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Right, so despite everything the Israeli regime have done, it seems there’s no low in this ongoing genocide that will apparently prompt the UK government to do the right thing and take some proactive approaches to dealing with the scale of destruction and loss of life happening in Gaza, but now it seems there might actually be an explanation for that, because frankly I don’t know which is the more unbelievable issue here, what this Tory government actually did months before the events of October 7th that are now seemingly tying their hands, or the fact that the mainstream media have utterly ignored it, leaving it to be unveiled by independent media outlet Declassified UK and their excellent journalism because thank God there are some people in this country still capable of actual journalism, because we should have known about this over a year ago and they sure as hell didn’t do this in our name or our interests if they’ve kept it so damn quiet. Right, so what have the Tories done Damo, what is it that explains their consistent acquiescence to Netanyahu’s regime? Well it’s not news to say that Israel is considered an ally by the UK, we did have a hand in creating the now genocidal pariah state, but the extent of that alliance goes further than just warm words and the memorandum of understanding that was signed between the UK and Israel back in 2021, itself an appalling act, Israel was behaving then no better towards the Palestinian people and their lands that it occupies then as it does now, but last March, the Tories beefed that memorandum of understanding up to an Accord and everything we’ve witnessed since has been in line with that new Bilateral Agreement, that policy, named the 2030 roadmap for UK-Israel bilateral relations, published on the government website on the 23rd March last year, the same day it was signed by the Foreign Office and the Foreign Ministry of Israel and apparently nobody has ever noticed it and it is properly vomit inducing in light of everything we’ve witnessed over the last 6 months, but now we know it is this roadmap being put into practice that we’ve actually seen reflected in the actions of our government. Here’s an excerpt of the intro: ‘The bilateral relationship has never been stronger. Our 2 countries complement each other’s strengths. As freedom-loving, innovative and thriving democracies, Israel and the UK are proud of our deep and historic partnership. We are firm friends and natural allies. In November 2021, the British government and the Israeli government, signed a Memorandum of Understanding elevating the UK-Israel bilateral relationship to a strategic partnership. This represented a signal of intent for both countries to cohere, deepen and expand cooperation across our mutual priorities for our mutual benefit. This roadmap outlines how this strategic partnership will continue to serve our collective interests. This roadmap, which defines our bilateral cooperation until 2030, will serve as a ‘living’ document. Through regular high-level engagement, our bilateral relationship will continue to evolve as a more modern, innovative and forward-looking strategic partnership.’ Freedom loving democracies? For who? Deep and historic partnership, sure, it’s one of imperialistic colonialism. Firm friends and natural allies, because apparently our leaders are just as depraved as theirs are then? We have a government wanting to deepen and expand the relationship with Israel, when a majority of the public right now, would much prefer we divested from them instead, certainly globally we’re seeing that, the student protests largely happening in the US but not exclusively and the retaliation from the state against that, shows who’s side said leaders are on. So what sort of things does this roadmap, which lasts until 2030, include then? It quickly mentions security and defence co-operation, well we’ve seen plenty of that when it should be banned, our obligations under international law supercede this verminous piece of legislation. Apparently both are patriotic nations, go stick a flag in it. Naturally there’s a whole section devoted to antisemitism but there’s a particular paragraph in it that is a real stinker: ‘Tackling the disproportionate focus on Israel in the UN and other international bodies, including attempts to delegitimise it or deny its right to self-defence. All states have a duty to comply with their obligations under international law, but scrutiny must be measured, impartial and proportionate. The UK and Israel will work together to tackle the singling out of Israel in the Human Rights Council as well as in other international bodies. In this context, the UK and Israel disagree with the use of the term ‘apartheid’ with regard to Israel. The UK and Israel believe that the latest ICJ referral on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict represents an inappropriate recourse to the Advisory Opinion mechanism as this undermines the efforts to achieve a settlement through direct negotiations between the parties, which remains the only viable path to a lasting peace.’ So apparently the UN are biased against Israel and the UK will stand against that, especially where people talk of its right to exist, which is a legitimate argument within law, as was raised when Nicaragua took Israel to the ICJ, or deny it’s right to self defence, which sadly under the same international law you claim to respect, doesn’t apply to people it occupies. But to actually attack the Human Rights Council for having raised issues and legislate that the UK will not recognise the term apartheid in regards to Israel is abhorrent. That is gut wrenching, Israel is an apartheid state, it oppresses another people based on an ethno-religious basis, writing no on a piece of paper doesn’t change that fact or other people’s acknowledgement of it. Crucially here, despite international law and therefore the initial rulings of the ICJ superceding this farce of a document, that is denied too. But there’s still more. Another section is on Defence and Security and here, they devote a whole paragraph to Iran! ‘Iran: we work closely to counter the current threat from Iran, including the IRGC. We will work to ensure Iran never has nuclear weapon capabilities; we will seek to counter Iran’s destabilising regional activity, including weapons transfers, conducted either by itself or through proxies; and we will confront the threat posed to us both domestically. We support a stable, secure and peaceful region where all can benefit from the rapid advances taking place and closer social, economic and technological ties.’ Let’s not forget Israel attacked their consulate in Syria, there was a response from Iran, a limited one I felt all things considered, but what did we do? Defend Israel from Iranian attack despite that and claim the attack from Iran was unprovoked along with the media supporting who failed to report on this nasty grubby backroom deal with Israel over a year ago back in March of 2023. There is a lot more to this, you can read up on a lot more if you look up 2030 roadmap for UK-Israel bilateral relations, but what I want to look at now is how this deal, this agreement has been implemented. For one, the UK is tied to taking Israel’s side through everything we’re observing even now, though sas I said before international law should supercede it, yet clearly it isn’t by the actions we’re seeing. Despite having seen 40,000 dead Gazans, all manner of international aid workers, not least British ones, arms sales continued. Declassified UK have covered numerous other incidents that can be pointed at in line with this agreement too, with Israeli military aircraft visiting the UK for we know not what, military aid being sent out, and the use of the UK airbase on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, which the US have been using to fly weapons into Israeli via the Nevatim Air Base, which was one of the military target’s Iran chose in it’s return attack on the apartheid state. Israeli personnel are receiving training here in the UK, the RAF itself from Akrotiri has been flying spy missions for Israel. Everything the UK has done leading up to October 7th, and since is in line with this document that you almost certainly will have had no knowledge of at all. It explains why the UK are acting how they are, but doesn’t in any way excuse that, or make it right. I’m also wondering what in all of this talk of bilateralism, we actually get out of this? Is it just arms sales and favourable opinion from the Israel Lobby or what? Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised at this, there was similar wording and documentation when South Africa was subject to BDS in its apartheid era, something this document also makes known that the UK opposes, but also South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ has been opposed by ministers here and now too, how many times have we heard Tories say what South Africa is doing is wrong after all? Moreover as Declassified UK have also pointed out and discovered in their research, there is a secret government defence agreement with Israel dating back to 2020, which has never been published and therefore we don’t know what else this rancid bunch have agreed to behind our backs either. It's no wonder international law is on its knees as it fails to be upheld, the ramifications of that failing and us all falling into potentially another world war as a result, the very thing these laws are meant to prevent, are clear to see and our governments are sleepwalking into it seemingly for no other reason than continuing to cosset a state that is committing genocide. It is disturbing stuff that governments are prepared to go to such extreme lengths for extremists and makes you wonder what other starts might have been doing too. Meanwhile, as we continue to see those students kick off around the world at what is being done in their names that they do not want, the price of Zionism is a high one as this video recommendation showing the consequences for the national union of students and the million pound mess they’ve landed themselves in over it will tell you all about, possibly coming to US college campuses soon as well and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.

Right, so at the risk of distracting from where focus should be, which is the ongoing plight of Palestinians, it’s still important to challenge the ongoing pro-Israeli narratives and we’re seeing that in no small part in the US, on college campuses, students saying enough is enough and being referred to as antisemitic mobs taking over in the words of Israel’s genocidal maniac of a Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, because they wish their colleges to divest themselves of financial interests in Israel, to disassociate themselves from the Zionist regime, very much a not in our names moment and because college administrations have kicked back over this, the movement has spread across multiple colleges and Universities. Young people in America are not backing down. So where will that end? Well for as much as what is happening in the US is gaining a lot of traction, where this ends is demonstrated in an appalling underreported story that has actually been rumbling along for years now in this country, the sacking of a democratically elected union body president for holding anti-Zionist beliefs and the cost of which to her former administration for siding with Israel, which has now passed the £1m mark. Right, so let’s start with what has been going on in the US here, on US campuses, which began at Columbia University in New York, but because of what has happened there, the reaction they’ve got, it has spread, such has been the horrified and appalled reactions by other students in the US and across the world actually as is beginning to take hold also. It began at Columbia, where the students have been protesting the administration there, the New York Times have put an article out reading: ‘College Protesters Make Divestment From Israel a Rallying Cry’, using the chant ‘Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,’ demanding the school administrators do just that, the D form BDS, possibly the least understood word amongst Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, to divest is simply the opposite of invest, so pull all financial interests they might have in the state of Israel out and this has spread from Columbia, to Yale, Harvard, University of Southern California, Cornell and more. It’s a growing movement, though the divestment demands might vary slightly as this excerpt from the NYT shows: ‘What it actually means has varied in scope, and level of detail. At Yale and Cornell, students have called on the universities to stop investing in weapons manufacturers. Columbia students are demanding the sale of holdings in funds and businesses that activists say are profiting from Israel’s invasion of Gaza, and the longer-term occupation of Palestinian lands — including Google, which has a large contract with the Israeli government, and Airbnb, which allows listings in Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank.’ Now the counter argument being presented is that the effect of divestment from schools, colleges and universities would be negligible, but that isn’t the point. It is students, and teachers it has to be said as well, exercising their right to take a stand against the genocide they see happening, that their government refuses to stop funding and of course as this story becomes bigger and bigger, it becomes more a source of national embarrassment, and when those in charge are so ardently pro Israel, from government level down to school administration level, they haven’t helped themselves in how they’ve reacted, from arrests, to barring students from entering campus, because peaceful protest just isn’t acceptable to them. Footage across social media has shown significant police aggression, yet all the time you have to remember what the so called law are actually standing to protect – Israel being allowed to commit genocide and the state protecting that. At Columbia, students were allegedly attacked with the Israeli chemical skunk, that the IDF use against protesters and Palestinians, delivered by two former IDF soldiers at that so the story goes and reputedly this stuffsmells worse than raw sewage. It’s grim. More grim, was Netanyahu, seemingly belying how insignificant an impact these4 actions might have, putting out a video, a sickening video, calling these protesters an antisemitic mob, conflating hatred of Jews with legitimate criticism of the Israeli state, nothing new there, but he actually went so far as to compare what is happening in America to what happened in 1930s Germany, because he is the sort of person to do that. The genocidalist once more playing the victim and expecting to be believed. He won’t be by those protesting, his arrogance will harden resolve I hope and a great many anti Zionist Jews around the world are expressing solidarity with the students, because there is absolutely nothing antisemitic in what they are doing, standing up for the oppressed and against the oppressors. But where does this ultimately end, or where can it end? Well for an insight into how things can pan out further down the line, it’s worth looking at an ongoing story that has had far, far less coverage and actually takes place here in the UK and this is the story of the sacking of the elected President of the National Union of Students, so this is directly relatable to what is happening in the US, the sacking of Shaima Dallali. Shaima Dallali was elected to the full time employed position of President of the NUS in March of 2022. She has always held staunch pro Palestinian beliefs, she has been outspoken in her condemnation of antisemitism as well, however she is also avowedly anti Zionist, which of course as we know is not antisemitic in and of itself. As much as the state of Israel would like state criticism to be considered racist, it isn’t, but that hasn’t stopped those who think that way, or would seek to use that as a weapon, from seeking to bring her down for her views, even though they are protected under the Equalities Act of 2010. Following her election, the complaints began. Personal abuse and threats as well, all amounting to conflating her legitimate views with being racist, but also, in what strikes me as remarkably Islamophobic, complaints relating to her association with Muslims and Muslim human rights organisations were made as well! Some truly charming people. Choosing to act on these complaints the NUS undertook what became a farce of an investigation, seemingly designed to ensure her dismissal. Complainants were allegedly allowed to decide who would investigate and the terms of the investigation against Shaima Dallali, she wasn’t. She wasn’t allowed legal representation, written submissions from here were refused to be admitted as evidence in her case and the complaints were publicised. She finally learned that she had been dismissed from her role as President in the November of 2022 and found out via Twitter. It was the first day of Islamophobia Awareness Month at that. Well, she hasn’t accepted it and in March of 2023, she commenced Employment Tribunal Proceedings against the NUS, for unfair dismissal and she had had much in the way of well wishes and support already ahead this move, from the likes of the Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and FOSIS, the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, who represent Muslim students. Part of the statement issues by the Muslim Association of Britain reads: ‘This is the first time in the history of the NUS’ existence that a democratically elected President, who also happens to be a Muslim, black, Hijabi woman, has been removed from their position. There is no doubt that this is an act of Islamophobia that sends a clear message to Muslim students that they are not welcome in the NUS. The NUS is allowing a hostile environment which demonises, marginalises and exposes Muslim students and those engaged in pro-Palestinian activism to Islamophobic attacks.’ Absolutely true in my view, this is very much the hierarchy of racism playing out before our eyes surely? So where do things stand now? Well the case is still ongoing and the costs are adding up. The NUS have accepted that Dallali’s anti-Zionist beliefs are protected under the Equalities Act, but they haven’t relented, they haven’t backed down, they haven’t settled. According to the Times, rare praise for actually covering something relevant for once, showed that the investigation in 2022 cost the NUS £622,500 and legal costs for 2023 amounted to another £222,500. Therefore to date it seems entirely plausible, especially since none of those costs factor in the legal fees covering Dallali’s defamation claim, that the NUS has already shelled out over £1m in fighting this. The cost of Zionism it would seem. Six years ago, the NUS nearly went bankrupt, so how can they sustain this? Well there’s a spokesperson’s quote at the end of the Times piece said the union had: ‘Committed significant time, money and resource to tackling antisemitism in [the] NUS and across the student movement. We will do whatever it takes to achieve this.’ Including go bust? For what? £1m that could and should have been spent on students has instead been wasted fighting a battle instigated not by people fighting antisemitism, but weaponising it instead. Criticism of Zionism isn’t racist, it is a protected characteristic, it is our right to be appalled at what the Israeli regime says and does and no matter how much they say otherwise, it doesn’t make it true and if the NUS lose their shirt fighting this, they’ll only have themselves to blame. Meanwhile of course the weapons sales continue, not just in the US but from the UK as well, David Cameron signing off on more arms sales just two days after the deaths of the World Central Kitchen aid workers no less, three of whom were British, thus giving the impression Cameron values those sales more than he does British lives, find out more about this shocker of a story in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.

Right, so Labour have just voted with the Tories in a measure which will fundamentally impact the ability for OFWAT to fine water companies who continue to pollute our rivers, lakes and seas as we know they have been doing with impunity since EU water cleanliness legislation got dumped following Brexit. We know the Tories have had no interest in addressing this situation because stuff the environment when the economy is flatlining, what we need to see is profit, profit, profit to bring their economic output up, even if that means their outflow contains a lot more nastiness. This is all a part of the government’s desperate last gasp of this administrations ability before they get bounced out of power to promote growth and somehow snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and Labour, instead of standing up for the environment, have instead helped them do this. Why? Because Starmer is apparently too scared to oppose it. What a leader in waiting eh? Right, so Rishi Sunak has built himself up a not at all undeserved reputation for not giving the slightest whiff of a care for the environment and for climate change, the biggest crises of our time, because they require long term thinking to solve. That isn’t the same as kicking the can down the road to the 2050s or 2060s to deal with the likes of river pollution as their current thinking is, that means starting now and not expecting a quick fix, but the only quick fix Sunak is interested in is how to maximise economic output and to hell with the consequences and this is the perfect case in point. You see Sunak’s bunch of ecological extremists have pushed through a duty on the water regulator OFWAT, which will change it’s remit in how it handles water companies. Basically these water companies will now be incentivised to put profit over reducing sewage pollution, what the Tories are calling their Growth Duty, prioritising profits over all else and when we’re all sick and tired of the mess and ecological and environmental damage being done by these sewage spills, it is mad to think the Tories fancy this as a vote winner, but they aren’t looking at the environmental impact, they’re looking ahead to what they hope will be more favourable growth figures. Growth, growth, growth, its an obsession, its impossible to deliver infinitely and at the expense of the environment, with the long term damage this short term thinking will do, it will just cost billions more in the future to put right. Well the Lib Dems, yes remember them? They do still exist, well they forced a vote yesterday at time of writing, the draft Economic Growth (Regulatory Functions)(Amendment) Order 2024, to try and amend the line in the Order reading ‘have regard to the desirability of promoting economic growth’ within OFWATs remit, the line which effectively changes the watchdog’s priority when cracking down on water companies and they lost, 395 votes to just 50. Just 50 MPs stood up and stood by the environment and this didn’t include a single Tory or a single Labour member. The ramifications of this change seem obvious to me. Where rampant pollution has happened previously, where the equivalent of slapped wrist fines have been meted out, adding up to a not inconsiderable £100m in cut water bills because of it, instead of addressing that, the Tories are now engineering things so that OFWAT puts greater emphasis on the economic impact to water companies if they are caught polluting and may be as a result of that less inclined than they even were before, to hand out further fines. If OFWAT were regarded as toothless before, this move renders them jawless now along with it. Here’s an excerpt citing the environmentalist viewpoint of this move: ‘Richard Benwell, CEO of Wildlife and Countryside Link, said: “The growth duty once again privileges business bottom lines over nature. Public demand and environmental need are totally clear – Ofwat should be promoting investment in nature and ensuring polluters pay. “A new duty that obliges the regulator to think twice before taking environmental action is headed entirely in the wrong direction. Parliamentarians are right to oppose this backward step. “The real economically responsible action is to protect the natural assets we depend on. Political parties should commit instead to a new green duty on regulators to ensure they take action to stop climate change and restore nature.”’ What are the point of having these watchdogs, these quangoes, non governmental departments, whatever the given watchdog in anything might be, if they are being charged to turn a blind eye? We all lose out, so Sunak, might get some kind of last minute boost and also be able to point to the drop in fines and say clearly this must mean the water companies are cleaning up, when actually the complete opposite might be the truth of the matter. Now Labour could have stood against this. Sure, the Tories have a working majority still, they likely couldn’t stop it, but they would be on the right side of the argument, so what excuse is given for them to have sided with the Tories instead of siding with the environment, with clean water and holding private water companies accountable for the damage they keep doing? Well apparently, they were too scared to. Keir Starmer is yet again running scared that the Tories might say something mean about him and in this case, they decided, in a move that absolutely should nail on in even the most ardent of Labour supporters minds, that they are just the Tory Party B Team now, are equally as skewed in their priorities and absolutely won’t be doing much different to what is happening now under Sunak and Co, because Labour backed this policy on the basis that they didn’t want to be seen as anti-growth. Red Tories voting with Blue Tories to wreck the environment in the name of profit. I wonder if outspoken water campaigner Feargal Sharkey will be doing another ring-round for the Labour Party after this? Green Party peer Jenny Jones summed this legislation up when it came up in the Lord’s the other week when she said: ‘We have torrents of sewage pouring into our rivers, onto our coastline, into our chalk streams. But instead of stopping it, this proposal aims to increase it and instead of giving Ofwat tougher powers to regulate the water industry…Ofwat are now being told that economic growth is more important than clean water.’ She is absolutely right. There is no excuse for Labour adopting the same position as the Tories on this, you expect them to be money grabbing parasites, Labour are supposed to be better, not just as bad, but to be just as bad for no better reason than being scared of being criticised – and it isn’t the first time I’ve had this argument regarding Labour and especially Keir Starmer, afraid to rock the boat in case the Tories pick on him, well, you’re in the wrong job if criticism scares you, because if he becomes PM he’ll collapse within a week! My God, it was less than a month ago, 29th March, that Starmer was saying that Labour would put sewage dumping water companies into special measures and then he goes and votes like this? Just shows what he says and does are always two different things. The Tories will always be mean, they are the nasty party, but so is Labour now and for the most pathetic of reasons. If Tory scorn scares them so much, they will run the country as if the Tories never left. Of course if we get real about this though, it’s only certain criticism they will fear and it will be over the economy, because of course whoever is winning the argument on the economy is going to be the party heading for power. That is how it has always worked. Right now, Labour can’t lose it seems, that massive polling lead of theirs, why should they fear criticism from the has been Tories who will soon get annihilated when Sunak finds his spine and calls the election? Perhaps their lead isn’t as solid as they imply at times and certainly pulling stunts like this, siding with the Tories, well that should be punished in my view. They should be more afraid of supporting them on anything, than being seen as a worse economic option, but then perhaps it isn’t a matter of votes, but of donors and if Labour are seen as being anti business, anti-growth, now reliant on donors as the party is, they might lose them and then where will they be, as un popular as Starmer is, his Party having spurned and purged so much of it’s active membership? Fundamentally I think this is nearer the mark. Starmer’s party is now as bought and paid for as Sunak’s is and therefore cannot afford to act in our interests even as they court our votes. I shan’t be wasting my vote on either party, I’ve never voted Tory and I never will, regardless of the colour of rosette they wear. The only Party that is going to prioritise the environment and our waterways, renationalising these blasted companies, taking back control of our water and making sure it gets cleaned up, is the Greens and that’s where my vote will be going. Renationalisation of water isn’t simply an economically sensible decision, though the outlay could be significant, because again we have to look long term about this, it will take time to fix what the Tories have destroyed, there is a moral case for it, to not renationalise is completely amoral, as this video recommendation will set out the stall of, my recommended next watch for you and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.

Right, so pride, patriotism, flying the English Flag on St George’s Day, is this something you do? Is this something you take pride in? If so why? Now I’m not one such person, I’ll say this up front, but then I consider myself Cornish rather than English, I have no issue with flags per se, the Cornish Flag of Cornwall’s Patron Saint, St Piran, is incorporated into my logo, it’s nice to have pride in your roots and flags certainly symbolise that. The trouble is, the English Flag, much like the Union Flag, is becoming more and more a source of shame for a lot of people and for no small wonder when we see what is being done in our name and who is being seen as representative of British patriotism, more and more being seized upon by the far right, more and more seen as a symbol of racism and not national pride, not to mention a symbol of hypocrisy too, especially amongst our political class because St George wasn’t just the English patron saint after all. Right, so, St George’s Day, not a day many of us will have celebrated, unlike other saint’s days we don’t get a bank holiday for it for one and that might be one reason why scenes like this happen every year, the day being marked by scenes such as this, the far right draping themselves in the flag claiming as they so often do to be patriots, expressing civic pride by getting pi**ed as a newt and causing chaos in the streets, fighting with the police, with 6 arrests ending up being made. Whilst it is just an ordinary work day for most of us, in large part probably not even acknowledging it even was St George’s Day since it makes no difference to us, it gets left to the likes of this bunch to mark the day and therefore the day gets remembered for scenes like this, rather than anything remotely to do with national pride. It becomes a day or national embarrassment and shame instead as this is how the eyes of the world see the English. No doubt apart from wearing the flag, they probably have it plastered all over their social media as well, along with the word patriot no doubt. Well, there’s nothing patriotic in the police needing to organise a response that requires riot gear is there? One of these a*seholes yesterday actually hit a police horse with their umbrella. It's no wonder the English Flag is seen more and more as something to fear, as something representative of far right ideals rather than anything else, not helped by the presence of people like Tommy Robinson and all in a ll it looked very much like the far right’s last show of fake patriotism last year, when the Cenotaph was desecrated. Due to how the flag has been adopted in the way it has by the far right in this country, it has arguably become more a symbol of racism and this isn’t even a recent thing, because for decades it’s been used as a symbol of white supremacy, of leftover imperialistic leanings, for people of colour it is a symbol of something to fear and this was spelt out on Good Morning Britain by guest Dr Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham University who said: ‘The English Flag isn’t just a symbol of racism, it may be the primary symbol of racism in this country, because of how it has been adopted and co-opted by the far right. In my mum’s generation it was keep Britain white and being chased down the street being called a m**key. In my generation it was the National Front telling me to go home and now you have the EDL the BNP and all these other groups right? And to be fair, if all the same people hurling out all this abuse, waving this flag, having it tattooed on their chest, then what else could it possibly be?’ Scenes such as those in London that we saw, it’s pretty hard to disagree, especially with the lived in experiences he and his family and absolutely so many other people of colour in this country have experienced. Dr Andrews summed it up well further on in his interview when he said unless it is a match day, seeing that flag being flown in a pub meant it was a no go zone – a real no go zone, not the fake ones again right wing voices claim exist in this country and naturally they were full throated in their opining on these scenes of disruption in London. Former Tory Party Campaign Organiser and media mouthpiece Sophie Corcoran took to twitter deciding to do a yeah but what about Just Stop Oil attack on the police for taking to task these ‘patriots’ and not peaceful protesters blocking roads. It’s called upholding the law, a little thing called causing a public disturbance. I know it offends your sensitive snowflake right wing proclivities, but people are still allowed to protest. She also wrote whilst captioning Just Stop Oil protesting and the scenes from London with the police: ‘Police when you’re woke breaking the law, vs police when you wear an English flag on St Georges day’ Again, Just Stop Oil weren’t breaking the law. Stamp your tiny feet, scweam and scweam until you’re sick, but it doesn’t change anything. Good of Soph to bring up the far right swathed in their flags and reinforce the opinion of Dr Andrews I felt though, when noting the need for the police to step in there. She was particularly vocal as another tweet of hers also bears mention, again attack the police: ‘They stand there and watch just stop oil break the law They stand their and watch Palestine protestors use extremist language and support terrorism But all of a sudden they learn how to police when a bit of patriotism is involved.’ No doubt someone will have spotted the grammar and punctuation mistakes of this so-called journalist there, I’ve left them in as I’m quoting her directly, so don’t have a go at me for them, but it tickled me no end that Corcoran now chose to attack Palestine protesters too, because when as the title implied I asked where was Gideon Falter in all of this, this disruptiveness and if Corcoran bothered with research too, she’d know that St George isn’t just the Patron Saint of England, he’s also the patron Saint of Palestine. You’d imagine Falter and his ilk ought to be calling the entire celebration of St George antisemitic then surely? St George was a Roman Soldier, his mother was a Palestinian and he never came to England, so he has more in common with Palestine, more times to Palestine than he ever did to England, but then he’s also a Patron Saint in Ethiopia, Brazil, Iberia, Bosnia and many other places besides. The only link he really has to those swathed in flags disrupting the police in London in my opinion, is that he also happens to be the Patron Saint of skin disease sufferers and syphilis. Of course being tied to Palestine via Patron Saint certainly isn’t enough to sway our politicians either, who do little to discourage the abuse of the flag when frankly they do it themselves, weaponising it for political gain. None have been more obvious about that than Keir Starmer, who is frankly running of places to stick more flags up around himself, has now got it plastered all over Labour membership cards, but equally, when the flag has come to symbolise right wing leanings, is abused by the far right as it is, to see any politicians doing likewise becomes off-putting too. Starmer put out a gushing video yammering on about pride and national identity, yet how can we be proud, especially when it’s coming from him, when he supports Israel, still committing genocide in Palestine, the flag of Saint George, also being a flag flown there, the red cross on white background has been his symbol since the Middle Ages, it’s not actually unique to us, owned by us, just because we tend to use it more. The flag has become a symbol of division in our society, not cohesiveness, yet Starmer has also said he wants to use the flag as a symbol of patriotism, a mark of patriotism. Why? Jeremy Corbyn again. Yes, the jam making vegetable botherer is still living rent free in Starmer’s head, his justification is because under Corbyn, the Labour Party was seen as not patriotic. Why is that? Because he wouldn’t bow low enough to the Queen? Those scenes on the streets of London are how that flag and patriotism go together. It’s horrible. Public services crumbling, we’re all harder up and worse off, and he wants to talk about flags making it better. If you want to make the flag a symbol of something good again, then do something about it. Jeremy Corbyn had planned on making St George’s Day a Bank Holiday. Everyone could then celebrate it, how that flag comes to be remembered could be far different than it is now, being allowed to be dictated by the far right, and just talking about flags and standing against flags like Starmer insists upon, just makes you look like one of them. Make it stand for something different, or is that not possible because it was Jeremy Corbyn’s idea? As for the Tories because who could leave them out of this, they solidly reinforced the belief that the flag symbolises racism as their rancid Rwanda Bill happened to pass on St Georges Day. If that doesn’t sum up the meaning of patriotism in England in this day and age here and now I don’t know what does and nothing sums Tory failure up quite like it does either as this video recommendation will fill you on all the reasons that Bill will still fail and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.

Members of the TSSA union have balloted for strike action just 6 months into the tenure of their new General Secretary... Right, so rail strikes. We’ve had them before but the strike action balloted for this time is a bit different. No Mick Lynch this time, we’re not talking about the RMT so sorry to disappoint you there perhaps, Lynch is a competent trade unionist and his union have a great deal of respect for the man, as do many members of the public who have seen him bodying anyone trying to go up against him and failing miserably. No, the union in question is the TSSA, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, a union that had already been rocked by the exposure of bullying and sexual harassment in the ranks, to the point a full enquiry into matters had been launched by Baroness Helena Kennedy, a KC, and the previous General Secretary, Manuel Cortes was sent packing. The reason for the strike action now, is because despite promises to implement the recommendations of the Kennedy Report – which itself followed on from another report into bullying and intimidation, the Conley Report - it hasn’t happened. It appears nothing has actually changed at all despite the election of a new General Secretary, who incredibly, has in the space of just 6 months, driven members to strike again, for all the same reason it appears as before. Right, so the TSSA are going on strike, rail strikes again, the TSSA are a rail union, but not exclusively so, they represent workers from across the travel and tourism industry and as such represent people from rail to shipping, to IT. It’s a union that has been mired with problems for a significant length of time as the Kennedy Report showed, the union harboured a culture of sexual harassment, bullying and intimidation of staff, it was so damning, that senior figures were swiftly removed or resigned, the house was supposed to be cleaned out and a new era for the union to begin should have been what happened, but it hasn’t. Naturally there had to be a new General Secretary elected and the Kennedy Report recommended that this should be someone promoted to that level from within the ranks, someone familiar with the union and it’s membership, their needs represented by the necessary experience. Sadly that didn’t pan out, rather unfairly, those in the TSSA overseeing the process, chose to publicly back one candidate above all others, making a recommendation to members on who to vote for, the establishment choice you might say. The TSSA’s own website still has this advice on it, reading: ‘The process is underway to elect our union’s next General Secretary, it is up to you – our members – to decide who leads our union. The way we elect our General Secretary has changed for this election, for the first time your Executive Committee has nominated a candidate and is recommending that members vote for Maryam Eslamdoust as the candidate best placed to implement the cultural change that TSSA needs and deliver membership growth and industrial success.’ ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo rail strike,rail strike news,rail strikes,rail strikes uk,rail strike update,uk rail strikes,rail strike latest,uk rail strike,strikes,strike,train rail strikes,unions,mick lynch,train strikes,union strike,working conditions,train strike,railway strikes,tssa,tssa rail union,maryam eslamdoust,tssa rail strike,tssa strike,tssa no confidence vote,maryam eslamdoust tssa,kernow damo,damo rants,gmb union,tssa bullying,skwawkbox,tssa strike ballot

Footage of pro Israel advocate Gideon Falter attempting to disrupt the Palestine March through London last weekend has gone viral. Right, so once more this weekend we've seen epic solidarity marches for Palestine happening up and down the UK and in other parts of the world too, but this weekend, one chap in particular has drawn attention to himself and this is a guy called Gideon Falter, who was seen in London, in video footage that has gone viral trying to walk against the flow of the pro Palestine march in London, being prevented from doing so by the police amidst claims to have been just passing through. He wasn't. He allegedly turned up with a guy yjat must have been pushing 7ft as a bodyguard and a cameraman, drew attention to himself and got himself platformed by mainstream media as a result. So what was he playing at? Less important is he was doing, rather more important, is why he was doing it and in who's interests. Right, so that was a selection of clips featuring pro Palestine march botherer Gideon Falter. He was taken to task by the police for trying to disrupt the march that happened last week and was prevented from doing so. The second clip there showed his extremely large bodyguard and cameraman as he was taken aside by the police. This wasn't Falter's first attempt to interfere with a march as last November, as the next clip showed, he tried to drive what was apparently a promotional van as close to the crowd as he could forcing the police to step in again and of course protesters to do what protesters do, even if they didn't know Falter himself, they'll have no doubt known the livery on his van. And the fourth clip is Falter having won his moment in the spotlight, being taken to task by someone a darn sight more knowledgeable and honest in Ben Jamal, the Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, because absolutely there are Jewish people in these marches, a lot of them, huge numbers of Jewish people are as appalled if not more so by the actions of Israel in Gaza and historically throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories and are very much on these marches wherever they are happening. But Ben Jamal also made another comment in another part of that interview he had with Kay Burley, where he said: 'People need also to be aware of who Mr Falter is and the organisation he represents.' I very much agree and indeed it is who Falter represents that is arguably more important that who Flater himself is and there are two organisations I want to talk about here, I know which one Ben Jamal is referring to, but there is another that Falter is linked to and it's important they are both more widely known about because it sets out the agenda he and these organisations have. So let's cease at this point to pay Mr Falter any more attention, it is I fancy, what he craves and sufficient mainstream sources have given him the platform to complain about Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley and demand he resign for letting people march in solidarity with Palestine, free speech evidently only extends as far as his own opinions go, the platform to complain these marches should be banned all playing into the hard right narratives about hate marches. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo israel,israel hamas war,israel war,israel news,israel gaza war,israel attack,gaza,israel palestine,gideon falter,antisemitism,campaign against antisemitism,racism,caa,met police,uk news,sky news,jeremy corbyn,anti israel protests,no go zones,mayor of london,victim blaming,openly jewish,anti semitism,sadiq khan,jewish national fund,jnf,jnf uk,zionism,israeli settlers,kernow damo,damo rants,iran israel,jvl,jewish voice for labour,jlm,ben jamal

Right, so the House of Lords as they so frequently seem to do, have finally backed down over Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill and it has passed. Perhaps after seeing nearly a quarter of a billion pounds spaffed on this scheme so far, with Sunak seemingly intent on spending whatever it takes to see this happen, they figured a return was needed? Perhaps they were just sick and tired of debating this as the night drew on, late night votes a tactic to force the hand of tired peers, though given how often we see peers sleeping on the job anyway, I’m not sure why this is so off-putting to some of them, but in all seriousness as invariably happens, the peers decide to ‘acknowledge the primacy of the House’, which is to say they throw in the towel and let the Commons get its way. This is supposed to be Sunak’s big deterrent to those crossing in small boats, but it won’t be, it is doomed to fail and more people will die trying to cross, 5 more fatalities in the Channel happening as this law was being debated in the Lords, just to prove it. This plan is doomed to fail, it cannot possibly work for all manner of reasons and when it fails, things will get consistently worse for the Tories electoral chances. Right, so the Rwanda Bill has passed the Lord’s stage, it’ll now go on to get royal assent and pass into law. Sunak is positively bouncing with glee as people, the likes of his own parents, who come here as migrants, people who come here to seek asylum, now faced deportation to Rwanda. Or do they really, because you can pass all manner of crackpot s**thousery into law, just because it becomes law does not mean it is good or right, or even workable and when it inevitably blows up in the Tories faces yet again, the blame game will start again, Starmer can smile to himself as the votes roll in for him in response, despite doing and standing for absolutely nothing, or absolutely nothing different, because the Tories become seen yet again, as stupefyingly incompetent. The Rwanda scheme is a ball and chain around their necks, yet they can’t resist wearing it. It’s punching themselves in the face and calling it winning votes. So it’s law now then. Great, when will the first flights take off then? Well Sunak is gurning all over right now, saying July, no ifs or buts, however there is one very big but here, a great big fat elephant in the room, which is who is going to fly these people to Rwanda then? Which airline is prepared to do so, because they weren’t exactly queueing up at the door of Number 10 to accept contracts for this job before? Well one body advising airlines to give this work a wide berth is the UN, who have issued a warning to airlines not to take up these flights, not to accept the work, because if they do, they could be held responsible for violations of international humanitarian law. Both airlines and their regulators could end up being found guilty of complicity in any human rights violations as a result of people being sent to Rwanda, but I’ll come back to the legalities of this in a moment. If major airlines are not likely to want to risk being grounded over accusations of human rights violations, accusations and charges even of human trafficking would not be good for business, then who would be? Well, it seems Sunak has possibly thought of that already and again proving that money is no object, because Sunak is apparently going to charter private flights, an airfield and commercial charter planes are already booked for specific flights. Well how much is that costing then? Well we don’t know the charter company, we don’t know the deal the government might have done with them, but we do know it is a damn sight more expensive than a standard commercial flight. I went onto a flight booking site, I used Kayak, and an economy flight on RwandAir, from Heathrow to Kigali, costs £591 if I planned on leaving on the 6th May. Last month, James Cleverly, our misnamed Home Secretary went to Rwanda to sign a new treaty over these deportations and took a private chartered flight, which apparently cost £165,000. Amazing that the Tories can find money for whatever they want whilst letting public services fall into ruin isn’t it? Now I can’t say the disparity will be as great as that, though I do find it entertaining that Rwanda literally have their own flagship airline and they evidently won’t let them be used for these flights either! Whatever the final price tag is though, it will be dearer than ordinary flights the likes of us would take. But of course this all predicates upon these flights getting off the ground. They were stopped before, they will almost certainly be stopped again. Legislating that Rwanda is a safe country is stupid, when under international law it isn’t and under a ruling from our own Supreme Court, it isn’t either. Making laws to circumvent the Supreme Court ruling is one thing, but going to the European Court of Human Rights will ground those flights. It isn’t a foreign court as Sunak keeps inferring, it is an international court. Of course we have the spectre of Sunak threatening to take us out of the EHRC if they choose to stop these flights, which they will and they’ll clog the system up by taking on cases on an individual basis amongst those chosen to be deported. Let’s not forget that for all of Sunak’s posturing about taking us out of the EHRC, it wouldn’t actually matter, because assuming the migrants are coming from a UN member state, they’ll be entitled to EHRC representation versus our own system at that point, having joined the likes of Russia and Belarus as international pariah states. That’s a heck of a step down the road, I appreciate, the bigger question I have given none of us elected Sunak to run the country is who does he think he is even suggesting this, but that’s the extent he says he’d take us to if needs be to get those flights of the ground, all of our human rights having gone in the bin to get to that point as well. Anyway, getting ahead of ourselves a bit there. Suffice to say, legal challenges will again cripple matters, almost certainly past the point of a General Election Sunak is hell bent on losing and as this fails, he’ll lose even more heavily, to no sympathy from anyone. Keep adding up the costs by this point too of course, because as I said at the start, we’re already nearly quarter of a billion pounds into this with Rwanda with not a single migrant deported. As for how many migrants will be deported? Well the Home Office are currently only preparing a list for the first flight that probably won’t take off anyway, so all this gumpf, all this Sunak posturing and they haven’t even got the list yet, but the first list of 200 migrants is currently being drawn up. Yes all of 200 migrants and that is as many as we will be sending to Rwanda each year. That works out as 0.7% of all migrants who came to Britain and claimed asylum in the whole of 2023, let alone all of those from before still stuck in an asylum backlog, some 128,000 people as I understand it at this moment in time, that’s according to a BBC piece from the end of last month and just 200 of them can expect to be put on a flight to Rwanda, so asylum seekers have a 1 in 640 chance of being sent Rwanda anyway and if we take the cost as it already stands at what we’ve spent on this ridiculous Rwanda scheme already, those first 200 asylum seekers, will have cost us £1.2m a piece to send there. Do you really think that’s cheaper than just housing them here? Each migrant could on that basis have paid for half a dozen houses to be built, paid the annual salary of 40 teachers or nurses. The waste is incredible and doesn’t even put a dent in the asylum backlog. The chances of anyone being sent there are next to nil and so it shouldn’t be a surprise that this isn’t putting asylum seekers off. Fundamentally, this is where the policy failure is its most damning, because the boats will still come and nothing underlines the failure this policy will be, then the reported deaths of 5 more people trying to cross the channel as the Lords were debating and finally relenting on this policy last night. The I reported that: ‘At least five migrants are reported to have died off the coast of France. A police operation is under way on Tuesday morning after an attempt to cross the Channel. French newspaper La Voix Du Nord has reported at least five migrants have died. It is reported that the French coast guard said there was a failed attempt to cross the Channel and police were at a beach after the incident.’ They will still come. There’s next to no chance that they’ll be sent to Rwanda, they may be stuck in the system for a long time, but that is down to Tory failure to invest in public services, in this case asylum processing. The money they’ve blown on this Rwanda vanity project to appeal to racists and bigots frankly, would have been better used here. Rather than send these people to Rwanda and risk legal cases, delays all costing vastly more, the figures of used as I said are based on things as they stand now, they will get far worse as the Tories will throw more money at this and likely get nowhere. A sane government would have gone down the road of a new returns policy with the EU, so that we take our fair share of migrants. If you are worried about where to house them, ask the government why they’ve failed to build housing sufficient to meet their obligations not only to asylum but to all of us struggling with housing here. The failure is the governments, so do not blame the migrants. If the government wanted to save lives and stop people drowning in the Channel, they could create a legal asylum route, but they won’t and we haven’t one since Blair got rid of the last one we had. Simple legislative moves to save lives and invest in the system to process these claims. Instead the Tories had to turn it into a culture war costing us an arm and a leg in a desperate last bid to save their electoral chances and doesn’t it prove how detached from reality they all are, but especially that worm Sunak, that this is what he thinks appeals to us to vote for him. It’s no wonder the party faces extinction does it? Meanwhile another problem with the Rwanda scheme that positively shattered Suella Braverman’s deportation dreams is the fact that all that lovely housing she implied we were paying for to house them, the housing she visited, has been sold off to local Rwandans because we weren’t paying for it at all, it was affordable housing being half paid for by the Rwandan state, surely they didn’t lie to us? Find out all about that little nugget on this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.

Right, so is the net closing in around Netanyahu? Talk of arrest warrants being issued? Well apparently it is being reported that the conspicuously quiet up until this point International Criminal Court, the equivalent to the International Court of Justice that brings prosecutions against individuals as opposed to nation states, is in the process of drawing up an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu and fellow ministers in his far right government and this has been sufficient to cause enough panic that an emergency meeting has been called over it, but really is there any chance of the warrant being executed and should Netanyahu be worried he will get dragged to The Hague? Or is it more about the optics of the situation and the reputational damage to Israel should this move be made? Right, so sphincters are twitching around Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet table it seems as reports are coming out implying that an arrest warrant may well be issued shortly for Netanyahu and others in his mad far right government, but why now? Why has it taken this long for the International Criminal Court to do anything, especially in light of the International Court of Justice having handed down orders to Israel back in January, which got beefed up slightly last month? Well, if I were to put myself in the shoes of the ICC I would look at this situation and thought OK, right well the ICJ have handed down provisional orders to Israel because there’s a prima facie case for genocide here, it’ll take years to assess the merits of that and of course the genocide is still ongoing, Israel are attacking Rafah in skirmishes, the big push into the city where the majority of the Gazan population are holed up, suffering disease and famine, that the world fears could happen so far hasn’t, but the rest of Gaza has been pretty much razed to the ground. From the ICC’s perspective, Israel is clearly a country of interest, but their remit is those in charge. Now it seemed to me, that all the evidence presented at the ICJ by South Africa, incriminating the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog and Itamar Ben Gvir etc certainly presented itself also as evidence for individual prosecutions by the ICC in turn, but perhaps they needed more? Perhaps seeing Israel pay not the blindest bit of notice it seemed of those ICJ rulings, the ICC might have thought, well if they aren’t going to stop, we may as well bolster up any potential individual prosecutions by giving them more rope so to speak, allow the alleged criminals to commit more criminal activity strengthening a case against them further down the line. Now that might sound really hard headed, hard hearted, but I’m thinking within the remit of the ICC here. The ICJ I do feel should have stepped in harder and faster than they have, its not like South Africa haven’t been trying to get that, though enforcement of all of these rulings be they ICJ or ICC is out of both their hands it is for the UN to enforce. Across the board it can be argued and I wouldn’t dispute it, more could and should have been done before now. But at last it seems like the ICC might be prepared to issue arrest warrants, the cases against some in the Israeli government, namely Netanyahu himself, evidently may be strong enough now to give them confidence in this course of action and Netanyahu by all accounts is bricking it now, he’s in a flap, there’s panic. Now from my point of view I’m thinking, OK, great, an arrest warrant gets issued, who’s going to carry out the arrest then? I’m reminded that Putin has such a warrant out for him and he’s still very much in charge of Russia, so does Netanyahu have much to fear from this? Well his actions imply that he does, as this Times of Israel excerpt explains: ‘Israel is increasingly worried by the prospect of the International Criminal Court in The Hague issuing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli political and military leaders for alleged breaches of international law in Gaza, Channel 12 reports. It says three ministers and several government legal experts held an ’emergency discussion” at the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday regarding how to fend off the feared imminent issuing of such arrest warrants. The meeting was convened after information reached Jerusalem indicating that such warrants could be issued in the near future, the report says. Netanyahu also raised the concern in his meetings this week with Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. At Tuesday’s discussion, with the participation of Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, it was decided that Israel would also seek assistance in other influential international diplomatic circles to try to thwart the effort, the report says. Jerusalem reportedly fears the arrest warrants would be sought on the basis of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with countries that claim Israel is breaching international law and the 4th Geneva Convention said to be leading the effort.’ So that meeting was now last week at time of writing and the response to come out of that meeting was to use their diplomatic connections to seek to thwart the ICC issuing these warrants. Such is the pervasiveness of the Israeli state as many people talk about, certainly in terms of our UK politics with both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer both being avowedly pro Israel, the thinking here is that by speaking to their allies, pressure might be brought to bear on the ICC to leave things be, to subvert justice actually and any evidence and clue that this is happening will be damning for anyone caught doing it. It was notable that there were two politicians mentioned there, the UK and German foreign secretaries, David Cameron and Annalena Baerbock. Germany is a nation that seems, certainly from a governmental level, to be a nation still desperate to be seen to be making amends for the crimes of Nazism, the Holocaust and they do not wish to be seen to be opposing the self proclaimed Jewish state of Israel, to the point they are seemingly hell bent on standing by them come what may and all it really is doing is putting them on the wrong side of the argument once more. Three generations on from those atrocities, modern Germany has nothing to apologise or make up for in my view, yet here they are siding with genocidalists in Israel and the optics are appalling. Cameron is considered the most pro Israel Prime Minister ever, yet where leverage upon the ICC comes in, this bears looking at more closely, because the Chief Prosecutor at the ICC Karim Khan, was the Conservative Party pick for that post of Chief Prosecutor. He’s also the brother of a former Tory MP, though I daresay both he and the Tories might not like that point to be drawn on since his brother, Imran Ahmad Khan, was the former MP for Wakefield, convicted of sexually assaulting a minor back in 2022. All of that raises the possibility that Khan is subject to being potentially leaned on by the Tories, if we take a cynical and suspicious position, however Khan has previously said, even though he hadn’t moved on it, that both people in the Israeli government and Hamas could both be tried by the ICC. Israel itself can only be put on trial at the ICJ, it is for them to prosecute states as I said before, but individuals within that government and also when it comes to organisational bodies, such as Hamas would be, the ICC takes charge. It is notable therefore, that a warrant is only being spoken of right now in terms of Netanyahu and other close aides and government ministers and not for Hamas. It’s not like Khan is a sympathiser with alleged terrorist organisations and I use that word alleged deliberately because not every nation sees Hamas as such, just because the UK does. But Khan had as one of his first cases at the ICC as Chief Prosecutor, picked up a 2020 case against the Taliban for their actions in Afghanistan. The risk as ever with the ICC as this case proved, is one of means, because this case got dropped because the ICC couldn’t justify the expense of funding it. Funding, is one thing we can see threatened as a means to convince the ICC to forget about these arrest warrants. Equally issuing an arrest warrant for a global leader like Netanyahu though, is not above Khan’s willingness to act either, he was the one that issued that arrest warrant for Putin too, so if he can do that, he can certainly issue one for Netanyahu and it would really raise suspicions now this story has come to light about Israeli panic if Khan doesn’t now see this through. If they do get issued it really would say something about who is in the right and who isn’t if as seems to be the case, they are issued for Israeli figures only and not Hamas. It needs underlining that Israel are the occupying state and resisting occupation is protected by law, so even as investigations are attempted to find out exactly what happened on the night of October 7th, and what Hamas actually did versus what Israel did, the truth of which would help future prosecutions potentially on both sides, but as this video recommendation will tell you all about, Israel are actually blocking an independent investigation from taking place. Now why would that be if it was all Hamas? Find out all about that in this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.

Israel have made ANOTHER attack on Iran...a very, very tiny one. However the message it conveyed is a lot bigger... Right, so early reports today spoke of an attack on Iran, though it wasn’t particularly clear as to who it was, with the suspect widely being seen as probably Israel, we’ve been expecting Netanyahu to attack them again, hoping enough people swallowed the narrative that the strike by Iran on Israeli military targets the other day was unprovoked, ignoring entirely the fact that Israel had struck Iranian sovereign soil in Syria by striking at their embassy there. It has to be said early messaging from Iran didn’t help the confusion either, as they initially laid the blame for the strike, which was extremely limited from what is being said, on internal dissident groups, but commentary coming from Israeli bigmouths earlier on soon led to confirmation that Israel was very much responsible, but with such a small strike was it a matter of de-escalation, or was the fact that Israel’s target is in the same region as Iran’s nuclear program a sign that Israel know exactly where to strike and what they may be prepared to unleash to do so? Alternatively, was this very small strike a sign of wishing to de-escalate whilst having the last word on the matter and very much as per Biden’s request to Iran the other day, to let Israel make a small face-saving strike and just let them get away with it? Right, so it does very much seem that Israel did indeed commit the strike on Iran earlier today. At time of writing, despite Iran claiming their response to any further attacks by Israel would be met by a severe and immediate response, we haven’t actually seen that and hopefully we don’t either. The first wind we got today that Israel had committed this strike was from a couple of Israel’s big mouths, Tally Gotliv, a member of netanyahu’s own Likud Party, who has already called for Gaza to have a nuke cropped on it , put out a thinly veiled tweet saying: ‘Good morning dear people of Israel, a morning in which the head is held high with pride. Israel is a strong and powerful country,’ Well, we’ll come to this show of strength and power in a moment, but someone decidedly less impressed was Israel’s hard right nutcase of a Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who put out a slang term on twitter, which translates to meaning weak or feeble. He’s wanted a full on assault against Iran and he hasn’t got anything like what he wanted, and someone already coming in for heavy criticism, since the mad little man is currently calling for the execution on Palestinian hostages that Israel hold in their prisons and yes, I’m choosing that word very deliberately, in order to make room, presumably for more. He said that on Palestinian Prisoners Day, because yes, Palestine have such a thing because of how many of their people Israel hold. Whilst Israel and the global media are apparently so concerned and worried about some 130 odd hostages in Gaza held by Hamas, Israel have arrested – if you can charitably call it that – 5,000 Palestinians in the last 6 months since October 7th. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo israel,israel news,israel war,benjamin netanyahu,israel defense forces,netanyahu,israel iran,kernow damo,damo rants,iran,iran israel,kernowdamo,iran israel war news today live,iran vs israel,iran israel war news today,iran attacks israel war news today,israel vs iran,iran attack israel today al jazeera,yair lapid,itamar ben gvir,tally gotliv,iran nuclear program,isfahan city iran,isfahan,isfahan nuclear program,isfahan air base,israel quadcopter

A crucial UN draft resolution to grant Palestine full member status has been vetoed by the US. The Two-State Solution is dead. Right, so today was a hugely important day, a hugely important vote, a motion before the UN Security Council to admit Palestine as a full member, rather than simply having observer status was to be voted in, which would give the Palestinian Occupied Territories all of the protections every other full member of the UN has. It would also send a powerful message of support for the two state solution if both of the nations that need to be recognised in such a situation have all thr same rights and recognitions at the UN as well. Well in a move that in my view now makes the United States entirely complicit in genocide, in a move that may come to define Joe Biden's administration given the ramifications of this vote, the US vetoed it, exposing the truth many Zionists have been espousing for some time to our disgust, that the two state solution is dead. Well the US just raised their hand and made it so, because if they are so utterly on one side of that equation and not supportive of both as their veto puts beyond doubt, it truly is dead and buried and after so many decades of illegal occupation, has clearly just been an excuse used by all sides supportive of Israel and their illegal occupation, to just finish the job of the illegal settlement and annexation of Palestine. Right, so here he is again and a familiar sight again, the sight of Robert A Wood, the US representative on the UN Security Council on this occasion, with his hand in the air, voting down the Palestinian right to full UN membership status. His hand in the air in my view, killing the two state solution entirely. How can he possibly back it, how can the US possibly back it who he represents if he can choose one side over the other? That isn't a two state solution, it is a one state solution, where Israel just takes everything in the end. To me, this settles matters as far as Genocide Joe goes, because if anyone thought there was a limit somewhere as to how far he'd go for Israel, the answer is pretty much now a nailed on no. This was an uncomplicated resolution brought before the UN Security Council, it was so simple, so short, in fact it was one of the shortest draft resolutions brought to the Security Council in their history and that literally shows anyone voting against it has nowhere to hide. The whole of it literally reads: '"The Security Council, having examined the application of the State of Palestine for admission to the United Nations (S/2011/592), recommends to the General Assembly that the State of Palestine be admitted to membership in the United Nations."' That's it! Just recognise them as full members, but no, the US couldn't have it and of the 15 member Security Council make up, 12 voted for the resolution, 2 abstained and the US being permanent Security Council members, vetoed the entire thing. The two abstainers were to no surprise as usual the UK but also Switzerland. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo two state solution,israel,two state solution israel,israel two state solution,what is two state solution,two-state solution,al jazeera english,gaza,israel palestine,hamas,2 state solution,un security council,united nations,gaza ceasefire,un security council meetings,gaza war,security council,gaza humanitarian crisis,joe biden,genocide joe,gilad erdan,mustafa barghouti,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,robert a wood,palestine,palestine statehood

Right, so was this ever going to be a surprise? We knew there would have to be an investigation into exactly what happened on October 7th, especially with so much in the way of evidence pointing to Israel’s own involvement on that night, initiating Hannibal Directive’s to kill their own people rather than let them take hostages, the use of tanks and helicopter gunships which targeted people in the kibbutzes and fleeing the Nova Music Festival. Well now the UN wish to conduct that investigation and Israel are saying no. Something to hide by any chance? Right, so the UN have been attempting to conduct an investigation into the events of October 7th and you might have been thinking about this already, 6 months have passed after all and you might have wondered when this investigation would begin, whether the ongoing genocide in Gaza was complicating matters, or just wondering what on Earth is the hold up, what is stopping you, the longer this takes to get going the more time and the more likely Israel are to be covering up any role they may have played in this. But as it turns out an investigation has been attempted and to possibly nobody but the most ardent of Zionists surprise, Israel have apparently been blocking them from carrying this investigation out. Literally the very reason they’ve committed genocide for 6 months, and they don’t want the UN to see the evidence for themselves, well why could that be? Here’s an excerpt from the Reuters piece on this, who appear to have broken the news, it’s not being well covered, which given the ramifications, is especially shocking: ‘A U.N.-mandated commission of inquiry that probes violations of international human rights law on Tuesday accused Israel of obstructing its efforts to collect evidence from the victims of the attack by Hamas in southern Israel on Oct. 7. "So far as the government of Israel is concerned, we have not only seen a lack of cooperation, but active obstruction of our efforts to receive evidence from Israeli witnesses and victims to the events that occurred in southern Israel," said Chris Sidoti, one of three members of a commission of inquiry into abuses committed in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. "We have contact with many, but we would like to have contact with more." Sidoti appealed to the government of Israel, as well as victims and witnesses of the attack, to aid the commission in conducting its probe. In response to Sidoti's comments, the Israeli diplomatic mission in Geneva said it had been carrying out its own investigation into the crimes, and that representatives of the United Nations and other institutions had been to Israel and met with survivors and victims. Victims would "never get any justice or the dignified treatment they deserve from the Commission of Inquiry and its members", it said, describing the commission as having "a track record of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements".’ So the long and the short of that is that the UN have mandated an investigation, Israel are blocking it, saying they are doing their own investigation, because they never lie do they? And their justification for blocking the commission is because Israel thinks they are biased and racist towards them. Now the UN are antisemitic. I do wish Israel would change the bloody record sometimes. The UN investigators want to speak to the people who were there, those affected, the families of hostages taken, freed hostages and eyewitnesses to the night of the Hamas incursion. Now various media outlets had already conducted interviews themselves, not passable as far as the UN goes, their own people need to have these conversations, but we’ve heard enough from the media to conclude that this investigation absolutely is needed and exactly why Israel are probably running away from it. Stories from eyewitnesses have been key to the truth getting out. Eyewitnesses to the attacks on the music festival that was going on and in the nearby kibbutzes, which are agricultural communities basically, those close to Gaza notably having their own militias for protection were attacked by Hamas, people were killed not least Palestinians as well as Israelis working the fields there, as well as those who came into military conflict with each other. It was said that along came the Israeli armed response to deal with Hamas and that was that, the excuse given to Israel to basically go into the occupied territory in the name of self defence and have been committing genocide and ethnic cleansing ever since. But equally Israel was not absolved of the killing in the kibbutzes either, since more and more evidence appeared that they took part in killing many of their own people in pursuit of Hamas. As far as the Nova Festival was concerned Israeli newspaper Haaretz came out and said it was an Israeli helicopter that killed its own civilians at that festival. If you’re on social media a viral video did the rounds quite prominently at the time, shot in night vision, it was a very lurid green clip, showing the viewpoint of an Israeli combat helicopter arriving and opening fire on cars and anybody frankly running from the scene. 364 people were killed at the Nova Festival and Israel had been claiming that 260 Israelis were killed there, all by Hamas, but that story eventually changed when some Israelis involved and eyewitnesses made clear that Israeli forces killed some of their own. It has also become clear that the festival was not known to Hamas fighters to be taking place as it was not their intended target, yet it was the attack on the festival that instantly grabbed global attention and was the reason Israel went into Gaza killing indiscriminately as they have done ever since. 1400 Israelis were killed was the report by Israel in the immediate aftermath of these attacks, however the 1400 dead Israelis figure ended up getting revised down to 1200 as Israel realised they’d counted 200 Hamas freedom fighters and innocent Palestinians in their count. They just assumed everyone who was dead was Israeli. Well this overestimate of actual Israelis killed became a matter of ridicule and when questioned by this the former UK ambassador to Israel now an adviser to Netanyahu himself, Mark Regev, a truly reprehensible professional excuse maker, gave away the fact that for 6 weeks, Israel didn’t know 200 of the bodies they had burned were not Israeli, because they believed all the bodies that had been burned had been Israeli. This is a point that becomes all the more crucial, because Hamas were not armed with anything sufficiently incendiary to burn these people, it isn’t what they were there for, they came to take hostages. People burned in cars, and in houses when you come to the matter of those kibbutzes, which I’ll come onto in a moment, could not have been burned by Hamas therefore. In other words all those burned, had to have been burned by Israel. Regev appeared on camera and certainly seemed to give away, that they torched some of their own people and they knew it. As media investigations continued, it seems because of the festival being in their way and screwing up their intended plans, the majority of the people killed in the kibbutzes, were not killed by Hamas, but were killed by Israel and this has come from the testimony of a reserve IDF pilot, Colonel Nof Erez, who spoke to Haaretz about it and said in relation to the kibbutz attacks, a Hannibal Directive was ordered. Hannibal Directives were supposedly outlawed in Israel in 2016 and these are an Israeli Defence Force order, which basically orders the killing of their own people to prevent them being captured. What kind of insane authority has such an order? But of course this is why the IDF Colonel spoke so candidly, he was just following orders. Where have we heard that before? But it also corroborates the eyewitness accounts that have come out though, saying that it was Israel itself who were responsible for most of the deaths there, with Colonel Erez saying that the absence of any Israeli forces on the ground at the time ruled out any chance of ground coordination of the air assault – meaning that the helicopters would have been shooting at any target that moved, whether they were Hamas or innocent Israeli citizens who lived there. Many tried to flee the carnage in cars and were cut down by the gunships. It didn’t matter if it was Hamas driving away with hostages, or innocent Israelis trying to flee the scene. All were gunned down according to eyewitnesses who spoke to Haaretz. A direct order. A specific directive that should no longer exist, or so we’re told. The fact Colonel Erez referred to the strike on Kibbutz Be’eri as Mass Hannibal, implies it is still Israeli policy to kill their own people to stop them being taken hostage. According to Erez if a hostage situation is detected, it becomes Hannibal. And now Israel are blocking the UN from presumably speaking to the same people who spoke to Haaretz or other media and we all get reminded again that anything the Israeli state says about what is happening right now out there and in Gaza is not a narrative that can be trusted, they’ve put out too much propaganda, tried to pass off too many falsehoods as truth and been caught out too many times doing so. So what is the UN Commission of Inquiry, who are being blocked because they’re all antisemites apparently, going to do now? This should be a big fat klaxon warning right now. Israel blame Hamas for everything ultimately, so you’d figure if what they were saying was true, that articles like the Haaretz one are false, they ought to be welcoming the UN with open arms to expose Hamas as the vicious perpetrators they are and instead, they are blocking it, which can only mean they have something to hide and when this is the sole basis for everything , absolutely everything that has happened in Gaza since, this HAS to be the point world leaders slavishly loyal to Israel realise they have a choice to get taken down with them, or finally do what is right and say enough is enough, this has to end. Defeating Israeli deceit and dishonesty is essential and I firmly believe the UN investigation, which has to be allowed to happen, will do that, but the UN needs to show some determination and resolve to get that done. Equally, Israel is apparently facing total defeat as it insists on apparently planning to take on Iran again this weekend, which it should be pointed out is another consequence the world now faces due to what happened on October 7th, again reinforcing that need for independent investigation. Get all the details on Israel’s total defeat rather than as Netanyahu often says total victory, on this video recommendation here and why Israel is so stuffed and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.

It has apparently taken 6 months, but David Lammy has finally appeared to realise there's some issues happening in Gaza... Right, so Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, the guy Starmer hopes to send David Cameron packing back to his now comfy seat in the House of Lords come the next general election and replace him with, David Lammy has now announced on social media that Gaza is ‘beginning to resemble hell on Earth.’ Beginning Dave? Did this genocide only start last week in your mind then? What swung it for you, the fact that barely a building still stands now? Did you see one of those before and after aerial photographs and finally managed to spot the difference? Labour appears to be changing it’s tune a bit on the Gaza situation, even a Labour Friend of Israel like David Lammy is now managing to make the right noises, but by only recognising the damage now, ignores 6 months of enabling it all to be done to begin with and trying to put some water between themselves and the Tories on this, when they’ve been in lockstep all the way so far, few are buying any change of tune in David Lammy’s positioning and more are asking what has prompted it, because Gaza has been hell on Earth for 6 months, so what has really changed Dave? Right, so that was David Lammy asking three urgent questions there of David Cameron’s minions in the House of Commons, he being a Lord means not only is he our unelected Prime Minister, he also doesn’t answer to us via the House of Commons, no wonder it is left to the likes of Kay Burley as her recent interview with Cameron showed to hold him to account since it appears he’s above parliament’s ability to do so. Lammy has some brass neck for putting on that performance though, because it is as if all that he said there were some kind of sudden revelation. Who knew about this? I’m horrified, we need to do something, the way he acted is as if Israel only struck last week! Everything he said here was 6 months too late and 40,000 dead Gazans too late as well AND completely disregards what he and others in his party HAVE been saying and doing for these last 6 months, but lets deal with what he’s said here as if it’s as much news to us as it is to him, because it isn’t. Conditions in Gaza are desperate and intolerable he says. Gaza has been razed from north to south and you’re only now cottoning onto this notion are you? Famine is widespread, we know this already, people fled leaving everything behind, we’ve seen pictures of the IDF tucking into the food left in cupboards before they then destroy the homes, heck Israeli newspapers have done puff pieces about this, clearly no Hamas in the building, with them stealing the food, so why destroy the homes afterwards? We’ve seen the pictures of people dying from starvation, notably children. More people are now allegedly dying of hunger than at the hands of the IDF at this point. Sewage pooling in the streets, well certainly if we take Rafah as the case in point, the place was never designed to house 1.5m people, roughly three quarters of the entire Gazan population as it does right now, a city swollen in size by the growth of a tent city alongside it, therefore the infrastructure is not there to cater to the basic levels of hygiene we all expect. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo labour party,labour,keir starmer,labour gaza,gaza,israel,hamas,ceasefire,israel hamas war,starmer,david lammy gaza,david lammy speech,david cameron gaza,david cameron kay burley,david lammy israel,unrwa funding,unrwa,gaza genocide,world central kitche,icj,un security council,snp ceasefire,reality of gaza,israel gaza,gaza israel,israel iran,iran israel,october 7th,gaza aid trucks,gaza aid drop,idf,kernow damo,damo rants,iran,kernowdamo

At least two mainstream Israeli publications have outlined how breathakingly screwed their own government is over Gaza and Iran. Right, so this is an interesting story, not only because it nails on just how breathtakingly ruined Israel is reputationally, militarily and internationally, but because this comes from an Israeli news source, the Israeli version of the Guardian, Haaretz, using Benjamin Netanyahu’s oft used ‘Total Victory’ phrase against him in an article headlined ‘Total Defeat.’ If Bibi was fed up with Haaretz before, with threats to shut them down, this story will have him climbing the walls, but there is so much to agree with in it. There really is no way out of this that will restore Israel’s standing on the world stage and any nations associating with them, defending them and expressing their loyalty towards them are only damaging their own reputations at the same time. You can take a stand for what is right and finally deal with this appalling administration, or you can go down with them in Total Defeat. Right, so Israel is facing Total Defeat according to Haaretz newspaper and an op-ed article written by Chaim Levinson and this article is anything but pro Hamas, but definitely anti Netanyahu and puts a large amount of the focus on him and the bats**t coalition regime he has assembled about him as the reason for it as this excerpt shows: ‘After half a year, we could have been in a totally different place, but we're being held hostage by the worst leadership in the country's history – and a decent contender for the title of worst leadership anywhere, ever. Every military undertaking is supposed to have a diplomatic exit – the military action should lead to a better diplomatic reality. Israel has no diplomatic exit. It has a scoundrel for a leader, someone with no capacity for leadership or decision-making, a person who loses his sense of good judgment over a free cigar. Yet the electorate put its faith in the current prime minister to the tune of 32 Knesset seats.’ Caustic description but true and I daresay many of us would be significantly less polite about Netanyahu here. Reputationally, Israel has gone from playing the world’s biggest professional victims, a nation so many sympathised with, that uses antisemitism to get whatever it wants, arguing it is racist to oppose them doing what they like and people being too afraid of being labelled as such to disagree, to now being seen as a global pariah state, having been attacked by Hamas and having hostages taken, to now no longer being seen as the victim but the aggressor and instigator of genocide against the entire population of the Gaza Strip and not just Hamas. That isn’t a genie that is going to go back in its bottle, frankly there is no way back from that with the eyes of the world having been opened save for the government of Netanyahu to fall, Netanyahu and his cabinet being brought up on war crimes as I think they should be and the withdrawal of Israel from the Occupied Palestinian Territories with borders being redrawn at least on 1967 lines. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo kernow damo,iran,damo rants,kernowdamo,iran israel,israel iran,iran attacks israel,iran vs israel,iran israel war news today,iran retaliation against israel,iran attack israel,israel news,iran attack israel today live,iran attacks israel war news today,israel vs iran,iran attack begins,iran attack,haaretz israel,israel total defeat,ynet news,netanyahu churchill,israel terrified of iran,israel hezbollah,israel hamas,israel hostages,israel beaten

According to an Iranian military source, the US have tried to convince Iran to let Israel strike them one more time! Right, so as we hear that Israel are preparing to stupidly attack Iran again, it seems the US has tried to arrange things shall we say so that Israel can do this, as a symbolic face-saving exercise, apparently where back channels between Washington and Tehran have basically gone along the lines of please Mr Ayatollah Sir, would you please allow Israel to bomb you in a minimalist, not at all damaging way, so that they can say they got their own back on you, so we can stick to or Western lines of saying you performed an unprovoked attack on Israel, so we can save face too and everything can go back to how it was before your consulate in Syria got bombed and Israel can say they had the last word? Well, I said the other day that I didn’t know how to swear in Farsi, but I daresay if you can, then that is the response the US administration conceivably got for acting like a shiver looking for a spine rather than disciplining their out of control spoilt brat nation of Israel, who seem set on widening this regional war because of Western cowardice towards them. Right, so this is quite the novel story isn’t it, coming from an anonymous Iranian source it has to be said, who have spoken to The Cradle, an online magazine that covers current affairs across West Asia. If true, it really does sum up the weakness of the US doesn’t it? That they are so desperate to continue to be able to support Israel, that they would go to the nation they’ve committed an appalling unprovoked attack on, and dare to ask them if they will help them out of the hole they’ve got themselves into with their slavish support for Israel, a nation that aided Israel by taking out Iranian ordnance travelling through Iraqi and Syrian airspace, and essentially go to them, go to the Ayatollah or his people and have the temerity to ask, please will you now let Israel strike you back again, we promise they won’t break anything valuable, so that they can say they have had the last word, can save face and we won’t look like Netanyahu has got all our collective testicles in a vice somewhere in Tel Aviv, because frankly that’s how weak and sycophantic we all are. To no surprise whatsoever, Iran has said, not on your nelly. Here’s what The Cradle piece says: ‘An Iranian military security official has revealed exclusively to The Cradle that the US contacted the Islamic Republic, asking the nation to allow Israel "a symbolic strike to save face” following Iran's retaliatory drone and missile barrage this weekend. “Iran has received messages from mediators to let the regime do a symbolic strike to save face and asked Iran not to retaliate,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to The Cradle. He added that Tehran “outright rejected” the proposal, delivered by mediators, and reiterated warnings that any Israeli attack on Iranian soil would be met with a decisive and immediate response. The reply was delivered directly to the Swiss envoy in Tehran by officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and not the foreign ministry... ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo iran israel,iran israel news,israel,iran,iran israel war,iran israel attaack,iran attack,iran attack israel,israel iran,news israel,iran isreal,iran news,why did israel attack iran embassy,iran drone attack israel,israel iran news,iran drone attack,iran and israel,iran attacks israel,iran war,gaza strip,gaza,joe biden,hezbollah,let israel win,ayatollah khamenei,israel face saving strike,the cradle news,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo

The clown show support for Israel in parliament by both Sunak and Starmer got given short shrift by George Galloway. Right, so for all of the pro Israel sycophancy in parliament yesterday, surely there had to be a voice of reason, a voice of sense from somewhere, someone who would stand up and condemn Israel for having attacked the Iranian Consulate in Syria, which led to the quite understandable retaliation by Iran in which case for this attack on their sovereign soil, which is exactly what all embassies are and indeed all diplomatic buildings are protected under international law in line with this. So the pathetic display of both the government front bench and the Labour shadow front bench condemning Iran and offering their support to Israel still, even now, despite what has happened already over the last 6 months, never mind this most recent escalation and whether you love him or hate him and there are solid reasons to feel both at times, when it comes to the Middle East, when it comes to Israel and what they have been able to get away with for decades, nobody quite calls them out like George Galloway and both Sunak and Starmer got the treatment as he stood as one of the few voices talking sense on this matter. Right, so thank God there was some semblance of sanity in parliament yesterday following on from Rishi Sunak’s ministerial statement that put us on the side of the aggressors once again and against those who had been transgressed against, as both government and the supposed Leader of the Opposition, who as ever has no clue what the word means, were both in lockstep as is far more often the case in their support of the genocidal Israeli regime and against Iran who are always the enemy, have always been the enemy, but trying to resell that point after they were clearly attacked by Israel first is just nuts and people can see it for themselves, not least from George Galloway who is absolutely a straight-talking and honest authority on this subject matter, even if you disagree with him on other issues, on which I very much do. You can say and do likewise with Iran too, you could almost say they are the George Galloway of nations, right on some things, not on others but where it comes to Israel I do not begrudge Iran their right to defend themselves in light of the strike Israel committed on their consulate and it is absolutely right that somebody should say that in parliament, its just a very great pity so few voices were doing that, preferring to put their own allegiances to Israel before the facts, before the truth and taking the nation for fools. Galloway of course had a massive elephant in the room to raise, because where politicians on both sides failed and indeed Sunak’s statement failed, was in raising the reason Iran retaliated against Israel, but of course that is the narrative Downing Street want set, the media, British media certainly have been doing similarly in maintaining this narrative too, that the strike on Iran’s consulate either didn’t happen, or that the response by Iran was enormously disproportionate. I find this argument of proportionality baffling, frankly because surely that depends on by what measure you are taking these things into account. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo george galloway,george galloway latest,labour party,keir starmer,george galloway keir starmer,george galloway rishi sunak,rishi sunak george galloway,george galloway iran,george galloway israel,israel,iran,gaza,david cameron,david cameron kay burley,kay burley,rishi sunak,david cameron interview,iran israel,israeli air force,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,iran attacks israel,israel iran,israel news,iran attack israel,iran attack,iran israel war

Keir Starmer has drawn public outrage over the level of sycophancy and dishonesty expressedover Iran and Israel. Right, so Keir Starmer has stood up in parliament and offered his own response to Rishi Sunak’s Iran bashing Israel sympathising announcement that G7 countries are putting together a package of measures against Iran and frankly he might as well have let Sunak write it, since it in no small way showed that the Labour Party and the Tory Party are very much on the same side of the argument here, that Israel are the poor victims of a dreadful attack by Iran and that British forces getting involved was the right thing to do. But not only did he do that, he also blatantly lied about what Iran actually did. It was so sycophantically pro Israel and pro Tory, not to mention such a load of gaslighting drivel, he might as well have let David Cameron write it given the guff he said to Kay Burley on Sky the other day which she had none of. There’s no differentiating between the two main parties in their attitudes towards Iran and their avowed support of the genocidal regime in Gaza, but this response from Starmer was depraved and dishonest beyond belief. Right, so that was Keir Starmer’s response to Rishi Sunak’s announcement to the House of Commons, very much pass the sick bucket levels of lying I felt, escalatory in it’s language and utterly misrepresentative of the facts, but we’re becoming used to that from our politicians right now in this country aren’t we? He stood there and praised our armed forces for their involvement, shooting down drones and missiles as they passed through Iraqi and Syrian airspace on the way to Israel, painting a target on our backs now, potentially and all the more so as we send more RAF jets out there, that he ridiculously thinks will make the world safer. Let us never forget how Iran came to make this attack to begin with. Israel deliberately targeted their consulate in Syria. That happened first. Israel made the unprovoked attack, the level and scale of Iran’s defence which is what arguments against Iran are trying to fixate on amongst our politicians as they seek to find some kind of an angle in order to defend the indefensible, to still slavishly support Israel, yet to listen them that incident either never happened, or was such a minor thing as to not warrant what they deemed to be an over the top retaliation. Targeting a consulate is against international law, it is in breach of the Vienna Convention of 1961, it has also never happened before, it is a world first that a consulate be deliberately attacked, so this is no minor thing, it’s a brand new low in the course of warfare. 13 people were killed. Iran, despite everything that has been said about their attack, there were no fatalities and there’s a reason for that, some of which I covered in a video yesterday detailing what I think was Iran’s strategy here, that this amounted to a weapons test come intelligence gathering exercise, but with Starmer having stood up and blatantly lied by saying that Iran perpetrated an attack, it didn’t it responded to one. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo keir starmer,keir starmer speech,keir starmer news,starmer,rishi sunak keir starmer,labour party,keir starmer labour party,keir starmer on israel,keir starmer israel,keir starmer iran,israel iran,israel,iran,israel iran war,israel iran latest news,iran israel,iran vs israel,israel strikes iran embassy,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,iran attacks israel,iran israel war news today,iran news,iran attack israel,iran attack,iran israel war

Iran says it's finished with Israel, but if Israel ramps things up again, who's paying, because they don't look like they can afford it. Right, so as various Western politicians queue up to expose themselves as absolute raging hypocrites after months of saying Israel has a right to defend itself but Iran apparently doesn’t, it isn’t Iran that is being looked at right now as the likely cause of the aggression between the two nations continuing, having said their business with Israel is concluded, but with Israel and Netanyahu instead ramping matters up again and with those same hypocritical leaders and their biased media mates singing from the same hymn sheet that the attack from Iran was unprovoked, they are escalating and enabling Israel to say they would be right to respond, even if, behind closed doors, the likes of Genocide Joe Biden are telling Netanyahu to take the win, referring to the fact Iran basically let them off lightly considering the armaments they could have brought to bear should they have chosen to. The thing is, the cost of Israel’s defence of that night has now come to light and compared to the cost to Iran? Well frankly if Bibi wants a full on war, who’s going to pay for it, because he might not be able to. Right, so now that Iran has expressed it’s right to defend itself following the unprovoked targeting of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, as the dust settles and Israel assesses the damage we know they’ve sustained even if they deny it, because we’ve all seen footage I’m sure on social media of rockets making it past Israeli defence systems and finding their way to the military targets they were destined for, the question now hanging in the air is whether Israel get the message, or whether they decide to retaliate against Iran once again. Iran are saying they now consider the matter closed, Israel having targeted their embassy in Syria, killing 13 people, Israel deemed it a military target because of who was there, but if embassies can now be considered military targets every time certain people visit them it sets an incredibly dangerous precedent, it is in violation of the Vienna Convention of 1961 which protects diplomatic buildings and embassies, they are not and never should be designated targets, yet Israel did this, violated that Convention and Iran responded. Drone attacks, ballistic and cruise missiles were fired, Israel’s Iron Dome defence system took a beating, as did aircraft countering these strikes, putting down the vast majority of these inbound targets, but not all of them. There has also been significant debate over Iran’s strategy here, having opted for a relatively slow attack, giving Israel plenty of time to respond, showing not only an apparent desire not to escalate, certainly in keeping with Iranian narratives ahead of the attack, but nor to cause dramatic widespread actual damage either by giving plenty of opportunity for Israel and it’s allies to counter the attacks, giving Iran the ability to say, despite the much greater amount of ordinance fired, that their response to Israel’s earlier attack was proportional. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo israel,israel news,israel war,israel hamas war,gaza,israel iran,iran,israel iran latest news,israel iran embassy,israel iran war,iran israel,israel strikes syria,iran vs israel,israel strikes iran embassy,iranian consulate,iran israel news,iran israel war,iran attack,iran attack israel,iran attacks israel,iran drone attack israel,iran drone attack,iran war,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,iran israel war news today,iran news,houthis,genocide joe

A SECOND UK company is now linked to the killing of 7 WCK aid workers, now owned by the makers of the missiles used. Right, so the World Central Kitchen aid worker attack, which killed seven aid workers and which took place on the same day Israel also targeted Iran’s embassy in Damascus, was a drone attack, allegedly using British technology, technology obtained by Israel due to their acquisition of a British engineering company, but now some details as to the kind of missiles that were used has also emerged and potentially this implicates a SECOND British company now, along with exposing yet another link with the Israeli regime and Israeli arms companies to the Labour Party. Right, so The World Central Kitchen aid worker attack continues to be a topic of news as more details continue to come out in terms of the circumstances of the attack, not least of which surrounding the ordinance used, which in this case we now know to have been a Hermes 450 drone, built by Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms company, who have numerous sites here in the UK and subsidiaries too, including a certain UAV Engines Ltd, who’s drone engine design is used in these drones. Now I covered the details of this story in another video so I’m not going to go over all of that again here, but suffice it to say that Elbit having acquired this British company, now means they could be using our technology that was developed here, the plans, the copyrights, to build them themselves and equip the drones that we are seeing today, and considering there were three British aid workers amongst the seven who were killed, it’s entirely possible British technology was used against British people therefore, a horrible thought and shows what a Godawful idea it was to allow arms technology to be bought by other countries. But now we might have another company potentially implicated, at least connected to another Israeli arms manufacturer, another British company acquired by an Israeli arms firm as this is, the arms firm in question, Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, being the manufacturer of the missiles that were apparently used in this attack. The missiles have apparently been identified as so-called ‘spike’ missiles, guided anti-tank missiles, which as the name and usage implies, they are designed to get through armoured vehicles. Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, unlike Elbit Systems, are completely owned by the Israeli state, they are state owned, nationalised arms manufacturers though are still registered as a limited company and were borne out of Israel’s early day R&D department of government, starting out as scientific research before it got split into a science development operation and a separate arms development unit which later became Rafael. They are a hugely important company to Israel, they have developed other weaponry, such as the Python air to air missile and the Iron Dome missile defence system Israel used just the other night against the attack from Iran. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo gaza aid worker,gaza,israel,world central kitchen,gaza aid workers attacked,gaza aid workers,israel gaza war,aid workers,benjamin netanyahu,aid workers killed in gaza,israeli army attacks world central kitchen workers in gaza,keir starmer,lord john hutton,shut down rafael newcastle,pearson engineering,rafael advanced defense systems,rafael iron dome,spike missile,rafael spike missile,sir nicholas pope,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,ceasefire gaza

Iran claim business is now concluded with Israel, that they are now even, but will Netanyahu take heed and listen? Right, so amidst hundreds of drones and missiles aimed at Israel late last night our time, coming from Iran, Israel has weathered the worst of the assault, though damage and casualty details are still being collected. Yet despite all of this, the entire situation is being cited as a win for Israel and a win for Netanyahu, as it has distracted and taken off the main news agenda what they are still doing in Gaza and what they were actually doing whilst this retaliatory response from Iran for the destruction of their consulate in Syria was going on and whilst Iran is now saying they are satisfied they have responded as they said they would and on a scale appropriate in their view to what was done to them, is Netanyahu the sort to let this go, when he wants that wider war and wants to drag more countries into this mess? Right, so as we woke up this morning, having heard about the drone and missile launches from Iran heading towards Israel as was the situation our time when we went to bed, we were honestly dreading and wondering what scale of devastation we could have been looking at, but for the most part, it seems that Israel have weathered the attack that headed their way. Not only was their Iron Dome air defence system effective, but they also had the support of the likes of France as al-Jazeera are reporting by way of air defence support too, with the Tory graph reporting that US and UK jets were involved too, though curiously al-Jazeera’s live updates of the situation are not reporting their involvement. The US was specifically warned not to get involved after all and Rishi Sunak here in the UK doesn’t tend to jump until Biden says he can, if you thought Brexit brought independence, here’s a classic example of why that is drivel, though their action was apparently confined to the Syria Iraq border who’s airspace drones and missiles were passing through, so perhaps they could argue they were defending that airspace perhaps? At any rate, rocket attacks came in not just from Iran but also Southern Lebanon and Yemen, as well as Iraq, so very much a co-ordinated attack it seems. Most of the drones and missiles were intercepted, Mr Pointy Daniel Hagari took to camera and announced that 99% of some 300 drones were brought down by Israel, but those that punched through will have caused damage and we know some certainly have puinched through because as ever video footage on social media taken by those there has shown this. All of Iran’s targets were apparently of a military nature as well, they claim they haven’t targeted residential areas and one area specifically that comes up in mentions is Nevatim. Now I’ve mentioned Nevatim air base previously because it has been the destination for a great many mysterious US flights coming from the UK air base on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri and the suspicion is that this air base has been used heavily to transfer arms from the West to Israel, so any damage there, still to be determined, could hamper Israel’s ability to receive arms, we can certainly hope that is the case. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo israel iran,israel,iran,israel iran war,israel iran embassy,iran israel,gaza,iran vs israel,iran attack israel,iran attack,iran israel war,why did israel attack iran embassy,iran drone attack israel,iran attacks israel,israel on iran attack,iran israel attack,israel iran attack,iran attack on israel,iran drone attack,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,iran israel war news today,iran news,iran and israel war news today,nevatim air base,netanyahu

Dozens of drones and missiles launched from Iran and allies and heading to Israel tonight show Iran's retaliation has started. Right, so a late night video from me tonight as it has now been confirmed that Iran have now launched a retaliatory strike against Israel in the form of drones and cruise missiles, which will take some hours before impact and it remains to be seen if Israel’s Iron Dome defence system can cope with what Iran is throwing its way, or whether additional attacks from Iranian allies, such as a follow up from Hezbollah add to this strike. We knew this was going to happen, we knew it was coming, we knew it because the West had been warned, we knew it because despite these warnings nobody has sought to rein Israel in as it seeks to expand this regional conflict further and it has to be remembered this is all as a consequence of Israel committing genocide and being left to carry on despite legal orders and despite a ceasefire order from the UN Security Council. Israel has escalated this along with those still supporting them so what comes of this now is all on them. Right, so Iran, as we absolutely knew they would, they do not bluff about such things, have retaliated for the airstrike by Israel on their consulate in Damascus. Right now what we know is coming in on pretty much a minute by minute basis, by the time this goes out some of it may already be academic, but all I can say now is that Iran have launched a swarm of some 50 drones, along with dozens of ballistic cruise missiles towards Israeli targets tonight, having at time of writing crossed into Iraqi airspace. Now we surmised something might have been in the offing earlier tonight when Jordan cleared it’s airspace, Iraq have since done likewise for obvious reasons, as have Israel and Iran itself. But what we’re looking at here cannot be underestimated, we’re in uncharted territory now because Iran have never launched a direct attack themselves upon Israel, but almost certainly we’re going to see a wider escalation, with more nations dragged into this mess, which is entirely the fault of every nation aiding and abetting Israel instead of dealing with it, and its genocidal actions in Gaza, when it was just Israel and Gaza. Instead of disciplining that spoilt brat of a nation, they’ve continued to cosset it and look where we are now, a government now that wants even more and now it’s going to get it, because frankly we have no idea at this moment in time what will happen when that Iranian arsenal arrives in an operation Iran are calling True Promise, wuhich is very much what they are keeping here. Will they be aided by allied interests? ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo israel iran,israel,iran,israel iran latest news,israel iran war,israel iran embassy,israel news,iran vs israel,iran launches attack on israel,hezbollah attack israel,yemen attack israel,iran drone strike,israel iran threat,netanyahu iran,benjamin netanyahu,has benjamin netanyahu fled israel,cyber avengers israel,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,iran israel,houthis,iran israel war news today,iran news,iran and israel war news today,iran attack israel

Overnight airstrikes from Iranian allies Hezbollah in Lebanon have prompted discussion that their strike back against Israel has begun. Right, so last night saw a massive attack launched by Hezbollah in Lebanon where at one point more than 100 rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights in an attack that has people debating as to whether or not this is the beginning of Iran’s revenge upon Israel for striking it’s consulate in Damascus, over which they have made clear they will be retaliating and have said they will do so through proxies, in other words forces allied to Iran acting on their behalf, though I wouldn’t necessarily rule out direct action from Iran itself. Hezbollah are one such ally and where many people compare Hezbollah and Hamas in one way or another, pro Israeli’s might regard them as anti Israel terrorists, others more clued up would consider them resistance movements borne out of Israeli attacks and occupation both past and present in Gaza and Lebanon, but one key difference is that Hezbollah are far more powerful, and until the invasion of Gaza, there had been no escalation between Israel and Lebanon. Now this has ramped up again are they acting on Iran’s behalf or is this simply another separate escalation Netanyahu has brought down on his own people? Right, so there has been a lot of conjecture about escalation of warfare across the Middle East, the Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus has brought Iran into the regional conflict more overtly, though so far that has been a war of words, with the action still to come, the retaliation on it’s way, but last night’s massive attack by Hezbollah on northern Israel and the Golan Heights, occupied Syrian territory as that has been since 1967, was on a scale we’ve not seen in a long time, at one point 100 rockets falling on Israel in 15 minutes and it’s Iron Dome air defence system struggling with the scale of the attack. So is this the start of Iran’s retaliation, just a softening up of Israeli air defences, or is this just Hezbollah continuing to exchange fire with Israel? Well it could be all three. The targets for these attacks were broader than previous attacks which have since October 7th been happening daily along border regions, so certainly a continuation of attacks in support of Hamas arguably, certainly in support of the Gazan people though. Broadening their strikes to strategic targets in northern Israel and the Golan Heights? Well the strike at the Iranian embassy in Syria did originate in Golan, so that certainly adds weight to that argument too. Then there are the reports about the Iron Dome defence system struggling to contain the Lebanese barrage. This is one of the best air defence systems in the world, but equally if you make enough enemies and they fire enough missiles at you all at once, the best system in the world can be overwhelmed and some are arguing that this Lebanese strike was testing that theory ahead of an attack from elsewhere, certainly there are more proxies in the area allied with Iran than just Hezbollah and we’ve already seen signs of that potentially too. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo iran,iran geography,israel,gaza,israel iran,israel iran embassy,israel iran war,iran israel,damascus,iran vs israel,israel strikes iran embassy,iranian consulate,strait of hormuz,msc aries,west bank settlers,settlers attack west bank,persian gulf access,hezbollah air strikes,hezbollah attack israel,israel iron dome,eyal ofer,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,iran israel war news today,iran news,iran and israel war news today,iran attack israel

Fiscal rules are out of the window it seems as Keir Starmer pledges his 'unshakable, absolute, total' commitment to nukes. Right, so the Magic Money Tree has put in a magical new appearance it would seem as Keir Starmer has announced he will be increasing defence spending and continue to back Britain’s nuclear deterrent, all after having spent an interminable amount of time it seems, telling us that we cannot afford this and cannot afford that all in the name of sticking to fiscal rules that neither really exist, except in the fevered red Tory brain of ex banker Rachel Reeves, not actually make any economic sense. Where Starmer has said no to dealing with child poverty, infrastructure like schools and hospitals, no way out of continued Tory austerity under his Labour if they form the next government, he can find money to go on a global willy waving contest. This is peak small man syndrome and the country will suffer just so he can massage his own ego and brag about pushing the big red button to appease equally the equally red faces of the nations Gammons. Right, so the biggest question people have been asking about Labour under Keir Starmer for years now has been what do you stand for? He’s flip flopped and changed his mind and come up with pledge, after promise after mission after vow after commitment and not stuck at the vast majority of it, save for his support for Israel, but this has been a question asked more and more of as his Labour have repeatedly ruled out investing in the stuff that matters, the stuff that people need and his basis for that has been we can’t afford it, blaming the Tories for their spending, saying labour must be more responsible and pointing to Rachel Reeves fiscal rules, which are complete nonsense and don’t mean a damn thing. Following World War II when this country was in ruins and riddled with debt, the government of Attlee that came in didn’t say we can’t fix any of that, because there was a mass infrastructure programme to build housing, hospitals, schools, create the NHS, create social security and make this a country to actually be proud of. We’re in nowhere near the same state as a country, but you’d think we were listening to Reeves, because lets face it, when it comes to day to day running of the country decisions, she’s in charge, not Starmer, he’s out of his depth in a birdbath, let alone as PM and that I fear is something that will become readily apparent. But where Reeves and Starmer have decided they can’t afford to end the cruel impoverishing two child benefit cap, cannot invest in the NHS, preferring more privatisation, cannot invest in education, cannot seemingly invest in anything at all, yet still think they can deliver growth of course, the one thing they do seem to think is still worth investing in are nuclear weapons. Kids can starve, we need nukes. All his words of no uncosted commitments and they are out the window the moment the Daily Fail come a-calling, when it’s time to appeal to their audience, which amounts to people much like this bunch, who can forget the wall of gammon, the voters Starmer wants, not caring about the rest of us who’s votes he’s lost and are continuing to lose on a daily basis. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo starmer,keir starmer,kier starmer,keir starmer labour,labour,labour party,keir starmer news,keir starmer interview,keir starmer latest,keir starmer labour policies,keir starmer labour party,keir starmer rachel reeves,rachel reeves keir starmer,fiscal rules,rachel reeves fiscal rules,public finances,fiscal policy,government spending,keir starmer nuclear deterrent,keir starmer trident,keir starmer defence spending,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo

As Iran prepares to strike back against Israel, why is it that they need to de-escalate, yet Israel have a right to defend themselves? Right, so Iran are apparently gearing up to hit back at Israel and are apparently planning to strike Israeli military and government targets using missile attacks by Iranian proxies, Iran’s allies in the Middle East to launch from. Now all of this stems from of course that unprovoked attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, the Syrian capital, part of which appears to be an Israeli desire to escalate matters in the Middle East, yet the only political calls from the West are towards Iran to not escalate tensions, to not make matters worse. Well, this has me wondering where are the calls for Iran to be able to defend itself then? Israel has been permitted to flattened Gaza and kill tens of thousands of innocent Gazans as part of it’s right to defend itself, against an occupied territory and occupied people at that, as we keep getting told by numerous pathetic politicians globally, from an incursion into Israel, the fatalities from which are a matter of debate still as to how many died at Hamas’ hands or Israel’s own, yet an historically unprecedented attack on a consulate in another nation entirely, not directly involved at all, and Iran don’t have that same right to defend itself? In what way is that possibly right and if Western leaders really do want to de-escalate tensions, they could look to their own support of an out of control rogue nation, run by an out of his gourd maniac and start there before they lecture others. Right so Iran are apparently planning on attacking Israel imminently, planning to target military and government assets in payback to the unprovoked, unwarranted strike on what was a diplomatic building, the Iranian embassy in Damascus. But in all the media when it comes to talking about this, all we ever hear is that Iran striking at Israel, will just escalate tensions. I really am getting fed up with this. If Western leaders really wanted to de escalate tensions, well where do I start! Genocide Joe can stop sending Iranian weaponry to Ukraine intended for Yemen and stop arming Israel at the same time. The UK can also pay heed to that legal advice it has been given that it won’t publish because we’re all supposed to believe it says Israel aren’t breaking international humanitarian law and keep sending arms to Israel as a consequence. Western powers can enforce the rulings of the International Court of Justice and the UN Security Council and get humanitarian aid through, with military assistance if necessary, to stop the IDF or the settler movements from blocking that. It can draw the bloody line at Israel having a right to defend itself for one night of incursion by Hamas with 6 months of outright slaughter against people it already occupies illegally and has done for decades. The US and UK could stop taking potshots at the Houthis in Yemen who are blockading the Red Sea in support of Gaza and really have been the only avenue of Iranian involvement having been supplying Yemen with the means to do so. De-escalate tensions? The West could shut Israel down overnight and end the tensions when it is the source of it all! ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo iran,middle east,israel,hamas,iran israel,iran israel war,israel hamas war,israel iran,israel war,gaza,israeli air strike hits damascus,israel strikes iran embassy,israel palestine,israel right to self defence,iran right to self defence,iran retaliates against israel,david cameron iran,david cameron,israel sanctions,israel arms sales,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,iran israel war news today,gaza war,iran news,ceasefire gaza,iran attack israel

Young Labour membership numbers have indeed dropped and it could make all the difference come the General Election... Right, so a recent video I did covering the newly elected chair of Young Labour being the son of Starmer’s super donor Gary Lubner, a man who’s wealth originates in apartheid South Africa in the 1980s has, as a number of convenient results for the Labour leadership have occurred, especially where the Labour Party online voter system Anonyvoter is involved, raised further suspicions this might be another example of Labour vote rigging. However, there might be another reason for this and it might have more to do with the state of young voter support for Labour under Starmer, because a shocking stat that Labour has haemorrhaged 95% of its young members, those aged between 14 and 26, so is young Lubner’s selection more to do with the state of youth members left behind than any kind of vote tampering and what effect will that have on the Labour vote come a general election? Right, so this story has come around off the back of the election of Jack Lubner, son of one of Labour’s biggest donors, getting elected as the new chair of Young Labour and speculation amidst many stories of vote tampering and vote rigging within the party going on, not least of which the one in Croydon East now subject to a police investigation and more than a month after this scandal came to light still no word as to whether any action has been taken by the party against any individuals alleged to have been involved in that. All very shady looking, all warranting perfectly justifiable questions being asked, not least of which whether the scandalised Labour online voter system was involved in this latest election to Young Labour, but according at least to the Labour Party’s national Trans Officer for Labour Students, which is another youth body within the Labour Party, Willow Parker, the elections for Labour Students and Young Labour which happened concurrently, were indeed conducted via an online vote, but in this instance was overseen by Civica Election Services, who provide online balloting services to all other parties and showed why there was actually never a need for Labour to have its own in house version, when there was already an established service for this and where there is full transparency in the vote. It also begs the question as to whether Anonyvoter in which case, or the use thereof, has been formally suspended, because if not, Labour would be using two different systems and why would that be? We don’t know either way because as far as I’ve been able to ascertain, there has been no confirmation of this either way by the party. This is a story arguably for another day though, I don’t want to get into that any more than to lay the groundwork for this video that we can rule Anonyvoter out. So it was a fair selection then? Well yeah, it very much looks that way. Willow Parker in her tweet on this put up a screenshot of a message from David Evans the Labour Party Secretary displaying Civica’s logo and blurb at the bottom. Unless this is fake and I’m not into conspiracy theories, I’m not going there, it looks to be legit. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo labour party,labour,keir starmer,labour party loss,labour party israel,labour party palestine,local elections,young labour,labour students,labour party climate,labour party losing members,labour youth membership,jack lubner,jess barnard,miriam mirwitch,keir starmer labour,starmer,jeremy corbyn,keir starmer gaza,labour gaza,labour israel,luke akehurst,labour to win,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,gaza war,gaza,ceasefire gaza,labour members

David Cameron will not back down on supplying arms to Israel & regardless of the legal advice, its because he has nothing to fear. Right, so as far as the ongoing atrocity in Gaza goes, often people here in the UK will be asking themselves well what can we do, what change can we affect here, and that might be by refusing to buy good from Israel for example, protesting and demonstrating against it and indeed against our government who are as we know, still supplying arms to Israel. But no matter how much we kick off, it doesn’t seem to matter, no matter how many times a newspaper, or a mouthpiece like me might point to the violations of the Genocide Convention, or the Geneva Conventions the government doesn’t seem to be perturbed by this. Then there is this most recent debacle over legal advice the government have received on these matters which they refuse to publish, but claim they are acting within international law over, but which becomes harder to believe following leaked audio from a Tory MP implying otherwise. Why is it that our politicians think these rules don’t matter to us and indeed we could look at Israel’s own government in the same light here and it comes down to the very simple but very sad fact that they don’t actually fear any repercussions for what they are doing, because prosecutions of such acts never seem to happen. What is the point of international law if it is never upheld? Right, so our unelected Foreign Secretary David Cameron has been to the US and from there made an absolutely rancid declaration that despite audio leaks regarding legal advice the government had received implying that that advice stated that Israel was in breach of international law, that the government would continue to claim it was following international law by continuing arms sales to the regime and expect us to keep on trusting them on that because that legal advice was not going to be published. Nothing quite screams honesty and transparency in government quite like covering up the very legal advice everyone wants to see and convention be damned when it comes to such legal advice when we deserve to know if our elected government is engaged in aiding and abetting in genocide in our names does it? His remarks have been reported as: ‘The latest assessment leaves our position on export licenses unchanged…The overall judgement is those export licenses will remain open and continue.’ I’m really not quite sure how much more damage to Gaza needs be done to actually stop those arms licenses or exports especially when all of this comes in the aftermath of some 33,000 dead Gazans, some of the ordinance of which was almost certainly supplied by us and closer to home those 3 British workers being killed by the IDF whilst trying to deliver aid, allegedly targeted by a drone who’s engine was developed here in the UK, the company who designed it have been acquired by Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems. Be it Palestinian life or foreign national life, there seems to be little value placed on it by Israel if these people are in Gaza and by extension those pledged to continue the supply of arms to them. ***Subscribe to the channel here*** https://www.youtube.com/KernowDamo?sub_confirmation=1 ►ABOUT ME: Hi, I'm Damien Willey. I'm a former welder, but now I'm a writer, blogger, vlogger and presenter and interviewer with Socialist Telly (Please do go and visit what we all get up to on https://www.youtube.com/c/SocialistTelly) I'm an unpaid carer for my disabled wife and daughter and as such we know all too well the difficulties that associated with that living in Tory Britain and I personally believe the answer lies in socialism. This channel, along with my other social media act as outlets to push back against that, to demand better of our politicians and leaders, to pull apart the media spin that supports them and the way the UK is run and to give a voice, loud as mine is, to the voiceless. ►CONTACT: Email: damien.willey@outlook.com ►SUPPORT: If you appreciate the importance of alternative media in the UK and enjoy my work please consider financially supporting it. Various options to suit all budgets, please visit linktr.ee/KernowDamo to find out more. Please support Independent Media. ►SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Alternatively please share this video on your favourite social media & if you'd like to see what I get up to elsewhere, yoy can also find links to my presence elsewhere at linktr.ee/KernowDamo Damo Rants Kernow Damo arms sales,israel,hamas,gaza,netanyahu,rishi sunak,world central kitchen,global arms trade,david cameron,foreign secretary,david cameron foreign secretary,david cameron arms sales,david cameron usa,david cameron israel,david cameron export licences,uk arms exports,david cameron legal advice,politicians go unpunished,hold politicians to account,tony blair iraq,kernow damo,damo rants,kernowdamo,gaza war,ceasefire gaza,middle east eye,anna stavrianakis