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A data centre (bot farm) has been destroyed and:
1. Pro-Israel posts have dropped off a cliff.
2. Pro-Reform/Restore posts have dropped off a cliff.
3. Pro-Union replies have dropped off a cliff.
It’s almost like the 3 things are linked.
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For those who do not understand why Danny Tommo wasn’t given bail: it's completely and utterly obvious for anyone who isn't totally braindead.
Tommo is a convicted criminal who served two years for attempted kidnapping. He was already on conditional bail following six criminal charges in April, with a hearing due in October, when he was filmed slashing a dinghy with a rescue worker still aboard. He refused to confirm his abode to the police.
A serious previous conviction, a new criminal allegation while already on bail from 6 other charges, no fixed abode: this is a slam dunk "no bail" scenario. Not a conspiracy.
Comparing him with the five men arrested near RAF Fairford is utterly disingenuous. It's obvious by now that these were petty criminals stealing fuel, not terrorists. They were fully identified, having given fixed abodes, and no one is a flight risk for a petty attempted crime. I also guarantee none of them were already on bail from previous charges.
So please, stop with the false outrage. No one genuinely believes these scenarios are comparable.
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There’s a fairly fundamental problem with this entire argument: it starts by confusing arrest with charge, and then confuses “belonging to another” with ownership.
1. The “intent to endanger life charge” wasn’t “binned” — Daniel Thomas was never charged with it.
Hampshire Police arrested Daniel Thomas on suspicion of several offences, including criminal damage with intent to endanger life and maritime offences. Arrest on suspicion allows police to investigate; it is not a criminal charge.
After investigation, the CPS authorised two charges: criminal damage and an alleged failure to disclose his phone PIN under s.53 RIPA.
So claiming prosecutors “couldn’t make the serious charge stick” because “the boat was empty” goes considerably further than the published evidence.
In fact, Hampshire Police expressly state that the criminal-damage charge follows an allegation that the boat was damaged “whilst an emergency responder was on board.” Contemporary reporting likewise describes an emergency/rescue worker being aboard when Thomas allegedly damaged it.
Daniel Thomas has pleaded not guilty, so those allegations remain to be determined by the court.
2. Criminal damage does NOT mean “the Government owns the boat.”
This is where the supposed “smoking gun” completely falls apart.
Yes, ordinary criminal damage under s.1 Criminal Damage Act 1971 concerns property “belonging to another.”
But instead of guessing what that phrase means, read s.10(2) of the same Act.
For criminal-damage law, property is treated as belonging to any person who:
• has custody or control of it;
• has any proprietary right or interest in it; or
• has a charge over it.
That is the actual statutory definition.
Notice what it DOESN’T say: “the person who legally owns it.”
Consequently, bringing a criminal-damage prosecution does not constitute an admission that the British Government owns the dinghy. It doesn't establish French ownership either. “Belonging to another” is deliberately wider than title to property.
If, for example, an emergency responder had taken custody or control of the dinghy, s.10(2)(a) is potentially engaged irrespective of who originally bought or owned it. If a French authority or another party possessed a proprietary interest, s.10(2)(b) could also be relevant. Exactly which basis the prosecution relies upon is a matter for the proceedings.
There is another obvious problem with the conspiracy argument: Daniel Thomas is a private individual. He does not acquire ownership, custody or lawful authority over a dinghy simply because he believes it was previously used by people smugglers.
Nor does allegedly damaging property somehow force the Government to announce “that's OUR property” before prosecuting you. That's simply not how the Criminal Damage Act works.
The published CPS statement doesn't claim that the British Government owns the boat at all. It simply says prosecutors considered there sufficient evidence and that prosecution was in the public interest.
There is therefore no “confession”, no admission that “the boats are theirs”, and certainly nothing in this criminal-damage charge establishing that the Government is operating a people-smuggling network.
You can criticise immigration policy or Daniel Thomas's prosecution all you want. But s.10 Criminal Damage Act 1971 does not provide evidence for that claim.
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🚨🇬🇧 No one is saying Danny Tommo intended to hurt anyone in his Channel escapade.
At sea, that isn't the test. The test is what a competent seaman would do. He failed it four times in one afternoon.
You don't crowd a rescue. Unless the coastguard asks for you, you stand off. Rescue is the most dangerous moment for an overloaded dinghy. People panic, surge to one side, and boats break up. Tommo drove a speedboat into a live rescue and picked out the dinghy with the most people on it.
You don't take a knife to an inflatable with someone on it. When a tube goes soft, the boat loses its shape and its buoyancy fast. The rescuer was standing between two hulls. Go in the water there and you face a crush risk as well as the cold. That's basic seamanship.
You don't leave wreckage behind. A half-sunk dinghy full of lifejackets can look like casualties to a helicopter or a passing ship. False alarms and mistaken identity cost lives in the Channel. In 2021, rescuers found the wrong boat, the search for the sinking one appears to have stopped, and at least 27 people died.
These waters have already shown what happens when small boats go unseen. In 2006, three men died off the Isle of Wight when a ferry ran down their yacht. It never showed up on the ship's radar. The bridge didn't see it until it was too late. Small boats are close to invisible to big ships. Everyone who goes out there in one owes it to themselves, and to the rescuers who'd have to come for them, to act like it.
And the oldest rule at sea: you help people in distress. Whoever they are, however they got there. Tommo's words on the livestream were "we're going to take the one with the most on." He wasn't going out to help. He was going out to find out where they'd land.
Then he told the rescuer, "Get off the boat, you've got time." While cutting it.
You don't tell a man he's got time unless you know he's in danger. He knew. He cut it anyway.
Not malicious. Just dangerously ignorant, and reckless with other people's lives. On the water, that's worse.
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The problem with the small boats issue is that nothing will ever satisfy these people.
If the boats stopped arriving tomorrow, bearing in mind crossings are down 47% on the same time last year, they’d swiftly move on to those already here.
They’d not stop because immigration is their favourite political toy. They start on black and brown people who have settled here, many as children.
They need this issue to stay relevant. Their entire platform has been built on it. Disgraceful racists.
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There’s BBC 10 o’clock news still misleading about Scottish drug deaths.
They ignore NRS and EUDA instructions 👇
@reetacbbc
@BBCJamesCook
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Yesterday’s historic meeting between the Celtic nations THIS! AND Sarah Cooper-Lesadd had defected to Plaid!
Well it’s only Tuesday and what a weeks it’s turned out to be already.
I might have a cheeky wine 🍷
🏴 🏴 🇮🇪 ✊🏼
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So Nigel Farage has declared Reform would declare a national emergency on day one so that they can overrule the judiciary and force legislation through.
This seems to be remarkably like the enabling act that Hitler and the Nazis used to grab power. share.google/HZlcMaYHj1VDknt…
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I fucking hate this pig.
Now the motherfucker is cheering for Canada’s economy to “collapse” because Carney told him no.
This is the diseased, vindictive mind of a fucking psychopath. And that is exactly why Canada must never, ever bow to that festering sack of shit . 🇨🇦
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📣 Today, your @theSNP Scottish Government set out its Programme for Government.
🏡 More new, affordable homes.
💪 Public services fit for the future.
💷 More money in people's pockets.
🩺 Shorter NHS waiting lists and easier access to GPs.
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Just been followed by a member of the Israeli Defence Force, who I immediately blocked. Don't want any association with genocidal maniacs. Plus given Israel's interference in Scottish elections & industry, Zionism must be detested & resisted by all decent Scots.
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This letter, sent to a Reform volunteer ahead of the Clacton by-election, was posted with a first-class stamp, meaning it went out through the mail in advance of polling day itself.
In it, Farage tells the volunteer he'll be watching the results come in at Great Oakley Airfield, with doors open at 11pm, and will "speak from the main stage once the result is declared."
That's not a contingency. That's the stated plan, in writing, before a vote was cast.
Days later, Reform told the press Farage was skipping the official declaration because Essex Police had advised him not to attend over a "credible threat." Essex Police say they gave no such advice to him or any candidate.
Whatever the explanation offered afterward, the letter shows where he actually planned to be all along. Not attending the count wasn't a last-minute security decision. It was the itinerary. Farage is a fucking liar.
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Never forget
Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.
Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.
Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.
Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.
You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.
Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.
