NotImpressed
@NotImpressed@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
#UK#Repression#Fascism#Starmer
#PalestineAction
@palestine

"Over a month on from the ban on the direct action group, pressure is mounting on the government to reverse its decision"
"At least 150 people were arrested at a rally against the proscription of Palestine Action on Saturday outside the UK parliament, police said"
"UN human rights chief Volker Turk said that the ban was "disproportionate and unnecessary" and called for the designation to be rescinded"

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-50-arrested-rally-against-palestine-action-proscription
NotImpressed
@NotImpressed@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
#UK#Repression#Fascism#Starmer
#PalestineAction
@palestine

"Over a month on from the ban on the direct action group, pressure is mounting on the government to reverse its decision"
"At least 150 people were arrested at a rally against the proscription of Palestine Action on Saturday outside the UK parliament, police said"
"UN human rights chief Volker Turk said that the ban was "disproportionate and unnecessary" and called for the designation to be rescinded"

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-50-arrested-rally-against-palestine-action-proscription
Juggling With Eggs
@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Are the self defeating decisions announced by #Starmer’s female cabinet members theirs or does he push them into it to ensure he has no female competitors running against him for the leadership?

Latest is Angela Rayner and floating idea of letting local councils sell off allotments.

Yvette Cooper decided a non-violent group should be declared a terrorist organisation and any supporters of it should be deemed criminals.

Rachel Reeves - dropped green pledge and slashed winter fuel allowance.
MAU
@Mau_or_@mastodon.bida.im  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

A superare se stesso è stato il primo ministro britannico #KeirStarmer, uno dei primi a riconoscere la Palestina nell'attuale ondata, dopo la Francia.
Si è affrettato a definire la sua mossa come una punizione (condizionata), adempiendo così al suo dovere.

Se Israele si comporterà bene, ha promesso, il suo dito puntato verrà ritirato.
Che tipo di punizione è questa, signor Primo Ministro?
Se riconoscere la Palestina favorirà una soluzione, secondo lei, perché presentarla come una punizione?
E se si tratta di una misura punitiva, dove sta?

È quello che accade quando il timore di #DonaldTrump cala sull'Europa e la paralizza, quando è chiaro che chiunque imponga sanzioni a Israele ne pagherà le conseguenze.
Il mondo preferisce per ora un baccanale verbale. ⬇️4
MAU
@Mau_or_@mastodon.bida.im replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Le sanzioni vanno bene quando si tratta delle invasioni russe, non di quelle israeliane.

La mossa di #Starmer ha spinto molti altri a seguire il suo esempio, il che viene presentato in Israele come una valanga diplomatica, uno tsunami.

Questo non fermerà il genocidio, che non potrà essere fermato senza misure concrete da parte della comunità internazionale.

Queste sono urgenti in modo insopportabile, poiché le uccisioni e la fame intensa a Gaza continuano.

Il riconoscimento non porterà alla creazione di uno Stato.
Come ha affermato una volta la leader dei coloni Daniella Weiss, dopo una precedente ondata di riconoscimenti: «Apro la finestra e non vedo nessun Stato palestinese».
E non lo vedrà nemmeno nel prossimo futuro. ⬇️5
Fou
@foufoutos@kafeneio.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Mariah Carey made a very political statement at her Brighton Pride headliner on Saturday 2 August – one aimed directly at Keir Starmer’s government, but also Donald Trump’s. The singer, songwriter, producer, and cultural icon didn’t mess around in showing what she thought of both those administrations’ position on trans people’s rights. But of course, she did it in her usual, flamboyant way.

#MariahCarey#Starmer#Trump#Brighton

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/08/03/mariah-carey-brighton/
Fou
@foufoutos@kafeneio.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Mariah Carey made a very political statement at her Brighton Pride headliner on Saturday 2 August – one aimed directly at Keir Starmer’s government, but also Donald Trump’s. The singer, songwriter, producer, and cultural icon didn’t mess around in showing what she thought of both those administrations’ position on trans people’s rights. But of course, she did it in her usual, flamboyant way.

#MariahCarey#Starmer#Trump#Brighton

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/08/03/mariah-carey-brighton/
Jonathan Schofield
@urlyman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@ChrisMayLA6

“He eschews ideology – ‘there’s no such thing as Starmerism and there never will be. I will make decisions one after the other’, Starmer reportedly told colleagues while leader of the opposition – and his detail-focused lawyer’s mind leads him to make effective, short-term tactical choices, but also blinds him to the wider consequences of his actions.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/keir-starmer-labour-party-human-rights-mixed-record-international-law
Gillinger
@Gillinger@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@urlyman @ChrisMayLA6
"Starmerism" - the ability to blindly follow dogma then suddenly flip-flop over to the opposite view, leaving chaos in his wake.

#Starmer#LINO#Hypocrite#Useless
Wen
@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Starmer vs Starmer: a lot of opinions, so I might as well add mine.

The explanation is that Starmer is only interested in power - Human Rights were a ‘trendy’ subject as his career progressed and he is clearly an able lawyer. So he got on the bandwagon. But as we see with human rights, policing, privacy and much more, his real instincts and comfort zone lie with authoritarianism. Simple maybe, but close to the truth.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/keir-starmer-labour-party-human-rights-mixed-record-international-law

#Starmer#HumanRights#Law#UJPol#Labour#Truth
Geriatric Gardener
@GeriatricGardener@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@ErikUden

Fuck Keir #Starmer & Fuck #Labour-In-Nsme-Only!

#FreePalestine
Juggling With Eggs
@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Said it before…but #Starmer’s support for #Israel while allowing #genocide to be perpetrated in #Gaza and crushing non-violent dissent at home is the equivalent of #Blair’s Iraq War. But it will be far worse this time for #Labour.

My generation protested in their thousands on the streets of London against Blair…but that was back when non-violent protest was never considered a crime, let alone terrorism.

My generation didn’t vote Labour again for a very long time…many still don’t.
Top Totty
@Geri@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

81 year old former magistrate Deborah Hinton is arrested in Cornwall for protesting on behalf of #PalestineAction on a day that witnessed over 100 further arrests throughout the country.

It seems EVERY Saturday is to be a day of protest

Given that 29 were arrested on July 5, 70 on July 12, and 100 yesterday, are the figures rising each weekend?
Captain Jack Sparrow
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@Geri

#Starmer is criminalising peaceful protestors, starmer is protecting israeli war-criminals, and he is complicit in the #Gazagenocide

#Gaza#Palestine

#killerStarmer#Israelwarcrimes#LabourFriendsOfGenocide

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Russ Cheshire
@RussCheshire@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last month

I have just read the following from a friend in Wales. Sue, a veteran of Greenham Common, is in her late 70s & in poor health; & yet has been subject to arrest & imposition of unreasonable bail conditions, while her partner was subject to a raid on their home by police at 3am.

Her crime? To protest peacefully in defence of the right to protest.

The United Kingdom & its constituent parts have become, under a Labour government, a police state.

#Starmer must go. #Cooper must go.

"Bear with me dear friends, this is lengthy. But do read it if you are concerned about human rights and the direction of travel of this UK government. Or indeed, about crimes against humanity and genocide. At the weekend I made a considered decision to join a silent, peaceful, sitting protest in Cardiff, in support of the campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action. Most of you will be aware that this protest group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act, despite being non-violent. Members have been accused of damaging property (in Britain) which is involved in Israel's genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Similar peaceful protests took place in London and Manchester. The police responses were different and in South Wales were much more draconian than elsewhere. I was held for over 30 hours and am now bailed on condition I do not stay away from home overnight, till October. Or go to Cardiff. Plus other things. Our house - and Alan in it - was raided by police at 3.00 am while I was still in a police cell. My decision to protest was made primarily in defense of the right to protest, especially about Gaza . I knew that the Terrorism Act was powerful and punitive and I believed - and still believe - that using it against a non-violent protest group was a chilling step in the wrong direction. Hence the campaign to de-proscribe it. This is legal. [... ...] I hope it's not too late for us to turn back and I hope that there are many more people without fear."
"Bear with me dear friends, this is lengthy. But do read it if you are concerned about human rights and the direction of travel of this UK government. Or indeed, about crimes against humanity and genocide. At the weekend I made a considered decision to join a silent, peaceful, sitting protest in Cardiff, in support of the campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action. Most of you will be aware that this protest group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act, despite being non-violent. Members have been accused of damaging property (in Britain) which is involved in Israel's genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Similar peaceful protests took place in London and Manchester. The police responses were different and in South Wales were much more draconian than elsewhere. I was held for over 30 hours and am now bailed on condition I do not stay away from home overnight, till October. Or go to Cardiff. Plus other things. Our house - and Alan in it - was raided by police at 3.00 am while I was still in a police cell. My decision to protest was made primarily in defense of the right to protest, especially about Gaza . I knew that the Terrorism Act was powerful and punitive and I believed - and still believe - that using it against a non-violent protest group was a chilling step in the wrong direction. Hence the campaign to de-proscribe it. This is legal. [... ...] I hope it's not too late for us to turn back and I hope that there are many more people without fear."
"Bear with me dear friends, this is lengthy. But do read it if you are concerned about human rights and the direction of travel of this UK government. Or indeed, about crimes against humanity and genocide. At the weekend I made a considered decision to join a silent, peaceful, sitting protest in Cardiff, in support of the campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action. Most of you will be aware that this protest group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act, despite being non-violent. Members have been accused of damaging property (in Britain) which is involved in Israel's genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Similar peaceful protests took place in London and Manchester. The police responses were different and in South Wales were much more draconian than elsewhere. I was held for over 30 hours and am now bailed on condition I do not stay away from home overnight, till October. Or go to Cardiff. Plus other things. Our house - and Alan in it - was raided by police at 3.00 am while I was still in a police cell. My decision to protest was made primarily in defense of the right to protest, especially about Gaza . I knew that the Terrorism Act was powerful and punitive and I believed - and still believe - that using it against a non-violent protest group was a chilling step in the wrong direction. Hence the campaign to de-proscribe it. This is legal. [... ...] I hope it's not too late for us to turn back and I hope that there are many more people without fear."
Russ Cheshire
@RussCheshire@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last month

I have just read the following from a friend in Wales. Sue, a veteran of Greenham Common, is in her late 70s & in poor health; & yet has been subject to arrest & imposition of unreasonable bail conditions, while her partner was subject to a raid on their home by police at 3am.

Her crime? To protest peacefully in defence of the right to protest.

The United Kingdom & its constituent parts have become, under a Labour government, a police state.

#Starmer must go. #Cooper must go.

"Bear with me dear friends, this is lengthy. But do read it if you are concerned about human rights and the direction of travel of this UK government. Or indeed, about crimes against humanity and genocide. At the weekend I made a considered decision to join a silent, peaceful, sitting protest in Cardiff, in support of the campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action. Most of you will be aware that this protest group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act, despite being non-violent. Members have been accused of damaging property (in Britain) which is involved in Israel's genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Similar peaceful protests took place in London and Manchester. The police responses were different and in South Wales were much more draconian than elsewhere. I was held for over 30 hours and am now bailed on condition I do not stay away from home overnight, till October. Or go to Cardiff. Plus other things. Our house - and Alan in it - was raided by police at 3.00 am while I was still in a police cell. My decision to protest was made primarily in defense of the right to protest, especially about Gaza . I knew that the Terrorism Act was powerful and punitive and I believed - and still believe - that using it against a non-violent protest group was a chilling step in the wrong direction. Hence the campaign to de-proscribe it. This is legal. [... ...] I hope it's not too late for us to turn back and I hope that there are many more people without fear."
"Bear with me dear friends, this is lengthy. But do read it if you are concerned about human rights and the direction of travel of this UK government. Or indeed, about crimes against humanity and genocide. At the weekend I made a considered decision to join a silent, peaceful, sitting protest in Cardiff, in support of the campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action. Most of you will be aware that this protest group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act, despite being non-violent. Members have been accused of damaging property (in Britain) which is involved in Israel's genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Similar peaceful protests took place in London and Manchester. The police responses were different and in South Wales were much more draconian than elsewhere. I was held for over 30 hours and am now bailed on condition I do not stay away from home overnight, till October. Or go to Cardiff. Plus other things. Our house - and Alan in it - was raided by police at 3.00 am while I was still in a police cell. My decision to protest was made primarily in defense of the right to protest, especially about Gaza . I knew that the Terrorism Act was powerful and punitive and I believed - and still believe - that using it against a non-violent protest group was a chilling step in the wrong direction. Hence the campaign to de-proscribe it. This is legal. [... ...] I hope it's not too late for us to turn back and I hope that there are many more people without fear."
"Bear with me dear friends, this is lengthy. But do read it if you are concerned about human rights and the direction of travel of this UK government. Or indeed, about crimes against humanity and genocide. At the weekend I made a considered decision to join a silent, peaceful, sitting protest in Cardiff, in support of the campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action. Most of you will be aware that this protest group was recently proscribed under the Terrorism Act, despite being non-violent. Members have been accused of damaging property (in Britain) which is involved in Israel's genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Similar peaceful protests took place in London and Manchester. The police responses were different and in South Wales were much more draconian than elsewhere. I was held for over 30 hours and am now bailed on condition I do not stay away from home overnight, till October. Or go to Cardiff. Plus other things. Our house - and Alan in it - was raided by police at 3.00 am while I was still in a police cell. My decision to protest was made primarily in defense of the right to protest, especially about Gaza . I knew that the Terrorism Act was powerful and punitive and I believed - and still believe - that using it against a non-violent protest group was a chilling step in the wrong direction. Hence the campaign to de-proscribe it. This is legal. [... ...] I hope it's not too late for us to turn back and I hope that there are many more people without fear."