UPDATE We got an expedited date to “reclaim” (appeal) against the suspension of the case, on 25 September. We shall also be reclaiming against the decision not to send the case straight to the Inner House.
All parties seemed to agree there may just be time, if our appeal is successful, to finish the Scottish judicial review before the Supreme Court meets on 4 November to hear the English case.
While the UK government did not oppose the timetable for the appeal, they will be opposing the appeal itself. One argument they used again is that the closed (secret) process for “intelligence” evidence may need too much time for the hearing to go ahead.
In the course of this argument the UK government’s lawyers revealed that there is a five-day process after the Court of Session reaches its verdict, for the security services to vet the judgement before it is published. All the lawyers just took this as completely normal.
It is not normal. In a case about human rights and excessive power of the state, the security services get to vet what the judges can say? It is astonishing. What kind of society have we become?
Today was a win in that we have the quick appeal and still the possibility of a judicial review. Another way of looking at it is that it is yet more Lawfare and leads to yet another expensive hearing, still without having the actual review. But we will fight hard now because this is the crunch and I will very much be looking for people to come and support at court on the 25th.
UPDATE ENDS
I have never been so coldly angry as I am at Lord Young’s further suspension of the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action, now until after the Supreme Court decision in the English case.
The grounds given – the public cost of the judicial review and the management of judicial resources – are ludicrous. The costs in Scotland alone of police time in arresting and charging hundreds of people as terrorists for supporting Palestine Action, the costs of the courts that will try them all, and the potential public cost of keeping scores of people in jail as terrorists, will run into many millions. This massively outweighs the costs of a three-day judicial review to decide the legality of all this.
Lord Young granted the judicial review on the explicit grounds that residents of Scotland whose human rights were being infringed in Scotland were entitled to seek a remedy from a Scottish court in Scotland’s separate jurisdiction. He ruled this was irrespective of the existence of proceedings down in London, in another jurisdiction. These were already well underway. Lord Young ruled this…
I am satisfied that it is appropriate to grant permission for this judicial review to proceed in Scotland notwithstanding the existence of English proceedings which are at a more advanced stage. As a matter of principle, a petitioner who has standing and whose petition sets out arguments of sufficient merit to satisfy s27B(2)(b) of the 1988 Act should not be refused permission because of the existence of parallel proceedings in another UK jurisdiction. The petitioner claims that his legal rights have been illegally circumscribed by the 2025 Order. He is entitled to look to the courts of his place of residence for a determination of that complaint…
Any decision in England could not found a plea of res judicata in Scotland. A Scottish court would not be required by precedent to follow any decision of the High Court in England. There had been a number of recent examples of important constitutional challenges proceeding in parallel in Scotland and England.
Since the granted permission for the judicial review in January, I have been five times in court trying to make the review actually happen. It has been postponed again and again in a deliberate delaying tactic. It has been postponed so that secret “intelligence” evidence might be heard in secret court sessions that I am permitted no information from. It has been postponed by a series of suspensions granted to the UK government by Lord Young pending developments in England.
Our petition for the judicial review was submitted last October. The review was granted in January. Dates were set for March. Since then it has been simply delayed and delayed and delayed.
At one stage the review was postponed by Lord Young for three weeks so that the Advocate General could appear in person to argue for a suspension – after he had initially refused two motions for suspension. The Advocate General made no new arguments, cited no new precedents, but in a sickening deference to executive authority Lord Young granted the suspension. In which Hell we have been stuck ever since.
We have spent over £200,000, raised from over 2,000 individuals, on multiple court appearances to try to get things moving. That is even without counting two costs awards looming over our heads from procedural motions to get things moving, which Lord Young ruled against and in the UK Government’s favour.
This is not just Lawfare by the government – an effort at constant delay, delay, delay and a deliberate tipping of the review into a procedural morass where no progress is ever made. It is Lawfare in which the judiciary is complicit with the executive. If Lord Young had no intention of allowing a Scottish judicial review before the English case is decided by the Supreme Court, he ought never to have granted permission in the first place. Instead they have exhausted our resources, financial, intellectual and emotional, by enmiring us in a process it is now clear there was never any intention of bringing to a conclusion.
Everybody already knew the English proceedings were at the Court of Appeal and going, either way, to end up at the Supreme Court, at the time Lord Young granted permission to proceed in January. Had he stated then that he was granting permission to proceed, but only after the Supreme Court had decided the English case, we might have given up and not spent £200,000 and nine months of my life. It has been a form of judicial entrapment in which Lord Young has been, at the kindest possible reading, extremely accommodating to the UK government and utterly indifferent to the ordinary Scots seeking to challenge them.
Tomorrow we appear before the Inner House of the Court of Session to discuss – only – whether an appeal against Lord Young’s suspension of the review can be heard on an urgent basis, or whether the appeal will take place in normal time – which would probably mean after the Supreme Court hearing anyway.
Here is Lord Young’s latest decision in full:
COS-P1017-25 Pet: Craig Murray for Judicial Review
Halliday Campbell WS Office of the Advocate General
25 August 2026 Lord Young
The Lord Ordinary, having resumed consideration of the opposed motion of the petitioner to recall the sist granted on 28 May 2026 and to invite the Lord Ordinary to report the whole cause to the Inner House; refuses same for the reasons set out in the note appended hereto; thereafter, sists the cause pending the outcome of the Supreme Court decision in Ammori v SSHD; and grants leave to reclaim the interlocutor of 25 August 2026.
Andrew Young
Note
- By any interlocutor of today’s date, I have re-sisted the cause on the respondent’s motion and have refused the petitioner’s motion to report the whole cause to the Inner House in terms of rule 34.1(1). As with a similar motion heard on 14 July 2026, I shall grant leave to reclaim against this decision.
- A summary of the procedural position is set out in the Note appended to the interlocutor issued on 14 July 2026. On that date, I refused the petitioner’s motion to recall a previous sist granted on 28 May 2026. That sist subsequently ended once the determination of the onward appeal in R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department was determined by the Supreme Court. Miss Ammori was granted permission to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court and the substantive hearing before the Supreme Court has been fixed for 4th & 5th November 2026.
- I was addressed by senior counsel for the petitioner and respondent on 20th August 2026 in relation to further procedure in this cause. At the request of the special advocates previously appointed, I allowed a period for written submissions to be made by the special advocates.
The special advocates subsequently informed the court that they did not wish to make any submissions on further procedure.
- The petitioner opposed the respondent’s motion to renew the sist pending final determination of the Supreme Court’s decision in Ammori. It was submitted that these proceedings had been the subject of repeated delay instigated by the respondent which was contrary to the objective of speedy determination of judicial review proceedings. It was no excuse that these proceedings were delayed by the closed material procedures and need for special advocates. It was incumbent on the respondent and special advocates to act with alacrity to enable the speedy determination objective to be satisfied. There was no rule of court expressly allowing the sist of judicial review proceedings. The court should refuse the sist as incompetent.
- The petitioner renewed his motion, previously made in July, that this court should report the whole cause to the Inner House with a view to the Inner House hearing argument on the merits of the petition and answers. In this way, a Scottish appellate decision could be issued and would be before the Supreme Court when hearing the Ammori appeal. There was a distinct Scottish dimension since individuals in Scotland were being prevented from expressing support for Palestine Action. Differences could be seen in the approaches adopted by the police and prosecution authorities in Scotland compared to England. A main plank of the argument in favour of proscription had been sentencing remarks made in Sheriff Court proceedings. In the absence of an express “leap-frog” provision in Scotland, rule of court 34 should be utilised to enable Scottish input into the Ammori proceedings before the Supreme Court.
- The respondent sought a further sist until the issue of the Supreme Court’s decision in Ammori. The reasons for the sist had been articulated on previous occasions and remained valid. It was likely that many of the issues raised by the petitioner would be finally resolved by the Supreme Court. If the appeal was successful before the Supreme Court, that would bring these proceedings to an end as the respondent accepts that the decision would be given effect in Scotland. If the appeal to the Supreme Court was unsuccessful, it was still likely that several of the major issues would have been resolved leaving any residual issues to be dealt with in these proceedings. The efficient use of court time and the avoidance of unnecessary costs justified the further sist. The sist was competent under the inherent case management powers of the court.
- The motion seeking to have the case reported to the Inner House was opposed as being inappropriate. There was no precedent for a whole cause to be reported in order that the first substantive determination was by an appellate court. The petitioner was assuming that the Inner House would have the capacity to hear argument and issue a decision in advance of the Supreme Court hearing. Such indications as the respondent’s agents had from court administration was that court availability might be an issue. The petitioner was also assuming that the Supreme Court hearing, which had been fixed for two days on the assumption that it was only dealing with an appeal from the Court of Appeal, could accommodate input from a Scottish perspective.
- It was not the primary position of either party that the present proceedings should proceed at this stage to a substantive hearing before me.
The petitioner’s request to have the whole cause reported to the Inner House was recognised by senior counsel to be innovative. I accept that the lack of a precedent should not exclude the benefits of such an approach being evaluated. Judicial review proceedings which do not generally involve significant disputed factual matters could, in theory, be more amenable to a leap-frog approach than other types of proceedings. However, the unique nature of this motion does cause me to hesitate. Unless and until there is guidance from the Inner House as to the situations in which the Inner House would be willing to hear causes in the absence of a decision of the Outer House, it is difficult for a Lord Ordinary to assume the role of gate-keeper for the Inner House. As the respondent pointed out, there are many practical issues which the Inner House are best placed to consider. I have decided that the appropriate course is to refuse the petitioner’s motion to report under rule 34.1 but to grant leave to reclaim so that the matter can be placed before the Inner House for its re-consideration, if the petitioner so wishes.
- I shall grant the respondent’s motion to re-sist until the Supreme Court issues its judgment in Ammori. This remains, in my view, the most expeditious way to resolve several of the critical issues. Any issues which remain to be resolved after that decision has been issued, can be focussed for determination in the present petition. I consider this course will minimise legal expense and the burden on the courts’ resources.
Ultimately, this will secure the speediest final determination of the issues which the petitioner raises.
- I shall make no order in relation to the adjustments recently intimated by the petitioner. I anticipate that a further period of mutual adjustment may be required but that will depend on the terms of the Supreme Court’s decision.
Andrew Young
25 August 2026
So Lord Young’s plan is that the Supreme Court should consider the judgements of English courts only, and then decide for the whole United Kingdom, leaving any Scotland only issues to be considered by a subsequent Scottish judicial review.
His idea that a Scottish judicial review held after the Supreme Court judgement will be “speedier” than a review held before the Supreme Court judgement is an interesting defiance of the normal concept of time.
He has given up on his earlier justification of “comity” with the English courts now that he can claim he is acknowledging the superiority of the Supreme Court – but with no Scottish input. His argument boils down to this and this only. It will be cheaper not to have a Scottish judicial review. He has no other point.
In which case, why grant one in the first place?
The £200,000 we have spent on this case has been entirely eaten up by Lord Young and the UK government on procedural rubbish. The court has so far heard nothing of the Genocide in Gaza or of the arrest of respectable pensioners in Scotland just for opposing that Genocide.
The court appears determined to keep it that way. They are simply avoiding a confrontation with the British state. A Scottish court is not going to find the ban legal and proportionate. That woud set up a political and constitutional conflict which the Scottish judiciary do not want. So they find ways to avoid the question.
The Scottish government is also deliberately avoiding conflict with the UK over Palestine Action. The decision to charge the alleged Palestine Action activists as having a “terrorism connection” in spray painting Trump’s golf course in Scotland is sickening. The conflation of some spray paint with terrorism is simply ludicrous. The British state has distorted the word “terrorism” beyond all rational meaning.
But it has to be noted that this is not a UK government decision. It is a Scottish decision by the prosecution – the Crown Office, which is under the Lord Advocate. The Lord Advocate is not only appointed by the Scottish Government, he is a minister in John Swinney’s SNP cabinet. They have decided to press the terrorist connection.
It should be remembered that the SNP did not vote against the proscription of Palestine Action in parliament. They have not used their control of Police Scotland to instruct the police to deprioritise arresting old ladies for holding placards, when there is no shortage of more obvious crimes in Scotland, like burglaries which go uninvestigated.
One key point in our case is that the UK government consulted nobody – not one person – in Scotland before the proscription of Palestine Action. They did not consult the Scottish Government, Police Scotland or the Scottish Counter Terrorism Strategy Board (Contest). They consulted the Israeli Embassy, weapons manufacturers, Jewish groups and even a Lebanese Christian group – but no Palestinians. And not Scotland.
The papers in our judicial review have all been copied as it goes along to the Lord Advocate’s office, at his request. The Scottish government could have intervened to support us. The Scottish government is not arguing that it should have been consulted over the proscription, as it has responsibility for police, courts, prisons, and human rights in Scotland. It is not arguing that Scotland is a separate legal jurisdiction and there is a right to a separate Scottish judicial review.
It was open to the Scottish government to intervene to argue those things. They have declined to do so. It is plain to me Swinney supports the proscription of Palestine Action and has no interest in the independence of the Scottish legal system..
It was recently revealed that the Scottish Government has continued through Scottish Enterprise to funnel funds to the Israeli weapons industry in Scotland. We know that in past ministerial positions Swinney gave government money to Israeli settler company Eden Springs to compensate them for boycott losses, and ordered the removal of teaching materials on Palestine from Scottish schools. That is without mentioning the continued cover-up of the content of Angus Robertson’s Scottish government talks with the Israeli Deputy Ambassador.
Like all those trying to take any action against the Genocide in Palestine, I have run up against the all-encompassing resistance of an amorphous but suffocating Establishment. I had naively hoped to demonstrate that the corrupt nexus is less complete in Scotland. I have instead proven the opposite.
The institutions of western democracy are revealed as a sham. Justice is a lie. A court which will not defend the citizen against an authoritarian state, but defines its role as merely the will of that state, is not an instrument of justice. It is a mere instrument of state power.
I am not putting out a call for people to come to court tomorrow Tuesday, because it is only looking at the timetable and may only last five minutes, and we have no firm start time. However I shall be there from around noon and am not discouraging company if anyone wants to join me.
The fight goes on because the alternative is surrender to rampant authoritarianism. I shall let you know how we get on in court this time. I am not going to request more donations to the legal fund until this procedural hurdle is cleared.
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Truly we are in an age of monsters.
Firstly I do wish you’d refrain from calling them the Scottish Government – there is no such thing as the Scottish Government – in reality its the Scottish Colonial Administration – as for the LA what do you expect from her she is loyal to the English Crown, and not to Scotland – as is the COPFS, and like her – Swinney and all the other MSP’s (gravy trainers) also swear the oath of allegiance to England’s monarch, as does the Solicitor General and ALL the judges in Scotland.
You might be playing by the rules – but the rules are constructed so that you cannot win – you may think the judicial system is on our side, but its not – under the veil it ultimately serves England and the status quo.
What on earth did you expect from a british court?
The british political class has no priority whatsoever other than the War On Russia, namely, in getting Americans to fight that war for them.
For their part, the Americans sure have a thing for Israel.
It’s the equivalent of a politician kissing a baby to win Momsie’s vote.
“The british political class has no priority whatsoever other than the War On Russia, ”
There would be an awful lot of very disappointed Zionists in the world if that were to be true.
you & yours are fighting Empire’s highest-placed leeches and lawfare is, indeed and unfortunately, one of their most powerful weapons. prayers, as always.
The right to trial was cancelled in 1939 on the understanding it would be reinstated at wars end! It was not! They are now trying to stop trial by jury altogether and when they do, there is only a dictatorship. The creation of standards Right back to 1900. Starving slavery at freezing to death! Abject poverty … hunger, no education, no SS, no medical treatment. The Highlands and Islands and Moray were readied for privatisation 12 years ago. Now they are readying conscription passed several years ago on a two Tory private members bill then sisted after two readings in Westminster and two readings in the House of Lords! We need our leaders before our nation is destroyed using Westminster’s blackshirts!
I hope you’re OK Craig. Fighting a legal pitched battle where the judicial referee has sold out to the executive branch is bad enough, but this has the same nasty stench of total collapse of the Separation of Powers we got from the procedural BS in Julian Assange’s case. You’ve been out front playing a straight bat while the mandarins of the judiciary snicker into their sleeves. That is depressing as hell and very effective – the best way to control the public is by loss of hope, and we live in a world where government, the police and the judiciary are utterly untrustworthy. The curious case of Kent police unwilling to manage blackshirted and masked anti-Islamic marchers in Dover – and lying about it – comes to mind. I wonder if the time has come to abandon litigation and take up a peaceful hobby – paint balling, for example, or clay pigeon shooting. We are still in Grouse shooting season…
Law itself is an expression of the Western ethos of domination and exploitation, derived from Plato’s separation of reality into self and other. Power and control is the very essence of our morally corrupt and ethically barren society. We fully deserve the destruction coming our way.
I wonder whether a Constitutional Convention which sought to resurrect the integrity of Scottish sovereignty and the Claim of Right, a derivation of the old Convention of the Estates, made necessary today by our imperilled sovereignty and long running constitutional emergency, might be extended to examine the law.
Not merely to remind Scottish politicians and require them to recognise Scottish sovereignty as ascendant over UK parliamentary sovereignty, but also to audit the loyalties of Scotland’s legal profession. If they have no faith in Scots Law and its bespoke protections in the Union Treaty, then why should Scotland keep faith with them?
Sovereignty is sovereignty. Once upon a time, words meant something. The Community of the Realm is sovereign in Scotland, and neither mealy mouthed politicians nor lawyers have the right to abdicate said sovereignty, and there should be consequences when they do. At present there are none.
Assemble the Convention.
I think post Independence there needs to be a real cleanout of the judiciary.
That cleanout needs to occur BEFORE Independence, Craig, though, granted, the chances of that are exceedingly remote: not like this or any other Scottish so-called * Government * is ever going to effect such a cleanout. It, along with Police, Judiciary and Holyrood itself are all adjuncts of the British State and their fealty is to that British State.
As you’re discovering to your cost, this subordinating of Scotland’s interests to those of England-as-Britain has acted and will continue to act in defence of the * Union * & Unionism per se.
A Constitutional Convention – that much-talked about/never realised desiderata – could have such power, eg to compel change within the Judiciary; but would require to be comprised of people with the requisite * bottle * to face-down the inevitable, status quo preserving resistance. I doubt there is any more small & large ” C ” Cconservative institution than the Scottish Judiciary. Riven as is by that aforementioned Brit loyalty; self-interest and the dark,” known unknown ” * degrees * of centuries long Freemasonry involvement
The idea that Scotland’s ‘distinct and independent’ legal system is being upheld by figures calling themselves Lord Young is inherently comical.
It caused me to have a look at how many more of these characters Scotland can boast of.
It seems there are fully 74 Scottish ‘peers’ in total:
8 Dukes (including one royal duke, the Duke of Rothesay)
4 Marquesses
39 Earls
3 Viscounts
20 Lords
How much longer does it go on? The degree of passivity from Scots in the face of their subjection is something that will (hopefully) seem remarkable in the future.
Yes, Z, that * honours * seeking/accepting faux-Scottish Creepocracy has been in-situ since the Union of the Crowns 1603 and was only intensified with the Union of the Parliaments in 1707 – the latter in reality nothing less than the annexation of Scotland by England. ” we have catch’d them good “, quoth English propagandist & spy Daniel Defoe. And so it came to pass.
As for your last sentence……..aye, we can hope that will be case, my concern is that it will become even more difficult with time, not least because of the trend of ever-increasing Anglo relocation to Scotland; along with that of non-UK migrants.
Not to say either of those two groups will AUTOMATICALLY be anti-Independence, but neither is there any reason to think they will be pro-Independence. Ultimately though, it will be down to those who consider themselves Scottish – rather than some bogus ” dual-citizen ” identity, or, as is to large degree the case now – people who are merely residents in Scotland but still identify with their country of birth, eg England – to stand up for and be prepared to * fight * ( if only figuratively ) for Scotland’s – REAL – interests
“(M)erely residents in Scotland” – as opposed to those who truly identify with the nation and soil?
Or “other people live here, but it’s our home”, as Nick Griffin once put it.
See also Volume 2, Chapter 3, of Adolf Hitler’s “My Struggle”:
https://mk.christogenea.org/references/mein-kampf-book-2-chapter-3
Back to the topic of this thread – surely the main point should be that people in Scotland (regardless of ethnicity or descent) are being denied what should be their right to protection under Scottish law? Even if it were only one person who arrived as an illegal immigrant yesterday and hasn’t got a clue what a sporran is, or who Walter Scott was, that would be wrong.
“– people who are merely residents in Scotland but still identify with their country of birth, eg England – ”
You write as if these are the majority of the English immigrants to Scotland. Do you have any evidence for this? Is it not equally likely that those who chose to move from England to Scotland do so , not because they wish to form an English fifth column against Scottish independence, but because they want to live in Scotland, like the idea of Scotland as a nation and are either indifferent to or supportive of Scottish independence? There are plenty of people who live in England who support independence for Scotland and plenty of people of undoubted Scottish heritage who are resident in Scotland who don’t. Why should people not be free to think that Scotland would be better off in a union with England? They may, in your eyes, be wrong, but your job as a supporter of independence is to convince them they are wrong and you won’t get very far in doing that by categorising them as either traitors or fifth columnists.
Developing that theme, why should anyone be more supportive of a country they find themselves a citizen of simply because they happened to have been born to parents who were also citizens of that same country, than someone who has made an active choice to become a citizen of that country and has put themselves through the upheaval of changing countries of residence? There is a well-known expression, “the zeal of the convert” that applies here, I think.
@ Bayard….” You write as if these are the majority of the English immigrants to Scotland. “.
Did I fuck.
Did you somehow miss this part? ….’ Not to say either of those two groups will AUTOMATICALLY be anti-Independence….’ . Don’t try to put words/meanings into my mouth, pal. I’m fucking sick of people doing so, not just to me, but to anyone with the temerity to suggest maybe, just maybe, Scottish people are the ones best placed/disposed to know what’s best for THEIR country. Aye, that’s right THEIR country, not the country of those who arrived 5 fucking minutes ago, or those English migrants who say – and I’ve heard this incalculable times – when asked what brought them to Scotland reply ” too many Blacks/Muslims “oh the fucking irony.
Having voted for a succession of utterly useless Political Parties over decades, resulting in England becoming a less and less pleasant country to live in, they then decide to move to the Northern Anglo Province of Jockland, and having made a massive profit selling their house in England can buy a much larger house in Scotland. Then do what the English ALWAYS do, ie try to recreate Little England in whichever country they have blessed with their inherently superior presence
So, I’ll take no patronising morality lessons from you, Rouge Brian or anyone else here or elsewhere.
I’m an unapologetic Scottish Nationalist and will be until such times as my country regains it’s stolen & sold status as an Independent European Nation. When that goal is achieved, I’ll no longer consider it necessary to be such
* by ‘ merely ‘ I meant that is how those – ok some – migrants to Scotland think of themselves, ie they are just people who’ve moved to Scotland for their own self-interests: which is fair enough, I’ve done so myself to other countries in my life. They have no interest in the history or understanding of Scotland’s political * condition *
“Having voted for a succession of utterly useless Political Parties over decades, resulting in England becoming a less and less pleasant country to live in, ”
The Scots have nothing to be proud about in that respect, either. Pot -> kettle. You would do better to address the point I made about your use of minority stereotypes as descriptive of the majority, a tactic much favoured by such rags as the Daily Mail, if you are interested in promoting independence for Scotland, not just in having a xenophobic rant about people who didn’t have the accident of birth of being Scots. However, given that you view well-meaning advice as “patronising morality lessons”, I don’t suppose you will.
“I’m an unapologetic Scottish Nationalist and will be until such times as my country regains it’s stolen & sold status as an Independent European Nation.”
Which will be never, so long as supporters for independence rely on castigating their perceived opponents rather than trying to win over adherents to their cause. Independence is only won by two means, force of arms and persuasion. Persuading people that you are right is what brings them to your cause, not telling them that they are bad and wrong. Unapologetic zealotry and xenophobic stereotyping just puts off anyone other than the most extreme kind of nationalist, which latter you would hope are on our side already. Preaching to the choir never made any converts.
Incidentally, this is why the British are considered as the worst customers in the world: they don’t do criticism, even positive criticism, as they know that it will probably be viewed as “patronising morality lessons” more often than not.
Robert,
Well said. A major lesson of recent years is not to give even an inch to gaslighters. All the polling data shows English people living north of the border overwhelmingly want Scotland to remain under the control of the English ruling class, in perpetuity. It’s a major and very serious obstacle you are right to highlight.
” You would do better to address the point I made about your use of minority stereotypes as descriptive of the majority ‘ and you ‘ would be better ‘ to actually read what I wrote/meant, and not what you think I wrote/meant.
I don’t know where you, live, neither am I interested in knowing; but I DO live in Scotland, and have repeatedly heard English migrants to Scotland say the things I quoted above.
I have also witnessed the increasingly prevalence of English accents where I live and the attendant attempted Anglofying tendencies – ” cricket on the * common * anyone “? Naw, fuck-off. I’ve also witnessed first- hand the * colonising * tendencies of Anglo Expat communities in, eg Spain, Portugal, France and, less so, but still noticeable in Holland & Germany. ( not enough sun or ( once ) cheap housing in the latter two countries
Despite which, I have never said, or even thought it was ALL English migrants to other countries who behave/think in this way.
Here’s the thing….I didn’t ask, nor do I need or want your ” well meaning advice “, the fact that you think I do, or that I might benefit from your sage opinion just proves my point. You assume your worldview is – somehow – superior, more evolved, than mine. L.O.L
“All the polling data shows English people living north of the border overwhelmingly want Scotland to remain under the control of the English ruling class, in perpetuity.”
In that case you will have no difficulty pointing me to the relevant poll results.
“I have also witnessed the increasingly prevalence of English accents where I live and the attendant attempted Anglofying tendencies – ” cricket on the * common * anyone “?
and your evidence that this translates to opposition to Scottish independence is? Without that, this is just the usual dislike of outsiders in your village/town/city/country which gets worse the further north you go in the British Isles.
“Naw, fuck-off.”
Point made, you’re really winning me round to your point of view.
“I’ve also witnessed first- hand the * colonising * tendencies of Anglo Expat communities in, eg Spain, Portugal, France and, less so, but still noticeable in Holland & Germany. ( not enough sun or ( once ) cheap housing in the latter two countries”
But not expat Scots, eh?
“I didn’t ask, nor do I need or want your ” well meaning advice “
Yeah, sorry, I shall leave you to go on losing friends and alienating people in peace.
“It was recently revealed that the Scottish Government has continued through Scottish Enterprise to funnel funds to the Israeli weapons industry in Scotland. We know that in past ministerial positions Swinney gave government money to Israeli settler company Eden Springs to compensate them for boycott losses, and ordered the removal of teaching materials on Palestine from Scottish schools. That is without mentioning the continued cover-up of the content of Angus Robertson’s Scottish government talks with the Israeli Deputy Ambassador. Like all those trying to take any action against the Genocide in Palestine, I have run up against the all-encompassing resistance of an amorphous but suffocating Establishment. I had naively hoped to demonstrate that the corrupt nexus is less complete in Scotland.”
One single word for this being “octopus”.
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”
” One single word for this being “octopus”.” – another word being ” c…s “. The above quote is just another example of the utter cowardice of the SNP/Gov. It will never step out of line with what it’s Brit superior expects – demands – of it: even on a subject like Gaza where – as in rUK – there is overwhelming majority disapproval of what the genocidal psychotics of the Israeli State is doing there – and all over the M.E.
Scotgov is possibly even more repellent than it’s English superior, by it’s hypocritical intent to * appear * opposed to the Genocide, eg via the very occasional statement stating such, whilst – in reality, aiding the atrocity, as the above quote describes.
What a * terrible dilemma * for the SNP Hierarchy, huh? on the one hand they’ve put all their stock and credibility into the * Progressive */ * Woke * box ( trap ), and on the other hand – and surreptitiously – they comply with the interests of what is the polar opposite of – actual – Progressive behaviour. How much more Un-Progressive behaviour can there be than visiting a Genocide on a largely defenceless people?
It is not easy to kick against the Pricks!
The best solution right now is a Royal Pardon.
To achieve this a petition started by a high profile celebrity would kick start the process. The point must be made that these are exceptional times and the sole motive for the actions was to somehow bring to an end the ongoing genocide. The fact they were young people with no previous convictions a vital mitigating factor.
The best that I can think of to start a petition is Prince Harry. Just consider how all over the situation Princess Diana would have been.
I was thinking of starting a petition asking thicko Harry and the Gold Digger to just fuck off back to America !
Maybe? I just go on the theory that soon or later we find out who the people really are that the media villifies.
Many were hoping Burnham would’ve seen sense on this issue and lifted the proscription order. But Burnham has never been a ‘brave’ politician and I’d imagine, Home Secretary, Mahmood, plus Home Office advisors and legal, are telling Burnham, that if he did lift it, and the group took further direct action, he’d be left defending it in the HoC against Tory and Reform chides about how the govt is ‘soft on terrorism and national security’ – a charge most UK govts seem terrified of, because of how it’s be amplified in the right-wing press and TV news.
I don’t think Burnham is a bad man, although, not being bad is not necessarily a commendation, as John Major wasn’t a bad person either, at least not per se. Major was however ineffective and a pretty useless PM.
There’s no doubt Burnham knew of John Healey’s role in the slaughter of Gaza’s children when he appointed him Chancellor of the Exchequer.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-defence-secretary-walks-away-from-gaza-spy-flight-questions/
https://www.alestiklal.net/en/article/secret-support-how-the-uk-played-a-major-role-in-supporting-israel-during-the-gaza-war
https://www.declassifieduk.org/british-military-made-at-least-49-trips-to-israel-during-gaza-war/
He’s only able to perpetuate a good guy image with the uniform connivance of the British media.
They will continue to suppress Healey’s genocidal actions as Defence Secretary and the fraudulence of Burnham and Miliband’s ‘standing up to Israel’.
https://x.com/declassifiedUK/status/2097239095546171612
zoot
Did you catch BBC Newsnight , last night? They discussed the planned sanctions against goods from illegal settlements in the West Bank, set to be announced today. This late, minimalist measure by the Labour govt, was criticised by guest, Jonathan Hall KC, the UK’s so-called “Independent’ Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation – as Craig correctly put it. Hall played a key role in the proscription order, quite why, given his background and family, he didn’t recuse himself, is a mystery? Certainly an argument there’s a potential conflict of interest or bias.
Declassified UK reports :
British diplomats have privately told US counterparts that the new sanctions on Israeli settlements “are largely symbolic and will have no material impact on the UK’s wider relationship with Israel”, according to Bloomberg.
You can well imagine that’s what they’re saying privately, to placate the US. Burnham apparently had a conversation with Trump recently, in which the matter was raised. And you can wager Burnham emphasised this point about Israel. The dreadful Pat McFadden has been at pains this morning, explaining that in no way is this an attack on Israel. But it is the Israeli govt’s policy to expand these settlements, so why single settlers out for sanctions and not the country that’s encouraging them? Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband and the govt risk pleasing no one with these half-arsed measures.
Goose,
It’s not even too little too late. That Declassified report confirms it’s explicitly nothing.
Not even a fig leaf over Labour’s participation in the Gaza Genocide.
Will the revelation that it’s one more cynical ruling-class psyop ever be mentioned on the BBC?
They’ve just discussed this on BBC 2’s Politics live and they had two guests, one of whom was Jewish journalist, Noa Hoffman; two against one Labour MP in favour. Typical BBC ‘balance’. What has the BBC ever done for me? Apart from infuriate everyone daily?
I actually agree with Noa Hoffman’s point about West Bank sanctions being a performative sop from the govt. How would you sanction goods that originate in the West Bank, but are then sent to Tel Aviv to be repackaged as simply, Israeli, before being sent to the UK? To be effective, sanctions must be placed on Israel proper – the source of the settler issue. Settlers have no power other than that granted by the IDF protection and the encouragement of the Israeli state.Treating them as something separate from Israel, is absurd.
Kemi Badenoch claims Labour’s plan to ban trade with illegal West Bank settlements driven by antisemitism, echoing the appalling Mike Huckabee. She writes:
“For any observer of British politics, the normalisation of antisemitism has been one of the most disturbing trends in recent years. Gone are the days when antisemitism was pushed underground or confined to only the extremist fringes of our national debate …
For years, Labour has insisted that the party has changed since Jeremy Corbyn. They tell Britain’s Jewish community that the poison which flourished under his leadership has been confronted. They hold meetings, issue statements, and promise that antisemitism will never again be tolerated.
Yet their actions tell a different story.
What has been revealed this week beyond any doubt is that while Corbyn may have lost the Labour leadership, he very much did win the argument inside the party.
For all Labour claim to have rooted out antisemitism internally, the degree of anti-Israel hatred means that Labour’s approach to many of these issues is Corbyn in all but name.”
Badenoch is just plain obnoxious. She combines arrogance and ignorance. She has to be the worst Tory leader in the last 50-years, and there have been some real stinkers in that time.
Well spotted zoot, I switched it off after he opened his mouth.
Politics in Europe, which nobody can avoid at present, are in motion, le Pen is cheered up by the AFD’ winning in Saxony Anhalt, a ball set in motion, predictable as Germany has lied to itself and the court in the Hague when they rejected to acknowledge guilt in the ongoing genocide. It took a Nicaraguan ambassador to take apart their feeble excuses, as our western political amalgam could not possibly dare to oppose Israel, stop supplying arms, or refusing logistic support from Cyprus or elsewhere.
Millibands hollow words do not help to divert the issues, indeed Israel is actively dividing the west bank from Annata in the west, the shortest way to the easter side of the westbank, in order to firther more settlements and more strife.
Thank you for pointing to John Swiney’s ignorance of his duties to the people of Scotland, Craig. Your frustrated position comes over very clear and I hope that your further measures will waken up a massive ground swell.
Ps the Canaries are rising.
The problem is Israel.
Sanctions against illegal settlements will still leave us with Israel.
Real sanctions against Israel would also address the settler issue.
Burnham and Millipede brain are zionists, just like most of the government, paid fifth columnists.
Goose 13.28pm.
Its all deception by the Labour government – they want to appear as though they oppose the Zio-Monster’s plans for the West Bank/Palestinians – Westminster is utterly captured by the Zio-Monsters.
Matt Kennard has a very good article on how we got to here.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/anatomy-of-the-israel-lobby
RoS
just watching Miliband’s statement in parliament, why doesn’t someone make the obvious point; namely, this is akin to sanctioning Crimea and not Russia. Utterly farcical, separating the West Bank like that, as if settlers are acting autonomously. Israel funds, protects and provides the legislative underpinnings that drive these settlers and their settlements on.
Bang on Goose – its just paying lip service – and the bought and paid for MSM, will report this far and wide, and some of the public will say look Labour are taking a stance against Israel – in reality its a publicity stunt.
Miliband talks about Jewish children, not British children, as if a race apart. He mentions Jewish MPs, as if being Jewish is the totality of their identity. So weird, as we don’t talk about Christian children, Muslim or Hindu children or MPs – identifying them solely by their faith – really strange. It wasn’t always like this, many non-practising, ‘rediscovered’ their faith, as Israel’s govt started to weaponise antisemitism worldwide, believing it could provide cover for their heinous actions..
Goose @1504pm.
Judaism is a religion/ideology, its not a race – you never read or hear of other nations saying they are exclusive – such as with Israel “a Jewish state” is reported on occasion and widely spoken in Israel. All religions/ideologies are man made – so many folk have died under the banners of religion, and will continue to do so.
As Richard Dawkins once said.
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
Talking of Corbyn, he’s marked Andy Burnham’s first 50 days in office by calling on the PM to establish a full, independent public inquiry into Britain’s participation in the Gaza Genocide.
Corbyn writes: ‘It has not gone unnoticed that, 50 days into your premiership, you have declined to call “the treatment of Gaza” what it really is: a genocide.’
Corbyn notes that the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and numerous UN officials have all concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide.
He asks that Burnham:
– Supports his private members bill and establishes a public inquiry into British complicity in genocide.
– Ends all military cooperation with Israel, including arms sales, F-35 components & intelligence sharing.
– Imposes widespread sanctions on Israel and fulfills the government’s legal obligation to help bring about an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine.
– Supports the work of the ICC and ICJ in pursuing accountability for war crimes.
– Overturns the proscription of Palestine Action & stops criminalising Palestine solidarity.
https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/2097252470258835516
Good as far as it goes from Corbyn, but no mention even from him of the specific, outsized role of John Healey, the man Burnham selected to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. Not involved, never happened.
zoot
Indeed they are so deceitful trying to fool the pro-palestinian Labour voter that they act tough on Israel, the other day Ed Miliband released a PR video on how he cared so much for what is going on in Gaza, yeah right – awful acting.
Video: https://www.facebook.com/thurstimes/videos/uk-foreign-secretary-ed-miliband-on-gazathe-scale-of-human-suffering-in-gaza-is-/2054023318572135/
Labour are terrible for civil liberties, as bad as the Tories. Lisa Nandy is making a statement now on the Online Safety Act, they are bringing forth primary legislation to forcing Google, Apple to implement client-side scanning under the guise of protecting children.
This, combined with the overreaching Investigatory Powers Act 2016, makes the UK one of the most repressive countries on Earth. That amended act already allows for:
– The “Pre-Approval” of Security Updates: Tech companies are legally required to notify the Home Office before rolling out major security or privacy features. Critics point out this gives the state an effective veto over encryption upgrades.
– Diluting the “Double-Lock”: The amendment rollbacks aspects of the “double-lock” system, allowing the Home Secretary to bypass independent judicial commissioners for certain intercept approvals or notices.
– Bulk Data Harvesting: It creates a lighter-touch regime for accessing bulk personal datasets where there is deemed to be “low or no reasonable expectation of privacy”. Digital rights groups note this opens the door to mass harvesting of social media data and millions of facial images.
I see flights are grounded across the UK due to ‘technical’ problems.
Andrew Neil joked on ‘X’ that it was part of Israel’s response to sanctions. At least, I assume he was joking?
Goose
Neil is a well known Zio-Monster supporter, also today I read that ex-Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who has links to the English security services, was told that – there’s going to be a major false flag event in England, and it will be blamed on Russia, maybe its true maybe its not – but Russia has been making noises on retaliation – and that could be used against Russia in a possible false flag event.
Of course the very fact that this info is in the public domain – could also mean that it won’t happen.
RoS
I’d hate to think we ever went to war on the basis of an misattributed cyber attack.
Tbh, there should never be a single point of failure for an adversary to compromise. When designing corporate networks you typically have multiple devices at each layer: Core(backbone); Distribution and Access, so no single device’s failure can cause downtime. Critical systems shouldn’t be accessible online. Any updates authenticated and carried out locally only (intranet).
Likewise, with data storage, there shouldn’t be a single database to compromise, there should be good segmentation and encryption, so no one can grab the lot. Most networks are built with redundancy(duplication of critical system components) in mind. So if something happens that causes a major outage, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical.
This is another example of the UKs declining technical competence. Once again the NATS, single point of failure, introduces an insufficiently tested software update to a live system that causes it to crash or a cyber attack exploits their piss poor security. Either way, NATS is a liability and needs sorting out. Heads should roll, but they won’t, pay rises all around !
Stevie Boy
Did you see Sky News’ report on how NHS staff and others are accessing sensitive NHS patient records, due to morbid curiosity among other reasons? Thousands accessed, no one fired.
When they started digitalising patient records people said it would be a free-for-all. For tens of years prior, such records were in locked filing cabinets. Today, I’d imagine, the intel agencies can simply bulk collect and create datasets on individuals without oversight? Remember how minister Sajid Javid covered-up a scandal around illegal retention of datasets. The same thing has happened with banks and financial information, citizens have lost any right to privacy.
Citizens are being stripped of privacy while the govt + agencies demands more and more secrecy for themselves.
And the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is absolutely useless, just one fine issued.. The guy in charge, was so laid back, he was literally wearing dark shades indoors, while slouched in the chair as the Sky News presenter interviewed him. Terribly lax standards as a country we’ve now got..
@Goose – Andrew Neil is a “safe pair of hands” and wouldn’t make an off-the-cuff joke about this while it’s live.
Very interesting that AFAIAA nobody in the MSM has blamed Russia or Iran yet. Also that the CEO of NATS, the company at the centre of it, is practically shaking with fear as he says it’s not a cyberattack, oh no, definitely not one of those.
Goose.
Repeating one of my earlier comments. Palantir ‘manages’ NHS data. Thanks to the NHS they have full access to all data, it is NOT anonymised to them.
“Palantir’s links to alleged human rights abuses, the US and Israeli militaries, controversial policing practices, deportations and surveillance operations should have excluded it from NHS procurement entirely.” But it didn’t.
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/09/02/nhs-england-palantir-review/
Palantir also has contracts with the Military, Police and, I believe, GCHQ. Go figure.
If you use the NHS, your data is not private or protected. FACT.
“I don’t think Burnham is a bad man”. Burnham is enabling the genocide of the Palestinians. Hence, he’s evil.
Spot on Stevie, anyone and I mean anyone – who facilitates genocide is complicit and evil.
“Major was however ineffective and a pretty useless PM.”
Only if you like your PMs meddling in and pretending to have control over things they in fact have no real control over.
At its heart this is a freedom of speech issue. We’re all being picked off one at a time and the authorities get away with it because the right doesn’t care when the left is being targeted and the left doesn’t care when the right is being targeted. Meanwhile 62,000 people have been arrested during the past five years over something they’ve said on twitter and thousands more face jail time for protesting in a way which the government deems unacceptable.
alanm
On freedom of speech – and the below is only in the last five years- in the Atlantic Archipelago – aka UK.
“More than 60,000 arrested in ‘chilling curb of free speech’ as damning report exposes zealous policing of social media as ‘Orwellian mess”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16108341/arrested-chilling-curb-free-speech-damning-report-exposes-zealous-policing-social-media-Orwellian.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline
The irony of that figure is that what people say on social media has absolutely no effect. One of the main reasons that the country is in the mess that it is is that so many of the activists who, in the past, would have been out on the streets or or organising protests are sat behind a computer screen, “protesting” on social media. Perhaps the government only arrests people for what they say on social media to reinforce the illusion that social media can effect change, rather than just being a talking shop and a safety valve.
and yet here we are … commenting on a blog
Just so – BUT this particular blog is about a mise-à-jour for Craig’s intervention to disrupt judicial errantry.
“and yet here we are … commenting on a blog”
but not, I hope, under the delusion it will make a blind bit of difference to anything.
Craig, your work is admirable. I have no words to express my respect for what you have done. From Assange and Alex Salmond, through Lebanon and Venezuela. Simply great work. Sadly, I don’t see a revolution coming, but I might be wrong. I did not expect the Soviet Union to disintegrate either.
Anyone recall the then head of LFI Joan Ryan MP – meeting with the Mossad agent Shia Masot, where Masot told her that he had gotten approval from Tel Aviv to hand over £1 million pounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziK9PIK9iI&t=1s
The below reminds me of Bush – having the incriminating evidence from the steel that held up the building, removed for prying eyes not long after 9/11.
“UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warns that Israel’s large-scale removal, crushing, and relocation of rubble in Gaza could destroy evidence of atrocity crimes and prevent the recovery of Palestinian remains.
More than 10,000 people are estimated to remain buried beneath the debris.
Albanese said she received credible reports of “deliberate and widespread” rubble removal and called for international criminal investigators to oversee evidence preservation before debris is moved.
“Destroying evidence of atrocity crimes is illegal,” she warned, adding that states and companies involved could face international criminal responsibility.”
Well, you tried….Just as a reminder, the word “terrorism” has never had a rational meaning, it is a slur turned into a legal definition, its as ludicrous as saying “woke” has a legal definition. Terrorism has always just been a cudgel that authoritarians could use to hit people they disagree with…Till now, thats been brown people….now its also white people.
Terrorism simply means not agreeing with your government.
It does now.
Today’s news…
1) The British government announces trade sanctions against Zionazi settlers on a small proportion of Zionazi-settled land in Palestine.
2) Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Occupation’s national security minister, calls for reprisals. He points out, for example, that a sizeable proportion of pharmaceuticals prescribed in Britain come from the Occupation.
3) Air traffic control systems at Britain’s two biggest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, are hit by problems. As I write, very few flights are taking off.
4) Curiously, the British MSM isn’t at this stage blaming Russia or Iran.
The Occupation government has said it will shut the British consulate-general in Jerusalem.
For those who didn’t know, Britain has never recognised Occupation sovereignty over ANY part of Jerusalem (East or West) de jure. The British consulate-general in Jerusalem is NOT accredited to the Occupation.
How those of us who support the Palestinians should respond to this move by the Zionazis is surely crystal clear: demand that the British government starts kicking Occupation diplomats (and other agents) out of Britain right now.
PS Ben-Gvir has been ranting about the Falklands/Malvinas. Gotta wonder what the Zionazis might do in respect of the oil drilling and the physical security thereof.
Martin Rolfe, the CEO of NATS, the air traffic control company, has “ruled out” a cyber attack. So we can assume it was very probably a cyber attack.
Y’know, services like ATC are supposed to be “resilient” and stuff. And that’s not just a company issue – it’s a national security issue.
The guy seems under great stress and undergoing a bout of functional semi-illiteracy. It seems unlikely that he is normally shy of talking in public, given that he’s a CEO who presumably has substantial PR support. Listen to this. It’s the kind of garbage that could be said by an “area manager” who hasn’t a clue what’s going on:
“We have at this point ruled out cyber. We don’t believe it was a cyber attack. Obviously, my focus and that of the team has been on both getting our system operating back up normally, which it is now. But there’s obviously a huge tail to the disruption, and we’ll be working on that through the course of today.”
Is he scared or what? He practically sounds as though he’s shaking with fear. This isn’t something to do with “teams”or “systems” or “focus”, mate, or “obviously” this, that, or the other. It’s why did major British airports go down on the same day that the big diplomatic trouble between Britain and the Occupation started.
Who knows? Maybe military airports will be next, just to make sure the message gets home? Or the London Stock Exchange, or 10 Downing Street.
No mention in the MSM of any COBRA meetings. But surely COBRA is onto this. What TF is COBRA for? Surely they don’t only meet when they know the full reasons for why something happened? Major airports going down isn’t something that would be left up to Marty babes and his “team”.
PS. While I have expressed contempt above for Mr Rolfe, I sincerely hope he doesn’t experience any nasty David Kelly-type accidents in the near future.
From the British government broadcaster’s “diplomatic correspondent” (a nomenklatura post if ever there was one):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydlex9yn3o
“Officials in London always knew that such a dramatic shift in policy towards Israel-Palestine was going to elicit a hostile response, but seemed taken aback by the speed and ferocity of Israel’s reaction.”
And then he goes on about the closure of the consulate-general and the removal of Brits from the IGSC.
“The closure of the UK’s consulate in East Jerusalem, which serves the West Bank and deals directly with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, and the removal of British representatives from the International Gaza Support Centre, the body set up last year to co-ordinate stabilisation and relief efforts in the Gaza Strip, are very hostile moves.”
It’s not as if the Zionists might respond covertly as well as overtly, when they’re “furious”. No??
It’s purely coincidental of course that the UK government should decide (for some reason?) to proscribe the political wing of Hamas just two years before the October 7th attack, and twenty or so years after proscribing the military wing. And it’s surely just coincidence that Hamas had at this stage already started planning for an attack. As it says in the wikipedia entry for the October 7th attack:
According to The New York Times, Israeli officials had obtained detailed attack plans more than a year before the attack. The document described operational plans and targets….
I mean it’s beside the point, but how the feck did Israel get hold of the plans (and how did the NY Times learn that they had)? See under sub-heading ‘Israeli intelligence failure’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
The following passages are from a BBC News article posted on November 27th, 2023:
Five armed Palestinian groups joined Hamas in the deadly 7 October attack on Israel after training together in military-style exercises from 2020 onwards, BBC News analysis shows.
The groups carried out joint drills in Gaza which closely resembled the tactics used during the deadly assault – including at a site less than 1km (0.6 miles) from the barrier with Israel – and posted them on social media.
They practised hostage-taking, raiding compounds and breaching Israel’s defences during these exercises, the last of which was held just 25 days before the attack….
On 29 December 2020, Hamas’s overall leader Ismail Haniyeh declared the first of four drills codenamed Strong Pillar a “strong message and a sign of unity” between Gaza’s various armed factions….
How Hamas built a force to attack Israel on 7 October
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67480680
As Frank Gardener said in an article posted on October 7th, 2023:
With the combined efforts of Shin Bet, Israeli domestic intelligence, Mossad, its external spy agency and all the assets of the Israel Defense Forces, it is frankly astounding that nobody saw this coming.
Or if they did, they failed to act on it.
Israel has arguably the most extensive and well-funded intelligence services in the Middle East.
It has informants and agents inside Palestinian militant groups, as well as in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere.
It has, in the past, carried out precisely timed assassinations of militant leaders, knowing all their movements intimately….
How did Israeli intelligence fail to stop major attack from Gaza?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67040221
Alan Howard
‘ The groups carried out joint drills in Gaza which closely resembled the tactics used during the deadly assault – including at a site less than 1km (0.6 miles) from the barrier with Israel – and posted them on social media. ‘
In the Surveillance State of Israel they didn’t spot a load of people training for the attack even though it was going on right under their noses.
A bit 9/11 – ish I think.
Some did (soldiers guarding the fence ) and some didn’t ( the IDF or the State surveillance).
Yet the same state claims to be brilliant at spotting Hamas hiding under or amongst Gazan Women – Men and children.
Whether that be tents or apartments before being blown up.
Selective Surveillance?
Meanwhile the pretence goes on that if only the ‘ Settlers ‘ (violent occupiers) would be reigned in we could all get on with trying to find a way to a Two – State Solution.
These idiots much watch the telly like I do and they must have seen what I’ve seen and what many others have seen and still they keep pretending that this can be done.
The Israelis are dead against it – Trump is not arsed and they are making plans to shovel out the live bodies ( never mind the dead ones ) out of Gaza and Palestine in general so as they can build apartments on the beach etc etc.
It is purely performative and has little meaning apart from conning the folks at home that they give a crap about Gazans and Palestinians in general.
They care much more about what the US thinks than anything else and being as the US’s Best Buddy is Israel they have care about them too.
Otherwise some of them could end up being ‘ De- Banked ‘ by an irate US President and his worldwide team of grovellers.
It’s happened to Farage and Galloway so, why not Ed Milliband and co?
As I keep saying to anyone who listens, these people are De-Banked under an order and the question is:
Who orders the banks to do it?
Used to be a good customer and now isn’t?
It’s obviously on orders via The Swift System.
Who is in charge of The Swift System – I think we all know.
This is the future for dissenters.
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Agreed – it won’t be surprising if Miliband is sanctioned.
Brian Red
“Agreed – it won’t be surprising if Miliband is sanctioned.”
Unless Miliband and co. have permission for this token gesture from whoever decides about the sanctioning.
Allen.
Hamas was initially directly supported in its creation and operation by israel as an alternative organisation to undermine the PLO and Yasser Arafat and divide the Palestinians. It’s a safe assumption that Hamas is infiltrated by Mossad and as such, Israel is aware of any large scale Hamas operations. Plus, the Palestinians are the most heavily surveilled people on the planet. Israel is totally aware of virtually everything that is happening in Gaza. It’s well understood that Netanyahu knew well beforehand that attacks were going to happen, and he let them proceed. There was NO Israeli intelligence failure, the desired outcome was achieved.
‘There was NO Israeli intelligence failure, the desired outcome was achieved.’
Yes, I soon realised that. So there were the Hamas plans that Israel somehow got hold of over a year before October 7th, and then there were all the warnings from the Israeli border spotters, and then in the weeks and months prior to October 7th, Egypt warned Israel on several occasions that ‘something big’ was about to happen…. As we were to learn two or three days after the attack. And it was precisely THAT that convinced me Netty and his fascist buddies let it go ahead.
And we’re supposed to believe that the attack took them by surprise!
” So there were the Hamas plans that Israel somehow got hold of over a year before October 7th, and then there were all the warnings from the Israeli border spotters, and then in the weeks and months prior to October 7th, Egypt warned Israel on several occasions that ‘something big’ was about to happen…. As we were to learn two or three days after the attack.”
and there were border guards moved away and revellers at a rave moved next to the border. You really have to have drunk quite a lot of the Kool-Aid not to see that this was a set-up.
In the same way the most protected airspace in the world – around the Pentagon – was supposedly breached by a 747 on 9/11 : of which there is no footage, other than a few seconds of very blurry, could-be-anything ( eg a rocket of some sort ) video; and which left a laughably small hole on it’s supposed entry-point; no visible wreckage or film of any such wreckage being cleared after the supposed attack. Incredible. Literally. As is the preposterous * Official ” narrative of the equally highly-surveilled borders of Zioville being breached in a * surprise * attack.
Of course both the Yanks on 9/11 and God’s Own on 7/10 have advance knowledge of what was coming. And would/should we really be THAT surprised if not only did they have advance info, but were actually involved in the conception and organising of these attacks?
You only have to look at what’s come after to answer the question cui bono? It’s all very * convenient *
“In a case about human rights and excessive power of the state, the security services get to vet what the judges can say? It is astonishing. What kind of society have we become?”
We have become a society that follows its own rules. This is about the Oath of Allegiance, from Wikipedia:
“The standard oath of allegiance is set out in the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 as follows:[4]
I, [full name], do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.
Usage
The oath or its affirmation is required for:
Members of Parliament before taking their seats in the House of Commons[5]
Members of the House of Lords[5]
Judges and certain court officers[6]
Members of the British Armed Forces on enlistment[a]
Police Officers upon acceptance into the service”
So, everybody is faithful to King Charles and his family.
The judges are faithful to King Charles and his family.
The military (MI6) are faithful to King Charles and his family.
The Members of Parliament are faithful to King Charles and his family.
The police are faithful to King Charles and his family.
So what’s the problem? They all do what King Charles says, while all the while keeping secrecy for what they are doing.
That’s the Constitution you are banging your head against.
So what happens to judges who pervert the course of justice?
If they do so in favour of The Powers That Be, they will be promoted, besides getting all sorts of taxpayer funded benefits.
Oh my god, the nazi zionists are off again! This from Caitlin Johnstone’s latest post:
“Antisemitism” watchdog groups are flipping the fuck out about hip hop artist Macklemore saying “Free Palestine” while opening for Ed Sheeran, and the western press are of course helping to spin this ridiculous nonsense as a massive scandal….
A normal person might assume this is the most obvious and inoffensive thing a celebrity could possibly say about any issue of moral importance, but you’d never know this from the Israel apologists and the headlines in the mainstream press.
The Anti-Defamation League issued a statement accusing Macklemore of “engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior,” whining, “Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage.”
The Adelson-funded Israeli-American Council is circulating a petition demanding that Ed Sheeran cease touring with Macklemore immediately, accusing the artist of “spreading one-sided political propaganda” which “relies on selective imagery, biased messaging and disputed claims presented to a massive audience as fact, without context or complexity.”
Hasbarists are swarming the internet with screenshots of a 2014 photo in which Macklemore wore a fake witch’s nose onstage, falsely suggesting that he was performing a Jewish caricature. In reality the artist had disguised himself for a secret show in Seattle….
Check out the article and what he said… it wasn’t in the least bit offensive:
Oh My God Shut The Fuck Up About “Antisemitism”
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/oh-my-god-shut-the-fuck-up-about-antisemitism-4fc03ce4d774
Jonathan Hall KC said on Newsnight on Monday that these measures (by Ed Milliband) would paint a target on the backs of Jewish people here.
And this is the headline to an LBC article:
Ed Miliband ‘putting British Jews’ safety at risk’ with Israel sanctions, chief rabbi warns
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-miliband-sir-ephraim-mirvis-israel-west-bank-palestine-sanctions-5Hjdh9J_2/
As with Jeremy Corbyn and left-wing members, and as with the marchers and marches in support of Palestinians, these mother-fuckers are yet again fear-mongering and fraudulently trying to create concern and worry and consternation among British Jews. And how fucking evil is that!
And THAT tells you all you need to know about how much they REALLY care about fellow Jews. Total scum.
Yes, after the sanctions were imposed on Russia (over and over again since February 24th, 2022), every Russian living in the UK has been walking around with a target on their back and with their safety at risk. And not only in the UK of course, but in the US, and the EU, and Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Switzerland, all of which imposed sanctions on Russia after the invasion.
Just did a search and:
As of the 2021/22 Census, there are approximately 59,781 Russian-born residents in the United Kingdom.
My god, I wonder how many of them there are left!
PS Yes I know it sounds totally nonsensical and like complete claptrap, but if what Jonathan Hall KC and the Chief Rabbi (and others no doubt) say is true, then that must be the case for the poor Russians living in the countries mentioned.
“Oh My God Shut The Fuck Up About “Antisemitism” ”
^ Got to agree with this.
Certainly it should be fingers in the ears time whenever anyone who supports Jewish settler supremacy in Palestine references it. It’s very much in the same category as Elon Musk going on about the “genocide” against white people in South Africa.
“Oh My God Shut The Fuck Up About “Antisemitism”
The point is that it works. You may not admire the tactics of the Zionists’ huge PR lobby, but you can’t deny they are effective. Pitting anti-Zionists, armed with public protests and social media outrage, against pro-Zionists, armed with bought-and-paid-for politicians, reporters, media organisations and public servants world wide, is like pitting tribesmen armed with spears against colonial forces armed with machine guns.
‘Don’t be fooled by Britain’s fake support for Palestine’
Ali Abuminah, Director, Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/dont-be-fooled-britains-fake-support-palestine
OMW, I just checked my inbox (which I haven’t done for a couple of days) and, as such, came across the following article on CommonDreams, posted yesterday:
‘Bombshell’ Report Says UAE Explicitly Warned Netanyahu of October 7 Attack
Policy experts in the US and Middle East on Tuesday were among those responding to an “astonishing” new investigation from Haaretz, which detailed how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was alerted weeks before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack that a “major event” was being planned by the Palestinian group—an assault that killed more than 1,200 Israelis and which Israel has responded to by slaughtering more than 73,000 Palestinians so far in Gaza.
Highlighting revelations contained in an upcoming book called Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment, by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, the Israeli newspaper reported that Netanayahu dismissed a warning about the attack from United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed, which came in a phone call in September 2023….
https://www.commondreams.org/news/did-netanyahu-know-about-oct-7?mc_cid=67ea730ad9&mc_eid=f59d1f8ec7
I was just thinking yesterday how it’s a shame that Egypt hasn’t publicly said anything more about the warnings it gave Israel in the weeks and months prior to the attack – ie provided any more details. And lo-and-behold, now this.
Right, so NOW, the Labour Catamites For Israel are going to try to kid us on that, despite their invertebrate nature they’ve somehow located the facsimile of a spine and are going to * forcefully * impose sanc…..whoa! hold on there, eh….well, maybe not impose…..demand? uh uh still a bit strong, ask?…plead?…..ok…..politely request?
OK let’s try that again……the L.C.F.I are going to politely request that UK businesses refrain from trading with the homicidal, barbarous land/property thieving human excrement Fascist * Settler * Crew – those mostly imported New Jews who ” saw the light ” after seeing the opportunity to grab the land, property and businesses of those worthless Amalekites and, knowing that whatever crimes, however heinous, they may have committed – and fled from – in their country of origin, all would be forgiven by the simple expedient of donning a kippah and doing their bit for the noble causes of Genocide & Greater Israel. Shalom. Here’s a free olive grove
Maybe the Settler violence has become so extreme – y’know, unlike the hyper-extreme violence that has turned Gaza into a ( barely ) living hell of utterly destroyed lives, communities, infrastructure etc – that even the complicit scum of the UK Political Class are compelled to start acting ‘ as if ‘ this is all something they’ve only just noticed and will ‘ do something about ‘.
Translation…….the violence has become so extreme that even the, equally extreme-in-it’s-own-way coordinated Israeli/West censorship is unable to prevent evidence escaping, that fuckers like Burnham are now concerned THEY might, eventually, be held accountable for their complicity in the Crime of the Century ( so far, still plenty of time to exceed this horror, eg via Nuclear attacks ) and as more of the public become aware of the depth of pitiless inhumanity being inflicted on the Palestinian People – and the Lebanese/Syrian/Yemeni/Iranian – by the self-appointed ‘ Chosen People ‘ death cult that it will deepen the disgust the public already feels for the Political Class.
The problem for the electorates of the EUK – West generally, is the complete Israel First mindset/lockstep of 99% of Political Parties. In the UK there are the Greens, who have at least uttered some criticism of Israeli Fascism, but more recently have displayed a distinct tendency to ‘ walk back ‘ that criticism and have pandered to the same utterly bogus ” ANTI-SEMITISM ” shout-down, expel, ban, destroy ’em tactics that J Corbyn was too nice ( feeble? ) to call-out for the shit that it was.
So how can that mounting public disgust be fruitfully directed? A new Party? Oh, anyone seen/heard anything from Your Party of late?
“Your Party”. That threat has been neutralised, with many thanks to Corbyn !
Dishonesty and Deceit indeed.
“Bloomberg has already reported that British diplomats briefed US counterparts that the move is “largely symbolic” and will have “no material impact on the UK’s wider relationship with Israel on trade or security”.”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/do-andy-burnhams-sanctions-on-israel-go-far-enough/
There is more BBC upset over this limited move against violent settlers and settlements than there was over the death toll in Gaza. Newsnight’s Victoria Derbyshire pushes Israeli govt talking points as if perfectly valid arguments. The problem with these sanctions, is they aren’t directed at the source of the problem; namely, Israel and the Netanyahu govt..
And the Chief Rabbi ought to be called out as a disgrace. Isn’t conflating British Jews with the Israeli govt policy supposedly anti-Semitic… at least when they want it to be ? Yet they merrily drop the distinction when convenient for arguments sake to do so. The whole idea sanctions “put a target on people’s backs” is ridiculous. When the UK sanctioned Muslim countries e.g. Iran, Iraq; Libya,Syria did, or do we say it threatens Muslims in this country? Is sanctioning North Korea making Koreans in the UK vulnerable? Just nonsense.
The IDF is an organisation of violent settlers.
Clearly the organised “Jewish community” in Britain is being mobilised on this.
On GMTV today, neither Ed Balls nor Susanna Reid disputed former Tory minister, Gillian Keegan’s point, about how we needed to take Germany’s and the US’s position into account.
Notice how Germany didn’t sign with all those other European countries. German politicians think they right the historical wrong of the holocaust, by giving Israel carte blanche to carry out genocide now. For Germany, the attitude is, two wrongs DO make a right.
And in the US, politicians are terrified of the power of the Israel lobby, AIPAC and big money being spent to remove them from office should they criticise Israel. It’s like a form of psychological and financial blackmail that those tasked with supposedly defending democracy from foreign threats are cool with. Far more influential than the nonsense about alleged Russian meddling.
Neither Germany or the US come at this issue with any objectivity whatsoever.
Simple question: do you dispute Britain’s (ongoing) participation in the Gaza Genocide?
zoot
If that’s to me, no, I don’t dispute it. Declassified reported the UK govt (under Starmer) got around potentially awkward & legality questions by providing the reconnaissance data to a US third party, who then gave it to Israel for targeting purposes. At one point British hostages were held in the tunnels, so they had a valid reason to be actively involved according to official logic anyway.
It was raised in parliament by Corbyn, yesterday, Miliband simply didn’t answer.
They usually give the default reply of, we don’t talk about intelligence and security matters in this place(HoC). What they’ve done is widened what they won’t talk about from the sensitive operational details, to include broader information that is in no way sensitive, simply to protect themselves from scrutiny. It’s an insult to democracy and citizens’ right to know.
Goose,
Miliband knows he can safely ignore Corbyn, since the entire media is conniving in suppressing British participation in the Genocide.
They are making huge play by contrast of these paltry sanctions on settlers*. I initially thought this was a cynical smokescreen to try and protect Labour politicians from future war crimes prosecutions. But given how unlikely it is that the ruling class will ever break ranks on Britain’s Genocide participation, I now think the ruse was devised simply to deceive voters and blunt the challenge of an actual left-wing alternative in the shape of the anti-genocide Greens.
* Note how even these sanctions on settlers will include what Miliband terms ‘appropriate religious exemptions’ — a loophole that gives Israel carte blanche to drive a coach and horses through them.
@zoot – “I initially thought this was a cynical smokescreen to try and protect Labour politicians from future war crimes prosecutions. But given how unlikely it is that the ruling class will ever break ranks on Britain’s Genocide participation, I now think the ruse was devised simply to deceive voters and blunt the challenge of an actual left-wing alternative in the shape of the anti-genocide Greens.”
Nobody cares about protecting Labour politicians, and any party’s voteshare can easily be adjusted 10pp or 15pp up or down in the month before an election if necessary. The fact that the Zionazis say they’ll be closing the British consulate-general makes it more important than that. Someone like Ed Miliband in any case is small fry and wouldn’t necessarily have been told that the Zionazis might shut the consulate or that problems might arise with air traffic control.
This is likely to be about
1. tension between the British regime and Arab money
2. looking beyond Netanyahu
3. controlling the way things crack given it’s known that they’re going to crack
4. making clear who’s not just boss but BOSS
5. geopolitics, bearing in mind Kushner’s travels
Goose.
The UKs participation in the Palestinian genocide is not limited to reconnaissance data, there is also the issue of UK air bases in England and Cyprus being allowing to be used by the US and Israeli for logistics and direct attacks on Gaza and elsewhere, there is also the issue of The UK providing direct training to Israel forces in the UK such as low flying and bombing ranges in Wales and ‘oop’ North and training of the IDF on the Salisbury ranges. I’m sure there are more examples, regardless, the fact is the UK is directly and intimately involved in the Israeli genocide.
And, this partnership has been onging for many, many years.
The British establishment cares very much about ensuring Labour politicians evade justice for involvement in Genocide. That’s why Britain’s participation is meticulously suppressed and why a man like Healey can be promoted to Chancellor without a peep of criticism from any quarter of the media, from the Guardian to GB News. Labour war criminals have nothing to fear in a country where the entire media and political class was complicit to some degree in what was done to Gaza.
This tiny gesture by Labour is being hailed as significant in order to con lost voters and stem any challenge to the uniparty from the left.
Contrast with the ongoing blackout on Labour still supplying surveillance, f-35 parts and military training for the Genocide in Gaza.
‘German politicians think they right the historical wrong of the holocaust, by giving Israel carte blanche to carry out genocide now.’
I think it’s more a case of zionists backing and supporting fellow zionists Goose, or to put it another way, nazis supporting fellow nazis.
” In a case about human rights and excessive power of the state, the security services get to vet what the judges can say? It is astonishing. What kind of society have we become?”
The same sort of society as we have always been, except now the powers that be have given up making concessions to support the illusion of pretending otherwise. I’m sure this sort of thing used to go on in the past, it was just that it happened in secret.
Bayard,
Yes – just read Professor J.A.G. Griffith ‘ The politics of the judiciary.’
I have the book myself and recommend it. I also have one entitled “The Establishment: and how they get away with it” by Owen Jones. They explain a lot.
Absolutely correct, Bayard. Joe Public has no idea about how deeply engrained this is within the British establishment. Democracy has always been a sham designed to make the public believe that votes matter. Superficially they can, but they have no effect upon serious issues of ‘statecraft’ – the key interests of the ruling class. Realpolitik always overrides party politics.
As a general rule, the electoral franchise has been increased to encompass the part of the population that was most recently reached by media communications…
E.g. when the gentry and then the bourgeoisie and then many workers and then poorer workers and lodgers and women became audiences for print media, they got given the vote. Much earlier it was home-tutored noblemen and bishops mostly. It’s all about reachability by propaganda, and involvement (for some value of “involvement”) in media world…
Yes, of course it has increased, but at the same time the effectiveness of the widening of the franchise has not been very evident in the area of realpolitik, such as foreign policy, ntell services, public surveillance, secrecy, royal matters, etc If anything, with rising authoritarianism, the situation is becoming much worse,with domestic policies, human rights, etc,being rapidly eroded. As you say, it’s now so much more about the mass media.who willingly comply with the establishment in spreading their propaganda. New outfits like the 77th Brigade, the Integrity Initiative and the Institute for Statcraft, exist to oppose and subvert the democratic process.
Yes – I’m saying the whole thing was never anything other than controlled from the top in the interests of the exploiters whose exact composition is of course subject to change, with e.g. struggles over the Corn Law or other protectionism being examples. If we look at something like the Chartists, they were a radical movement essentially based outside of Parliament that really did threaten the rulers, but within a few generations most of their demands were “met” (excluding annual elections), by which time it didn’t mean anything other than roping more people into thinking that pushing at the safety valve would harm the exploitative engine. Not sure I would agree, though, with putting the democratic process here and the subversion of it here, poles apart, any more than I would say the same about Facebook. The democratic process seems pretty similar to Facebook. There was no golden age.
On the positive side, the Luddites, who were never into this democracy stuff, were never co-opted…
The British state also operated a dedicated propaganda unit throughout the post war decades, the Information Research Department. Like its successors, it spread disinformation, dishonesty and deceit through tame journalists, historians etc.
https://drb.ie/article/covert-operations/
Run by the Foreign Office, so Craig was probably aware of it.
Bayard
” I’m sure this sort of thing used to go on in the past, it was just that it happened in secret.”
Given the number of people who are likely to hear about it you could say its still happening, effectively, in secret.
No need for censorship if the circulation of information within the public domain can be managed.
The plan to completely empty Gaza of its Palestinian population – the land belongs to the Palestinians not the Zio-Monsters
“Last week, Jewish Power chairman and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir unveiled ‘Disengagement 710’, a policy blueprint for what he calls the voluntary migration of Gaza residents to countries willing to take them. Destinations floated by his party include Türkiye, unspecified Arab states, Ethiopia, and Congo.
The numbers are not modest. The plan foresees the departure of about 250,000 people in the first year, 1.11 million within three years, and some 1.86 million within seven, encompassing the bulk of the Strip’s population.
To run it, Jewish Power wants the next government to create a dedicated ministry for “voluntary migration,” complete with a minister, a director-general, its own budget, an international negotiating team, and an implementation apparatus.
Ben-Gvir vows to make the ministry a coalition demand after Israel’s October 27 election. “Instead of illusions of peace now, we need actions of emigration now,” he said. “Instead of them digging tunnels, it’s time to pack suitcases.”
Are they going to be resettled in the East?
Mossad probably have facilities at Heathrow – if not in use all the time, like their main European base at Schiphol airport (*) in the Netherlands, in use when they need them.
Note
*) Try to avoid Schiphol.
and Vienna International
Wasn’t a financial lever wielded from the USA to get the British army out of Suez once the Occupation regime in Palestine had achieved its military aims in 1956?
Just sayin’.
Gotta wonder whether Jared “Chabad” “Don’t call me Henry Kissinger” Kushner has been stitched up.
Joint statement by the Prime Minister, President Macron and Prime Minister Carney on the Two-State Solution.
If those three are supporting a Two-State Solution, it’s pretty well guaranteed not to be a good idea for the Palestinians. Even a cursory glance at apartheid South Africa and its “homelands” will show why.