March 4 2018 Sergei and Yulia Skripal are attacked with a nerve agent in Salisbury
March 6 2018 Boris Johnson blames Russia and calls Russia “a malign force”
March 7 2018 Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia arrives in London for an official visit
March 13 2018 Valeri Gerasimov, Russian Chief of General Staff, states that Russia has intelligence a fake chemical attack is planned against civilians in Syria as a pretext for US bombing of Damascus, and that Russia will respond militarily.
March 19 2018 Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia arrives in Washington for an official visit
April 8 2018 Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia arrives in Paris for an official visit
April 8 2018 Saudi funded jihadist groups Jaysh al Islam and Tahrir al-Sham and UK funded jihadist “rescue group” The White Helmets claim a chemical weapons attack occurred in their enclave of Douma the previous day – just before its agreed handover to the Syrian army – and blame the Syrian government.
April 11 2018 Saudi Arabia pledges support for attack on Syria
April 14 2018 US/UK/French attack on Syria begins.
I have always denied the UK’s claim that only Russia had a motive to attack the Skripals. To denigrate Russia internationally by a false flag attack pinning the blame on Russia, always seemed to me more likely than for the Russians to do that to themselves. And from the start I pointed to the conflict in Syria as a likely motive. That puts Saudi Arabia (and its client jihadists), Saudi Arabia’s close ally Israel, the UK and the USA all in the frame in having a powerful motive in inculcating anti-Russian sentiment prior to planned conflict with Russia in Syria. Any of them could have attacked the Skripals.
Today, Theresa May is claiming -astonishingly – that the UK attack on Syria is “to deter chemical weapons attacks in Syria and the UK”. I don’t think the motive for a Skripal false flag could be more starkly demonstrated.
We do not yet know how many children and other civilians have died so far in what the media always pretend are magically “pinpoint” attacks on Syria. Denying the “collateral damage” is part of the neo-con playbook. The danger is that they will not stop but continue to push, testing how far they can go in weakening Syrian government forces to promote their jihadist allies on the ground, before they spark a real Russian reaction. That way madness lies.
It is also worth noting that the most ardent supporters of this military action, outside Saudi Arabia and Israel, are the Blairites in the UK and the Clinton Democrats in the USA. The self-described “centrists” are actually the unhinged extremists in today’s politics.
This attack on Syria is, beyond doubt, a huge success for the machinations of Mohammed Bin Salman. Please do read my post of 8 March which sets out the background to his agenda, and I believe is essential to why we find our nations in military action again today. Despite the fact the vast majority of the people do not want this.
What happens if you blow up a genuine chemical weapons store?
Presumably in such a scenario there may be weapons ready for use. So what happens? Don’t they leak out?
If so how is it possible to take out such a site in a responsible way?
1) They don’t leak out and I have misunderstood
2) They leak out and that is a “collateral” consequence
3) The warning gives Syria chance to decommission or remove
4) There were no chemical weapons in a dangerous state at location and that was known
5) Target is not chemical weapon base.
To the list in @Craig’s article should be added the following:
27 March 2018: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says that Saudi and Russia are working on a 10 to 20 year strategic oil agreement. (Reuters.)
Craig Sir,
Yourself, Peter Ford, George Galloway, Russia Today and all alternative media sources can hold their heads high. Without the work you and your peers have undertaken since the first week of March much of the UK, and indeed the World, would have remained in ignorance. By your valiant, if doomed efforts, a clear majority within the UK did not believe our governments narrative, much as those in the USA and France have not believed their governments lies.
I hope to God that Putin, Syria, Iran and China handle this grave situation like actual international statesmen, rather than like the spoilt brats Trump, Macron 7 May are. The baton of world leadership has moved from the warmongering Western powers to those who believe in a multi-polar world, which is where the great bulk of the global population reside.
Disgusted to call myself British and trust our Scottish peers will now remove themselves from a Union that serves no purpose for them, other than making Scotland a target for nuclear attack. The game is over, the West has lost the moral ground and is in its last death throes. lets just hope it expires before their last throw of the dice, namely a full scale nuclear war with Russia and China.
Excellent comment Christopher.
Thank you.
That’s a sensible idea, unless you immediately join a different union (The EU) and become a slave to their globalist machinations instead.
US Defence secretary Mad Dog Mattis, said “Right now this is a one time strike.”
The French Defence minister, Florence Parly, said Moscow had been warned by France and its allies about the strikes beforehand.
Although this was a strike, in my opinion it’s a soft strike. Though news reports say that US fleets are nearing the Mediterranean andthe Persian Gulf, they could be positioning for further action in Syria.
“There was no alternative to military action” said Maniac May after fitting up both Russia and Syria with ridiculous chemical attacks. No alternative, thus proving her complete unworthiness to the office she miraculously holds. This ‘no alternative’ will be repeated in Courts of Law throughout the land and will become known as The May Defence. “There was just no alternative your Honour” said the man accused of hospitalising his wife, “no alternative whatsoever”. “I’m sorry officers” said the man as he beat repeatedly down on his neighbour, “there’s just no alternative”. “There was just no alternative” said the disgruntled customer as he thrust the chip shop owner’s head into the hot oil, “he short changed me chips”. The High Court ruled that in all of the above cases the Judges were right to order the juries to return a verdict of not guilty under The May Defence….
Yes and after presenting no evidence whatsoever the prosecution will rest on the statement ‘its highly likely’ that the accused did this because someone on youtube said so.
Mary Paul
April 14, 2018 at 11:47
Thanks for that Duran link, Sidwell’s letter is weak and self-contradictory, the analysis below by Alexander Mercouris was well worth a read.
Expect more war-mongering from The Observer tomorrow from political editor Toby Helm, the brother-in-law of Jonathan Powell, Blair’s No 10 chief of staff.
Helm’s partner Jane Merrick (ex-political editor of The Independent on Sunday) is already at it:
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What is Jeremy Corbyn’s basis for saying the strikes were “legally questionable”, unless he really is saying Assad was not responsible for Douma? This was a legal intervention, on humanitarian grounds.
Interesting to compare the Guardian’s response to the strikes with those of the Washington Post and New York Times. The Guardian carries an analysis denying the risk of escalation and a pro-strike opinion piece by Martin Kettle. The Post carries sceptical analysis and opinion pieces raising the risk of escalation and questioning Trump’s motives, and the NYT carries an opinion piece arguing that sometimes doing nothing is the smart policy.
Also with respect to Jane Merrick’s R2P argument, my (limited) understanding is that the UN declaration on this referred to any use of force being approved by the Security Council, which obviously would not happen in this case. It would be interesting to know the full details of the Attorney General’s advice.
You grant far too much dignity to the excrement that this warmongering moron Jane Merrick typed on her mobile phone, probably chewing gum as she did so, and certainly spitting at those who don’t believe whatever the helicopter-spotting “peace dukes” (пиздюги) of the “White Knob-Ends” tell them.
“Right to Protect” did not amend the UN Charter. In para.77 it states “We reiterate the obligation of all Member States to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the Charter.”
In short, attacking another country is unlawful unless in self-defence (of yourself or your ally) or the UN Security Council says it’s OK. One shouldn’t need to hear this from a man in tights.
Merrick is engaging in the dubious practice known as the ‘Cathy Newman attack ‘ aka ‘so what your saying is..’ in which she attributes a point of view to her opponent which they haven’t actually proposed and then attacks them for it. Corbin did not say that ‘Assad was not responsible for Douma’ he was saying there is , so far, no evidence that Assad was responsible for Douma’ and in fact there is no verifiable evidence as to what in actual fact happened at Douma. Big Difference. If Merrick is incapable (or perhaps unwilling) to note this difference then she needs to begin with ‘these are small’ and ‘these are far away’ lessons.
It used tho be known as the ‘Straw Man’ attack… but that was obviously sexist, so it’s now the ‘Straw Person’ attack.
The Cathy Strawman attack?
Helm was the fifth reporter Treeza chose to ask her a question this morning. He followed Kuenssberg BBC, Boulton Sky News, Tim Shipman? S Times and then Peston ITV. She calls all of them by their first names. V cosy the lobby. I hope I have them in the right order. I am feeling drained today after weeks and weeks of this evil stuff.
What a stupid b*tch Jane Merrick is. The following 22 words are extremely simple to understand: the UN charter bans member states from using force against other states except in self-defence or when authorised by the Security Council.
And no, Assad is not responsible for the staged attack in Douma, but even if he was the bombing raids would still have been unlawful.
«the UN charter»
That charter like many other pieces of paper is pretty much worthless without political will behind it.
Please note that the last 3-4 USA presidents have boasted, for electoral purpose, of running a large network of junta-style death squads who kidnap, torture and eliminate “enemies of the state”, including many USA citizens who are sentenced to death in regular White House meetings. G Williamson has boasted, also for electoral purposes, that the UK does the same and he has a list of 200-300 UK citizens that are being taken out. As a wise person once observed, your legal rights are in practice determined by how popular you are, not by what the words on paper say.
Anyhow, there is a general arc to foreign policy as apparent in episodes like this, and it is the end of USA multi-lateralism:
* After WW2 the USA elites decided that multi-lateral institutions were a good idea as transmission belts of their policy towards foreign countries, as the USA utterly dominated them.
* After the fall of the USSR and the rise of China and India, the USA elites have decided that multi-lateral institutions are no longer reliable transmissions belts of their policies, and anyhow they don’t need multi-lateral transmission belts, so they have switched to uni-lateralism (and the UK too, uni-lateralism is pretty much the meaning of the exit vote).
* Currently the chinese are the multi-lateralists and they are building an alternative set of multilateral institutions that they would dominate, currently they are mostly economic institutions, and the UK with typical opportunism have joined some of them despite USA recommendations not to do that.
Well Fallon thought she was OK.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/journalist-jane-merrick-revealed-sir-michael-fallon-lunged/amp/
Just think. It could have been him crowing today instead of that creepy Williamson. Did you hear him earlier? Should have stuck to selling fireplaces. YCNMIU.
Ms May is colluding with Trump. Is such action intended to make her appear a strong leader? The elections are on us and is she risking war to take the focus away from the dreadful mess as her time as PM? Brexit, homelessness, NHS in crisis as she engineers privatisation. Teachers leaving in droves, Police service decimated through cuts, child poverty rocketing, social care virtually ineffective, etc, etc,
She is, in my opinion, unfit for the role she clings on to. This latest issue has to be the final straw. She follows Trump rather than listening to members of her own government and the public she is supposed to serve!
Yes, I agree with you. Its’ all about the tories as usual.
I really do hope North Korea develop their nukes now after this war of aggression against Syria by the west.
Back in prehistory chem weapons were employed by the USA in Vietnam and Cambodia. The victims continue to suffer.
There are Assad apologists in UK universities according to the London Times.
For ‘apologist’ read someone who does not agree with you. Rather totalitarian in tenor.
“[T]he White House said it had “assessed with confidence” that Damascus was behind the alleged gas attack in Douma, using information gleaned on social media and “reliable intelligence.””
One thing is clear: it is now official that social media are a credible and useful source of information.
bj,
That’s been (intermittently) established since the MH-17 shoot down at least. It’s not just credible, but preferable.
entirely off topic, probably, a book review for a just-released book called “False Flag” written by a former Central Intelligence Agency officer and cleared by the CIA, as it mostly is a few mini-stories where the amazingly beneficial CIA do teh right thing!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/10/book-review-false-flag-by-fw-rustmann-jr/
but isn’t it dangerous just getting the people used to the phrase “False Flag” in case some start to add 2 + 2 = ?
Far from deterring attacks, the sham chemical weapons “red line” virtually ensures that terrorists will use real or staged chemical attacks to call in their NATO air force.
The way I see it is since they claim to have destroyed the chemical weapons facilities they can’t allow any more attacks without admitting their intelligence is flawed and if their intelligence is flawed they have no solid basis for ascribing responsibility.
Yes I know that journalists et al have memories of goldfish so they will probably just shrug and ignore it, still its a nice idea
If only logical consistency were a thing anymore.
A little interesting fact that might relate to timing
“Among the actions taken at the recent Assembly was the adoption of several resolutions by consensus. These included activating the jurisdiction of the ICC over the crime of aggression, thereby adding this crime to the other offenses over which ICC jurisdiction is active, which are genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The additional jurisdiction will become effective on July 17, 2018.”
http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/icc-jurisdiction-over-crime-of-aggression-activated/
Needed to act before July 17 if Russia persisted in vetoing SC resolutions
It all doesn’t matter one iota as long as those with power can fabricate, duck, point fingers, lie and ally.
And — o yeah, ever heard of the The Hague invasion Act?
Shameful that even Corbyn play along, he cant even say the obvious, that this is a violation of international law and is not legal in any way!
The issue is no Arabophone state has ‘the bomb’. Perhaps NK could oblige.
The West is looking unusually pathetic at the moment. The righteous have just shat in their pants.
Now that all that fire and brimstone is out of the way, there is nothing preventing the OPCW from conducting their investigation.
At least before this strike there could have been pressure brought to bear of the OPCW because, you know, it’s not safe.
Even after this strike that pressure could have been brought to bear because, you know, “all options remain on the table”.
But now both Mattis and Dunford have said that this strike is a one-off affair.
Well, gosh, take them at their word: it’s safe on the ground now (has been since the SAA took over the area) and it’s now safe from the air (ask Mattis, he just said so) so there is nothing that prevents those OPCW investigators from taking their samples and talking to the witnesses.
What happens when their report comes out and it says, oops, there never was a chlorine attack……
… or that the UK carried out the chlorine attack, to win favour with their masters?
Where exactly were the SAS soldiers captured?
On 7 March 2 Saudi military and 1 UK soldier were reeportedly captured in east Ghouta (which includes Douma).
On 3, 4 and 5 April reports of the capture of 11 SAS were released. These troops were reportedly captured in two groups at Kafr Batna and Zamalka, both in east Ghouta.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/https/limonov-eduard.livejournal.com/1294345.html
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/https/diana-mihailova.livejournal.com/1827598.html
https://www.syrianperspective.com/2018/04/alloosh-orders-execution-of-officers-5-hostages-freed-saudi-arabia-trying-to-hold-on-to-ghouta-how-zahraan-alloosh-was-killed-by-saf.html
This is why we need a fully independent UN investigation overseen by the ICC.
The OPCW wouldn’t be able to say if there had been a chlorine attack or not this long after the fact. Chlorine is a gas so it dissipates in the air quickly with the slightest breeze and it is always present as a solution in our surroundings, water purification equipment, household cleaners, a lot of things contain chlorine.
It also has no biological markers, so tissue, blood etc cannot be tested for it.
Craig, what is your take on the interview with the (alleged) health personell in Douma presented by the Russian MoD? My impression is that when Russia make claims they support it with evidence that can be assessed more or less openly, whilst claims by their western counterparts are backed up by vague statements at best. The last claim by the US about proof of Assads involvement in Douma attack, f ex, was accompanied by a statement that they couldn’t release the evidence since it was “classified”, almost as if there was some phenomena of nature at works. The quantum physics uncertainty principle of intelligence: the sharper the statements, the more blurred the evidence. Something like that.
Wests logic:
Russia is behind Skirpal because we have “secret evidence that we wont show proving this – trust us”
Syria is behind the chemical attack because we have “secrete evidence that we wont show proving this – trust us”
Fake news/Psy-op going warm in the western media these days.
Thank you Strangely…….. and to everyone else here who provides access to the world the MSM denies us.
I watched your link and from there I saw this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG476h6kFpI&pbjreload=10
It may have been posted before but a must watch to remind us all when we are arguing over the semantics of language.
Excellent find. Everyone should watch those two videos.
Hi
I think a lot of what you say he and in the past makes sense but could I ask what evidence there is for the White Helmets being a jihadis group? Other than one occasion when some of their members we found to be literally burying evidence is there evidence that as an organisation they are not simply humanitarian volunteers?
Look at the work of Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett. Both have visited Syria and spoken with ordinary civilians.
This video shows the intimate relationship between the White Helmets and ISIS. White Helmet uniforms and equipment were found in the main ISIS headquarters in Aleppo after it was liberated by the Syrian Arab Army. White Helmets operatives assissted ISIS in the execution of civilians. There are many images of White Helmets operatives in uniform and out of uniform fighting with the terrorists, etc, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVQzkxqHVNY
You’re being naive. they shared the same headquarters as the jihadis in Aleppo, and are videoed helping out at jihadi executions.
The ‘nice, new and smart’ missiles turned out to achieve nothing.
Don’t mock Trump or he may send some more.
David Mundell tweets his support of May’s airstrike and says we can’t tolerate “the further degradation of international norms”.
He’s all for the degradation of international norms between England and Scotland and between England and Wales though.
He’s happy to go along with Scotland being dictated to by England. ‘We’re taking you out the EU’. ‘We’re having those devo powers’. ‘Now is not the time’.
It’s impossible to believe Scots Tories care a jot about civilians in Syria when they don’t care a jot about Scotland and her people.
What do you bet Colonel Davidson has got her battle fatigues on this weekend?
Is this moron Mundell ok with Russia bombing UK for “degrading” international law in Iraq?
What a friggin moron, but hes not alone, he echos the elite of the western establishment today.
Reel Guid – you’ve prompted a wee thought. If they (English Government) lied endlessly about Scotland in the run up to the 2014 referendum and actually have ramped up the lies since, why wouldn’t they lie about Syria and Russia – after all they mean less to them than we do, and we don’t matter much!
Very good point Bill. They can’t be trusted about anything.
The only point that the strikes have achieved is to confirm, that Assad has no chemical weapons factories, as they have quoted they have hit these sites and disabled them.Were are the clouds of gas after the hits, as quote he is manufacturing the gas in question and would have had some in stock. To my mind the West has shot its self in the foot with this debacle.
It’s all operetta. They should have bombed the doorknob in Salisbury.
Yes if Verdi or Puccini were alive today, theyd have a wealth of material to pen operas.
Such as La Bomb (La Bohème) or Madame Bulletsfly (Madame Butterfly).
Sir, I protest! Verdi et al. would turn in their graves.
I was talking operetta, not ‘opera’.
Oh my apologies, I always thought operetta was lighter less serious form of opera.
Does the attack in Syria fall into that category?
@Republicofscotland
I was thinking of the theatre and spectacle staged in Salisbury.
Okay, then if we’re going by name only, in my opinion, Shakespeares Comedy of Errors, fits nicely with the Sailsbury event.
Netherlands PM Mark Rutte says the airstrikes are justified.
The Lying Dutchman.
Ha ha, rel guid nice one Wagner I think.
Thanks 😉
bj – you’ve just given me the best laugh today – you have cheered me up. Happy thought!
Tererroresa and her cabinet of henchmen should be arrested for endangering the realm, ruining the economy and allowing cambridge Analytica to operate the leave account to a very unusual victory, a victory with consequences.
I’d like to thank, Craig, Ms. Bartlett, John Pilger, Nafeez Ahmed, Jenifer Beeley for keeping the world informed of this almighty cock up, I’d also thank the German government for their restraint, for not taking part in this madness.
I would just like to say how much I have enjoyed the company and exchanges with some of you here. Some of you I had the pleasure of meeting in person, debate and party with, and I very much hope I will meet you again.
For now I wish you all health and happiness here, you have enriched my life, cause some evil people might have different plans.
The Russians claim to have irrefutable evidence that the UK was involved in the recent CW false flag in Douma. There are reports that the Syrian Arab Army has captured 11 SAS soldiers in east Ghouta, the first publicised on 8 March 2018. The Russians also have stated that the war in Syria is no longer a proxy war (using ISIS/FSA/whatever) but NATO forces are actually involved.
The SAS were reportedly tasked with providing targetting information for the terrorist mortar/rocket firing groups. Recently they have targetted many civilian entities in Damascus, a school, a hospital, a crowded market. They have even targetted the Russian consulate (casualties not known).
8 March story with photo of alleged captive:
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/https/diana-mihailova.livejournal.com/1722839.html
Most recent update 5 April
https://syrianperspective.com/2018/04/alloosh-orders-execution-of-officers-5-hostages-freed-saudi-arabia-trying-to-hold-on-to-ghouta-how-zahraan-alloosh-was-killed-by-saf.html
Anyone following the latter link, be sure not to miss the ‘Google Pizza’ skit! 🙂
It is now essential for Theresa May to be replaced as PM by the Tory Party, Johnson gone, not to mention stupid boy Pike/Williamson in defense.
If the Tory Party are to have any future at all – they have no other option – collectively – as they can be seen to be guilty of a mass war crime of attacking a sovereign state and its people in complete violation of any cause or right and without parliamentary vote.
Blatantly and deliberately breaking international law and dissing and affronting the UN Charter
Additionally for the betrayal of the people and country over Brexit.
Add to that, the extremely murky questions which now sit over her head like the sword of Damocles – did she collude with the White Helmets to commit an act of terror and/or did she orchestrate the whole Salisbury affair
The disturbing questions including the outside link with Christopher Steele the dodgy Trump dossier etc – all give May motive.
She must go for British security, for the abuse of her power to commit massive crime/s and in order to regain our reputation across the globe.
….. and for her own sanity!
Let the maybot stay – why?
She is utterly incompetent and totally lacks a shred of humanity
Remember Grenfell where 80 plus people burnt to death and she showed not a trace of human sympathy
Remember Brexit – a disaster in the making which at best will be poor and at worst economically catastrophic
Look at the murder epidemic in London where dozens of young people have died due to a lack of police officers
Look at the middle aged Caribbean people who came here as children in the 50s and 60s didn’t get papers and are now being callously deported, remember the racist posters telling black people to go home a few years ago guess who’s idea that was
The sick, callous stupid and inhuman Theresa may will ensure that the Tories loose the next election. A vaguely competent new leader, I cannot think who but let us say somebody emerges, might give these psychopaths hope.
I the meantime Labour need to deselect anybody who backs the illegal aggression on a country that has not done Britain any harm
The Russian MOD claims that the Syrians have shot down 71 out of the 103 cruise missiles fired at Syria. There are reports of 110 missiles actually fired so presumably 7 failed at launch or shortly afterwards (not so unlikely for the antiquated Tomahawk system).
https://southfront.org/russia-says-syrian-forces-intercepted-71-of-103-launched-missiles-announces-possible-s-300-systems-deliveries-to-syria/
This remarkably high strike rate may actually be a combination of Russian EW capabilities and Syrian anti aircraft missile systems. Russia is wise to give Syria all the credit in order not to give the North American Terrorist Organisation confirmation of its capabilities.
Hypocrisy isn’t lost on the bombing coalition of France, Britain and the US, which bombed Russian ally Syria, over the alleged use of chemical weapons.
For the US has an ally in Israel, in the region which has carried out oppressive acts on the Palestinian people for more than seventy years which have been well documented over the decades.
Britain, has an ally in Saudi Arabia which has an atrocious human rights record, and is currently carrying out murderous bombing sorties in Yemen, which has led to thousands of civilian deaths. Lets not forget that Bahrain is a good friend of Britain’s buying armaments from it, to suppress its citizens.
France has a good ally in Qatar, which buys roughly 80% of its armaments from France. Qatar’s human rights record on, hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers is shocking and very disturbing to say the least. The US State department said that forced labour in Qatar amounted to modern day slavery.
So do we see any interventions in these countries by Nato? No we don’t.
Anyone who thinks this hasn’t all been orchestrated to ensure the Middle East is once again destabilized, just when the Syrian government is or was taking back control of the country from jihadists, is severely deluded. A pro-Russian block of Syria, Iran and Turkey is just too much, not because they pose an expansionist threat, but because they threaten the imposition of regional stability and thus the seed for non-violent domestic and international transactions. Unfortunately for the neo-cons, there are fewer and fewer pretexts left for their invasions. So they have to invent them. I agree with Craig, this has all the signs of a conspiracy to implicate Russia and Syria to escalate sectarian warfare in the region, again.
Who is pulling the strings? Well it isn’t Theresa May or Donald Trump. They’re just patsies – and well cast for the role.
The same scenario would have played-out in a Hilary Clinton presidency. (I think it would have probably played out about a year earlier if Clinton and her fellow hawks Kerry and Biden had gained power – they were itching to go. Trump on the other hand, has needed some rather rough ‘persuasion’ before he finally ‘played ball’.)
So who IS pulling the strings? One thing you can be sure of, is that were never elected by the people to do so.
Don’t listen to it but the wife just told me Peter Hitchins is on ‘Any Questions’.
It’s come to something when his is the lone voice swimming against the torrent.
Just listen to this…….. go to 9 mins 31 sec
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yh6n7