stephen morley

@mate_nah72661 @habibi_uk No it doesn’t.

@stephenmorley8 @habibi_uk It shows she doesn’t have an interest in local Newcastle issues

What does today's Green Party want? Hatred and violence. Try Chandi Chopra, a candidate in Newcastle. Her opening came when Hollie Mildenhall “stepped down as a candidate” in March 2026. Mildenhall had been convicted of criminal damage at a defence plant in the city. 1/10

Losing a baby in the Gaza concentration camp So you’re in a tent. You’re in your mid twenties. Last year you became a mother for the second time. Your husband was killed by a tank shell when he was out to get water six months ago. They only found his arm and his head. After he was hit the tank that killed him found it necessary to drive over him. The spot where he died looked like the ground of an abbatoir. Neither of you are politically involved. He was a fisherman before October 7th and you were a homemaker, in hip American lingo. You have two children. One is four and has stopped speaking entirely, even though before October 7th he talked non-stop, prattling commentary on anything he was doing while playing and firing off questions about whatever new thing he discovered. Now not a word. When a stranger comes near, he growls. Your daughter is 8 months old. She has chronic diarrhea. She is always cold, so you try to keep her practically glued to your own skin, close to your warm breath, covered in several layers, but the layers are too thin. You’d need a thick fur coat to really keep her warm like this. Your grandfather used to talk about how warm those are. He studied engineering in Moscow in the 1960s. Try finding fur coats in Gaza though. Try finding anything in Gaza now. Your parents are dead, your father died in the invasion of 2014 when the building he was doing some repair work in was struck by Israeli bombs. His chest was crushed by falling debris and he clung to life in a hospital for two days. Your mum died of a heart attack while fleeing her home in northern gaza begin November 2023. She was carrying her most prized possessions, family photo albums, pots and pans and blankets made by her own great great grandmother. In her arms she was carrying one of her 2 year old grandchildren, your niece, the youngest daughter of your brother. Current whereabouts unknown. Your mum collapsed and with her last strength prevented her granddaughter from hitting her head on the ground. She went without saying a word. So the last thing you remember her saying was hours before her death: ‘What about Kareem’s birthday cake?’ She had prepared a cake for your brother and when people started rushing to the south she realized she couldn’t take it with her. So now you are in a tent with your two kids and your niece. Your sister in law is also dead. She got hit by a sniper right above the knee and bled to death in little truck used to transport poultry before October 7th. A tourniquet could have saved her life, but in the chaos nobody had the reflex to perform this simple procedure. Her last words were: ‘Please treat my little girl as if she was your own.’ Your niece will have not even one memory of her own mother, so yeah, you will indeed be the only mum she will ever know. You had some hope when the ceasefire was announced, but today Israel has announced that no goods will be coming in. The doctors have told you that your baby girl is in critical need of pure water and antibiotics. All expected to come in on lorries, now held up near the Egyptian border. The few times you get to go online with your phone distant relatives abroad think it’s a good idea to send you some of the mocking videos Israelis are making. Thanks to posts on telegramme you know that a burned Palestinian child is a ‘hotdog’ and what happened to your husband Israelis call ‘making a Palestinian pancake’. On social media you also see plenty of users with no profile pictures repeat and again and again that ‘winning a war you didn’t start, is not a war crime.’ And when babies die here, those people will write ‘Palestinians should take better care of their children.’ Salt in open wounds, because everyone here is fighting round the clock to keep their children alive. In the tent next to you lives a family and their three year old girl has lost both legs. She crawls around as if she’s never known anything else. Initially she had lost only her feet when the flat they were in was bombed, but because of the dire situation in the healthcare system that Israel targets she got infected again and again until she lost both of her little legs. At night you can hear her mum wail and beat herself with a leather belt. Usually she screams that she should have kept the girl in the bath tub. The mum has heard that babies who were kept under a flipped over bath tub survived some bombardments unscathed. Sometimes the father stares at you and mutters: ‘I don’t know why she tortures herself like that. We didn’t even have a bath tub in our flat, we only had a shower installed.’ Your baby girl will die in the course of next week, because no aid will reach you on time. So the war gave you an extra daughter and will take one daughter away. Today you hear ten year old boys talk about the situation. One says: ‘As soon as Hamas turns over all the hostages, the Israelis will resume their offensive. It will be worse than before. They can’t defeat our warriors, but they can kill all the rest of us. They will cut Gaza down the middle again. Their ships will bombard the coast line, their air force will pummel us, their tanks and artillery will randomly shoot at tents and we will all be forced to flee to the Egyptian border. Then Trump will threaten Egypt with economic sanctions and they will have to take in those that survive.’ An other boy asks: ‘So why don’t we go to the Egyptian border right now and be the first ones in?’ The answer: ‘Don’t be silly, if we start moving to the Egyptian border now the Israelis will shoot us because they will think we will try to smuggle in aid.’ The other boy nods as if he should have known that himself. The war has turned kids into military and political analysts. But not your baby girl. She is a shivering leaf of a little human, any fluids you manage to put in, her cramped up body flushes out. You can see she’s losing the strength to even cry about her situation. Her color is fading. She has your husband’s eyes and they look dry and glazed over, as if she’s already crossing the threshold to some other world. A dwindling autumn leaf before she could fully enjoy her first spring. With her will die the tree she grew on. Though the tree will keep standing and will have some leaves left, inside the tree will be dead and petrified. The newspapers will not print your girl’s name and no tower will be lit up to match the color of her first curls, because this is not a regrettable death in the eyes of the ruling class, this is an execution.

Nothing beats the Palestinian resilience. "They did not lose hope, they clung to it despite everything. Today, they are taking their exams on the beach, after losing their schools and buildings." ©waleedmohammed304

@StuJ87 @Mark_00R9 @SpursLGBT I’ve never seen an Israeli flag at Spurs, and the first match I went to was the opening game of the 1966 season.

@Mark_00R9 @SpursLGBT Firstly; the club has strong ties to Jewish communities, Israeli flags have often been seen at Spurs for decades, we’ve been owned by Jewish businessmen for 40 years, and we have a club Rabbi instead of a club Pastor. Secondly; it’s not genocide.

No to De Zerbi

(each reinforcing the other); “the right”, a disregard and resistance to either of these dispositions and practices. All else - private property v the commons, profit v social need, fake v genuine democracy etc. etc. - flow from this. 2/2

If the political categories of “left” and “right” are to have any useful value, then they are best viewed as, fundamentally, representing, respectively: “the left”, a disposition for, and consistent practice of, caring for others, and understanding all that this entails 🧵 1/2

@ZackPolanski @JamesEFoster He’s got a point though, as a “half indoctrinated” (only half, and who isn’t “indoctrinated”) university student who found Marxism appealing I too am attracted to the Greens. Although I’m 70 now (and yes, I still believe in a classless society).

Across the country people are seeing through Nigel Farage. He would have dragged us into this illegal and unpopular war - all our bills would be going up even further under Reform. Whether it's the North East or London - more and more people are supporting the Green Party.

@DalrympleWill @MichaelRosenYes Plus, as William’s comment implies, Israel has been carrying out a death penalty against Palestinians for over eighty years.

Entirely misses the point that it's a death penalty that only applies to one ethnicity, the Palestinians, a people who are illegally occupied, living under military rule and subject to dispossession, constant violence and ethnic cleansing

@fletchersimon @JamesEFoster Very many workers have been saying that the LP isn’t “for the working class” from at least the 1926 general strike, let alone “posh kids”. And they are right.

Not only are these sorts of attacks on the Greens (see also attacks on them for the sin of dancing) not likely to be effective, they are actually likely to aggravate Labour-Green switchers who will see Labour MPs unable to comprehend why they are open to voting Green.

@habibi_uk Everything in this post shows one thing, and one thing only. That she cares about the lives of the tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women and children who have been slaughtered, or maimed, traumatised and lost their families (and so much more). Clearly you don’t.

Oh, you don't like "death!" chants? Get lost. Israel must go. it is important that more come to see what the Green Party has become. A party of extremism, hatred, and violence. Reject it, on sight. 10/10

@habibi_uk Everything in this post shows one thing, and one thing only. That she cares about the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women and children, or who have been maimed, traumatised and lost their families (and so much more). Clearly you don’t.

@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK I was going to say, ‘and that’s no bad thing’. But then, of course, it very much is.

Our @EmpirePodUK is increasingly feeling that its becoming a current affairs show thanks to the US & Israel

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@maariaris And how many will get anything near a fair trial before being condemned to a death sentence? An easy way of killing off yet more Palestinians.

Let’s see how many politicians in the so-called “free” world condemn this, let alone impose meaningful sanctions on Israel. We can bet if Russia or Iran or Cuba passed such a blatantly barbaric racist law we’d never hear the end of it.

@johnpmerrick I’m struggling to think why it matters what language someone speaks. Obviously it matters to the person concerned, for their ability to function in a society. But why for anyone else? Maybe if asking for directions?

Once more, absolutely nothing about where these dodgy stats came from

@DalrympleWill @sikingofficial But by the time he has read through the bible and the complete works of Shakespeare, he might not get around to your stuff.

Thank you @sikingofficial for choosing my collected works as your reading on Desert Island Discs: “He is a remarkable mind... I just love the way he weaves history & narrative together and I think he’s one of our national treasures. A remarkable man” share.google/syky876EeZnzdy…

@MouinRabbani @4Bassam Well, if his motto is, “my country right or wrong”, there is no telling what he might support or do.

In the post below Dan Burmawi, an overly ambitious member of the Christian Zionist cult, offers yet more desperate and hopelessly ignorant Ziobabble. In devotion to their Israeli deities the members of this fanatic cult have dedicated themselves to: - Portraying Palestine as an exclusively Muslim jihadi cause that forms the centerpiece of a Muslim conspiracy to take over the planet, as opposed to a struggle for universal rights and values supported by most of humanity. Those who support Palestine or oppose Israel are hysterically denounced as “useful idiots”, unwitting instruments and accomplices of “global jihad”; - Promoting the view that Islam and Muslims are fundamentally incompatible with Western society, are actively engaged in an organized campaign to dominate and subjugate the West to their will, and must therefore be collectively excised from the West, both physically and politically. The tropes and polemics deployed bear a remarkable similarity, and are often identical, to those employed against eastern European Jewish immigrants to the West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indeed, their 24/7 hysteria about Islam and Muslims, and the imminent collapse of Western civilization if these are not decisively confronted and removed, is a mirror image of that which ultimately produced the Holocaust; - Propagandizing that Israel is the West’s most reliable ally in this existential struggle, and is in fact the only state that retains the will and capacity to save the West from certain destruction by Islam. The Zionist state must therefore be uncritically and unconditionally supported under any and all circumstances. Because if Israel’s project to incinerate the Middle East fails, we all die. It is of course much easier to screech about Islam taking over the world than to praise the benefits provided by Israel’s killing of children by the thousand and of journalists and health professionals by the dozen. The result is drivel like that posted by Burmawi below. The so-called Mujahideen Battalion, the foreign Muslims who fought in Bosnia during the 1990s after it declared its independence from Yugoslavia, has been widely studied. Estimates of their numbers range from several hundred to several thousand, with most placing the total in the 1,000-2,000 range. The highest assessments top out at approximately 5,000. Yet in the post below Burmawi breezily inflates their number to “tens of thousands”, for which precisely zero evidence exists beyond the confines of his cult. With equal certitude, Burmawi confidently conveys the motivation of each and every one of them. It had nothing in common with that which has led men and women elsewhere to leave their homes and fight abroad. In the case of Bosnia, Burmawi assures us, after having apparently interviewed each of them, “They went because Islam told them their primary identity was Muslim”. No other aspect of their identity, no other factor, no other emotion or life experience was even remotely relevant in their decision to go to Bosnia and take up arms. Because Muslims are unlike the rest of us, and are for all intents and purposes a different species. Additionally, not one of these fighters went because Bosnians were under attack and being slaughtered. Rather, in every case, it was because “The ummah was under attack”. And lest you think such profoundly different and dangerous people could ever be part of your society, “[they left] behind the passports of their host nations … National borders were irrelevant”. You need proof? “After 2011 the flow shifted to Syria and Iraq, where young Muslims from all over the world joined ISIS”. Because Islam and the rest of the world have been at war for 1,400 years and always will be, until either Islam or the rest of the world is eradicated. It of course goes without saying that ISIS is the only genuine variant of Islam, a religion apparently impervious to diversity. The significance and military contribution of the Mujahideen in Bosnia remains contested. Some believe it was significant, others that it was marginal. Be that as it may, the unanswered question is why, with the world’s Muslims constantly indoctrinated that “their primary identity was Muslim”, and encouraged to leave their passports behind, only a few hundred to a few thousand made the trek to Bosnia. Perhaps it is Burmawi who is not only indoctrinated but desperately indoctrinating? One military contribution to the Bosnian war effort whose significance is not in doubt concerned not men, but materiel. During the 1990s, Iran’s Islamic Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) sent thousands of tons of weaponry and ammunition to the Bosnians. The conduit for these deliveries was Croatia, which was also supplied by Iran as part of this arrangement. As has been extensively documented, the Croatians made sure to first obtain US approval for these transfers, and duly received it from Washington. This is not something Burmawi cares to discuss, because in his Manichean fantasy world there is only Islam and Israel. At the conclusion of his post Burmawi helpfully links to one of his hysterical screeds where, with all the passion of a national socialist, he provides statistics on the Muslim population of various Western states, and makes the alarming discovery that Muslim voters can influence elections like any other group. Why is this such a mortal threat? In his words: “In Islam, the ummah, the global community of believing Muslims, trumps every other allegiance. Citizenship, passports, and national borders are administrative conveniences, not sacred bonds. Nationalism is a modern Western invention to be tolerated only until the ummah regains strength. There is no Islamic equivalent of “my country, right or wrong.” There is only the House of Islam versus the House of War, and every Muslim, wherever he holds a passport, belongs first to the former. When numbers grow large enough, this hierarchy asserts itself through the ballot box.” Pure Ziobabble. As hopelessly desperate as it is desperately ignorant. As previously noted, take one portion each of Gad Saad, Adam Louis-Clown, Eyal Yakoby, and Brianna Wu, blend thoroughly in a circus, and you have made a Dan Burmawi.

@thatbloodyMikey Only on local news. The Robinson effort was got much more coverage and on national news.

Sadly, Not strange at all. The people you’re fighting against fucking LOVE a toothless Rally. You’ll have made some nice social media content, a bit of grift, & a few more members to your latest Left Org, but ultimately, You’ll *never* enforce change, by politely Marching for it.

@airuyi @Heccles94 The problem is that “all of the people of the UK” don’t share the same interest. That’s my point. Any idea of a ‘national interest’ will always obfuscate this. Furthermore, my fundamental solidarity is with the whole of humanity, which notions of “interest” undermine.

Yes that is what they do, they pervert the national interest to mean "the epstein class's interest". But the national interest is actually simple. It means the best interests of all the people of the united kingdom. So for example Israel's forever wars are against the UK national interest because they immiserate the region weakening our economy, they destabilise our borders with migrants and violence, and the migration and economic injury destabilises our political system encouraging angry destructive political movements (Leave, Reform). Hollowing out our manufacturing replacing it with financial services is against the national interest because we lose our ability to make they things we need to defend ourselves, we concentrate wealth in one part of the country which divides us politically and threatens to break apart the state. If we reframe the national interest to mean "the interests of the people of this country" it's a powerful weapon against all the terrible policies of the last 20 years. And the great thing about it is that the Daily Mail can't criticise or mock the national interest..

Listen to what this man actually says. Actually listen, and then tell me what you think in the comments 👇