El Fattah claimed British citizenship through his mother's line in 2021, being allowed to do this due to a case before the ECHR in 2019 that said that the UK had to treat such people as citizens (I assume that, before then, you could only rely on the father's line). The Conservatives duly enacted domestic law to this effect.
The point is that you don't have to meet any sort of conditions regarding character to be granted citizenship in these circumstances.
However, all those Conservatives (James Cleverly and Alicia Kearns for example) and Labour politicians supporting his release from prison for posting "fake news" did not think to look at what he posted on social media to get jailed. Nor did they think to look him up on google, or they might have noticed this:
"Abd el-Fattah was nominated for a European human rights award, the Sakharov Prize in 2012, but this was withdrawn following the discovery of a tweet from 2012 in which he called for the murder of Israelis."
As for all the luvvies supporting him, I would expect nothing less, as they seem to support the wrong cause completely consistently, without wearing out their single brain cell doing a bit of due diligence.
We shouldn't be surprised at the politicians either. David Lammy was "unaware" he needed a fishing licence to fish. Rachel Reeves was "unaware" that she needed a licence to let her property, despite campaigning for such a scheme in her own constituency. Angela Rayner was "unaware" that she couldn't sell her share of her Manchester property to her child's trust and avoid the higher rate of stamp duty.
All these "mistakes" were easily found just by a quick google. I just googled "higher rate stamp duty", as soon as I heard that her minor child owned part of the Manchester house. The very first entry took me to a clearly expressed government publication that said that a parent is treated as having an interest in a house if her minor child has an interest in it, including via a trust. Yet I had to bang on in the Torygraph for days before they finally got the message.
Why is it, after all the lies to which we are constantly subjected, from "saturated fat causes heart attacks" to "we have 96 months to save the world" (in 2009), to "save granny; get vaccinated," people are so ready to lap up whatever tosh is out there, without any due diligence, so long as it supports their world view?
Absolutely Jeremy. They always claim to have no idea about the rules they are imposing on the rest of us, and what’s more, when they break those rules, their punishment is always non existent, or at least much less than we could expect for the same infraction.
This Sir, is a triumph. Exemplary writing, superb wordsmithing 👌
Of course they don't want to stop the illegals coming in. Potential voters don'tcha know? That's what they think.....but with the number of "independent" I.e. Muslim candidates cropping up, I doubt it....so they are hopelessly naive as well as thick.
I dunno, is it time to mandate IQ and common sense tests for potential mps? Insist that only those who HAVEN'T had a university education can stand for parliament?
I hear Egypt are considering revoking Alaa's citizenship so it looks like we're stuck with this individual. Who had never previously been to Britain. I give up, I really do.
Thanks Toffeepud. I think you’re 100% correct about those votes splintering off to form their own sectarian power bases. As you say, it’s already happening right?
The problem with IQ tests for MPs is that they would insist the tests also contained a ‘social responsibility module’ or ‘diversity component’ or some such nonsense to weed out the wrongthinkers….
I believe Starmer is stalling until Egypt revokes Alaa's Egyption citizenship so that he can then say he can't revoke his British citizenship because that would make him stateless. If he did it today it would not apply but he doesn't want to because he is as anti-British as Alaa. How is we ended up with PM who hates us so much?
Could be something in that. Answer - he's a Fabian. How is it still socially acceptable to be a member of the Fabian Society? They do not have our best interests at heart....
The part about Mahmood's 'new rules' actually extending asylum seeker timelines from 5 to 20 years is the kind of detail that gets buried in headlines. I watched a similar thing happen in Canada where 'tough on immigration' policies ended up creating permenent limbo status for thousands of people who just stayed anyway. What sticks with me here is how the entire machinery of governemnt was mobilized to bring one person into the country while NHS wait times and infrastructure decay dont seem to warrant that same level of coordination. Its less about Abd el-Fattah himself and more about what gets prioritized when everythng is supposedly urgent.
I suppose we have with this an Al-Fattah Moment when we really do see things more clearly. The people in charge, the people who run the country and form its opinions, do actually believe in the world of Imagine. (I was about to say, do actually come from another planet, but checked myself in time). No borders, no religion, nothing to fight over, we can all be one happy world family. The more new citizens the better, and the more radical, so much the better as this makes the mix more flammable and therefore more manageable. Either that, or maybe Keir is a closet (a man of many closets?) right winger who believes that progressive politics need to be exposed fully and tested to destruction to raise the collective patriotic spirit from its slumber and restore Britain to its historic destiny.
Hi Martin. Wow I detest that song, what a dirge. Actually, tbh, I’m not much of a Beatles fan at all, quite like the George Harrison stuff. HNY to you !!
Multimillionaire heroin addict. Can't stand the Beatles. Absolutely loved it when Macca married that one legged model with the dodgy past. "Lady Mucka" was the headline in The Sun 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 there's no fool like an old fool.....
> The people in charge, the people who run the country and form its opinions, do actually believe in the world of Imagine.
Of course there is no one magic moment at which Western Civilization started to decline, but at least symbolically I've considered the release of Imagine to be that moment -- the point at which imagination -- wishful thinking, political correctness, virtue signalling -- started to replace reality, prudence and logic. We Imagined that:
-Womxn and men are identically competent in all respects.
-The races are exactly the same.
-All cultures are equally wonderful and fully compatible with each other.
-A gay relationship is a marriage
-Criminals (unless they are white) are just hurt people hurting people.
-The government can give us free stuff.
and finally:
-Sex is a social construction and I am whatever sex/gender I say I am.
We tend to assume that the problem is a vacuous lack of belief. But they do strongly believe - that all structures, constraints and boundaries are repressive and regressive and need to be demolished. Peace and harmony will reign. All ends justify the means, and there is no contradiction between socialism, crony capitalism, islamism, permissiveness and autocracy. Lay out in a line and you can feel the heat rising from below.
"Starmer is a ruthless authoritarian, who seems desperate to amass power, but only so he can offload as much of it as possible to foreign institutions, international bodies, and most importantly, the EU." Perfectly said, LSO. He is the Patron Saint of Failing Upwards.
Hollow-headed Lammy!! Much too complimentary IMO. I've come to the conclusion that the entire Labour government must be an April Fool's joke in an alternate universe. Otherwise, how can any reasonable people tolerate them?
Seriously though, thank you for a year of brilliant wit that has helped soften the ghastliness!
Thanks Alexei, and thank you for all your support this year-it’s very much appreciated. Yes, you’re right. I keep hoping this is all some crazy dream, which six year old me is having in 1972.
Glad you felt moved to fire off one more tirade in 2025, LSO! So many rage-inducing characters paraded here, I don't know where to start, so I will leave it alone :) ........Oh no, sorry, I have got to mention Saint Olivia and her endless talking-head preaching assaults. I would be quite happy to see her and all the other Equity treasures replaced with AI lookalikes at this stage !
Have a prosperous 2026 sir, and thanks for the top-drawer writing this last year.
El Fattah claimed British citizenship through his mother's line in 2021, being allowed to do this due to a case before the ECHR in 2019 that said that the UK had to treat such people as citizens (I assume that, before then, you could only rely on the father's line). The Conservatives duly enacted domestic law to this effect.
The point is that you don't have to meet any sort of conditions regarding character to be granted citizenship in these circumstances.
However, all those Conservatives (James Cleverly and Alicia Kearns for example) and Labour politicians supporting his release from prison for posting "fake news" did not think to look at what he posted on social media to get jailed. Nor did they think to look him up on google, or they might have noticed this:
"Abd el-Fattah was nominated for a European human rights award, the Sakharov Prize in 2012, but this was withdrawn following the discovery of a tweet from 2012 in which he called for the murder of Israelis."
As for all the luvvies supporting him, I would expect nothing less, as they seem to support the wrong cause completely consistently, without wearing out their single brain cell doing a bit of due diligence.
We shouldn't be surprised at the politicians either. David Lammy was "unaware" he needed a fishing licence to fish. Rachel Reeves was "unaware" that she needed a licence to let her property, despite campaigning for such a scheme in her own constituency. Angela Rayner was "unaware" that she couldn't sell her share of her Manchester property to her child's trust and avoid the higher rate of stamp duty.
All these "mistakes" were easily found just by a quick google. I just googled "higher rate stamp duty", as soon as I heard that her minor child owned part of the Manchester house. The very first entry took me to a clearly expressed government publication that said that a parent is treated as having an interest in a house if her minor child has an interest in it, including via a trust. Yet I had to bang on in the Torygraph for days before they finally got the message.
Why is it, after all the lies to which we are constantly subjected, from "saturated fat causes heart attacks" to "we have 96 months to save the world" (in 2009), to "save granny; get vaccinated," people are so ready to lap up whatever tosh is out there, without any due diligence, so long as it supports their world view?
Absolutely Jeremy. They always claim to have no idea about the rules they are imposing on the rest of us, and what’s more, when they break those rules, their punishment is always non existent, or at least much less than we could expect for the same infraction.
Happy New Year to you!
And to you too, LSO.
This Sir, is a triumph. Exemplary writing, superb wordsmithing 👌
Of course they don't want to stop the illegals coming in. Potential voters don'tcha know? That's what they think.....but with the number of "independent" I.e. Muslim candidates cropping up, I doubt it....so they are hopelessly naive as well as thick.
I dunno, is it time to mandate IQ and common sense tests for potential mps? Insist that only those who HAVEN'T had a university education can stand for parliament?
I hear Egypt are considering revoking Alaa's citizenship so it looks like we're stuck with this individual. Who had never previously been to Britain. I give up, I really do.
Thanks Toffeepud. I think you’re 100% correct about those votes splintering off to form their own sectarian power bases. As you say, it’s already happening right?
The problem with IQ tests for MPs is that they would insist the tests also contained a ‘social responsibility module’ or ‘diversity component’ or some such nonsense to weed out the wrongthinkers….
Not if I'm in charge 🤣 I know, in my dreams, in my dreams 🤣
I believe Starmer is stalling until Egypt revokes Alaa's Egyption citizenship so that he can then say he can't revoke his British citizenship because that would make him stateless. If he did it today it would not apply but he doesn't want to because he is as anti-British as Alaa. How is we ended up with PM who hates us so much?
Could be something in that. Answer - he's a Fabian. How is it still socially acceptable to be a member of the Fabian Society? They do not have our best interests at heart....
I have previously stated that having a PPE degree should automatically bar anyone from standing for parliament.
“…every single one of his tone deaf government’s economic policies has the same effect on growth, as me imaging Yvette Cooper in a bikini.”
🤢🤢🤮
And on which grim vision, a very Happy New Year, Mr LSO! Looking forward to more coruscating demolitions of our country’s insane “leaders” next year.
Thanks Paul, and thanks for all your support in 2025-have a great New Year. All the very best 👍
"Les Dawson impersonator" - I had to change my underwhackers before finishing the rest of the article. ROFL!
Woof! The rest was equally biting and funny. If only a Reform MP could use this as a speech in the house of Commons!
Ha ha thanks Patrick!
Ha, yes! I am an atheist, but if I’m wrong, my consolation will be that Alaa will have to live forever in Islamic heaven with his mother.
The part about Mahmood's 'new rules' actually extending asylum seeker timelines from 5 to 20 years is the kind of detail that gets buried in headlines. I watched a similar thing happen in Canada where 'tough on immigration' policies ended up creating permenent limbo status for thousands of people who just stayed anyway. What sticks with me here is how the entire machinery of governemnt was mobilized to bring one person into the country while NHS wait times and infrastructure decay dont seem to warrant that same level of coordination. Its less about Abd el-Fattah himself and more about what gets prioritized when everythng is supposedly urgent.
Exactly this Neural.
Amazing that so many government departments had various levels of staff prioritising this issue yet not one of them checked his social media?
A superlative composition. You should be proud.
🙏
Happy New Year LSO!
I suppose we have with this an Al-Fattah Moment when we really do see things more clearly. The people in charge, the people who run the country and form its opinions, do actually believe in the world of Imagine. (I was about to say, do actually come from another planet, but checked myself in time). No borders, no religion, nothing to fight over, we can all be one happy world family. The more new citizens the better, and the more radical, so much the better as this makes the mix more flammable and therefore more manageable. Either that, or maybe Keir is a closet (a man of many closets?) right winger who believes that progressive politics need to be exposed fully and tested to destruction to raise the collective patriotic spirit from its slumber and restore Britain to its historic destiny.
Hi Martin. Wow I detest that song, what a dirge. Actually, tbh, I’m not much of a Beatles fan at all, quite like the George Harrison stuff. HNY to you !!
“Imagine no possessions” - sang the multimillionaire John Lennon sat at his grand piano in his mansion 🤦🏻♂️
Multimillionaire heroin addict. Can't stand the Beatles. Absolutely loved it when Macca married that one legged model with the dodgy past. "Lady Mucka" was the headline in The Sun 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 there's no fool like an old fool.....
I remember my favourite (rude) Heather Mills joke from back then Toffeepud.
‘Paul McCartney went down on one knee. And afterwards, asked her to marry him.’ 🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A dire song that is as deep and detailed a summary as you need of our elite culture running our country.
> The people in charge, the people who run the country and form its opinions, do actually believe in the world of Imagine.
Of course there is no one magic moment at which Western Civilization started to decline, but at least symbolically I've considered the release of Imagine to be that moment -- the point at which imagination -- wishful thinking, political correctness, virtue signalling -- started to replace reality, prudence and logic. We Imagined that:
-Womxn and men are identically competent in all respects.
-The races are exactly the same.
-All cultures are equally wonderful and fully compatible with each other.
-A gay relationship is a marriage
-Criminals (unless they are white) are just hurt people hurting people.
-The government can give us free stuff.
and finally:
-Sex is a social construction and I am whatever sex/gender I say I am.
We tend to assume that the problem is a vacuous lack of belief. But they do strongly believe - that all structures, constraints and boundaries are repressive and regressive and need to be demolished. Peace and harmony will reign. All ends justify the means, and there is no contradiction between socialism, crony capitalism, islamism, permissiveness and autocracy. Lay out in a line and you can feel the heat rising from below.
Yes Martin. Ultimately they are all true believers, their main belief being that they are, in all ways, better than the rest of us.
Another belter to round off an excellent year! Thanks LSO 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
May your 2026 bring you the recognition you deserve - and I’ll trade your Yvette Cooper in a bikini for my David Lammy in a thong! 😧 Happy New Year!
Eeeuurgh!
Seconded.
Thanks Ady! And Happy NewYear to you too!
No! No! I confess to it all but not that!
"Starmer is a ruthless authoritarian, who seems desperate to amass power, but only so he can offload as much of it as possible to foreign institutions, international bodies, and most importantly, the EU." Perfectly said, LSO. He is the Patron Saint of Failing Upwards.
I believe he wants the power but none of the responsibility when it all goes wrong.
Hollow-headed Lammy!! Much too complimentary IMO. I've come to the conclusion that the entire Labour government must be an April Fool's joke in an alternate universe. Otherwise, how can any reasonable people tolerate them?
Seriously though, thank you for a year of brilliant wit that has helped soften the ghastliness!
Thanks Alexei, and thank you for all your support this year-it’s very much appreciated. Yes, you’re right. I keep hoping this is all some crazy dream, which six year old me is having in 1972.
Glad you felt moved to fire off one more tirade in 2025, LSO! So many rage-inducing characters paraded here, I don't know where to start, so I will leave it alone :) ........Oh no, sorry, I have got to mention Saint Olivia and her endless talking-head preaching assaults. I would be quite happy to see her and all the other Equity treasures replaced with AI lookalikes at this stage !
Have a prosperous 2026 sir, and thanks for the top-drawer writing this last year.
Thanks Leaf! And thanks for all your support, Happy New Year for 2026!
Odd? “He is a member of the managerial class who simply can’t manage. A leader with no discernible leadership skills.”
Wallah man, he’s the very incarnation of managerialism perfected.
> has the same effect on growth, as me imaging Yvette Cooper in a bikini.
Cruel.
And the day after Ms. Bardot died. Have you no scruples sir?
The bigotry bit got me, nice 👌🏻
Nothing much to complain about today. Sorry, Mr LSO. Happy New Year though!
Hi Ragged!! Happy New Year and all the best for 2026. 🎉
Brilliant.