Anti-Israel nuts (and another Just Stop Oil spin off) were planning to disrupt the State Opening of Parliament today. They said in a statement last week:
“Next Wednesday, 17th July, is the State Opening of Parliament. In an outdated, farcical parade the King will ride in his (literal) golden carriage to usher in the new Labour government. Not in our name will Starmer be welcomed as the new head of a blood-stained parliament in pomp and glory.”
So much for that heroic plan. A co-conspirator has just snapped a big old bunch of them looking glum after getting nicked on Horseferry Road. Better luck next time…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”