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On 6/1/2017 at 4:47 PM, Jazzy Jan said:

That would wipe the smug look off Teresa May's face.  

What's a hung parliament? Is that where no party has majority, nor is able to form a coalition???

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I think May could actually be a money tree. She's tall, revential, blows in the wind, and millions fall down when you shake her upside down by the ankles.

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Brilliant Australian journalist John Pilger on May's responsibilities with regard to counter terrorism policies as Home Secretary

 

https://newmatilda.com/2017/06/04/terror-in-britain-what-did-the-prime-minister-know/

Terror In Britain: What Did The Prime Minister Know?

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Amid the growing number of attacks on England, which political leader – if any – will have the courage to break ranks on the failed war on terror, asks John Pilger?

 

The unsayable in Britain’s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy.

Critical questions – such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist “assets” in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst – remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal “review”.

The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years.

The LIFG is proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation which seeks a “hardline Islamic state” in Libya and “is part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by al-Qaida”.

 

 

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The “smoking gun” is that when Theresa May was Home Secretary, LIFG jihadists were allowed to travel unhindered across Europe and encouraged to engage in “battle”: first to remove Mu’ammar Gadaffi in Libya, then to join al-Qaida affiliated groups in Syria.  :bad:  :bad: 

Last year, the FBI reportedly placed Abedi on a “terrorist watch list” and warned MI5 that his group was looking for a “political target” in Britain. Why wasn’t he apprehended and the network around him prevented from planning and executing the atrocity on 22 May?

These questions arise because of an FBI leak that demolished the “lone wolf” spin in the wake of the 22 May attack – thus, the panicky, uncharacteristic outrage directed at Washington from London and Donald Trump’s apology.

 

The Manchester atrocity lifts the rock of British foreign policy to reveal its Faustian alliance with extreme Islam, especially the sect known as Wahhabism or Salafism, whose principal custodian and banker is the oil kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Britain’s biggest weapons customer.

 

This imperial marriage reaches back to the Second World War and the early days of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The aim of British policy was to stop pan-Arabism: Arab states developing a modern secularism, asserting their independence from the imperial west and controlling their resources. The creation of a rapacious Israel was meant to expedite this. Pan-Arabism has since been crushed; the goal now is division and conquest.

In 2011, according to Middle East Eye, the LIFG in Manchester were known as the “Manchester boys”. Implacably opposed to Mu’ammar Gadaffi, they were considered high risk and a number were under Home Office control orders – house arrest – when anti-Gadaffi demonstrations broke out in Libya, a country forged from myriad tribal enmities.

 

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Suddenly the control orders were lifted. “I was allowed to go, no questions asked,” said one LIFG member. MI5 returned their passports and counter-terrorism police at Heathrow airport were told to let them board their flights.

 

The overthrow of Gaddafi, who controlled Africa’s largest oil reserves, had long been planned in Washington and London. According to French intelligence, the LIFG made several assassination attempts on Gadaffi in the 1990s – bank-rolled by British intelligence. In March 2011, France, Britain and the US seized the opportunity of a “humanitarian intervention” and attacked Libya. They were joined by Nato under cover of a UN resolution to “protect civilians”.

Last September, a House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee inquiry concluded that then Prime Minister David Cameron had taken the country to war against Gaddafi on a series of “erroneous assumptions” and that the attack “had led to the rise of Islamic State in North Africa”. The Commons committee quoted what it called Barack Obama’s “pithy” description of Cameron’s role in Libya as a “shit show”.

 

 

In fact, Obama was a leading actor in the “shit show”, urged on by his warmongering Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and a media accusing Gaddafi of planning “genocide” against his own people. “We knew… that if we waited one more day,” said Obama, “Benghazi, a city the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.”

The massacre story was fabricated by Salafist militias facing defeat by Libyan government forces. They told Reuters there would be “a real bloodbath, a massacre like we saw in Rwanda”. The Commons committee reported, “The proposition that Mu’ammar Gaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians in Benghazi was not supported by the available evidence”.

Britain, France and the United States effectively destroyed Libya as a modern state. According to its own records, Nato launched 9,700 “strike sorties”, of which more than a third hit civilian targets. They included fragmentation bombs and missiles with uranium warheads. The cities of Misurata and Sirte were carpet-bombed. Unicef, the UN children’s organisation, reported a high proportion of the children killed “were under the age of 10”.

 

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More than “giving rise” to Islamic State – ISIS had already taken root in the ruins of Iraq following the Blair and Bush invasion in 2003 – these ultimate medievalists now had all of north Africa as a base. The attack also triggered a stampede of refugees fleeing to Europe.

Cameron was celebrated in Tripoli as a “liberator”, or imagined he was. The crowds cheering him included those secretly supplied and trained by Britain’s SAS and inspired by Islamic State, such as the “Manchester boys”.

 

To the Americans and British, Gadaffi’s true crime was his iconoclastic independence and his plan to abandon the petrodollar, a pillar of American imperial power. He had audaciously planned to underwrite a common African currency backed by gold, establish an all-Africa bank and promote economic union among poor countries with prized resources. Whether or not this would have happened, the very notion was intolerable to the US as it prepared to “enter” Africa and bribe African governments with military “partnerships”.

 

The fallen dictator fled for his life. A Royal Air Force plane spotted his convoy, and in the rubble of Sirte, he was sodomised with a knife by a fanatic described in the news as “a rebel”.

Having plundered Libya’s $30 billion arsenal, the “rebels” advanced south, terrorising towns and villages. Crossing into sub-Saharan Mali, they destroyed that country’s fragile stability. The ever-eager French sent planes and troops to their former colony “to fight al-Qaida”, or the menace they had helped create.

 

On 14 October, 2011, President Obama announced he was sending special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops were sent to South Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent was under way, largely unreported.

 

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In London, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs was staged by the British government. The buzz in the stands was the “demonstration effect in Libya”. The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a preview entitled “Middle East: A vast market for UK defence and security companies”.

The host was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a major investor in cluster bombs, which were used extensively against civilian targets in Libya. The blurb for the bank’s arms party lauded the “unprecedented opportunities for UK defence and security companies”.

Last month, Prime Minister Theresa May was in Saudi Arabia, selling more of the £3 billion worth of British arms which the Saudis have used against Yemen. Based in control rooms in Riyadh, British military advisers assist the Saudi bombing raids, which have killed more than 10,000 civilians. There are now clear signs of famine. A Yemeni child dies every 10 minutes from preventable disease, says Unicef.

The Manchester atrocity on May 22 was the product of such unrelenting state violence in faraway places, much of it British sponsored. The lives and names of the victims are almost never known to us.

 

This truth struggles to be heard, just as it struggled to be heard when the London Underground was bombed on July 7, 2005. Occasionally, a member of the public would break the silence, such as the east Londoner who walked in front of a CNN camera crew and reporter in mid-platitude. “Iraq!” he said. “We invaded Iraq. What did we expect? Go on, say it.”

At a large media gathering I attended, many of the important guests uttered “Iraq” and “Blair” as a kind of catharsis for that which they dared not say professionally and publicly.

Yet, before he invaded Iraq, Blair was warned by the Joint Intelligence Committee that “the threat from al-Qaida will increase at the onset of any military action against Iraq… The worldwide threat from other Islamist terrorist groups and individuals will increase significantly”.

 

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Just as Blair brought home to Britain the violence of his and George W. Bush’s blood-soaked “shit show”, so David Cameron, supported by Theresa May, compounded his crime in Libya and its horrific aftermath, including those killed and maimed in Manchester Arena on May 22.

The spin is back, not surprisingly. Salman Abedi acted alone. He was a petty criminal, no more. The extensive network revealed last week by the American leak has vanished. But the questions have not.

Why was Abedi able to travel freely through Europe to Libya and back to Manchester only days before he committed his terrible crime? Was Theresa May told by MI5 that the FBI had tracked him as part of an Islamic cell planning to attack a “political target” in Britain?

In the current election campaign, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has made a guarded reference to a “war on terror that has failed”. As he knows, it was never a war on terror but a war of conquest and subjugation. Palestine. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Iran is said to be next.

Before there is another Manchester, who will have the courage to say that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disgusting vile people

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Don't know in the UK but around here all fingers are pointed to the Tories as a big failure in security that lead to the attacks.  If this woman still win the elections then something wrong is happening with the voters, as it's already happened in Spain (corrupts winning)  or the USA (retards winning) 

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6 hours ago, karbatal said:

Don't know in the UK but around here all fingers are pointed to the Tories as a big failure in security that lead to the attacks.  If this woman still win the elections then something wrong is happening with the voters, as it's already happened in Spain (corrupts winning)  or the USA (retards winning) 

This is the only finger The Tories and our strong and stable leader are pointing...right towards France and mainland Europe.  Get it up ye! 

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Oh GOLLY GOSH. I can't stop giggling at our glorious leaders shocking and appalling admission of the NAUGHTIEST THING she ever did in a new groundbreaking interview.

Etchingham: What’s the naughtiest thing you ever did?

May: Oh, goodness me. Well, I suppose… gosh. Do you know I’m not quite sure. I can’t think what the naughtiest thing…

Etchingham: There must’ve been a moment when…

May: Well, nobody is ever perfectly behaved, are they? I mean, you know, there are times when… I have to confess, when me and my friend, sort of, used to run through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren’t too pleased about that.’

 

OMG Theresa will be the death of me!  I'll need to try that one myself.... RUNNING THROUGH FIELDS OF WHEAT! 

:megamanson:

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You know the polls are really close now.

Labour could do it.

Popbitch reported that Ladbrokes noticed that in the brexit and trump elections, more money was put on remain and Clinton winning but more individual bets were put on leave and trump winning.

For this election, more money is on the Tories but more bets are on labour!

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1 minute ago, jonski43 said:

You know the polls are really close now.

Labour could do it.

Popbitch reported that Ladbrokes noticed that in the brexit and trump elections, more money was put on remain and Clinton winning but more individual bets were put on leave and trump winning.

For this election, more money is on the Tories but more bets are on labour!

The polls are so confusing though. Depending where you look, there's between 1 and 12 % lead for the Tories. I'm hoping for another Brexit-like upset obviously, and going by last time the polls can't be trusted. The exit poll should have it right though. I've taken Friday off and staying up to watch!

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8 hours ago, Kim said:

Oh GOLLY GOSH. I can't stop giggling at our glorious leaders shocking and appalling admission of the NAUGHTIEST THING she ever did in a new groundbreaking interview.

Etchingham: What’s the naughtiest thing you ever did?

May: Oh, goodness me. Well, I suppose… gosh. Do you know I’m not quite sure. I can’t think what the naughtiest thing…

Etchingham: There must’ve been a moment when…

May: Well, nobody is ever perfectly behaved, are they? I mean, you know, there are times when… I have to confess, when me and my friend, sort of, used to run through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren’t too pleased about that.’

 

OMG Theresa will be the death of me!  I'll need to try that one myself.... RUNNING THROUGH FIELDS OF WHEAT! 

:megamanson:

 

 

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7 minutes ago, LSD said:

 

 

This wheat-willed old bitch barley has a grain of decency in her. Hope old Thatcher in the Rye gets shredded on Thursday...etc etc!

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May-hay-fever in a withering tight election campaign embarrassment. The more I see, and hear this evil cunt's bullshit, the more she reminds me of a fan of hers......

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Anyway............ according to the running through the wheat witch, tearing up the Human Rights Act will tackle terrorism....

People, go and vote this cunt out on Thursday please:

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11 hours ago, Kim said:

Oh GOLLY GOSH. I can't stop giggling at our glorious leaders shocking and appalling admission of the NAUGHTIEST THING she ever did in a new groundbreaking interview.

Etchingham: What’s the naughtiest thing you ever did?

May: Oh, goodness me. Well, I suppose… gosh. Do you know I’m not quite sure. I can’t think what the naughtiest thing…

Etchingham: There must’ve been a moment when…

May: Well, nobody is ever perfectly behaved, are they? I mean, you know, there are times when… I have to confess, when me and my friend, sort of, used to run through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren’t too pleased about that.’

 

OMG Theresa will be the death of me!  I'll need to try that one myself.... RUNNING THROUGH FIELDS OF WHEAT! 

:megamanson:

If she was not so evil like a Dementer,  I would be laughing at this.   Seriously, who on Earth would list the naughtiest thing they did as running through fields of wheat !  

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57 minutes ago, pjcowley said:

May-hay-fever in a withering tight election campaign embarrassment. The more I see, and hear this evil cunt's bullshit, the more she reminds me of a fan of hers......

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Anyway............ according to the running through the wheat witch, tearing up the Human Rights Act will tackle terrorism....

People, go and vote this cunt out on Thursday please:

9k=

 

 

 

 Just when you think she can't stoop any lower, she does.   I hope like mad she gets put out in this election.  

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32 minutes ago, Kim said:

CRANK UP Project Fear, Tories! Crank it up!

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UK Tabloids are a disgrace.  They might as well be the newsletter for the conservative party.  The scariest part is they have far too much influence.  Nothing remotely balanced or fair about them. 

 

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12 hours ago, Kim said:

Oh GOLLY GOSH. I can't stop giggling at our glorious leaders shocking and appalling admission of the NAUGHTIEST THING she ever did in a new groundbreaking interview.

Etchingham: What’s the naughtiest thing you ever did?

May: Oh, goodness me. Well, I suppose… gosh. Do you know I’m not quite sure. I can’t think what the naughtiest thing…

Etchingham: There must’ve been a moment when…

May: Well, nobody is ever perfectly behaved, are they? I mean, you know, there are times when… I have to confess, when me and my friend, sort of, used to run through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren’t too pleased about that.’

 

OMG Theresa will be the death of me!  I'll need to try that one myself.... RUNNING THROUGH FIELDS OF WHEAT! 

:megamanson:

 

 

:lmao:

 

Come on Theresa, no need to be so modest, you have done MUCH WORSE than that

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And the arrogance of telling people that "we will change those laws to keep you safe" *sells a few more cluster bombs to King Salman to bomb the living shit of those poor Yemeni children". While Wahabi and Salafi terrorists are trained and armed to the teeth and allowed into the UK from that very same country to unleash their perverse violence on more innocent people. She's basically saying "you have no rights, we will change the laws regardless". What a nasty abusive witch

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THE QUEEN HAS SPOKEN:

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Nicola Sturgeon says ‘difficult’ Theresa May will struggle with Brexit talks

Nicola Sturgeon has said that Theresa May is a “very difficult person to establish rapport with” and someone whose character is such that will she will struggle in Brexit negotiations.

The First Minister of Scotland, who is also leader of the Scottish National party, said she did not know the prime minister well enough to know “whether I like her or not” but claimed that in professional dealings May compared unfavourably with her predecessor as Conservative leader.

“OK, we’re miles apart politically but then so too were David Cameron and I, but we still managed to find a way of working that respected each other’s positions. We found a way of being civil,” she said.

Sturgeon said she believed the public were now witnessing the types of frustrations she had felt in recent meetings with May, in which she found the prime minister very difficult to engage with. “You literally go into a one-to-one with her and it’s like she’s reading from a script than having a conversation.”

She said that dealing with critical situations such as Brexit or the recent terror attacks required politicians to build a “working relationship that completely transcends any political differences”.

She said the Scottish people should vote again on whether to break away from the UK “when the [Brexit] deal is done, when we know the relationship, not just the divorce deal, but the relationship between the UK and the EU moving forward.

“Theresa May has said explicitly – and I readily concede there’s a lot of scepticism about this – but she has said that that will be before the UK exits in spring 2019. Which is why I have talked in that timeframe, 

She said she realised that European figures had different ambitions for when trade talks would be complete, adding: “I think in all honesty none of us actually know at the moment.” she added: “Once you know the terms of the relationship. It has got to be an informed choice for people.”

Sturgeon also hit out at May for distracting politicians from the Brexit talks and then basing her election campaign on the urgency of negotiations starting 11 days after Thursday’s vote. “Did she only find that out after she called the election? It does seem a pretty bizarre argument to underline the importance of the Brexit negotiations and the imminence of the start of the negotiations when she took the decision to call an election that has dominated, presumably, her time and everyone else’s time for the past two months.”

The SNP leader argued that the Tory campaign had “descended into complete farce” when the prime minister refused to take part in television debates because she was busy preparing for Brexit. “Come on,” she said.

She said Tory plans to crack down on free movement would be extremely damaging for Scotland, and had been something she had tried to raise with the UK government. “You get from Whitehall a sort of nodding of the head, recognising the problem, but a brick wall when it comes to any kind of contemplating the solution.”

She also said she had been “astounded” by how unprepared May had been for the election campaign, in which the Tories have faced a backlash over social care plans.

“I think almost regardless of the outcome, [May is] going to come out of this election weakened. I can’t believe that she’s doing anything other right now than wishing she hadn’t called the election in the first place,” she said.

Sturgeon is basing her campaign on a call for a progressive alliance north of the border that she hopes will see the SNP squeeze the Labour and Liberal Democrat vote. “We were first or second in every constituency in the country – a vote for Labour or the liberals in Scotland risks splitting the anti-Tory vote. In some constituencies it risks letting a Tory MP in the back door.”

However, asked if that meant SNP voters should vote for Labour in places where it was better set to win, for example in the Edinburgh South seat which has been held by Ian Murray, she said: “No, they should vote SNP.” She argued her party could win that seat.

She also said it was not for her to advise people outside Scotland how to vote, but did hint at a preference for tactical voting in other parts of the UK. “If you are asking me what people who want to defeat a Tory government should do then look at how best to defeat a Tory MP.”

However, Sturgeon was clear that her party wanted to drive Labour out of Scotland, where they have described it as a two-horse race between themselves and the Conservatives.

She depicted Scottish Labour as cosying up to the Tories on an anti-independence ticket, and also questioned whether it represented the national party. 

“Scottish Labour have until very recently been of the view that Jeremy Corbyn has been the worst thing ever,” she said, adding that her politics were closer to the Labour leader’s than Kezia Dugdale’s on a number of policies.

Sturgeon said the SNP was holding up well, saying it was laughable for critics suggest that it was “apocalyptic that after 10 years in government that your party ratings have gone as low as 41% … let’s just get real here”.

 

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QUEEN OF BABIES

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QUEEN OF TODDLERS

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QUEEN OF KIDS

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QUEEN OF TEENS

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QUEEN OF PENSIONERS

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QUEEN OF THE GAYS

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QUEEN OF WOMEN

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QUEEN

 

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Guys someone explain to me how betting works. I don't understand it. 
I'm a homosexual I don't set foot in such places. 
But I want to place bets on the election tomorrow. What do you do when you walk in?

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26 minutes ago, BrendanT1993 said:

Guys someone explain to me how betting works. I don't understand it. 
I'm a homosexual I don't set foot in such places. 
But I want to place bets on the election tomorrow. What do you do when you walk in?

Call yerself Irish? :pinkwink:

Walk in, pick up a blank betting slip, look up at the screens to see the odds. Write down what your predicted outcome is (Labour win overall majority in UK general election :bad:) Write down the odds from the screen and circle them (to prevent tampering) Write down how much you are betting on the slip and in the box at the bottom. Take it to the till.

OR

Do it online.

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21 hours ago, Kim said:

CRANK UP Project Fear, Tories! Crank it up!

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They're a disgrace. Their agenda is so transparent I don't even understand who they're trying to fool. They're the lowest of the lowest. 

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2 hours ago, MeakMaker said:

They're a disgrace. Their agenda is so transparent I don't even understand who they're trying to fool. They're the lowest of the lowest. 

Daily Mail devotes 13 pages to attack on Labour 'apologists for terror'

Tabloid claims ‘Jeremy Corbyn and his closest associates have spent their careers cosying up to those who hate our country’

The pre-election edition of the Daily Mail devoted 13 pages to attacking Labour,  Diane Abbott and John McDonnell under the headline: “Apologists for terror.”

The tabloid urged readers to support the Conservatives in an editorial on its first and second pages but concentrated its fire on Labour’s leadership, compiling hostile anecdotes dating to the 1970s.

The Sun, which endorsed Theresa May and the Conservative party, ran a front-page story under the headline “Jezza’s Jihadi Comrades”. The newspaper reported that Corbyn had delivered an “incendiary speech” at a demo that was attended by followers of the Islamic clerics Anjem Choudary and Omar Bakri Muhammad.

In its editorial encouraging readers to vote for the Conservatives, the Sun said that Britain would be a “global laughing stock” if Corbyn was elected prime minister.

The newspaper, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, said: “This is not the moderate Labour of Tony Blair. It is not the Labour of Kinnock or even Miliband. Your vote would be to install Britain’s first Marxist government.

“A generation after the end of the Soviet Union, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of almost every ruinous and oppressive hard-Left regime worldwide, you would be helping to establish a new one, right here in Britain. It would be the gravest mistake this country has ever made.”

Other press endorsements for the Conservatives came from the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Times. Labour has won the support of the Daily Mirror and The Guardian, with the Economist supporting the Liberal Democrats.

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