The clatter of wooden spoons striking saucepans echoed off the nearby social housing buildings. "David Lammy, be afraid! We'll see you at The Hague! [home of the International Criminal Court]," chanted the hundred or so demonstrators, waving Palestinian flags and paper watermelons, who gathered on the evening of Monday, August 4, in Tottenham, a working-class neighborhood in North London, to protest outside the foreign secretary's offices.

"I was so excited when Labour got into power last Summer. But they immediately forgot all their electoral promises," said 26-year-old Emilia (the protestors quoted by their first names did not wish to give their last name), wrapped in a keffiyeh. "But they immediately forgot all their election promises." She said she felt the party did not respect its voters, "They take us for granted."

Spike, 28, holding a sign demanding the resignation of "Starmer, the genocide," was even more outspoken. "Labour is supposed to be the party of the working classes, of the common people, but they have betrayed all the principles upon which they are built," the young man said, his face covered by a black bandana. "They all have to go immediately."

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