Alex Clarke

Dear Prime Minister, In recent days we have seen a deeply concerning escalation in conflict in the Middle East following a series of illegal and dangerously irresponsible airstrikes on Iran by the United States and Israel. You have now confirmed that UK bases will be used by the US for their operations in the area. This is a significant concession to President Donald Trump and one which risks drawing the UK into a dangerous conflict. During your campaign to be elected leader of the Labour Party, you spoke compellingly about learning the lessons of the Iraq war. In particular, you set out legislation you would pass as Prime Minister, ensuring that military action is only taken if: • The lawful case for it is made • There is a viable objective • Consent is given by the House of Commons. We agree that such legislation is needed to prevent the UK from being dragged into destructive, illegal and dangerous wars abroad, and so we have today tabled the Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill. The Bill requires that 1. Before armed forces may be deployed for armed conflict, a Minister of the Crown must publish a statement setting out the reasons for the deployment, an assessment of its compliance with international law, the objective of the deployment and an assessment of the viability of that objective, and 2. Any such deployment must be approved in advance by a resolution of the House of Commons

I invite your support to pass this bill. In an increasingly unstable world, it is more important than ever that decisions about the UK’s involvement in military action abroad are taken carefully, soberly, and with the best interests of the British people at heart. We believe this piece of legislation would ensure that. Yours sincerely, Dr Ellie Chowns MP

Today I tabled a bill which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs - legislation the PM once said he himself would pass when he was running for Labour leader.

He supported it then, and he should support it now.

Keir Starmer when you were running for Labour leader you promised to introduce this legislation to stop the UK being dragged into illegal wars - it's time to show you were serious about that.

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people!
Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS!
Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life.
Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.

MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere.
It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

Yes!

So the Welcome to Die game, and 5 other games? Yeah I'm in.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy The question no one is asking about the monarchy

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Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

Reform offers a future where British people loose their rights to drive racist, xenophobic policies that spread hate and harm.

We know where this leads: children torn from their parents, people afraid of random detention, a state no one can hold to account.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Businessman slapped with £3,000 bill for hanging Union Flags on lampposts Will Haylett, 43, says he was trying to 'lift people's spirits' when he put up dozens of Union and St George's flags on lampposts using his company's cherry picker.

"lift people's spirits" by illegally putting up flags on lampposts?!
Utter bollocks.
The only reason these flags were put up was so racists could "mark their territory" and intimidate anyone non-white.
Good to see these racist fuckwits getting consequences.
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I hope every rich nonce in the UK & beyond is brought down because three hours in a custody cell with no staff and vending machine coffee breaks Andrew like a dropped trifle

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University
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This brave woman speaks for millions of British people.

Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.

We pride ourselves on being a democracy and yet there’s a medieval theocratic anachronism in the heart of parliament: 26 bishops with automatic seats in the House of Lords. (The only other country in the world with clerics automatically entering a government is… Iran).

If Starmer & McSweeney finally go over the revelations in the Mandelson files

Their toxic immigration plans must go with them.

NO MORE politicians in the pockets of the seedy rich blaming the outcomes of their greed & corruption on immigrants!

Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.

Absolutely embarrassing for the govt. that they have proscribed Palestine Action before the trial and the jury has found them not guilty. This Labour govt. is so out of touch with the public, it is shocking. I think Cooper should resign over this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dril is the patron saint of the internet!

No new pictures. Where are you mentally?

Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British

Reform are now saying that Black and Asian and other ethnic minorities are not necessarily British, even if they were born here.

Think about that.

This is literally one of the first steps on the road that leads to fascism and concentration camps.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

COW TOOLS

I found this out in October when I was told that the work Christmas party was to be a masked ball. So I bought a Mister Noseybonk mask (£50)and did some reasearch, only to be told later that it wasn't to be a masked ball after all, and they were just joking.

And on current polling Reform will become an unpopular government elected with just 30% of the vote.
We MUST have #PR #ProportionalRepresentation NOW

I don't want to share any private space with a terf. They would violate my dignity because they don't mind their own business. I've said this before but I think now, more than ever, we should have separate rooms for them. Utter weirdos

Jenrick defection probably the dumbest thing he could have done. He could have been the top race science guy in the tory party, but now he's going to be a run-of-the-mill race science guy who needs to impress guys who believe a secret sect of Brown people control the traffic lights

Zack was right about NATO, and he is right about this.

The history we are writing now doesn't have to be like this. We can make it a history that people look back on and say " thank goodness some people had the sense to see what was happening, and did something about it".

🙏💚

To all those saying "but if our government spoke out, there might be consequences", please remember that not speaking out also has consequences. The history of appeasement is not a reassuring one.

Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.

It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.

This is not patriotism. It's subservience.

If Trump invaded Canada, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch would thank him and Stamer would remain silent. Three political parties ultimately loyal to Donald, this has to change.

My message of hope for 2026:

Abolish the monarchy.