Independent Leyton Orient Forum

And now the Tory governmen is blatantly using refugees and asylum seekers for party political purpose: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation As from tomorrow and for 2 weeks the Home Office will put into detention cen...

In 2023 he made it known that under his leadership the Tories' 2 child benefit cap would continue ... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/18/keir-starmer-defends-decision-not-to-scrap-two-child-benefit-cap but now he is talking about promoting EVERY child's interests by trying to align him...

Seems to me that 'Migrants' are not the problem. They are people who want to work and earn a living (unlike many of the indigious population who have aspirations for wealth, expecting wealth as their entitlement but have no skills or talents or interests). Following the devastation of WW2 this count...

This is a very interesting thread, started 207 pages and 5 years ago, almost to the day with a comment about Corbyn.

And now Biden is catching up.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... ge-charges

Now one of Starmer's star players in his shadow cabinet is showing what New New Labour really is about. Wes Streeting now in fighting mode to get more and more 'private health care' (aka 'for profit') accepted as the norm. Just like the best Tories, he labels any opponents "middle class lefties...

In 2022 Hearn was the guest on Desert Island Discs. He made no mention of LOFC, as fan or owner.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fcg8

He really played the supporters for fools.

Bombing 3 moving cars, clearly marked as approved vehicles for an Aid organisation, and then claiming it was 'tragic and unintended' .... bombed by an army with sophisticated tools of warfare - what a 'joke'! No wonder Netanyahu was grinning all over his face when interviewed today. He has now achie...

Now Israel is rejecting food convoys into Gaza if they come through UNRWA. They are requesting that UN approves for Israel to decide who is part of the aid process. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/31/israel-plan-un-dismantle-palestinian-relief-agency-unwra How cynical! It's like allowing ...

Feeling saddened (but not surprised) that there are 4 posters on here who feel that Israel's war on Palestinian civilians (men, women, children, old folks, sick and disabled, anyone) in Gaza is 'justified'. We know that Israel's aim is to drive them out of the Gaza strip (through killing them or pus...

Yes, it really is quite obscene for a government to turn an essential for basic living (water, light, heat, transport, mail ) into a commodity for exploitation/ profiteering. How on earth were people fooled into something quite illogical: a) Pay less b) Get better service c) Yet a Private company is...

The ICJ (International Court of Justice) has now ordered Israel to allow Gaza food aid, a legally binding decision. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/28/famine-is-setting-in-icj-orders-israel-to-unblock-gaza-food-aid Yet Israel is still claiming to be 'victims' and acting in self defence .....

We can only assume that Kate f***ed the Royal that died, Will shot him and then battered Kate into a coma. There’s nothing else that makes any sense I suspect she had cosmetic surgery. After 3 children, maybe she thought a tummy tuck would help with appearing glamorous and to stop Will's eyes from ...

Agree with this. I feel like society weirdly glosses over that fiddling with people’s eyes with sharp things is f***ing terrifying Never mind all that, it’s the smell. The aroma of scorched, burning eyeball… That was the original laser eye surgery. Nobody had warned me of the smell (akin to burning...

I wonder if any economists have used insurance premiums in their economic forecasting. Seems like a large driver is surging inflation and societal unrest which I'd have thought could be used to predict future recessions. They were all blind sided by the huge inflation. I think you over estimate how...

Must say: I am quite amused by this result. Starmer cancelled the LP candidate at short notice because the formerly Starmer-approved candidate (not a leftie or Corbyn supporter) because he voiced somewhere questions about how and why the October massacre started, questioning why the sophistocated Is...

I can’t help thinking that a lot of peoples opinions about her are partly shaped by the fact her face seems to naturally have a little bit of an unintentional smirk about it. I reckon even the big old racists would chill out a bit if she looked a bit sadder Don't know ---- I just try to imagine wha...

Maybe things might have been quite different if she had been blond and blue-eyed ... ?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -stateless

This seems to be a lifelong problem when 'politics' is about power and striving for power over others . We can see the ugliness currently playing out between Trump and Biden.. Catholics and Protestants .... Hindus and Muslims ..... but the ugliness is currently much closer to home: Sadiq Khan under ...

What a cop out from the Court of Appeal! Seems that they didn't actually explore and evaluate the circumstances and evidence etc, but simply determined that Javid as Home Secretary made the decision and they assumed that he had explored all the details and whatever, so it is in his power to make the...

Wouldn't surprise me if Hoyle resigns over the "shenanigans" yesterday. It seems Starmer told Hoyle to allow the Labour amendment because his MPs are being threatened and he was concerned about their security. (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/21/how-keir-starmer-averted-gaza...

I don't get why Hamas haven't released all hostages, then the IDF would have no support Looks like Netanyahu isn't actually that bothered about the hostages. He just uses their and their families' suffering as an excuse for his real aim, namely to wipe out Palestine and Palestinians and to keep him...

Navalny was trained by the CIA, and was a Western agent designed to help get rid of Putin. Plenty on this on the internet Really? So he happily 'put his family and his life on a plate' as sacrifices to please the CIA? I for one am quite alarmed to read about Putin's real objectives, namely to under...

Putin continues to kill anyone he likes with impunity yet despite some initial rage, the world looks on. What is happening doesn’t fit the political agenda of the blinkered types whose radar is only tuned to what they consider to be fashionable causes. How many contributions have the usual suspects...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/israeli-troops-raid-nasser-hospital-southern-gaza And so the mass slaughter and destruction continues! And the world stands by - while pontificating about definitions! While UK politicians and the media spend all their time in hounding any who 'say the w...

The last 3 Underground lines were named after the current royal lineage: Victoria, Jubilee and Elizabeth. IMO a serious case of lacking imagination and forelock tugging in the extreme. At least the overground rebranding tries to give wider recognition to the achievements of more ordinary people. The...