#British policy

[kakashis-kunoichi]

#british policy #attacks on pro-palestinian protestors #policy brutality #free palestine #gaza #genocide #war crimes #palestine #gaza strip #ceasefire #west bank #israeli war crimes #us war crimes #israel #genocide joe #ethnic cleansing #london #peaceful demonstration #Instagram

[indizombie]

The Kanpur communal riots broke out while the Karachi Congress session was on in 1931. 400 people were killed in this riot. The Congress leadership appointed a committee to look into the riot. AG Noorani refers to the report by this committee in his article on hate speech and the SC. Bhagwan Das was the chairman of this committee. Purshottam Das Tandon, Mazhar Ali Sokhte, Abdul Latif Bijnori and Zafarul Malik were the members. It must also be recalled that Sardar Patel was the President of Congress then. The committee came to this conclusion: 'It will be noted that all the main controversies which at present embitter and have latterly divided the two communities, for example, the cow question, Ramlila and Moharram, and other religious occasions or processions, music before mosques; as also the question of representation in services, in municipalities and councils, joint and separate electorate; safeguards; redistribution of provinces and federal, as opposed to a unitary, basis of the constitution - all these did not and could not have existed during the Muslim period. They are all products of the British period and British policy.' It is this statement that should be the guiding light for Indian democracy.

Vazhipokkan, ‘What we are doing to Bilkis Bano and the women in this Country’, Mathrubhumi

#Mathrubhumi #Vazhipokkan #India #1931 Kanpur Riots #AG Noorani #Bhagwan Das #Purshottam Das Tandon #Mazhar Ali Sokhte #Abdul Latif Bijnori #Zafarul Malik #Vallabhbhai Patel #Ramlila #Moharram #British policy #Indian democracy

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canadian Sikh Facebook users posting about the assassination of a Sikh community leader are seeing posts disappear and accounts suspended in response to legal demands by the Indian government.

Many Facebook posts and pages that have been flagged as being in violation of Indian law involve content relating to the legacy of Bhai Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh leader who was assassinated outside of a Surrey gurdwara in June of this year.

On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons that Canadian intelligence was pursuing “credible allegations” that “agents of the Government of India” had assassinated Nijjar in Surrey, BC this summer.

“Over the past number of weeks, Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government of India and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar,” Trudeau said. “Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty.”

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#cdnpoli #Foreign Policy #India #sectarian violence #murder #assassination #British Columbia #censorship #Facebook #Meta

[asmiraofsheba]

"Why are Irish people so quick to defend the Palestinians and to call out Israel?"

This is a list of what the British authorities were allowed to do to the local Irish population in Northern Ireland:

This Act was only repealed in the 1970s.

Violence, oppression, and discrimination against the Irish is not ancient history. Many Irish people are still feeling the effects today. Northern Ireland has one of the highest rates of PTSD in the world. It has some of the worst mental health statistics in general. It's still plagued by political dysfunction, which is a direct result of Britain's colonial activity in Ireland.

So why do the Irish support Palestine?

It's because many of us have lived through very similar things to what they are going through.

#and if you go back further in Ireland's history there are even more unfortunate similarities #the genocide by Cromwell and arguably the Great Famine was a genocide or at least heavily exacerbated by British policy in Ireland #the Ulster plantations which were very similar to the settler colonialism happening in the West Bank & which ultimately led to the Troubles #these things are heavily present in Irish folk memory #colonialism has patterns and colonised people can easily recognise it and see it for what it is #ireland stands with palestine #ireland #palestine #israel #gaza

[healingheartdogs]

I have seen a couple of posts across social medias in the last couple of weeks about rat dogs not being a good recommendation for pest control in place of "barn cats" because dogs are significantly more work than cats are to manage and train and ngl it really annoys me that the neglect of cats is so normalized that people think they need zero management or training compared to dogs, especially when lack of management and training is literally part of the reason they are an invasive ecosystem destroying pest and commonly die horrible and fully preventable deaths outdoors. The real reason rat dogs aren't a good suggestion to people who have "barn cats" is because the vast majority of those people aren't actually using their cats for pest control at all, they are just keeping cats around and neglecting them and calling them "barn cats" as the excuse for why they keep them outdoors unmanaged and untrained (and often without proper vet care).

Cats deserve just as much medical care as dogs, cats deserve just as much management as dogs, cats deserve just as much play and enrichment provided by their owners as dogs, cats deserve to have their exercise needs met in a way that is safe for both them and other animals in their environments just like dogs, cats deserve training to make them easier to live with and contain and safer to interact with for other people and animals just like dogs, cats deserve protection from predators and diseases and parasites they can encounter outside just like dogs. Cats are not low to no effort alternatives to dogs. Throwing a cat outdoors is not a better or easier solution to a pest problem than getting a ratting dog (if that pest problem even actually exists and is being treated with the use of a cat, which I highly doubt in almost all cases), and is still harmful to the environment and dangerous for the cat even if the cat is occasionally killing mice for you (not rats, don't even get me started on cats for rat control, that is actual cruelty). If taking care of one animal is too much work neglecting another animal is not the solution. Use another pest management method that doesn't require you to take care of an animal at all if providing adequate animal care is a problem for you.

If you have mice inside your house or another building or whatever and an INDOOR cat that you use to help control small pests that are coming INDOORS and the cat also stays contained INDOORS where it can't decimate local small wildlife populations and you take care of it and make sure to get it frequent vet care for potential parasites and diseases it may pick up from those pests then this post is not about you. Scroll on instead of "okay but"-ing me, please. This is about outdoor/indoor-outdoor "barn" cats and cats being neglected under the false guise of them being kept around for "pest control". There is no justifiable reason for someone to have an outdoor cat. Calling it a "barn cat" or a "working cat" doesn't make them not invasive predators, doesn't make them not at risk for death by predation, doesn't make them resistant to parasites or diseases, doesn't make them resistant to poisons other people may set out that they get into or the small animals they kill get into and transfer to them, doesn't make them immune to being hit by cars, and doesn't make them immune to potential animal abuse by strangers. If you have ferals that aren't sociable that you're just taking care of at least keep them contained in an actual barn or sheltered catio or something -- not free to roam --and you still need to provide them vet care including neutering them otherwise you're just making more of a problem and still neglecting animals.

#wishing everyone with outdoor cats a very happy 'i hope someone steals your cat' #you wont even know because kutdoor cats just dont come home all the time because they die or go missing #and thats a risk you accept with outdoor cats so #you cant really be upset about it #better for someone to take your cat and keep it indoors and actually take care of it #than for it to get killed by another animal or hit by a car or poisoned or contract a disease or be injured while roaming #and no you arent exempt from this if youre british #your entire country preferring to neglect cats and ignore science as a policy doesnt make it not still neglect #idk why you think your terrible ecosystem management means that it doesnt matter if you let invasive predators run free #or somehow makes not supervising your animals to keeo them safe not neglect #just adding that on because i always see brits specifically showing their asses on pro-indoor cat posts

[vankeppel]

alright first thought. The nature of treating the British Generals as a group of idiots who were defeated REALLY misses the fact they WERE also powerful military aristocrats and how this intersects with other groups

ie. Burgoyne's dealings with Native Americans (generally not good bc Burgoyne had zero experience and so could only act the role of fatherly general, which has led to much distorted and slanted narratives around Jane McCrea)

ie. Henry Clinton and the freeing of (rebel-held) slaves as a tactic, thus opening questions surrounding Loyalist culture and those who could retain their enslaved Blacks

ie. Cornwallis. Just because he lost at Yorktown and didn't show up for the surrender doesn't mean he didn't play supremely imperialist roles in Ireland and especially India (The Cornwallis Code)

Postscript on Carelton bc he usually is seen as the only competent one BUT this usually obscures his role in Canada, helping to perpetuate the Old Regime in Québec which would have immense reprecussions for the Anglo-French divide here as well as that province's cultural history

#Like. these guys arent minor side actors they play huge roles in British policy of the era #its complex its interesting its important #this is still a blog btw like. im just rambling aloud as if it were a notebook but STILL...much to think about

[prussianmemes]

a white english anti-war socialist wins a seat in parliament and the next day the hindi PM says that this is an alarming sign of rising rabid-antisemitism, far-right politics, and islamic fundamentalism.

??? what

#am i missing something here #it is hilarious btw that the most unhinged and deranged tories in the UK right now are british asians #iirc the tory foreign minister who tried drafting up that plan to stop 100% all migration whatsoever by deporting everyone to rwanda #under bojo #was also a british asian #they act like complete spastics trying to put forth policy and saying things that no other group in the uk would ever try #where's that picture of the 'fuck off we do not want your kind around here' where it's the one brown guy next to another brown guy #they're in the political ruling class for barely a year and they've already completely destroyed their party LOL #the english obsession with fascism and anti-semitism (akin to american fears of socialism) despite it being mostly a farce is already funny #but the people actually enacting the most deranged xenophobic policies not being white british alt-right weenies #but other british asians wanting to keep out other colonials they hate from their homeland is beyond hilarious #txt

[lilydvoratrelundar]

Give me the strength to not get into a fight with my unis jewish society over instagram.

#full of zionists. not even worth arguing with cos so many of them refuse to believe the country theyre from might suck #and the others are british but just either baked in the propaganda or willing to sit with what everyone else says and not argue #if u were gonna have a 'dont argue about israel' policy it should go both ways. #i havent been to any of their events in months and ngl i may just not even get membership next year #but they keep posting shit on their insta and they exclusively just run the ujs party line (which is zionist) #the one today wasnt even so bad but im still. ugh. why is the fucking society for Jewish students a political entity istg. #maybe I'll get more involved in palestine solidarity soc at some point.

[bronzewool]

Getting any documentation done in California is like going to subway, but instead of just writing the prices of all the sandwiches on the board and letting you decide what you can and can't afford, the guy tells you specifically that your sandwich will cost X amount.

But it doesn't.

What he's doing is telling you how much the bread cost. If you want a sandwich (you know, that thing you came in for) then he'll gladly let you pick out the meats and salads and sauces, and then tell you how much it actually costs at the till.

That may not seem like a big deal to most people, but it offends me in a way I can't seem to properly articulate. Why would I walk into a subway for bread? I can buy that anywhere. Why did you tell me a baguette was a sandwich? It's not. The bread does not make the sandwich. All the pieces when assembled make the sandwich.

What you gave me were the bare bones of the product you were selling, and when I was already committed to playing out this farce, you then hit me with hidden fees that added up to the real price of the sandwich.

#I don't wanna keep bitching about CA and its many laws #but again this would not happen back home #I would ask for a policy #it would give me a list of options #tell me exactly what was included in each one #and then let me make an informed decision of what I wanted #with the prices all laid out to best accommodate my finances #CA does not do this #it wants to drag out a pretty simply questionnaire over the course of a week #tell me what I'm entitled to #and then keep me hostage on the phone while they take a decade to explain what I actually signed #but making it sound like its the best system because they tell you the bad news politely #this kinda embodies what I appreciate about british customer service #we don't do fake pleasantries. because we're miserable as fuck #but also because we get straight to the fucking point #this is the thing. this is everything in writing what the thing is. this is the price we promised you. do you want it? #if not I don't care. I don't get paid enough to care

[georgefairbrother]

(Source: UK National Archives on Facebook)

Foreign Office telegram following the assassination of John F Kennedy, from the former UK Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, who had been succeeded by Alec Douglas-Home a month earlier.

According to the National Archives,

"...Macmillan and Kennedy had forged a personal friendship while navigating a series of international crises including the establishment of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban missile crisis..."

#uk politics #social history #british prime ministers #john f kennedy #jfk #jfk assassination #foreign policy #british culture #uk government #us government

[hjohn3]

The Tory Migration Catastrophe

How Conservative Immigration Policy Will Destroy Its Thatcherite Model

Source: The Financial Times

By Honest John

LIKE A desperate gambler deciding to bet his shirt on one last turn of the roulette wheel, Rishi Sunak has staked his entire political reputation on the latest iteration of the Tories’ Rwanda bill. This is a piece of legislation which has been declared illegal by the British Supreme Court; which has so far cost the British taxpayer £240m with a further £50m due to be paid to Rwanda next year; which is considered as impractical as it is morally questionable and which has seen precisely zero asylum seekers so far sent to Rwanda to have their claims processed. This sad wheeze is going to be dragged before the House of Commons once more, while Sunak desperately claims black is white and that Rwanda can miraculously become a safe country for asylum seekers by the passing of a law in Westminster. The Prime Minister’s determination to turn Tuesday’s vote on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill into effectively a vote of confidence in his leadership is simultaneously reckless and absurd. Sunak’s desperation to quieten the increasing insurrectionary noises from his party’s right wing in the wake of the dismissal of Suella Braverman, has led him to to invest all his hopes in a piece of legislation for which there is no evidence will succeed in deterring the “small boats” (its stated claim), which will place the U.K. once again in breach of international law and will succeed only in enriching the government of Rwanda, incredulously receiving millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money for its civic infrastructure, gifted by a country whose own infrastructure is falling apart. It is actually hard to find anyone outside the fevered confines of Sunak’s inner circle who supports the plan or thinks it will work. Apart perhaps from the government of Rwanda itself that is.

It is easy to laugh at the infantile antics of a government that, in any real sense, has ceased to function and to treat this latest act in the Tory psychodrama as the piece of absurdist political theatre it undoubtedly is, but the Rwanda bill is simply the congealing icing on the top of a poisonous cake that the Conservatives have been serving up for years, masquerading as migration “policy”. This is legislation that is as contradictory as it is cruel; as performative as it is populist. For the Conservatives, migration is their key emergency break glass area of public policy. When everything else that they and the succession of hopeless lightweights they have foisted on the country as Prime Ministers, has turned to dung at their touch, they still believe that the prejudice and hatred of “the British People” toward foreigners and immigrants has no bottom level: for Tories you simply cannot go too low on immigration. The Rwanda scheme - when it was first cooked up in the days of Boris Johnson and Priti Patel - had nothing in reality to do with deterring asylum seekers from trying to cross the Channel to Britain; it was all about trying to appeal to a mythical “Red Wall” voter for whom no amount of cruelty, illegality and contempt was too much when it came to migrants. As their polling figures slumped and by election and council election results confirmed their worst electoral fears, the Conservatives still believed that victimising the victims could yet turn it around for them - no matter the dark forces their racist and bile-filled rhetoric might unleash: if they could just once again gaslight the electorate into believing that all the catastrophes of the last fourteen years of Tory rule are, in fact, the fault of incoming foreigners, all may yet be well.

This dismal flirting with the fascist playbook may have resulted in the headline-catching idiocy of Sunak’s latest Rwanda wheeze, but beneath that blather James Cleverley has announced planned measures that are far more significant, far more damaging, and far more frightening than any amount of ludicrous assertions about the Rwanda scheme. Tired of being taunted by Labour and others about the huge rise in legal migration (its net increase topped 600,000 in 2022) despite all the Tory promises to bring the numbers down over the last fourteen years, the Conservatives’ response is to quite literally attack, and potentially destroy, its own Thatcherite economic model.

For over forty years, Tory politicians have extolled Britain’s “flexible” workforce; its deregulated system; its low wage/low unemployment economy and its marketised society. Indeed, for years we were told by politicians on the right and the left that in a globalised world, mobile and non-unionised workforces, cheap production costs, outsourced supply lines and minimal regulation was essential to the easy access, low price, and plentiful supply digital capitalism that has taken hold in Britain. Key to the success of this model has been migrant labour, first from the EU and now from a swathe of sub-Saharan African, Middle Eastern and South Asian countries whose residents have been offered visas to replace the low wage flexible European workers that post-Brexit Britain apparently no longer wants. The legal migrants that the Conservatives are now in such a lather about are an essential component of the Thatcherite economic model they have all been promoting to us for decades. If, as Cleverley maintains, the government wishes to reduce net migration figures by 300,000 in 2024, then that is 300,000 workers not available to drive lorries, deliver Amazon parcels, pick our crops, clean our offices, valet our cars, serve in our restaurants and, crucially staff our hospitals and care homes. By creating a shortage of deregulated low wage labour, the Tories will simultaneously damage large parts of the service economy and drive up wages, and with it inflation. In their desperate belief that hatred of foreigners will somehow save them from oblivion at the next General Election, the Conservatives are prepared to throw overboard an approach to employment and wages that has sustained them for nearly two generations and was one of the driving ideological impulses on the right that drove Brexit. The revolution has truly begun to eat itself.

Apart from the casual abandonment of what has been the essence of right-wing Toryism for years, Cleverley has also managed to introduce the class-based nastiness of the Sklled Worker minimum salary threshold of £38,700 pa that legal migrants and their dependents must meet. This is a measure that will drive families apart, possibly force British citizens, married to foreigners but earning below the threshold, to emigrate to be with their loved ones and cause untold damage to the university sector (one of the few growth areas of the British economy) and the NHS and care sector, already on its knees after years of austerity and disproportionately reliant on migrant labour. It is as if the Tories are not content with the calamities that austerity, Brexit and Trussonomics have already wrought on British society: with this latest episode of ill-thought through prejudicial nonsense, they seem to want to finish it off altogether. I have predicted for some time the implosion of modern Toryism - its Thatcherite ideology a busted flush and its Brexit nationalist makeover lacking in depth or practical solutions; but what I hadn’t bargained for was that the Tories would try to take the whole country down with them.

Never has a government looked more threadbare, pointless, desperate and unlovable. All they have left to offer is hatred, racism and self-defeating vindictiveness. If Sunak’s absurd posturing over his doomed Rwanda bill results in his resignation before Christmas and a January General Election, the “British People” that this band of charlatans and incompetents keep claiming to speak for, but who in reality they do not understand, will breathe a sigh of relief, because we the people will at last be given the opportunity to cast this catastrophic version of Toryism into an electoral oblivion it so richly deserves and from which it will, hopefully, never emerge.

Migration may yet be modern Conservatism’s epitaph.

10th December 2023

#british politics #conservative government #rishi sunak #migration policy #Rwanda bill #tory collapse #james cleverly #Thatcherite economic model #general election now!

[ace-in-a-very-distressing-hole]

omg I can’t believe hulks are making a comeback

#ok but fr who tf is supporting a victorian criminal punishment being used on immigrants #it’s insane #british politics #uk #uk politics #all these piss poor immigrant policies #the government seem to absolutely love defenestrating ethics

[thebirdandhersong]

I decided this year that being introverted was no excuse for avoiding people, and that I needed to focus less on shyness and more on community building and Being Brave For Once, and so naturally one of the steps I took was attending an English department socialization event today--the first time I have ever attended one of their events. And boy did that come This Close to making me regret stepping out of the house

#if you ever find yourself in an enclosed space with twelve english majors i'm telling you SHOUT A HASTY GOODBYE AND SCOOT #that's an exaggeration sorry i love english majors also i am one so i feel some license to make fun every once in a while #HOWEVER #if y'all have ever sat through 15+ minutes of arts major girls complaining about the Trials of being a woman and whining about Men...... #in front of the ONE MAN who showed up for the party. poor boy #it is an incomparable experience and one that i would not wish on anybody #on another point the eng department party that showed up hit all the bingos today in terms of conversation: #death of the author. book piracy (one of the exec team girls ADVOCATED for this). how Evil the british monarchy is #(like. girls the queen just passed away last year also can we please not ridicule people in this very contemptuous and cruel way) #gender and politics. gender and ideology. gender and--you get it #cheating in class (one of the exec team girls ADVOCATED for this too) #complaining about the university's policies and system. #also did i mention complaining about Men #it was a Lot and i hobbled back home with a headache #am i going back?? remains to be seen!!!! GOOD GRIEF what a day #slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in year 21

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The final moments of murdered B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar were caught on camera, according to members of the Surrey gurdwara where he served as president.

Nijjar was gunned down in his truck outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara on the evening of June 18. The killing has became a major diplomatic flashpoint this month, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Parliament there were “credible allegations” of a “potential link” between “agents of the government of India” and the killing.

As first reported by the Washington Post, the shooting was captured on the gurdwara’s security cameras.

Global News has not viewed the video, which the temple is not making public, but leaders say it has been turned over to the RCMP and Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT).

Gurdwara volunteer Gurkeerat Singh told Global News he had seen a 90-second clip of the footage. [...]

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#cdnpoli #British Columbia #sectarian violence #sectarianism #Foreign Policy #India #RCMP #crime and punishment in canada

[mossadegh]

Archive of Canadian media articles, editorials and cartoons on Iran, Premier Mossadegh and the oil nationalization saga.

The Mossadegh Project

#iran #iranian #tehran #mossadegh #middle east #foreign policy #cold war #persian #britain #canada #canadian #canadian history #editorials #foreign affairs #history #alberta #montreal #british columbia #calgary #ontario #manitoba #quebec #ottawa #toronto #lethbridge #saskatoon #saskatchewan #vancouver #1950's #oil

[quotesfrommyreading]

Far from resisting such royal parochialism, Britain should embrace Charles as the emblem of its new normal age. Very few people in the world know the names of the Dutch, Danish, or Norwegian monarchs, but their citizens are much more prosperous and their kingdoms more settled. If Charles joins them in comparative anonymity, that should be celebrated.

In 1962, a decade into Britain’s second Elizabethan age, the American grandee Dean Acheson caused real hurt and anger in London by declaring that Britain had lost an empire but had yet to find a role. The entire reign of Elizabeth was filled with her chief ministers searching for the answer to this challenge. But with her passing, Britain can cease its search. Not playing a central role in the great game is a perfectly noble aspiration, a liberating opportunity—and one that King Charles is well suited to symbolize.

  —  Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Ushers in the Era of the Hobbit King

#tom mctague #history #politics #british politics #international relations #foreign policy #imperialism #monarchy #britain #charles iii #dean acheson #elizabeth ii