Helping people convicted of crimes to enjoy law-abiding lives; contributing to, & accepted by, society. Author, writer & speaker on imprisonment.
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Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
I am very happy to share this recording….
Prisoners Into Work - A GB News interview
youtu.be/zMM0Na_yh1c
Please retweet if you believe in #SecondChances & that employers should support #FewerVictims of crime by allowing #ReturningCitizens to apply for jobs.
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
That strange sound is a million standing orders being cancelled.
Fury as NSPCC say male teachers can supervise girls in changing rooms trib.al/ilToTDN
@LadyVal40757578 Lady Val Corbett has sadly left us, to be reunited in joy with her husband Robin.
There has never been a greater believer in second chances.
The most inspiring person I ever met and have the pleasure and privilege of actually spending time with her in person.
Lady Val was welcoming and kind to everyone.
She didn't care about your past, except to help you move on from it.
But she didn't just use words, through her actions, she changed thousands of lives, bringing people together and creating a movement for positive change.
Trial by jury prevents so much injustice and interference by the state.
Personally I feel that immense pressure to plead guilty, accompanied by unfair remand, are also as bad as restricting jury trials.
🇬🇧 In 1670, 12 Englishmen REFUSED. 🏴❌
To convict an innocent man.
A London judge tried to break them. He locked them in a Newgate cell for 3 weeks. No food. No water. No light. No fire.
They held the line.
This is the story of Bushel's Case.
On 14 August 1670, soldiers raided a Quaker meeting on Gracechurch Street, London. The Conventicle Act of 1664 had banned non-Anglican worship. The soldiers arrested William Penn, a young Quaker preacher, and his older companion William Mead. The charge: unlawful assembly.
They were taken to the Old Bailey.
12 London merchants were sworn to judge them. The foreman was a merchant named Edward Bushel.
The judge demanded guilty.
The jury returned NOT GUILTY.
The judge refused the verdict. He sent them back.
They returned the same.
And again. Three times.
The judge fined each juror 40 marks in British pound sterling, or imprisonment. They refused to pay. He sent all 12 to Newgate.
3 weeks. No meat. No drink. No fire. No tobacco.
They held the line.
Edward Bushel applied for a writ of habeas corpus. The case came before Chief Justice Sir John Vaughan in the Court of Common Pleas.
In November 1670, Vaughan ruled:
No jury can be punished for its verdict. Ever.
The 12 walked free.
And every jury after them carried the line that 12 London merchants held in 1670.
At the Old Bailey today, their names are carved into the wall.
The stones remember.
They were Englishmen. They held the line in spite of every opposing force.
The British spirit.
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We built the world's freedoms.
Charter by charter. Jury by jury.
12 held the line for us.
Will you help hold the line for the next generation? 👇🙏
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Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
I love this account and their content so much
They told you this country has nothing to be proud of.
They were wrong. 🇬🇧
2,300 years ago, Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia sailed to these islands. He found Cornish tin miners already trading with the ancient world, and Stonehenge, built before the pyramids of Giza. He named us Pretannike. The Painted Isles. Britain.
That's a snippet of who we were. Here is what we built:
🍎 Isaac Newton, a farmer's son from Lincolnshire, gave us the laws of the universe.
⚡ Michael Faraday, a blacksmith's son from Surrey, made electricity usable.
💉 Edward Jenner, a country doctor from Gloucestershire, gave the world vaccination.
🧫 Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin, saving over 200 million lives.
💻 Alan Turing broke the Enigma code at Bletchley Park.
🚂 Charles Babbage & George Stephenson pioneered the computer and the railway.
🌐 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He could have patented it and become the richest person alive. He gave it away for free.
We are the ordinary people who forced the most powerful empire on Earth to end slavery. Not once, but twice:
📜 The Slave Trade Act 1807
📜 The Slavery Abolition Act 1833
Then, we sent the Royal Navy to enforce it globally.
The West Africa Squadron patrolled for 60 years. They captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 people. 7,000 British sailors died doing it. Nobody asked them to.
No other nation joined them. They did it anyway.🇬🇧🫡
That's a snippet of what we chose to do. Here is what we gave the world:
⚖️ Magna Carta (1215) & Habeas Corpus
🏛️ Parliamentary Democracy
🌍 Common Law, now used by 80 countries and 3 billion people
🤝 The Commonwealth. 56 nations.
They weren't forced to stay. They chose to join.
We are on a mission to bring back our glorious history.
Not to pretend we never did wrong, but to show the enormous amount of right.
Every fact verifiable. Every claim true.
We are Britain. We are mighty.
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Be part of us.
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Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
Hello, there 👋
Have you heard David Lammy MP and Sarah Sackman MP talking about people stealing bottles of whisky and swiping mobile telephones as examples of people who should not get jury trials?
Well. I’d like to tell you a story.
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Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
The UK ending almost all jury trials is a genuine "moment". I feel a "Please pinch me - I want to wake up now." sensation. It's like we abolished the monarchy - & then some. We're led by people who have no interest in or respect for the assembled wisdom of centuries.
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
These are the 304 MPs who voted to end the right to jury trials.
All of them are Labour. Today is the day that justice died in Britain.
Name and shame them.
Never forget their betrayal.
Jack Abbott (Labour)
Zubir Ahmed (Labour)
Luke Akehurst (Labour)
Sadik Al-Hassan (Labour)
Bayo Alaba (Labour)
Dan Aldridge (Labour)
Heidi Alexander (Labour)
Douglas Alexander (Labour)
Rushanara Ali (Labour)
Callum Anderson (Labour)
Scott Arthur (Labour)
James Asser (Labour)
Jas Athwal (Labour)
Catherine Atkinson (Labour)
Lewis Atkinson (Labour)
Calvin Bailey (Labour)
Olivia Bailey (Labour)
Alex Baker (Labour)
Alex Ballinger (Labour)
Antonia Bance (Labour)
Lee Barron (Labour)
Alex Barros-Curtis (Labour)
Johanna Baxter (Labour)
Danny Beales (Labour)
Torsten Bell (Labour)
Hilary Benn (Labour)
Polly Billington (Labour)
Matt Bishop (Labour)
Olivia Blake (Labour)
Rachel Blake (Labour)
Elsie Blundell (Labour)
Kevin Bonavia (Labour)
Jade Botterill (Labour)
Sureena Brackenridge (Labour)
Phil Brickell (Labour)
Chris Bryant (Labour)
Julia Buckley (Labour)
David Burton-Sampson (Labour)
Ruth Cadbury (Labour)
Nesil Caliskan (Labour)
Markus Campbell-Savours (Labour)
Irene Campbell (Labour)
Juliet Campbell (Labour)
Sam Carling (Labour)
Al Carns (Labour)
Bambos Charalambous (Labour)
Luke Charters (Labour)
Feryal Clark (Labour)
Jacob Collier (Labour)
Lizzi Collinge (Labour)
Tom Collins (Labour)
Liam Conlon (Labour)
Sarah Coombes (Labour)
Andrew Cooper (Labour)
Deirdre Costigan (Labour)
Pam Cox (Labour)
Jen Craft (Labour)
Mary Creagh (Labour)
Torcuil Crichton (Labour)
Chris Curtis (Labour)
Janet Daby (Labour)
Ashley Dalton (Labour)
Emily Darlington (Labour)
Jonathan Davies (Labour)
Paul Davies (Labour)
Shaun Davies (Labour)
Josh Dean (Labour)
Kate Dearden (Labour)
Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour)
Jim Dickson (Labour)
Anna Dixon (Labour)
Samantha Dixon (Labour)
Anneliese Dodds (Labour)
Helena Dollimore (Labour)
Stephen Doughty (Labour)
Graeme Downie (Labour)
Angela Eagle (Labour)
Maria Eagle (Labour)
Lauren Edwards (Labour)
Sarah Edwards (Labour)
Damien Egan (Labour)
Maya Ellis (Labour)
Kirith Entwistle (Labour)
Chris Evans (Labour)
Miatta Fahnbulleh (Labour)
Hamish Falconer (Labour)
Linsey Farnsworth (Labour)
Josh Fenton-Glynn (Labour)
Mark Ferguson (Labour)
Natalie Fleet (Labour)
Emma Foody (Labour)
Catherine Fookes (Labour)
Paul Foster (Labour)
Vicky Foxcroft (Labour)
Daniel Francis (Labour)
James Frith (Labour)
Allison Gardner (Labour)
Anna Gelderd (Labour)
Alan Gemmell (Labour)
Gill German (Labour)
Tracy Gilbert (Labour)
Preet Kaur Gill (Labour)
Becky Gittins (Labour)
Mary Glindon (Labour)
Ben Goldsborough (Labour)
Jodie Gosling (Labour)
John Grady (Labour)
Lilian Greenwood (Labour)
Nia Griffith (Labour)
Amanda Hack (Labour)
Louise Haigh (Labour)
Fabian Hamilton (Labour)
Paulette Hamilton (Labour)
Carolyn Harris (Labour)
Lloyd Hatton (Labour)
Tom Hayes (Labour)
Claire Hazelgrove (Labour)
Meg Hillier (Labour)
Jonathan Hinder (Labour)
Sharon Hodgson (Labour)
Rachel Hopkins (Labour)
Claire Hughes (Labour)
Alison Hume (Labour)
Rupa Huq (Labour)
Natasha Irons (Labour)
Sally Jameson (Labour)
Dan Jarvis (Labour)
Terry Jermy (Labour)
Adam Jogee (Labour)
Diana Johnson (Labour)
Darren Jones (Labour)
Gerald Jones (Labour)
Ruth Jones (Labour)
Sarah Jones (Labour)
Gurinder Singh Josan (Labour)
Sojan Joseph (Labour)
Warinder Juss (Labour)
Chris Kane (Labour)
Mike Kane (Labour)
Satvir Kaur (Labour)
Liz Kendall (Labour)
Afzal Khan (Labour)
Naushabah Khan (Labour)
Stephen Kinnock (Labour)
Jayne Kirkham (Labour)
Gen Kitchen (Labour)
Sonia Kumar (Labour)
Peter Kyle (Labour)
Laura Kyrke-Smith (Labour)
Peter Lamb (Labour)
David Lammy (Labour)
Noah Law (Labour)
Kim Leadbeater (Labour)
Andrew Lewin (Labour)
Simon Lightwood (Labour)
Josh MacAlister (Labour)
Alice Macdonald (Labour)
Justin Madders (Labour)
Shabana Mahmood (Labour)
Seema Malhotra (Labour)
Amanda Martin (Labour)
Keir Mather (Labour)
Alex Mayer (Labour)
Douglas McAllister (Labour)
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
We are thrilled to have achieved the deletion of a caution from our client's ACRO/PNC, as well as biometrics.
This is after the client had tried and failed to remove this previously and had even paid the full legal costs of a judicial review which was still unsuccessful.
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
IN PARLIAMENT: Baroness Fox of Buckley (@Fox_Claire) raises the issue of prison environments exacerbating poor mental health.
Read more from Monday's debate on the #MentalHealthBill here: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/…
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
The human cost of a crumbling prison estate russellwebster.com/?p=55744
Could I recommend supporting and referring people to @nextchapterscot who provide information, advice, guidance and advocacy to people with convictions, or who are facing discrimination as a result, in Scotland.
#PrisonersArePeople
#RehabilitativeCulture
nextchapterscotland.org.uk
#BillGates depopulation obsession.
Supposedly reducing cow emissions with a food additive that evidentially reduces human male fertility, when around 41% of UK babies are entirely bottle fed
+ #AssistedDying (see MAID Canada)
The ‘elite’ want us dead
#Bovaer
#SafeAndEffective
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
I’ve read the letter 20 times now. State of shock. Just seeing the word CPS on the envelope sent into anxiety spiral, as per, I had no idea it was coming.
They have upheld every single one of my complaints. Every. Single. One.
That’s actually huge.
Truth matters-so much.
🙌🏼⚖️
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
This petition is racing up, very shortly it cannot be ignored. @BBCNews
@skynews @itvnews @Channel4News you can't ignore a petition like this. Neither can you @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour this is people power. You are not wanted, go. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
We successfully removed all of the adverse media articles that were stopping our pro-bono client from escaping homelessness, renting a property, getting a job and moving forwards.
"This has tortured me for many many years.
Thanks indeed, I haven't really got the words, it all seems a bit inadequate. Having that stuff on the internet was a nightmare I thought I had for life.
As long as that was people's first impression of me I felt doomed. Thank you Thank you"
interneterasure.co.uk/who-ca…
#RightToErasure
#RightToBeForgotten
ALT Internet Erasure helped a homeless man to remove damaging online articles and move forwards in his life using the Right to be Forgotten
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
Well I started the podcast in April 2023 and as of today we are just about to hit 20,000! When I started I was amazed that I hit 100! This community amazes me daily! So thank you to every single member of #theknock" , the club that no one wants to be a member of! ❤️💪💪💪❤️
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
Quite a pinch me moment.......prison bed to CEO @unlockcharity
There’s brilliant shout outs happening for Paula Harriott from @unlockcharity - Paula has revolutionised the way the CJ third sector thinks about lived experience
Phil Martin #PrisonersArePeople #ReturningCitizens retweeted
#employers who hire #prison leavers are fulfilling their corporate responsibility by helping build safer and more positive communities. Excluding ex-offenders from employment promotes re-offending and social exclusion. Everyone deserves a #secondchance.
