Jeanette Murphy

Socialist. 'Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter.' Rosa Luxemburg

[Peter Verney @PeterVerney1]

@andrewfeinstein Woman on BBC R4: I prefer drones that do constructive things and don't kill people.
Evan Davis: But surely you agree we need defence?

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Andy Burnham has still not lifted Yvette Cooper's proscription - which sees thousands of good people being arrested as terrorists - just for holding placards.

Please RT this until - he does.

Thank you.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

The new Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has acknowledged that Israel is committing war crimes and that Britain has a moral and legal responsibility to respond.

Today, Ellie Chowns MP has written to him calling on the Government to match those words with action, by ending all arms sales to Israel.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

The Guardian has published a profile on the new chancellor John Healey.

There’s not a single mention of the RAF spy flights over Gaza he oversaw as defence secretary.

Nor of the close ties he cultivated with Israel in that role.

This is propaganda by omission.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This would be a deeply irresponsible and destructive act at any time.

To do it whilst we're having a third heatwave of the year and thousands of people have just died from extreme temperatures - makes it also politically incoherent.

We urgently need to replace Labour.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

In the face of this torrent of absolutely insufferable guff, let it be stated again - Starmer is directly complicit in the slaughter of, at the very least, 25,000 children. /1

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Manchester Evening News review of the first Mayor debate is in - and Geraldine Coggins, Green Party candidate has the highest score! 💚🎉

Labour has let down Greater Manchester.

It's time for a Green Mayor.

[Socialist Media Listener @SocialMListener]

Labour Party employees, members (right wingers), worked against winning General Election 2017. 👇👀

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

In September, my Gaza (Independent Inquiry) Bill returns to Parliament.

Its purpose: to uncover the full scale of British complicity in genocide.

The next Prime Minister has a simple choice: will they support this inquiry, or will they block our efforts to expose the truth?

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Sickening to watch senior Labour figures who were complicit in Israel's genocide applaud Burnham's (extremely tame) statement.

Never let them forget what they did.

Never let them wash the stain off.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Well done to @ZackPolanski for making it clear we should be tracking British citizens who have served in the IDF & engaged in genocide. He also rightly calls out the double standards when it comes to condemning Russian war crimes but not Israeli war crimes.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Can Burnham say that war crimes, let alone genocide, has occurred in Gaza?

Being clear on this is the most basic first step.

Without this, Labour hasn't even started its journey to rectifying for years of complicity and participation in this genocide.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is infuriating crap.

He says:

“There's increasing evidence that war crimes appear to have been committed.”

He knows Israel has committed war crimes on an industrial scale.

He’s refusing to say so because it would impose legal obligations on him to actually act.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's officially the hottest June day ever.

We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians.

We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The possibility that Josh Simons could be close to Andy Burnham's government raises some very serious questions.

Should a man who waged factional warfare, spied on journalists and then resigned in disgrace really be at the centre of Government?

Feels very Starmer 2.0

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Half a million views so far.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Solidarity to Mothin and the racist nonsense he has to deal with constantly.

Yes - it's important there's a free press.

And it's as important that journalists report the truth.

It's beyond time for media reform (including Leveson 2.)

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Starmer lied his way to the top, took every freebie he could get, targeted the sick and disabled, demonised & scapegoated refugees, gave a top govt job to a billionaire paedophiles best pal, enabled & armed a genocide.

Beth Rigby tells us it was a very dignified speech.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

History will judge Keir Starmer as a man who lied his way to the top of the Labour Party and then used that power to evoke Enoch Powell with “island of strangers”, keep children in poverty, attack disabled people, scapegoat refugees, strip back civil liberties, and hand our public services to Palantir.

A man who gave the top diplomatic job to the “best pal” of a convicted paedophile, said Israel has the right to cut off water and electricity to Gaza, rolled out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals, and kept the weapons flowing to the Israeli military as it committed genocide.

Good riddance.