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Being an MP should come with the condition that you have to spend a week each on the coalface in a school, hospital, shelter, hospice, food bank, job centre and refugee centre

@AndyBurnhamGM the one question I want you to answer, Andy: Was @jeremycorbyn treated badly by Labour? Would you welcome him back?

Watch as @nationalgriduk chomps through a hedge. In nesting season. Despite its DCO stating “”In accordance with good practice measure B02, vegetation with the potential to support breeding birds will be programmed to be removed outside of breeding bird season (March to August inclusive) where practicable”. So why was it not practicable not to do it in this instance?The ecologist found nothing (what a surprise) but there is no way a hedge like this does not have nesting birds. (This is Bramford to Twinstead, not Norwich to Tilbury) @PylonsEAnglia

The woman in this video is Caitriona Graham an Irish citizen. This is how our citizens are being treated by Israel , having been abducted in international waters, trafficked to a third state and now experiencing humiliation, stress positions, aggression and violence.

In 2019 MPs voted on including a Customs Union in the withdrawal agreement. It was defeated 276-273. If 2 MPs had voted the other way it would have passed Among those who voted against were 5 LibDems, including Ed Davey. Why? They didnt want to do anything that helped Corbyn

All five of the defendants' speeches were powerful and moving, each in their own unique way. You can read all of them, including Zoe's full speech, on Real Media realmedia.press/filton-6-closi… 15/

But this time YOU are the decision makers. Unlike what the prosecution and the government want you to be, you are not a rubber stamp. Don't fall into their trap. Find the six of us not guilty of criminal damage. 13/

You know that we have been treated as terrorists throughout this process. A domestic violence worker, two nursery schoolteachers, one oxford grad, an artist and me. It sounds dystopian, but it’s true. Just like the proscription of Palestine Action. 12/

And so I will never be ashamed that I was on trial, that I have spent 18 months in prison, that I may face many more. 11/

I can say with absolute certainty that this is the best thing I have ever done, because there is a good chance that because of our actions that night, innocent lives were saved. 10/

But you can be sure of one thing: I am PROUD. I am so proud that I took part in this. I am proud that I overcame my fear and took action. Because of course I was scared. You don’t just break into an Israeli weapons factory for fun! 9/

I want you to know however, that whatever you decide, I will not hold it against you. How can I when you have been kept so in the dark? 8/

Not politicians, not legal experts, not barristers and judges wearing 400-year-old horsehair on their heads, but a panel of my equals. You are the best counterweight to power and tyranny within the legal system as it exists today. 7/

I have a lot to lose by going to prison. But you know that we all actually intended to be arrested on 6 August. The reason I was confident enough to allow that was because I knew that now, 20 months in the future, I would be standing in front of 12 ordinary people like you. 6/

After hearing the six of us give evidence you might think it odd that what’s happening in Palestine has gone completely unmentioned. you might have noticed certain words that have been blacklisted, that until our closing speeches, the word GENOCIDE wasn’t said once. 5/

You heard how direct action is effective, how it ended apartheid during the civil rights movement in America, how it is being used in the UK today to shut down weapons factories, FOUR of which have been closed permanently. 4/

You heard how we tried every democratic means available to us, including demonstrations, fundraisers, encampments, petitions, writing to MPs, vigils, arms factory pickets, the list goes on. And how none of it worked. 3/

During this trial you’ve heard some very important evidence. That there are factories on British soil making weapons to send to Israel. That the drones they make include Thor VTOL quadcopters used to drop grenades, drones that are advertised as ‘battle tested’ on Palestinians 2/

I'm reluctantly posting on X again because the world needs to read this. My daughter Zoe Rogers gave her own closing speech at the Filton trial, as did 4 other defendants, while their barristers looked on. This is what she said 🧵 1/

It's crazy they want you to believe Iran comes all the way to the UK, not to attack the military bases bombing their country But instead to carry out random attacks against empty ambulances and convince mentally ill people with no connection to Iran to carry out random stabbings

@ZackPolanski Apologising at all was a mistake, Zack. Don't ever give these people an inch, it won't stop them at all. Whoever advised you to apologise does not have your best interests at heart. You've got the people on your side, you don't need the bureaucrats