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Mark Aug 5, 2025

Lord #Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm

Member of #HouseOfLords urged ministers to crack down on #PalestineAction at request of a #US #defence #company that #employs him as an adviser.

Dannatt, 74, has sat in the Lords since 2011. He is now under investigation by the house authorities over two sets of allegations that he broke parliamentary rules that forbid #lobbying.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/05/lord-dannatt-urged-ministers-to-crack-down-on-palestine-action-at-request-of-us-firm

#AntiCorruption #DemocracyNOW #bribes

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm

Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

The Guardian

JNSLCT Jan 7, 2025

#Telegraph #UkraineTheLatest

This episode has an interesting interview with
General The Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYjUybH3jtk

#Dannatt
#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

980,000 troops: Ukraine now 'largest army in Europe' | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast

YouTube

AutisticMumTo3 Nov 10, 2023

Military top brass turn on Suella Braverman over pro-Palestine march ban row | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/braverman-protest-row-military-palestine-b2445267.html

#Braverman
#Military
#RightToProtest
#ProPalestinianMarches
#ProPalestinianProtests
#Police
#Cenotaph
#Whitehall
#FarRightCounterProtests
#FarRight
#RoyalBritishLegion
#PoppyAppeal
#Sunak
#CeaseFireNow
#Grieve
#Dannatt
#Barrons
#Diggins
#ArmisticeDay
#McBean
#MET
#USEmbassy

Military top brass turn on Suella Braverman over pro-Palestine march ban row

Generals defend right of pro-Palestinians to march today and urge Home Secretary to back off - as 2,000 police form ring of steel around Cenotaph and Whitehall braced for far-right groups

The Independent

AutisticMumTo3 Aug 12, 2023

Thousands of Afghans in limbo two years after fall of Kabul despite pledge to save those who helped UK troops | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/afghan-refugees-kabul-taliban-pakistan-b2390923.html

#Afghans
#AfghansWhoWorkedWithBritish
#ARAP
#Pakistan
#ACRS
#Sunak
#Tories
#Dubs
#Richards
#Lewis
#Jarvis
#McColl
#Mercer
#Dannatt
#Hopkins
#Labour
#AfghanRefugees
#AfghanRelocations

Thousands of Afghans in limbo two years after fall of Kabul despite pledge to save those who helped UK troops

Exclusive: MPs and top brass intervene as government deadline for giving sanctuary to Afghans looms

The Independent

AutisticMumTo3 Jun 18, 2023

Hero Afghan pilot: I feel abandoned by the UK | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/afghan-pilot-uk-small-boat-arap-b2357486.html

#AfghanRefugees
#Afghans
#AfghansWhoWorkedWithBritish
#AfghanPilot
#UK
#Abandoned
#Rwanda
#SmallBoats
#Afghanistan
#ARAP
#Dannatt
#Stringer
#P1

Hero Afghan pilot: UK commanders sent me into combat... how can you abandon me?

Exclusive: Afghan war hero who escaped Taliban to come to Britain hits back at officials who say his military service is not enough to stop his deportation

The Independent

AutisticMumTo3 Jun 15, 2023

US offers asylum lifeline to Afghan war hero as as UK refuses to recognise his military service | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/afghan-pilot-us-asylum-investigate-b2354644.html

#AfghanRefugees
#AfghansWhoWorkedWithBritish
#AfghanPilot
#US
#Military
#UK
#Rwanda
#SmallBoats
#Rwanda
#Wallace
#Dannatt
#RAF
#IDS
#Taliban
#Tories
#Labour
#Sunak