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Labour frontbencher McFadden: Israel is an ally and Labour will continue arms sales
Sky News shows Starmer’s Labour happy to turn blind eye to clear genocide
Pat McFadden, a Starmer front-bencher, has made clear during an interview with Sky News this morning that Labour considers Israel an ‘ally’ and is happy to continue selling weapons to the genocidal regime if Labour gets into government.
And McFadden – who must know, like the rest of the country since last weekend’s leaked recording, that the government has already been told by its lawyers that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and is covering it up – tried to hide behind the government’s failure to state the obvious, to excuse his and his boss’s readiness to keep providing Israel with arms that are killing Palestinians and international aid workers:
Video grab by Saul Staniforth, subtitling by Skwawkbox
McFadden also blathered about hostages, even though it is clear that Netanyahu and co are killing Israeli hostages as well as tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians – and, of course, did not once refer either to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) findings against Israel, Israel’s flouting of the ICJ’s orders to end its starvation and bombing of Gaza, or the UN Special Rapporteur for occupied Palestine’s confirmation that Israel is, as we all knew, committing genocide.
McFadden is a vice-chair of the Zionist group Labour Friends of Israel of which Keir Starmer is an avid supporter – or as it should now accurately be named, Labour: friends of genocide.
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20 councillors quit Labour in NW over regime’s bullying and attack on free speech
Councillors in Pendle, Brierfield and Nelson – including Borough Council leader – say Labour no longer reflects their views and is bullying and threatening dissenters
“THE LABOUR PARTY LEADERSHIP NO LONGER REFLECTS OUR VIEWS; IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE.”
That is the statement from twenty Labour councillors who resigned last night citing a draconian shift in the national party, which is targeting local councillors, preventing them from standing for elections and using aggressive bullying tactics to suppress fairness and free speech.
The resignations represent the biggest mass departure from Labour in local government since Keir Starmer became leader. The group, from Pendle Borough Council, Brierfield Town Council, and Nelson Town Council – including borough council leader Asjad Mahmood – has decided against joining any other political party and will form independent groups on their respective councils.
Cllr Asjad Mahmood, who leads the newly formed independent group, said:
I, along with my colleagues, were elected by local residents to represent them in the council chamber. As a Labour Councillor, I have always felt that the party’s policies were aligned with my own beliefs and those of the constituents who have honoured me with their votes. Sadly, over a recent period, senior party officials have attempted to impose their ideas at a local level. I was elected to serve the public, not party officials.
Cllr Yvonne Tennant added:
At a time when 14 years of Tory cuts are affecting local people across Pendle, the Labour Party leadership should be allowing local hard-working councillors the opportunity to challenge the Tories. Instead, colleagues are being hindered from fulfilling their roles.
Cllr Mohammed Iqbal MBE said:
I was suspended from the party for 18 months before it was lifted in December 2023 for advocating on behalf of my constituents. I joined the Labour Party over 30 years ago and have always been encouraged to speak out on issues. However, senior figures within the party are attempting to stifle free speech and threaten dedicated councillors with removal as candidates. I, for one, cannot stand by and allow this to happen. The bullying needs to stop.
Last week, Keir Starmer promised voters to push out power to regions if he gets into Downing Street. He made a similar promise to Labour members during the party leadership campaign, pledging to empower and foster local democracy, especially in candidate selections.
Since getting the job, he was waged war on members, imposing candidates in many areas. In many others, members and incumbents have complained about widespread vote-rigging to ensure selections supportive of Starmer’s red-Toryism, often candidates with serious questions to answer about their own conduct. Police are currently investigating one such incident of apparent voter fraud.
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Assange: justice denied again as court declines to admit new evidence of US murder plots
Wikileaks founder will remain in Belmarsh prison while judges seek further meaningless ‘assurances’ from US
The High Court has this morning again denied justice to persecuted Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Despite admitting that the US is denying Assange’s rights to free speech and is pursuing him in a way that it would not pursue one of its own citizens, judges have decided to keep Assange in Belmarsh prison while it asks for further ‘assurances’ that the US will not kill him – even though there has been longstanding evidence of US plans to murder him outside the US.
Shamefully, the court has also declined to admit fresh evidence of US plots to assassinate him, claiming that the evidence is irrelevant because the US’s incentive to murder Assange would not apply if it had him in custody, as Declassified UK has pointed out:
Incredibly, the High Court has refused to admit fresh evidence of CIA plots to kidnap or kill Julian Assange.
The judges say the rationale for kidnapping or killing Assange would be removed if he is extradited, and the evidence is thus not worth consideration.
Read that again. pic.twitter.com/PqwJIg4yAn— Declassified UK (@declassifiedUK) March 26, 2024
The extradition case should have been laughed out of court three years ago, when the main US witness admitted he had been lying all along in his claim that Assange induced him to hack US systems. Instead, Assange has been submitted to what former UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer described as sustained psychological torture – and still faces the likelihood of imprisonment for more than a century in US retaliation for Wikileaks exposing its war crimes in Iraq and as a deterrent to other journalists who might expose its crimes in future.
Shame on the UK and its travesty of justice and democracy. Free Julian Assange. Protect real journalism.
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Exclusive: whistleblower accuses Labour W Mids PCC of refusing to act on abuse allegations
No response from Simon Foster’s press office to Elaina Cohen’s allegations – also covered up by Keir Starmer
A former MP’s staffer who blew the whistle on alleged abuse of Muslim domestic violence victims has accused West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Simon Foster of ‘refus[ing] to investigate’ the failure of the force’s then-Chief Constable to act on evidence of the abuse – and that Foster and the current Chief Constable ‘disregarding’ further allegations, from a separate source, about the same alleged perpetrator.
Elaina Cohen, who used to work for Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood and took him successfully to an industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal when she lost her job after making protected disclosures about the abuse, first made the allegations against Foster during submissions to the tribunal, which Skwawkbox attended on behalf of its readers. Evidence given under oath to the tribunal by one of the victims of the ‘sadistic’ abuse, threats and blackmail she suffered was not disputed by Mahmood or his legal team.
And in an email today to Wolverhampton South East MP Pat McFadden, a Keir Starmer front-bencher, seen by Skwawkbox, Cohen wrote that:
Evidence already in the public domain shows Simon Foster has steadfastly refused to investigate why former West Midlands Chief Constable Thompson abandoned multiple victims when presented with evidenced abuse perpetrated by a Labour member working in a parliamentary office of a Labour MP.
An email from [Tory West Midlands Mayor] Andy Street states when he has the authority of a PCC he will seek justice for these women…
…an opposition party councillor has made representation to Simon Foster and Chief Constable Guildford with further allegations about the same perpetrator and was also disregarded.
I believe this information questions Simon Foster’s suitability to be a candidate.
Skwawkbox contacted Mr Foster’s press office for contact this morning, but received only an automated acknowledgement in reply.
Labour leader Keir Starmer and his general secretary David Evans also covered up the abuse, taking no action despite repeated warnings and appeals from Ms Cohen. They also did not act on Ms Cohen’s complaints of the antisemitism she suffered – or on complaints from Muslim women councillors in Birmingham about bullying, misogyny and threats at the hands of local party right-wingers.
Despite this appalling record, Starmer has continued to boast that he will be a ‘champion’ for victims of domestic abuse. Simon Foster has also promised to act to protect women:
Foster, who is standing for re-election, has just won a legal battle to prevent his PCC role being absorbed by Tory metro mayor Andy Street, but Elaina Cohen told Skwawkbox of her dissatisfaction with both Foster and his party boss:
I remain disappointed that Sir Keir Starmer refuses to acknowledge or act upon my protected disclosures and whilst I would support an independent office of a PCC I would question political appointments based on my own experience. In my opinion the cover-up of criminal abuse of vulnerable women is just as abhorrent as racism as a candidate issue.
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Video: EGM leak reveals RCP ‘refusing to answer patient safety questions’ and more
Clips from 2-hour leaked extraordinary general meeting appear to show Royal College of Physicians avoiding scrutiny – but making damning admission of financial conflict of interests in government’s expansion of ‘non-doctor-doctor’ roles
A leaked video of the entire ‘extraordinary general meeting’ (EGM) of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), called by doctors to try to force a slow-down in the roll-out of the government’s expansion of the use of non-medically-trained staff in ‘doctor’ roles, has revealed comments and obfuscation that have led medical professionals to call for the resignation of senior RCP officers. One has already resigned.
A number of patients have already died avoidably because of errors by ‘physician associates’ (PA), who have only two years’ training compared the seven-plus years completed by doctors. A Doctors’ Association UK survey has found ‘deeply disturbing’ abuse of the PA role in NHS trusts.
Keele University cardiology Professor Mamas A Mamas wrote of the leaked video:
The ‘PlatinumPizza’ Twitter/X account has posted a number of excerpts from the EGM video highlighting what it feels are the most noteworthy evasions and obfuscations. The first two reveal that, while the RCP claims that PAs must complete national exams, a freedom of information request revealed that this can be bypassed – and that the RCP, which criticised a far more comprehensive survey by the British Medical Association (BMA) as biased, in fact skews the results of its own small survey to present a falsely positive outlook:
Next, Dr Read tries to present the results of the survey. It's important to remember that Dr Read has since resigned from his post following the EGM.
Somehow, they've managed to mess-up even a basic Likert scale survey and clustered the neutrals with the positives! pic.twitter.com/G2DRpdegBx— platinumpizza
(@Xeon4f145d96s1) March 17, 2024
Doctors participating in the EGM also raised the issue of the fact that PAs are paid more than the junior doctors who often have to supervise them (and can be held to blame if a PA screws up) – but the RCP said it was ‘not a union’ and not interested in getting involved in pay issues:
Next, slightly sped-up, @DrOKaneAgain eviscerates the survey and its results. An insinuation about the BMA survey being "biased" and "leading" is raised. This comes after the RCP tries to pawn off its results by aggregating positive with neutral, as @doctor_oxford shared with us. pic.twitter.com/MefdfOmxT4
— platinumpizza
Next, the first of two posts about the RCP’s prioritisation of its finances above what nine out of ten doctors feels is a grave threat to patient safety:
Back to it, this clip talks about the fiscal and fiduciary responsibilities the RCP have. Although not shown in this particular clip (I'll include it in the thread later), mentions of millions in reparations/ law-suits/ class actions is made. pic.twitter.com/OYLBQtN5VO
— platinumpizza
And then the second, which shows the RCP’s treasurer admitting/warning that the RCP could stand to lose millions if the PA expansion is halted or even slowed down – and the RCP apparently disagreeing with the RCP of a short while below about being a ‘union’, at least when it comes to ensuring PAs have jobs:
I know you are all waiting to hear the millions the RCP might be forced to pay up…so this clip is just that!
Will someone think about the pensions?! pic.twitter.com/s8JD70ooXs— platinumpizza
And, adding farce to the ‘contempt’ of which doctors accused the RCP after the meeting, the panel refuses to say what additional benefit a PA brings to a ‘multi-disciplinary team’ that is not already present in the mix – rounded off by a clip of a doctor warning of the dangers of pressing ahead with the whole damaging system:
And lastly, in what can only be described as an epic season finale, @DrAsifQasim drops an absolute banger.
"i am deeply concerned we will take a patient safety hit if we do not act" pic.twitter.com/LaqIozrAEV— platinumpizza
And in a clip not included in the thread but created by Skwawkbox, one of the movers of the motion for the expansion to be slowed down until it can be shown to be safe for patients explains why it is so important for voting members of the RCP to support it, despite the RCP management’s recommendation to reject it and plough on:
Other discussions during the meeting included the panel failing to explain how it was going to ‘hold the government to account’ for the safe functioning of the system, as it had claimed it would – and treating the mere inclusion of any extra doctors in the government’s ‘long-term workforce plan’ as an achievement by the RCP.
The use of PAs, which is considered by nine out of ten doctors to be dangerous to patients and confuses many patients, who do not realise that they have not been seen and treated by a fully-qualified medic, is being pushed by the government as a way of ‘downskilling’ the NHS, reducing costs and allowing increased profits for private providers, under the guise of the so-called ‘NHS Workforce Plan’ as part of the ‘Integrated Care Systems’ (ICS) project.
ICS, formerly called ‘Accountable Care Organisations’ (ACOs) after the US system it copied, were renamed after awareness began to spread that ACOs were a system for withholding care from patients and that care providers were incentivised to cut care because they receive a share of the ‘savings’. The system remained the same, but the rebranding disguised the reality.
The government used a ‘statutory instrument’ (SI) to pass these changes, avoiding proper parliamentary scrutiny, but both the Tories and Keir Starmer’s Labour support these and other measures to cheapen the NHS for private involvement and only independent MP Claudia Webbe spoke against them during the brief SI debate. Green peer Natalie Bennett’s motion in the House of Lords to attempt to kill the instrument was defeated by the Tories with the help of Labour peers.
Watch the full RCP meeting here.
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Doctors’ Association survey finds ‘deeply disturbing’ misuse of govt’s non-doctor roles
Danger to patients and conflicts of interest as government continues to push for expanded use of ‘associate’ roles – with help from the Royal College of Physicians
A survey by the Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) has revealed ‘deeply disturbing’ ‘scope creep’ in which – as warned by the British Medical Association (BMA) and others – ‘physician associates’ (PAs), who are not qualified as physicians, are being used and acting as doctors.
A statement by the group warns that PA are not only overstepping the boundaries in which they are meant to operate, but also being used by NHS trusts and health companies to fill positions that require fully-qualified doctors:
PAs are overstepping boundaries, putting patient safety at risk, and impacting doctors’ training. This is shocking in itself, but made far worse by recent events at the Royal College of Physicians… Doctors at Torbay report PAs being used as “middle grades” – clear scope creep.
According to a doctor recruitment agency:
Doctors in speciality training programmes are known as Middle Grade doctors. Junior Middle Grade doctors are trainees who have completed their foundation training and are now in the early years of their speciality training. They are: ST1/ST2: ST stands for Specialty Training.
According to survey responses from doctors at Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust, as well as being used as ‘middle grade’ doctors and putting patients at risk by acting outside their competencies, PAs:
- work without adequate supervision
- consent inappropriately
- participate in unsafe clinical activity
- treated severe infective colitis with antibiotics and steroids simultaneously
According to NHS Scotland, steroids “shouldn’t be used if you have an ongoing widespread infection. This is because they could make it more severe.”
The DAUK also linked the survey results to this week’s fiasco at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), where attendees of an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) regarding concerns about PAs linked the behaviour of the RCP’s panel, which was accused of ‘contempt’, shutting down discussion and even filibustering, to the RCP’s financial conflict of interest in the millions of pounds it reportedly makes from administering PA examinations.
The RCP is hiding their full survey data from FRCP and Council until after the EGM vote. This lack of transparency is unacceptable…
The RCP Registrar, who sets RCP professional standards, works at this Trust. (Important note: there is no indication she was involved in this case [of steroid/antibiotic administration].)
Doctors at Torbay report PAs being used as “middle grades” – clear scope creep. Yet the Registrar, whose job is to “create consensus” & uphold standards, has been involved in withholding critical data that potentially sways the EGM vote. This is not leadership.
The Registrar’s own job description emphasises “accountability for clinical and professional affairs” and “…setting and maintaining professional standards.” How can the Registrar fulfil these duties, ensuring patient safety and upholding standards, when those very standards are being violated in their own Trust? This is an untenable conflict of interest.
In our view, the Registrar has failed in their core responsibility for transparency and integrity of RCP decision-making. We call for their resignation to restore trust in the RCP. The RCP’s position on PAs is currently compromised.
The statement concludes with a call on all voting members of the RCP to vote to support all the motions tabled at the EGM calling for a rethink on the issue of PAs:
Lastly, we are asking that Fellows vote in favour of all five motions as presented, to ensure that a safe revaluation of the PA role can be conducted to ensure patient safety and to ensure continued viable training of the medical profession moving forward.
The use of PAs, which is considered by nine out of ten doctors to be dangerous to patients and confuses many patients, who do not realise that they have not been seen and treated by a fully-qualified medic, is being pushed by the government as a way of ‘downskilling’ the NHS, reducing costs and allowing increased profits for private providers, under the guise of the so-called ‘NHS Workforce Plan’ as part of the ‘Integrated Care Systems’ (ICS) project.
ICS, formerly called ‘Accountable Care Organisations’ (ACOs) after the US system it copied, were renamed after awareness began to spread that ACOs were a system for withholding care from patients and that care providers were incentivised to cut care because they receive a share of the ‘savings’. The system remained the same, but the rebranding disguised the reality.
The government used a ‘statutory instrument’ (SI) to pass these changes, avoiding proper parliamentary scrutiny, but both the Tories and Keir Starmer’s Labour support these and other measures to cheapen the NHS for private involvement and only independent MP Claudia Webbe spoke against them during the brief SI debate. Green peer Natalie Bennett’s motion in the House of Lords to attempt to kill the instrument was defeated by the Tories with the help of Labour peers.
At least two people have already died avoidably because of misdiagnosis by PAs. Emily Chesterton, 30, who didn’t realise she wasn’t seeing a doctor, was treated for a calf strain when she had a deep vein thrombosis that led to a lethal embolism. Ben Peters, 25, was sent home from A&E with a ‘panic attack’ that was really a serious heart condition. A doctor’s Twitter/X thread includes details of others said to have died because of issues around PAs.
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Photos/video: members protest at Unite HQ over Graham’s betrayal of Gaza
General secretary’s actions and action prompts demo at union’s executive meeting
Unite union members furious at Sharon Graham’s continued silence on Israel’s genocide in Gaza – and her attempts behind the scenes to prevent officials representing the union at rallies and marches, as well as her ban on film showings and book readings on Unite premises and her attempt to cancel a pro-Palestine event, demonstrated outside Unite’s Holborn headquarters yesterday during a meeting of the union’s executive.
Around fifty protesters, including some with experience of the fight against South African apartheid, gathered with banners calling for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide, to hear speakers and chant for freedom.
Anti-apartheid campaigner Dr Jonathan Fluxman, of Doctors in Unite, spoke to the demo about the racist atrocity propaganda that Israel and much of the western media are using to dehumanise the Palestinians:
Another speaker talked of the solidarity of Jews around the world with the oppressed Palestinians:
And the protesters joined in the South African freedom call and response, “Amandla – Awethu”, ‘Power to the people’:
Sharon Graham has been slammed for her actions – and inaction – relating to Palestine and the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza. She has been publicly silent about the slaughter, but has been criticised for banning Unite officials and national banners from pro-Gaza protests, banned and smeared films and books exposing the ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam, placed an official under investigation who refused to cancel a Palestine solidarity fringe event at Labour’s 2023 annual conference – and senior Unite sources have alleged that she told her chief of staff to threaten a soon-to-retire official with the loss of a pension bonus if he did not soften his support for Palestinians. An email from her official union address to an angry member dismissed the genocide perpetrated on the people of Gaza.
Ms Graham’s tenure as Unite boss has also been marked by a string of other allegations – which neither she nor the union has denied – including alleged destruction of evidence against her husband in threat, misogyny and bullying complaints brought by union employees. She is also embroiled in both an employment tribunal for discrimination and a defamation lawsuit brought by Irish union legend Brendan Ogle for the union’s treatment of him and comments made about him by Graham and her close ally Tony Woodhouse.
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Heartbreaking video as little Palestinian boy talks seeing of dad, pregnant mum executed
Shocking matter-of-fact retelling by Faisal Al-Khaldi spotlights the horror of everyday life under Israeli genocide
A video from Alaraby TV provides a devastating window on the horrific reality of life for Palestinians and their children under the genocide of their Israeli occupiers – but has also showcased the love, humanity and courage of the people of Gaza and the West Bank.
Ahmed al-Khaldi and his pregnant wife Fatima were executed in December when Israeli soldiers invaded their home, an incident confirmed by human rights group Euro-Med Monitor. Their son Adam was also killed and his four-year-old little brother Faisal was wounded but survived. Six others in the house were also murdered.
Little Faisal has now spoken to Alaraby about seeing his parents murdered:
As Alon Mizrahi, who shared the video to Twitter, pointed out, the video of Faisal shows a ‘premature maturity’ that can only be born out of great horror – but the love of the anonymous woman who is caring for him is just as powerful. Mizrahi, in a post accompanying the video, commented:
1. The maturity of this kid, which is way beyond his tender age. He recounts things he saw almost like an adult giving testimony. This kind of premature maturity is only the result of tragedy and disaster: a world in which children are not allowed to be children. This has been true for Gaza for generations, thanks to Israel’s occupation, siege and frequent wars.
2. The other thing that stood out for me was the amounts of love showered on this kid by the woman that we never see, but only hear her voice, see her hand and feel her presence. This really melts your heart immediately in it’s universal humanity, but it is also distinctly Arab. This kind of outpouring, heartfelt love, with this tone of voice, this pyisicallity [sic], that heart fully open – that is immediately recognizable to me as Arab.
This genocide has been started, and is being inflicted, with always the big political and cultural purpose of dehumanizing Arabs and Muslims: this has been its underlaying foundation. But what is happening is exactly the opposite.
Hundreds of millions of people have been exposed, for the first time in life, to the immense beauty, generosity, humanity, courage and wisdom the Muslim and Arab world are capable of.
This was made with the intention of making Muslims and Arabs hated, and presenting them as sub-human; but I think, for much of humanity, this has opened gated and portals of love that had been shut before. What is coming out from Gaza’s doctors and journalists and volunteers and rescue teams and children and just people – this has captivated the hearts of countless good souls around this planet.
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Israel running fake ‘Hamas’ website to hack Palestine Solidarity activists
‘Hamas [dot] com’ full of viruses and hacks to compromise system security of visitors – caution: do not attempt to visit the site
The Israeli regime’s spy agency has set up a fake ‘Hamas’ website at hamas [dot] com in an attempt to entrap and hack Palestine solidarity activists and anyone interested in Palestinian resistance. Skwawkbox has broken the link in the text above for readers’ security.
The site is registered with Israeli web company Wix – which a genuine Hamas site would never use – and a scan of the site by virus checkers shows it is riddled with viruses and malware:
Even more sinisterly, the official ‘@israel’ Twitter published the site link as if it was the genuine Hamas website in an attempt to drive traffic to the site, where visitors machines were likely to end up hacked:
Israel’s propaganda machine has flopped catastrophically since the start of its genocide in Gaza, with every piece of attempted atrocity propaganda and misdirection of blame exposed almost as soon as it was put out – and in many cases Israel simply lies, as when it claimed that the UN had validated its false rape claims when in fact the UN spokespeople admitted they had found no evidence whatever to support the claims. Its attempt to hack the global base of people who stand against genocide was exposed just as quickly.
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Black Lambeth councillor quits Labour after suspension over Gaza vote
Sonia Winifred quits Labour in disgust and says she has no confidence in leadership
Cllr Sonia Winifred
A Black councillor in London’s Lambeth borough has quite the Labour party in disgust after being suspended for voting for a ceasefire motion put before the borough council in January.
Sonia Winifred announced her resignation on her social media this afternoon, saying that in voting for an immediate ceasefire she was representing her constituents in ‘wonderfully diverse’ Knights Hill:
Former Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, Britain’s first Black woman MP – also suspended by Keir Starmer – responded with an unfavourable comparison of Labour’s current Stalinist and imperialist regime to the party that stood against South African apartheid a few decades ago:
Shocked to hear that you have been disciplined because of your position on Gaza. On that basis not a single Labour councillor would have dared breathe a word about apartheid in the 80s.
— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) March 7, 2024
Solidarity with Sonia Winifred, Diane Abbott and all those hounded by Starmer’s red Tory regime for standing up for justice and humanity.
Israel has so far killed at least 40,000 civilians in Gaza, maimed twice as many and is inflicting starvation and disease on more than two million innocents, half of whom are children.
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