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Bojo/Brexit News Links 27 September 2019
27 September 2019 • 19:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Brexit: UK ‘planning concrete proposals’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49847577 The far right is pushing for riots over Brexit. And media outrage is nowhere to be seen. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/5p1d3rqmUoQ/ Continue reading
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Bojo/Brexit News Links 26 September 2019
26 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Britain: political crisis deepens as Supreme Court intervenes http://www.marxist.com/britain-political-crisis-deepens-as-supreme-court-intervenes.htm Odds cut on Boris Johnson being shortest serving PM http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/qugs91lT_lU/ Continue reading
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Bojo/Brexit News Links 25 September 2019
25 September 2019 • 23:15 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Corbyn cuts through the Brexit chaos and media noise during BBC interview Britain: political crisis deepens as Supreme Court intervenes http://www.marxist.com/britain-political-crisis-deepens-as-supreme-court-intervenes.htm Continue reading
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Johnson Enters Neo-Con Heaven By Craig Murray
There has been remarkably little media commentary on the effect of the UK leaving the EU Common Foreign Policy, even though this is a major aim of Johnson, Gove and the Tory Brexiteers. The media appear not to have noticed the existence of the Common Foreign Policy. We saw perhaps the first public glimpse of… Continue reading
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UK Supreme Court rules Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament illegal
British politics entered uncharted waters yesterday as the Supreme Court—the UK’s highest judicial body—declared illegal Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authoritarian prorogation of parliament. Far from resolving the crisis over Brexit, the ruling has set in motion what one political commentator described as a “constitutional earthquake.” Continue reading
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The Supreme Court, Proroguing & Dangerous Precedents Remainers celebrating the ruling need to consider the greater implications of a judiciary that enforces policy, not law
The Supreme Court has ruled against Boris Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament. Because of course they did, because they were always going to. Continue reading
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They’re Murdering My Son – Julian Assange’s Father Tells of Pain and Anguish By Finian Cunningham
Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, gave an interview to Strategic Culture Foundation over the weekend. After arriving from his home country of Australia, Shipton is visiting several European states, including Russia, to bring public attention to the persecution of Julian Assange by British authorities over his role as a publisher and author. Continue reading
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Bojo/Brexit News Links 24 September 2019
24 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Boris Johnson is dead in the water after Supreme Court rules he acted unlawfully http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/mY6aT9kEHjw/ Today’s links 24 September 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/09/todays-links_24.html Continue reading
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Prorogation: Judicial Blowback
The Tory government, under both May and Johnson, has made plain its contempt for the rule of law repeatedly, and not only over the prorogation of parliament. In the last few days we have seen the Tories admit to illegal sales of arms to Saudi Arabia, in direct breach of a ruling by the Court… Continue reading
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In a new report, firefighters lay the ‘ultimate responsibility’ for Grenfell at the UK government’s feet
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has released a new pamphlet which lays the ultimate responsibility for the Grenfell Tower disaster with central government. It says deregulation from consecutive governments since Margaret Thatcher has ‘gutted’ the UK’s fire safety regime, leading to the tragedy. Continue reading
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London Fire Brigade interviewed under caution by police over Grenfell Tower fire By Alice Summers
The London Fire Brigade (LFB) have confirmed that they have been interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan Police as part of the ongoing police investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire. Continue reading
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Bail sentence ends: UK now holding Assange solely on US’ behalf
On 22 September 2019, Julian Assange’s sentence for a bail violation conviction ended, but he was not released from HMP Belmarsh. Beginning today, 23 September, the United Kingdom is detaining Julian solely on behalf of the United States, which requests his extradition and has charged him with 18 counts carrying 175 years in prison for… Continue reading
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Drug smuggling is HSBC’s raison d’etre By Dan Glazebrook
HSBC are in the news for attempting to suppress a report into money laundering. This is no surprise as the company’s entire history, right up to the present day, is one of financing drug cartels. Continue reading
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The numbers behind Thomas Cook’s collapse lift the lid on capitalism and Tory greed
Travel giant Thomas Cook has collapsed leaving 150,000 UK tourists stranded around the world. Yet the maths behind this offers a searing indictment of Conservative driven greed and capitalism. Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 23 September 2019
23 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Thomas Cook Collapse: First Major Brexit Casualty? McDonnell backs ‘logical’ approach to delay on Labour Brexit policy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/7SNBsF-oJzo/ Continue reading
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Labour Conference Belongs to Members, so Why Are Police Allowed to Shut Activists Out? by Chris Saltmarsh
Police have attempted to stop party members who are also climate activists, like me, from attending Labour conference this year – despite already having been sued for barring a member in 2017. Continue reading
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Factional warfare over Brexit dominates Labour Party conference
A series of opportunist manoeuvres by party leader Jeremy Corbyn have failed to stop the descent of Labour’s annual conference into bitter conflict over its policy on Brexit. Continue reading
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Police surveillance used to report disabled protesters to UK government for alleged benefit fraud By Dennis Moore
Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, spoke at a conference in Belfast last month to warn that innocent people are being caught up in a mass surveillance system enacted by the UK government to combat welfare “benefit fraud.” Continue reading
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Dedicated to David Allen Green, Joshua Rosenberg, Joan Smith, Hadley Freeman, Jess Phillips, David Aaronovitch and the entire staff of the Guardian/Observer
As of today Julian Assange has finished his jail sentence for missing police bail. There is no Swedish charge or request for his extradition, those risibly flimsy sexual allegations no longer being needed by the state. Continue reading
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EXPOSED: UK’s Censorship On Journalism
This article is part of a series dedicated to a significant and wide-reaching BigBrotherWatch publication focusing on state surveillance that has been largely ignored by the mainstream media. Today, it is a very serious worry that our entire mechanism of democracy is being undermined by excessive and uncontrolled state surveillance. This disproportionate obsession by the… Continue reading
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