Green Party peer Jenny Jones has told the Glastonbury Festival’s Speakers Forum that she will vote against proscribing Palestine Action if the order reaches the House of Lords.
Jenny said: “I’ve worked on policing issues, civil liberties and protests for more than 25 years, and I know very clearly, very well, that what the government is doing to Palestine Action is not a legal act. They are not a terrorist organisation and, to be honest, if the government proscribes them, there’s going to be an outcry. It is bizarre, because it almost looks as if the government is frightened of protest. I mean, that’s something that I’ve seen with the Conservative government, but now with the Labour government, we’re seeing it as well. They actually don’t like opposition of any sort, and that’s not democracy, and what they are planning to do is not democratic.”
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