The business secretary and leader-in-waiting told media that managing almost a fortnight of campaigning before announcing discriminatory measures against an embattled minority to win support from wavering bigots shows the Tories are a party of ideas.
The tragic death of the child Fayez Abu Ataya this morning in Al-Aqsa Martyrs #Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central #Gaza Strip, as a result of #malnutrition and the lack of treatment for him in light of the #Israeli occupation’s closure of the #Rafah crossing.
I just can't believe we are watching this happen in front of our eyes with the help of my ur governments.
@faab64@palestine@israel cruelty and inhumanity beyond measure by the Israeli state and all its allies in Western Governments, shamefully including the UK
@Wen my bet is those Scots who vote Labour will quickly come to regret it when they experience Labour in Government. Though, I expect to see support for independence surge when people experience a Starmer Gov
It is just so bad of us. The Guardian clearly believes that we should all (across the whole of the UK) vote for Labour, whether through policies and proposals disgust and repel us or not. Vote for bad or worse….
@Wen thankfully in Scotland we have the choice of voting SNP so we don't need to vote for Tories of the blue or red variety. Wales has Plaid Cymru & Northern Ireland has Sein Fein or Alliance. England has the Green Party.
Why on earth should people with progressive left wing principles vote for a party that is Indistinguishable from the Tories & despises us.
A judge makes the right decision against this extreme right Tory
Government prosecution of Trudi Warner for holding up a sign reminding jurors of their right.
Ms Warner is to be admired &;should never have been charged. A waste of public funds and resources on what was a political trial
This time is not the IOF but Israelis citizens halting and destroying aid bound for Gaza and it's not the first time.
Evil, criminal and unpunished:
"Police had arrested four people for taking part in the illegal activity before leaving the area, allowing the far-right activists to return and torch the trucks"
@JorisBohnsonPM so if some carer makes a mistake on claiming an allowance they are prosecuted but the former Tory Chancellor fails to pay £5 million in tax & it is a mistake! One rule for the rich & another for the rest!
"In East Jerusalem, chanting Israeli demonstrators set fire to parts of the grounds of a compound belonging to UNRWA, the main UN agency for aid to Palestinians." Source Reuters
Sick of hearing peaceful demonstrators taking a stand against Israeli genocide called hate spreaders and anti Semites. The evidence points the other way in Jerusalem Israeli demonstrators SET FIRE to a UNRWA compound. That is HATE.
@fkamiah17 I just finished reading Terry Eagleston " The Starmer Project" in which he details Starmer's journey from human rights defender to champion of the authoritarian right wing state. He argues there is no realistic hope of the left regaining a strong voice or influence in Labour party after the purge of the left. Forming or joining other parties as a left wing voice is the alternative. If Tory MPS can defect to Labour lets see principled Labour ones join The Greens, Plaid Cymru, SNP,eyc
"The state of the [#ScottishIndependence] movement in 2024 reminds me of 2017 when Sturgeon decided to “take independence off the table” at the Scottish Parliamentary elections and totally scunnered SNP members.
I remember hearing reports of “indy-free” leaflets arriving from HQ and being binned by angry activists" -- Lesley Riddoch
'Many Muslim voters turned against Labour in the local elections, and the continuing conflict only heightens the risk of alienating others’
You do not need to be a Muslim to despise Labour's stance on Gaza which is combined with the very shady, opaque really, funding of Labour Friends of Israel.
I hope we will highlight these in their Scottish campaign.
Jones makes more sense all the time. England has no choice, but I hope that voters in Scotland and Wales (NI is a different matter as Labour don't stand there) pay attention.
Labour are not and never have been our friends. A Scottish Labour, based in and caring for the country might be another matter. Not this group of junkies.
"Here we are, not 75 years later, but just seven and a half months later - and people are already forgetting that Hamas unleashed this terror," Biden said in his keynote at the official Holocaust memorial ceremony at the U.S. Capitol
@fkamiah17 did you see her speech after the results called. The electorate had just rejected her policies yet she had the cheek to lecture the newly elected mayor to tell him her policies were what Londoners wanted.
Humza #Yousaf isn't a great politician, but he isnae a rubbish politician either, and the #SNP is short of talent at Holyrood. #Swinney would be unwise no tae gie him a cabinet seat; and gien hoo #Yousaf has performed on #Gaza an ither maitters furth o Scotland, it would be guid tae see him in a foreign relations brief.
If we're aiming for #ScottishIndependence, we need to be developing strong relationships with the rest of Europe and beyond.
@simon_brooke Don't agree that Yousaf isn't a great politician. He inherited a poisoned chalice & showed strong leadership on Gaza. For that alone I was proud of him as FM. Though he made a major blunder ending BHA. Agree he should be in cabinet & foreign affairs seems a good choice.
#youyesyet Shocked to read in the National that Alba's Ash Regan voted to bring down the Scottish Government in the Labour no confidence vote. Here was me thinking Alba was a pro independence party!
This will be the eejit ‘negotiator’ who conspired to ensure that Scottish farmers and small businesses will be driven out of business by our inability to trade without tarrifs with Europe.
Of course he will not be calling for more hard policing of Westminster, where MPs steal from the public purse and shovel cash to their cronies/party donors.
