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Leon retweeted
El martes cayĆ³ el banco, esa noche los banqueros estaban presos y sus bienes embargados; el miĆ©rcoles se promulgĆ³ la ley para adelantar la garantĆa para ahorristas y hoy PeƱa ya estĆ” destituido y con orden de captura. No estĆ” mal, che. Podemos levantar cabeza
Leon retweeted
I'm sorry to tell you Cold War Steve but Russell Brand was embraced, annointed & had his feet kissed by the British left - Owen Jones, The Guardian, The SWP, Ed Milliband, The Peoples Assembly, and the RCG all welcomed him in. He even wrote The Revolution book. I was there. Lets not rewrite history lets tell the truth.
The CWS Charity Xmas Cards! Pack of 5 cards Ā£10, with 100% of profit going to the Survivors Trust - supporting specialist rape and sexual abuse services in the voluntary sector.
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Drunk air passenger who pulled down her underwear and exposed herself in front of holidaymakers on packed jet warned she faces jail
Sarah Parker ignored the pilotās instructions and got up out of her seat to go to the toilet during take off from Birmingham Airport on the Tui flight to Melbourne Florida on July 24 2025
She then pulled down her shorts and underwear in the aisle in full view of other passengers, a court heard.
'The defendant was intoxicated on the flight fromĀ Birmingham in the UK to Florida in the US,' prosecutor Edward Downes told magistrates in Manchester on Tuesday.
'Her behaviour was distressing to passengers, causing danger. She was exposing her genitals in view of the passengers.
The charge read that she behaved in an indecent manner 'by pulling down her shorts and underwear, squatting and exposing her vagina in full view of other passengers'.
Parker also previously pleaded guilty to being drunk on a plane and failing to comply with the pilot's instructions.
Prosecutor Edward Downes told magistrates in Manchester the flight had to be diverted to Manchester Airport with the financial loss amounting to Ā£20,000 pounds.
Leon retweeted
Ce soir, lāincroyable et jamais vu a eu lieu.
Le projet de budget du gouvernement a eu 458 voix contre et ā¦.. 0 voix pour.
Ća sent le temps perdu et annonce le 49.3 et donc la censure.
Leon retweeted
Women are perfectly capable pilots. The last female pilot I spoke with, Kath Burnham, had logged over 13,000 hours on the DC3. She often displays Pegasus at UK air shows. She flew her first solo on her 16th birthday. She doesn't drive.
Leon retweeted
The reason this scandal hasn't happened already is because councils have cut back inspections. Some care homes have three or four illegals using one fake ID, who work for less than minimum wage, and they do it because they don't expect to be caught.
I'm completely convinced ā and have been saying this for years ā that in the coming decade there will be a growing public scandal over institutionalised neglect and abuse of patients both in hospitals and care homes at the hands of illiterate immigrant workers.
If you know British doctors, nurses, psychiatrists or care workers, talk to them about what they've actually seen in their wards and care homes.
They'll tell you about patients left to marinate in their own urine and faeces in beds because there wasn't a nurse or care worker on shift who either spoke English or cared enough to do anything about it and many similar stories.
The doctors and psychiatrists will tell you about the persistent nepotism of Indian senior doctors and management hiring their own, a form of endemic corruption, which enables and facilitates incompetence and ethnic hostility between both patients and staff.
Many immigrant nurses and careworkers are great people who work hard to care for their patients.
But this problem has been bubbling away for years now. If you know anyone in these professions, you've probably heard them mumble about it or even confide in you about it. Even if you don't, the low-level chatter on ā for example ā subreddits for UK psychiatrists and nurses is also there for anyone to see.
Leon retweeted
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor womanās final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraftās maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
Leon retweeted
"the seizure of Palestinians' money and belongings"
The correct word is "theft".
Israeli violations in Hebron included forced displacement, demolition of structures, mass arrests, abuse of residents, and the seizure of Palestiniansā money and belongings
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Leon retweeted
Some would have to choose between paying the tax or paying the rent.
Vulture capitalism needs to be outlawed. Loading businesses with debt, extracting value and leaving workers to pay the price isnāt investment. Itās corporate destruction for profit.
Retail is where you want ruthless capitalism to do its thing. That's what's best for everyone. What you want is taxation policies that create a strong high street, and employment regulation that allows for labour market fluidity so that people who lose their jobs rapidly find new ones. Government should not stick its nose into individual commercial deals, except where strategic national asset are concerned - i.e. refineries, steel works and energy. A discount retailer does not qualify. It is not for government to second-guess shareholders.
Leon retweeted
The bottom line here is that government should not meddle in private enterprise - even in these circumstances. Yes, 12000 jobs are on the line, the but job of government is not to pick winners and losers - not least because they usually pick losers. The job of the government is to create the conditions where those workers can lose their jobs on a Friday and be in new ones the following week. It's only shit news for poundland workers because Labour's economic vandalism means these people will be unemployed for months. That is where the policy response must be.
šØPoundland is a scandal. Hereās why:
People have attacked me for taking up this fight, saying ābusinesses go under all the time, thatās just the free marketā. Sure, but this is *crony capitalism* and the 12,000 workers deserve better.
This is whatās really happening:
Poundlandās owners, an American outfit called Gordon Brothers are trying to put the business into administration. They bought it for Ā£1 and have a Ā£30m loan out to it, which they want back.
Itās a tough sector, suffering from fierce competition, battered by Labourās tax increases and customers feeling the pinch. However, the business is solvent, sales grew 6.7% in the last year and 8.4% in the first three weeks of October. Itās about to see the best trading weeks of the year approaching Christmas. This is not a business that has to shut its doors.
Whatās more, if Gordon Brothers want to walk away, there are others keen to take it on, as a going concern. Iāve spoken to two, highly credible parties today, who have attempted to buy the business. Both tell me they have the money. One, a hugely successful British retail entrepreneur, didnāt even get a response from Gordon Brothers. They would keep the stores intact and keep the positive momentum going.
Iāve been inundated with messages from staff and suppliers, all saying how hard theyāve worked in the past year to turn the business around.
Instead, Gordon Brothers are risking 12,000 jobs just before Christmas (and retail isnāt an easy industry to get another job in right now) and potentially another 10,000 amongst the suppliers. Poundland has a number of suppliers that only or largely supply them, and who will face an uncertain future without them.
Then thereās the loss to the landlords, the rates owed to local councils, tax due to HMRC and the lost footfall on our high streets if 600 stores shut.
The wage bill of Poundland is close to Ā£500m, so you can imagine the cost to the taxpayer in benefits if 12,000 people lose their jobs.
Could it be that Gordon Brothers, far from being a real āturnaround specialistā is just trying to look after themselves and make a profit at the expense of literally everyone else?
Might they be using the administration process to protect their loan?
And the advisors who handle administration will also pockets millions in fees. Naturally.
Could we see a decent business run down, shelves slowly emptied and then folded, with everyone losing out bar them? Thats what happened with another, similar business, Poundworld.
Itās not for nothing that loyal staff emailing me are calling them āGreedy Brothersā.
Should politicians be interested in this scandal? Too right they should. Frankly Iām shocked more arenāt. It shows how little Westminster cares about working people. You can be pro business, but anti crony capitalism. Reform UK is.
The Business Secretary needs to ask searching questions of Gordon Brothers and this administration process, before a 35 year old mainstay of our high streets and 12,000 jobs are destroyed by them.
Leon retweeted
Absolutely wrong. If there is a market for discount retail somebody will step in to take it. Dysfunctional businesses die. That's the nature of the game.
Leon retweeted
A reminder the FAA secretly monitored real drone flights in the US for a year & found drone owners rarely ever fly at night or in bad weather.
People have better things to do.
On top of that CISA notes malicious drones will not be illuminated, Leipzig underlined that.
Rioting,looting & public disorder are becoming harder to dismiss as isolated incidents across Europe.Different countries,different grievances,but a growing sense of frustration. Governments shouldnāt underestimate what happens when public trust and confidence start breaking down.
Shops looted as German cost of living protests turn violent bbc.in/4eFFnVW
