Ross Bofinger 🇵🇸

I wrote a song, dedicated to the children of Palestine, past, present and future. And to all children of genocide. It’s called ‘A simple song’. May it meet this moment in hope, while the tide of global consciousness is changing, so the child born now grows up in a world with a free Palestine, and what that will mean for every child everywhere.

I will never vote Labour again. Not in my lifetime. I will never forget the skeletal faces of starving children—cut off from food just beyond a sealed border. A border kept closed by choice. I will never forget the silence bought by political donations—or blind loyalty that bind Labour MPs to a policy over 100 charities and NGOs have called unconscionable. And I promise you this: as long as I live, I will never let the world forget. This is Labours greatest political miscalculation in my lifetime. Worse even than Iraq. It will destroy the Labour Party at the next election. Opening the door for Farage. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary belong in The Hague. This is a party complicit not only in genocide, but in the criminalization of peaceful protest—the cornerstone of democracy. Where words on signs are treated as more dangerous than bombs dropped on schools. On hospitals. On churches. All filled with children seeking shelter. This party are a true terror. For shame.

I am calling on the Government to act following the ICJ Advisory Opinion and impose sanctions on Israel. We have rightly imposed widespread sanctions on Russia for its illegal war on Ukraine. We now need to do the same in our response to Israel’s actions on Gaza.

Oh what have we become. Apparently now so bereft of ideas and grappling childlike with how to deal with the water industry, in a speech later today govt will yet again make another attempt to claim responsibility for policies and ideas that were actually developed and launched under previous Tory administrations. Examples. 1. "Record investment: with £104 billion." Had nothing whatsoever to do with this govt, it's the result of work started in Oct 2022, 2.5 years before the 2025 election. 👇 2. "Ringfence customers' bills for upgrades." Once again work which had been completed early 2024, before the election. Ofwat were due to make the announcement but were prevented from doing so because of purdah rules. 👇 3. "Reinvesting company fines into local projects:" Policy was actually announced by Tory govt on 9th April 2024, 3 months before the election. 👇 4. "The Water (Special Measures) Act: banned unfair bonuses." The industry dealt with that idea with a rather contemptuous display of arrogance last Thursday. Southern Water is one of the 10 companies 'banned' from paying bonuses. What did the company do, why doubled the CEO's salary instead that's what. Oddly govt were warned that's exactly what was going to happen by none other than the chairman of Thames Water. In fact the same TW that discussed, at a board meeting, how to get round the ban and then promptly paid managers £2.5 million in bonuses. 👇 Apart from destroying your credibility in a heartbeat by trying to claim responsibility for other people's work what leaves me totally baffled by all of this is that No10 signed off and approved it all. Or did they? Either way, mind blown.

TOMORROW! See you there! Let's make this a show of force so the university knows we will NOT let them threaten us like this!