Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.
Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.
That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.
The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.
Keir Starmer has gone — but we will never forget the role his government played in the greatest crime of our time.
Today, I re-presented my Bill for an independent inquiry into Britain’s complicity in genocide.
Presidents of nations committing genocide: welcome.
Vocal opponents of genocide: banned.
My piece for @ScotNational on the UK government's disgraceful decision to refuse Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker entry to the UK.
https://t.co/ewBSqXIaU0
Attending the book launch of "Killing Corbynism: Zionism's War on Socialism" by @RGordon_Nesbitt. If you think our democracy is important, this is a must-read text.
"What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year."
—Julian Assange
True to form, during yet another of his “scam” announcements, Farage’s famously paper‑thin skin disintegrates the moment anyone dares prod it, even when the prod comes from his pal Beth Rigby. The second she points out that he promised council tax cuts to win local elections and then delivered precisely nothing, he reacts like she’s committed treason. For a man who never stops lecturing the country about “accountability,” he folds spectacularly quickly when the accountability is aimed at him. #Farage #ReformUK
Whatever else Mandelson did, he ensured the most decent potential prime minister of our generation never achieved office by smearing him with Jew-hate. The millions Corbyn would have lifted out of poverty and homelessness remain where Starmer wants them.
Unforgivable.
#ItWasAScam
The daughter of one of Mandelson’s closest friends and colleagues - Margaret Hodge - is a long-standing senior news editor at the BBC. It’s associations like this that have helped Mandelson get an easy ride for so many years, that created the climate of intense media hostility towards Jeremy Corbyn, and why Mandelson continues to be treated deferentially by so many in the media. @SophyRidgeSky@BBCNews@BBCNewsnight #Mandelson #ItWasAScam
The Epstein files expose a corrupt system that functions in the interests of criminal elites. New Labour was and is a core part of this system. Jeremy Corbyn stood against it. No wonder Mandelson worked to destroy him. I write for Middle East Eye:
https://t.co/3BTIAJrUmD
Maybe stop stealing half a billion of our cash each year, then. Believe it or not, we could use that money to help young people. #NotMyKing#AbolishTheMonarchy
When Panorama misled viewers about Trump the BBC got its head chopped off. When Panorama did the same thing and worse to Corbyn, it was nominated for a BAFTA. That's the power structure in a nutshell.
@shameensuleman@Kahlissee@swilkinsonbc Why not do the British government to save the lives of its citizens? I apologize. I forgot that if you oppose the genocide of Gaza in the UK, you will be arrested. But if you agree to genocide, there is no crime
I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.
1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.
2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion
3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual
4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded
5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.
For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.
6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.
7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.
8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.
I hope you find this helpful.