Parliament should reverse the decision to proscribe Palestine Action urgently before we see large numbers of elderly people in particular being dragged before our courts. Classifying protest through direct action as terrorism brings Parliament & our judicial system into disrepute
I have been reappointed as a @lpoolcouncil member on @MerseyFire & Rescue Authority for the 26–27 municipal year.
I would like to thank my own colleagues, as well as members of @LiverpoolGreens & Liverpool @liberal_party for supporting me to continue serving on the Authority.
The sentencing of young direct action protesters for “terrorism”, a grave crime for which they were never charged is a monstrous miscarriage of justice, a carbuncle on the face of a formerly admired face. The face of British justice.
Today at the Merseyside Fire & Rescue Authority AGM, the Progressive Alliance grouping was formed by some of the more progressive opposition groups, Lib Dems, Green Party and Your Party/Liverpool Community Independents. 1/5 🧵
equality, fairness and investment in prevention. The Progressive Alliance is determined to ensure that these achievements are protected and that the progressive direction of the Authority is not undermined or weakened.
This is a positive day for progressive politics... 4/5 🧵
on Merseyside. By working together through the Progressive Alliance, we can provide effective scrutiny, champion the interests of our communities and continue to support the policies that have delivered excellence for residents across our region. 5/5 🧵
Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.
They killed his mother too.
Sam was only 7 months old.
They murdered a mother. And her infant.
Over 15,000 people have signed our petition demanding the UK government investigate the activities of British nationals who have served for Israel amid the Gaza genocide.
You can add your name here:
👉 declassifieduk.org/sign
"There is no systematic evidence of any public body engaging in structural bias against white people, but of course there is against black and brown people"
@schneiderhome talking sense (and facts) on #GMB
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage is repeatedly heckled by MPs as he calls on Keir Starmer to end "two-tier policing"
Starmer: "His response has been to appeal for rage. That’s his response to a father who lost his son & asked for this not to happen... it shows exactly who he is"
#PMQs
What troubles me most is the apparent erosion of a principle of the quote “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” That idea once seemed foundational to a healthy democracy. Now, even that foundation is being undermined
Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.
Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.