Independent Leyton Orient Forum

Step forward Luke Akehurst, Starmer's latest protege and parachuted as Labour candidate into the safe constituency of North Durham, an area with which he has no prior connection. Akehurst describes himself as 'Israel lobbyist' but isn't Jewish. He considers the UN 'anti semitic'. Akehurst hates Corb...

Maybe Starmer has overreached himself in his determination to dictate who is and who isn't Labour? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/29/fury-in-diane-abbott-constituency-at-treatment-of-their-mp For all the attempts to ridicule and undermine and silence her: good on Diane for con...

He wouldn't have armed the genocide. https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1794985409006420221 Which is why the Hodge faction and the Starmer followers were so determined to get Corbyn out of parliament with all the dirty shameful tricks they could invent. British politics seemingly must be subservient...

Netanyahu has elevated himself above all international law ...
He and Putin are two peas in the pod.

What is all that pussyfooting about 'may have breached international law'?
And what could the possible consequences be when the offending state doesn't give a XXXX?

The Jewish 'settlers' (illegal under international law but their proliferation encouraged by Israel) are not doing the image of the state of Israel any favours, IMO ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/artic ... aid-convoy

Can anyone read this and still believe that Israel's actions are really about finding Hamas operatives hiding in tunnels? https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israels-occupation-76-years-of-palestinian-tragedy/3217700 " Since Oct. 7 alone, the start of the Israel-Hamas war, at least 35,034 Pal...

I remember watching Eurovision in the days when Sandie Shaw and Lulu were representing the UK. It was light entertainment. I guess there was always an element of nations' votes indicating allegions but in those early days the nations were not at war with each other. Since the early days of this cont...

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 ...