Political Thread in memory of David Reid. (R.I.P.)

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...bour-mps-entry

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...bour-mps-entry

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Well done to the Israelis, they have just saved these MPs from putting themselves in a dangerous situation and avoiding any accusations which would certainly have been forthcoming if any harm had come to these two interlopers.
They can't even run our own country so what the hell are they doing going to Israel to stir things up?
Perhaps they should go in a dinghy and receive help from the Israeli coastguard or does Israel not help the boat people like we do?

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

On it goes...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...bour-mps-entry

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Brilliant, they detained and then booted out some EU woman not long ago as well. Israel actually minds who enters their country, unlike the UK, the dustbin of the world. As Sub says, WTF are our MPs going to Israel for anyway, they surely have enough to occupy themselves with our own problems.

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

A BID TO CRUSH THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Yet More Anti-Protest Laws
MORE police power to block demonstrations and jail organisers have nothing to do with protecting worshippers and everything to do with suppressing protest rights.
Government amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill will see individuals who breach police conditions imposed on protests fined up to ?2,500 and demo organisers facing jail sentences.
This shores up repressive measures already deployed by the police to shut down Britain?s huge Palestine solidarity movement. The Met cited the existence of synagogues ?near? planned protest routes to deny them permission on January 18, and again on March 15.
In neither case were the synagogues on the route. In the latter the two cited were over 10 minutes? walk away. In the centre of London or other cities, such sweeping effective exclusion zones could be used to ban almost any proposed route.
Not one of the protests for Palestine since October 2023 has disrupted worship at a synagogue. The Met acknowledges that there has not been a single reported threat to any place of worship connected to the demonstrations.
This is rather a political move intended to shield Israel and its ally, the British state, from criticism over occupation, war crimes and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. It is cheered on by highly partisan bodies such as the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which claims the protests cause ?serious and unacceptable disruption to our communal life,? without specifying how.
The fact that marches may upset people who support or identify with the state of Israel is not intimidation. It is a disgraceful sleight of hand, and a serious threat to the right to free speech and assembly, to pretend it is.
The Starmer government decided in January to crush the mass protest movement where the Tories had tried and failed.
Hence the ban on marchers laying flowers in memory of Gaza?s murdered children at the BBC headquarters on January 18, and the entrapment of march leaders by police parting to allow them through their lines, followed by the violent arrest of chief steward Chris Nineham and over 70 others.
Nineham and Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal were charged with public order offences; over six weeks later, police ?invited? a range of other leading peace campaigners, from Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German to Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament general secretary Sophie Bolt and the Morning Star?s own political reporter Andrew Murray, for interview. This is a bid to decapitate the movement and frighten protesters off the streets; the new amendments will give the state greater powers to punish those who remain defiant.
Nobody should be fooled by government references to the race riots of last August, and attacks on mosques, as part of its rationale. Those attacks were illegal under existing laws, the perpetrators liable for serious punishment already. Ministers are trying to distract us from their real motive, which is directed squarely at smashing the peace movement.
The Crime and Policing Bill itself follows a raft of repressive legislation giving ever greater power to the state to ban or shut down protest, including the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, the National Security Act and the Public Order Act.
Just as Rachel Reeves this week confirmed Labour is retaining and deepening Conservative austerity, Yvette Cooper shows it keeps to the same trajectory as the ousted Tory government in dismantling civil liberties.
It does so because the government serves the same ruling class, which faces the same crisis of legitimacy given falling living standards and growing opposition to war.
Unions and many MPs have begun to revolt at the government?s anti-working-class economic agenda. That needs to be extended to its assault on democratic rights.
As for the Palestine marches: Israel?s renewed war on Gaza makes them as important as ever, and it is their size which has so far prevented their suppression. We stay on the streets.
This article is shared from the link below:
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/.../editorial-yet-more...

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I would hope they've also made it a requirement that the Met put any virtue-signalling Lefties arriving from the north on the first available train to return them to whichever northern sh1thole they originated from.

Orwellian Britain is alive and flourishing and some people either are not aware of it or simply don't give a pfhuck. :blue:

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Originally Posted by sinkov

Brilliant, they detained and then booted out some EU woman not long ago as well. Israel actually minds who enters their country, unlike the UK, the dustbin of the world. As Sub says, WTF are our MPs going to Israel for anyway, they surely have enough to occupy themselves with our own problems.

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The Sun Bed King's lackey and your latest hero Nigel Farage has deserted his post on at least nine occasions since he was elected MP for the seaside resort. Not surprisingly not a single word of complaint from you mon ami when Perma Tan's mate shows up in Miami. ;D

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

Orwellian Britain is alive and flourishing and some people either are not aware of it or simply don't give a pfhuck. :blue:

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As per my lifestyle and feelings of not worrying about anything I can't influence your last five words describe my feelings exactly.
PLenty of folk to worry about what may or may not happen and who can't cope when it does or doesn't happen. Guess who they turn to for help to deal with things? XD

There's no help coming from this Red Tory government mein freund. Tax increases up next. :blue:

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

There's no help coming from this Red Tory government mein freund. Tax increases up next. :blue:

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We know that BT, however, I wasn't talking about government because they turn to us who do things instead of worrying about things and we do our best to help even if it is only advice.

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

The Sun Bed King's lackey and your latest hero Nigel Farage has deserted his post on at least nine occasions since he was elected MP for the seaside resort. Not surprisingly not a single word of complaint from you mon ami when Perma Tan's mate shows up in Miami. ;D

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Sir Nigel of Farage is not a member of the government, therefore nothing he can do about the ship of state drifting onto the rocks. On the other hand, the two returned empties do bear some responsibility for this sh1tshow and their time would be better spent trying to sort it out,
instead of grandstanding and virtue-signalling in the Middle East's one and only democracy.