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Police have today, 11 April 2026, arrested Lisa Minerva Luxx under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. Luxx is a spokesperson for the ‘Filton 24 Defence Committee’ working to free Palestine Action activists imprisoned without trial for almost two years.

Filton 24 organiser arrested

The High Court ruled the government’s terrorism ban on Palestine Action unlawful. The government is appealing the decision, but the Filton 24 prisoners were arrested before the ban and are not charged with terrorism offences. Several have been acquitted and were granted bail while the Starmer regime tries to re-prosecute. At least one, former hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah, was rearrested shortly after being granted bail.

The Filton 24 ‘Defend and Mobilise’ support group said:

This state harassment comes just two days before the retrial of six of the Filton24 defendants.

Being detained under Schedule 7 means counter-terror police can interrogate for hours, without the right to say ‘no comment’.

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The circumstances of the arrest have not been confirmed. However, it appears that Luxx was arrested while entering or leaving the UK. The ‘counterterrorism policing’ website says of Schedule 7:

Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 provides police officers with unique powers to examine people who pass through the United Kingdom’s borders. It allows them to stop, question and when necessary, search and detain individuals and goods travelling through the UK’s borders to determine whether they may be involved or concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

The Starmer government has frequently used Schedule 7 against journalists and others to interrogate them without legal representation and because of its provisions making it a criminal offence to refuse to disclose passwords. Border police have used it for harassment and for ‘fishing expeditions’ to go through a journalist’s or activist’s contacts and communications. Some have refused to disclose passwords but no one has yet been prosecuted for it.

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On 4 April, we covered the accusation that Your Party’s Jeremy Corbyn had endorsed three ex-Tories in the upcoming local elections. As we reported at the time, Your Party (YP) and Corbyn denied that they’d endorsed these men, but the situation was clearly more complicated than they cared to admit.

Now — a week later — we’re reporting on the accusation that YP have endorsed three ex-Tories in the upcoming local elections.

But for clarity’s sake, that’s three entirely different ex-Tories.

Because apparently we’re stuck in some sort of Groundhog Day-type scenario:

‼️Your Party endorses three MORE ex-Tories 😂

🔵Oldham: Graham Sheldon, Tory Cllr until 2025

🔵Pendle: Mohammed Adnan, Tory Cllr until 2022

🔵Birmingham: Obaydul Kabir ran for Tories in 2022 pic.twitter.com/Odp2cmXHn1

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 10, 2026

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The difference this time is not all of these men are independents; Obaydul Kabir is a “Your Party Candidate”.

The other difference is that not all of three of these men are running in the 2026 local elections as far as we can tell.

As we’ll get into, things are once again a bit of a mess.

Obaydul Kabir

Obaydul Kabir is named on the Your Party list of endorsed independents:

It’s easy to confirm that Kabir was a Conservative because his old posts are still up on his Facebook. The following is what he’s posting now:

These posts, meanwhile, are from 2022:

Fair play to him; Your Party’s man does not abide fly tipping.

Garbage aside, Kabir was a certified Tory, and yet Your Party have endorsed him.

Embarrassingly, they’ve done so despite all the controversy last week; controversy which should have given them the kick up the arse needed to stop this happening.

Currently, we can’t say if the endorsement happened because they don’t care or because they think ‘vetting‘ is something that happens to pets. We did send them a right of reply at 9:00am Saturday 11 April, but at the time of publishing they hadn’t responded.

Graham Sheldon

First things first, here’s the list of independent groups endorsed by Your Party as of today’s date (11 April):

Using the Wayback Machine, we can see this list looked pretty different on 8 April:

Looking into Graham Sheldon, we can see that he’s currently a Saddleworth South councillor, with his party listed as ‘Oldham Group’ (he’s also listed on the Oldham Group page). Despite listing him as part of the Oldham Group, his council page states the following (presumably he forgot to update it):

On why Sheldon is no longer a Tory, the BBC wrote this in January 2025:

The leader of Oldham Council’s Conservative group has resigned after police were called following a heated council meeting.

The meeting on 18 December had to be adjourned after members of the public and councillors hurled abuse at each other following a debate about housing and planning.

Councillor Graham Sheldon, who has stepped down both as leader and as a member of the Conservative group, said he believed “the actions of two members of my group caused the mayhem and deterioration of the meeting”.

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“Mayhem and deterioration” were the Tories’ mission statement when they were in power, so we don’t know what he was complaining about.

That aside, Sheldon was a Tory, and Your Party were — at one point — endorsing his group.

Here’s the thing, though; we’re not sure Sheldon is running in this year’s elections. Oldham Times lists all of the councillors running, and Sheldon isn’t on there (despite several of his Oldham Group comrades appearing). He’s also not listed on Who Can I Vote For?.

Fair’s fair, it doesn’t seem to be accurate to say that YP have endorsed the ex-Tory Graham Sheldon for the 2026 local elections.

It is, however, accurate to say that YP briefly endorsed an independent group which included him (although they don’t seem to endorse them anymore).

Confusing stuff, anyway!

And it all could have been avoided if Your Party had vetted its own candidates instead of throwing its support behind independents.

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but ‘independent’ is not a synonym for ‘socialist’.

Mohammed Adnan

For this feller, we’re once again looking at the Your Party-endorsed community groups. YP listed the following group on 8 April:

Pendle Community Independents

As with the Oldham Group, however, Pendle are no longer listed on the endorsement list.

On the Pendle Borough Council website, this collective is referred to as the ‘Independent Group‘. From their Facebook, however, we can see that the Pendleton Community Independents and the Pendleton Independent Group are one and the same.

On his journey from Tory to independent, we can see that Adnan took issue with the PM in 2022, as reported by Burnley Express:

Southfield and Marsden ward councillor Mohammed Adnan has resigned as a Conservative councillor and joined the Labour group on Pendle Council.

Coun. Adnan explained that he had become tired of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and accused his former Pendle Conservative colleagues of not speaking up.

More of that notorious mayhem and deterioration, we see.

In his own words, Adnan said:

Over the past 12 months I have like many local people become tired of the manner in which Boris Johnson and the Conservatives have lurched from crisis to crisis at the expense of hard-working people in my ward.

Unfortunately, the Pendle Conservatives leadership have decided not to speak up against the wrong and damaging decisions made by their government which they appear to be happy to implement. I believe the Labour Party offer the hope we need in Pendle.

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We’re not sure when Adnan quit Labour for the Community Independents, but did end up in the group – a group which Your Party would later briefly endorse.

As was the case with Sheldon, however, Adnan is not listed as a candidate for the 2026 local elections.

So all in all, Your Party seem to have endorsed just one ex-Tory in the upcoming elections.

As we’re sure any YP member will tell you, though, that’s one ex-Tory too many.

Other updates from Your Party

On 4 April, we covered the accusation that Jeremy Corbyn had endorsed the Walsall Community Independents — a group which included three ex-Tories (or would include three ex-Tories — the timeline was hard to pin down).

At the time, we said that endorsing independent candidates and groups which don’t have to align with YP politics would cause problems. Now, a week later, we’ve been proven entirely correct.

This is what Your Party told us last week:

Neither Jeremy nor Your Party has endorsed these candidates in Walsall. Any suggestion otherwise should be immediately corrected.

No permission has been given for Jeremy’s name to be used on any individual candidate’s leaflet.

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As we reported:

• Corbyn spoke at a Walsall Community Independents Group meeting at which the ex-Tories were present.
• The Walsall Community Independents promoted this meeting online and claimed that Corbyn was supporting them in the upcoming local elections.
• No one at Your Party or Team Corbyn seemed to take issue with this claim.

Since then, further evidence has come out that Your Party did indeed endorse the Walsall Community Independents:

‼️NEW | Leaked Your Party documents confirm the party **did** endorse Walsall Independents, which includes three councillors who were Tories until 2026.

YP claimed they had NOT endorsed Walsall Independents. But a leaked web page (now deleted, but archived), shows they did… pic.twitter.com/djRNK1ptkp

— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 8, 2026

Now, one might say: Eleanora, why does this matter?

Well, I’d say it is rather significant that the party led by a former Labour leader got caught with their pants down, and instead of admitting their mistake they lied through their teeth and tried to cover it up. Bad look.

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— Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) April 8, 2026

Independents will keep embarrassing YP as long as the party keeps endorsing them, because these footloose and fancy-free politicians are independent from having to give a shit.

Your Party — Clown-show

As we said last week, we don’t think that Corbyn was introduced to the three ex-Tory councillors and immediately started rubbing his hands together with glee at the prospect of endorsing them. At the same time, YP’s insistence on backing independents is quite clearly doomed to these sorts of embarrassing outcomes — especially when combined with a lax attitude towards vetting.

We’re sure people would prefer that we keep looking the other way, but we’re not going to do that. The left has won the argument at this point; what we need to achieve next is competence.

In other words, don’t turn up in a clown car if you don’t want us to start whistling circus music.

Featured image via Obaydul Kabir (Facebook)

A direct action activist in Ireland has used a hammer to damage a US warplane on the tarmac in Shannon airport. While posturing as opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and US assistance for Israeli aggression, the Dublin government has allowed continued US use of Irish airports to supply Israel and attack peaceful nations.

Just last week, Irish anti-genocide activists called for “more actively disruptive protests” against Ireland’s collaboration in US crimes. Today, 11 April 2026, they appear to have got their wish as footage posted by Irish anti-Zionist ‘Páddafi’ shows the black-clad protester hammering away at the stabilisers of the military transport aircraft:

The US warplane in question had been identified this morning, after its overnight arrival in Shannon, by the ‘Shannonwatch’ human rights group:

US Air Force C-130H Hercules 91-1653 landed at Shannon yesterday from Rosecrans Air National Guard air base St Josephs Kansas, via St. John’s Canada. It spent the night at Shannon, and hasn’t yet gone in to its next military base.#USMilitaryOutOfShannon pic.twitter.com/BkllQx68HX

— Shannonwatch (@shannonwatch) April 11, 2026

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The Irish government — and the craven Starmer regime in the UK — must stop enabling US wars of aggression and equipping of genocide.

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People on social media have noticed that the winners of Nigel Farage’s energy bill prize are the same people pictured with the Reform leader at a Brexit party rally in 2019:

Left: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick meet the winners of Reform UK’s competition to have your energy paid for the whole year

Right: Here are the two winners with Nigel Farage at a Brexit Party rally in Fylde on the 4th May 2019

Credits to @linfitlass @donmcgowan for putting… pic.twitter.com/k5gZblNK5U

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) April 10, 2026

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There’s more to it

While this is interesting, it may be a coincidence. There are other important points to consider. Reform have offered a lottery (where the winning household gets last years’ annual energy bill paid) that may amount to the electoral offences of ‘treating’ or a ‘bribe’, as pointed out by Karl Turner MP. Under the 1983 Representation of the People’s Act, it is an offence to offer money in order to influence someone’s vote.

On top of that, the gimmick shows that Reform have little to offer the country. Instead of dropping energy bills nationwide through public ownership, the party is giving everyone who enters the lottery false hope. That’s because only one household will actually win. And the winners turned out to be longterm Farage loyalists.

Such a lottery is a con job — like the whole gambling industry. That industry is only profitable because the odds are highly stacked against the player. Indeed, Farage has long spoken in favour of the gambling industry. In 2025, at Reform’s business conference, he said:

What I would say about the high street is that one of the things that does still survive is the bookmaker shop – which actually, for a lot of lonely people, is a place they can go in and meet people.

Farage’s current system is a gamble of birthright

It’s no wonder that Farage is pro-gambling because the addictive process is emblematic of the neoliberal capitalist system he supports. The system we live under is largely a lottery of birthright whereby, in the UK alone, 60% of private wealth is inherited.

And is it possible for most people to take ownership of their labour through their own business? No: 90% of bank lending goes to finance or inflating the price of pre-existing assets, rather than enabling small businesses to thrive. Also, 85% of start ups initially rely on personal capital, most of which is inherited, while 43% of 500 surveyed business founders have said they started their venture with family wealth.

Neoliberal capitalism is largely a gamble of birthright. And private-schooled Farage wants to uphold his position within it through pretending to be an anti-establishment counter offer.

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A user of the Bloomin’ Algae app has reported the year’s first sighting of blue-green algae at Lough Neagh, a reminder that the pollution crisis on the water body is not yet averted. The app is used for:

…reporting the presence of blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria. The app helps speed up public health warnings about harmful algal blooms and can help teach you how to recognise the risks to you, children and animals.

It lists the dangers of the substance as:

…skin rashes, eye irritations, vomiting and diarrhoea, fever and pains in muscles and joints.

It further states:

Blue-green algae have caused the deaths of dogs, horses, cattle, birds and fish across the UK.

You can see the user’s image below:

The photo shows growth that might not look like much at the moment. However, once it expands, the vast coating of green sludge can appear like something from a horror film, choking marine life around it.

The lough, which is the largest freshwater body in Europe, has been devastated by the toxic algae in recent years. Polluting agro-business has been a key contributor following huge expansion since 2010. This includes a 72% increase in pig and poultry production in the decade that followed that year.

Lough Neagh — Plans for vast new factory farm

Politicians had for years been relaxed about the resulting vast torrent of shit these factory farms pump into local rivers and lakes. This has ultimately ended up in the lough, with the subsequent wreckage done to an area of considerable beauty which is home to a large variety of wildlife.

The spotting of the algae comes as architects have submitted to Mid Ulster District Council proposals for a vast new mass murder facility near the lough. The proposal calls for a torture and death camp that will house 49,000 chickens in likely atrocious conditions.

People Before Profit (PBP) have launched a campaign aimed at blocking the abomination. They say:

Lough Neagh is already in a state of crisis, poisoned by effluent from existing factory farms which have been proven time and time again to bring pollution and other ecological harm.

Another major factory farm with capacity for nearly 50,000 chickens is now being planned beside the Lough. Out of around 25,000 active farms in the north, this new development would be in the top 1% of largest farms.

A giant factory farm like this, holding 49,000 chickens (9,000 over the factory farm threshold) would likely bring stink, pain and pollution to the shores of Lough Neagh.

They go on to quote a resident near another planned factory farm, who said:

This isn’t an extension or someone looking to build a garage, this is a major industrial complex on my back door.

Council also approved expansion of genocidal warplane production

PBP conclude by citing another recent planning scandal in the area, the go-ahead to expand manufacture of F-35 warplanes:

In 2025, Mid Ulster Council approved an extension to Moyola PE, manufacturer of F-35 parts, the same planes bombing Iran and Palestine. Those in charge in Stormont and local councils must take responsibility for the harm that happens on our doorstep due to their decision-making.

The council appear to like the idea of having on their doorstep facilities that enable mass death and destruction. Any supposed economic benefits of such factories do not justify the harms done to animals, the environment and people both here and in West Asia.

The Irish Times reports that:

…the developer, a local farmer, has included in the plans promises litter from the birds wilvvvl be collected and then delivered to Moy Park’s anaerobic digester plants and used to produce energy.

It’s common for plans to be watered down in favour of developers as construction on large projects proceeds, so local residents would be wise to take little notice of this. It also fails to address concerns over animal welfare and the stench such vile facilities produce.

People Before Profit have launched a petition and email campaign for those opposed to the plans. Given Lough Neagh is one of Ireland’s most cherished natural features, it is in everyone’s interest that this literal shitshow is shut down before it begins.

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