Comments by "Rahere" (@JelMain) on "Daily Mail World" channel.

  1.  @MassiveHappyClapper  Welcome to the English imperative tense. Kindly assign the full and complete responsibility to President Vladimir Putin, and to an inept high command of elderly drunkards, who have wiped out your army. We've just heard he's cobbled together a thousand mercenaries from somewhere, which isn't going to make much difference, but does tell us he has no more soldiers of his own to field. I'll give you a hint. The anti-tank rockets would have come with instructors, and the instructors would have taught quite a lot of combat skills while there. The Ukrainian army's eating the19 year old conscripts alive. This war might finish within days, and then Moscow's in trouble.
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  2.  @strakermidwich9679  The Chinese cesspit.
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  3.  @jb6142  The point is that Boris has been found unfit for office, and should be in jail, according to common standards in Law, triggering a referendum and probable bye-election under the Recall of MPs Act. The loss of the 2022 Budget should have seen a General Election, as well. It's not specifically about COVID, but about accountability, which is far more serious, the offences could be anything, but happen to be about infractions of the Regulations he himself promulgated. I have personal reasons for vengeance, akin to Rory Stewart's, which is, effectively, that the man never was fit for office, indeed that few in Parliament are.
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  4.  @Ln-cq8zu  Why get paid for half a job when you can get paid twice?
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  5.  @Lovelyday137  Don't ask me, I was wrecked by Boris on the way up and no longer want to help.
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  6.  @shazanali692 The centre of London you know isn't the real thing any longer. Instead, it's about ten town centres, each serving perhaps half a million people: the middle's a massive tourist trap. Croydon's one of the outlying hubs. She died on the steps of the main mall, having travelled there by public bus, as is normal here. It was a ten minute walk from there to school. London's cops gave up foot patrols 20 years ago. Ten years back, they moved from town centre police stations to patrol hubs in the countryside, and lost contact with the people.
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  7. Start making citizens arrests. Then, if they still try to evade, you can legally use force.
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  8. No, he's a 🐍
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  9. No, it was fixed. Just watch, Boris'll be next. It was just a tad too premature. In the mean time, keep the pressure on the MPs, so they have no illusion that this selection procedure was yet another step on the road to firing them.
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  10. No diplomat in his right mind will help him now. I wrote the diplomatic book on Russia and saw him trample the diplomatic solution underfoot in April - the herald ended up shot.
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  11.  @og_skully  That is the joke of the year. Goodbye, troll.
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  12. No, it isn't. If you follow that logic to it's conclusion, you cannot defend yourself. Stop this video game insanity, war is brutal, bloody and cruel. Every death in it is an agony. The tank whose turret flies high likely has three or four dead or dying in it. But that is inevitable if you're going to stop the aggression.
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  13.  @glassofmilk3474  ​ @glass of milk Try telling that to the women and children they've injured and killed. Let me put it this way. I'm the only thing between you and a Russian soldier shooting as he goes. In front of me is a copy of the Geneva convention and a rifle. Which should I pick up? Maggie Thatcher answered that in the back garden of the Iranian Embassy, reproaching someone I worked with for well over a decade after he left the Regiment - which I'd refused to join, because Fred Mulley was unreliable. The previous job-holder, Bob Nairac, had been disappeared by Mulley, who'd betrayed him to the Provisionals. Pete had allowed one of the Iranians who took over the Embassy to live. "Pity, that." This isn't computer-games war. If Russia isn't stopped, one day the scenario I opened with might become very real.
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  14.  @glassofmilk3474  I quite take your point, and condemn you as an apologist. I was on the team which sorted out Germany after WW2, we used your "yes, but" excuses as the test for the level of Nazi sympathy determining whether it was safe or not to allow Germany to return to democratic self-management. Your approach allows the hardliners off the hook, and that's a non-starter. Yes, many Russians will suffer, deservedly, because they gave the Communists democratic credentials they abused. Ask yourself this, what did each individual soldier do to resist? Nothing. And that makes a horrible death a warning to his like, and to you. Grow a spine.
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  15. There's a fine line between active subversion and political isolation Russia doesn't respect itself: it's involvement in the 2016 US Election is evidence of that. At the same time, two wrongs don't make a right, although again, homing in on a precise borderline, having any dealings with such an egregious criminal régime as this makes equally little sense. If his régime collapses because we deny it support, then it was rotten to the core anyway. Watch 200 economic vampires battle to the death over a bankrupt economy, streamed live. I still think Ukraine should drop a missile in the middle of Sochi before it gets too crowded.
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  16. Speaking as a European crisis manager with an economics background, they're in dire need of about a month listening to the Bank of England before any of them should be trusted with a tea trolley. I was fortunate, I got to chat with Eddie George and Mervyn King early on, then worked for the ACT Technical Director for five years. There are plenty of competent economists out there, just none willing to work for peanuts. I'd better stop there, you get my drift.
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  17.  @randomlyswatching9481  Improving our competitivity in the export market.
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  18. I'm not certain which is the more inept - that comment or Lindsay Graham's.
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  19. Well, they can if the Mail keeps recycling shots weeks if not months old.
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  20.  @jamesfe5  Simply replaying the same clip time and again is propaganda, not intelligence.
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  21. It's called psychological fugue, probably caused by overload - technically Pavlov's Transmarginal Inhibition.
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  22.  @noneyabizz8337  Different thing, wouldn't cause the freeze, he'd be down.
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  23.  @r200ti  Ground: Moskva Situation: Red Square is occupied by enemy forces. Mission: Destroy them. Execution: The Red Star Squadron will fly along the river and turn left after the Kremlin. Attack on sight. Administration: There will be two bottles of vodka per man on your return. Command: You must be joking. Questions: "We've got no wheels to take off on. Warrant Officer Badenov told us we wouldn't be needing them after the motors were requisitioned for the army's mobile crematoria,"
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  24.  @jamesgreen1116  Lebvedev's wake up call should have come from Putin, his sponsor. Putin's got a soft spot for the Prig, La Pute's dad was very like him, a chef turned soldier. The fact he's not been able to get past military call handlers in upwards of a week told him Putin's now a puppet of the Defence Ministry, who need a disposable figurehead when it all goes south. That left him hung out to dry, and as an old-school Communist, he couldn't surrender to anything other than the Party. In many ways, getting hung up in Rostock is what did it for him, he had the momentum to hit Moscow (MOD, Dzerzhinsky Square, possibly the Kremlin/Duma and what's left of the GRU) and make it to Estonia.
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  25. The UK's position is currently under review in Select Committee under the 45 Year Rule, as the last time it was looked at, it was filibustered out by the Earl of Cork and Orrery, an Irish Roman Catholic Hereditary Peer who had never held British Nationality. Both my wife and I were vetted by the Foreign Office to the highest level, and working near the top in the European CFSP, but she was discovered to have breast cancer, which progressed to stage 4. In accordance with Belgian Law, she was offered euthanasia, which she agreed to, and passed the tests. I had no say whatsoever, but had it gone ahead, I'd have been entrapped by this over-zealous interpretation. She finally died in the NHS Hospital in Poole, from the natural progress of the condition. I have of course made a written representation to the Committee, that the factor being missed is jurisdiction: under the Vienna Agreement on Diplomatic Relations, local law has eminence. Cyprus should not have consulted with the UK, and that is excellent grounds for a Supreme Court appeal. I'm actually a legist of the Belgian Supreme Court, having helped them in a considerable degree, which was soon followed by assisting the Ministry of Justice on the beta test panel of the StatuteLaw database, which lies behind legislation.gov.uk, so I think my voice both in general jurisprudence and from direct experience may have some weight. Politically, I've been long aligned with Johnny Mercer and David Davies, and more recently, Rory Stewart, as some of my work facilitated his.
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  26. They've been sunakered. Essentially, it's now the people vs them, with an election due inside of two years. They can either dig an even bigger hole for themselves, or ask for a fresh mandate sooner rather than later.
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  27.  @jostimantatarigan7657  No, they're still ancient, not up to the level of control we have now. Tinned meat, just heat.
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  28.  @joshuayeboah9405  We've started on a more valid direction, bringing the thinking of Fela Kuti out of Africa. The Ezra Collective, associated with Enfield's Jubilee Church, just won the Mercury Prize for their work: the groundwork was laid by David Byrne in the Atomic Bomb! gig on here - I was vocal lead of the backing choir. Black music has a valid second thread in the work of The Chineke! Orchestra, too. If you remove something, don't leave a void. William Onyeabor took the Victorian Gospel of the Sowande family, which had adopted American 1920s Jazz and Lounge Music to form Hotel, which merged with Yoruba and other West African folk to become Highlife, and added Kraftwerk's thinking on synths, which was slightly rooted in Mike Oldfield's English Folk (and yes, I was there then), to become a progressive mover in African music. Syllart Records back catalogue is on here, if you want to see what was happening to feed Fela Kuti and the wider scene, and it's something to develop.
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  29.  @JOHNNY-zx1lc  The government is NOT on board. I was involved in Debbie Flood's Breaking Blades project, which was destroyed as a coincidental side effect of Boris' rise to power. Her idea was to pilot four teams, based in London's hotspots, to do what boxing did in previous generations, get youngsters to work it off on the water. The general idea was to give Eton and Henley some serious competition, by firstly building fitness, then experience, with open competition to improve the overall quality of the Olympic pool. Boris drove a tank through the community, probably unwittingly. Just as the Army quietly sent Sunak a rocket about using police as Met gunmen, so the precedent exists for NOT reintroducing conscription. We seek intelligent soldiers, not Wagner.
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  30. The translation's inaccurate. He says, "...the famous Open Sesame to go fish...", which if I recall correctly is a reference to Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Now to interview the remaining 39.
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  31. Nothing we've heard is in any way different from what managers across the country would have liked to do, but were denied by Boris' decisions. Those who've tried ended up in Court. Given we now have an apology, a confession, where's the Police response? Yes, it sows confusion in the body politic, but since when was criminality acceptable in that community? Oh, of course, it goes with the job. Power corrupts, the more the power, the worse the corruption. But not fighting back is all that's needed for the triumph of evil. That the Cabinet can't see this expands the degree of concern. Will his successor be selected from that same corrupt mob? But why stop there? They were elected on a landslide because Labour were as bad, and haven't done a blind thing about it. It's also to be noted that the common thread here is the Civil Service Top Division, the disdain seems to spread far beyond the Cabinet Office. We now have a list of at least 8. Such is the degree of dysfunction I despair.
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  32.  @yurt-the-silent-chief  What you said also applies to every senior politician across Europe, and the entire Commission. Brexit may have been bad, but the alternative was worse. And blaming his incompetence, which has been a constant since childhood, on Brexit, is about as silly. Brexit would have happened with or without him, it was decided under Cameron, for example.
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  33.  @briantitchener4829  It seems they were looted from a nick in Birmingham.
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  34.  @uoohknk6881  A military one. Your time's up.
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  35.  @PeachesandCream225  Because they're not protesting legally. They're in breach of Section 137 of The Highways Act 1980, and London's a nightmare enough as it is. I avoid it as far as possible, because the pollution already makes my eyes painful. Governmental action is underway to resolve that (I've been involved in it), but it's considerably more complicated than that little word "Just" implies. The action was initiated by a Gulf State planning ahead, and the solution included an option very attractive to them. So in addition to their nuisance factor, their imbecility in not recognising movement is happening also utterly discredits them. In short, they're part of the problem. They've had their hearing, and lost. Part of that loss included increased police powers which were immediately abused during the run-up to the Coronation, infracting into the general population's Constitutional human rights to a presumption of innocence. Constitutional Law is preeminent over National Law such as the Act, making it illegal, however procedurally correct it was - the moot point in the thesis is that Human Rights Law allows for State Security to have priority, in certain cases which were not included in that Bill. In ensemble, the way the UK's been treated will be demonstrated on Thursday, when three Parliamentary Constituencies will hold bye-elections to replace MPs. One is in the North, one in London, and one in the West Country.
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  36. ​ @ethelmini  You've heard the term, an officer and a gentleman. They're not the same thing. An army officer is there to defend you by hook and by crook, which is a gentlemanly thing, knowing he's at the head of a unit of proven killers, who often haven't reached that point. And to be their leader, he's as deadly as their best. When he's one of the Household regiment tin soldiers, he's a gentleman. When he rotates into his Guards regiment soldiers, he's a killer. We've adopted a recuperation phase after fighting operations, to allow them to recover their humanity, because releasing troops suffering from combat issues back onto their wives and children is a recipe for tragedy. I'm one, raised from childhood for Special Forces: think of Christopher Lee, much like him I can petrify with words alone. This is necessary at the top, a milquetoast is of no use to anyone. To succeed in business, you take no BS, and these nuisances may well be starting to find out. Behave, or learn the hard way.
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  37. They stopped immediately we lawyered up. Technically, it's Section 24A ao the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Citizen's Arrest, in plain English), which requires an Indictable Offence, namely Section 134 of the Road Traffic Act 1981 (Obstruction of the Highway). And if they resist arrest, you can use reasonable force (deck them) to detain them.
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  38. Not make videos volunteering to be point man on a suicide squad. Life expectancy thirty seconds
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  39. And given an opportunity to edit the typo, b for m
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  40.  @glynn_shady6619  Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway - it was the fastest way along the target beaches as the roads were mined.
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  41.  @yanafelani  They'd be about the only ones not to. I'm infantry, and was taught to dig thin, because Russian tanks do.
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  42.  @r563  Such childlike innocence! Cling to it as long as you may, lest horrible men like me tear it away. Aged 8, The Tavistock Clinic measured my General Knowledge of a 14 year old: like Greta Thunberg, who'd have been measured against me, I had no childhood. I met my first oligarch aged eleven, and understood his nature. By then my mind would have been somewhere in my mid-twenties. Vladimir Putin does not recognise that Law applies to him. Never in Russian history has that been true, and he sees no reason to change. Equally, he does not see Ukraine as a foreign land, simply a rebel province. Translation sometimes fails when two world models are so radically dissociated. His world model simply does not comprehend that decisions made after the USSR went its own way in 1946 apply to him. The UN is a cosy club, one he can use to stymie anything which doesn't suit his book. That it could turn on him, override the abstention veto he thought he had, never crossed his mind. The possibility he might lose the lot, quite literally (the FSB isn't known for mercy, even to Heroes of The Revolution, as Leon Trotsky discovered: you can run, but you can't hide), is what drives this, he'd rather be seen to die trying.
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  43.  @awelonstudio  They say they've stoppped for a while. Try twenty years for terrorism.
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  44.  @jakel8627 What you'll find is we'll need to replace the Victorian terraced housing stock anyway in the medium future, as it wasn' built with a 200 year life expectancy in mind. That's when it becomes possiible to upgrade..At the same time, motivation's possible too incentiivize voluntary improvements, but how can you do so when internally it rreducesrooms which are already smalll and on the outside smacks of cladding?
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  45.  @Seafarer-Ade  Many a mickle maks a muckle.
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  46.  @outsidersongs2682  You're even more crazed than normal. Don't you understand the people are like you, they are powerless, and abusing them is about as productive as peeing in the wind.
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  47. The close-up on the Bradley take-down of a T-90 shows the first Bradley blinding it, and the second destroying it's turret traverse by setting fire to unencased reactive armour. At that point, with its turret spinning, it lost a track hitting a tree, the crew baled, and drones finished it. Even the turtle tanks have disappeared, and the myth of Russian tanks being the best has gone. They're not even the best in Russia.
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  48. ​ @OSHOI  Nonsense. You clearly understand nothing about power politics and economics. I was WEU Head of Finance, deeply involved in it, and know the nature of the Commission from direct experience. A single currency is essential in creating an Empire, but is equally devastating to its long-term survival, as it creates economic tensions which will tear it apart. This is why Poland is now talking about leaving, Hungary is to all intents and purposes suspended, and Turkey's unlikely ever to join. The smaller States won't survive on their own. The Commission fails every one of Tony Benn's Five Questions. It hasn't presented a clean set of books since Santer. It's unaccountable, unreformable, and unable to do its job properly because its mechanisms are ridiculously slow. What took us three months in WEU, setting up a functional military HQ, took them ten years, despite taking what we built over. I'm not certain it's truly functional yet, based on the inability to control its borders. And then there's your incessant misrepresentation of our motives. We're not xenophobic, but we don't like tin-pot dictators like this French Minister threatening us. The UK was a huge net contributor to the EU, and got very little in return. France got used to fishing our waters, and now can't. It has to buy our fish instead. They really should have thought far earlier. The UK was never a whole-hearted participant: the 1975 Referendum showed that. Once the Euro happened, our departure was inevitable, as we were not part of the Ever Closer Union. We'd made it clear that was a red line, and were ignored. The economic cooperation turned into dictatorship, and that came at a price: it's a moot point whether even that will continue. Europe learned nothing from the USSR's attempt to run a planned economy, and I feel huge sympathy for the States of Eastern Europe, who've stumbled out of one frying pan into another. The Warsaw Pact imploded through Russian economic corruption, and we see similar behaviour in Brussels. Is it any wonder Poland's now tabling departure, Hungary's functionally suspended, and Turkey's unlikely ever to join?
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  49.  @OSHOI  In fact, having mulled it over, I take deep objection to your accusation of xenophobia. I'm a quarter Belgian, for starters, and was well integrated into the community. There was nothing in what I said to justify your attempted character assassination.
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  50. Erm, you didn't notice, they don't actually have any usable.
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