Continue reading “UK Defence and Aerospace Facilities: Protests”
Category: Civil liberties
Government, the police and intelligence services are too easily given sweeping powers that they too often abuse.
Jenny works with campaigners to defend our civil liberties. She has worked on legislation like the Investigatory Powers Bill, raised the cases of victims of state power such as detained pregnant women, and defended the right to protest.
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
A hostile environment for home education
My speech to the House on day 9 of committee stage of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill:
I declare an interest as a grandmother of three home-educated children. My experience tells me that school is not suitable for all children. Not all children can find a suitable school and you do not need to be wealthy to create a very rich educational learning environment out of school. Continue reading “A hostile environment for home education”
Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025
Baroness Jenny Jones speech on her Regret Motion:
“There are many reasons why proscribing Palestine Action is a bad idea. Listening to the Minister, I thought that his descriptions of the three organisations had very distinct differences and that the actions of Palestine Action did not appear to have the same calibre of evil as those of the other two. Therefore, collectively organising these three into one SI is perhaps a little bit sneaky of this Government. Palestine Action is not like any other group that the British Government have so far declared a terrorist organisation. I was 12 years on the Met Police Authority and in that time I had lots of anti-terrorist briefings. To me, the actions of Palestine Action do not ring true as terrorist activities. Continue reading “Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025”
Police: Facial Recognition Technology
In what other area of public-facing policing do the police make up their own rules? Continue reading “Police: Facial Recognition Technology”
Employment Rights Bill Committee Stage Day 4 – whistleblowing
Whistleblowers save public money and expose bad practice. They should be celebrated, yet they are treated as traitors by professions, public services and corporations Continue reading “Employment Rights Bill Committee Stage Day 4 – whistleblowing”
Parliament recalled for steel industry bill
I am worried that this is the same old story of taxpayer money paying for private profits and private sector failure Continue reading “Parliament recalled for steel industry bill”
Local Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025
On Monday I brought a Fatal Motion in an attempt to kill the government’s Statutory Instrument ‘Local Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025’. I didn’t in the end put it to a vote as the Lib Dems refused to support it having seen mine and then tabled their own. Instead I voted for the lib Dem Fatal Motion but the Tories sat on their hands and the vote was lost. Continue reading “Local Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025”
My Debate on Rape Prosecutions
Yesterday I asked the Government: What are the main factors that have led to decades of low levels of rape cases being prosecuted, and continue to prevent such prosecutions, and what steps are they taking to resolve this? Continue reading “My Debate on Rape Prosecutions”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 