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
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The Government have created this problem by not putting in better, safe, legal routes.
They have thrown together something they call a solution that is not a solution at all.
They have dishonoured both Houses by tabling the Bill. It was wrong to bring this Bill to us; it was wrong to develop it at all. Continue reading “Rwanda Bill – Second Reading in the Lords”
The Green Party peers are supporting the Lib Dems’ Fatal Motion on Monday 29th January. The motion would stop this appalling Bill from becoming law by delaying it for more than a year, but we need the Labour Peers’ support to make it happen. Continue reading “Rwanda Bill Update”
Rishi Sunak’s government aims to enact a law – the “Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill” – that threatens our most fundamental rights. Continue reading “Rwanda Bill – sign our petition”
Continue reading “Our right to strike and the Lords right to block”
After 13 years of Tory Britain, you can spend three years in prison for erecting a climate crisis banner while sexual predators are quietly fast-tracked for release to help with prison overcrowding.
We all know who is not facing jail time: the water company CEOs who fleeced customers for billions of pounds, filled our rivers with sewage and are now asking for our bills to go up so they can take even more of our money; the Conservative Party members who benefited from the billions handed out via the PPE fast-track scheme and numerous other scams; the Tory donors from the oil and gas industry who have had their payback through tax breaks, new licences and delays in the net-zero policy. Those are climate criminals who are costing us a fortune now and costing future taxpayers billions to clean up the mess and mitigate the damage caused by flooding, wildfires, food shortages and other climate catastrophes. Continue reading “The start of a new Parliamentary session”
Baroness Jenny Jones was on the Met Police database for domestic extremists, while serving as an elected politician on the Metropolitan Police Authority, voting on their budget and holding them to account. The Observer story relates how “Government officials have drawn up deeply controversial proposals to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions and its values,”
Continue reading “Government plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist”
The unelected House of Lords is an outdated institution and recent decisions by Labour Party Lords are pushing its constitutional role to breaking point. Continue reading “Parliamentary convention”
The Lords have passed a total of sixteen amendments to the Illegal Migration Bill, with strong backing from cross bench peers and the bishops. These amendments now go back to the commons, so this is your chance to lobby your MP to support these reforms.
The solutions to the problem within our society involve addressing the imbalances of power – including economic and social power – that can leave individuals vulnerable to domestic abuse Continue reading “Violence Against Women and Girls”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 