White may be the only real ‘terror’ arrested so far for supporting Palestine Action – well, she frightened the life out of Starmer in Liverpool a few years ago at least
Legendary Liverpool left-winger Audrey White is one of four people arrested, at today’s anti-genocide march in the city, under the Terrorism Act for carrying signs supporting Palestine Action (PA) against the direct action group’s ‘proscription’ designation as ISIS-like terrorists.
White’s brother Mark Holt, who was on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza in 2008 and drove across Europe and into Gaza with Medical Aid, a young woman, and a retired housing adviser are believed to be the others arrested.
The arrest of ‘Billie Jo’.
One of the arrestees taken away by police.
(Image: We are the People Liverpool)
Footage from the Victoria monument on Derby Square (video: We are the People Liverpool).
The arrests are part of a wave of police action against anyone who dares to challenge the proscription of PA, a direct action group that damaged Israeli weapons-manufacturing facilities and linked interests, which was added to the list of banned terror organisations by Yvette Cooper earlier this month.
Audrey White might be said to be the only ‘terror’ among them, at least in the eyes of Keir Starmer – who was reduced to a barely coherent rabbit in the headlights in Liverpool in 2022 when he visited the city clandestinely but was found out and cornered as she gave him a piece of her mind about his betrayal of members and the labour movement.
Increasing numbers of people are challenging the proscription, which goes to a hearing next week to decide if there will be a judicial review of the ban, for which the government has been heavily criticised by legal and human rights experts, including United Nations Special Rapporteurs. Various police forces around the country have been using the proscription as an excuse to arrest people simply for showing solidarity with Palestine and opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza – even though a High Court judge has already ruled that they have every right under British law to do so.
Local activists are trying to find out which police station those arrested have been taken to and are asking supporters to get there as soon as this information is available.
Edit: the first version of this article said the fourth person was a local Unitarian pastor.
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I shall never forget the sight of Starmer caught as you say like a ‘rabbit in the headlights’. Too cowardly to even speak to Audrey who was quickly moved away by an ‘aide’.
I wouldn’t mind betting Liverpool Police have a poster somewhere saying ‘If you see this woman arrest her on the slightest pretext’!
But seriously, where is this going to end? The State will need those new prisons Starmer promised or early release of real criminals to make room in prisons. Or probably a war of attrition, as the proscription of Palestine Action did not prohibit peaceful protest and charges following arrest seem unlikely, but the State trying to wear people down and make their lives as difficult as possible.
Absolutely good on you Audrey – and your fellow protestors. Wear it like another badge of honour.
Also, never forget the shithousery of that other useless meff, Rotherham, as he sat there in silence while Audrey let rip.
Another smarmerite hanger-on, content to see the Hillsborough families shat on again, with his silence on the continual Hillsborough law delay and dilution.
(And I’ve already explained just why keefs delaying that).
Another one who thinks that merely being a scouser with a red rosette is a guarantee of his sinecure.
Well he can fuck off as well l.
Solidarity with Audrey and the two others arrested.
Apologies – the three others arrested.
I just posted the following comment in the previous thread, and must have been typing it out when this article was posted. Anyway, this thread/article is much more appropriate and relevant so I’m posting it here as well, and although I haven’t checked, I doubt any other MSM outlets drew attention to something the Guardian said in an editorial recently and, as such, informed their millions of readers and viewers and listeners of the fact.
In a Guardian editorial on July 3rd regarding the Starmerfurher’s intention to proscibe Palestine Action, they pointed out the following right at the start:
When the Labour government introduced anti-terrorism legislation 25 years ago, it stressed that it was targeting extreme crimes. “Terrorism involves the threat or use of serious violence for political, religious or ideological ends. It … aims to create a climate of extreme fear,” said Jack Straw, the then home secretary.
Some MPs still feared that a group like Greenpeace, which had destroyed genetically modified crops and temporarily halted nuclear weapons production at Aldermaston, might be proscribed. Mr Straw reassured them that such bans would be used only when absolutely necessary; he knew of “no evidence whatever” that the actions of the environmental group “would fall remotely under [its] scope”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/03/the-guardian-view-on-proscribing-palestine-action-blurring-civil-disobedience-and-terrorism-is-a-dangerous-step
Hmm, how times change.
Another thing I’ve kept meaning to mention is that it was being claimed at the time – and in the weeks leading up to the proscription referred to time and time again by the MSM – that it would cost £millions to clean up the two military planes sprayed with red paint. I didn’t initially take in who’d made this claim, but then happened to read an article in which the police were quoted as saying it. Needless to say, there is no way on this planet that it would cost millions, and it was obviously a falsehood and a figure concocted and contrived to warrant and justify proscribing the group – ie to get public opinion on side.
Now I have no idea what sort of paint was used, but assuming it wasn’t water-colour paint – which could of course be washed off with a hosepipe/water and, as such, would cost next to nothing and probably take about fifteen minutes or so to do – at the very most it might cost a few thousand and take a day or two to do. In a BBC News article I just this minute found posted on June 20th it says the following:
Palestine Action said the activists evaded security and claimed they had put the air-to-air refuelling tankers “out of service”.
However, RAF engineers are assessing the damage and a defence source told the BBC they did not expect the incident to affect operations.
And then there was all the totally OTT national security bollox…. the following from the same BBC News article:
Lord West, Labour minister for UK security and former head of the Royal Navy, said earlier that while he was not aware of the full details, the break-in was “extremely worrying”.
“We can’t allow thing[s] like this to happen at all,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, adding that breaches like it were “really a problem” for national security.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the security breach was “deeply concerning”.
“This is not lawful protest, it is politically motivated criminality,” she said in a statement.
“We must stop tolerating terrorist or extremist groups that seek to undermine our society.”
Undermine our society ffs! It reminds me of the Family Guy episode in which Lois is campaigning to be elected mayor and in a public debate isn’t going down too well with the audience, and then Brian advises her to keep her answers short and simple – ie to use platitudes that connect with the audience….
Here’s the bit from Family Guy:
Here’s just one example I quickly found of the absurd £millions of damage claim, from an Al Jazeera article posted on June 25th:
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the incident in an X post the same day. “The act of vandalism committed at RAF Brize Norton is disgraceful,” he wrote.
The police have said the Palestine Action activists’ action resulted in millions of pounds of criminal damage.
“Local activists are trying to find out which police station those arrested have been taken to and are asking supporters to get there as soon as this information is available.”
An active protest policy of ‘one arrested, all arrested’, would flood the system.
But would the lumpen actually want this to take the many out?
Kind of reminds me of the scene from the Ghandhi film when in Pre Independence India his supporters queued up to be beaten on the head with sticks by British soldiers, when perhaps we need to be smarter?
Some suggest some law enforcers may not actually fully understand the law particularly in reference to Lord Chamberlain’s recent ruling (Ammori v SSHD) as highlighted on here?
And we are more in tune with the ICJ ruling on “Plausible Genocide” by Israel, plus the UK is signed up to the ICJ so must do everything to stop this Genocide.
Next week could be the start of a game changer?
There are more tactics for generals than charge?
Analyse the forces for you and against you & think smarter.
Eg BDS peaceful protest is working, to the Neo-Liberal capitalists absolute regret they can’t force consumers to buy their favoured products and the Israeli economy now has probably been hit by £420b!
Bazza, fair point.
However, the practicalities for the police of trying to process lets say several hundred or even a thousand or more people actively following them to the police station and turning themselves in would likely swamp the system.
Sufficient space, processing time, holding capacity, availability of personnel are all practical problems which would have a detrimental wear and tear impact on facilities, moral, and optics. Particularly if people were canny and slowed the process down.
Imagine, say, two or three hundred people crowded inside and outside every police station in a city? How long would it take the police to process so many arrests? Would there be sufficient toilet and catering facilities to cope with such a situation?
Take that report of the Epping incident yesterday:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr3716kd8mo
“Our cells, which have been filling up throughout the evening, are ready for you,” Ch Supt Anslow warned in a statement. ”
All SIX of them on the basis of the fact that only six out of around a thousand acting violently and throwing bottles and flares at the police were arrested.
Fact is, the police will most certainly take account of practical limitations such as the number of available cells; how many personnel are available to process anyone arrested; what onsite facilities are available at any one time; and so on when taking people into custody in such a context.
Most police cells are holding cells designed as a temporary facility pending decisions on what to do with anyone taken into custody.
A few weeks of such pressure would certainly test and degrade the system and those running it.
Just happened to spot this just now, posted a couple of hours ago:
Three women charged under Terrorism Act after van rammed fence of a defence factory in Edinburgh
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-07-20/three-women-charged-under-terror-act-after-van-rammed-fence-of-a-defence-factory
Apologies for so many posts, but I just went on to Craig Murray’s website to see if he’d posted any new articles recently and, as such, came across the following piece posted three days ago:
The Big Chill
The three female activists arrested on Tuesday for the direct action against the Leonardo weapons factory in Edinburgh are being treated as terrorists. They have been held now for 40 hours, without either being charged or being brought before a judge, under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act.
They are from the organisation Shut Down Leonaproprdo, which targets the firm which makes parts for the F-35 jets that massacre children in Gaza.
I spent all yesterday trying to organise their legal defence. By 8am I had found the right solicitor and briefed them on the case, including the crucial judgment by Judge Chamberlain in London’s High Court on 4 July….
And the following day he posted another related article:
The Nestlé Cadbury Fallacy and Shut Down Leonardo
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/07/the-nestle-cadbury-fallacy-and-shut-down-leonardo/
“Here’s Kernow Damo (edited);
This month’s proscription of Palestine Action, a non violent network targeting arms manufacturers supplying Israel, gave legal cover to a crackdown. This weekend over 100 people were arrested: 55 in London, 17 in Bristol, 16 in Manchester, 8 in Truro, many just for holding placards. No reference to the banned group was needed. The words ‘Palestine’ and ‘action’, together on banners, triggered arrests.
Evidence of abuse is overwhelming. In Glasgow a 64 year old man was detained for a sign declaring, “Genocide in Palestine. Time to take action!” Police claimed the words aroused reasonable suspicion.
In Canterbury, armed officers threatened a woman with prosecution for holding a Palestinian flag and ‘Free Gaza’ placard. In West Yorkshire a retired head teacher was arrested for holding up a Private Eye article explaining what Palestine Action is.
A high court judge has ruled such applications of the law unlawful, yet officers say they would treat anti-genocide flags and slogans as evidence of terrorist support. This is not rogue policing. It’s a coordinated policy of intimidation by a government far too close to Israel.