There are MILLIONS on the streets in Spain right now demanding Pedro Sánchez resign over the invasion of Ceuta.
You won't see this in the legacy media.
@squashrambles@CartlandDavid@JohnAALogan Thanks Alex. I did read the foreword. Whilst the intent is no doubt well intended, I do not trust the limited consultation window and the lack of broader considerations. The law of unintended consequences bothers me.
Angela Rayner and her department have some serious questions to answer.
It has been revealed through FOI requests submitted by Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy that the Communities Department deleted all responses submitted to the Working Group tasked by Rayner with drafting the official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility”.
Nick has accused the department of a “cover-up” and wants to establish whether extremist groups influenced the process.
Since its publication, the definition has been used to silence legitimate criticism and debate about Islam. It has revived Britain’s blasphemy laws for Islam alone.
Public, private and charitable bodies have been encouraged to adopt the new non-statutory definition — with some, such as South Wales Police, going even further.
The Free Speech Union exposed at the start of the year that all five members of the Working Group had troubling links to Islamist organisations, including the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND — both of which successive governments have adopted a policy of non-engagement with since 2009 due to concerns about extremism.
Nick Timothy has said: “Labour must come clean on whether extremist groups helped to draft their ‘Islamophobia’ definition.
“Ministers have refused to answer whether these groups influenced the definition despite a no-contact policy, and we now know that the Government deleted every single response that the working group received.
“This is clearly a cover-up under way, and the public have a right to know whether a definition the Government is asking the entire public and private sector to adopt was influenced by the views of extremists.”
This is a truly astonishing admission. The Government introduced what amounts to a de facto Islamic blasphemy law in Britain, it could have been influenced by Islamist extremists, and it then deleted all the evidence submitted to the Working Group.
Questions must be answered.
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
The fake outrage at the cost of the Clacton by-election is hilarious…
Andy Burnham abandoning the Greater Manchester Mayor position and causing a by-election… AND triggering a new Mayoral election, will add up to £4-5 million.
Clacton by-election approximately £250k all in.
*Reform have also offered to reimburse the Treasury after the by-election if allowed somehow.
When Makerfield MP Josh Simons stood down for Burnham he said it was in the interests of his constituents.
It's now been announced he will be given a senior policy role in Burnham's No 10.
No surprise, no integrity, no democracy.
That's Labour.
The Labour Party were however happy to cause a by-election so that they can bring in a different person to be our PM - (apparently the 400 they already have aren’t good enough) was that not also a pathetic stunt? hypocrisy as always from this incompetent lot!
@disclosetv This clown is no better than the previous communist psychopath. Stand by for more bans, tax, destruction of civil liberties and obliteration of aspirational business.
Back to reality… heading to London again on the 07:05 @EastMidRailway service. Or not, cancelled due to faulty train! Cue the 07:30 arrival of a brand new Aurora train. Currently stood in the corridor next to an out of order toilet shoulder to shoulder with lots of unhappy folks. This is what a three week advance single booking for £94 gets you.