#Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza, with relentless bombing and starvation of nearly 2 million civilians, and has begun moving its population into concentration camps.
#KierStarmer's government lawyers argued that sending weapons to help Israel commit further terrorist atrocities and mass murder of civilians, is more important to the UK than standing against a genocide.
As #UKLabour flounders and talk of u-turns and leadership challenges abounds, here's a reminder that there's a ready-made lifeline:
https://gettingreal.org.uk/full-report/
#GettingReal
#UKPol
'That her “secret memo” also apparently advocated benefit cuts for migrants shows that this is hardly a principled challenge to the government’s direction, in which Rayner has, of course, been fully complicit, but rather populist political positioning.'
'...the rules have been so rigged by the Starmer gang that there is no chance of a genuine Corbyn-style socialist getting on the ballot paper.'
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/more-leaked-secret-memos-are-needed-rescue-labours-mission
Police could search homes and phones after #pregnancy loss - https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/police-could-search-homes-and-seize-phones-after-sudden-pregnancy-loss we didn't give #uklabour a huge majority in order for them to allow this...
"The arrival of about 100,000 Jews fleeing persecution in eastern Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century led a failing Tory government in 1904-5 to divert discontent through the first anti-immigration legislation in Britain: the Aliens Act."
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Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech is a turning point for anti-racists | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmers-island-strangers-speech-turning-point-anti-racists
#SocialFascism #UKLabour
I guess if communities of immigrants in the UK want to know who fights for them, and who is there to control them on behalf of the governing party, they can just watch which Labour MPs stay and which ones walk away now because they have self-respect. So that's handy. #starmer #ukpolitics #immigration #uklabour
UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping #genocide, lawyers to argue - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/12/uks-f-35-exports-more-important-than-stopping-genocide-lawyers-to-argue is #uklabour really this evil?
Translation:
UK Labour continues damage of Tories - bans essential migrant workforce to pander to racist bigots and up pressures on independent care homes in order to force them into being bought out by big, often US corporations ... at the definite expense of patients.
In other news, the #NHS is clearly not safe in #UKLabour's hands. Of course, this is 'only' England's NHS, because that's all they can directly cut. But it means cuts to Barnett Consequentials, which means it means cuts to *something* in each of the devolved nations as well.
The Labour party are up to their fucking necks in genocide complicity
Fuck Starmer he is a hypocritical piece of shit.
#kneecap #CorbynWasRight #glastonbury #LabourFriendsOfGenocide #UKLabour #ukcorruption
#Gaza #Gazagenocide #Palestine
Israel lobby funded half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet
Exclusive: Labour’s top team has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from pro-Israel funders.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/
Of course, #UKLabour won't change voting system to PR (Starmer ruled it out despite party approval) so what to do now? Ideally some introspective, look at what stopped ~54% turning out, pivoting to woo them back. Definitely do not target Reform voters which'll just alienate the reasonable majority.
#Runcorn didn't fall to Reform by a handful of people choose to vote Green/elsewhere but due to disillusionment. A turnout of just ~46% (-~14%) speaks volumes, that people have lost engagement. We must repair our voting system so that people have a voice. FPTP is at fault.
Such a missed opportunity, this #UKLabour government. 406 MPs against a tiny 121 #Conservative MPs. Labour could implement a root-and-branch reform of the UK polity to embed a progressive majority for generations, yet it spends its time aping #ReformUK & cowering in fear of the hard-right. Just weird.
Why would anyone with integrity (like Phillipson) go into politics? We need more like her and fewer of those taking shots at her. #UkLabour #Starmer #ukpolitics https://mastodon.social/@NEBylines/114415286797548579
