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A piece of sewer pipe found in the street has been acting as a prosthetic leg for 10-year-old Rateb since he lost the limb in an Israeli strike.

Rateb, a 10-year-old from Gaza, lost his leg, his mother and his brother during Israeli bombardment. pic.twitter.com/VVcARkejMq

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 4, 2026

The Israeli Jews, and those supporting the Israeli state in countries such as the UK, carry a karmic burden of guilt which, sooner or later, will have to be expiated.

This is unsustainable. Burnham needs to resign. https://t.co/1Ziif4DBPB

— ali (@ali__samson) July 4, 2026

Resign from what, though? So far, Burnham is neither Labour leader nor Prime Minister. He may become both soon, but I doubt that he will last very long or be very (if at all) popular.

That opinion poll translates into a Commons with about 295 Reform UK MPs (over 30 short of a bare majority), 98 Lab (weak official Opposition), 71 Cons, 53 Greens, 52 LibDems, 45 SNP, 12 Plaid [etc].

So a Reform UK minority government, only able to do anything via the votes of the Con MPs. Also, the Cons, Labour, LibDems , Greens, and SNP all having between 40-100 MPs.

A useless Parliament of that sort might help to pave the way for a social-national upsurge, whether electoral or, more likely, otherwise.