Ian Gorrie

After Emmanuel Macron wore aviators to Davos, would Keir Starmer ever do the same..?

Do you mean the UK?

Philip Huckin (British Artist, born 1952)
"Spring Light", 1997.
Acrylic on Canvas, 62.5 × 90.5 cm.
Private Collection.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

But I suspect we know what they will do:: truth is nothing like as interesting as the tittle tattle and gossip to them

Well i suspect that was a perception.. we all have our biases on things that change 😀no technical reason for it 😀

There may a slight delay in incoming calls if you ported your number as the call routes to the original donor network before routing to the provider network. No effect outbound . 😀

Apologies for sucking egg post but presuming this is what you are referring to. 😀

Resellers use the same network as the 3 major mobile networks. There is no technical difference in Tesco and O2 for example. Registered to the same infrastructure and treated exactly the same. The Networks sell these numbers/ access as they are allegedly more agile and have lower costs etc.

We had a lovely Orchard Wassail today!! Thanks everyone for coming, and to Stevie for the video!!
#morris #morrisdancing #brixton #folkmusic

Here's our signature dance, Brockwell Park, danced last Sunday at the Brixton Orchard Wassail.
#brixton #morris #morrisdancing ❤️🖤💚

Sez Les (27th January 1972). Shirley Bassey performs Diamonds are Forever.

Matt Goodwin was my university tutor. I’ll have a few things to say about him over the coming weeks.

Royal Air Force Veteran, Prince Albert Jacob

MIDS:🎖️ Now open - The Forgotten Generations: Lest We Forget

A powerful temporary exhibition celebrating Black African and Caribbean Royal Air Force veterans from the West Midlands, sharing their stories and service while ensuring their legacy is remembered.

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#LestWeForget

A 24,000 strong concentration camp on British soil
#HolocaustMemorialDay

There’s plenty like them unfortunately.. nothing about serving in the military makes anyone immune to right wing ignorance.. that said in this case I doubt he was anything more than a blanket counter

promises..promises..yes of course they would...

is that before or after their priorities are sent from Trump and Putin?

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Plenty but to do business they need UK infrastructure for UK Govt contracts. Of course that's not to say that the servers etc aren't accessed by staff off shore e.g. India,

So very pleased to see this

A Labour government just quietly getting on and doing good things

In the least surprising defection ever, I'm delighted to welcome Suella Braverman to Reform. Her invaluable experience as a minister includes getting sacked from the same job twice and saying that being homeless is a “lifestyle choice”.

The one saving grace for the uk is that govt services cannot be hosted outside the uk.. doesn’t apply to any other part of day to day life though unfortunately

See also Reform and Tory attacks on people going to University

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Braverman says she's been "politically homeless" for over 2 years, which means she was reelected in 2024 as an MP for a party she didn't want to be a member of.

And she says Tories "failed Britain [on] Brexit and immigration". She was Brexit minister and Home Secretary. Twice.

But "vote for me!"

Oh fuck off chris mason waffling on about Braverman's defection to Reform - I'm absolutely sick of hearing him ejaculate all over the airwaves

Trump trying to distance himself from the Trump administration

This seems very ad hoc.. what if he dropped it!! 😀

Yes as long as you can justify why you did so . E.g . Everyone has different experiences and there is little to be gained in asking questions of someone when you know they don’t know or have not been exposed to those scenarios.

You know when people ask about your fantasy dinner party? Well the current line up of Reform MPs is the exact opposite of that.

Tenement back courts on Muiryfauld Drive, Shettleston, Glasgow, photographed in 1968.

📷 Eastbank Model Railway Club

#Glasgow