It’s hard to imagine anything more consistent with Sarwar’s total lack of principles than accepting the seat in the House of Lords he repeatedly said he wouldn’t take. An extremely fitting end to his total failure of a career in Scotland.
United Kingdom of 'israel' (Andy Burnham's) Cabinet in full:
• John Healey (Chancellor)
Labour Friends of 'israel' (LFI) parliamentary supporter. Opposed recognition of Palestine.
• Louise Haigh (First Secretary of State)
Labeled Gaza a genocide. Accepted up to £50,300 in office and staffing backing from Labour Together (pro-'israel' think tank).
• Ed Miliband (Foreign Secretary)
Personal family ties to 'israel'. Self-described 'friend of "israel"'. Opposed BDS.
• Wes Streeting (Defence Secretary)
20+ year LFI member. Received funding from pro-'israel' lobby (£30k+). Introduced IHRA into NHS. Mentored by Peter Mandelson. LFI funded delegation trip to 'israel'.
• Shabana Mahmood (Home Secretary)
Defended and appealed to protect proscription of Palestine Action. Commended police for enforcement actions (mass arrests) against public.
• Yvette Cooper (Health Secretary)
Instigated the initial proscription of Palestine Action. Accepted over £215,000 from the 'israel' lobby.
• Lucy Powell (Education Secretary)
LFI member. Condemned anti-Zionist campus movements. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Angela Rayner (Housing Secretary)
Accepted a £25,000+ donation from pro-'israel' lobbyist Trevor Chinn. Vocal opponent of BDS.
• Miatta Fahnbulleh (Energy Secretary)
Defended the continuity of UK military component licensing and exports to 'israel'.
• Angela Eagle (Environment Secretary)
Long-term LFI supporter. Voted down parliamentary motions for weapons embargoes.
• Pat McFadden (Work and Pensions Secretary)
Former LFI Vice-Chair. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Jonathan Reynolds (Business and Science Secretary)
Longtime LFI Vice-Chair. Signed off on and maintained existing arms export licences to 'israel' (Trade secretary). Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Alex Norris (Justice Secretary)
Member and parliamentary supporter of LFI.
• Heidi Alexander (Transport Secretary)
Defended the UK's continuing export of F-35 fighter jet components to 'israel'.
• Lisa Nandy (Culture Secretary)
Stated that boycotting 'israel' can be used to whip up hostility. Opposed full bans on arms sales to 'israel'.
• Emma Reynolds (Chief Secretary to the Treasury)
Prominent LFI supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Ellie Reeves (Attorney General)
LFI member. Backs directives limiting public sector procurement boycotts.
• Douglas Alexander (Scotland Secretary)
Deep historical ties to LFI. Addressed official LFI annual receptions alongside 'israeli' ambassadors and supports anti-boycott platforms. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Stephen Kinnock (Wales Secretary)
Voted in favour of proscribing Palestine Action.
• Chris Bryant (Northern Ireland Secretary)
Long-term LFI parliamentary supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Kanishka Narayan (AI Minister)
Declined to support parliamentary calls for asset freezes or direct state sanctions on 'israeli' officials.
• Bridget Phillipson (Women and Equalities Minister)
Longstanding LFI member. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Hamish Falconer (European Relations Minister)
Former Labour Together consultant. Defended continuing F-35 jet parts trade with 'israel'. Campaigned against emergency party motions labeling actions a genocide. Refused to investigate British dual nationals serving in the IOF.
• Matthew Pennycook (Housing Minister)
LFI parliamentary supporter. Voted against independent sanction proposals. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Anneliese Midgley (Chief Whip)
No known links.
• Alan Campbell (Leader of the House of Commons)
Long-term LFI supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Baroness Smith (Leader of the House of Lords)
LFI parliamentary supporter. Reaffirmed total alignment with 'israel' in official House of Lords statements. Funded trip to 'israel'.
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This is what a captured state looks like.
Britain is not independent or sovereign.
Free Palestine. Free Britain.
@Neilsocialist Joining an elite section of the Raj in the footsteps of Baron Mountain, Malcolm Offord & Ian Duncan.
A truly worthy accolade for his Scottish Labour colleagues to aspire to in this “great nation”!
@paulhutcheon Scots rejected having Anas Sarwar in government by giving him Scottish Labour's worst ever election result. So what does the UK establishment do? Override voters clear decision and give him an unelected role as a legislator for life. Corrupt, inexcusable, and very, very British.
Burnham talks as if the genocide in Gaza is in the past, but it's happening NOW. Britain is arming Israel NOW.
This UN report is from two weeks ago.
Burnham must commit to fully ending UK complicity NOW.
I’ve written to the Foreign Secretary seeking urgent clarity on why the UK Government continues to permit trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
If the UK Government accepts these settlements are unlawful, it must act accordingly. Settlement trade should be banned.
Andy lad.
Get off Starmer’s fence.
You either accept the evidence before your own eyes, or you don’t.
There is no ‘appear’ about it.
Genocide. War crimes.
Say it.
@80_mcswan Only in the same way that a Norwegian considers themself Scandinavian, purely as a function of geography.
I.e. resident in the British Isles.
An English mayor, who was elected by 25,000 people in England & who will now be Prime Minister tells Scotland it will not be allowed to vote on its own future: https://t.co/cd8cg5x76c Yet they tell Scots that we are in an equal union. We are being held prisoner.
Being a Friend of Israel is a career move. It’s like being a freemason. It sends a message to the ruling class that you can be trusted to manage the state machine, that you put self interest above political principles, basically that you can be bought.
🧵 Why is Scotland suddenly facing 24+ hyperscale data centre proposals at once?
UK trade press just spelled out the actual reason and it isn’t Scotland’s tech ecosystem.
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I’ve just been told by police to appear at my local station tomorrow to be interviewed under caution. I thanked them but said the matter was complex and that I would time to consider the implications.
Liberation Scotland Update June 2026 #1
from C-24 in Managua, Nicaragua
"Scotland actually has three separate claims to the right of self-determination. And bear in mind, the right of self-determination is only the right to decide. It doesn't mean you're automatically independent, it means you have a right to decide your own future without being contested.
"So the first right of determination consists in the fact that multiple prime ministers, and officials of the British state, have categorically, including Keir Starmer back in 2020, have categorically said that the Scots have a right to decide to go it alone; that they have a right to independence if they want.
"In international law, because the Brits don't have a written constitution, this becomes a constitutional principle, if it has been said long enough and often enough by representatives of the state. Prime Minister speaks on behalf of the state, of course. Like Supreme Court speaks on behalf of the state, they're considered to be state organs.
"So now in international law, Scotland has been established as having that right. When David Cameron agreed to an 'opinion poll' that was called a referendum, he agreed in principle to put a mechanism in place to allow that right. He didn't follow up, he didn't allow the international standards. Nonetheless, that precedent was there. So that's one.
"Number two, the British state claims that it's founded on the Treaty and Act of Union, that's its authority. It said that most recently in its submission to a parliamentary report, published in February this year. The constitutional foundation that means its authority is the Treaty and Act of Union. Well, the Treaty Act of Union, have something called a 'condition precedent'.
"Basically means the union is conditional. What's the condition? It's a hoary old, absolutely irrelevant Act 1706 of the Presbyterian Faith, Preservation of Presbyterian Faith, which lifts the Claim of Right as part what has to be ratified along with the articles of the Union.
"Claim of Right gives the people of Scotland, unequivocally, the right to remove a government that no longer serves the interests of people. Very specific about the violations that caused the government to cease to be legitimate and stop them.
"But it very clearly shows that the sovereignty of the nation of Scotland lies with the Scots, and cannot possibly lie with Westminster. So either, and that condition is there, Claim of Right is still there and we still have that right, or there's no union. There's no British state, because precedent comes before, underpins native conditions. Without it, there's no union. With it, we have the right to leave. That's international law, that's treaty law.
"And finally, the right of self-determination for a people who have been made a dependency, that's a colony, by a larger state is absolutely entrenched. It's a fundamental principle of international law.
"Does that apply to Scotland? Absolutely. The British State has said, Scotland is not a dependency, that's a colony, because we have a partnership with the UK, it's a voluntary partnership. We've all heard that. Voluntary partnership requires an agreement. The agreement is the Treaty and Act Union.
"And hey, guess what? This underpinning authority of the British state has never been given effect. We don't have a treaty, and because we don't have a treaty, in other words, we don't have a partnership agreement, we are not a partner. We can only be a dependency. And that means that under International law, Treaty Law, Scotland has a right to decolonize.
"Not secession, not to fight for a remedy to the way the British state has treated us, a fundamental right to decolonization. And that's what we're doing in Nicaragua, because the vast majority of the international community does not know that Scotland is a dependency.
"It has no idea that the United Kingdom is a fraud. It has no idea that Scotland is not part of a unitary state. Once that has been clearly established, everything changes, the whole game changes.
"So everything hangs, basically, on the ability of British state to hood-wink the international community. And Liberation Scotland is here making sure they can't succeed any longer. And then having that formally recognized, that Scotland has this right to self-determination.
"Once that happens, that doesn't make us independent overnight. What it does do, it clears the path. No more Section 30, no more Westminster permission, no more Westminster interference in the right of Scots to decide their future. It's a way, simply a way to clear the road ahead. And after that, it's up to us." @SSalyers2@LiberationScot@broonpot@PAlanMcMahon@thomsonchris@CraigMurrayOrg@rblackqc@IndyScotParty@LiberateScot@SalvoHighlands@ScotSalvo
The fact @LindsayHoyle_MP was emailing Israeli politicians is bad enough but to use the powers of the @CommonsSpeaker to block publication of these communications is an affront to democracy. They need to be published and he needs to be removed from office.
“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"
"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"
"Other people had guns inserted inside them"
"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"
Juliet Lamont's Gaza Flotilla testimony: