Molly Scott Cato

📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill

💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform

📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social

🌹 #Labour4PR

Aw, what a nice polite chat 😊

A government with integrity would provide a justification under the UN charter for allowing the US to use UK bases to bomb Iran

The flimsy distinction between 'defensive' and 'offensive' feels like cover for another illegal war that risks escalating a conflict at the loss of more innocent lives

Labour must not bind Britain's fate to the failing electoral system - Politics.co.uk It’s fair to say that British democracy is in ill health. Labour has inherited rock bottom public trust in politics and a state wracked by austerity. We are working to show that government can deliver...

"The Westminster system is crumbling. Labour must rebuild it – or we will find ourselves under the rubble."

✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP

🌹 #Labour4PR #ElectoralReform #Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

The EU’s climate retreat problem: punishing early movers Green transition pioneers complain they are paying price for rewarding industry laggards

Rollback risk

The EU's retreat from climate action means some companies are - quite rightly - kicking off about investments made in good faith on the back of climate policy

"those very policies are precisely the ones that can attract new investment and create jobs"

www.ft.com/content/1f60...

How can Starmer have allowed us to be drawn into this war of aggression by the US and Israel?

Without any legal justification or debate in Parliament!

A shockingly bad decision

Yes, and the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by election

Shocking failure by the BBC to challenge fascist comments from Guto Harri on Broadcasting House this morning

Democratic rights in the UK are based on citizenship not place of birth

And why only ask about people born in Pakistan? Many British voters were born in other countries

"The former British home secretary and Buddhist daughter of a Kenyan descendant of Goan Catholics, and a Mauritian Hindu descendent of Tamil, born in Harrow, studied in New York, married to a Jewish South African who lived In Israel says multiculturalism has failed."
via Daily Scar

Terrific coverage of the US-Israel attacks on Iran by BBC World Service

Knowledgeable and articulate experts from across the world

Thank you

Clear evidence here that Farage is anti-democratic - refusing to accept defeat, undermining the process - while pretending to be the opposite. He was doing this before Trump!

Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence

“The regulator is in too close a relationship with the water companies. They are being funded from the money the water companies pay for their permits”

Don’t we expect our regulators to be independent and work to protect us?
#NationaliseWater #ProtectNature

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Starmer urges restraint on Iran but not on the states guilty of aggression: Israel and the USA

This approach in itself undermines the rule of law and international law

Regardless of what we think of the Iranian regime

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

The real lesson to take from Gorton and Denton is for the future of UK democracy | Institute for Government Westminster is dangerously underprepared for a multi-party future.

👀 “leadership would mean recognising this byelection as a warning – an urgent signal of the need to prepare UK democracy for a multi-party future”

🚨 "First-past-the-post is creaking at the seams"

@drhannahwhite.bsky.social on Gorton & Denton
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...

They might as well call it Operation Tiny Penis. Pathetic.

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

Yes!

An old deranged man in Washington and another old deranged man in Tehran

Feeding off mutual hatred while innocent people die

I would very much like to read it

I don't use AI myself but if you do I think it will be a question of finding the best option because there won't be a perfect one

Can you share what you read?

I suppose Anthropic's Claude has demonstrated a higher level of morality

If you are still on X

If you use Chat GPT

You are colluding with US tyranny

#DontFeedTheBeast

#ResistFascism

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.

We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.

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

The Gorton & Denton result is a huge win for progressives.

But for the sake of securing a progressive majority in 2029, we must heed its wider lessons too.

As Neal Lawson argues: in a broken two-party system, First Past the Post risks splitting the progressive vote and letting Reform in.

It’s not. Its political results are that of a standard European democracy in 2026, mediated through a worse electoral system.

Starmer has the gall to say he will fight against extremes on the left who want to tear our country apart.

The same man who's spent the last few years scapegoating & demonising refugees & immigrants & fuelling division. A despicable politician soon to be consigned to the bin.

🤣🤣🤣

🎉 MASSIVE congratulations to Hannah Spencer on being elected to represent Gorton & Denton in the House of Commons for @greenparty.org.uk.

This is an unprecedented result, enlarging further the biggest representation of Greens in UK history.

Hope is stronger than hate.