First published at 18:30 UTC on May 14th, 2024.
Tory plans to ban 'extreme' protest is being written by a former LFI Labour MP & includes proscribing Palestine Action.
Right, so Labour Friends of Israel, even once they are outside of the Labour Party and no longer part of LFI, the be…
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Tory plans to ban 'extreme' protest is being written by a former LFI Labour MP & includes proscribing Palestine Action.
Right, so Labour Friends of Israel, even once they are outside of the Labour Party and no longer part of LFI, the bending over for the apartheid state of Israel continues it seems, though when Sunak's Tories and Starmer's Labour seem to be in competition with each other in the sycophancy stakes in that regard, it is a bit of Animal Farm situation where you're basically looking from man to pig and pig to man and cannot tell the difference.
Red Tories within the Labour ranks are nothing new though, they certainly are far more authoritarian now and throwing their weight around a lot more, but they've always been there, and one example of a yesterday's man, is former Labour MP, turned crossbench peer having been put into the House of Lords by the Tories, so underlining that man to pig example all the more, John Woodcock, now posturing as Lord Walney and indeed this is how he gets presented in the press. Not only did he accept a peerage from the Tories despite supposedly being a Labour man though, he is now the Tory government's advisor on political violence and in that remit he's been producing a report, which has been subject to being leaked, with plans to ban so-called 'extremist' protest groups. Well where does the line get drawn on that, who draws it and given that Walney is a former chair of LFI and one of the groups he's pointing at is Palestine Action, is this not blatant bias and abuse of our human rights, not to mention an act of political violence in and of itself?
Right, so political violence what is that when it's at home? It might make you think of those two MPs who have been murdered in recent years, Jo Cox and David Amess. Perhaps you might be thinking instead of protesters rocking up outside Keir Starmer's house and giving him a headache on his doorstep, my goodness didn't the media slam them for that, and I don't disagree, I don't th..
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