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Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

That screams “we want to appeal to columnists and lobbyists and THAT’S IT” doesn’t it?

Not yet, cheers. I’m going to explore that later

Can someone explain why all of the named professions which each require its professionals to wear lanyards contain no lanyard professionals? What does this shit mean? I’m not a “politics understander” who knows that in the “real world” you “have to make sacrifices” from among minorities, you see

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Ah, well, here’s some *information* that looks a lot like marketing. Again.

Yeah, I dumbly threw everything in one bucket. Your way is how I’ll do it next time

There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.

The premise here, might is right, is something that you learn is wrong by the time you reach infant school

Not quite. I still have have a dormant account because of YouTube. And, of course, just because I deleted all my old photos and emails and closed accounts doesn’t mean they didn’t keep them anyway, so it’s probably futile in that way.

Did he call it “a fantastic piece of work”?

I’m Eazy E. I faked my death and moved to South Brum.

Fair play to John Crace, bravely saying things that lesser journalists are afraid to.

BREAKING: The Met police have raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House.

AGAIN.

Once again the basis of the raid is conspiracy to protest.

It's a violation of freedom of expression & association rights. Not to mention freedom of religion for the Quakers too.

The only thing I know about Nas is that Illmatic is a banger

If I move from GiffGaff, that’s where I would go next

It took me forever to get out of the Google ecosystem because they’re evil and, of course, I chose these fuckers.

Anyone got any recommendations for an ethical suite of softwares I can switch to?

Is this the one Chris Packham is involved with? If so, they seemed pretty good from what I saw

Just to re-emphasise that Shabana Mahmoud has lied.

1. her lie, in the Guardian 2. Refugee convention, Art 34

Simply psychosomatic!

Truly

Mahmood loves Kristi Noem

A reminder that Mahmood said she was inspired by the architect of the Minneapolis migrant crackdown, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who left "a lasting and positive impression on her."

There are no documented cases of someone getting deeply into transphobia and then just stopping rather than also getting into all the other flavours of fascism.

I think on a banned account I got into an argument with Hugo where I kept saying Jeremy Hardy told me in DMs he hated Hugo, and Hugo told me he was going to call the police on me.

I’m cool with being complicit on not joining illegal wars and not dropping bombs on schools, tbh

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

We’re in tune with the British people who hate us.

That’s a powerful grin, innit.

Okay, so think about this. It’s Sheffield United on Saturday. They’re 13th. Safe from relegation, but no chance of the playoffs. On the beach. Playing not to get injured. There to for the taking. And we played them off the park in December. This is it lads. We’ll fucking shit em.

Imagine having a legitimate claim to be the most despicable person in a cabinet that contains Streeting

Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/

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