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Writer, editor, lecturer, occasional poet, Green Party person. Views here not all party positions. On Twitter/X as Tom___Scott (for now)
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Most people understand terrorism to involve acts or threats of violence - which is also how the UN OHCHR defines terrorism.
We have laws against criminal damage, which carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Proscribing non-violent groups as terrorist organisations is a very slippery slope.
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Tax expert Dan Neidle calculates that by exempting ultra-wealthy non-doms from tax on their foreign assets, Farage's scheme would cost the Treasury £34 billion in lost revenue.
Reform's claim to represent ordinary working people is completely bogus.
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No problem with calling for diplomacy. But backing an illegal war is not the way to achieve a diplomatic solution, or of improving the UK's credibility in helping to bring about such a solution.
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I fully recognise the brutal nature of the Iranian regime but this unilateral action is no way to build peace and risks making the UK once again complicit in escalating a Middle East crisis.
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Our Prime Minister has shamefully decided to echo the rhetoric of Trump and Netanyahu rather than condemn the indefensible aggression of both Israel and the US. Starmer has further implied that it is justifiable for the Iranian regime to be bombed back to the negotiating table.