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05.07.2025
An Email To My MP

Here's an email I wrote last night to my MP, Jamie Stone, regarding his recent email response to my call for opposition to the government's plans to proscribe the non-violent group Palestine Action. Needless to say his response was typical, expected and lacking in any value or substance whatsoever. Please note that when I wrote this email I wasn't aware that the House of Lords had already approved the motion to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 a day earlier. Boy do they move quick in this country...

Dear Jamie Stone MP,

Yes, a very expected response.

Throw together an email, make it long, make it look like you actually give a damn, throw in a quote from one of your colleagues who was actually there at that piss-poor turn out of a debate in the House of Commons and then hope that I probably didn't understand enough about the situation to reply to your email at length.

Well, I am replying. So strap in and listen up...

Where the hell were you when the debate and vote was taking place? Were you sick? Were you too busy? Could you not be bothered? Had you already made up your mind how you were going to vote (or should I say "not going to vote") and decided instead to avoid engaging in the debate having come to the conclusion like so many other citizens in this country that the democratic process is a complete farce and illusion anyway?

I checked out online who voted for what and it seems you, like so many others, didn't even bother to turn up or express an opinion. This is typical Lib Dem behavior of sitting on the fence and never actually doing anything about anything ever.

The argument that 'Palestine Action' shouldn't have been included in that Bill with the likes of the 'Maniacs Murder Cult' and 'Russian Imperial Movement' is so utterly obvious as to be almost a parody. Hell, could they possibly have gotten two more ridiculously named groups to lump them in with? Are these groups actually real or just a made up government psy-op? In short, it was clearly a setup from the very beginning - sponsored by the Zionist Lobby no doubt (a recent report states that Pro-Israel lobbyists have donated to 13 out of Labour's 25 cabinet members since they were first elected to parliament) - and with that in mind, it was all the more reason why you should have been there to state your point of view that this was an unfair grouping to begin with and that you were only voting against this Bill because a direct action group didn't belong being listed anywhere with these other lunatic fringe movements.

But you didn't even turn up. Instead, you took the easy option. The coward's option. Too scared to voice your opinion, too weak to express some of the things you expressed to me here in your email, albeit choosing your words wisely, hoping not to rock the boat whilst also hoping that somehow you might retain some faith in a potential voter that will help keep you in the lifestyle you have become accustomed to.

Tragic.

What's also tragic is that we now have to rely on the House of Lords of all things to hopefully see common sense and throw this out like the dirty dishwater it actually is. Why did you even become a politician?

There are starving people queuing up for scraps of food in Gaza, for hours and hours and hours on end, only to be sprayed with bullets for the criminal activity of trying to feed their families, their children, their friends, their loved ones.

Human beings, like you and I. Day after day after day enduring lose, death, starvation, injury - both mental and physical. And all happening in the 21st century whilst the "civilised" world looks on.

But you didn't do anything about it. You didn't even voice your opinion. Basically, you shat it because you didn't want to be labelled "antisemitic". May I suggest you read the book A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe (a Jew incidentally) who outlines clearly how October 7th wasn't the beginning of this conflict as the mainstream media would like us to believe. The Zionist movement has been toxic from its very inception in the late 19th century, not only to Palestinians but to Jews and just about everyone else on the planet. Look at the history books and you'll even learn how the Zionists collaborated with the Nazis to encourage Jews to relocate to Palestine.

I am sorely disappointed. Not just in you, but in the whole system of politics in this country. The way we're going will lead to the likes of Farage and his ilk gaining power because fearful uneducated people will be disillusioned by fearful uneducated, incompetent politicians.

Just for the record, I never voted for you. Precisely why the Lib Dems have such a strong foothold in the Highlands has always been a mystery to me. It certainly can't be down to the influx of English people settling here. Most of them seem to have come here to escape England. Perhaps its down to our own sordid history in the region. People being oppressed, starved, slaughtered, displaced. Perhaps given enough oppression people just break, and then generation after generation produces more subservient individuals. Perhaps this is the plan for the Palestinians.

What's your plan? Do you have one? How do you sleep at night not doing anything about this? I certainly couldn't, which is why I emailed you in the first place, hoping that my regional representative might voice my concerns in parliament. At least I'll be able to sleep in the knowledge that at least I tried something.

George T. Mortimer.