General British politics discussion thread

The poor Poles can't do anything right.

It's similar here with people who were racist to them and wanted them gone are now lamenting the days when the immigrants were white.

Trump puts $31bn tech prosperity deal with UK on ice due to lack of progress on tariffs. US was to invest in the UK.

A blow to Starmer but it does deprive brexiteers of an argument theres a benefit to Brexit.

US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice

https://share.google/Womf3oNsr6kB0ugeuPledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond

Indeed. It'll conveniently leave out that particular "foreign financial interference" no doubt.

That Sultana one is now tryna kick up fuss over the fact that a detained Palestine Action is hungry because she went on Hunger Strike.

Bizarre carry on I dunno how these people get taken seriously at all.

You mean you think it is unfair for an MP to highland the case of a young person on remand taking part in a hunger strike? Why do you think it is unfair?

"Worse than the Tories"

Ffs you do go off the deep end at times. Ya Sultana is worse than Truss and Johnson, worse than the party that gave us Brexit and the hostile environment policy.

Worse than Badenoch, Patel and Mogg ?

https://www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strikers-mortal-danger-conditions-already-critical/

The strikers’ demands are almost all restatements of basic rights, protocols and conventions, such as the protocol for maximum remand length and the government’s previous commitment not to proscribe direct action groups. These are their demands.

End censorship of prison materials

Prisons are using their powers to monitor and intercept prisoner communications – calls, letters, books, etc. – to restrict prisoners’ political activity and punish them for self-expression. Visitors have described having to avoid words like “Palestine” for fear of intervention. 

Immediate bail

The Filton 24 and other PA-associated prisoners have not been convicted of any crime; they are imprisoned on remand while awaiting trial. The standard legal limit for being imprisoned on remand is six months; some of the Filton 24 are currently on track to spend two years in prison pre-trial. The hunger strikers demand their release from custody while they await trial.

Right to a fair trial

This is, in practice, a demand for the release of various documents that are relevant to the upcoming trials: “This includes all meetings between British and Israeli state officials, the British police, the attorney general, Elbit Systems representatives, and any others involved in coordinating the ongoing witch-hunt of actionists and campaigners. We also demand the release of government records of all Elbit Systems UK exports from the last five years.”

De-proscribe Palestine Action

Prisoners For Palestine opposes “the use of counter-terror laws to target those engaged in protest and direct action”, and demands the de-proscription of Palestine Action, the dropping of all  “terror-related charges” and “links’’ imposed on those who have allegedly been involved with Palestine Action, and an apology from Yvette Cooper, who has claimed that PA is violent and “possibly funded by Iran”. 

Shut down Elbit Systems UK

Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, which supplies 80% of weapons and equipment to the IDF’s land forces and most of Israel’s combat drones, has 16 sites in the UK. The strikers wish for Elbit Systems’ UK sites to be permanently shut down; where the government is concerned, this demand specifically focuses on the cessation of government contracts with and ties to Elbit. Earlier in 2025, the Ministry of Defence was considering Elbit for a proposed £2bn contract to provide training to 60,000 British soldiers per year. It is unknown whether Elbit has been awarded this contract; Elbit announced in November that they had signed a $2.3bn contract for undisclosed services with an undisclosed buyer, but whether this relates to the proposed UK deal is unknown.

I agree with all of their demands but they should have reduced it to the top 3 which are essentially human rights issues. The fact that UK govt are releasing hardened criminals into the community short of serving their sentences because of the shortage of prison spaces is well enough reason to release these folk on bail.

I cant find any official reason either but one comment did say it was likely to avoid an "Extinction Rebellion" type farce where you have the same few handful of goons repeatedly getting arrested and released every few weeks. These lot will likely keep reoffending if given the chance so the only way to stop them offending is to hold them.

Essentially the British version of Enoch but the Brits have zero interest in playing that game anymore.

The first one is ridiculous. They worded it well there but most of their complaints seems to be having Keffiyeh or Palestinan flag material removed. That type of material was never allowed anyway thats why theres generally prison uniforms.