Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

V_Raman · Post by **V_Raman** » 06 Jan 2021 03:13

This is my gut feeling - UK UNSC permanent seat will be given up for India...

Vips · Post by **Vips** » 07 Jan 2021 07:34

Any change in configuration at the UN would require unanimous acceptance which is not going to happen due to the Chinese Veto. Just like the League of Nations was junked, the present UN needs to be replaced ASAP.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 07 Jan 2021 07:58

Vips wrote:Any change in configuration at the UN would require unanimous acceptance which is not going to happen due to the Chinese Veto. Just like the League of Nations was junked, the present UN needs to be replaced ASAP.

I Think 2/3 of general assembly majority can override such VETO by single state.

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 07 Jan 2021 14:55

No. It does not.

m_saini · Post by **m_saini** » 10 Jan 2021 04:23

Britain doing British things.

UK government refuses to publish list of airstrikes in Yemen involving civilian casualties

The British government has refused to publish its database supposedly logging civilian casualties from murderous airstrikes in Yemen carried out by the Saudi-led coalition, which is armed by the UK and US.

While the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has listed a staggering 516 potential International Humanitarian Law (IHL) violations by the coalition of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the real number is far higher.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) has shown that the Saudi-led war against Yemen—waged with the full backing of Washington and London—has killed over 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

SRajesh · Post by **SRajesh** » 13 Jan 2021 15:49

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 242202.cms
The Brit-shit think thank is 'full of itself'!!! so say the least
Clubbing India with China/Turkey and Saudi
Is this because none of the four mentioned give a 'toss' to what the 'old blighty' thinks or wants.
Then to go on about Indo-US accords/Ethno-nationalist rise/Neverwho's Sickular gift
Who the hell are they kidding
Is this more of we are still the masters ruling the world meaning the sad spectacles of OBE/MBE non sense has world relevance!!!
Post Brexit the Brit-shits are even more vulnerable unless they 'twerk for Unkil'

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 13 Jan 2021 16:26

Rsatchi wrote:https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 242202.cms
The Brit-shit think thank is 'full of itself'!!! so say the least
Clubbing India with China/Turkey and Saudi
Is this because none of the four mentioned give a 'toss' to what the 'old blighty' thinks or wants.
Then to go on about Indo-US accords/Ethno-nationalist rise/Neverwho's Sickular gift
Who the hell are they kidding
Is this more of we are still the masters ruling the world meaning the sad spectacles of OBE/MBE non sense has world relevance!!!
Post Brexit the Brit-shits are even more vulnerable unless they 'twerk for Unkil'

the britshits haven't mentioned their ingrained and obsessive paki love which has guaranteed that they descended into the depths of mediocrity and has marked them as the state which has become an overt supporter of terrorists under the guise of "freedom".

It's a shame and a scam that they continue to remain in the UNSC.

m_saini · Post by **m_saini** » 15 Jan 2021 09:50

Scottish nationalists set for record majority, boosting independence push

Scottish nationalists are on course to win a record majority in elections for Scotland’s devolved parliament that would start a new push for independence, an opinion poll published on Thursday showed.

We should ~~ask~~ demand BoJo boy to let Indian election observers supervise britshit elections to ensure the queen and her inbred progeny don't suppress Scottish voices. Independence is a human right afterall

ArjunPandit · Post by **ArjunPandit** » 15 Jan 2021 22:43

Pakistani product and Bradford finish exposes endia and gets snubbed in UK..

British MP Naz Shah exposes Britain sale of £.5 billion to India being used in Kashmir

BTW the daughter of kashmir Naz

Naz Shah was born in Bradford.[5] Her father left the family when she was six years old. At age 12, she was sent to Pakistan by her mother, Zoora Shah, to escape her mother's abusive partner, where she had an arranged marriage.

When she was 20, her mother was convicted of the murder of her partner, who had sexually and physically abused her for over a decade, and served 7 years in prison.

kit · Post by **kit** » 16 Jan 2021 02:52

m_saini wrote:Scottish nationalists set for record majority, boosting independence push

Scottish nationalists are on course to win a record majority in elections for Scotland’s devolved parliament that would start a new push for independence, an opinion poll published on Thursday showed.

If Scotland voted for independence it would mean the United Kingdom would lose about a third of its landmass and almost a tenth of its population - just as the world’s sixth-biggest economy is grappling with the impact of Brexit.

They would also lose their nuclear submarine base and the naval yards that build their carriers !!

Bart S · Post by **Bart S** » 16 Jan 2021 03:57

Rights to North Sea oil might also go largely to Scotland.

Aldonkar · Post by **Aldonkar** » 18 Jan 2021 01:22

Bart S wrote:Rights to North Sea oil might also go largely to Scotland.

The UK part of the North Sea has exhausted most of it oil reserves. Actually, most of the "Scottish" North Sea that has the oilfields are in Orkney and Shetland waters and they voted to stay with the UK and have also suggested that they will break away from Scotland if the Scots get Independence.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 18 Jan 2021 01:36

ArjunPandit wrote:Pakistani product
Bradford...missing father...sent to Packistan to escape her mother's abusive partner...arranged marriage....mother was convicted of murder...sexually and physically abused... prison.

Yup! Sounds like a packi. Checks all the boxes.

kit · Post by **kit** » 18 Jan 2021 23:32

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 217981.cms

Brits are truly scared of their former "colony" becoming the third economic and military superpower !.. one needs to think again when they start talking about their "niche" capabilities and "broker" yeah right ., their brokering has resulted in more than half of the worlds present conflicts

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 13 Feb 2021 02:18

Not directly related to India, but the situation ties into how they will deal with us:
UK economy suffers biggest drop since 1709

The British economy suffered its biggest decline in more than 300 years in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic closed shops and restaurants, devastated the travel industry and curtailed manufacturing.

The economy shrank 9.9 per cent last year, more than twice the figure for 2009 at the height of the global financial crisis, the Office for National Statistics said Friday. The drop is the largest since 1709, when a cold spell known as the Great Frost devastated what was then a largely agricultural economy.

COVID-19 has hit Britain’s economy harder than most other industrialised democracies. French GDP shrank 8.3 per cent last year, Germany 5 per cent and the US 3.5 per cent.

The GDP figures show the breadth of the pandemic’s economic impact in Britain.

The service sector, which accounts for about 80 per cent of the UK economy, shrank 8.9 per cent last year, with output from accommodation, food and beverage businesses down more than 55 per cent from February levels. Manufacturing fell 8.6 per cent and construction 12.5 per cent

India is on track to entirely make up for 2020-21 GDP drop in the following fiscal year. The UK will likely do so around 2024.

Tanaji · Post by **Tanaji** » 13 Feb 2021 13:37

Economics is a strange beast and I could never make any logic out of it, but it’s me as usual.

The UK will likely do so around 2024.

Why is the pound in such a rise then? Shouldn’t the currency valuation be a reflection of the overall economy? The pound has gained quite a lot recently...

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 17 Feb 2021 02:04

Thookers from Jamati who were arrested in India last year are nicely languishing in jail, UK Muslims have moved petition for their release (which failed).
Now they have put big posters in cities ''Save British Muslims jailed in India'' if you read fine prints it says 'Muslims from several countries'
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/329225

kit · Post by **kit** » 17 Feb 2021 02:50

IndraD wrote:Thookers from Jamati who were arrested in India last year are nicely languishing in jail, UK Muslims have moved petition for their release (which failed).
Now they have put big posters in cities ''Save British Muslims jailed in India'' if you read fine prints it says 'Muslims from several countries'
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/329225

looks like that petition went nowhere

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 17 Feb 2021 03:02

^ Even in their own constituencies they could not get 1% of the electorate to vote for the petition.

https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.c ... ion=329225

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 18 Feb 2021 18:27

A week ago, Rashmi Samanta , Blore girl was elected Oxford student union president and Ox cheered it as more colour (wokeness) added. Her punchline of campaign was ''down with imperialism'' (whatever non sense that means

). Woke storm troopers however dug into her t/l of Instagram and discovered at one point (when 14 yrs old) she was not liberal enough, she also did perjury of passing comments on LGBT & sacrosanct China. She was promptly removed
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... 44954.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/202 ... -oxbridge/
Applicants put off by unbearable wokeness of Oxbridge

SRajesh · Post by **SRajesh** » 26 Feb 2021 17:28

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/courts/s ... -dhp-feeds
IS bride cannot come back to UK rules the High Court.
Recent High court rulings ?? more to right than Leftist Liberal shit???
Nirav to be kicked out!
Mallya maybe next!
Killer Begum told to stay back in Syria
Ropers and Rolers wont be pleased

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 26 Feb 2021 23:48

You know this man,

https://www.opindia.com/2021/02/tanmanj ... lhi-riots/

He is also this man,

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/ ... mpredirect

There is something vaguely familiar in how he/family acts, just cannot place it. Anyone care to say....

g.sarkar · Post by **g.sarkar** » 27 Feb 2021 00:03

https://www.rediff.com/news/report/cour ... 210226.htm
Court bars 'ISIS bride' from returning to UK to fight for citizenship
By Aditi Khanna, February 26, 2021
The United Kingdom government on Friday won a major legal battle as the Supreme Court ruled against allowing a London-born 21-year-old woman of Bangladeshi descent, who ran away to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, to return and fight her citizenship case.
The unanimous decision -- with all five top court justices in agreement -- comes six years after the then 15-year-old schoolgirl, Shamima Begum, ran away with two other friends to join the Islamic State (ISIS) group in February 2015.
Begum had her British citizenship revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.
“The Supreme Court unanimously allows all of the home secretary's appeals and dismisses Ms Begum's cross-appeal,” said Lord Robert Reed, the president of the Supreme Court.
"The right to a fair hearing does not trump all other considerations, such as the safety of the public," he said.
Begum was born in the UK to parents of Bangladeshi heritage.
.....
A special British immigration tribunal had found back in February last year that Begum was a Bangladeshi citizen by descent which meant that she had not been rendered homeless by former UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid's decision to revoke her British citizenship in 2019.
.....
Under UK law, a person can legally have their citizenship revoked but they cannot be made stateless. The UK government maintains that Begum has access to Bangladeshi dual citizenship through her parents, even though the Bangladesh government has since denied any such rights.
The decision to revoke Begum's citizenship has come under fire from human rights campaigners and legal experts alike who argue that the revocation rendered her stateless and compromised her right to a fair appeal.
Gautam
No Bangladeshi citizen is stateless. They can always sneak in and get the Adhar card.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 27 Feb 2021 04:12

RR (randi rona) has started in liberal press & had it been a labour govt she would have returned to London on a private jet and lived a life of opulence in £1million flat in London.

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 27 Feb 2021 04:36

She might come to Kerala to visit her dad during springbreak

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 03 Mar 2021 17:18

Rashmi Samanta who won Oxford SU election and had to resign within a week, has issued a full statement, It appears Hinduphobia is at heart of abuses heaped at her. Matter has escalated to HC London. This is a scary example of how Hinduphobia is sweeping West.

https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/bei ... 90955.html

‘Why do you seek a policy of decolonisation when it played such an integral role in bringing about a global world without which billions more would be still living a life of absolute poverty?

this Q was asked repeatedly in her run, this tells about white guilt which is at the bottom of left liberal pathology.

"The fact that I am a Hindu in no way makes me intolerant or unfit to be the President of the Oxford SU. Contrary to this, I understand the value of diversity in its true sense though my exposure to the intricacies of the developed world is limited."

yensoy · Post by **yensoy** » 03 Mar 2021 17:33

IndraD wrote:Rashmi Samanta who won Oxford SU election and had to resign within a week, has issued a full statement, It appears Hinduphobia is at heart of abuses heaped at her. Matter has escalated to HC London. This is a scary example of how Hinduphobia is sweeping West.

"Hinduphobia" is a nonsense claim. She over-reached (she is, after all, a foreign student) and they reached back into the past. It's all fair in politics, she should have been absolutely prepared for such a rectal examination if she wanted such a visible position.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 03 Mar 2021 18:52

In which case you will be one of very few who believes Hinduphobia is not real cos most of us have faced it. West / White are uncomfortable with polytheism framework. It doesn't suit their ideology. I would like to know if under same conditions Rashmi Samant would have had to resign if she was from Pakistan/ME.

https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status ... 83?lang=en Tulsi Gabbard Hibiscus
@TulsiGabbard
Unfortunately, Hinduphobia is very real. I've experienced it directly in each of my campaigns for Congress & in this presidential race. Here's just one example of what Hindus face every day in our country. Sadly, our political leaders & media not only tolerate it, but foment it.

AshishA · Post by **AshishA** » 03 Mar 2021 19:04

yensoy wrote:
IndraD wrote:Rashmi Samanta who won Oxford SU election and had to resign within a week, has issued a full statement, It appears Hinduphobia is at heart of abuses heaped at her. Matter has escalated to HC London. This is a scary example of how Hinduphobia is sweeping West.
"Hinduphobia" is a nonsense claim. She over-reached (she is, after all, a foreign student) and they reached back into the past. It's all fair in politics, she should have been absolutely prepared for such a rectal examination if she wanted such a visible position.

Well if you see the posts of an Oxford professor who is gleeing about the fact that he used to break Saraswati idols when he was young along with cyberstalking and cyberbullying this young girl, it will become evident that this is infact a vile form of Hinduphobia.

AshishA · Post by **AshishA** » 03 Mar 2021 19:12

IndraD wrote:In which case you will be one of very few who believes Hinduphobia is not real cos most of us have faced it. West / White are uncomfortable with polytheism framework. It doesn't suit their ideology. I would like to know if under same conditions Rashmi Samant would have had to resign if she was from Pakistan/ME.

She would not have had to resign if she would have been from either China or Pakistan/ME because irrespective of what their own do, they will stick with each other and defend their people's actions. The Hindus have to hide their religious sentiments due to the fear of being targeted by Muslims or by Sikhs or by Christians abroad. In contrast, wherever Muslims, Christians or Sikhs go, they will wear their religion on their sleeves and try to cancel anybody who says anything against them.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 03 Mar 2021 19:35

AshishA wrote:Well if you see the posts of an Oxford professor who is gleeing about the fact that he used to break Saraswati idols when he was young along with cyberstalking and cyberbullying this young girl, it will become evident that this is infact a vile form of Hinduphobia.

“#DismissAbhijitSarkar” hashtag trends on Twitter over Oxford faculty’s Hinduphobic rant against Rashmi Samant https://www.opindia.com/2021/03/dismiss ... mi-samant/

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 03 Mar 2021 19:35

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 03 Mar 2021 19:46

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... 49087.html
Caller abuses PM Modi’s mother on BBC show, sparks outrage

Hinduphobia exploding in many ways now! Ofcourse BBC gleeful carrier.

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 03 Mar 2021 22:08

The man is a true sher of the Sikhs. No surprise at all.

What would you do if the handouts were seen to be drying up? There are only so many taxis in India.

AkshaySG · Post by **AkshaySG** » 04 Mar 2021 06:31

IndraD wrote:[

What kind of professor deems it fair game to crawl through a students SM and demean their relatives and parents for their pics and posts ... I can only imagine how warped his mind would be to even think that this post makes any modicum of sense .

Then again he's even tried to absolve the British of any wrongdoing in the Bengal Famine so one shouldn't be surprised at the depths of his depravity

Oxford ,Cambridge and Ivy leagues are full of students from rich middle-eastern families and Chinese businessmen whose views and practices are so anti-west it'd make their head hurt just thinking about it and yet all they seem to want to target is Indian yindoos .

Its about power and money .. They know that if a Muslim student got removed all sort of hell will rain on them both politically and financially while with us its usually never more than a few tweets and some grumbling

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 04 Mar 2021 12:38

The question is he is getting support from the UK system, shows which side the Deep state in UK supports

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 04 Mar 2021 15:21

there is no squeal in British press what so ever, not a single article.

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 04 Mar 2021 16:18

There are minorities and then there are minorities. We are not minorities who are suppose to be protected as per the libarandus. Just like Yazdis. No one really gives a s&&t about us. No one. Reason - We are not united and we are not aggressive in pushing our issues in political arena. When we did we get respect. At least not Conservatives in the UK are somewhat trying to be in the good books of Hindus. Labor was giving a good kick in the back end for their pakiness in the last elections.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 04 Mar 2021 16:56

Yagnasri wrote:There are minorities and then there are minorities. We are not minorities who are suppose to be protected as per the libarandus. Just like Yazdis. No one really gives a s&&t about us. No one. Reason - We are not united and we are not aggressive in pushing our issues in political arena. When we did we get respect. At least not Conservatives in the UK are somewhat trying to be in the good books of Hindus. Labor was giving a good kick in the back end for their pakiness in the last elections.

2 religions which are literally carving up the world are the only minorities, rest are not humans.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 04 Mar 2021 19:33

https://www.firstpost.com/living/resign ... 66821.html

Resignation of Rashmi Samant reveals toxic 'cancel culture' pervading academic institutions in the West

The student has said she is not a 'terrible person' and it was unfair to judge her on old social media posts after she was accused of being “racist”, “anti-Semitic” and “transphobic”.

The cancel culture raging in the West and ravaging all its academic and cultural institutions has been brought into recent focus by an incident involving an Indian student at Oxford University — one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the UK.

Rashmi Samant from Udupi, Karnataka, a graduate student reading for an MSc at Linacre College, had recently made headlines by being elected as the first female Indian president of Oxford University Student Union. Samant, who had received 1,966 of the 3,708 votes cast for the post, had highlighted the need for greater “decolonisation and inclusivity” on campus in her manifesto for the Oxford SU leadership election held on February 11 this year.

Just a few days later, Samant, 22, was forced to resign from her post as OUSU president. She terminated her social media presence and flew back to India after students at Oxford University scanned her old social media accounts and dug up “racist” and “insensitive” posts. Her views on decolonization also came under fire for her refusal “to hold the view that colonisation was a positive experience for the indigenous people of the colonies.”

The Times of India quoted Samant in an interview at the Heathrow airport last month, presumably while returning home, as saying that she was not a terrible person and it was unfair to judge her on old social media posts after she was accused of being “racist”, “anti-Semitic” and “transphobic”. “I do not hate any community… Everyone thinks I am a terrible person and I am not. I have friends in all these communities and I love them. I was a totally different person five years ago. People don’t realise until it happens to them,” she reportedly said.

Samant later announced on Facebook that she was being “cyberbullied” and forced to quit after facing sustained backlash from offended students who would have none of her despite Samant’s ‘open apology’ in student-run newspaper ‘The Oxford Student’.

In a blog post, she wrote: “I wish to ask a question to all who termed me insensitive and racist citing my social media posts of the past. Are you being sensitive when you judge a person’s worth based on social media captions of a non-native English speaking teenager that were posted years before the person formed convictions on issues of race? Let me reiterate this: those posts are not a reflection of my hatred towards communities. They were the posts of a teenager who just had access to the world of social media. I again reiterate my apology to those genuinely hurt for my ignorance but not to those with malicious intent targeted me on ‘insensitivity’.”

Samant also claims that her parents and religion were dragged into the controversy and subjected to hateful messages. “What hurts me the most is that my parents were dragged in the most insensitive manner: their religious sentiments and regional background were insulted in the public domain. The fact that I am a Hindu no way makes me intolerant or unfit to be the President of the Oxford SU.”

A similar story had come to light in 2019 involving physicist Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar, who had completed his masters and PhD from Cambridge University. According to Varsity newspaper, that claims independence from Cambridge University though it is widely perceived to be authoritative, Majumdar, then a vice-president of Graduate Union, was dismissed from his post following an “incendiary blog post” and charged with “gross misconduct for disclosing confidential Union information.”

In a post published in Opindia in January 2020, Majumdar came out with his side of the story. He contested the charge, claimed that he was being subjected to “othering by a clique” and victimised for his pro-India opinion and politics. He narrated a now familiar tale of persecution and bullying by ultra-Left in University space around the West.

Majumadar wrote: “One of the university’s core values is the freedom of thought and expression, and for most of my 5 years of studying and undertaking research there, I have never had an instance where I have felt otherwise with that. It was only when I was elected as a student union officer and leader, that I saw a darker side of the University space. The tragedy of this age often is that of exclusivism and polarisation, particularly around ideologies. This is an age of political binaries: You are either aligned with an ideology through and through, or by association with the organisations or parties or leaders associated with it, or are not. There is no space for anybody who does not conform to the either-or.”

Samant or Majumdar’s experiences are nothing new. In fact, not just students, even teachers are “cancelled” and forced to step down by powerful and perennially offended student unions in prestigious universities in the West, promoting tribalism and stifling free exchange of ideas, the cornerstone of democracy.

The situation has turned so alarming in the UK (not to speak of the US) that British prime minister Boris Johnson has pushed back against this cancel culture and attempt to rewrite British history. According to a last month’s report in Sunday Telegraph, “a ‘Free Speech Champion’ will be given powers to defend free speech and academic freedom on campuses, ministers will fine universities which stifle freedom of speech and colleges or student bodies that try to cancel, dismiss or demote people over their views will be sanctioned in a major Government escalation on the ‘war on woke’.”

The Left is seeing red at the pushback, but the British government’s effort is not unjustified. A report by a British think tank, Civitas, has found that cancel culture is rampant in a third of UK universities and Cambridge and Oxford universities top the intolerance scale where free speech has become an impossible idea.

Daily Express reports that Civitas placed 35 percent of universities in the “most restrictive” category while 51 percent were “moderately restrictive” and just 14 percent made it into the "most friendly" group. Cambridge was joined by St Andrews, Oxford, Liverpool, Sheffield and a number of other top universities on the so-called “red” list.

In the US, another hotbed of thought-policing and deplatforming of dissent, Republicans in Congress have asked House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to host a hearing on “cancel culture.”

Amid these culture wars, the travails of Samant and Majumdar tell us that Indians and Hindus remain the most vulnerable to this onslaught.