John Austin

Humanist Socialist. Labour MP 1992-2010. Past Chair Socialist Campaign Group, @Caabu & @CrossnessET. Patron @PSCupdates

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Israel needs to be suspended from UN membership.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Braverman should be driven out of public life for saying something as bigoted, conspiratorial, ridiculous, and dumb as this but she won’t be, of course, because anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamophobic fearmongering has been normalized in British public life. https://t.co/6s0XOFyXBD

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

I have ceased to interact on X / Twitter.
You can follow me on Bluesky @johneaustin.bsky.social

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

Shameful that a U.K. base and the U.K. government are assisting Israel in genocide in Gaza.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Just hours before Keir Starmer arrived at Britain's base on Cyprus this morning, a UK spy plane returned from a 6-hour mission over Gaza where it was collecting intelligence for Israel.

Starmer told UK soldiers at RAF Akrotiri: "We can't tell the world what you are doing here."

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

Shameful that this U.K. base has been used to assist Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Perhaps Sky News may care to ask why British troops have had such a 'busy, busy year'? Have they been serving our interests or mainly those of Netanyahu & Gallant, who now have international arrest warrants issued for them for alleged war crimes? @SkyNews

[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

A busy airbase that for a year has been helping Israel commit a genocide in Gaza. A disgrace.

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

Like a fine wine Mark improves with age! Stunning performance in Hove last night. Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes https://t.co/zh6BUoUgFy

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

Good to catch up with @Cllrjfahy @AnnLynchlucas and the Ambassador.
Great craic!

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

@IrishCommServ good to see old friends and remember past ones at @EmbassyIreland last night to celebrate 40 years of service to the Irish community in @Royal_Greenwich @LBofBexley & @LewishamCouncil

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

@andrewcopson Strange to learn that Mr Ali’s god is so weak that he needs defending from me!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail claims to be French and pay his taxes in France, despite living in England.

This should be enough to stop everyone buying that trash he calls a patriotic newspaper.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Nigel Farage - pressing all the buttons of the angry abiut immigration - when really he's a hypocrite taking a lot of money from a company promoting immigration, but only immigration for the super rich

Wake up
Brexit - another mess based on lies

Thank you Led @ByDonkeys 👍🏼

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

@IrishCommServ good to see old friends and remember past ones at @EmbassyIreland last night to celebrate 40 years of service to the Irish community in @Royal_Greenwich @LBofBexley & @LewishamCouncil

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

@ChiOnwurah @Togetherdec Who drafted your statement ? There’s clearly an organised campaign to wreck the Bill and trash my human rights.

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

@darrenpaffey Who is behind this clearly coordinated campaign on X to wreck the Bill?

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

@darrenpaffey You’ve reached a view which has total disregard for and shamelessly trashes my human rights.

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

@ChiOnwurah You disappoint me that you are totally willing to trash my human rights.

[John Austin @JohnEAustin]

@AndyMcDonaldMP You disappoint me that you are totally willing to trash my human rights.

[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

The issue is why does the BBC invite an extremist and merchant of hate on to its programme.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.

The owner of this site/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next president is promoting a Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.

This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The UK is now arming suspected war criminals who have been indicted by the world’s pre-eminent criminal court, the ICC.

The government must end ALL arms sales NOW.

https://t.co/wY9p8pPseP