Adrian Chaffey

Commercial lawyer with interests in philosophy and architecture.

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

True:

[Richard @ricwe123]

"Anyone who has served in the Israeli Forces in Gaza since October 2023 should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide"

-Chris Sidoti, UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

[Mountain @sharpeleven]

Toynbee has been writing the same article over and over again since the 19 f*cking 70s.

Essentially it boils down to:

“Vote for this Establishment Endorsed Sensible Centrist and this time things will definitely get better…”

The same article, thousands of times, for 50 years!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😩 JESUS CHRIST!!! Cops give a brutal beating on the bridge between Ohio and Kentucky to young people who were protesting against Trump's policies and against the Genocide in Gaza.

Spread this far & wide!!!

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

This photograph shows James Zwerg, a college student from Wisconsin, after he was bęaten by a mob in Alabama for participating in the Freedom Rides.

Following the beating, he lost consciousness and was left unattended for hours as white ambulance crews refused to assist him. He was eventually taken to the hospital by an ambulance designated for Bląck patients. The incident took place in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1961.

At the hospital, Zwerg simply stated, “Segręgation must be stopped. It must be broken down.”

He’s still alive today at the ripe age of 85.
This isn’t ancient history.

cc: History Captain

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

From the outset of his leadership of Labour in 2020, Starmer had worked assiduously to purge the party of its left wing over criticisms of Israel – under the guise of addressing a supposed “antisemitism crisis”.

It hardly came as a surprise, then, that he alienated swaths of the British public with his first foreign-policy test – in Gaza.

In late 2023, as opposition leader, when he had a chance to distance himself from the Tory government’s illegal collusion with Israel, Starmer shocked even sections of his party’s right wing by declaring that Israel’s denial of water, food and power to millions of Palestinians was an act of “self-defence”.

A former human rights lawyer, Starmer was excusing an unquestionable war crime.

The International Criminal Court would later issue an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of crimes against humanity over the starvation blockade of Gaza endorsed by Starmer.

Once in office, Starmer proved no better. He repeatedly denied that the situation in Gaza was a genocide, even though he himself had argued before the International Court of Justice in 2014 that a Serbian attack on the Croatian city of Vukovar 23 years earlier was a genocide. That attack was many orders of magnitude less destructive than Israel’s erasure of Gaza.

Starmer refused even to admit that Israel was committing war crimes in the enclave – not least, because to do so would have required him to stop colluding in those atrocities.

His government continued to sell arms to Israel, and allowed Israeli arms manufacturers such as Elbit Systems to operate factories in the UK to build killer drones for use in Gaza.

British planes transported large shipments of weapons to Israel that helped level the tiny territory, while also carrying out endless surveillance flights over Gaza to supply Israel with intelligence used to obliterate the enclave.

At the same time, Britain provided diplomatic cover for Israeli crimes, including at the UN Security Council, and welcomed Israeli generals and politicians suspected of war crimes.

But most significantly of all, the Starmer government went further than the Conservatives in cracking down on basic and long-cherished rights to speech and assembly to stifle protests against what a consensus of experts concluded early on was a genocide by Israel.

In this regard, Starmer appeared to be extending to the wider public the dirty-tricks, antisemitism smears he had used against Corbyn and his supporters.

In the previous Conservative government, home secretary Suella Braverman had branded anti-genocide demonstrations in London that attracted hundreds of thousands of Britons as "hate marches".

Starmer’s first home secretary, Yvette Cooper, not only continued the theme but recruited Britain’s draconian terrorism laws to further chill the protests.

Journalists and political activists who criticised the government’s complicity in genocide had their homes raided by police at dawn, and faced the threat of up to 14 years in jail for “supporting terrorism”.

Next, Cooper proscribed as a terrorist organisation the direct action group Palestine Action, which targeted Israeli factories hosted on British soil that make killer drones to be used in Gaza.

It was not just the first time in British history that a direct action group had been proscribed. In a related legal first, the judge in the trial of four Palestine Action activists sentenced them this month as terrorists, even though none had been convicted of a terrorism offence or of causing intentional violence.

A popular backlash was inevitable. Thousands of elderly Britons – from vicars and lawyers to doctors and army veterans – took to the streets in protest at an unprecedented assault on civil liberties.

In a clear indication of the deeply authoritarian instincts of Starmer and his government, the police were sent in to arrest the protesters en masse. They now face charges of “supporting terrorism”.

Meanwhile, the government announced it was preparing to scrap the right of many defendants to trial by jury – one of the most important safeguards against the dangers of state overreach.

It was hard not to conclude that the government’s urge to dispense with juries followed from the fact that juries had shown themselves far less ready than judges to convict those caught up in Starmer’s wholesale assault on rights of speech and protest.

This is an extract from my latest article Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics. Find a link to the rest of the article in the reply post ⬇️

[Shutts 🇲🇽 🇨🇼 🇺🇾 🇳🇴 @Shuttsapalooza]

By far my favourite Scotland vs Brazil story is the referee saying “Good luck, may the best team win” to both captains before the game in 1982 and Graeme Souness replying “I fucking hope not”

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The one emotion politicians never have to fake is self-pity.

[Redbridge Independents @RedbridgeIndys]

STARMER: This image perfectly. sum up Keir Starmer and his relationship with the Epstein class. He was their inside man!

A deeply dishonest and fraudulent man. He deserves nothing less than the abject humiliation he suffered today.

[Tom Mills @ta_mills]

Would have thought this is something worth reporting before the PM's fall from grace? Oh well, not to worry.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

One year ago today: JD Vance tells Americans that we're not at war with Iran and would not get into a prolonged conflict because we no longer had "dumb presidents." A year later, Vance is in Switzerland trying to end the Iran War.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Starmer isn’t a ‘decent man’. He’s a nasty liar who has the temerity to now say his greatest achievement in office was scrapping the two child benefit cap, something he removed the whip from his MPs over! He’s comically dishonourable and malevolent.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

How the BBC & Guardian manufactured the worst PM in history

And the sordid reality of dark money & Gaza complicity they’re still trying to cover up:

https://t.co/3iaT8ZLV6g

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Reasons for Starmer out are many

But never forget this one:

11th Oct’23

“🇮🇱 does have that right" to cut off water & power from Gaza 🇵🇸

Support for 🇮🇱 starving children

Netanyahu’s 🇮🇱 partner

Starmer is not a ‘decent man’

He belongs in The Hague.

[Broxtowe Alliance Councillors @broxtoweindys]

Take a bow @MichaelLCrick

You saw in real time what was happening and how it couldn’t last

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

A collection of clips of Labour MP's condoning genocide.
Never forget, never forget.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Keir Starmer's premiership was a catastrophe engineered by the Labour right.

They got everything they wanted - a candidate without politics of his own, control of selections and internal processes, a monopoly on his advisers - and they fucked it into the sun.

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

Pack up your shit & go Keir Starmer. Good riddance to a 2 faced compulsive lying political prostitute. A man who turned Britain into a Zionist police state. No ‘emotion’ when he cut winter fuel or said Israel has right to deny Palestinian children water, food etc but emotional about his kids & wife. Get out.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just absorb this for a moment.

The social media post of Israel's National Security Minister is so genocidal that it violates the rules of X.

Yes, that's right, even in the cesspit of Elon Musk's X.

Yet this remains a state armed by and allied to the West!