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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg challenges Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on whether his party will split the right-wing vote and allow a left-wing Government.
Warning. Extremely disturbing content.
We want to show the British people the truth about halal slaughter.
Watch the video for yourself.
There is now a political party that would ban both halal and kosher slaughter - Restore Britain.
Original footage:
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Saint John Ogilvie, the Scottish Jesuit hanged in Glasgow in 1615 for being Catholic. He committed a crime that governments throughout history have always found intolerable.
He insisted that the state did not own his conscience
Ogilvie was offered a way out. No one was desperate to hang him. The officials simply wanted a small concession. A sentence. A declaration. Just say that the king was the final authority in matters of religion and public life. Sign the formula and go home.
He refused.
Because if the state can command what you must believe, it does not merely govern your actions. It governs your soul. And once a government claims authority there, nothing remains outside its reach.
That was the threat Ogilvie posed. A man who believed there was a law higher than the government of the day. Every regime finds such people inconvenient.
So they killed him.
Four centuries later the gallows are mostly gone, but the temptation of power remains exactly the same. Every age produces authorities who would quite like your public compliance, your signed declaration, your carefully worded affirmation.
Ogilvie’s answer still rings across the centuries.
The state can govern many things.
But it does not get to govern the conscience.
Today, 10 March, is the feast day of Saint John Ogilvie in Scotland, commemorating the day he was executed at Glasgow Cross in 1615
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Tony Benn wrote in his diary on Monday 16th February 1987:
“Today we had a meeting of the NEC and the Shadow Cabinet. The first since Neil Kinnock became leader. Kinnock introduced the meeting and spoke for about twenty minutes. We went on to Peter Mandelson who said a few words. I find Mandelson a threatening figure for the future of the Party.”
Prophetic words. Tony Benn proved to be a much shrewder judge of character than Tony Blair and Keir Starmer.
🚨 BREAKING: The Employment Rights Bill has now passed Parliament and will soon become law
- End to zero-hour contracts - workers will gain guaranteed hours, reasonable notice of shifts, and pay for last-minute shift cancellations
- Stronger Statutory Sick Pay with no Lower Earnings Limit or 3 day waiting period
- Day-one right to paternity leave and unpaid parental leave
- Right to claim unfair dismissal after six months
- Ban on "fire and rehire" and "fire and replace" practices
- New right to unpaid bereavement leave, including pregnancy loss
- New protections against unfair dismissal for pregnant women and new mothers
- Stronger redundancy rules, forcing employers to consult workers when 20 or more jobs are at risk at one workplace or when large-scale redundancies happen across a company
- Creation of a "Fair Work Agency" to enforce workers’ rights
Tony Benn’s 5 key questions:
“What power have you got?
Where did you get it from?
In whose interests do you exercise it?
To whom are you accountable?
How do we get rid of you?
And if you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you don’t live in a democratic system.”
Massive Caerphilly by-election poll released!
This Survation poll for @CamlasCymru makes it a two horse race between Reform and Plaid:
Reform - 41.61%
Plaid Cymru - 38.29%
Labour - 12.37%
Conservative - 3.65%
Liberal Democrat - 1.35%
Green Party - 2.72%
Bear in mind Labour previously had an 18 point majority here and 46% of the vote.
The Tory vote has collapsed with 70% of their voters now going to Reform.
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A story has been published today containing evidence that Lee Anderson was the one leaking private details of my terminally ill dog, and his death, in order to smear my name in the media.
I told one person in Parliament about Cromwell’s death. Lee Anderson. Why? Because I considered him a friend, and he was going through something similar with his own dog.
I confided in Lee, and I told him how difficult I was finding it.
He then used that confidential conversation in an attempt to ruin my reputation. We now have proof of this, detailed today by a respected journalist - Michael Leidig, @mleidig2.
Cromwell was 17 years old. He was in agony, his back legs had gone, he was incontinent. His life was effectively over. We had a choice. Waiting for the vet, which he hated, where his life would end on a steel table in a bright shining room with the vet jabbing him with needles. That, or a quick death in his favourite field having said goodbye to his family. I choose the latter, every single time.
I wanted to talk to somebody about it, and I did so with Anderson - in confidence. He betrayed that trust, in the most spectacularly vile way.
Obviously all on top of his attempt to try and put me in prison on false allegations, but that is another story.
Honestly, I am so disgusted with Anderson. I know Reform figures have been relentlessly leaking stories to the media about me, and now there is undeniable evidence.
I make my criticisms of Reform, Farage and the rest public.
Anderson, and the others, should have the courage to do the same.
I loved Cromwell. He had a good life, and I miss him dearly.
Using his memory to attack me is contemptible. Using a confidential conversation between ‘friends’ to attack me is contemptible. Anderson is contemptible. My own legal action against him continues.
Decent British men don’t behave like this. It’s filth.
Please know that anything you tell these people, however close you may feel you are to them, will be held back and deployed against you when it is politically convenient for them to do so.
@LeeAndersonMP_ - you’re a coward, a bully and a rat.