Three people charged with supporting Palestine Action

[Nearly Sane]

Sound like a right bunch of troublemakers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3enyvge4no

[Nearly Sane]

And more of them


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8de6rq37v5o

[Gordon]

That hundreds of people of my age are being arrested for gathering to protest their opinion, but without indulging in overtly disruptive conduct, probably means that in the rush to be seen 'do something' the politicians involved haven't thought this through very well.

Wonder if they'll have sufficient nous to realise their mistake.

[Nearly Sane]

Friend who has been holding a vigil for Palestine event in Dunoon every Saturday for the last year and a half, was arrested pn Saturday, kept in police cells till today, when he's been taken to be charged. He's 73 and has health issues.  He's as dangerous as a kitten.

[Nearly Sane]

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[Aruntraveller]

I've written again to my local labour mp, politely asking if the leaderships aim is to alienate every group of voters that supported Labour at the last election. If, by any chance, it isn't  some kind of strategy then wtf are they playing at?
I have never, ever felt so angry with a Labour government.  LOST MY VOTE.

[Nearly Sane]

I've written again to my local labour mp, politely asking if the leaderships aim is to alienate every group of voters that supported Labour at the last election. If, by any chance, it isn't  some kind of strategy then wtf are they playing at?
I have never, ever felt so angry with a Labour government.  LOST MY VOTE.

I think the free suits, glasses, and wife's underwear being paid for, along with the complete lack of thought about it, made me more angry. And they had lost my vote by their unwillingness to protect women's rights previously. But I feel your pain.

[Gordon]

The notion that it is acceptable to criminalise mainly elderly and otherwise law-abiding people just because they wish to protest against patent genocide is perverse politics in the extreme.

I've never voted Labour, and I never will now.

[Aruntraveller]

I think the free suits, glasses, and wife's underwear being paid for, along with the complete lack of thought about it, made me more angry. And they had lost my vote by their unwillingness to protect women's rights previously. But I feel your pain.

It's been a cumulative thing for me. There's all the above but also toadying to Trump, Winter Fuel Payments, disability payments, and doing as little as possible to stop Netanyahu. This is no Labour Government. 

[Nearly Sane]

I think this underestimates the issues a bit. While it notes that the police are in individual cases seemingly struggling with thd enforcement it doesn',t really address that this could affect the police becoming pissed off with being politicised


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wn5gdv0wgo

[Nearly Sane]

Free the Morph one


https://archive.vn/zf429

[Nearly Sane]

Meanwhile in Stroud


https://archive.vn/5yu7w

[Nearly Sane]

'Yousaf calls for Palestine Action prosecution exemption' - not happening, though nice bit of posturing


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedvqvp3q9qo

[Nearly Sane]

'Neil Kinnock says Palestine Action are not terrorists in split with Starmer' - good

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-neil-kinnock-says-palestine-action-are-not-terrorists-split-starmer

[Aruntraveller]

'Neil Kinnock says Palestine Action are not terrorists in split with Starmer' - good

Not b4 time. We need a lot more Labour figures to come out against this nonsense.

[Nearly Sane]

335 arrested so far today in London


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq2e9x19g8o

[Nearly Sane]

335 arrested so far today in London


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq2e9x19g8o

Now more than 400. The problem with this is that the lazy rhetoric around this now effectively links all thise arrested and on the protests as anti-semitic and supporting terrorism.

[Nearly Sane]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24rmdngrrjo

[Nearly Sane]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24rmdngrrjo

I do wonder that if repeated protests and marches based in part around religion are not acceptable because of Britishness just how that might relate to the marches in the West of Scotland and Northern Ireland that have been a feature of many many years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7840dv7n4po

[Aruntraveller]

Sir Keir thinks that it is un-British to protest on the anniversary of the Hamas massacre.

I think it is un-British for us to continue to supply arms to a regime that is guilty of genocide as per a UN commission of inquiry.

But hey, that's just me.

Get your fucking hands off free speech.

[Nearly Sane]

Sir Keir thinks that it is un-British to protest on the anniversary of the Hamas massacre.

I think it is un-British for us to continue to supply arms to a regime that is guilty of genocide as per a UN commission of inquiry.

But hey, that's just me.

Get your fucking hands off free speech.

As ever being from the West of Scotland, I am used to multiple marches every year celebrating 1690, which those celebrating barely comprehend, but with the song about being up to their knees in Fenian blood, but that seems very British.

[Nearly Sane]

I feel this does cross a boundary but part of that is the use of 'workshopping' for a chant that is that crap.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8gdelw79po

[Nearly Sane]

"Government loses bid to block appeal against Palestine Action ban" - will be interesting to see what happens, it feels unlikely to succeed but I think it makes sense for it to be heard.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9dg5v43vmo