Alternative way of writing the headline: “OAP intentionally walks up to police with a sign saying I AM A TERRORIST and is then surprised when she gets treated as a terrorist”.
You can argue whether or not Palestine Action should have been proscribed or not, but it did happen and the government made it abundantly clear what that proscription means for anyone continuing to show support for them.
Maybe she wanted to make the point that the group shouldn’t have been banned (in fact I’m sure that’s the point she wanted to make) but surely she didn’t think Keir Starmer was going to go “oh my god you know what, you’re right, I’ll do yet another U-turn because of this old lady”.
Alternative way of writing the headline: “OAP intentionally walks up to police with a sign saying I AM A TERRORIST and is then surprised when she gets treated as a terrorist”.
You can argue whether or not Palestine Action should have been proscribed or not, but it did happen and the government made it abundantly clear what that proscription means for anyone continuing to show support for them.
Maybe she wanted to make the point that the group shouldn’t have been banned (in fact I’m sure that’s the point she wanted to make) but surely she didn’t think Keir Starmer was going to go “oh my god you know what, you’re right, I’ll do yet another U-turn because of this old lady”.