The sheer number of massive, completely avoidable, crises we are barreling towards in the name of short-term profit is astonishing.
We need to break with this Thatcherite, market knows best rubbish and plan for our future.
The 'Zack Polanski and the Greens don't talk about the environment anymore' commentators are out in force right now.
Time to reshare this video 👇
#PeopleAndPlanet
Thangam Debonnaire here, sharing a stage with Matt Goodwin in order to ask why young voters are shifting right. Thangam lost her extremely young constituency to the Greens on a gigantic swing in 2024
A new report shows hitting our climate targets by 2050 costs less than one oil shock costs the UK.
We need a rapid transition to clean energy to shield people & the economy from price spikes every time oil prices jump.
Some commentators still can’t connect those dots…
Interesting that Zack Polanski gets accused of being a people pleaser as he unapologetically represents party policy while Badenoch and Starmer's every statement is curated with like me desperation.
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Interesting replies. The media were the ocean you had to sail when they gave Starmer a pass because the left were being purged, but now they are laying into him instead of Corbyn (as they obviously would) it's suddenly hugely unfair.
When people say the Greens were ok before when just about the environment what they mean is they respected their concerns more when they could safely ignore them.
"I miss the Greens under Caroline Lucas"
The Eclegraph Log in Q News Iran crisis Sport Business Money See all News Iran war LIVE Latest updates LIvE Markets Expats fleeing Dubai abandon pets in scramble to leave Travel restrictions and costs force animal owners to take drastic action as Iran targets Gulf states Tr
Two points:
1. They’re not “expats” they’re “migrants.”
2. Them abandoning their pets will hopefully give each and every one of these people just a little bit of insight into the incredibly hard decisions refugees have to make when they’re fleeing war zones.
And in this context if you wrote a book titled Muslims Don't Count (that was actually well researched) it would not be followed by all round media praise and a tv series.
Starmer has not 'played a blinder'. Pedro Sanchez had played a blinder.
Good read. Will also re-read.
www.thenecessaryfictions.com/p/trumps-war...
It’s fairly clear that they see this as a war against Islam and Muslims (hence the Gorton and Denton comment). Right wing politics in the UK is almost entirely driven by anti Muslim hatred and it’s clear their support of this war comes from that
If it's not immediately and obviously offside on the replay the decision stands. VAR is awful.
I fear Labour will become a refuge for extremists.
Special relationship?
Suez, Katanga, Vietnam, Falklands, Grenada...
Maybe there never was one? Just occasional confluence of political interests?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform and the Greens are more similar than you might think/ two sides of the same populist coin etc etc
This is wild!
One of those nativist, racist Britain for British click bait ai accounts almost certainly produced in South Asia somewhere. The clueless engagement, the content, the detached ease of manipulation. It's truly dystopian.
You can see that Stewart's Eton cultivated persona of Mr Reasonable will be harder and harder for him to sustain as he panics in the face of political change that genuinely threatens his class.
"Families of failed asylum seekers will be offered up to £40,000 to leave the UK under a trial scheme announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood."
Previously, on the "Island of strangers"...
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
"It's not for me to comment" is so obviously the go to avoid the question response in current LP media training.
Matt Goodwin Published a Campaign Leaflet Appealing to Voters’ "Christian Heritage". How’s That for Sectarianism?
novaramedia.com/2026/03/03/m...
For anyone who would like the clip (including George).
I was a member. I liked the 'pledges' Starmer made. The manifesto less so. He showed his hand in his war with the left and instructed me to leave if I didn't like it. 2019 was the last time they'll ever get my vote. Other voters may still be salvageable but fewer and fewer as time goes on.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
I gaveStarmer my second preference. I trusted him to hold on to core politics ands support (as pledged) but add some strategic rigour. No context justifies the messaging and politics employed since (or revealed previously). Yes, too late now that opportunity has passed for me at least.
