A Neo-Nazi Accused Of Murdering Immigrants Has Filmed Himself In Possession Of Five Anti-Tank Rockets That Britain Supplied To Ukraine

UK PM’s Family Signs $1.5Billion Deal With BP.
Just two months before UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opened hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, an IT firm founded by his father-in-law signed a $1.5billion deal with energy giant BP.
The Times of India reported in May 2023 that Indian IT giant Infosys, in which Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty also has a reported £400million stake, won a deal from the global energy company thought to be the second-largest in the history of the firm.
Despite the company being partly owned by his wife’s family, Sunak previously said the matter is of “no legitimate public interest”.
Sunak has been criticised over his announcement of around 100 new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.
( James Walker, 02.08.2023 )  ..  thenational.scot

Tories Accept Donations From People With Connections To Dictators.
While the Tory press have been up in arms over who the Labour Party accepts donations from, whipping up a moral panic over anything and everything, their outrage machine goes silent when it comes to the Tory party accepting money from those with links to dictators.

While the Sun and Daily Mail have slammed Labour leader Keir Starmer for accepting money from Dale Vince, a key funder of Just Stop Oil, they seemed not to be very concerned about the Tories accepting money from those with links to the Putin regime or to the former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The Labour Party has come under pressure from the Tory press to distance itself from Vince who has given it £1.5million.

This despite the fact that Starmer has condemned the actions of Just Stop Oil and made clear that his donations have no impact on Labour Party policy.
Meanwhile, the Tory press have expressed little outrage over the Conservative Party accepting money from a former minister who served in the government of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Last week it was reported that Egyptian-born billionaire Mohamed Mansour has donated £5million to the Conservative Party to help them fight the next election.
After Mansour was made a senior treasurer of the Conservatives in December 2022, Labour said Sunak could not claim to stand up for integrity when there was “a billionaire who was a part of Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime being put in charge of drumming up donations”.

The Tories clearly have no issue with appointing someone who served in the regime of a brutal dictator, to a senior post within their party or accepting his money.
Amnesty International have reported a ‘litany of abuses’ which were committed during Mubarak’s 30 year rule, including torture, a crackdown on free-speech and any political opposition and widespread human rights abuses.

The Tory press of course made very little mention of Mansour’s ties to Mubarak and the human rights abuses that occurred under his rule.
The Conservative Party has also accepted donations from Lubov Chernukhin, wife of a former Putin Minister, who has donated more than £2million to the Conservatives from 2012 to 2020.
Chernukhin, is also on a ‘secret advisory board’ with direct access to Boris Johnson.
Her husband Vladimir, served as Mr Putin’s deputy finance minister in the early 2000s.
( Basit Mahmood, 30.05.2023 )  ..  leftfootforward.org

Neo-Nazi In Possession Of British Weapons Accused Of Murdering Immigrants.
A neo-Nazi accused of murdering immigrants has filmed himself in possession of five anti-tank rockets that Britain supplied to Ukraine.
Sergei Korotkikh can be seen with UK-made missile launchers in three videos posted to his Telegram channel.
Campaign Against Arms Trade said the discovery is “very troubling”.
It adds to evidence that some weapons sent by Britain to Ukraine have ended up in the hands of extremist forces.

Sergei Korotkikh, who is originally from Belarus, founded a Russian neo-Nazi group around 20 years ago, the National Socialist Society.
It spread fear in Moscow by targeting darker-skinned guest workers from the Caucasus and central Asia.
The group was banned and its members convicted of dozens of racist murders.
Korotkikh is alleged to have killed two migrants in 2007, beheading one of the victims, Shamil Odamanov, on camera beneath a swastika flag.
He would not be charged with murder until 2021, by which time he had long since left the country.

Korotkikh’s murky past in Russia did not stop him being welcomed to Ukraine.
He moved there in 2014 when the country was split over its relationship with Moscow.
He joined the Azov battalion, a neo-Nazi militia founded by Ukrainian far-right activist Andriy Biletsky to fight against pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas.
Korotkikh quickly acquired Ukrainian citizenship in a ceremony conducted by the then president, Petro Poroshenko.
Meanwhile the Azov battalion was integrated into Ukraine’s National Guard.
( Phil Miller, 17.05.2023 )  ..  declassifieduk.org

The UK Government Is “Cooking The Books” To Reduce Asylum Seeker Backlog.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused of “cooking the books” as thousands of asylum claims are removed from the system following his vow to clear a historic backlog by the end of this year.

More than 6,000 people have been wiped off the list without being fully assessed in just three months, for reasons such as failing to attend interviews or appointments, and not filling in new “fast-track” questionnaires.
The figures have quadrupled since the prime minister pledged in December 2022 to clear the pre-June 2022 asylum backlog.

The government is now withdrawing more claims than it decides, sparking accusations the backlog is being cut “by the back door”.
Official guidance states that applications can be withdrawn by the Home Office without the asylum seeker’s consent, even if it has been unable to contact them and does not know where they are, with a notification letter “served to file only”.

Once removed from the system, people are ineligible for the housing and financial support offered to destitute asylum seekers, with a Tory MP warning they can then “disappear without a trace”.
( Lizzie Dearden, 05.08.2023 )  ..  independent.co.uk

Britain’s Mainstream Media, Its Army And The Israel Lobby All Joined Forces To Ensure Jeremy Corbyn Did Not Become Prime Minister.
An investigation by journalist Matt Kennard concluded that during his leadership, Jeremy Corbyn had been the target of 34 major national media stories openly sourced by former or current officials in the UK’s intelligence and military establishment, including MI5 and MI6. The stories all cast him as a danger to British security.

Other governments were involved too.
U.S. secretary of state and former CIA director Mike Pompeo hinted in a private meeting with Israel lobby leaders that the U.S. government could stage its own intervention to stop Corbyn becoming prime minister.

Over the years there was a constant stream of alarming headlines about the alleged threat Corbyn posed to Jews, despite his decades of anti-racist campaigning.
In July 2018, three pro-Israel, British Jewish newspapers published identical front-page editorials claiming that a Corbyn-led government posed an “existential threat to Jewish life in this country” due to the “Corbynite contempt for Jews and Israel.”

During the 2019 general election campaign, right-wing columnist Simon Heffer claimed on live radio that Corbyn “wants to reopen Auschwitz”, the most notorious Nazi death camp where Jews were systemically murdered on an industrial scale during the Holocaust.
In December 2019, Corbyn announced he would step down as Labour leader, after losing the general election.

Keir Starmer succeeded him in April 2020 and intensified the party’s purges of Corbynites, saying he wanted to support “Zionism without qualification.”
Then in October 2020 Corbyn was suspended from the party altogether.
He had made an objectively factual statement that the scale of anti-Semitism in Labour had been exaggerated by his political enemies.
( Asa Winstanley, 30.05.2023 )  ..  declassifieduk.org

Judaism Is Not Hereditary, It’s Just A Religion.
After the horrors of the Holocaust, the concept of a Jewish race is still alive and well in the minds of too many.
To be a race, Jews would have to have been isolated from other populations.
However, they never avoided crossbreeding and converted many non-Jews.
In other words, from Day One Jews have married non-Jews, and therefore there is no way to genetically characterise them as a race.

Nevertheless, many people find it difficult to accept the ideas that Judaism is not hereditary, but a religion, and that Jews who abandon the Jewish faith, whether they adopt another religion or none at all, are no longer Jews.
As a trained geneticist, Alain Corcos became convinced that there are not and never were human races.

In the last twenty years, an increasing number of anthropologists and biologists have reached the same conclusion.
They argue that there is no way to genetically characterise race, because no human population has ever been isolated long enough from other populations to avoid “crossbreeding.”
The history of the Jews, in particular, supports this thesis.
From Day One they had children with non-Jews.

Hence, biologically, Jews are not different from non-Jews.
Although many volumes have been written that condemn anti-Semitism and deal with its history, only two treat the myth of the Jewish race.
Oddly, though both maintain that there is no such thing as a Jewish race, their authors write about Jewish blood and Jewish genes, which are misleading concepts as harmful and pernicious as the term race itself.
( Alain Corcos, The Myth of the Jewish Race, 2005 ) ..  Lehigh University Press

UK Foreign Secretary Didn’t Know What The Customs Union Was.
Boris Johnson, the former UK Prime Minister who campaigned for Britain to leave the Customs Union, had to have a Labour MP explain to him what it was after stopping him in the corridor to ask about it.
Labour MP Barry Gardiner revealed that Johnson, when he was Foreign Secretary, and one of the three people who was supposed to be in charge of Brexit, did not know what a Customs Union was.
Gardiner claims that Johnson said to him, “Tell me, tell me what is all this stuff about a Customs Union?”
Gardiner then claims to have asked Johnson what he meant by his question, and Johnson replied: “Well what is a Customs Union?”
( Basit Mahmoud, 13.09.2023 )  ..  leftfootforward.org

Top Tory Donor Is Handed Lucrative Contracts.
One of the UK Conservatives’ biggest ever donors has profited from £135million of contracts with the Department of Health and Social Care in under four years.
Frank Hester, a healthcare tech entrepreneur whose company supplies computer systems to the NHS, gave PM Rishi Sunak’s party £5million this year.
His company, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP), paid out more than £20million in dividends between 2019 and 2022, with Hester the only shareholder.

Its main operating company, the Phoenix Partnership (Leeds), recorded a turnover of £75million, with profit before tax of £47million in the year to March 2022.
It paid dividends during the year of £10million to its parent company, which is ultimately owned by Hester, and a salary of £515,000 to him, its sole director.
Over a period of four years from 2019 to 2022, the ultimate parent company, TPP Group, paid out £23.5million in dividends, which appear to have gone to Hester as its only shareholder.

Contracts with the Department of Health and Social Care appear to make up a large proportion of TPP’s business.
TPP said it did not wish to comment when asked about its business with the NHS and whether all the dividends were paid to Hester.

The scale of business that Hester and TPP have with the NHS was uncovered by the Good Law Project, which found payments totalling £137million to the company since the start of the Covid pandemic in April 2020.
Jo Maugham, the director of the Good Law Project, said: “Once you see how much Mr Hester gets from an NHS that is desperately starved of money, you can understand why he is so committed to the government that lets him.”
( Rowena Mason, 20.09.2023 )  ..  theguardian.com