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Putting that by-election into context
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What ‘children’ climb fences at night
To get into a freezing 🥶 cold pool
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Trump ‘sex abuse’ files released in middle of war
Girl aged between 13 and 15 claims US president hit her after she refused to perform oral sex, FBI interviews show.
US authorities have released new details of a sexual assault allegation against Donald Trump in the middle of their war on Iran.
The trio of interviews were previously flagged as missing from the Epstein files and were released on Thursday night after pressure on the White House.
The unidentified woman told FBI agents in 2019, shortly after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges, that she had been sexually assaulted by the paedophile and Mr Trump while she was a teenager in the 1980s.
The documents mark the most explosive allegations to be published as part of the Epstein files to date. Their release outside official publication windows and in the heat of the US conflict with Iran will raise serious questions over the US justice department’s handling of the Epstein scandal.
Her central allegation is that Mr Trump hit her after she bit his penis when he attempted to force her to perform oral sex on him, according to FBI summaries of her interviews with investigators.
The woman’s allegations have not been verified and the FBI never brought charges related to her claims, some details of which appear outlandish.
On Saturday, the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran, killing the supreme leader and triggering a regional war that has drawn in the Gulf states.
The Democrats have long accused Mr Trump and the White House of a cover-up for not releasing the files with original documents late last year.
The FBI memos, which summarise four interviews with the unidentified woman, claim she came forward after recognising Epstein from a photo sent to her by a childhood friend.
She alleged that Epstein started abusing her as a teenager and that on one occasion when she was aged between 13 and 15 he drove her to either New York or New Jersey to be “introduced to someone with money, money... It was Donald Trump.”
The woman told FBI agents she met the president “in a very tall building with huge rooms”, and that “from the get-go, he didn’t like that I was a boy-girl”, which the interview notes interpreted to mean tomboy.
She said Mr Trump asked others present to leave the room and then said “something to the effect of, ‘Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be’”, according to the interview notes.
Mr Trump then unzipped his trousers and put her head “down to his penis”, the woman alleged to the FBI. She said she “bit the s--- out of it” because she was disgusted by him, prompting Mr Trump to lash out, pull her hair and punch her on the side of her head, the FBI summary of one interview alleges.
The memo does not contain further details about the incident and the allegation concludes with the woman’s claim that “at that point, people reentered the room [with] no further information provided)”.
The woman said in a separate interview with the FBI that she or people close to her later received a series of threatening phone calls, including one on a co-worker’s landline that she claimed was intended for her.
The woman “stated under her breath that if it was not EPSTEIN, maybe it was the “other one”. When asked the identity of the “other one”, [redacted] stated, “Trump,” the FBI note claimed.
The woman also alleged that Epstein “blackmailed her mother through explicit photographs of [her], which resulted in her mother embezzling from her real estate company to pay him”.
She told FBI officers that her mother “tried to buy back the photos and secrets over the years” and was “sent to prison in South Carolina for embezzlement”. The woman also claimed Epstein and two other men “assisted” her mother in “fixing” her real-estate books so that she could embezzle funds and pay Epstein blackmail money.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, described the allegations as “completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence, from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history”.
“The total baselessness of these accusations is also supported by the obvious fact that Joe Biden’s department of justice knew about them for four years and did nothing with them – because they knew president Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. As we have said countless times, president Trump has been totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein Files.”
The US justice department did not publish the records in its release of more than three million Epstein files earlier this year, and a separate document hinted at their existence.
Their absence, which was first identified by US media, raised questions over whether the White House has botched its release of sensitive documents related to powerful individuals such as Mr Trump.
Democrats are investigating whether the US justice department purposefully withheld materials that included sexual assault allegations against the president.
Mr Trump has denied wrongdoing in relation to allegations against Epstein and there is no evidence in the material released that he took part in the paedophile’s sex trafficking operation.
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14 years of austerity destroyed our armed forces.
Everyone in the military knew it. Our allies knew we weren’t up to it anymore. NATO downgraded our status to a Tier 2 member unable to defend itself without help.
The Army’s latest Ajax fighting vehicle is stood down because it makes the occupants violently ill with headaches and motion sickness.
Asked how many F-35Bs the Royal Navy needed to operate our two carriers, the answer was at least 48. The order for the Royal Navy and the RAF combined was exactly 48 in total. Then one crashed.
Prior to the F-35B, Cameron exchanged our entire Harrier fleet of 77 aircraft for one F-35B based in the USA and the sole aircraft of 17 Sqn at the time.
When the crisis in Libya reared up, our Invincible Class carriers only had helicopters on board and the Royal Navy had no jets. So the RAF cost a reported £87,000 per mission per aircraft to get over Libya from the UK using air-to-air refuelling instead of us having carrier-based Harriers.
Asked why he hadn’t told Parliament about giving this Harrier ability away, Cameron said that the Harriers were old high-hours airframes and were sold as spares. Only problem was that the US Marines who got them had already highly praised Fleet Air Arm and RAF aircraft maintainers for the outstanding condition of those Harriers and said it was ‘the deal of the century’.
Eventually 17 Sqn and then 617 Sqn got some F-35Bs with the RAF not the RN now operating from our carriers. Then the Royal Navy got some for 809 Naval Air Squadron to operate off their own ships. In the meantime, Tory sabre-rattling at China saw our ‘U.K. Carrier Strike Group’ sail with half the F-35Bs needed coming from and piloted by the US Marines and the carrier protection requiring one US Navy and one Royal Netherlands Navy destroyer to come along.
For about 10 years our island nation had no maritime patrol aircraft after Cameron scrapped our Nimrods without any replacement. So the RAF were unable to patrol and monitor our seas from the air.
The Royal Navy’s aged Type 42 destroyers were clapped out and breaking down. Our new Type 45 Dauntless Class destroyers are reportedly an amazing piece of kit, except we were supposed to have 8, and only got 6. Then the 6 we got started breaking down in hot weather, with Rolls Royce claiming that operating in hot weather wasn’t in the contract. How was anyone to claim they didn’t know that our warships have to operate in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Gulf and Indian Ocean where it’s hot? So the 6 Type 45s ended up alongside at the same time in Portsmouth having their sides cut open to replace their drivetrain.
As a result, our 13 Type 23 Duke Class frigates had to take the strain. Only they had already been in service since the late 1980s. They have been driven into the ground already. Our one remaining Type 23 based in the Gulf has been used to destruction and is now decommissioned awaiting scrapping in Qatar. Our remaining minehunter there, HMS Middleton, is to be ferried back to the UK on the back of a large merchant ship designed for that purpose.
The Type 26 frigates which will replace our aging Type 23s aren’t ready. The first four, HMS Glasgow, HMS Belfast, HMS Cardiff and HMS Birmingham are all ordered but not started or not near complete. HMS Glasgow is afloat but still being fitted out inside. The following Batch 2 ships in the class, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Sheffield, HMS London and HMS Newcastle were only ordered in 2022.
In short, our frigates are worn to the bone and the replacements are a long way from being ready. The order of 12 was also downgraded to 8.
So even when all these ships are at sea, a long time from now, (we also have a small order for Type 31 frigates), the ships we have will be six Type 45 destroyers and eventually eight Type 26 frigates. A total of 14 surface combat ships when before Cameron the Government had a standing commitment to the Royal Navy of 32.
The thing about warships is that if you have a standing patrol, then with one warship on station, you will have one in maintenance having recently returned and one working up in preparation of taking over. With 32 surface combat ships we could maintain 10 patrols. The Caribbean (West Indies Guard Ship), the Falklands, the NATO ‘Standing Naval Force Atlantic’, three destroyers and/or frigates on the Armilla Patrol in the Gulf since 1980 etc. With 14 surface combat ships you can only maintain 4 patrols globally.
Where once we had destroyers and frigates patrolling our overseas territories and interests, we now have ships designed really for what would have been North Sea fisheries patrols closer to home. The smaller patrol vessels now tasked with covering the Caribbean, Falklands and then ‘East of Suez’ have no main gun, only one 30mm one, no helicopter or hangar, no missiles and no Ship’s Torpedo Weapons System (STWS).
Not so long ago we could provide a destroyer to our overseas territories in the West Indies for post-hurricane disaster relief. The last time saw French territories there with electricity and the lights back on whilst we had no guardship available and the traumatised residents literally in the dark looking at French islands lit up nearby and wondering why the French Navy was helping their people and where the Royal Navy’s crews and engineers were.
Gibraltar is defended by something akin to a fibreglass pleasure craft painted grey and called ‘HMS’ but without any fixed weapons and only mounts to which General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG) can be fixed to.
In a turning point several years ago, a Russian warship sailing off the north of Scotland had no destroyer or frigate available to shadow it. The frigate tasked to do so had to be brought quickly out of maintenance and took 48 hours to get there.
As for our submarines, we have four Trident Class ballistic nuclear (SSBN) submarines with one on patrol as our nuclear deterrent at any one time. There is much discussion about how independent our deterrent is given that we lease the missiles from the USA. France’s system is completely independent. We are unsure as to whether the story that we must get US permission to launch is true or not.
Otherwise, we have only 6 Ambush Class (SSN) nuclear powered but conventionally armed ‘fleet submarines’. It appears that only one of them is seaworthy right now, but it’s just arrived in Australia to help cross-train with the Royal Australian Navy, so that’s handy.
You get the picture. But although the armed forces were crying out for help from the supposed ‘party of defence’, cuts meant less maintenance and care for what we had and less of it on order too. So our fleet is clapped out and this was all before Labour came to power this time. And now it’s also harder to keep crews in the Royal Navy with some reports that a third are working their notice already.
Suddenly we can’t send a destroyer quickly to Cyprus for a conflict which was sprung on us and we don’t have ships on patrol in the Gulf for the first time in 45 years.
The public are angry, shocked and dismayed. The media are attempting to shame the Royal Navy and military planners in general.
It’s almost as if they haven’t been informed by our media over the last 15 years. It must therefore all be this government’s fault. What are they playing at after just over a year in charge?
The Tories are ignoring the fact that they held power and are trying to distract by apportioning the blame.
So, of course Starmer stands up and clearly outlines what we have here, erm no. Like everything else, the public didn’t have any real idea how bad a shape this country was in and some focus group at Labour probably advised that they shouldn’t ’carp on blaming the Tories’ even when it’s so clearly their fault.
So this debacle is pretty much like every other one we face. Starmer could do himself a favour by taking the bull by the horns and telling it how it is and who was responsible for our fall from grace. Chances are he won’t though. -
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/despicable-predators-who-preyed-innocence-33526677.amp
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Senile old man (Edited)
Watching CNN right now. Chris Murphy, who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has just described Donald Trump as a "senile old man surrounded by incompetent sycophants", while being interviewed by Christiane Amanpour about the US reasons for attacking Iran.
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US Congress Members Accuse Trump Of Waging ‘Illegal Iran War’ With No Exit Plan
https://saharareporters.com/2026/03/04/us-congress-members-revolt-after-classified-briefing-accuse-trump-waging-illegal-iran
US Congress Members Revolt After Classified Briefing, Accuse Trump Of Waging ‘Illegal Iran War’ With No Exit Plan
The outrage followed a classified briefing attended by members of Congress, where top administration officials reportedly failed to provide clear justification or a concrete endgame for the escalating military campaign.
Fresh cracks have emerged within the American political establishment after several US lawmakers accused President Donald Trump of dragging the United States into what they described as an illegal and directionless war against Iran.
The outrage followed a classified briefing attended by members of Congress, where top administration officials reportedly failed to provide clear justification or a concrete endgame for the escalating military campaign.
Senator Ed Markey, in a post on X shortly after the closed-door session, did not mince words.
“I just left the classified briefing on Iran. And it only confirmed what we already knew: Donald Trump is waging an illegal war and he has no plan to end it,” Markey wrote.
His remarks were echoed by Congressman Seth Magaziner, who revealed key takeaways from the briefing in a video shared on his X account.
Magaziner said the briefing was conducted by the U.S. Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defence, the CIA Director and other top officials. According to him, the session raised more questions than answers.
“Number one, there is no intelligence that suggests that Iran was planning an attack against the United States,” Magaziner stated.
“Number two, the administration does not have any plan for what is going to happen to Iran after the war is over.”
He stressed the scale of the potential fallout, noting that Iran is a nation of roughly 90 million people with nearly one million armed personnel.
He added that his constituents in Rhode Island were questioning why the U.S. had entered “yet another Middle Eastern war.”
“Unfortunately, the Trump administration is still not giving members of Congress or the American people any answers,” he said.
Senator Chris Van Hollen also expressed frustration, describing the conflict as “Trump’s war of choice.”
“Today, Congress was finally briefed on Trump’s war of choice in Iran,” Van Hollen wrote on X. “Even behind closed doors, they couldn’t get their story straight. But one thing is clear: they don’t have a clue what the end game is, and it sure as hell isn’t making America safer.”
Similarly, Congressman Don Beyer condemned the military campaign, calling it unlawful and morally indefensible.
“Trump’s war in Iran is not smart, not legal, not morally right and not in our national interest,” Beyer wrote, urging Congress to pass a War Powers Resolution aimed at curbing the President’s military authority.
The backlash comes amid rising global tension following coordinated U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iranian military installations and strategic infrastructure, strikes Tehran described as unprovoked aggression.
On Tuesday, Iran’s newly declared Supreme Leader, Alireza Arafa, issued a fiery statement vowing retaliation against both Washington and Tel Aviv.
“The time for negotiations is over. The United States has chosen to cross the red line,” Arafa declared in a message circulated across social media platforms. He warned that by launching the war, the U.S. had “signed their own death warrant.”
Arafa dismissed Western claims that the strikes were pre-emptive measures to counter a nuclear threat, insisting Iran had not initiated hostilities.
He also warned Israel of sustained retaliation, raising fears that the conflict could spiral into a broader regional war involving Iranian-aligned armed groups across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. -
He calls it the odd spicy death threat
What an abysmal world we are living in, when people can be so ignorant, cruel and vindictive
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I would feel very uncomfortable
If I came across this - but the excuses these people and their supporters give for doing it are incredible
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRavXq1h/
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This is the disgusting behaviour being encouraged
And going on using the name Turning point - which is equally as inappropriate as it is and has always been the name of a charity
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I've noticed the right wing media are calling the Iranian drones, "suicide drones" to sound more dramatic.
Why? They are unmanned, they are not carrying a dwarf Iranian kamikaze pilot. The people at the intended targets are not wishing to die by suicide.
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They keep telling us ‘foreigners’ are dangerous
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CHGGbPYLc/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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This is the next part of Reforms plan
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1GRYVUNm56/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Reform MP’s are beyond belief
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Against all expectations Reform failed to win the Denton and Gorton by-election.
Has their bubble burst?
The surprise winners were the Greens. The first by-election they have ever won.
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What an awful world we live in where 4 teenagers do this to another young man
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Let's end HIV stigma and uphold equality for all
https://www.unaids.org/en/2026-zero-discrimination-day
On Zero Discrimination Day, 1 March, we celebrate the right of everyone to live a full and productive life with dignity. This year, UNAIDS shines a light on the persistent discrimination faced by people living with and at risk of HIV, discrimination that undermines access to health services, violates rights, and holds back progress toward ending AIDS by 2030. This year's Zero Discrimination Day highlights the need to put people first.
The evidence is clear: HIV‑related stigma and discrimination put lives at risk. Based on data from more than 30,000 people living with HIV across 25 countries, stigma and discrimination remain pervasive barriers to health access, dignity, and human rights.
According to the People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 Global Report, nearly one in four report being stigmatized by others, including in healthcare settings, where discrimination undermines trust and access to life‑saving services. In addition, 85% of people living with HIV feel internalized stigma, and many change their behaviour— hiding their HIV status, or interrupting HIV treatment—because of fear of rejection and judgment. These findings confirm that HIV‑related stigma is not a side issue; it is a barrier to ending AIDS by 2030.
NUMBERS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
• 1 in 4 have faced discrimination when seeking non-HIV health care: Healthcare facilities—places meant to heal—become sources of fear and rejection.
• 24% have experienced community discrimination in the past year: Verbal harassment, and exclusion from family and community activities remain commonplace.
• 38% feel ashamed of being HIV-positive: Internal stigma keeps people isolated and prevents them from seeking the support they need.
• 85% experience some form of internalized stigma: From hiding their status to feeling worthless, the psychological burden is immense.
For women and girls living with and affected by HIV, gender inequalities intersect with HIV-related stigma and discrimination. Reproductive coercion, mistreatment and abuse is a persistent and widespread manifestation of stigma and discrimination that occurs along the continuum of healthcare services. A review of data collected from 26,502 women living with HIV from 23 countries, which recently completed the Stigma Index 2.0, revealed that in every single country, women living with HIV have reported experiencing some form of coercion within the last 12 months.
Intersectional stigma and discrimination also impacts their experience of other services, as well as community and domestic life and their access to justice and redress. Additionally, HIV-related stigma and discrimination combine with gender norms and inequalities to place a heavy burden of unrecognized and unpaid care on women and girls.
Discrimination continues to:
• Prevent people from testing for HIV
• Stop people from seeking HIV prevention services including medicine to prevent HIV
• Stop people from accessing treatment
• Drive people away from health services
• Deny people their fundamental human rights
• Fuel the AIDS epidemic
As the world works toward ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, we cannot succeed if discrimination stands in the way.
Zero Discrimination Day highlights how we can all become informed and promote inclusion, compassion, peace and, above all, a movement for change.
WHAT MUST CHANGE
1. Remove discriminatory laws
Countries must examine their policies and laws and eliminate those that discriminate, criminalize and harm people living with and risk of HIV—including laws that criminalize sex work, drug use, same-sex relationships, and HIV non-disclosure—that stand in the way of accessing health services.
2. Protect rights to access health care
• Ensure confidentiality
• Ensure training for health workers and implement zero-tolerance policies for discrimination
• End mandatory HIV testing
• Provide quality, compassionate care for all
3. Address stigma in communities
• Challenge myths and misinformation about HIV
• Promote U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable)
• Support community education and awareness
• Build empathy and understanding
4. Support community-led responses
• Fund organizations led by people living with HIV
• Ensure meaningful participation in policy decisions
• Strengthen peer support networks
• Protect the rights of communities to lead HIV responses
On 1 March 2026, UNAIDS calls on governments, health care providers, employers, communities and individuals to listen to the voices of people living with and affected by HIV and act on the evidence, so no one feels “less than” because of their HIV status; health systems become spaces where people can seek testing, treatment, and care without discrimination.
On Zero Discrimination Day 2026, UNAIDS invites everyone to:
Sustain the gains: Protect and scale what works: by safeguarding funding for HIV, human rights; institutionalizing stigma-free practices in health systems, education, and workplaces; reforming and repealing discriminatory laws and policies; and defending hard-won community leadership, legal protections, and U=U progress.
Stand with communities: Support, fund and partner with community‑led organizations that lead advocacy efforts and provide trusted, stigma‑free services.
Share the facts: Use social media, workplaces, and schools to spread messages that HIV is a health condition, not a moral failing, and that people living with HIV can live long, healthy, dignified lives. -
This man was abused for appearing on a Welcome to Heathrow poster. Then he met his trolls
A single social media post turned what had been one of Syed Usman Shah's "proudest moments" into one of the most overwhelming and upsetting.
It started when Shah, 35, was approached by Heathrow Airport to be part of their "Welcome" campaign.
The airport selected 38 successful Londoners whose smiling, waving images would be used on large posters at Heathrow to welcome visitors to the city.
Those chosen included a Beefeater, a Wimbledon umpire and others with prominent London jobs or who worked at tourist spots.
Shah's poster shows him waving while holding a small basket of dates in his other hand. That is because he's an entrepreneur and owner of The Date Sultan stand at London's Borough Market, where he sells fair-trade dates.
He leapt at the chance to become one of the faces of the Heathrow campaign and describes the moment his parents saw the posters at the airport as "one of the highlights of my life".
"For me, it was a pinch-me moment," says Shah. "I just saw the glitter in my Mum's eyes, and my Dad turns around and said to me, 'Son, I'm extremely proud of you.'
"The two of them said it was the happiest day of their life."
But then at 04:00 one morning Shah started receiving messages and phone calls.
"Usman, have you seen you're going viral? You're going viral for the wrong reasons."
A photo of Shah's poster had been posted online - and the replies were flooded with racial abuse.
"It was someone basically saying, 'What is the image of a brown person doing on Heathrow Airport?'" Shah explains, "and what followed was vile racial abuse - we're talking in the thousands of comments."
The UK "is under siege", wrote one user.
"Nauseating. Welcome to a [expletive] 3rd world country," said another.
A third comment read: "It's almost a crime to be white!!"
Shah says that because he was dressed in traditional clothing when photographed for the poster, people assumed he was Muslim, which resulted in most of the messages being targeted towards his faith.
"There were comments saying London is becoming Londonistan, that it's been conquered by Muslims."
Shah's image had been shared across multiple social media platforms, viewed millions of times, and the abuse kept coming.
As he scrolled through the comments, he says he felt his "heart sinking lower and lower - and lower".
"People were judging me based on my appearance, my religion, my name, the fact that I'm selling dates.
"I have never been subjected to that much abuse in my life.
"I stood in the kitchen and my missus said to me, 'Hey Usman, I've never seen you look like this before', and I just burst into tears."
• 'I just want to spread love rather than hate'
Shah was one of eight people from an ethnic minority background to be featured on the Heathrow posters. Another Muslim who took part - a successful sportswoman - received so much abuse she asked for the posters of her to be taken down.
Heathrow offered to do the same for Shah, but he told them he wanted the posters of him to stay up.
"I'm not going to lower my head when I'm being targeted with this," he says.
Instead, Shah decided to tackle the abuse head on.
Driven by what he describes as his "Islamic values" and the teachings instilled in him by his parents, Shah replied to some of the people who had sent him abusive comments.
"I don't judge you for them, I don't hate you for them," he told them. "Rather I forgive you for them."
Shah offered free dates to people if they'd come to the market to meet him.
"I just want to spread love rather than hate."
Several people came to apologise, he says, including one woman who gave him flowers and told him she felt ashamed about what she had done.
Shah is not alone in experiencing abuse based on his faith. In the latest government data, there had been a 19% rise in religious hate crimes targeting Muslims from the previous year, with a spike in August 2024, coinciding with the disorder that followed the Southport murders.
Over the last two years, there have been assaults, violent attacks on mosques, and anti-Muslim rhetoric from prominent figures on the far right.
But there's also been renewed scrutiny of issues within Muslim communities, and how well integration has happened.
There are questions about how well successive governments have engaged with Muslims to deal with issues in their own communities, and Islamophobia from outside.
"Everyone should feel safe and welcome at Heathrow, and we utterly condemn the hateful comments we have seen," Heathrow's Chief People Officer, Jo Butler, says.
"We stand alongside everyone included in this campaign and we are reassured to see so many people come out in support of those who received abuse online."
Despite what he's been through, Shah says he feels proud to be British.
"This country made me," he says. "I learned everything in this country. I was fed in this country. I was educated here. I was given opportunity by Great Britain.
"I'm proud to be a British Muslim of Pakistani descent."
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Of course I don’t have my passport. I’m Richard Tice. I’m fleeing from a war zone!
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The Truth - about that By-election
By someone who was there
A local man speaks out
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This MP can’t get into schools
Can’t think why
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Farage and his bodyguards arrive anywhere but Clacton
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-skips-20m-love-36755668.amp
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This is absolutely frightening (Edited)
Female police officers getting punched in the face by Paul Golding’s bully boy thugs. It’s time the army were engaged against these scum bags. They are certainly not protecting our women and girls as all these so called patriots always shout about
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Don’t they speak to each other
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How will the Gorton election go (Edited)
Will they choose a man that has no experience, doesn’t come from the area and is an out and out racist
We pray they won’t
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Not politics or current affairs but….
Something I thought I’d like to discuss , as I have done very much the same as the person in the article
https://geediting.com/gen-bt-im-73-and-ive-spent-the-last-three-years-saying-goodbye-to-friendships-that-were-only-alive-because-i-kept-watering-them-and-the-silence-after-i-stopped-taught-me-that-some-relationships-die-th/
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Ex mayor found not guilty of assault joins Reform (Edited)
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/25851859.bexley-councillor-james-hunt-cleared-sexual-assaults/
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Clacton furniture shop (Edited)
Front for Drugs
https://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/25876841.old-road-simmons-sons-clacton-shop-front-drugs/
And the dealers are not black, not Muslim and the shop wasn’t a barbers .
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More misinformation from Reform and GB News
Church of England rules do not permit former churches to be turned into Mosques. This is just another attempt to stir division amongst us.
REFORM UK UNVEILS PLAN TO PROTECT CHURCHES FROM BEING TURNED INTO MOSQUES IN BID TO ‘RESTORE BRITAIN’S CHRISTIAN HERITAGE’
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To be taken down - too right
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/businessman-hit-nearly-3k-bill-33468616#
But look at the name on the article - surely not
W. Ankers 😂
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What is going on in the US
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Leaves you with negativity In more ways than one
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March again in large numbers
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Are there different rules for Reform candidates
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/laila-cunningham-reform-mayor-struck-off-b2897696.html#
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It’s so frightening that we have politicians that are following this Trump playbook
https://youtube.com/shorts/wQ7SCdLhGQ0?si=AvLUNAm9fbHWaZNj