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That clip of Pochin honking out her toxic racism with no statistics or even rudimentary analysis to back up her nasty, curtain-twitching beliefs… is a large part of why our politics is in such a mess. Viciously useless people being made MPs by voters persuaded to think that hatred will fix things.
Palestinian self-determination is an inalienable right, not a bargaining chip. While children starve to death, Keir Starmer refuses to expel the Israeli ambassador, impose full trade sanctions, enforce a full arms embargo or end surveillance flights. It’s Labour’s genocide too.
This is a PR stunt that lets Israel’s genocide continue. Meanwhile David Lammy won’t expel the Israeli ambassador, end all trade, implement a full arms embargo, stop surveillance flights or UK training of Israeli soldiers. Empty gestures fool no one. He belongs in The Hague.
We’re heading to court tomorrow for the first step in our challenge against the EHRC’s transphobic guidance. Together with two trans people and one person who is intersex, we’ll be asking the court for permission to bring our case. We’ll let you know as soon as the court decides.
Barclays joins FTSE 100 peers in warning against bank tax hike. They all welcome corporate bailouts, subsidies; publicly funded infrastructure, low wages for workers; deregulation; erosion of worker/consumer rights; soaring exec pay. Corporate demands disguised as govt policy. It is class war.
This needs shared far & wide! Reform DO NOT care about women & girls. 1 in 5 reported crimes is domestic abuse Yet, Reform controlled, Kent Council voted down a motion on preventing violence against women & girls This letter from multiple domestic abuse organisations @reformexposed.bsky.social
Thank you to all those who came to Westminster for the #UniteForTransRights Mass Lobby - it was powerful hearing from my trans constituents about their experiences. With transphobia on the rise I'll keep standing up for the rights of trans people everywhere 🏳️⚧️✊ @transsolidarity.bsky.social
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the proscription of Palestine Action as “disproportionate and unnecessary”, warning it risks creating “a further chilling effect” on protest and dissent. A full judicial review has now been granted and if successful, the ban will be overturned.
I had the honour of meeting Odeh Hadalin in Parliament, where he spoke with strength about life under military occupation in Umm al-Khair. Yesterday, he was murdered by an Israeli settler. Apartheid, ethnic cleansing & genocide are Israeli state policy. Rest in power, Odeh 🇵🇸
6.23m patients await 7.36m hospital appointments in England; hard to see a GP, but junior doctors can't find a job. 30,000 doctors applied for 10,000 specialist training places. Won't encourage people to incur debts to become doctors. Privatisation of services wasting money. archive.ph/6eorX
This is horrifying. A U.S. citizen violently taken down by federal agents in a grocery store parking lot — despite telling them he had an ID, a Social Security card, and a birth certificate. His family says #AngelPina was hospitalized and suffered a a concussion. x.com/AttorneyCrum...
“Trans people still have human rights protections in this country, and at Good Law Project, we plan to defend them.” Read our full update on today’s decision for a two-day hearing in November in our challenge against the EHRC’s transphobic guidance: goodlaw.social/z5bw
Dept for Work and Pensions (DWP) finally releases excerpts of secret reports, show its errors contributed to the deaths of universal credit claimants. Serious repeated failings by DWP staff Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts, remove money. What will errors do?
Soon we will regularly have 50C in Europe, and then not long after that 50C days in the UK. By which time it will be 60C in Turkey And what do you think these billions of people living in these death ovens will do? They will leave, and you really will have a immigration crisis
The NY shooter wasn’t targeting the NFL. The corporate propaganda factory known as the MSM is lying. The shooter took out a CEO of #Blackstone and the MSM is trying to cover it up. Blackstone has been buying up single family homes and increasing the prices astronomically. #FreeLuigi
"The right wins when people believe that a hero is coming to save them. If the left is going to win, we have to provide an alternative: one that empowers people through collective struggle, rather than the false promises of powerful men." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...
Govt's £100bn price for nationalising England water is bogus £100bn calculated by OFWAT: Value at privatisation X annual rate of inflation + investment; repeated each year. The answer does not represent any value. On this basis a car bought for £10k in 1989 would have £50k value. Utter nonsense
Cutting 20p off fuel duty blows a £9.1bn hole - nearly the entire home office budget. Total uncosted, populist wank. And scrapping half-built HS2? No refunds for concrete bridges. It’s smog, spin, and economic fantasy. Farage is a batshit crazy idiot. #ukpilitics
One day left to join the Green Party and vote for bold, urgent change. We need climate action. We need to confront power, excess wealth and stand with the oppressed. Proud to have the backing of climate justice leader @mikaelaloach.bsky.social 🌱✊🏽 Backzack.com/sign-up/
We stand by what we’ve said: the EHRC guidance is transphobic, against the law, and must be stopped before it causes more harm While the legal process carries on, people suffer the consequences every day. But we’re ready to fight the case in November with everything we’ve got
River Action in legal action against UK Minister for failing to act over Thames Water, taking it into temporary nationalisation as required by law. Failure of govt transparency and accountability. What is govt policy? TW has more than 187 criminal convictions, fleeces customers.
Quite wonderful an attack article on our vision for the party is resulting in loads more sign ups! Turns out lots of people want a Green party relentlessly focused on climate & nature whilst recognising inequality is at the heart of all our problems. Backzack.com/sign-up/
'Behavioural’ responses to DWP policy: weaponising the need to survive Minister suggests benefit cuts will spur ‘behavioural change’ – a claim critics describe as cruel, ignorant, and deeply stigmatising to people with disabilities By Maria Rosewood @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
When it comes to the Online Safety Act, the whole porn thing is a trojan horse for the real agenda: give the State unprecedented snooping powers over British citizens. It's what they've been lusting for ever since the internet started. And now the handwringing technophobes are handing it to them.
“The proscription order is likely to have a significant deterrent effect on legitimate speech.” – Justice Chamberlain We’re glad to see that permission has been given for a judicial review of Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group:
Why doctors are really on strike – and what it says about Britain youtu.be/SXOG65PXTuM?... Everyone says the doctor's strike is about pay. And yes, doctors in the UK are being grossly underpaid. But this strike is about something deeper. It’s about whether our society is even working anymore.
Recognition of statehood and self-determination for the Palestinian people is not a bargaining chip for the British government, nor is it a PR stunt to absolve them of guilt in their complicity in the Gaza genocide. It is an unalienable right that must be unconditionally adopted immediately.
2024 Keir Starmer tweeted about his Govt's partnership with US Blackrock. October 2023, Blackrock ranks among the largest investors in arms companies pivotal to Israel’s genocidal arsenal. Starmer knew about Blackrock's investments in the unfolding genocide in Gaza. substack.com/@europeanpow...
Interesting to speak to former Conservative Deputy PM Lord Heseltine for this latest edition... "Oswald Mosley marched against the Jews in the 1930s. Enoch Powell made the 'rivers of blood' speech in the 1960s. And Nigel Farage represents a new incarnation of that degree of prejudice & bitterness"
The israeli occupied media cares about stoking hate for Palestinians for Israeli propaganda purposes than the truth. This is the same MSM “journalists” and “reporters” who watch over 200 of their colleagues get murdered by Israel and said nothing. Zionism is racism. www.threads.com/@yasharali/p...
NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.
I wish Western leaders had taken Applebaum's accurate view of Putin seriously. "I never thought he was a great reformer. He has changed strategies; in the early 2000s he found it useful to be friendly with the West, but he always had Russian imperialist ambitions. Many people chose not to see that."
Farage’s hyperbolic claims are designed to heighten & sharpen tensions rather than address them. For a party that aspires to govern & claims to be in the mainstream, fuelling a sense of insecurity & anger in this way is deeply irresponsible. #NeverVoteReform #NeverFarage
Reform MP Pochin pull "facts" out of her arse live on air: 🗣️ "These attacks target white British women..." 🎤 Ferrari: "How do you know that?" 🤷♀️ Pochin: "Well, we don’t… that’s just what I believe." Utter bollocks dressed up as policy - Reform in a nutshell. #ukpolitics
Keir Starmer did not recognise Palestine – and that’s unforgivable youtu.be/GeJZmDuTxPQ?... Keir Starmer has not recognised Palestine. Despite media spin, he’s placed conditions, granted Israel a veto, and ignored the suffering of Gazans. This is not foreign policy. It’s appeasement.
On Monday Awdah Hathleen, one of the Palestinian activists behind the Oscar-winning film No Other Land was killed by a settler who has been harassing Hathleen's village, Um al Khair, for months. Read our visual investigation into West Bank settlers here: ig.ft.com/west-bank/