Just help me with this: More than 1000 people have been arrested and are facing due process for supporting a banned group called Palestine Action. Yet Keir Starmer has just supported a banned group called Hamas and no legal action? Why not?

Surely the Old Bill should be feeling the PM’s collar as we speak?

The posh word of course is “proscribed” - Palestine Action is proscribed and Hamas is proscribed. In fact Hamas has been proscribed for almost 25 years.

And this is because they are terrorists.

And, let’s be honest, they are WAY worse than the rag-tag army of religious nutters, Lefty virtue signallers, social media sheeple, and occasionally quite nice people who make up Palestine Action.

But how else are we to read Starmer’s muddleheaded recognition of a Palestinian State (which of course doesn’t actually exist) except as support for Hamas?

Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip - surely part of any theoretical Palestine State - since 2006. So support for a Palestine State is by definition support for Hamas, no?

Of course Keir wouldn’t be the first Labour leader to support the murderous terror group - Jeremy Corbyn was positively gushing at one point.

Anyway, I asked the Metropolitan Police if they would be investigating.

They said: “We will not provide a comment on a hypothetical situation.”

So I said: “But it's not hypothetical.

“Starmer supports Palestine.

“Palestine is run by Hamas.

“Hamas has been proscribed since 2001.

“Ipso facto Starmer supports a proscribed group.

“Which bit is hypothesis?”

(I’d already conceded that Hamas didn’t run the whole of the “Palestine State” but stated they had controlled the Gaza Strip for 20 years.)

At this point I’m not holding my breath for a dawn raid on No10... but you take the point, it’s not a hypothetical.

Listen to what Keir's Security Minister Dan Jarvis told Parliament recently: “It is completely understandable that people rightly feel very strongly about the situation in Gaza. But supporting or being a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation is a criminal offence and will never be acceptable, regardless of the wider context.”

He also warned “nobody is above the law.”

Again, it all rather sounds like what Keir is doing doesn’t it?

Or is it just me?

Since Palestine Action’s proscription in July there have been organised protests claiming proscription is massive Government over-reach and an attack on basic British freedoms of speech and assembly.

On the flip side they did attack British military aircraft … and the Government has intimated, in a decidedly Big Brother way, there are darker things they can’t tell us about.

And, I don’t know about you, but the “not telling” worries me more than any other sketchy detail in this ongoing farago.

Equally as worrying is the way Britain now recognises a Palestinian State with nary a word in Parliament, let alone a vote.

As if Keir is rather more keen on democracy in the West Bank than he is in West London.

Many Tories are understandably not happy. Kemi Badenoch said: “This is not the time to be recognising statehood… We’ve got a humanitarian crisis, there is a war on, statehood doesn’t solve any problems,” and Priti Patel chipped in claiming Starmer's move is “designed to appease his backbenchers,” rather than being part of a “proper, meaningful plan for the recognition of Palestine.”

Nigel too has tried to make a smidge of political capital from it saying: "I think Starmer was completely wrong to do that. You can't reward terrorists like Hamas.”

All seem like fair points.

And I know Sir Keir has reiterated Britain's demands that Hamas must release all remaining hostages, sign up to a ceasefire, accept they will play no role in the government of Gaza, and disarm.

But Yvette Cooper has also hilariously “warned” Benjamin Netanyahu not to annexe the West Bank… and you reckon he really gives a stuff what Yvette thinks?

Same with Hamas.

British demands on either side of this 80-year-old equation, this political Gordian knot, are irrelevant.

So, irrespective of whether you think the two-state solution is the only way forward, or whether you think the Liberal West constantly deludes itself that all societies everywhere crave democracy, we are still left with Keir ostensibly supporting a proscribed group.

And if I was a member of Palestine Action, say one of the three who were recently in court for waving bits of cardboard with supportive slogans, I might be once again reaching for that now well-worn slogan about “Two-Tier-Keir.”