Four hundred and seventy-four people were arrested yesterday for holding up placards indicating that they oppose genocide and the actions of those who support it.
They were accused of being terrorists.
The vast majority were put on immediate bail. In itself, that makes a mockery of the accusation of terrorism. By definition, terrorism is so serious that nothing but a custodial sentence could be justified.
These people think genocide is wrong. So should we all. But apparently, our government does not. Our government is still openly supporting it by supplying arms and assistance to the fascist regime in Israel.
The people who should have been arrested for supplying that support include Yvette Cooper, who said of yesterday's protests:
Freedom to protest is a cornerstone of our democracy and we protect it fiercely.
That is a blatant lie.
Worse, she is making the law look ridiculous. No one denies that Palestine Action caused criminal action to planes recently. And no one is saying they should not be charged for that. They knew the risk they took. But their crime was no more serious, and might be seen as considerably more moderate than that of the Suffragettes, of whom it has been reported:
Shortly before 4am on the morning of 11 April 1913 the fire brigade was called to the Nevill Athletic Ground in Tunbridge Wells, where the cricket pavilion was ablaze. “The fire was discovered by the groundsman in charge of the ground, who lives near, and who had lately been instructed to be vigilant in watching the place,” reported the Kent & Sussex Courier. Firefighters could not save the building, which had been used to store a large quantity of tarred netting, basically an extensive collection of conjoined candle wicks. Nearby, they found a photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst and according to some accounts several copies of the suffragette newspaper Votes for Women. Within hours papers were reporting a “suffragist outrage”.
It was not an isolated incident. In the same year railway stations, golf clubhouses, boat and tennis clubs, newspaper offices, the homes of uncooperative MPs and even the tea house at Kew Gardens were targeted.
Cooper has publicly supported the Suffragettes' achievements, won, as she would have it, through acts of terrorism. Her hypocrisy knows no bounds. Or rather, it has got bounds: when it comes to support for illegal Zionist genocide, no criticism is allowed.
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The suffragettes poured acid on several golf courses.
They knew how to annoy the upper class.
Have a good day.
Also Lord Lever’s bungalow above Rivington. The suffragette responsible first checked to ensure nobody was inside.
and we should not forget that about the this time, Sir Edward Carson in Ulster was organising his volunteers to oppose Home Rule and in 1914 his Ulster Volunteer force smuggled in 25,000 rifles from Germany.
He had lots of support from Conservatives and Unionists in GB.
Palestinian Action looks quite tame in comparison.
“Freedom to protest is a cornerstone of our democracy and we protect it fiercely, as long as we agree with the protesters’ message.” There – fixed it for her.
This is ridiculous where voters morally need to make a citizen’s arrest of its Labour MP’s in order to support the Arms Trade Treaty which the UK has signed. Citizen’s arrest is still legal for an indictable offence. Doubtful, however, that breaking such a treaty is an indictable offence and there’s the rub as Shakespeare might say!
Two things the government can never run out of –
Money
Hypocrisy
With over 500 suspected “terrorists” loose, can we sleep safe in our beds?
I live in fear that an 84yr old retired lady vicar, or a plastic surgeon or a nurse may creep up and confront me with a primed ready-to-be-read cardboard placard.
“CONFISCATE THE CARDBOARD!”
“SNATCH THE SHARPIES!”
(all so we can keep selling weapons to a rogue state to support war crimes, ethnic cleansing, murder and genocide)
Some of us remember when there was terrorism taking lives on the streets of the UK and around the world. This current excuse for a Home Secretary is insulting the memory of every victim of real terrorism, by this farcical legislation and its ridiculous and shambolic enforcement.
MMT says governments can’t go bankrupt. Financially that’s true, but i say that our government has been morally bankrupt since it took office, and the current moral deficit is unsustainable.
When Cooper leaves the Home Office, her successor will find a note on her desk saying, “Sorry, no Morality left”.
MPs still taking the Labour whip are complicit in war crimes.
When they draw their pay at the end of this month, they should look on it as the “proceeds of crime” (war crimes).
Indeed Labour really ought to rename itself as “The No Money or Morality Left Party” right?
One of those arrested was an elderly, totally blind man in a wheelchair. Being arrested for terrorism!
What fools LINO are – nasty and dangerous too – but mainly total asshats.
There was a 93 year old lawyer who couldn’t go, so she’s put a poster up in her window and sent a photo of it to the police, hoping to be arrested.
There was a group of people sitting in the middle of the protest with placards saying Quakers against Genocide. It was noticeable that the police skirted them.
I note the Guardian stops short and fails to condemn Starmer yet again for not stopping arms supplies to Israel even though it tells us in the following article that Germany has done so. The Guardian used to have moral probity in many areas not any more!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/08/the-guardian-view-on-israels-gaza-takeover-plan-a-destructive-act-that-must-be-stopped
It’s a very long time since the Guardian had any moral probity. Except for George Monbiot it would rank with the Daily Mail.
I have no doubt that the Suffragettes – the women who were setting bombs and fires – would be considered terrorists under modern legislation, and the organisations supporting them would be proscribed.
And in fact the WSPU called themselves terrorists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign#Classification_as_terrorism
It is a debatable whether the violence in 1912-14 – mainly against property, but made the voting reforms in 1918 and 1928 arrive any quicker. The violence was directed mainly against property, but some people were killed and more injured. There is at least some evidence that their militancy turned some more moderate supporters against them.
I taught the struggle for women’s votes. ( and for one syllabus taught a few lessons on the Irish Famine of the 1840s) The Suffragists founded by Millicent Fawcett, renounced violence. They tend to be forgotten.
They still exist as the Fawcett Society, promoting gender equality.
It was the contribution of women in the First World War which was probably the decisive factor though people forget that in any decade a number of voters die and new ones qualify. it is not just a matter of people changing their minds.
In 1918 a third of men had no vote but after the mass mobilisation of the war, they could not be denied. When that was proposed the arguments of lack of education or property could no longer be deployed against women, though the vote was only given to those over 30.
A third of men could not vote mainly because they were dead from fighting fascism.
The loss rate was nothing like that high, overall
Was the first world war about fascism?
No. More like fading feudalism.
I saw lots of pictures of women – some quite elderly – sitting in the back of police vehicles or being restrained by burly policemen.
I am at a loss as to explain exactly what has been achieved and I don’t think that I am the only one either. I think the public are on a collision course with the government – corrupted as they are.
I would have been among those women had circumstances not prevented it.
Just the sort of demonstration I used to love!
Kinda wish the arrest count had hit thousands, it would made it obvious how flimsy this law and this government is. The power would hate the signal: dissent’s alive, and they would have real struggle to police it away. If it didn’t hurt people who rely on me, I’d be there getting nicked too.
Amidst this dystopian nightmare there are signs of cracks appearing in the corridors of power. The head of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir has openly criticised the Gaza occupation plan and (according to Craig Murray), senior RAF personnel have expressed ‘extreme dissent’ at RAF spy flights over Gaza from RAF Akrotiri. How long before Senior Met officers rebel over being ordered to arrest elderly and disabled citizens for peacefully holding up placards?
I think this is where the cracks will become apparent, especially in Israel.
This weekend, I heard a very pro-LINO YouTube blogger explain with a serious and straight face, that the RAF flights over Gaza served two purposes: to enable the British government to observe what was happening in Gaza, and to see if the holding places of the hostages could be seen. He also claimed that the people protesting and arrested in Parliament Square were being anti-British.
As you can judge, I therefore judge Phil of A Different Bias to be – at the point where it matters – a clearly useless commentator.
As a former cop may I use this quote. “Police officers are an essential part of the social fabric of communities they serve, but without the trust and confidence of the public, the police will be seriously limited in their ability to do their job” (Rosenbaum 2005). In yesterday’s case, and in others in regard to these protests, I wonder what rank and file officers think about being ordered to make arrests for these alleged offences. Because, if these demonstrations continue, as seems likely, then the confidence of the public in the police will be seriously erroded, and they will be seen merely as agents of a increasingly authoritarian Government, intent on suppressing free speech.
Much to agree with.
“I wonder what rank and file officers think about being ordered to make arrests for these alleged offences”
Perhaps how much overtime they have made? I was corresponding with a Chief Constable back in the 2000s about the public’s eroding cofidence in the police.
I’d suggest many/most? of the public now regard the police as either a) “the enemy” b) incapable/unwilling to address problems in the community – car theft, bike theft, vandalism etc.
Instead, the plods of London (& the ones shipped in) become political police, enforcing stupid laws by politicians representing the interests of the Israeli state. Arguably, said plods were working for the Israeli state & its interests, whilst being paid for by ………..the people they were arresting and the millions that think this gov needs to go.
My advice to the UK plods: want to regain credibility? (you have none with me btw) refuse to police any further demos supporting the palestinians – that said – perhaps overtime is too important? you tell me.
“Arguably, said plods were working for the Israeli state & its interests, whilst being paid for by ………..the people they were arresting and the millions that think this gov needs to go”.
Apparently you can’t argue that because expenditure is not funded by taxation! If you tell me otherwise I’ve got to go back to the drawing board after days of hurting my brain with unfamiliar material.
Jeremy Corbyn highlighted the disingenuous way Yvette Cooper manipulated the vote to proscribe by grouping together three entirely separate organisations in one motion so that to vote against one was to vote against all was one of the most outrageously and blatant examples of political bullying in modern times. She brought the House of Commons voting system into disrepute. Furthermore, by including an organisation that sprayed red paint on some planes alongside groups like ISIS brings the law into disrepute. Is she really equating the 474 people arrested yesterday with groups that murder and maim (for that is what she has done)? Her actions are so disproportionate that she has shown that she lacks the judgment that someone in her position ought to possess. She is a disgrace and she should go, not just from the government but also from Parliament. She won’t of course because she is a prime example of today’s arrogant, detached and dictatorial political elite. Venal politics at its worst.
Good God! Starmer and his cabinet cronies will stop at nothing including disengenuous legislation. How in Starmer’s case do you explain being a human rights lawyer and not actually understanding human rights? Must have been in it for the money, accepting £107,000 worth of freebies would suggest that!
Even worse for me, back in 1999 I shelled out £35 on his book on European Human Rights Law book which he wrote for the Legal Action Group. The short bio at the front describes Starmer as having “extensive experience of litigation before the European Court of Human Rights”. I want my money back!
As a ‘human rights lawyer’ nothing Starmer has done and is doing makes sense, until you add the corporate part.
There is a huge difference between a ‘corporate human rights lawyer’ and a ‘human rights lawyer’…
I cannot add to your erudite and passionate comment except to say that Cooper is a disgrace to the Human Race.
When over 450 mainly older, respectable. law-abiding citizens are arrested on “terrorism” offences, the government’s position really has reached reductio ad absurdum. The UK population all know that, but this terminally obdurate, genocide-complicit, government ploughs on as usual.
According to Craig Murray’s reporting, even the Government’s own barrister in the judicial review proceedings admitted that the red paint did not affect operation of the aircraft. It’s not as if there were any danger of explosion, fire or malfunction. So it was simple criminal damage. ( which at a reported cost of £7m to fix, suggests that somebody is making a killing out of it). Calling it “terrorism” just makes the government look silly.
These are PFI owned planes.
Those are PFI repair prices.
I find it impossible to believe that a group so easily broke into a secure site. It was a brilliant final straw for the government to proscribe the group though. I think there were some dirty tricks here.
The government would claim it can no longer afford to protect its vital assets.
I think the whole proscribing of Palestine Action and the inevitable furore is a bit of a dead cat. The really serious issue is how PA were able to break in to a high security airfield in the first place and then have a tour around without any intervention by military security personnel. Were they asleep? To my knowledge this question hasn’t been put to Yvette Cooper and it should be.
I spent 15 years as a farm vet working a 25 mile radius round Salisbury. Porton Down CDE, RAF Boscombe Down, RNAD W Dean, RAF Chilmark weapons dump, Netheravon Camp, RA Larkhill, Nether Wallop Army Air Corp. Security was “relaxed”, even when doing work on MOD land in the Army ranges round Stonehenge. Things tightened up a little when the Provos firebombed Netheravon barracks 7/3/1980 but not a lot.
I was raised on RAF Stations, and security was almost non existent, we ran wild!
The weapons sites of course, were more secure than the barracks and ranges, as equipment was more important than troops.
Secondly, I would be most surprised if PA wasn’t infiltrated by undercover “police”, so these attacks could have been known about in advance, or even encouraged. It has happened in the past after all, and is now well documented, and the state hasn’t exactly got more liberal or tolerant since those days.
In my experience almost all NGOs are penetrated by the security services after a while. I even got to know who they were within the tax justice movement. It was not by chance that John Christensen and I were hosted from the organisations that we established.
Maybe it was a PFI fence.
I didn’t read the details at the time. Why are the planes thought to need repainting at all? Was their new colour on danger of distracting the pilots?
As usual , the noisy, passionate yet entirely peaceful 50-100 thousand who walked for the thirtieth time – this time from Russell Square to Downing Street completely ignored by BBC and all media. And, again as usual, It was observed by very few police – the odd two or three every few hundred yards. These demo police were very relaxed – again as usual. There was an illuminated sign at the start warning that any expression of support for a ‘proscribed organisation’ could result in arrest.
There were thousands of flags and banners but none had ‘Palestine action’, or even the word ‘action’. People were obviously taking the risk of arrest seriously.
The contrast in Parliament Square could hardly have been greater. It seemed almost designed to promote chaos and attract ‘police vs demos’ violence’ media
attention. There was no cordon around the static placard demo so the police’s main effort was to hold back the press of observers shouting ‘shame’ as they pulled out the elderly and wheelchair bound ‘criminals’ one by one and hauled them into vans.
A few hundred yards away tucked beside St James Park were many many more police vans – some of the ‘territorial support’ semi military sort.
So hundreds of police and infrastructure mobilised in response to a few hundred people sitting down with placards, and only a tiny effort to control the hundred thousand trying to peacefully persuade our government to stop assisting genocide.
The lesson is, you have to break the law to be noticed or engaged with.
Thanks
And noted
Looking across today’s reporting of the arrests there is a visual divide between the choices of picture editors looking to suggest chaos and possible disorder at what was highly organised and peaceful protest. If our elected Government was wanting international headlines, they got them. From a distance the protest is more likely to look like one against the criminalization of nonviolent activism, the risk of silencing critical voices in democracy, and the erosion of rights that are both protected in law and essential to a free society. All British values. Right?
When will they change the law again?
The establishment and political establishment and the upper echelons of the police and other institutions oppose justice now. The rank and file are like the legionnaires of old, doing a job as best they can because they have bills to pay and wives and children to feed and clothe. I don’t blame them, I save my ire for those in power who when called out blatantly for continuing injustice and arresting 100s of regular people for speaking out against an outrageous and brutal injustice, a genocide for all to see, double down and further entrench their evil and injustice. Morally and spiritually, our leaders are dead to justice and any kind of proportion. I have largely reserved my views on the Israel-Palestine situation for a number of reasons. But now I must speak.
I want the British state however that manifests itself and the political establishment to change course, here and around the world, to repent of their amorality and injustice and to do the right things. It may just save the world.
We need someone or a number of courageous people to stand in the breech to condemn the evils we see all around us, and simply speak the plain truth without favour or fear irrespective of their careers or personal provisions or future.
Anyone?
I’m really surprised Yvette Cooper went along with this. I don’t think much of her politics, but I always thought she was an experienced, seasoned and ambitious politician with a very strong sense of self-preservation. She also (coupled with some Ed Balls’ statements) indicated that she’s interested in taking over Labour after Starmer goes. After this I can’t see any future for her in Labour long-term, even as an MP.
If the ban’s lifted later on in the year, she’ll have to resign as Home Secretary. She won’t want to do it, but pressure will be immense and Starmer will be very happy with her as a main culprit. There’ll be thousands off lawsuits for unlawful arrests. Even if the ban isn’t lifted, she just made mockery of anti-terrorism laws. As protests will continue, there’ll be thousands of ‘terrorists’ on bail. Which is just ridiculous.
Photos and videos of elderly ladies handcuffed and being thrown into police vans. Women on the ground being held by a bunch of policemen three times their size. All this coupled with reports of babies dying of starvation. What was Cooper thinking? TBH, I don’t think either Johnson or Sunak governments would’ve gone for this. Even German CDU (with all the history) is less pro-Netanyahu than British Labour. It’s simply unbelievable.
There’s another aspect to this – Northern Ireland. Unionist politics there is staunchly pro-Israel, Nationalist pro-Palestinian. NI is being policed by PSNI – which consists of over three quarters of PUL (Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist) members, although CNR (Catholic, Nationalist, Republican) community’s got plurality in NI. There were arrest of members of CNR community over pro-Palestine protests, while PSNI did nothing during anti-immigrant protests and parades with the insignia of proscribed Loyalist organisations. People I know there told me that the situation regarding this is extremely tense and could easily boil over if CNR arrests continue.
Labour have dug such a deep hole with this that I really don’t know how they’ll climb out of it.
Labour is definitely losing control of the Zionist project.
I know all that money Israel has pumped into the Starmer government and they screw it up with their heavy handiness!
Of considerable concern although rarely discussed is that proscription of a group for painting something or as basic as the petty vandalism carried out by a member opens the door to the possibility of proscription of pretty much any form of direct action group no matter the cause. Then allowing for the arrest of completely peaceful non direct action of supporters of that objective, the gentleman arrested for merely holding a sign of a published piece in Private Eye an example.
Employing the words so popularised by those wishing to deny support to the marginalised this seems the start of a very slippery slope.
For what it’s worth I wrote to Yvette Cooper when her dystopian law was put through Parliament and specifically wrote about the Suffragette movement, calling her a hypocrite. To read her comments yesterday in which she thanks the police and then justifies her proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group because they are a threat to British society makes me feel sick and angry. True terrorism is what the fascist Israeli regime are doing to the entire Palestinian population and this government continues to support their actions. Shame on them
Much to agree with.
“True terrorism is what the fascist Israeli regime are doing”
Quite. And yet, if those people had sat holding signs saying “I support genocide, I support the IDF”, how many would have been arrested? Almost certainly none, because those statements represent the Labour government’s position.
Correct
At least the memes pushed by government sockpuppets have declined: they were RAF planes, serious damage, PA supporters assaulted guards efc, all lies. The later memes are the old ‘we have security evidence we can’t reveal’ bollix, well known from the Blair/Iraq era.
When I was a teacher I operated on the assumption that in any given class there would be a group of good, motivated children who were desperate to learn and would never, ever misbehave. There would also be a group of likely scallies who needed an eye kept on them. The rest were in the middle and could go either way, depending on how you handled them. If you ever got to the point where the middle ground was misbehaving and you had to sanction the whole class you were getting something wrong and needed to rethink. This is where Yvette Cooper seems to have got herself. A 70 plus buddhist yoga teacher of my daughter’s acquaintance was arrested yesterday. If Labour are losing people like that they are getting things badly wrong. It is perfectly possible that the government knows something that they have not shared with us, but I doubt it. Political activists can be an embarrassment and a nuisance to governments. If they commit criminal acts the law is there to deal with them, but in randomly labelling people as terrorists or supporters of terrorism Cooper has just made herself look foolish. She should rethink before it is too late and she has the whole class in uproar.
Very much to agree with.
Simply….very succinctly put. Hear hear!!
It is getting very ridiculous. Seems to be lots of 80+ distinctly middle class ladies and doctors/retired doctors being arrested. Good on them for being prepared to do this, but how long can this go on and how can it possibly be seen as a good use of a scarce police resources? The priorities of this government totally mystify me and I had previously thought better of Yvette Cooper.
Any suggestions as to how long this charade can carry on before the government has to admit defeat and reclassifies Palestine Action?
The perceived threat to people of working age is real enough – a conviction for supporting a proscribed organisation would make finding a job very difficult and in some professions would lead to instant dismissal. Cooper and Starmer know this and so do the protestors who are turning out not just for themselves but also on behalf of their children and grandchildren.
This is going to be Starmer’s poll tax. He will have to go just like Thatcher had to.
This a why retired people are so involved, I suspect.
I hadn’t thought of that, but I’m glad they are standing up for what is right. If it brings Starmer done all well and good. I remember the poll tax riots and was a single person living in shared houses suddenly presented with what felt a massive bill having previously had my rates paid by the landlord.
As someone working in the public sector now and who worked as a nurse through the Thatcher years, I’m shocked how little people seem aware of the state of our public sector and how bad it’s getting. Staff are being laid off and there are very few jobs for the newly qualified. The current government are both incompetent and don’t seem to care.
The UK government repression hit its first big problem yesterday.
It couldn’t “lock them up” because it lacked capacity.
So (alleged) “terrorists” were bailed. Hundreds of them, still ⁶with access to cardboard and marker pens which horrifically are still on sale, even to CHILDREN!
Can police raids on terrorist weapon caches be far away? (Shops selling marker pens, & cardboard packaging companies beware, because Cooper is coming for you.
Should I write to my MP to complain about:
Terrorist pensioners walking the streets in their hundreds…
Cardboard and marker pens on open sale in the high street, even to children… ?
Even worse, in September children will return to school where they will have access to terrorist weapons (cardboard, marker pens and highlighters) and even writing lessons, paid for by the Dept of Education!
For the sake of the children, this must STOP!
We shouldn’t be teaching them to write if it exposes them to this terrorist behaviour.
(I think there is a place for ridicule and humour in protest.
Politicians, especially authoritarian pompous ones, do not like being ridiculed)
🙂
I quite often have plain paper and pens in my rucksack. Does that now mean I’m ‘going equipped’?
Oh yes
That’s vey dangerous
On that basis I shall report W H Smiths for supplying terrorist weapons. More seriously, Starmer and Cooper are looking increasingly idiotic by persisting with this obstinate misguided policy.
Agreed
This government are a corrupt embarrassment to this country.
I think the fact that they lumped the proscription of Palestine action in with two other very dangerous groups is indeed shocking and should never have been allowed. Why did the speaker even allow this?
Plus Yvette Cooper keeps mentioning the violent attacks carried out By PA.
I haven’t seen or heard the evidence of violent attacks on people, has anybody else seen any evidence of this.
I would not consider damage to bombs and drones as violence but possible criminal damage.
Plus the reason the Government used terrorism laws was to ensure that trials took place without Juries, who would probably have acquitted them.
Finally I support the right of the Palestinian people to self determination, and the ability to choose their own leaders
I am both incandescent with rage, and deeply terrified.
Incandescent on behalf of those brave souls arrested, and because the whole sorry mess should never have reached this crazy point. Terrified because of what might happen if nothing is done to restore sanity. Not just the Government’s support for a regime intent on mass murder, but the chilling effect it will have on British democracy too.
Much to agree with
I’ll quantify it by adding my tuppence worth, fwiw.
I was walking in an old once Norman hunting ground near Chester the other day. It’s called Delamere forest. It was not allowed for the English peasants or anyone not Norman to hunt there, on pain of death or severe penalties. Now it’s a rather nice walk and a protected reserve.
In similar fashion, we see partial democracy and the roll out of increasingly authoritarian measures from an increasingly authoritarian and dangerously close to fascist police state that persecutes those calling for justice in the UK and around the world, whilst our political and other elites do whatever they like, enrich themselves at our expense, make laws to benefit them and their various cabals, and use the police and the notion of law and justice to increasingly become lawless and to act without any kind of justice.
The British Empire was not built in ‘a fit of absent mindedness’, the excuse much beloved of the upper middle classes and those who dominated proceedings and made incredible fortunes, it was a series of conquests, brutal wars, thievings, global exploitations, genocides and famines that we’ve basically whitewashed in our very selective British history. Incidentally, I have an Irish ggrandfather who escaped the Irish Famine only to die many years later in a workhouse.
We have to challenge these and many other hypocrisies and I would say exactly the same if the Palestinians were murdering Israelis in exactly the same fashion, or anyone else for that matter.
When people are being arrested for holding placards and calling out what seems to be genocide in all but name, something has gone seriously SERIOUSLY wrong.
These are very dark spiritual and immoral times we are in. It is only the regular people who speak the truth whilst our leaders everywhere are all various shades of liar, charlatan and hypocrite. I can put it all no better than that.
As the Bible warns solemnly, woe to those who swap good for evil, and evil for good. We are seeing this in plain sight now.
“Police have captured the mastermind they believe is behind the zero terror attacks carried out by Hamas UK. It is feared the unnamed suspect came up with the words on all the signs that we’re not allowed to repeat. He was thought to be days away from developing a slogan that makes fun of Yvette Cooper”.
I’m quoting Laura from Normal Island News, whose satire frequently strays into hyperbole and gives me a chuckle in these desperate times. I recommend her blog on substack https://www.normalisland.co.uk
Thanks for the link I especially liked the following from the archive:-
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/its-now-terrorism-to-protest-against
What more can be said there isn’t a Labour Party any more just a Kamikaze Bully Party. Let’s hope Corbyn and Sultana get their skates on and put a morally decent party into play which slams Starmer and his associates at every opportunity for lack of morals and plain incompetence!
You are so right, please keep up the fight
Overnight e-mail exchange with one time friend YC, currently failing her probationary year as NQHC
Y: Sorry, not to be in touch. I have been incredibly busy dealing with unruly pensioners. Who would have thought it? Whatever happened to cruises and bingo? Clearly if they can afford train fares to London they have far too much money. I have spoken to Rachel about the triple lock and the pensioners bus pass. That will teach them to stay at home and concentrate on their knitting.
S: Do not think this will help. Please call for advice.
Hm, perhaps I was a bit premature in hoping the police would rebel at arresting pensioners.
Here’s Netanyahu’s own definition of terrorism: it’s the ‘systematic and deliberate’ targeting of civilians for political goals. Who’s the terrorist then…?