RT: @implausibleblog Left: Outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the increase in defence spending is his legacy

Right: His actual legacy is proscribing a protest group which saw an 83 year old retired priest - one of over a thousand people - arrested for holding a sign

➡️ Labour's Baron Hain in the House of Lords called the proscription shameful for conflating protest with terrorism

➡️ Geoffrey Robertson who recruited Starmer and was one of his earliest mentors criticised the way Starmer, Cooper and now Mahmood have abused the law

➡️ And never forget how on 29 April 2026 a man in hospital supported psychiatric accommodation attacked three men, the first was a Muslim, the second two were Jewish. Starmer spent days standing up for the British Jewish community (which he rightly did), but not once did he stand up for the British Muslim community. Starmer's two-tier island of strangers inequality

In opposition I liked Starmer for standing up to 14 years of Conservative chaos, and in his early months fully supported him. But then came the poor policy roll-outs, the u-turns, and then the escalation to full on authoritarianism

Defence is not your legacy @Keir_Starmer - even though we desperately do need to improve our defence capabilities. Your legacy is how you as a former human rights lawyer sunk into authoritarianism. Instead of leadership you created an environment where an 83 year old retired priest would be arrested. And as Baron Hain said, that is indeed shameful