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The Christmas spirit

I’m not a huge fan of David Lammy, but when the Foreign Secretary and MP for Tottenham sends a tweet on Christmas Eve saying, “To all of my constituents and everyone beyond, I wish you a joyful and peaceful break and a very merry Christmas,” I mentally return his good wishes. OK, I don’t have any constituents, unless you count oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus and assorted other elements, but you know what I mean.

His fellow Labour MP Zarah Sultana is having none of that. She replied,

“Does that include the Palestinian people suffering genocide and being killed with British-made weapons, David?”

To all our readers and everyone beyond, I wish you a joyful and peaceful break and a very merry Christmas.

13 comments to The Christmas spirit

  • WindyPants

    Zarah Sultana is just channelling her inner ‘Rik’ from the Classic British TV series ‘The Young Ones’.

    Merry Christmas, everyone. I wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous Christmas and 2025.

  • NickM

    Good point about Rik! Might I add the difference between then and now is then Rik was a ludicrous figure of fun and Zarah Sultana is actually in government!

    Anyway, Happy Christmas one and all! And let’s hope the Sage of Kettering is wrong about 2025!

  • Mark

    A bot or a minion could well have produce the Lammy tweet (but let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he actually typed it).

    This Sultana creature will definitely have spat out the bile itself.

  • jgh in Japan

    A strange genoside where the population keeps increasing.

  • Snorri Godhi

    Happy Christmas one and all! And let’s hope the Sage of Kettering is wrong about 2025!

    Amen to both propositions! I could not have put it better myself.

  • Paul Marks

    An example of “Projection”.

    Zarah Saltana (a real person – not a character from a “Carry On” film) wishes to commit genocide – but, understanding that this is not popular with the Western public, she pretends that her Islamic brothers and sisters (whose population, as jgh points out, keeps going UP – keeps INCREASING) are the victims of “genocide” carried by the supposedly wicked Jews.

    Of course, after the “Islamists” (if we must use that word) have finished with the “Saturday people” they will come for the “Sunday people”.

    Snorri – yes indeed, I hope I am wrong as well – for example I would be very happy if President Trump manages to reduce government spending as President Milei has done – I just do not believe that an United States President (no matter how well intentioned) has the power to do that. So I believe that the United States, and many other Western nations (especially the United Kingdom) are in for very hard times indeed. But the young will survive – and they will see the other side of all this.

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

  • Snorri Godhi

    Merry Christmas Paul! … and anybody else reading this.

    And let’s give due credit to NickM for the propositions that i endorsed.

  • Johnathan Pearce

    Maybe someone should buy Sultana a pager for Christmas 😬

  • NickM

    Don’t sultanas and such go into Christmas puddings!

    And yes, Zarah Sultana does sound like she should be hanging around with the Khasi of Kalabar and Bungdit Din!

  • mickc

    Possibly it just didn’t work…

  • Matthew

    How small her heart must be.

  • Lord T

    He should have just replied ‘Yes’

    These people wind themselves up with very little action from you. The only thing is they get violent which is why they like anonymity for them and not for you

  • Clovis Sangrail

    A very belated Happy Christmas to all.

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