Dirk Gorman # Socialist🌹#I stand with Corbyn

Hates Tory party with a passion, avid book reader,likes Springsteen, Ronnie James Dio, CCR, Runrig dogs & Man Utd, though not necessarily in that

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

The problem isn’t welfare @AndyBurnhamGM

It’s extraction.

The welfare state is magic self perpetuating.

The problem isn’t welfare.

The welfare state was one of the greatest engines of prosperity ever created: healthier children, educated workers, security that allowed people to innovate and take risks.

The problem is extraction, an economy where wealth flows upwards and away from the communities that create it.

A society cannot cut its way to prosperity if its productive foundations are being hollowed out.

[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

Absolutely 💯

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

You thought we just forgot about Grenfell?

Those screaming at hotels are those who’d be most at risk if Farage cut building regs so his billionaire donors could profit.

Under Reform, it’ll happen again.

9 yrs on, nobody jailed. Fucking criminal. https://t.co/AvhUuySo4X

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Londoners are rightfully concerned that an event promoting land confiscation & destruction of homes is due to take place - so I put this question directly to the Mayor today. 

I welcome his strong condemnation. But condemnation is not enough, this event must be cancelled.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump tried to imprison 6 Democratic Senators for making a video that was critical of him.

He just lost every single case.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport Trita Parsi for criticizing the war on Iran. They're actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.

It's the same war on the conscience that saw the empire persecute Julian Assange, crush pro-Palestine demonstrations on university campuses, investigate peace activists for bringing aid to Cuba, and dramatically ramp up the suppression of free speech to silence criticism of Israel.

In a healthy society, a person of conscience would thrive while a sociopath would be shunned and marginalized. In western society it's the exact opposite: people of conscience are sent to prison, and sociopaths are made president of the United States.

That's what you get when you live under an empire established on and driven by sociopathic values. The agenda to dominate and control the entire human population is evil, because it can only be accomplished through nonstop war, militarism, propaganda, deception, and tyranny.

That's why the truth-tellers are branded traitors, the anti-genocide demonstrators are branded anti-semites, and the peace activists are branded terrorists. We live in a backward dystopia with backward values, so the good are beaten down while the wicked rule the world.

[Brexit Buster @BrexitBuster]

Here’s Darren Medhurst (36) another Southampton Farage rioter who has just been jailed for three years, three months. ‘Concerned citizen’ Medhurst has 51 previous convictions for 96 offences, including handling stolen goods, burglary and shoplifting. A parasite, NOT a patriot.

[The National @ScotNational]

LATEST: The UK Government has refused to comment on the findings of a French government report stating that an Israeli firm attempted to meddle in the Scottish parliament elections

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Amnesty International officially warns the UK is setting a terrifying precedent by sentencing Palestine activists as terrorists.

The British establishment is criminalizing moral convictions and destroying the right to protest just to protect the Zionist regime.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.

Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard says the ethnic cleansing and annexation of the occupied West Bank are not the actions of a few extremist settlers, but part of a state-backed project.

She’s calling on the international community to boycott Israel as violence escalates.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ And just like that, Epstein / Trump completely VANISHED from the media.

But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump RAPED and threatened to KILL children.

Lets make this viral again & again 👇👇👇

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property."

Please RT until this is both the 1st & last time.

Thank you.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

🚨 🇮🇱 THIS IS MASSIVE

An ISRAELI CYBER FIRM just got exposed for running a GLOBAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE OPERATION across five countries, simultaneously.

Read that again.

The moment journalists called BlackCore for comment, the company DELETED ITS ENTIRE INTERNET PRESENCE

This is what a ROGUE STATE does when it can’t win the argument.

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[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

The 1960s apartheid govt of South Africa labelled the ANC as terrorists and used a compliant judiciary to suppress their activists and supporters. Today's British govt uses the same tactics against Palestine Action and its supporters.

Here's a photo of Judge Quartus de Wet who sentenced Nelson Mandela to life in prison, alongside Judge Jeremy Johnson who yesterday sentenced four Palestine Action activists as terrorists, even though they were never charged with terrorism, because such a charge would've been thrown out by every jury in the land.

Johnson would have fitted in very well in South Africa's apartheid regime.

[patrick holleran @pat11060]

The Filton 4 ruling signals a direct breach of core principles of UK justice

juries decide facts, judges sentence only on what juries actually convicted.

This judgment breaks that line and that’s why so many lawyers are calling it a constitutional threat.

What this moment means for justice in the UK
Across every major legal source reporting today, the same pattern emerges this is unprecedented, constitutionally dangerous, and signals a shift toward an authoritarian model of criminal justice.

A judge has overridden the jury the foundation of British justice

Multiple reports confirm that two juries refused to convict the activists of any terrorism related or violent offences, yet Justice Jeremy Johnson has ruled they will be sentenced as terrorists anyway.

This is exactly what senior lawyers describe as “recategorising the offence without a trial” a direct violation of the principle that you cannot be punished for an offence you were never charged with and never convicted of.
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No time to waste independence now

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Dear @KemiBadenoch
£100 Bn general waste by the Tories.
£148 Mn owed by Michelle Mone.
£1.6 Bn stop the boats barge
£21 Bn handed to covid fraudsters
£471 Mn in total paid to destroy PPE not needed/in storage too long.
=
£123,219,000,000
What have you to say about that?

[joe lincs @lincslincs]

The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years.

Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped.

Why?

State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers.

The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage.

If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes.

Leave pensioners alone.

They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Our Govt struggles to find its backbone.

[Brexit Buster @BrexitBuster]

@colder_sarcasm @Bluebird20 Got his own stepdaughter pregnant. He’s been her adoptive dad since she was four. A paedo predator in plain sight who should be in jail for life without parole.