For years we have had the supposed virtues of "grown-up politics" shoved down our throats as a front for an empty managerial administration of unchallenged power. This is where it leads. Some self-satisified briefcase dickhead on TV self-satisfyingly rationalising the massacre of schoolgirls.
Oh look. They can’t convince the public or the courts that PA are ‘terrorists’ so they’re going to create a whole new category to crush protest, which I’m sure will always be applied super carefully and proportionately
Muslim voices speaking about war in the Middle East are treated not as participants in democratic debate but as suspects within it. Our motives are interrogated, our loyalties questioned, and our words interpreted through a presumption of bad faith.
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Yes, that’s fair. If Labour actually improved we’d all benefit. But i was amused that he cited two people as a positive draw to the party that the leadership would like to drop dead.
It wouldn’t shift my vote, but if the Labour party were actually led by Ed and Sadiq, rather than by people who hate them both, it might be a bigger problem for the Greens tbh.
Ah yes, British newspapers - the best possible place to find nuance, depth and context.
Covid deaths by poverty of postcode from ONS, with dark blue bars the most deprived
Poverty was itself, in the parlance of that time, an “underlying condition”
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“If the Greens and Liberal Democrats chose to carve up the country in a stand-aside pact, then there would be no doubt in my mind that they would form the next government.”
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Perfection.
It would appear that heroin and crack don’t currently exist, but the greens will summon them into existence and then give them away for free?
I hope you’ve had a nap. X
What’s this actually mean? Who has Hannah Spencer sought to divide from whom?
I really think we can make Starmer eat these words.
He just can’t help himself. Go on, say more about dangerous extremists on the left, I’m sure it’ll start working any minute now.
Worth remembering that by some metrics, it's the Conservative party's worst by-election result in history and it's important to celebrate *that* also.
May 2025: A saving grace, some ministers believe, is that the Greens are underperforming. “I think we are extraordinarily fortunate that the Green party are shit,” one minister said.
“If they had any kind of charismatic or populist leadership we’d be eight to 10 points further down the polls."
you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe
The Starmer project never understood that millions of people want an alternative to a broken economic system and a foreign policy based on mass murder.
If you believed in that, the Starmer project told you to fuck off.
Well, we have fucked off. How do you like them apples
You can cut all the flowers, but - as it turns out - you actually, really can’t stop the spring from coming. 🟩
Steven Swinford BREAKING @Steven_S...• 6m X International election observers have claimed they saw "concerningly high levels" of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election Family voting is an illegal practice where two voters use one polling booth at the same time. It can involve husbands instructing their wives how to vote Democracy Volunteers UK observed 32 cases of family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations they observed. A spokesman for the organisation said it was the "highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10 year history of observing elections in the UK." John Ault, director of Democracy Volunteers, said: "Today we have seen concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton. Based on our assessment of today's observations, we have seen the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10 year history of observing elections in the UK.' "We rarely issue a report on the night of an election, but the data we have collected today on family voting, when compared to other recent by-elections, is extremely high. + "In the other recent Westminster parliamentary by-election in Runcorn
I take it the Greens have won then, because we are instantly on our bullshit
It’s hardly the main issue, but Manchester’s not on the Thames.
Labour aren't doing this about Matt Goodwin's campaign manager being sacked for antisemitism, have you noticed that?
Kansas has, overnight, invalidated the drivers’ licenses of trans people, a pointless cruelty that upends their lives
If Brits think “it won’t happen here” think again! Groups in the U.K. who want the same thing are routinely invited to consult with Labour and normalised in our press!
Treasury calls in Blair thinktank to advise on using Al across public services
When you want to give fascist zillionaires a squillion pounds for dreck, but you aren’t sure how to go about doing it
This does actually seem pretty bad.
Deliberately undermining the concept of tactical voting can only help Reform, and not just tomorrow in Gorton and Denton.
A screenshot of a Guardian headline reading ‘Lost species to be released as Labour seeks to stave off Greens’ election threat’. Underneath in smaller text it clarifies ‘Push for good nature news before polls with reintroduction of white-tailed eagles, pine martens and beavers in England’
I had real problems parsing this headline. It sounds like they’re setting wolves on us.
Broadly speaking, there are 2 political factions. Not Labour v Tory/Reform, Republicans v Democrats etc, but an economic elite, operating globally, versus all of us. Though they are small in number, through the power of the political, media and social media systems they control, they keep winning.
Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG X.com I always wondered to myself how Hitler managed to persuade the German people to turn against the Jews. If you tell enough lies and spread enough poison, eventually people will start believing them. Hateful, divisive little man. Zack Polanski @@ZackPolanski•1d For years we've seen an ongoing genocide. It's been backed by right wing papers, the US President and by this Labour Government. Israel condemns 'hateful and racist' Greens
This is where we are, currently, in the British press’s uncompromising stance against the scourge of antisemitism in British politics, in case anyone was wondering.
