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Britain: Brexit Carnival Hides Idiot £100 Million Plan to “Fight Knife Crime”
The ongoing “Brexit” carnival in Britain—which could easily lead to the fall of the present government—has overwhelmed news of the latest piece of idiocy from that country’s leaders: a £100 million (US$132 million) plan to “fight knife crime”—even though everyone knows that the crime plague is caused only by mass nonwhite immigration which that government has facilitated in the first...
Boris Johnson appointed UK foreign secretary by new PM Theresa May
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott praised the decision saying on Twitter: “Good to see Boris Johnson as the new UK Foreign Secretary. He’s a good friend of Australia.”
The former London mayor and leader of the Leave campaign, Boris Johnson, has been appointed Foreign Secretary in the cabinet of the new British prime minister, Theresa May.
The Queen “has been pleased”...
EU, UK Agree on Welfare Benefits Curb for EU Migrants
The European Council President Donald Tusk has agreed that Britain meets the requirement that will allow London to curb in-work benefit payments to EU migrants, the Downing Street spokesperson said.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is seeking to renegotiate his country’s EU membership. Brussels said earlier it was mulling a four-year “emergency brake” on benefits to new EU migrants...
Russia ‘monitoring’ US nukes move to UK
Time exposure shot of testing of the LGM-118A Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles at the Kwajalein Atoll, all eight fired from one missile. The Peacekeeper is a US ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit one of a group of targets.
Moscow says it is closely watching a possible deployment of the United States nuclear missiles in Europe.
Kremlin press secretary...
Britain 'reserves right' to arm Ukraine
Ukrainian army troops on the outskirts of the city of Izium.
Britain has joined the United States in saying it reserves the right to supply the Kiev government with lethal aid amid a new round of peace talks over the crisis in eastern Ukraine.
Britain will not allow the Ukrainian army to collapse in its fight against pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond stated during...
UK faces possible Ebola outbreak, Hammond warns
The Ebola virus poses “a serious threat” to Britain, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has warned.
The statement came as the foreign secretary was to chair an emergency COBRA meeting on Wednesday to discuss the crisis.
Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday, Hammond said that COBRA would assess the situation and “look at any measures that we need to take either in the UK, or in our diplomatic posts...
UK to seek tighter bans on Russia
The UK will tighten sanctions against Russia if Moscow does not help in investigating a Malaysian airliner crash in Ukraine, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.
On July 17, Malaysian Airline flight MH17, which was travelling to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, crashed, killing all 298 people on board. There is speculation that the Boeing 777 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile while flying...
Britain, U.S. hold secret talks on how to arm Syrian rebels
Britain and the U.S. have been secretly discussing plans to arm foreign-backed terrorists fighting the popular government of president Bashar al-Assad in Syria, it has been disclosed.
The revelation comes amid an escalation of hostilities in the region with Zionist Israeli regime already launching invasion against Syria, when the country is fighting to ward off the threat of an all-out civil war with...