"But all these claims have served a purpose. They keep western publics focused on evil humanitarian aid workers and evil anti-war protesters rather than the kind of evil that dares in broad daylight to kill 15,000 children, destroy hospitals, and hide bodies in mass graves.

Jonathan Cook on how an ‘antisemitism hoax' drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza.

#Israel #Gaza #Antisemitism #MassGraves #UKPolitics #USPolitics

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-an-antisemitism-hoax-drowned

How an ‘antisemitism hoax' drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza

In confecting a media row about the policing of London marches against genocide, the Israel lobby knew it would score a victory, whatever happened

^{Jonathan Cook}

"Police in Scotland have been put on alert because of the high risks of street protests and attempts by pro-refugee campaigners to stop detentions.

Local communities in Scotland have twice prevented deportations by staging mass protests on Kenmure Street in Glasgow, in May 2021, and in Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, in June 2022."

We need the spirit of Kenmure Street across the UK.

#HomeOffice #Scotland #AsylumSeekers #Rwanda #Deportation #UKPolitics

"If you’d like to find out more about resisting the UK’s racist & hostile immigration system, power mapping, 1-2-1s and other community organising tools, this workbook is for you.

The workbook is a living, breathing and changing publication, which we will update and translate. It’s available in an easy-to-print black/white version and a riso printed publication"

Excellent resource from Solidarity Knows No Borders.

#Migrants #Refugees #AsylumSeekers #UKPolitics #SKNB

https://sknb.org/resource/organising-workbook/?

Organising Workbook

Resources Solidarity Knows No Borders Organising Workbook If you’d like to find out more about resisting the UK’s racist & hostile immigration system, power mapping, 1-2-1s and other community organising tools, this workbook is for you.

^{Solidarity Knows No Borders}

The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.

Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.

#HomeOffice #Rwanda #AsylumSeekers #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation

Home Office to detain asylum seekers across UK in shock Rwanda operation

Exclusive: Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local elections

^{Severin Carrell (The Guardian)}

Dining clubs?!?

"Since Rishi Sunak became prime minister, anonymous dining clubs and special interest groups, set up as ‘unincorporated associations’, have funnelled millions into political parties. But who’s splashing the cash?"

#UKPolitics #DarkMoney

https://goodlawproject.org/carlton-club-unincorporated-associations-5m-into-politics-tory-labour/

‘Murky’ groups have poured £5m into politics since 2022 - Good Law Project

^{Good Law Project}

Fucking fucking fucking fuck sake.
There it is.

#UKPolitics #ToryContinuityParty #AsylumIsAHumanRight

Jo Maugham wins again 🥳

#UKPolitics #CovidFraud

https://goodlawproject.org/government-ordered-to-disclose-sunaks-hedge-fund-emails/

Government ordered to disclose Sunak’s hedge fund emails - Good Law Project

Good Law Project has won a battle with the Treasury after it tried to suppress emails between Rishi Sunak and the hedge fund he founded.

^{Good Law Project}

The SNP has ended the coalition with the Scottish Green Party. This leaves @thesnp as a minority administration at Holyrood.

There is some talk - only talk at the moment - of Humza Yusaf resigning as SNP leader.

Either way it's chaos at Holyrood with doubts over the continuation of the SNP government in its current form.

Time for a vote of no confidence in the SNP administration in my opinion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz5dy15grjnt

#politics #snp #ukpolitics

Scotland's power-sharing government collapses as SNP and Greens end deal

A meeting of the Scottish cabinet was being held at Edinburgh's Bute House to discuss the coalition arrangement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens.

^{BBC News}

Ex-Brexit Party MEP and Reform Party Deputy Leader Ben Habib questions "What is uncivilised?" about leaving asylum seekers to drown in the channel.

How did we give these people any foothold in our civic discourse?

#politics #ukpolitics #ReformUK #Brexit

Remember the moral panic when the ceasefire march was thought to be going near the Cenotaph last year (which it wasn't)? Seems it's ok if you've got a St George's flag and a can of Stella 🤬

#UKPolitics #Flagshaggers

A sad day for human rights and a terrifying one for asylum seekers in the UK, who are made scapegoats for a failing government.

#Rwanda #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #UKPolitics
UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/rwanda-deportations-bill-passes-parliament-sunak?CMP=GTUK_email

UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

Lawyers prepare for legal battles on behalf of individual asylum seekers challenging removal to east Africa

^{Rajeev Syal (The Guardian)}

Fuck sake. He's gone full gammon.

#UKPolitics #NeverLabour #FlagshaggersRUs

The foundational belief of the right wing is this:

I am rich because of my hard work, not just because I was born rich. You are poor because you are lazy, not just because you were born poor.

#ukpolitics #tory #uspol #politics

Experts ignoring the elephant in the room, younger generations are sick and tired of CAPITALISM, it's not 'smartphones' or whatever bullshit excuse the Media comes up with, it's the very toxic society you've forced on us which is making us ill.

#MentalHealth #Capitalism #UKPOL #Ukpolitics

Well, we've got to give Sunak's mates time to make some profit before we get landed with the debt and a 56% increase in bills.

#UKPolitics #CostOfGreedCrisis #Water

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/hedge-funds-including-millennium-are-shorting-uk-water-companies

Thames Water Crisis: Hedge Funds Are Shorting UK Water Companies

Hedge funds including Millennium Management and Arrowstreet Capital are shorting the assets of UK water companies after a crisis at Thames Water spotlighted high debt levels across the industry.

^{Laura Benitez (Bloomberg)}

Nationalise it, nationalise them all, the thieving fucks
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/18/whitehall-blueprint-for-thames-water-nationalisation-could-see-state-take-on-bulk-of-15bn-debt

#Sewage #ThamesWater #UKPOL #Ukpolitics

Whitehall blueprint for Thames Water nationalisation could see state take on bulk of £15bn debt

Exclusive: Project Timber could see some lenders lose up to 40% of their money under the plans

^{Anna Isaac (The Guardian)}

Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressed

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/13/climate-crisis-protest-activism-repression

Not only jailed for peaceful protest, but also now facing being struck off by the GMC. The state is working hard to suppress protest in all of its forms in the UK. We have been warned, ignore these signs at your peril.

#Protest #Suppression #UKPolitics #Environment

Is the rancid pisswitch being sponsored by Palantir or something? 🤬 💙

#UKPolitics #SOSNHS

Free CCTV! What's the catch?

The UK Home Office has extended a programme to supply Mosques, temples and Synagogues with security equipment through the US-owned Esotec Ltd.

We're highlighting the risk that cloud stored #CCTV data across all sites could be seized by security services through secretive #surveillance powers.

This would happen without the knowledge of people running or attending places of worship, community centres or faith schools.

#ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/home-office-surveillance-cctv/

Home Office CCTV: free mass surveillance?

The Home Office has for several years run a programme to supply Mosques, temples and Synagogues with security equipment including CCTV cameras.

^{Open Rights Group}

What the everloving fuck is this?!?? 🤬

#UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/09/david-cameron-donald-trump-meeting-washington-ukraine-support-russia

David Cameron meets Donald Trump amid push to shore up Ukraine support

British foreign secretary will also urge congressional leaders in Washington to advance aid for Kyiv in its war against Russia

^{Patrick Wintour (The Guardian)}

Nicaragua mentions the UK legal professionals' recent letter to the UK government, warning them of UK's complicity in genocide: https://lawyersletter.uk/

#ICJ #Nicaragua #Germany #genocide #complicity #Palestine #Gaza #UK #UKPolitics

"So you've never had a piece of paper in front of you by a Foreign Office lawyer that says Israel is in breach of its humanitarian commitments under international humanitarian law?"
"Look, the reason for not answering this question is I can't recall every single piece of paper that's been put in front of me."
David Cameron at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, 23rd March 2024.
#UKPolitics #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael

https://nitter.privacytools.io/ByDonkeys/status/1775433842645508600

(Nitter addon enabled: Twitter links via https://nitter.privacytools.io)

I hope people in UK government know that, based on article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, complicity in genocide is punishable as a crime under international law just as well as committing genocide?

Let’s hold any and all of them individually responsible

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/30/uk-government-lawyers-say-israel-is-breaking-international-law-claims-top-tory-in-leaked-recording

#UKPolitics #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #AliciaKearns #DavidCameron

"An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart"

Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 3

#UKPolitics #Rwanda #Easter #HumanRights