Jonathan Bartley: "Green voters.. want nationalisation.. they want whats happened in Gaza to be called out as genocide.. they want fresh economic thinking.. is there going to actually be any change with Burnham?" #politicslondon
Others are asking why this attack hasn't prompted a Cobra meeting, and why the media hasn't gone all in on this story. I have to say, the establishment response is seriously muted for the scale of how serious this is - coming a week after race riots in Glasgow.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir: “For every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers should cry. All of Lebanon should burn.”
@UKLabour@ChrisMurrayMP
Congratulations to @AndyBurnhamGM on his victory in the Makerfield by-election.
We look forward to working with you as you return to the Commons and wish you well as the new Labour MP for Makerfield.
Just another reminder that Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq war - an illegal war that cost over a million lives.
He has refused to describe the systematic slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as genocide.
So what will change? Nothing.
Arms sales to apartheid Israel will continue.
Palestine Action will remain banned, and more pensioners will be locked up.
Welfare will be cut to fund more weapons.
Immigration detention will expand, and mass deportations will continue.
Andy Burnham is not the second coming. He's the establishment's last roll of the dice.
We've already seen racist pogroms on our streets. That danger has not gone away.
So we must organise, build solidarity, and create power from below. Fascism isn't at the door. It's already here.
Only socialism can face down this barbarism.
If Burnham does become PM will he be making any political appointments to people who are friends with known child sex traffickers? How about supporting war crimes?
#r4today@UKLabour
It is beyond disgraceful that the 'Great Israeli Real Estate' event was allowed to go ahead.
Once again, the government has exposed its flagrant contempt for international law as well as its shameful complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation.
https://t.co/ole6xWxq91
Keir Starmer says scrapping the 2 child benefit cap is his proudest moment as PM
Starmer could have scrapped the cap on day one of becoming PM. Instead he suspended 7 Labour MPs for voting to scrap it & the govt had to be dragged kicking & screaming to do it over 20 months later
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.
B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf
🚨 🇮🇱 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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Latest in a long line of disgraceful statements from an organisation that is shameless in its conflation of Judaism and support for the illegal actions of the Israeli state. They know well that the organisers invited registrants for the event to express interest in buying properties on illegal settlements. They know full well that adverts for such properties on the website were only removed in recent days after public figures including @MayorofLondon and MPs called for the events cancellation. They know only too well that the comanies involved have a long track record of dealing in illegal settlement property and are therefore serial violators of IHL. They condone a synagogue hosting such an event and then suggest that protesting outside a place of worship that has become a site of complicity with such illegality is effectively an act of antisemitism. Solely designed to intimidate Jews. That they cite this protest as justifying the Gov plans to bring in new laws to prevent such protests only shows the poverty and dishonesty of the rationale for such laws. And their failure to condemn the grotesque, filmed actions of counter protestors speaks volumes as to their willingness to tolerate anti Palestinian racism within their community. No Public body should give them the time of day.
A leaked memo shows the European Union has known since 2017 that it had the legal right to freeze Israel's trade deal due to Israel's persistent violations of international law in the occupied West Bank. https://t.co/0lkP43NBaV
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property
The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.