Jonathan Reynolds, business secretary, suggests Starmer himself did not decide pay for his chief of staffNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has said that Donald Trump’s claim about immigrants in Ohio eating pet cats and dogs – widely seen as one of the ex-president’s more ludicrous falsehoods – will turn out to be true.Farage, who is proud of his friendship with Trump, made the claim this morning in a phone-in with LBC in which he also said he wanted to see Trump re-elected because he thought that would make the world safer.Because I think the world is a safer place with Trump, I think his instincts on the big stuff are right, I do not believe for a moment that Kabul would now be controlled by the Taliban again [if Trump had remained president].I don’t believe for a moment that the Ukraine war would even have happened. And I think that peace through strength is a very important thing.Whenever [Trump] says something like this that sounds absolutely crackers, in the end, there always proves to be some truth in it.I’ll have a tenner with you that within the next month or so, we find some evidence of it. What the scale of it is, I have no idea …I think Trump generally, when he says these things, is proved to be right.The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.After the October 7 Hamas massacre, the previous British government was clear in its support. Unfortunately, the current government is sending mixed messages.They say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but they undermine our ability to exercise that right both by reversing Britain’s position on the absurd allegations made by the ICC [International Criminal Court] prosecutor against Israel and by blocking weapons sales to Israel as we fight against the genocidal terrorist organisation that carried out the October 7 massacre.The new UK government suspended 30 arms licences to Israel, days after Hamas executed six Israeli hostages, sending a horrible message to Hamas.These misguided decisions will not change Israel’s determination to defeat Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organisation that savagely murdered 1,200 people on October 7, including 14 British citizens, and took 255 people, including five British hostages. Continue reading…
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2024-09-19 12:30:01
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