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London’s Metropolitan Police arrested another 492 people over the weekend after a protest Saturday in Trafalgar Square, as the Starmer government accelerated its crackdown on opposition to the Gaza genocide.

The entirely peaceful protest was held to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It was organised by Defend Our Juries and attended by over 1,000 people. Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.

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[–] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Starmer is terrified of Reform. So he's taken the really smart stance of pulling Labour to the right to court a demographic that would never vote Labour anyway, and in the meantime utterly piss off his core base.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This almost always fails and only ends up moving the country average to right and make extreme right seem more mild.

Also I don't think right wing voters have that strong an opinion on Israel. This is more likely zionist lobbies pulling some of Starmer's strings.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Controlled opposition, doing what the fascist sociopath pedophile oligarchs paid them to do.

It's so depressing. I remember the election that Ed Miliband lost, and how many of us were unsurprised that people found no appeal in Tory-lite as opposed to the regular Tories; Labour implicitly conceded to the Tories by affirming the idea that austerity was the only way to go. Now the same is happening with Reform.

If Labour really wanted to challenge Reform, they'd challenge Reform's base assumptions. They'd argue, for example, that reducing immigration won't solve the housing crisis or NHS wait times, because those essential services are suffering from over a decade of chronic underinvestment. They don't need to fight on Reform's terms, because if they do, Labour will lose — again.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago

He's been do that for years. Hell labour advisors even managed get Kamala and the dnc to to harder right

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it's very sad since I think people are more willing to vote Labour if they were just better. Now their voter base is more likely to stay at home instead of going to the voting booth. Weird move by Starmer since he was in the march against the Iraq war himself.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same story, different country

Same shit, different assholes.