Mor(fters)ning all...
Re Lucy Allan and the 'employment' and the target of her vitriol, I'm sure I heard on the tapes something alluding to the 'employment contract', where Allan stated the 'employee' had no sickness rights and hadn't been employed for a year, so there would be no pay for the absence...so I assumed a typically Tory 'Zero Hours' style deal.
Picked this up last night....strangely, not plastered all over the UK MSM (not that I can see, anyway)...
UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution targeting ISIS finances
http://www.sott.net/article/308737-UN-S ... IS-funding
...with this comment...
Comment: It's strange to see the US and Russia working together to fight ISIS. So we have this new resolution, on top of Kerry admitting Assad's future will be determined by the Syrian people, the US pulling 12 fighter jets from the Incirlik base in Turkey, and in a dramatic reversal of the NATO narrative on Turkey's invasion of Iraq, Vice President Biden calling on Turkey to withdraw from Iraq. It was only a month ago that Obama said Assad must go, and just a few days ago the State Dept. was dodging questions from RT about Turkish troops in Iraq. As some have put it, it's been a strange few days in US foreign policy. One has to wonder if it wasn't something Putin said during his meeting with Kerry that has led to practically a 180 degree reversal by the US in certain foreign policy decisions. Perhaps he made it abundantly clear that moving forward with the US's previous policy would mean war with Russia, and just how outmatched the US was for such a possibility.
...and this (from the original RT piece
https://www.rt.com/news/326356-un-secur ... -finances/)...
The UNSC resolution comes just days after US Secretary of State John Kerry’s Tuesday visit to Moscow. Following talks, Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia and the US have agreed on a number of “critical” issues, particularly with regard to Syria.
“The US stands ready to work with Russia,” Kerry told journalists.
“We see Syria fundamentally very similarly, we want the same outcomes, we see the same dangers, we understand the same challenges,” Kerry said. “Russia and the United States agree that you can’t defeat Daesh [Arabic acronym/derogatory name for IS] without also de-escalating the fight in Syria.”
There seems to be some sort of time-lag in Clouncy Funts' planning process....we (Britain) seem to have arrived very late to the party, just as everyone else is talking about packing up and going home (absolutely no-one at all, and definitely not his dog, said that this would be the outcome before the vote...nope, absolutely definitely nobody...if only there'd been a grown-up or two around to say 'why bother with the war - there's already enough destruction - why not go straight to the peace?')....with those fantabulous Brimstone missiles unused...
DAVID Cameron’s bid to destroy IS in Syria was last night questioned again after it emerged the RAF is yet to fire its key Brimstone missile.
And after three initial raids, Tornado and Typhoon pilots have not bombed any terror group targets in its heartlands for ten days.
The PM told MPs before the vote to authorise action that the fearsome Brimstone missile, unique to the RAF, was a major reason why Britain should join the assault in Syria. (Sorry - I refuse to link to Uncle Ruperts' festering organ of putrid bile...and it seems to be the only one with the 'story', so who knows whether its' true or not
(and thanks to RR2 (I think) for finding the original, also not linked)
All that bluster...all those lies....all that Labour-splitting effort...for 3 sorties?...in 2 weeks?....without using the one thing our 'allies' are supposed to have wanted us for?...oh, Clouncy....you've really outdone yourself this time
(As in, that's not
really war then, is it? - I'm waiting for Mr Benns' reaction to having been so comprehensively shafted....no?...oh...)
I'm not sure how this will be spun as a positive for No 10...but I'm sure they'll find a way
However, in grown-up world, if it is true that the US and Russia are going to get their act together and start targeting funding and supply lines, that is a very good thing (IMHO).