compare the strength of his response to people spraying cornflour paint on some stones to the way he’s equivocated and enabled a genocide being enacted before our eyes in gaza...
In the 1980s, a 21 year old shop worker in Dublin called Mary Manning refused to put a single grapefruit through the tills.
Why? Because it was a product of apartheid South Africa. And though she was pressured and threatened by management, and eventually suspended along with 9 other workers, she never backed down.
These workers went on strike for 3 years. They held picket lines at night to block the delivery of South African produce. One woman, a single mum called Veronica Munroe, lost her house because she couldn't pay the mortgage.
And I can't help but wonder, had they been pundits at the time, how Marina Hyde and Richard Osman might have talked about Dunnes Store workers. Would they have seen the value of refusing to co-operate with the apartheid regime, no matter how small the act?
Or would they have branded them "wreckers" too?
To anyone who thinks Labour will be the lesser of two evils on Palestine: we are weeks away from the head of We Believe In Israel potentially becoming a minister of state. A Starmer govt will be significantly more ideological about perpetuating the genocide than a Sunak one.
The ppl around Starmer go on about how "ruthless" he is. Ruthlessness in politics often causes disaster. But now we also see what else it leads to: two women of colour who've come further & worked harder for Labour than any central-casting apparatchik being thrown under the bus
Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.
Victoria Derbyshire speaks with an asylum seeker from Iran, Nima Moradi
"When I left my country, I wasn't thinking about the destination, I was thinking about being safe"
"When I was in Greece I was thinking to go to Germany, but when I was granted asylum I thought, because I can speak English, I will go to England"
"The Rwanda bill will not stop asylum seekers coming to the UK.. See how many people are trying to cross the channel last night.. People have access to information.. They know the bill has passed.. But still they will try to cross the channel.. Because they will think that they won't be amongst the 1% selected to go to Rwanda"
"If there was a safe route for me to claim asylum.. For example if the UK had a center I could claim asylum.. I would do that instead of paying people smugglers £3,000 but I crossed because there was no safe route to apply for asylum"