UK reaction / response to the invasion
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StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Some interesting details within the article ...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
The main convoy sets of on March 19th for Poland, but some kit left today [Friday, 11 March 2022]
Yorkshire firefighters donate engines, boats, ladders, and fire kit to Ukraine as they join national campaign
Firefighters around Yorkshire were preparing to send donations to the counterparts in Ukraine on Friday (March 11).
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
The main convoy sets of on March 19th for Poland, but some kit left today [Friday, 11 March 2022]
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
I'm getting a bit sick (understatement) of politicians and commentators emoting outrage at the UK's slack response to Ukrainian refugees when just four months ago they were maintaining 'balance' about inflatable boats crossing the Channel.
This is the 'Hostile Environment' policy actually working, doing what it's supposed to do. No use screaming at Priti Patel when you wankers facilitated and encouraged the UK's provincial, sullen barbarism. Enough. Just enough.
This is the 'Hostile Environment' policy actually working, doing what it's supposed to do. No use screaming at Priti Patel when you wankers facilitated and encouraged the UK's provincial, sullen barbarism. Enough. Just enough.
teqniq
DisMembered
Watch: Priti Patel dodges question over visa firm’s profits
Home secretary had ignored warnings that TLSContact was pressuring visa applicants to pay extra
www.opendemocracy.net
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
Sorry, just posting this because it pissed me right off.
It's like Bosnia never happened. No massacres, no ethnic cleansing, no German businessmen driving down from Munich to Kraijina to take pot shots at the Muslims. No Srebrenica. No one being pitchforked to death around Mostar. The years of ineffective UN and EC peace talks and interventions.
I get his basic point, but fuck me. Countless thousands dead, in the heart of Europe and how quick they forget.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
they are on about God Save the Queen again:
www.theguardian.com
US business community warned of Russia cyber threat – as it happened
Ukraine president says meeting essential to understand Putin conditions to end war; Biden says Russian president’s ‘back is against the wall’
ska invita
back on the other side
aye....and if you asked 100 people in the street what war in the last 20 years has killed the most people (somewhere between 3-5.4 million excess deaths) I doubt you'd get a single correct answer unless they were from the Congo <Im not judging anyone for that, it never had the media focus so why should people know. But the public consciousness around war is interesting, in what is seemed important, what the causes are, whether it really matters, whether it is remembered, acknowledged etc. I think a lot of people in the UK barely even know about our own most recent regime change bombing of Libya for example
gosub
~#
sad but true.
And is a mixutre of not wanting to know and a decline in journalism. Still, New series of Love Island starts soon.
ska invita
back on the other side
The inevitable response from Starmerites
www.theguardian.com
I presume most of urban agree with him
Waste of money as ever, just fuels an arms race imo
Labour calls for increase in defence spending
Russia’s invasion demonstrates significant new threats lay much closer to home, says shadow defence secretary
I presume most of urban agree with him
Waste of money as ever, just fuels an arms race imo
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
The inevitable response from Starmerites
Labour calls for increase in defence spending
Russia’s invasion demonstrates significant new threats lay much closer to home, says shadow defence secretary
I presume most of urban agree with him
Waste of money as ever, just fuels an arms race imo
They do need to at least stop the latest round of cuts, which were based on absurd reasons at the time but which appear even more absurd now.
They’ve also got to stop the phenomenal wastes of money on things like procurement, PFI and housing (which in their defence in terms of housing they are attempting with Annington), such things might have been allowed a few years ago but not now. I think by 2025 Europe has to be ready to defend itself against any conceivable conventional threat (on the assumption that Trump will take the US out of NATO).
teqniq
DisMembered
200 Russian diplomats expelled by EU countries 0 by UK. Why is this I wonder?
www.theguardian.com
Britain, Canada and Australia decline so far to expel Russian diplomats
UK foreign secretary Liz Truss said cooperation with Moscow is over but has not yet acted in line with EU nations
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
That was probably £20 million well spent on a contract with some MP’s brother in law.
ska invita
back on the other side
Just been up the local high street, someone has set up a stall with a massive Ukrainian flag and blue and yellow balloons
Went over to see what it was about...have a guess??? Local Torys campaigning ahead of the upcoming local elections
Went over to see what it was about...have a guess??? Local Torys campaigning ahead of the upcoming local elections
editor
hiraethified
A beautiful story amongst all the shit
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
Ukrainian orphans evacuated by charity arrive in Scotland after rescue mission
The children, aged between one and 18, touched down At Edinburgh Airport late on Wednesday night following their flight from Warsaw in Poland, via Heathrow Airport.
ska invita
back on the other side
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Paul Mason leading the movement apparently
Yossarian
⏭️
What the fuck is wrong with people?
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has called on the United Kingdom to review its Homes for Ukraine scheme, following reports that some refugee women felt at risk from their sponsors.
...there are growing concerns that women are being put at risk via the programme, which more than 150,000 people signed up to as hosts in the days leading up to its launch on March 18.
Last week, an undercover investigation by The Times newspaper revealed how some single British men were proposing sharing beds and sending inappropriate and sexually suggestive messages to women fleeing war.
www.aljazeera.com
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has called on the United Kingdom to review its Homes for Ukraine scheme, following reports that some refugee women felt at risk from their sponsors.
...there are growing concerns that women are being put at risk via the programme, which more than 150,000 people signed up to as hosts in the days leading up to its launch on March 18.
Last week, an undercover investigation by The Times newspaper revealed how some single British men were proposing sharing beds and sending inappropriate and sexually suggestive messages to women fleeing war.
UK should stop single men hosting Ukrainian refugee women: UN
UNHCR raises alarm as investigation reveals how single men proposed sharing beds with vulnerable women fleeing war.
teqniq
DisMembered
What is going on here? It would be easy to fall into the potential rabbit hole of Russian influence over the vermin perhaps but maybe it is just petulance on their part:
www.mirror.co.uk
Fury as bill aimed at seizing Russian cash and giving it to Ukraine blocked
Sir Chris Bryant could barely contain his anger after his bill aimed at seizing Russian cash frozen in UK bank accounts and using it to build Ukraine failed to proceed on the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin's invasion
www.mirror.co.uk
teqniq
DisMembered
In light of the above it may be interesting to see what the vermin's response will be:
Labour calls for Wagner Group to be classed as terrorist organisation
Labour calls for Wagner Group to be classed as terrorist organisation
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
What is going on here? It would be easy to fall into the potential rabbit hole of Russian influence over the vermin perhaps but maybe it is just petulance on their part:
Fury as bill aimed at seizing Russian cash and giving it to Ukraine blocked
Sir Chris Bryant could barely contain his anger after his bill aimed at seizing Russian cash frozen in UK bank accounts and using it to build Ukraine failed to proceed on the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin's invasion
TBF doing that (seizing the money and giving it to the Ukrainians) is a terrible idea, at least at this stage.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
For once I find myself broadly in agreement with Govt on this. It is way too early to start talking now about rebuilding Ukraine and forcing Russia to pay for it. The fighting needs to have stopped and the dust settled first.
What happens if it turns out the reason the fighting is over is because Mad Bad Vlad has fallen out of an upstairs window? The last thing we want to do is to heap all the blame and cost on the people that have replaced him, at least at first.
What happens if it turns out the reason the fighting is over is because Mad Bad Vlad has fallen out of an upstairs window? The last thing we want to do is to heap all the blame and cost on the people that have replaced him, at least at first.
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