.@MikeTappTweets, nine questions. Each yes or no.
1) Did the International Criminal Court issue arrest warrants on 21 November 2024 against Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, including the use of starvation as a method of warfare? Yes or no.
2) Is the United Kingdom a state party to the Rome Statute, legally obligated to arrest Netanyahu if he enters British territory? Yes or no.
3) Has the UK government continued to license arms exports to the State of Israel since those warrants were issued? Yes or no.
4) Has the UK government continued diplomatic and political cooperation with the government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu since those warrants were issued? Yes or no.
5) Does the United Kingdom's existing criminal legislation, including the International Criminal Court Act 2001, contain offences applicable to those who provide assistance to persons under ICC arrest warrant for war crimes? Yes or no.
6) Could a UK government minister who has personally and publicly endorsed the continuation of arms exports and political cooperation with a government headed by an ICC indictee face individual legal exposure under those same provisions? Yes or no.
7) Is it the case, as documented by the Campaign Against Arms Trade and Transparency International UK, that the United Kingdom maintains an extensive and ongoing revolving door between government and the arms industry, including the movement of former ministers and senior Ministry of Defence officials into companies that profit from continued UK arms exports to the State of Israel? Yes or no.
8) Does Section 53 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 require the consent of the Attorney General, a political officer of the government, before any prosecution under that Act can be brought? Yes or no.
9) Does the availability of procedural or constitutional defences to government ministers acting in their official capacity alter the underlying factual conduct of those ministers? Yes or no.
If the answer to each of the above is yes, the following should be happening under the United Kingdom's own legal and policy framework.
The Strategic Export Licensing Criteria requires the government not to issue or maintain licences where there is a clear risk that the items might be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law. The government has already made that assessment for around thirty licences.
The ICC arrest warrants, and the charges they contain, materially strengthen the case that this risk applies more broadly. Full suspension of the remaining relevant licences is the only position consistent with the UK's own published rules.
Continued authorisation of exports in these circumstances also raises serious questions about potential ancillary liability under the International Criminal Court Act 2001. An investigation by the Attorney General into ministerial decision-making, with knowledge of the ICC warrants, would be the appropriate next step.
Parliament has a duty to hold individual ministers to account for these decisions.
None of this is happening.
Tell us, Tapp, why none of this is happening?
My 17-year-old daughter:
“I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”
🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: Petition to stop the social media ban.
kids are having none of it.
Let’s get some signatures on this petition to stop the social media ban.
Anyone with half a brain knows this isn’t about child safety it’s about sneaking in Digital ID through the back door.
Please sign and share 🙏🏼 🇬🇧🫡❤️
Petition: Do not ban social media for under 16s
https://t.co/So52giGYxg
💥scrapping jury trials
💥cutting welfare and disability benefits
💥halving foreign aid
💥restricting protests for ‘cumulative disruption’
💥proscribing Palestine Action & arresting thousands of people for holding signs
💥AI boosterism
💥cosying up to Palantir & embedding them in the NHS
💥surveillance flights over Gaza & arms sales to Israel
💥allowing UK bases to be used for war in Iran
💥the most punitive asylum and immigration reforms in generations
💥halving the UK's contributions to the Green Climate Fund
💥banning social media for under 16s despite widespread opposition from child protection charities
💥taxing workers not wealth
💥refusing to nationalise water & energy or punish executives and companies pumping excrement into rivers
💥‘reforms’ to planning rules to remove environmental protections
💥freebies and cronyism scandals
💥a watered-down Employment Rights Bill
💥introducing policing via Live Facial Recognition using Israeli software used to “track, trace and abduct” thousands of Palestinians passing through checkpoints
💥 Peter Bloody Mandelson…
All brought to you by the most disliked Prime Minister since the introduction of modern polling, delivered to power with an unlawful slush fund filled with cash from millionaire and pro-Israeli donors.
Did anyone who voted Labour in 2024 expect this?
A holidaymaker has been accused of grabbing a seagull out of the air then punching it to death after it snatched his pasty.
Outraged locals posted pictures of the man claiming he killed the innocent seagull in St Ives, Cornwall yesterday in revenge for trying to steal his savoury treat, as police urged anybody with CCTV footage to come forward.
Rosie Reynolds was working at a boat tour stall when the man attacked the bird right in front of her.
She said: 'He was walking with his wife and child and the gull just swooped down and stole his pasty.
'He just grabbed it and had its head in his hand and punched it hard in the chest. It was sort of held in his arm so it couldn't escape.
'After three or four punches the bird went limp then he threw it to the ground where it just lay there, it was still alive but its chest cavity was caved in and I think it just went off to die.
'I went over and berated him as did some other people, I said "you can't do that, its illegal" and his wife said the same, I think she was shocked, I asked if he'd do the same to a child who stole an ice cream but he just called me a cow and told me to f*** off.
I'm just so shocked, tourists sometimes kick out at the seagulls but this is the worst I've ever seen.
'I recognised his picture straight away on Facebook, I know several people have reported him to police and I hope they can deal with him properly.'
A takeaway owner who didn’t want to be named served the man just before he attacked the gull said it actually snatched a fish burger.
He said: 'I just remember the guy was really rude, his wife seemed lovely but he was just demanding and said he needed to drive back to Yorkshire as soon as he could.'
Another witness Pauly Ford posted on Facebook: 'Just witnessed a 'man' grab a seagull that had knocked the pasty out of his hand and punched the bird twice really, really hard. This was at the harbour.
'The bird wasn't able to fly away and a lady at the sea island boat trips picked it up to look after, sadly the bird had a big hole in its chest so will likely not survive.
'Not sure what to do about this, we have a picture of the guy after killing a seagull because he's an idiot is there anything we can do. Surely the police will want to know.'
The world's first trillionaire is backing the far right mobs and their politician backers.
Don't think for a second that these men have ordinary people's interests at heart.
A judge has sentenced the Filton 4 as terrorists, behind the back of the jury, who only ever considered charges of criminal damage.
This grotesque distortion of the law tightens the screws on the public’s right to protest, placing more limits on our freedom to fight injustice.
It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister.
It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage.
Others seem to be met with silence.
This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.
I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.
Palantir is working with ICE.
Palantir is using AI to kill civilians in Gaza.
Why the hell are we giving Palantir our NHS information?
Palantir need to be banned from UK Government, just like the Swiss banned them from theirs.