Starmer, Lammy and co’s direct involvement in Gaza genocide while claiming they were for peace
Labour licensed the export of more military equipment to Israel in the last three months of last year – the period immediately following the supposed, and now known to have been fictitious, suspension of some fighter aircraft parts as Keir Starmer’s government tried to pretend it was acting on items that could be used against Palestinian civilians – than the Tories did for in the whole four-year period of 2020-2023, analysis by anti-arms trade group CAAT of the government’s latest export statistics has revealed.
The latest ‘strategic export control licensing’ statistics published yesterday showed the UK sent £128 million of military equipment to Israel from October to December 2024. The same government figures show that in the total shipped across four years from 2020-23 total approximately £115m. The Labour government’s exports mainly covered items directly used for military attacks, including targeting equipment, radar components and software.
CAAT media coordinator Emily Apple described the figures as ‘sickening’:
This is the Labour government aiding and abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is sickening that instead of imposing a full two-way arms embargo, Keir Starmer’s government has massively increased the amount of military equipment the UK is sending to Israel.
The figures confirm again that Starmer, Lammy and the rest of Starmer’s government are directly involved in Israel’s genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and in the murder of children, women, wounded patients, medics, paramedics, hospitals and aid workers.
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But but but…“what’s not to like?”
Usually there’s a link to another report of israeli abomination by now…
You know it’s the weirdo’s modus>/i>.
You don’t want keef getting away with it, don’t let the nonce apologist off the hook, neither.
Starmer … apparently a human-rights-lawyer who is an embarrassment to humanity
Labour are an embarrassment to humanity.
As are their sycophantic apologist cheerleading shills.
Off topic from The Canary:
Leadbeater’s Assisted Suicide Bill has been reported to a UN human rights committee
Two disabled campaigners have challenged the proposed Assisted Suicide Bill, arguing it undermines disabled people’s rights under a UN Convention amid concerns over social care cuts and inadequate legislative engagement. They have reported the bill to the UN – just as it comes back to parliament to be debated once more.
A Cambridge woman, Nicki Myers, has joined forces with fellow advocate Nicola Waters to challenge the proposed Assisted Suicide Bill in Westminster, arguing that it grossly undermines the rights of disabled people as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (UNCRPD).
This legal complaint, made to the UNCRPD, has garnered backing from several influential disability rights organisations, including Disability Rights UK, highlighting a growing discontent amongst those who feel their voices are not being heard in this crucial debate.
Myers, who has been living with pulmonary fibrosis—a condition that confines her largely to her bed—emphasised her commitment to life and the importance of quality support services, stating:
“I was motivated to be a complainant in this case because I believe the way this legislation has been introduced… has meant the voices of people in my position have been ignored.”
Her perspective is critical, especially given the current climate of cuts to social security, fuel allowances, and health services, which she argues makes it entirely inappropriate to present assisted suicide as a viable option.
Waters, facing her own battle with Motor Neurone Disease, expressed similar concerns, pointing out that the Bill seems to favour offering assisted suicide over essential care and treatment that could significantly enhance the quality of life for people in her situation:
“This Bill will see those of us who live with terminal illness being offered suicide rather than the care and treatments we need to live.”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/05/16/assisted-suicide-bill-un/
I am a staunch supporter of assisted dying and would find the right to do so a great comfort. However, I feel the introduction of the Bill has been far too rushed. The parlous state of the NHS, social and hospice care – and not least the current appalling attacks on sickness and disability benefits – has really given me pause on the subject. ‘Soylent Green’ next perhaps….
And remember The Balfour Declaration (1917) which set a quasi legal precedent by the then top down white British Elite,
from thousands of miles away, without consulting the Palestinian residents, and said “A Jewish Home in Palestine” but NOT a state or country which Zionists at the time had been pressing for.
(See Bernard Regan, The Balfour Declaration).
And would you believe it, it also said “And this should do nothing to the detriment of the indigenous (Palestinian) population.” Hmm
Some argue that the entity that occupies stolen Palestinian land that calls itself ‘Israel’ is bang on illegal.
I stand with Palestinian intellectuals Said, and Olymar who call for one multi-ethnic Democratic State of Palestine from the rivers to the sea with the latter calling for “A new grassroots Palestinian approach.”
And Palestine is not our enemy, it has done the UK no harm so why has the UK taken sides when it should be helping to broker a peace and a solution.
It would have done under Corbyn.
So much for the First Ammendment. 😞
https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/1923052176693215406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1923052176693215406%7Ctwgr%5Ea62f18184abad8a368b0f47411685fb982634311%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.palestinechronicle.com%2Fnyu-withholds-students-diploma-for-condemning-genocide-in-gaza%2F
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/16/israel-murders-200-civilians-as-ground-invasion-of-gaza-begins/#comment-267490
The time has long gone when those facilitating genocide should be on trial at the Hague.
winteringham – Really? 🤔
What would you suggest happens to them?
Getting a tad concerned are we, Billy?
Dave – 🥱
Ah! Bless! The Saturday kindergarden were doing self-portraits.
Dave – ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
……and attempting what possibly might be rudimentary geometry.
Are we keeping you awake, Billy?
Sorry, what do you not understand about being “put on trial?” It’s a fairly common concept, used in the UK and elsewhere in various guises for centuries.