If you look at what Andy Burnham is offering. It is exactly what Keir Starmer said he'd do in his pledges when he was running for Labour Leader.
Literally word for word.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me
I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.
After he won the Pulitzer Prize, Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha was invited onto MSNBC where he was promptly interrogated about why he wasn't doing more to humanize the people slaughtering his family members in Gaza.
Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq War, an illegal war that killed over a million people.
As Health Secretary, he helped drive NHS privatisation.
He joined Labour Friends of Israel, opposed BDS as “spiteful”, praised Israel as a “democracy”, and called the Balfour Declaration “British values in action”. He is a Zionist.
Stop pretending he’s a radical alternative, he’s more of the same.
@CarolineLucas We know you've had to hold your nose to support Zack. You're a neo liberal not a socialist and probably secretly gutted with Zack's success so far.
@CarolineLucas Surely it's best for the Greens to negotiate with Andy Burnham first?
He's committed to proportional representation, but that needs to be an ironclad promise. (Rather than a Starmer pledge!)
A British woman was stopped by police at a train station and told she was under investigation after a passenger on a train reported feeling uncomfortable and alleged she had made comments referencing the Holocaust.
Police said they had received a text message alleging she had denied the Holocaust, and subsequently tracked her down and told her she was being investigated for a "racially aggravated public order" offence.
The woman, Fiona Rose Diamond, an activist with anti-Zionist views, said she was expressing political views about the political ideology Zionism.
She said she had just returned from an oncology appointment in London when she was met by British Transport Police at the station.
She also said she believed the timing and circumstances were not a coincidence.
The activist argued that anti-Zionism is increasingly being deliberately conflated with antisemitism in order to silence criticism of Israel and suppress dissenting political views in Britain.
"I am more than entitled to hold beliefs about a political ideology," she said in the video, adding that her grandfather was Jewish.
The incident has sparked renewed debate over free speech in the UK.
One thing you won't hear on the News is that the Green Party got the 2nd highest number of votes in the Local Election.
Ahead of everyone but Reform, and the Green vote is still growing.
Israel did it in 1948
Israel did it in 1956
Israel did it in 1967
Israel did it in 1982
Israel did it in 2002
Israel did it in 2008
Israel did it in 2014, 2021, 2023,2024
Israel is currently doing it in 2026
78 years of genocide.
@British_4Ever@PolitlcsUK Do you not think it's interesting that places with more educated people tend to vote progressive/green and poorer communities with high employment vote reform?