Graham and Barry
Dear Editor,
On Saturday 6 September I was one of 890 people arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for holding a cardboard sign. I was held for 12 hours and released at
4.30 am on Sunday morning from Ilford police station, 18 miles from my home in Brent.
Barry Gardiner MP or Brent West voted for the proscribing of the non-violent group Palestine Action under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and is therefore personally responsible for the arrests of peaceful protestors in Parliament Square including blind people,many very elderly people and many people there from religious groups like the Quakers. The police were rough with anyone who refused to give their names before seeing a solicitor - I am a 71 year old grandad and was double handcuffed and thrown on the floor of a police van for an hour.
Today I announce that I will be standing against Barry Gardiner at the next General Election as I hold him personally responsible for the arrests and police brutality, but mine is not a revenge mission.
Gardiner is now a media favourite and regular on the BBC and Nigel Farages GBNews. His role is to defend the Starmer government when they cut Winter Fuel payments, attack disabled people,privatise the NHS, allow further fossil fuel drilling and above all continue to sell arms to the Israeli Defence Force which is committing genocide in Gaza.
This latter role is no surprise for Gardiner is a big supporter of Israel, a former vice -chair of Labour Friends of Israel, who fully supports Zionism and its horrors against defenceless Palestinians.
Gardiner is a rich man who has drawn a big salary for his 28 years in Parliament - he currently receives £94k a year. He has lost touch with the working people of Brent and when I am elected I will only accept an average workers wage.
I stand for a better public NHS, green energy, nationalisation of the water companies, expansion of rail travel, a wealth tax on the richest and much else. Above all I oppose the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.
Contact me : grahamdurham@hotmail.com
0737941175
4 comments:
Ditching Gardiner & voting for Durham would be like jumping out of the frying pan & into the fire. Either of them won’t be getting my vote, that’s for sure!
what happened to Graham just shows the game’s rigged. Man’s a 71-year-old grandad, standing with Palestine, and they still cuff him up like a criminal. Meanwhile the real crooks are in Parliament cashing ninety-odd grand a year while flogging off the NHS and arming Israel.
Gardiner don’t speak for Brent, he speaks for the bosses and the war machine. Always on telly chatting breeze while locals can’t heat their homes or get a GP appointment. Man’s forgotten where he came from.
Hamas's leaders have a net worth in the billions, whilst the people are left to starve. Would we be nice to see written on carboard “free palestine from hamas”. If scotland acted to England with rockets, attacks like oct 7th and repeated calls for genocide, you know the same would happen
What are you going to do to solve the problem of the lost generation of NEETS in the UK further impacted by Labour's increases to the national insurance that employers pay which has led to thousands of job losses ...
"923,000 16-24-year-olds estimated to have been not in education, employment or training - Neet - in the first three months of 2025, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
That equates to roughly one in eight people aged 16 to 24."
BBC News - Neets: One in eight young people not in work or education - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp92218jpryo?app-referrer=deep-link
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