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LONDON (Bywire News) - An astonishing video created by the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) explaining exactly why they rescue asylum seekers in distress in the English Channel has gone viral on Twitter - and it shows precisely why Priti Patel and the Conservative Party should be truly ashamed of themselves. Earlier this month, the government published the Nationality and Borders bill - a piece of legislation which aims to make it illegal for asylum seekers to enter the UK without permission. Patel claims that, rather than attempting to cross the Channel themselves, asylum seekers should simply use 'safe and legal routes' in order to claim in asylum in the UK. Despite Patel's advice, there is currently no safe and legal route for unrecognised refugees to claim asylum in the UK - a fact that Clare Mosely of the Care4Calais charity eloquently summed up, stating: "If this Government really wanted to combat people smugglers, it would create a safe way for refugees to claim UK asyl...

LONDON (Bywire News) - Tory MP Tom Hunt flew into a fit of rage during a discussion about immigration with Novara Media's calm and collected Contributing Editor Ash Sarkar live on the BBC's Politics Live show this morning. During the heated debate, Sarkar argued that the Tory government's treatment of asylum seekers and refugees was inhumane, and claimed that treating people in this way merely perpetuated the very problem that it was supposed to solve. [BYWIRE_DONOR_BOX] Sarkar brought up the example of asylum seekers housed in “filthy” and "overcrowded" conditions at Napier Barracks - a situation that Priti Patel's Home Office had recently been found to have acted unlawfully over by the High Court: "Making conditions more miserable for migrants isn't really having an effect on either asylum claims or small boat crossings. "We've seen the conditions in Napier barracks, which are terrible: a huge outbreak of Coronavirus, a fire that was set because people were so miserable, and felt so...

LONDON (Bywire News) - A Labour MP has blasted Sajid Javid over his £1,500 per hour advisory job for the major private healthcare investor J. P. Morgan - leading to a "pathetic" response from the new Health Secretary. In September 2020, following his resignation as Chancellor, Sajid Javid took up a highly lucrative second job advising the financial giant, J. P. Morgan. According to the Register of Financial Interests, Javid - who previously worked for numerous financial institutions just prior to the financial crash and before entering politics - pocketed a hefty £150,000 annual salary for working for less than 2 hours a week.   [IMAGE_GALLERY_1]   Speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, the former Shadow Justice Secretary, Richard Burgon, raised the issue with Javid - stating: "The new Health Secretary hasn’t been on the frontbench for a year, but in that time he has been very busy. "Very busy indeed, lining his own pockets, getting £1,500 per hour for his second job, £1,500 for...

Financial journalist Martin Lewis has brilliantly debunked the theory that footballers taking the knee before a game are somehow supporting a "Marxist" movement.

LONDON (Bywire News) - A 'Big Pharma CEO' has been caught on camera saying that he doesn’t want to sell vaccines to poorer countries because there’s no profit in it. Despite the big pharmaceutical companies being predicted to make a staggering $30bn in revenue this year - and handing out a monstrous $26bn in dividends to shareholders - they are strangleholding poorer countries who cannot afford their prices, and they refuse to give up their patents to allow developing nations to produce their own generic vaccines. In addition, the $26bn paid out from multinational pharma companies to their shareholders alone would be enough to vaccinate 1.3bn people - or the entire population of Africa. That is why the People’s Vaccine is urging governments and pharmaceutical companies to sell vaccines at affordable prices. But, as the 'Big Pharma CEO' puts it: “That’s an absolutely terrible idea”. In a Twitter rant after his shocking comments were exposed, the CEO also exposed the astonishing greed o...

LONDON (Bywire News) - The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been ridiculed after referring to critics of the government's Foreign Aid cuts - including numerous Tory MPs such as the former PM Theresa May - as 'lefty propagandists'. Responding to a question from the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Johnson said that people should not listen to the 'lefty propaganda' from critics of his proposed cuts to the international development budget. Blackford initially asked: "Later this week, the Prime Minister will walk into the G7 summit as the only leader cutting development aid to the world's poorest. [...]This is a government on the run from their own moral and legal responsibilities, and on the run from their own backbenchers. "But the Prime Minister cannot hide from this issue any long, and he cannot run from democracy in this house. Will he stand up today and commit to a straight vote in this House on his inhumane cuts, as demanded by the Speaker? "It is a very simple question - y...

In an elegant apartment building in central Warsaw flying a red and white flag from its first floor balcony, a symbol of the Belarusian opposition, remnants of the anti-government media in Belarus are shrugging off a new wave of death threats.

LONDON (Bywire News) - An anti-racism organisation has urged the Conservative Party to suspend one of their MPs following a tweet describing Muslim pro-Palestinian protestors as "primitives". In a now-deleted tweet showing a video of demonstrators clashing with police in London yesterday, Michael Fabricant, the Tory MP for Lichfield, wrote: "These primitives are trying to bring to London what they do in the Middle East."   [IMAGE_GALLERY_2]   Despite immediately receiving criticism for the post, Fabricant initially refused to take it down - and even attempted to justify by saying: "Whether they are Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, their behaviour is primitive and should not be seen in the UK".   However awful these acts (and they are awful), this does not justify this racist tweet.And it is racist. https://t.co/SNrO83Ubui — Miqdaad Versi (@miqdaad) May 16, 2021   Aaaah. The Muslim Council again. The one which said vote Liam Byrne so increased Andy Street’s majority ten-fold.And watch t...

LONDON (Bywire News) - A man has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after a car was driven into a group of pro-Palestine protestors in Nottingham on Saturday. According to Nottingham police, the incident occurred at around 3pm in the Fisher Gate area, with one person suffering leg injuries as a result. A video appearing to show the incident has been shared to social media:   A car drove into people at a Free Palestine protest in Nottingham city centre, leaving a man with leg injuries.A 51 year old man was later arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.I’m sure you heard it on the newspic.twitter.com/TattqUfGRC — Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) May 17, 2021   Gerard Milano, Assistant Chief Constable for Nottingham police, told Nottingham Post: "We’ve arrested a man as part of a live investigation into an incident that happened in Fisher Gate at around 3pm yesterday (Saturday, May 15). "As a result of our ongoing enquiries, we are questioning a 51-year-old man o...

LONDON (Bywire News) - The former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has delivered a blistering rebuke to his successor Keir Starmer - branding the current Labour leader as "weak" for attempting to blame the party's electoral woes on him. In a wide-ranging interview with a new ITV podcast, the Islington North MP said it was "a bit rich" for Keir Starmer "to dump" responsibility for Labour's recent defeat in the Hartlepool by-election, and for the party's disastrous Local Election results, at his doorstep: "I'm big and I'm grown up, and I don't particularly care about what people say, but I think it's a bit rich to start blaming me for stuff that's been done over the past year that I've had absolutely no part of whatsoever, "I do think that dumping on somebody because they're not there anymore is a bit weak, really." You can watch Corbyn's comments in the tweet below:   EXCL: @JeremyCorbyn is not pulling any punches – he says it’s a “bit rich” and “weak” from Keir Starmer to blame him for La...

LONDON (Bywire News) - The BBC have been slammed for their 'disgustingly biased' coverage of the ongoing situation in Israel and Palestine. In his latest video, politics vlogger Samuel K has passionately called out the UK's public broadcaster, and the rest of the Western media, for their "one-sided" coverage of the ongoing occupation. You can watch Samuel K's video above - and a transcript is below: BBC Interviewer Emily Maitlis: "Was Hamas right to respond with rocket fire?" Palestinian activist Husam Zomlot: "Hamas did not decide to evict people from their homes, inside the occupied city of Jerusalem. East Jerusalem is occupied, not according to my law only, but according to your law - according to the UK position, according to the United Nations. An occupation has to be temporary, and it has to respect the rules that govern occupation. Israel has made a mockery of these rules." Samuel K: "I'm absolutely sick to death of the dishonest and totally one-sided media framing of the Israe...

"Just how cosy is the relationship between the media and the Conservative Party? In this video, I'm going to show you that it's very cosy indeed.Most people, especially those who see themselves as left leaning, get the sense that something is deeply wrong with our media. Since the rise of Brexit and Boris Johnson, feelings of distrust have only gotten worse - with just 28% of people in the UK saying they trust the news. And, quite frankly, that's a huge problem. 

So, the question then becomes, what's causing this problem?

Well, ideally in a healthy democracy, you'd want to have a mainstream press that calls out corruption where it sees it; holds the powerful to account over illegal wars; and exposes lobbying exactly when it happens. But, probably most importantly, you'd want a mainstream press that isn't concentrated in the hands of a few billionaire media business moguls.

Unfortunately, in the UK today, our press is the furthest away from this idea. Just three companies own and co...

LONDON (Bywire News)- It’s safe to say that Boris Johnson has had better weeks.  On Monday it was revealed that the prime minister had made highly offensive comments about preferring to “let the bodies pile high in their thousands” than impose a third lockdown on the UK. Yesterday, Bywire revealed that the Tory donor who had paid for the renovation of Johnson’s Downing Street flat founded a firm who had benefited from public contracts up to the value of £120m. And today, just before PMQs began, the Electoral Commission announced they were launching an official investigation into the source of funding behind the PM’s flat renovations - with the potential for criminal proceedings and Johnson being forced to resign possible outcomes.   The Electoral Commission has just announced that it will be investigating the funding of Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat refurbishment.This is a potentially huge development - and, if found guilty of breaking the law, the PM will almost certainly be f...

Candace Owens: "This person [George Floyd] was high out of his mind. He asked to be put on the ground."Samuel K: "Okay Candace, so did George Floyd also ask Derek Chauvin to kneel on his neck for nine fucking minutes? I mean what kind of argument is she using here? The white supremacist grifter Candace Owens is unfortunately back in the news again after she made very clear how unhappy she was the former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Now I just want to warn you that the video of her that I'm going to be reacting to is very disturbing and infuriating. She uses everything within her being to deny the brutality and guilt of Derek Chauvin in order to keep a narrative that police officers are never in the wrong, and it's always the fault of the black victim. So, yeah, buckle up."Owens: "It's the wrong verdict, in my opinion, and I think that it's indicative of the fact that we now live in mob rule. This is mob rule." Samuel K: Candace, like other c...

"Here’s an important question that most people don't seem to ask: if we as a country can get furious over the greed of football club owners that turn their back on fans to make themselves more money, why can't we use that same anger towards the greed of other companies?Britain has been ripped off by greedy businesses and businessmen for decades - in healthcare, housing and even taxes. But why should it not be acceptable in football, but acceptable in those other areas?Take for example healthcare. During the pandemic the government decided to work with the likes of Serco for a tracing app. They spent over £37 billion pounds of our taxpayer money on contracts for this. I just want you to think about how much money that actually is.To put it into context: the cost of all NHS workers salaries in 2017 was £47 billion pounds. What's more, our government allowed a small number of greedy companies - who just happen to have close relationships with senior Tories - to charge extortionate fees f...

Britain is launching a search for antivirals to treat COVID-19 with the aim of having at least two effective at-home treatments by the end of the year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.

A close ally of the Russian opposition leader has been sentenced to community service for trespassing.

By Luis Jaime Acosta ARAUQUITA MUNICIPALITY, Colombia - Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia to escape clashes between the Venezuelan military and irregular armed groups have accused soldiers of abuses, including killing civilians. The flow of refugees, estimated at 4,000 by an official in Colombia's Arauquita Municipality, began on Sunday after Venezuela's National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) launched an offensive against illegal armed groups in La Victoria, a Venezuelan town across the Arauca River from Arauquita. Venezuela said it is investigating accusations that members of its military committed abuses, including detaining and killing civilians, as well as looting and burning homes.   [IMAGE_GALLERY_1]   "They raided our house and took everything from us. When they arrived they broke everything, the doors; they entered and took everything I had in the house, the workshop," mechanic Jose Castillo, who arrived in Colombia with his pregnant wife and 12-year-old daughter on Friday, tol...

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Hell hath no fury like a breakfast TV presenter scorned, and a new viral video shows why.