Tory MP sacked from Government job for urging PM to back Gaza ceasefire

Sacked for suggesting that the UK encourage people to take a long break from killing each other. This is truly the worst of possible timelines.

Sounds like something like you'd hear an authoritarian regime doing. I get the idea of backing the party line, but this seems a step too far. Discourse should be encouraged not shunned.

A tory with balls, good for him.

What did we expect from the nasty party? Of course they support Israel’s right to bomb civilians and starve children.

Sounds like he's a man of principle. What's he doing with the Tories?

From Sunak's meeting with Netanyahu it's clear that Sunak is Israel's poodle.

Conflicted by this.

One part of me thinks it's ridiculous that he has ultimately been fired for holding his opinion, and an opinion that many (myself included) hold.

The other part understands why he had to go, and whilst I don't agree with it, he must also have understood what it meant to publicly disagree with the party on this one. I can respect that.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Tory MP Paul Bristow has been sacked from his Government job after breaking ranks to publicly urge Rishi Sunak to push for a “permanent ceasefire” in Gaza.

He has said that Palestinian civilians are facing a “collective punishment” as a result of Israel’s siege and airstrikes campaign in the wake of Hamas’s bloodshed.

Much has been made of the splits in Labour over Sir Keir Starmer’s position on the conflict between Israel and Gaza but the sacking is evidence of Tory divisions too.

He wrote that he is “deeply briefed by the heart-breaking and devastating humanitarian crisis” unfolding in Gaza, having spoken with constituents and meeting with the Peterborough Joint Mosques Council.

The MP said he welcomed Mr Sunak calling for what he has termed “specific pauses” in the fighting to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, home to more than two million people.

But Mr Bristow added: “A permanent ceasefire would save lives and allow for a continued column of humanitarian aid (to) reach the people who need it the most.

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Gaza was given to Arabs for self rule and determination in 2005, all Jews left Gaza, even Jewish graveyards were dug up and moved, it was theirs to do with as they liked.

They've spent the last 18 years making into a terrorist Disneyland with a dozen Islamofascist terrorist organizations with the stated goal of killing Jews and destroying the state of Israel, they've fired hundreds of thousands of missiles into Israel indiscriminately targeting civilians, and launched countless cross borders attacks against Jewish civilians, including one that caused the largest loss of Jewish life in any single day, anywhere, since the Holocaust on October 7th.

They were given Gaza to live in freedom and self determination, they used it to kill Jews. They were warned. They chose to ignore the warnings.

These acts of terrorism were perpetrated by the entire Gazan community, they voted for Hamas, and allowed Hamas to rule their government for the last 17 years, Hamas and all the other Islamic terrorists in Gaza are not outsiders, they were born in Gaza of Gazans, they were raised in Gaza, they were educated in Gaza, they married and had children of their own in Gaza, their Parents, teachers, mosques, hospitals, are all in Gaza, from which they use to hid and store weapons to attack Jews, Hamas, PIJ and all the other Islamic terrorist in Gaza ARE Gaza, there has been no uprising in Gaza, there have only been attacks on Israel. This is what Gazans have supported and sacrificed for in every way they possibly could.

And now it's here. I do hope they enjoy what they've worked generationaly to achieve. There will be no ceasefire this time.

There is no state of "Palestine", and the way the Arabs have acted for the last 70 years, there never ever will be.