Tuesday 2nd September 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[Frog222]

Morning, and the 80th Anniversary of the formal Japanese Surrender in Tokyo Bay .

I'm pretty sure my father was there on the flagship HMS Duke of York but he never mentioned it to me . In fact he said very little about the war. He did mention that none of the ships he was in lost a man in action while he was on them, but it got very close in Russian Convoy PQ18 which was very heavily attacked by bombers off Norway .

Somebody else was there , short clip , very moving end --

[Frog222]

Sister's reaction -- " I think that must be fake news surely ! "

NEW: Keir Starmer has said he hangs the English flag in his home and 'always sits front of a Union Jack'

He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'

[gilsey]

If only it was.

I suppose it's fake news in the sense that we don't believe him.


Meanwhile, if anyone was still in any doubt about Yvette

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has suggested that warehouses could be used to house some of the asylum seekers currently being put up in hotels.

The government has repeatedly said it wants to stop the use of hotels for asylum seekers by the end of this parliament, but ministers have not given details of what replacement housing might be used.

In an interview with LBC this morning, asked what alternative accommodation might be used, Cooper said:

I think it’s a mix of things. First of all, you actually have to shrink the whole asylum system. So we actually need to have fewer people in the asylum system in the first place, fewer people needing accommodation. That has to be at the core of this. It’s been allowed to expand in a way that is out of control.

And then, yes, we do also want to see alternative sites, more appropriate sites, including looking at military and industrial sites as well.

Asked what she meant by “industrial sites”, Cooper said the Home Office would provide further details in due course. When the presenter, Nick Ferrari, pressed her repeatedy to say if this could mean asylum seekers being housed in warehouses, Cooper eventually replied:

That’s one of the things that’s been looked at. But we will provide updates when we’ve got the practical plans.

[refitman]

In other Cooper news

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Polanski has won the Green leadership

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Incredible that anyone associated with Labour is accusing other people of sowing division.

[Frog222]

Yesterday's CRACE was a classic

Forget Orwell’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’ – the immigration debate shows real loathing

Forget George Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate”. That was strictly for amateurs. If you haven’t got in a full half hour of loathing for foreigners then you clearly don’t love your country very much. And this hate is no longer confined to the far right. Even some bien-pensants of the centre left are joining in. Everyone now has licence to hate. The fightback against foreigners starts here.

It’s a time of very public displays. Come draped in flags and colour in roundabouts with the cross of St George. Anything to make foreigners feel unwelcome. If they don’t like it, then they know what they can do.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... l-loathing

[refitman]

Starmer could have just said nothing, but instead comes out in defence of transphobia (while backing the police arresting people protesting a genocide).

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Does the inclusion of Scarlett Johansson mean the latest Jurassic Park/World film is worth a watch?

No. It does not.

As I just found out to my cost.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

I might not agree with all the Greens' policies and positions but I'm certainly not ashamed of voting for them which seems to be the unfortunate position everyone I know who voted Labour finds themselves in.

As for Cooper claiming her entire house, including the furniture, is draped in Union Jacks while Starmer says he always sits in front of one...it's just embarrassing. We don't believe them, the morons they're trying to appease don't believe them, all they're doing is descending further into the gutter encouraging racist acts of vandalism. Besides I thought spraying paint on stuff was now an act of terrorism according to Cooper. I mean it literally is if thugs spray racist abuse with a crude Cross of St George across the front of your business as we've seen happening. I don't think any of us have seen this level of overt racism for 40 years, a fight the Left had successfully won for a time in at least making it socially unacceptable, and yet here we have Yvette and Keir heading a Labour government helping to undo all that hard work for the noble cause of self preservation.

And the sad fact is it's utterly deluded. How many Labour voters will be impressed by the unlikely idea of someone bizarrely festooning their home all year round with flags and bunting? Don't get me wrong it does happen. Mostly in North Yorkshire (*cough* Pateley Bridge *cough*). But for most of us the sight of an England flag taped to the inside of somebody's window makes us think they're a dick. Because tragically English nationalism (or at least the version we've all grown up with) is an ugly thing. A twisted bitter monstrosity which simultaneously claims victimhood and superiority. If there's one thing the Scottish Nationalists understood (at least in their modern form) it was that they had to be the antithesis to that, be welcoming to all, and it worked. I don't recall any Saltire's being painted on Chinese or Indian takeaways racially abusing folk and telling them to go home.

So yeah. I voted Green, and I have a problem with some of their more Corbynesque policies (it's hard being centre left these days), but it was either that or vote for a Labour party we all (apart from one sadly absent fan of theirs) thought would be awful and who continue to demonstrate how much we underestimated how awful they could be.

[refitman]

This is why Linehan was arrested. Direct instruction to his followers to assault people.