In the year to 31 December 2025, there were 3034 arrests for terrorism-related activity, a 1114% increase on the 248 in the previous year. 2779 of those 3034 arose out of the proscription of Palestine Action, without which there would have been only 255. Who has Palestine Action ever killed? Or robbed? Or anything? If you proscribe even that as a terrorist organisation, then this is what happens.
Yet this is why we are to lose almost all jury trials, and the right of appeal from the Magistrates’ Court to the Crown Court. And as the proscription of Palestine Action was an all-or-nothing measure that also banned the Russian Imperial Movement and the Maniacs Murder Cult, so the Courts and Tribunals Bill contains excellent provisions while forcing any MP who wanted to vote for them to vote for its evisceration of trial by jury and of the right of appeal, which was not in Labour’s manifesto, unlike the abandoned commitments on workers’ rights, on an equal minimum wage, and on the abolition of leasehold.
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