The RAF regiment guard all RAF bases, don't they?
Thanks for the tip, Mike!
telegraph.co.uk/news/pakistan-refuses-take-back-rochdale-groomers
Rochdale grooming gang cannot be deported after tearing up Pakistan passports
Offenders exploit loophole by renouncing citizenship, meaning UK cannot make them stateless
Starmer defended protester who sabotaged military aircraft
PM represented one of the Fairford Five who disrupted military operations at air base in 2003
A group of anti-war protesters had broken into RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to sabotage US bombers before they flew to Iraq.
Sir Keir argued that while the actions were against the law, they were justified because they were trying to stop the planes from committing war crimes.
Josh Richards, who was represented by Sir Keir, was cleared after a jury failed to reach a verdict.
The revelation was first made by the Politico email newsletter.
Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, tweeted: “Worth noting that Keir Starmer defended an activist who broke into an RAF base to set fire to aircraft. Starmer claimed his client was legally justified because it might stop a war crime.
“If he’d won that argument in 2004, what happened at Brize Norton would be perfectly legal.”
The Prime Minister argued in court that Mr Richards believed any force he used was reasonable in an attempt to stop alleged war crimes.
Reports from the time also quote Sir Keir as saying the argument should be allowed even if it resulted in “anarchy” on Britain’s streets.
“It is whether the long standing principle, that an offence under customary international law is an offence under common law, is ever applied,” he said.
He also helped to free some of Britain’s most dangerous prisoners, securing the release on a legal technicality of an arsonist who had terrorised a family after the Home Office had tried to keep him in jail.
As a result, Paul Stellato, who had racked up 36 convictions for 171 offences, was also entitled to compensation – thought to be £30,000 – for being unlawfully held in prison.
Stellato was finally jailed for life in 2018 after trying to purchase hand grenades.
A Tory spokesman said: “There is a reason our PM was chosen to represent people who think nothing of setting fire to RAF jets – as a lawyer he made a career out of representing these sort of criminals and anti-British activists.
“Starmer can act like a statesman now, but we all know that deep down he’s still the Leftie liberal.”
an attack on the uks armed forces.
is that not terrorism?
be interesting to see how sir kneeler bluffs his way out of this.
they should stop paying these useless fuker benefits, until they have repaid the damage caused
They spray painted the plane. They didn't blow it up!
Clearly a protest rather than act of terrorism.
More to the point, how did they breach the airfield security? Tory defence cuts reducing Mod Pod to the minimum as well as RAFP.
Does UK have any nuclear airfields any longer? These were heavily protected back in the 80's, especially with the protests that went on then. I doubt if the manpower is available nowadays....due to Tory cuts.
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they sprayed paint into the engine intake, thereby immobilising the plane, a plane used to protect uk airspace i.e. the security of the uk.Clearly a protest rather than act of terrorism.
this is not just a students street protest breaking the windows of a bank or a factory or throwing baked beans over a work of art .
this is on another level and should not be tolerated.
by disabling military equipment that can be used for defence it is in fact aiding/assisting our enemies and is treason.
security at the airfield was indeed woefully lacking, and may or may not have been due to budgetary cuts, but it does not cost a fortune for the commander of the base to ensure that the raf personnel under his command and already present on the base are making regular armed patrols around the perimeter of the base.
in the usa activist fuckers attacking and disabling military equipment would have shot on sight.
sometimes troy you are remarkably naïve in your blind devotion to socialism.
are you still on those strong opioid painkillers by any chance?
Oh, that rarely puts him off.![]()
every raf plane, be they transport planes, cargo planes or fighter jets and every other piece of equipment on that airbase is part of the uk's security setup one way or another. the ability to transport troops rapidly from one location to another as needed is an important feature of any countries security.
you are just being pedantic in a childish attempt to justify the actions of your beloved hamas supporting palestinian "protesters" and deflecting from what is a very important i ssue.
Actually, the important issue is the breach of security onto an RAF airfield. I have already explained that is due to Tory cuts in defence.
Just because someone does not agree with the nationalist intentions of Zionism does not automatically mean they agree with Hamas or any other terrorist organisation. That simplistic argument, employed by the likes of you and Snubby, lacks any attempt at intelligent discussion.
stoma and his band of thieves have been in power now for 1 year, more than enough time to sort things out.
well there would be if they weren't too busy sucking union cock, kissing illegal raghead immigrant arse, ignoring the cancer of kashmiri muslim rapists and pedos, bowing obsequiously at the altar of net zero, wrecking the economy with their employment taxes and encouraging risk takers and entrepreneurs to emigrate thanks to non dom rules and inheritance tax increases.
socialism, the politics of envy. levelling down in 5 easy steps.
They can't get their heads around success and hate it financially. They'd rather pay for feckless layabouts and worry about minorities and their deviant cultures
.... and teak door socialists, happy to live a life of wealth and privilege in a capitalist military dictatorship where free speech is outlawed, corruption is endemic, poverty is widespread and proper healthcare and recourse to the law is denied to most unless they can afford it.
the hypocrisy of these people is staggering.
^^ Tories with their ridiculous policy of Brexit has ruined the UK. It will take decades to repair the damage.
It was the Tories that closed airbases, that reduced the armed forces to such levels that it cannot secure it's bases effectively.
No government can be expected to reverse the crass mismagement of the Tories in one year.
So stop spouting such bullshit.
^ oh I agree on decline but that started under Blair and its reached its zenith now. We have a culture of selling our success full companies and cvnts who start them in unis funded by the taxpayer are allowed to sell out. Most of our infra is foreign owned and they run it down in favour of dividends. Apparently foreign investment is good. Well you don't see successful economies selling out their best companies or ideas. Its been said that the UK is an open economy fir decades but all that means is we allowed all our best companies to be sold, asset stripped and run down.
Troy as for the EU well why have UK based companies in the single market?
I did if your point is that British industry prefers to have their export to EU going through a subsidiary within EU because of the effects from Brexit.
It is a gain for them to only have to do the export paperwork once instead of up to 27 times.
It is a gain for them to be within EU, it is a gain for them to be included instead of being excluded................
"The road to fascism is filled with people who say that you're overreacting.
most of the gains that should have resulted from brexit was squandered by unavoidable political inactivity due to the covid lockdowns, the reluctance of the mostly remainer civil service to impede and carry out government policy and objection by the opposition labour party.
the uk had a real chance to free itself from the ever thickening quagmire of eu rules, bureaucracy and favouritism but circumstances and weak politicians fucked it up.
we were always better off trading with the commonwealth than with the eu.
we never needed the eu for anything more than buying and selling, we didnt need all the tentacles that came with it, and the eu, especially france, certainly didnt want the uk in any shape or form.
now we are stuck with the echr and all the parasitic scum that arrive on the boats. we would have been much better relying on more civilised and better educated commonwealth folk, of any colour by the way, for our immigration needs instead of the fucking useless dross we have to house and feed now.
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