Harry Farmer

The labour right have been biggest fans of the gambling industry in politics since Tony Blair. They’re the ones who let all the betting shops open everywhere.

Yeah I remember Michael walker seeming genuinely surprised.

I remember a novara back in 2020 during the leadership campaign where Sienna clearly explained that Starmer was part of the labour right and all his campaign pledges were probably lies.

Even worse that expected given this is a group explicitly focused on being white allies. So not just wrong but also incredibly cringe.

But rather than bite the bullet and move back to a system of funding unis through general taxation like France or Germany we’re going to spend years pissing about trying to make this broken system work.

Because otherwise a lot of sensible policy ppl will have to admit the Jam Man was right.

Also it’s not just a coincidence or poor design that high student fees are trapping graduates into debt. It’s a totally predictable consequence of moving the funding of HE onto student fees at all. You only had to look at the US to see that this would be the outcome /1

Tbh I just don’t see that it would be a big problem. England is so dominant in the UK that in the unlikely event that wales voted for independence my assumption is that English identity would just take over from British without much issue.

Yeah ok fair enough, my guess is here he’s following the official Green Party position rather than having strong convictions on the union.

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

Whether they thought it would be well received they don’t even seemed to have checked if it would be legal. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

The guardians political deak eg Jessica Elgot and Pippa Creer have been Starmer biggest supporters. The idea they are Polanski sycophants is ridiculous.

So the Greens have the support and f one guardian columnist/you tuber…

Which part of the uk press is sycophantic to Polanski?

If your party is the English Greens then surely the whole point is that you’re not responsible for the Welsh and Scottish Green Party positions. So unless you are calling for an English independence referendum you aren’t pushing anything.

I think this misreads the question which is about the organisational structure of the greens not whether he would favour an independent England. Frankly his answer on the rest seems fine. I don’t think he’s trying to triangulate he’s just saying what most left liberal English people think.

It the basis onwhich Starmer leads the PLP and can demand their obedience.

It was in Starmer’s leadership campaign to pledges

But the EHRC investigated it. Surely you can’t be suggesting that they would be politically biased?

Trump officials cut nearly $8bn in clean energy projects in Democratic states Democrats and environmental groups slam move as ‘sick political game’ and say it will drive up energy bills

Except if that was the case then Trump wouldn’t have cut investment in green energy and the tories in the uk wouldn’t have banned onshore wind www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You do suspect that vaccines are only mentioned as good here because being antivax is now highly right coded in America

This was funny because at first reading I thought the “Gen X had it just a hard as millennials” was such a completely insane take that it showed the author up as deluded. But then I realised the article was from 15 years ago and that the authors predictions about the future were just wildly off.

You’d hope the greens (and Lib Dem’s) will be able to make more of this than reform will given that Farage is locked into supporting the war.

Uk surprisingly high on this.

It’s the paucity of ambition that’s the problem.

Also Haifa. But you can have a successful academic career by being aggressively wrong about almost everything as long as you are wrong in an original way.

Starmer fully living on another planet now. I guess he might as well spend his last few months as PM in a comfortable delusion.

100 school having solar panels is 0.3% of the total. It’s a pathetic start when really the aim should be to do this asap for every school in the country.

All that can be true but Glasman seems like a genuine true believer that labours true role is as a socially conservative economically interventionist party and that this is the route to electoral success. I don’t think he thinks his role is to destroy the party in the interests of capital.

Yep and some like Lammy are going to be struggling to keep their seats at the next GEX

Who is that confidently centre left leader though?

Your not getting a reversion to any kind of Keir because he’s going to be defenestrated in May. And unfortunately his wheeze of losing Gorton and Denton by stopping Burnham running means there pretty much no one with any talent who can replace him.