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David Elliott FRSA retweeted
Die Reichspogromnacht geschah mitten in der deutschen Gesellschaft. Nachbarn sahen zu. Menschen schwiegen. Viele schauten weg, während jüdische Geschäfte verwüstet, Synagogen angezündet und Juden brutal angegriffen, verfolgt und ermordet wurden.
88 Jahre später müssen jüdische Eltern in Deutschland wieder Angst haben, ihre Kinder zur Schule zu schicken. Jüdische Studierende werden an Universitäten angefeindet und angegriffen. Jüdische Geschäfte werden boykottiert. Jüdisches Leben wird wieder zur Zielscheibe.
Der 9. November erinnert uns nicht nur daran, was damals geschah. Er verpflichtet uns, heute Verantwortung zu übernehmen.
Gedenken und Sonntagsreden allein reichen nicht. Wir müssen unsere Stimme erheben, wenn andere schweigen. Nicht nur am 9. November, sondern an jedem einzelnen Tag.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
No joke: Tomorrow at 10 am, the U.N. plans to elect the Islamic regime of Iran to its main subsidiary organ shaping priorities on women's rights, counter-terrorism and peacekeeping. We urge all states who nominated Tehran — 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇳🇱🇳🇴🇫🇮🇨🇭🇦🇹🇦🇺🇨🇭— to reverse course and vote No.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
Hamas is stealing humanitarian aid, confiscating tents, and obstructing flood protection efforts.
Even a deadly storm becomes another opportunity for Hamas to exploit aid and tighten its grip on Gaza.
Terrorism, corruption, and greed. This is Palestinian Hamas.
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David Elliott FRSA retweeted
I reported sexual assault in the NHS. An independent investigation upheld all complaints, I lost my nursing career while he still works unrestricted with children and families. Regulators have failed to act. This is a serious public safety concern @YvetteCooperMP @andyburnham
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
After falling and injuring myself, I went to A&E. I was violently sexually assaulted. I was kept in put in a private sideroom, woken at night. Injected, drugged, and r*ped in Pinderfields NHS hospital, Wakefield, leaving me with lifelong injuries.
I lost my job as a special needs teacher for 13 years whilst the Rapists walk free.
Management covered up.
I've been gaslit, lied to, medical records changed, clinical timeline falsified, perverting the course of justice and victimised.
West Yorkshire Police stalled 9 months before starting a bodged investigation.
I'm failed by the system.
8 more were raped and 6 sexually assaulted, same hospital.
⚠️All no charged
I took to @X to speak out.
My name is Michelle.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
In 1971, Britain successfully launched the Prospero satellite into low Earth orbit using our own Black Arrow rocket. We remain the only nation in human history to have developed independent orbital launch capability and then voluntarily dismantled it. The Treasury decided it was cheaper to rely on American rockets, and fifty years of managed decline followed.
What the tabloids are dressing up as British military swagger is actually Tyche, a 150kg Earth-observation satellite designed for UK Space Command. It was not blasted into orbit by Britain. It sat inside the fairing of an American SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
We did not build the rocket. We did not own the launchpad. We bought a commercial ticket on an American billionaire’s rideshare manifest.
This is the direct consequence of five decades of Whitehall consensus:
First, we surrendered sovereign launch. While France poured resources into Arianespace and built a sovereign European spaceport in Kourou, British civil servants treated space as an unnecessary luxury. When Virgin Orbit’s air-launch failed in Cornwall and the company went into administration, our domestic launch dreams collapsed with it. SaxaVord in Shetland is crawling through regulatory hurdles, but even if orbital tests succeed, we are years away from having an indigenous heavy-lift rocket capable of deploying military-grade hardware.
Second, we hollowed out our supply chains. Successive Conservative and Labour governments allowed our domestic defence manufacturing base to bleed out into foreign-owned conglomerates. We now see Airbus threatening to axe 3,000 British high-tech jobs if the next phase of our Skynet military satellite communications contract goes to Lockheed Martin. When your critical military communications network is fought over by French-led and American primes, you do not have sovereign defence capability; you have a collection of foreign-owned branch offices holding your procurement hostage.
Third, our entire orbital defence doctrine is at the mercy of foreign approval. Relying entirely on US launchpads and American commercial rockets means Britain’s eyes in the sky are subject to US ITAR export regulations, American launch slot availability, and Washington’s geopolitical priorities. If SpaceX prioritises a Pentagon manifest, or diplomatic interests diverge, British military payloads wait on the tarmac.
You cannot claim to be a serious global military power when you cannot deploy your own strategic eyes in the sky under your own steam. Outsourcing sovereign security to foreign rockets is not a triumph of British defence. It is the definitive monument to fifty years of Treasury-mandated decline.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
White English teenager Harley Purdue is stabbed to death by an Eritrean national, Musa Salih, in a botched robbery.
The result?
A complete national media blackout. No front pages, no prime-time TV focus—just buried regional pieces. Why does the national media choose to look away when the victim is white, and the perpetrator is non-white/immigrant?
Eritrean national Musa Salih, who stabbed English teenager Harley Purdue to death, is given a life sentence! Salih also attempted to attack Purdue's partner, Hazel Gadsden, after she tried to intervene. She was pregnant at the time with Purdue's baby.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
Palestinian American Mo Hamzeh has been BANNED from coming to the UK. He spreads hateful conspiracies about Jews and is definitely not conducive to the public good. Thank you @ShabanaMahmood 🙏
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
💥 Taken Alive for the Sake of the Talks 💥
A former SAS operator has now confirmed what many in our community long suspected. In 1997, when the Regiment finally cornered Bernard McGinn, the imperative was to take him alive. Not because it was the safest tactical option in every circumstance, but because killing him risked jeopardising the secret political negotiations then under way.
McGinn was no bit player. He was part of the South Armagh sniper team that had killed multiple members of the security forces. He was linked to the murder of Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick — the last British soldier killed by the IRA before the Agreement. He had a role in the major mainland bombing campaign, including the Docklands attack that killed two people and caused enormous destruction. When the SAS moved on the farm near Crossmaglen, they were dealing with a man who had left a trail of blood and wreckage.
Yet the political track took priority. The operator’s account makes clear that the mission parameters were shaped by the need not to disrupt the talks. Capture was the requirement. The peace process, still fragile and largely conducted behind closed doors, could not afford a high-profile lethal outcome that republicans might exploit.
This is the reality that is too often airbrushed. While the IRA continued to kill and bomb, the state’s most effective operators were operating under political constraints designed to keep the negotiations alive. The same organisation that was murdering soldiers and bombing London was being treated as a party that could not be pressed too hard for fear of collapsing the process.
McGinn was eventually captured, confessed to a string of serious offences, and received a sentence measured in centuries. He was free again within a short time under the terms of the Agreement. That sequence — constrained operations, early release, and the elevation of those who directed the campaign into the political mainstream — is the settlement our community was asked to accept.
The SAS did its job within the rules it was given. The question that remains is whether those rules properly reflected the threat or whether they reflected a political calculation that the process mattered more than maximum pressure on active terrorists. The operator’s account suggests the latter.
For those who lost family members to the sniper teams and the mainland bombs, the knowledge that the priority was to keep a man like McGinn alive for the sake of the talks is not a footnote. It is a measure of the imbalance that ran through the final years of the conflict. The process was protected. The victims were expected to understand.
That is the price that was paid. It should not be forgotten.
#SAS #BernardMcGinn #PeaceProcess #RuleOfLaw #Troubles #PUL #NorthernIreland #NeverForget
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan had her medical licence suspended in November 2025 because she claims she was “advocating for Palestine.” But really it was being her constant online anti Semitism and pure hatred towards Jews, not just Zionists, but all Jews.
Today, Monday, Aladwan had her second six-monthly review with the General Medical Council and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
She was asked, what she had learnt since the last review in May 2026, and what did she wish to submit. With a deep brief, she told the panel:
- 4,797 Palestinians have since been murdered by the jewish occupation in Gaza. 1,490 of them were children. That is 31%.
- Bombing and massacres occur daily.
- Palestinians continue to be held hostage, kidnapped, and tortured.
- 'israel' continues with impunity, without justice for the Palestinians or the British citizens they massacred.
The GMC counsel described her as “unrepentant” in her social media activity, and decided to continue her suspension.
The GMC will have to apply to the High Court in February 2027 if they want to extend it further.
I trust the major Jewish organisations will be there testifying why she should never be allowed to practise again.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
On October 7, Eden Nimri (22) bravely confronted Hamas single-handedly. At the time, she was wearing pajamas and stood at the entrance of a bomb shelter, protecting 17 people inside.
According to Ynet — all 17 girls survived, except Eden.
Survivors recounted that when Eden ran out of ammunition, she fought the terrorists unarmed, using only her bare hands.
She sacrificed her life while defending Israel and her friends. Eden was only 22 years old.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
Henry Nowak's family have finally spoken out about the appalling failure of the police, who handcuffed their dying son and allowed him to die when they should have been trying to save his life.
They will never forget Henry.
No one should ever forget Henry.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
A tower controller in Columbus watched her plane disappear into the sky and muttered into his radio: "Well, I guess that's the last we'll hear from her." It was March 19, 1964, and Jerrie Mock, a 38-year-old housewife with 750 hours of flight time, was attempting something that had killed Amelia Earhart. Nobody expected her to come back alive.
But Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock did come back. Twenty-nine days later, she touched down in Columbus in her Cessna 180, becoming the first woman to fly solo around the world. The crowd that greeted her numbered 5,000. The governor was there. She had done what Earhart could not.
What makes this story even more remarkable is how completely she vanished from history. While Earhart's name is spoken in reverence, Mock's achievement was swallowed by time. The press called her "the flying housewife," a diminishing title that somehow made her extraordinary feat seem ordinary. She never sought the spotlight anyway. "The kind of person who can sit in an airplane alone is not the type of person who likes to be continually with other people," she once said.
Mock was seven years old when she first flew and knew instantly what she wanted to do with her life. At Ohio State, she was the only woman in aeronautical engineering, and she silenced her male classmates by acing a chemistry exam they all failed. But this was 1945, and a woman's place was not in the sky. She dropped out, married, raised three children, and waited. When boredom finally drove her to mention the idea to her husband, he joked: "Maybe you should just fly around the world." She took him seriously.
The flight nearly killed her more than once. She landed at a secret Egyptian military base and was surrounded by armed soldiers. An antenna wire caught fire over the Libyan desert, burning dangerously close to her fuel tank. In Saudi Arabia, a crowd of men refused to believe a woman had piloted the plane until someone climbed up to look in the cockpit and confirm there was no man hiding inside.
Jerrie Mock passed away in 2014 at 88, never quite believing her own legend. She had simply wanted, as she said, "to have a little fun in my airplane" and to see the world's oceans, jungles, deserts, and people. She did that. And in doing so, she proved that sometimes the greatest achievements belong to those history forgets.
Note there has never been a feature film, biopic, or major documentary about Jerrie Mock or her 1964 flight.
Just Saying?
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
SHE WAS THE FIRST TO IDENTIFY THE OCT 7TH ATTACKS:
Captain Sahar Saudyan from Rosh HaAyin was just 21 years old and was an officer in Israel's Iron Dome division.
When Gaza began its massive rocket barrage at 6:29 AM, Sahar was the first to identify the attack. Hours later, when Iron Dome batteries were running out of interceptor missiles, Sahar volunteered to deliver more.
Sahar climbed into an army vehicle with two fellow soldiers, Nativ Kuzaro and Binyamin Gavriel Yona, 19.
As they passed by Kibbutz Re'im, Hamas terrorists ambushed them with heavy gunfire and RPG fire.
All three got out of their overturned vehicle and fought back, hitting several terrorists before they were murdered by the men of Gaza.
May their memories be a blessing… every single last one will be found.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
The King is correct, Burnham is not. The minute we say sorry for something that happened hundreds of years ago countries will immediately demand reparations. The answer is NO! Stop this nonsense. gbnews.com/royal/king-charle…
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
For thirty-one years, the classified files of the Cold War hid what happened on June 29, 1987, when America's fastest spy plane blew an engine at Mach 3 over the Baltic Sea.
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonels Duane Noll and Tom Veltri were flying a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird at seventy-five thousand feet near Soviet airspace when their right engine exploded.
In seconds, the crippled American reconnaissance jet decelerated and dropped down to twenty-two thousand feet on a single engine. An SR-71 carries zero weapons and relies entirely on speed to survive.
Now flying slow and low, the unarmed American crew was a sitting duck as Soviet fighter jets scrambled with orders to intercept or force the Blackbird down.
Then two Swedish Air Force JA 37 Viggen fighter jets piloted by Major Roger Moller and Major Krister Sjoberg thundered up beside the limping American plane, followed minutes later by two more armed Swedish Viggens.
Sweden was officially neutral, and those four pilots were only on a routine training flight. Yet without hesitation, they locked their own combat radars on and positioned their fighter jets as an armed shield right between the Soviet interceptors and the crippled U.S. aircraft, escorting the Americans all the way to safety.
In November 2018, the secret was finally declassified, and the United States Air Force awarded all four Swedish pilots the U.S. Air Medal.
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David Elliott FRSA retweeted
“If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?”
AWKS!!!!
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
David Elliott FRSA retweeted
One day, the stories of all Coalition soldiers who braved and defused IEDs in Afghanistan (day after day) will be fully, properly and respectfully told. Even at the time, their courage was remarked upon by others who served. Lest we forget.
