go easy on the imaginative definitions of terrorism: https://www.cps.gov.uk/crime-info/terrorism