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What's Starmer going to look like without McSweeney's arm rammed up him?

We condemn the abuse and intimidation of councillors at last night's Swale Borough Council meeting Swale Green Party

Yesterday was a very sad day for both local democracy and the rule of law in Kent, one that will disappoint and shock all decent law-abiding citizens. Swale Green Party utterly condemns the verbal abuse, intimidation and assault displayed at last night’s Swale Borough Council meeting, disrupting the public debate and preventing the discussion of a motion to make Swale a Borough of Sanctuary. Mr Hilden arrived, with megaphone in hand, showing that there was a clear intent to disrupt the meeting. He was accompanied by several individuals, including some wearing balaclavas, clearly not wanting to be identified or publicly named and shamed for what was about to happen next.

With minds already set against the motion, this group barely waited for Cllr Hannah Perkin to finish her opening statement before hurling spittle, slurs and foul abuse at the councillors, forcing an adjournment of the meeting. Swale Green Party would like to extend our sympathy, along with our steadfast support and appreciation to the public representatives in all parties who were subject to such shameful abuse in the course of carrying out their responsibilities as our elected councillors. We must be clear that this shocking behaviour is not democracy in action. It is intimidation designed to erode trust in decision-making in the public realm. It will cause decision-makers to abandon ambition for the community and instead pander to an aggressive minority. We urge all public representatives to stay the course. Our public life will be significantly poorer if our representatives are unable to safely explore ideas proposed for the good of the community.

Swale Green Party and our councillors support Swale in any aim or project which helps create a welcoming and inclusive community, where everyone is enabled to contribute, and we applaud and praise Hannah Perkin’s proposal of this motion and Alastair Gould as seconder. Be assured that the silent majority of all decent and law-abiding Swale citizens stand with you both. We must never tolerate violence, assault, and intimidation by observers of any public debate, and we should work together with the Police and all other elected officials to call out and hold fully accountable all those who try to subvert such democratic processes. As a strong and united signal that local democracy is still alive and well in Kent, at their next meeting the Swale councillors should issue a cross-party public statement that clearly and unequivocally condemns the actions of that small minority disrupting the meeting yesterday.

A statement on the events of last night's Swale Borough Council meeting.

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@garethdennis.uk This all seems somewhat insane, is there any light you can shed on this that makes it make sense?
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Nah fuck the SWP nonces.

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@danika.bsky.social Just catching up on pods and as a fellow 36 year old, I always thought you were younger than me. And as a Logged Off/How 'Bout Now?/Death by Online stan, it's good to hear you on content again. Hope you're well again soon!

So you're saying that the racism she's facing is her own fault?

@leftiestats.bsky.social Do you have a recommendation slate for the Green elections?

The name's Bond. James Bond. DOCTOR James Bond.

I'm sure there are PhDs who don't know how many Rs there are in strawberry.

"Well what if I'm a fucking talentless moron, huh? What if I suck and have nothing to say and no ability to say it? What if I follow the neighborhood dogs around and eat their succulent poops, does that make me some kind of doodoo-eater? Check and mate."

Oh you're mocking my failed prediction? Well how about I just make another one, what are you gonna do now hmm?

Does this mean the pod is no longer woke?

Do you notice how - again and again, in story after story - the common factor is “obviously horrible but wealthy and important people, angrily demanding total freedom to behave as horrendously as they want, and the media/political system opening wide to give them everything that they demand”?

My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."

I'm an environmentalist and socialist before I'm a member of any political party. I care about the ideology of the candidate and the way they'll vote way more than I care about which organisation they belong to. Which is why I support this willingness to work across party lines so much.

i hate the game politicians play where they back israel 100% until it starts killing too many people too fast, then they start calling for peace until the killing slows to levels acceptable for them. they're not opposing genocide, they're negotiating how quickly it should proceed

Damn, maybe Wesley should give into their demands and get them back to work then.

Trumper @SilkoSpots replying to the Getty images photo with paedophiles Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell all together. He has circled Andrew and tweeted sarcastically “Who’s this guy? He’s in the vicinity of Epstein so he must be a paedophile, no? 🤓”

Trump loyalists are reaching new levels of Not Realising The World Exists Outside The US

This is also very evident in that clip with Bastani and Goodwin currently doing the rounds. The reason Matt can't defend his hipocrisy on Israel is because the only driver of his performative support is his dislike of Muslims, which he (as of yet) can't quite say on TV

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".

And so it begins.

I think they want an *ANTI* austerity party.

Good example about how living right now is designed to make you go insane

As a POG (person of Gillingham) I do have to say fuck @hkesvani.bsky.social and also KCC sits in Maidstone.

Dan Hind It's not just that the media gave Farage disproportionate and uncritical coverage for many years, which LG kind of acknowledges. The key point is that after 2008 the media used Farage to help construct a 50/50 conflict over the EU, to prevent a 70/30 conflict over Thatcherism. a The News Agents @TheNewsAgents •1d "I am highly suspicious of the idea that the media can be held solely accountable for the rise of Farage and Reform." The News Agents discuss claims that the media give an outsized platform to right-wing politics in the UK.

A helpfully accurate and concise explanation, here.

Labour MPs saying “the clue is in the name” to justify benefit cuts is wildly disingenuous. It co-opts Labour’s history to imply all those that cannot physically labour are somehow excluded from the cause. Being pro-worker does not require being anti-unemployed or anti-disabled. It never did.

Yeah, fight the power, an Independent MP with no institutional backing.

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Womp, and also Womp

It specifically addresses the claim that nobody voted for Corbyn, the thing it was in reply to.