Ria Gledhill
Juggling With EggsWill historians look back and wonder why the police focused their efforts on Quaker Meeting Houses and never Tufton Street or the private clubs of Mayfair?
"We cannot get into a situation where groups planning criminal acts can escape police action simply by booking rooms in certain venues”
Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman
I refer you to my previous point.
https://news.sky.com/story/15-activists-arrested-over-mass-shoplifting-campaign-plot-13515889
Gentleman’s clubs have actually been belatedly acknowledged as crime scenes. Chris Pincher’s sexual assaults at the Carlton Club brought down the Tory government, but no criminal proceedings.
Former Tory MP, Patrick Spencer also allegedly carried out sexual assaults at the Groucho club…but we’re still waiting for justice to be served and he still sits in Parliament.
Does the Met serve the interests of gay and female victims of crime?
Most recent update I could find on last night’s arrests for conspiracy to shoplift at a Quaker Meeting House:
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/03/06/quaker-meeting-raided-by-metropolitan-police/
“Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent.
That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government.”
Oliver Robertson, #Quakers in Britain
The comments from Oliver Robertson, who is head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, suggests that these arrests for ‘preemptive crimes’ were politically motivated.
#Starmer ‘s #Labour government has decided the lesson to take away from their Gorton and Denton by-election trouncing to the #Green Party is to double down and make out there is suddenly a dangerous, extreme far Left in this country.
No, there are just honest, morally motivated and concerned people sick of Labour.
Samy@JugglingWithEggs
This is what we are seeing in Germany. Anyone with a moral compass is now painted a leftist extremist. All it does is give the far right more fuel. Can’t recommend.
This is what we are seeing in Germany. Anyone with a moral compass is now painted a leftist extremist. All it does is give the far right more fuel. Can’t recommend.
I have no problem with being described as a Lefty, progressive, activist, even woke I’ll take…but the tone in the past week has changed dramatically in the UK with the Green Party being described as extremist.
And this is entirely because Labour have taken progressive voters for granted for too long…plus they now realise they’ve largely lost the Muslim vote, which again they took as a given. The notion that Green’s gaining their support is ‘sectarian’ spread rapidly.
zbrown@JugglingWithEggs @samy I love how they are so obsessed with getting the ‘youth vote’ right up to expanding the electorate to generate more ‘youth vote’ (16-17yos) meanwhile polling has u-25s going Green at 50% or more and they've decided to call them all enemies of the state or smth.
I just… I mean …make it make sense?
Theriac@JugglingWithEggs @samy
this is nothing new with labour, here's Crosland,
Foreign Secretary for the Calaghan Labour government from 1976- 1977 describing how they'd deal with the rise of the SNP which had started taking Labour safe seats.
this is nothing new with labour, here's Crosland,
Foreign Secretary for the Calaghan Labour government from 1976- 1977 describing how they'd deal with the rise of the SNP which had started taking Labour safe seats.
javensbukan@samy @JugglingWithEggs Right? Guess I'm a commie now because I don't want school children buried under rubble or entire cities levelled. 🤷♂️
Jna💚@JugglingWithEggs Strange politics of labour to alienate a large proportion of their own voters and possible voters while trying to attract an imaginary tranche of voters with a quite racist treatment of asylum seekers and immigrants that will continue to alienate a proportion of their voters.......
sleepfreeparent@jna @JugglingWithEggs this is the behaviour of a party that has been bought and owned by the ruling class. They don't care about or bother to try to understand the ruled
OccasionalDucksThanks for highlighting the story, it has slipped past me.
Coverage has been very low key compared to when the Met pulled the same stunt on a Quaker Meeting House last year. Don’t think the Guardian have covered it at all.
64 Islands Aroha Cooperative@JugglingWithEggs they were planning SHOPLIFTING? call in the airstrikes!
Yup, never mind that it’s going to take a decade to clear the huge backlog of court cases even if we give up trial by jury…the government wants to prosecute those just contemplating shoplifting.
@JugglingWithEggs @airshipper allegedly contemplating maybe one day possibly shoplifting, potentially
@zbrown @JugglingWithEggs wouldn't want to be in a book circle discussing 'fight club', they'd arrest the whole neighbourhood
Steven Heywood@JugglingWithEggs
No commercial activities were harmed in the course of those misdemeanours.
In these enlightened times we can be hung for thinking about stealing a loaf of bread while well-heeled sex offenders get the blind eye.
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@JugglingWithEggs oh hell no. Here in the US if you get handsy at a titty bar (which is what gentlemen's clubs are called here because str8 men are animals), Big Mike Bouncer is going to come and break your hands. And Big Mike is probably a big ol' gay guy attached to the mafia.
Renke Meuwese@JugglingWithEggs not the first time the police ended up in that exact meeting house. It is in a very nice location, perhaps they just wanted to rest their legs after a visit to the national gallery?
Bib Sleigh@JugglingWithEggs The rich got rich off extorting the poor, when it's done the other way around it's acted on very quickly isn't it?
Josh@JugglingWithEggs
I'm sure they won't wonder why, it's pretty obvious even now and will be even more so in retrospect I think.
I'm sure they won't wonder why, it's pretty obvious even now and will be even more so in retrospect I think.
@JugglingWithEggs it's the fact it's not even House*s*, it's the same one! like what! how!
Obviously no group is perfect and all but given the Quakers's track record if I found myself at odds with them at anything like this frequency I'd start to wonder if ‘I'm the baddies’.
🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 AmbiyelpThe "goods" to be shoplifted were food. They wanted to redistribute food. They arrested robin hood lol.
I wonder why the BBC decided to call it "arrested for wanting to redistribute goods" rather than "arrested for wanting to redistribute food"
#BBC #TakeBackPower #Capitalism #Anarchism #Protest #Activism #DirectAction
It’s intriguing because to any British person reading the BBC piece it’s immediately obvious that it’s the story of Robin Hood they’re trying not to tell. Replacing ‘food’ with ‘goods’ was the tweak that made the story palatable and sexed up enough for Robbie Gibb and Number 10…stating the Met had arrested people for considering the concept of stealing a loaf of bread to give it to someone on the breadline would have risked public sympathy. ‘Goods’ is vague.
AKingsbury@ambiguous_yelp @JugglingWithEggs
You do realize food is a good, right? And how do you know they only planned to steal food?
@AlexanderKingsbury Do you know the meaning of the word "Obfuscation" its like if I called a murderer "A person convicted of a crime"
Yes, but your example is poor. Someone can murder someone and not be convicted, or even caught. Happens quite a bit, actually.
I know from past experience that you're not going to answer any of my questions. This was more to point out to anyone else reading that you probably don't know what you're talking about. Have a nice day.
@AlexanderKingsbury It is obvious from context that in that example I was talking about a convicted murderer, in most contexts it would be obfuscation or lying by omission to call such a person "a person with a criminal conviction"
Leaving out the detail that goods were food is a lie by omission to manipulate the public. "Stealing goods" conjures images of stealing electronics, valuables, luxury items - perhaps to fence. It is a completely different image to what was actually planned which was to steal food and give to people who needed it for free.