Tories 2010 "Labour have left us a mess, so we've got to impose austerity on you" Labour 2024 "Tories have left us a mess, so we've got to impose austerity on you" Since 2010 the UK richest 1% have tripled their wealth & now own more (£2.8tn) than 70% per cent of the population

Queue one of those Downfall videos with Starmer as Hitler saying “we’ve still got Mason, he’ll tweet one of his long threads explaining why Burnham winning would upset the bond markets”, with McSweeney sweating, saying “Mein Führer… Mason is in Makerfield canvassing for Burnham”

Rob Del Naja from Massive Attack was bang on when he said the proscription of Palestine Action would "go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history." Now the fitting-up of the Filton 4 yesterday can be added to that as well.

So after 15 years of benefits claimants being squeezed, scapegoated, tormented and vilified, while the rich have trebled their wealth, Andy Burnham wants to … squeeze benefits claimants

There are lots of people on here drinking the security services Kool Aid over the sentencing of the Filton Four. They believe the judge was right to overturn the jury's decision to convict four anti-genocide activists of criminal damage and make it a terrorism offence instead, overturning centuries of legal precedent. Why? Because, they claim, the four activists broke / smashed / shattered a police woman's spine. But that obviously can't be the explanation because three of the activists had nothing to do with that incident and yet they were convicted as terrorists by the judge anyway. Even Samuel Corner, the activist who was convicted over this incident (which left the police woman with a minor fracture, according to the medical authorities who testified), shouldn't have been sentenced as a terrorist for it because that is not what the jury, which heard the actual evidence, decided. The jury convicted Samuel Corner of grievous bodily harm *without intent*. The prosecution had charged him with GBH *with intent* because they needed that as his conviction to build a public mood in support of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. If Corner could be presented as having entered Israel's Elbit weapons factory with intent to commit violence, then the implication would be that the other activists were in on that plan – a conspiracy – and the government would be off the hook of violating fundamental legal norms by proscribing Palestine Action. By stripping out intent, the jury pulled the rug from under the government's feet. Judge Johnson's task was put the rug firmly back in place by riding roughshod over the jury's decision and sentencing them as terrorists anyway. The timing couldn't be more convenient. On Monday, the Appeal Court will be deciding on the government's appeal against the High Court declaring its proscription of Palestine Action unlawful. If you're peddling the "But they smashed the back of a police woman" line you've been fed by the Daily Mail and BBC, it's because that is exactly what the government needs you spouting as it upends our age-old rights to jury trials, as it stamps out an honourable tradition of direct action dating back to the Suffragettes and before, and as it gives itself cover for continuing complicity in a genocide. Stop being a cuck. Don't fall for this psy-op.

The rule of law becomes meaningless when corrupted in such a way- meanwhile the perpetrators of the most horrific crimes, walk free.

Superb critique of the degeneration of the World Cup under the current FIFA regime. @jeremycorbyn theguardian.com/commentisfre…

It’s a Trumpian World Cup for racism — why don’t those who condemned Qatar 2022 say so? My piece for The Guardian on the blatant hypocrisy and double standards on full display. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Witty, warm, wise and on the right side of history. If you haven't seen it yet treat yourself.

The things killed for Israel list just keeps on growing: International law (dead) The meaning of the word terrorism (dead) British justice (dead)

He never really left.

Without comment.

Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire is not the mark of success, rather the unforgivable failure by those in power to build fair economic policies. Billions of people on Earth are the victims of an unequal and exploitative system, trapping them in poverty and, in many cases, leaving them without access to the means of survival. For one person to reach such obscene levels of wealth whilst many don’t even have shelter, food or water lays bare the grotesque consequences of the global economic system and political inaction to tackle inequality through distribution of wealth.

From Al Jazeera English. 'UK Court Sparks Outrage After Palestine Action Activists Get Lengthy Prison Sentences.'

Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of. Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time. A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.

Free the Palestine Action four being harshly sentenced with a "terrorism connection"! Opposing genocide is a foundation of humanity, not a terrorist cause.

The sentences handed to four young activists for taking direct action at an Israeli arms factory are completely disproportionate and wrong. They've been sentenced for a "terrorist connection" they were never charged with. A clear miscarriage of justice and dangerous precedent.

Part of tonight’s Channel 4 News report on the utterly disgusting stitch-up of the Palestine Action trial. I notice the far-right are happy about it, which I suspect was part of the government’s motivation for interfering in the trial. Everything they do is to please them.

Unlike Streeting & Burnham, Corbyn speaks for millions who want peace AND spending on people, not bombs "I don't support Russia in Ukraine, I want to see an end to that war, which drives more arms spending, & cuts in health, education, housing and rising poverty & unemployment"

The sentences handed down to Palestine Action activists today are a dangerous affront to justice and without precedent in the British legal system. They must be overturned.

Today Europe’s draconian new #asylum regime takes effect, turning the right to seek asylum into a machinery of rejection, detention and deportation. To every person targeted by this cruel regime: you’re not alone. Their borders may grow more brutal, but so will our resistance 1/3