Labour Heartlands

04/12/2025

Eurovision 2026: Glitter Over Genocide

So here we are. Eurovision banned Russia for invading Ukraine, but Israel, now facing genocide findings from the UN and a live genocide case at the International Court of Justice, gets the red carpet treatment.

Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia have pulled out in protest. They refused to pretend Gaza’s destruction is just “politics” that can be ignored for a TV show. They are right to walk.

The UN’s Commission of Inquiry has concluded Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The ICJ has said genocide is “plausible” and ordered Israel to stop killing civilians and allow aid in.

Israel ignored the court. Europe shrugged and said “sing anyway.”

This is not culture. This is cultural whitewashing.

Eurovision cannot claim to stand for peace while hosting a state accused of genocide. You cannot flatten Gaza, defy international law and then waltz onto a glitter stage to rehabilitate your image for Western audiences.

If Europe had any integrity, Israel would already be suspended until it complies with international law, the same way Russia was.

Instead, the EBU chose the path of moral cowardice. So the responsibility falls on us.

*Boycott Eurovision 2026.
*Support the countries that walked away.
*Push the broadcasters to follow.

*No glitter over Gaza.
*No songs over mass graves.
*No stage for apartheid and genocide.

If Eurovision wants peace, it cannot perform for perpetrators.

04/12/2025

The NHS puberty blockers trial is not “care” – it’s an experiment on more than 200 distressed children, using drugs that were banned for routine use after experts warned of an unacceptable safety risk. Our children are not test subjects for a political ideology. Please support this demonstration and say clearly: no experiments on kids.

04/12/2025

Bank Statements and the NEW LAW What the DWP haven't told you

The DWP are suddenly asking thousands of people for bank statements — and it’s not random.

The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 has now officially become law, and hidden inside it is a legal requirement for the Government to examine at least 3 months of your bank statements before they can take enforcement action, issue deductions, or freeze money in an account.

This channel is worth a look, if not a follow...

https://youtube.com/?si=bdduZ02Y7MPgTgdJ

04/12/2025

Welcome to the Ministry of Truth: How Labour’s Fraud Act Deputises Your Bank as State Informant

The Ministry of Truth is Open for Business: New ‘FEAR Act’ Unleashes Orwellian Nightmare on the Working Class…

the dark clouds of an authoritarian surveillance state finally broke over Britain. With the Royal Assent of the Fraud, Error, and Recovery Act 2025 (FEAR Act), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been handed the keys to our private lives, ushering in the most draconian era of state intrusion in twenty years.

For those who thought the surveillance state was a conspiracy theory, wake up. It is now the law of the land.

When a piece of legislation acquires a nickname before it even receives Royal Assent, you know something has gone badly wrong. The “FEAR Act” they are calling it, and fear is precisely what the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 is designed to instil.

Not in tax evaders hiding millions in offshore accounts. Not in the organised criminal gangs milking public contracts for billions. But in disabled people claiming Personal Independence Payment, carers exceeding arbitrary earnings thresholds by a few pounds, and pensioners with modest savings they forgot to declare.

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https://labourheartlands.com/welcome-to-the-ministry-of-truth-labours-fear-act-receives-royal-assent/

The Ministry of Truth is Open for Business: New ‘FEAR Act’ Unleashes Orwellian Nightmare on the Working Class...

03/12/2025

The Last Jury: When Labour Tore Up Magna Carta

Labour Is Extinguishing the Light of English Liberty

When a government announces it will strip away an 800-year-old constitutional protection in the name of efficiency, you know something has gone terribly wrong. Not with the system it claims to fix, but with the government itself.

David Lammy, Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, stood before Parliament this week to announce what he doubtless considers a triumph of pragmatic modernisation. Jury trials, that ancient bulwark against tyranny, will now be abolished for any offence carrying a likely sentence of less than three years. Murder, r**e, and robbery might still merit the judgment of twelve citizens. Everything else? A judge sitting alone will do nicely, thank you.

The government frames this as necessity. There are, they tell us with appropriate gravity, some 78,000 cases awaiting trial in Crown Courts. By 2028, this backlog may reach 100,000. Victims face years waiting for justice. Some trials scheduled today will not be heard until 2029 or 2030. The system is broken, they insist. Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

It is the logic of the man who, finding his house too small, decides to burn down half of it.

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https://labourheartlands.com/the-last-jury-when-labour-tore-up-magna-carta/

When a government announces it will strip away an 800-year-old constitutional protection in the name of efficiency, you know something has gone terribly

03/12/2025

‼️: Russia - Ukraine Peace deal FALLS APART

Putin says Europe sabotaged a peace deal intentionally and warns:

"If Europe wants a war with us and starts it, a situation may quickly arise where there is no one left for us to negotiate with" 👀

The world's gone mad, and we will be the victims of their madness

03/12/2025

PMQs 03/12/2025

03/12/2025

“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled: first of all, frighten people and secondly, demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.”

“And I think our system is based on trying to make people stupid, demoralised and unhealthy, and poverty is a great weapon for that purpose.” - Tony Benn

02/12/2025

Totally agree...

02/12/2025

EU’s Mogherini and Sannino in custody in fraud probe
European prosecutor says it has “strong suspicions” competition rules were breached in awarding contract to run training academy for diplomats.

Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and one of the bloc’s most senior diplomats, Stefano Sannino, are in custody after Belgian police launched raids as part of a fraud probe on Tuesday, according to officials familiar with the case.

The police detained three suspects and searched the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the College of Europe over alleged corruption in the establishment of a training academy for diplomats.

The searches — conducted at the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and approved by the Belgian police — took place at the EEAS in Brussels, in buildings of the College of Europe in Bruges and at private homes, according to an EPPO statement.

The EEAS is the EU’s foreign policy wing and was until 2019 headed by the former European Commission Vice President Mogherini. She has been rector of the College of Europe, a training ground for future EU officials, since 2020.

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgian-cops-raid-eu-foreign-service-in-fraud-probe/

European prosecutor says it has “strong suspicions” competition rules were breached in awarding contract to run training academy for diplomats.

02/12/2025

Twelve more prisoners released in error, with two still missing, says Lammy

Justice Secretary David Lammy has said 12 prisoners have been accidentally released in the past three weeks, two of whom are still at large.

It comes on top of the 91 prisoners who were freed by mistake between April and October in England and Wales.

Speaking to the BBC, Lammy said there would always be a "human error" while prisons were using a paper-based system and that the situation would improve once a "completely digital system" was adopted.

He said there had been "a spike" in accidental releases but added it was now on "a downward trajectory".

Speaking to ITV later, Lammy said he had been "reassured" that the two prisoners at large were not violent or s*x offenders.

"I'm not going to give details of those cases, because these are operational decisions made by the police, and you'll understand if they're about to arrest somebody they don't want me to blow the cover," he added.

The subject of accidental releases gained attention after Hadush Kebatu, who was jailed after s*xually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman while living in an asylum hotel in Epping, was mistakenly freed.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e9py8g2yyo

The releases happened in the past three weeks, coming on top of 91 prisoners who were freed by mistake between April and October.

02/12/2025

Post Office scandal: Police consider corporate manslaughter charges

Police Weigh Corporate Manslaughter Charges as Post Office Scandal Probe Reaches “Persons of Interest”
Police investigating Britain’s worst miscarriage of justice are now considering corporate manslaughter charges. The National Police Chiefs’ Council confirmed that fifty-three persons of interest are now under examination, with eight individuals remaining formal suspects in Operation Olympos, the sprawling criminal investigation into the Post Office Horizon scandal.

This is not merely a story of faulty software. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 sub-postmasters were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office itself. At least thirteen people are believed to have taken their own lives due to the scandal’s devastating consequences. Thirteen suicides. Hundreds of lives destroyed. Thousands of families torn apart.

The police have requested further funding from the Home Office, warning that without this, they could face delay. Meanwhile, the volume of documents being reviewed by the police has now reached 7.5 million. Any potential criminal trials are not expected until 2028 or 2029.

The investigation focuses on Post Office investigators, lawyers, and management across both the Post Office and Fujitsu, the company that created the Horizon system. Commander Stephen Clayman, who is leading the investigation, said police will “go where the evidence takes” them, with no person or crime out of the scope. Civil servants could be questioned. From 2027, the police will be expanding the investigation to look at the role Post Office and Fujitsu executives played in the scandal.

But here is the question that matters: how far up does this investigation reach? The Post Office is wholly owned by the government. Multiple ministers held the Post Office brief during the two decades this scandal unfolded. Ed Davey held the brief during the coalition and refused to meet Alan Bates, the campaigning postmaster, and a number of Tories who held the Post Office portfolio after the Coalition, now face press scrutiny.

Sir Keir Starmer is facing tough questions over his role as Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the Post Office scandal.

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https://labourheartlands.com/post-office-scandal/

Police investigating Britain's worst miscarriage of justice are now considering corporate manslaughter charges related to the post office.