The good guy/bad guy routine with @andyburnham seems to be working on an awful lot of people. Today's freedom of movement with Europe talk has got people boosting their Burnham-hype levels again. I keep saying it, but it's all political theatre. Don't forget, just days ago, @UKLabour signed off on Jackdaw, just months after the UK's hottest summer on record. And they've also backed the antisemitism in schools report, which reads like a comprehensive guide to conditioning our children into thinking it's racist to oppose a genocide. It's farcical how quickly so many people seem willing to move on. And notice the timescales. When will Jackdaw start producing gas? The project is being pushed towards production within just a few months. When will schools be asked to implement these measures that sanitise Israel's actions under the guise of tackling antisemitism? As soon as possible please, with a wider rollout planned for 2027/28. But are we setting a date for an EU referendum? Erm, no. Are we even committing to restoring freedom of movement? Nope. We're seem perfectly content in praising politicians for things that haven't even happened, while seemingly forgetting the damage they're doing right in front of us. And that's precisely how this political theatre works. Keep people invested in the promise of change, while the government carries on protecting the very status quo we're supposedly desperate to change.

🚨 The @BoardofDeputies has declared @TheGreenParty a racist, antisemitic party for its opposition to Zionism. We need to unpick just how deeply hypocritical this position is, and the extraordinary double standards at its heart. The Board fiercely defends Zionism and the Jewish right to national self-determination, while in 2025 actively opposed Britain's recognition of Palestine as a state. It acknowledges the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, but largely frames it as just that: a humanitarian catastrophe. It hasn't recognised Israel's actions as genocide or unequivocally condemned the Israeli government's overall conduct in Gaza. So here's the fundamental contradiction... Zionism isn't simply an abstract religious belief in Jewish self-determination. It's a political ideology whose founding objective was to establish a Jewish homeland IN PALESTINE. A land already inhabited by another people, whose slaughter, dispossession, displacement and denial of fundamental rights cannot simply be erased from the conversation. And yet, that's EXACTLY what's happening. Those speaking up for Palestine often say you can't present a genocide as a debate between two equally legitimate sides. But we're not even getting that far. When Jewish self-determination is fiercely defended, while Palestinian statehood is opposed, and the human suffering is discussed without confronting the political responsibility for it, Palestinians themselves are being erased from the very conversation about their future. What does it say about our understanding of racism when the rights and humanity of an entire people can be treated as secondary, or even not at all? The most damning question of all is what this says about our own @UKLabour government. Because whether through fear of being branded antisemitic, political self-preservation, or a calculated move to mask its own complicity in the atrocities being committed, this is a position our government continues to accommodate, defend, and aplify. Rather than unequivocally standing up for Palestinians being killed by the IDF, it continues to embolden its political relationship with the Israeli state. We've reached a point where challenging an inherently racist and dangerous political ideology is treated as more outrageous than the mass killing, dispossession and destruction being carried out in its name. Antisemitism is racism. It must be confronted wherever it exists. But opposition to Zionism is not antisemitic, it's morally and lawfully correct. And no political ideology, state or government should EVER be granted immunity from scrutiny, particularly when the consequences are measured in human lives. @andyburnham @ZackPolanski @jeremycorbyn @corbyn_project #GazaGenocide‌ #FreePalestine

Powerful. So so true. It's time we stand up.